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BIOGRAFIE AIDA STUCKI „And Now Plays a Great Violinist, Namely Aida BIOGRAFIE AIDA STUCKI autobiographic testify of thanks from O. Schoeckto the solist Aida Stucki after performance of his violine-conceert in theabonnement concert of Winterthur, February 16th, 1949 „And now plays a great violinist, namely Aida Stucki“ - The famous conductor Hermann Scherchen, who was then the head of the Radio Orchestra in Zurich, insisted on this particular announcement during the radio broadcast transmission of the Beethoven's Violin Concerto, on 1949, December 30th. "You will speak about the young violinist Aida Stucki, which playing struck me right away on the radio yesterday and for which I have shed hot tears," wrote the exceptional pianist Clara Haskil beginning of 1940. Aida Stucki, better known under her married name Piraccini, was well gifted to the same degree as soloist, chamber musician and one of the most recognized and successful violin teacher in Europe. In 1948, Aida Stucki started her teaching activities in Winterthur, Switzerland. In 1992, a dedicated master class was particularly set up for the 71-year-old violinist, which didn’t happen before at the Conservatory Winterthur. Result of a successful teaching of 47 years in total. Aida Stucki was born in Cairo on February 19, 1921 as the third child of four daughters. Her father, a Winterthur-based entrepreneur had established his business in Cairo, and her mother was Italian and had a wonderful voice. After returning to school in Winterthur, Aida urgently requested violin lessons from Ernst Wolters, the concert master and conductor of the Winterthur City Orchestra. After a period of three years, the precocious young violinist performed the Mozart violin concerto No. 3 in G major, K. 216 with the Winterthur City Orchestra under the baton of Ernst Wolters, for which he specially wrote a cadenza. Biography Aida Stucki – page 1 / 8 Aida subsequently studied with the famous Hungarian violinist Stefi Geyer (1888-1956) in Zurich. Both regularly performed the concerto for two violins in D minor (BWV 1043) by Bach Stefi Geyer also granted Aida the 'performance rights' of Othmar Schoeck’s violin concerto, which was once entrusted to Geyer for the world première. This concerto became a major piece in Aida’s repertoire. It was also Stefi Geyer who introduced Aida to Bela Bartok, in Zurich, where he lived in exile at this time. Aida later played all of his string quartets and advised her pupils in Bartok’s entire composed work for violin. With the assistance of Prof. Carl Flesch, Aida completed her artistic personality in Lucerne and acquired the competence and knowledge for her own successful solo and teaching career. As a prize winner of the Geneva Competition in 1940, new opportunities were provided for various concerts with well know Conductors in Europe (V. Andreae, P. Colombo, V. Desarzens, W. Fortner, E. Inbal, A. Jordan, H. Scherchen, J. Keilberth, PvKempen, H. Münch, O. Nussio, H. G. Petrassi Rosbaud, M. Rossi, H. Scherchen, E. Schmid, C. Zecchi) – mentioning just a few names. Aida Stucki's repertoire included all the major concerts from baroque to modern times, the entire literature for violin and piano and a large part of chamber music in all kinds of groups and formations. Aida Stucki: int. competition in Geneva 1940 Aida notably worked with the pianist Clara Haskil in the period from 1945 till 1950. Both performed works, that Clara Haskil otherwise never played with other musicians: Trio Sonatas by Handel (along with Giuseppe Piraccini), works by Franz Schubert, and violin sonatas by Brahms and Schumann and a non- published early written sonatine by the gifted Romanian pianist Dinu Lipatti, which Haskil highly admired. Aida Stucki with her husband Giuseppe Piraccini Other piano accompanists were Adrian Aeschbacher, Elly Ney (Schumann cycle in Zurich and Tutzing), Walter Frey, the accompanist of Prof. Carl Flesch, with whom she often performed the sonata cycles by Bach and Brahms, Christoph Lieske, a professor at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. Both performed the entire sonata repertoire by Mozart and Beethoven. Aida formed a well known duo with the spirited Italian born pianist Pina Pozzi (1914-1966), who was a colleague in Winterthur. With this duo both performed frequently in Europe and the USA with a large repertoire. Biography Aida Stucki – page 2 / 8 left: A. Stucki together with P. Pozzi, middle: A. Stucki with W. Frey, right: C. Lieske In 1959, Aida founded the Piraccini-Stucki String Quartet with her husband, Giuseppe Piraccini, first concert master in Zurich, Hermann Friedrich, initial violist, his successor Gerhard Wieser, violist and Walter Haefeli, cellist. They all acquired soon an international reputation. Both violinists often changed between first and second violin, which was unusually at that time and provided different sound productions. The Piraccini-Stucki. String Quartet premiered contemporary works and helped many Swiss composers to achieve a breakthrough. left and right: Piraccini-Stucki-Quartett; the Piraccini-Stucki-Quartett is playing on instruments of A.Stradivarius; middle: program for this quartett on instruments of A. Stradivarus Aida Stucki has been awarded several times: • 1973 Foundation “pro Arte” Bern (Federal House) • 1975 Art Prize “Carl Heinrich Ernst Art Foundation” (Winterthur) • 1992 Art Award “Dr.K.und H.Hintermeister-Gyger Foundation (Zollikon) Both broken wrists caused by a severe fall in her newly acquired house in Winterthur in 1983 terminated Aida’s violin playing abruptly. However her art remains available, on the one hand through her former pupils, on the other hand through her recordings, which will be released in the upcoming months. Biography Aida Stucki – page 3 / 8 Her most famous pupil is the world-famous violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter, which began to study with Aida at the age of nine years and still keeps a close friendship to her teacher. Many of her pupils play as string quartet members, as concertmasters of great orchestras, as members of the Berlin Philharmonic and as soloists. 21 students graduated as soloists in her master class called “Stucki Piraccini” at the Zurich University of the Arts: Rahel Cunz, Roberto Baraldi, Francesco Borali, Roman Conrad, Josiane Clematide Heugen, Matthias Enderle, Susanne Frank, Catherine Gubler Kobelt, Stephan Hänggeli, Gabriele Künzler, Jens Lohmann, Vera Novakowa Brodmann, Manrico Padovani, Noemi Schindler Cavanna, Christoph Streuli, Sibylle Tschopp, Mirjam Tschopp, Markus Wieser, Rainer Wolters, Bettina Sartorius and Walter Probst. Also Ursula Bagdarjasanz studied with Aida Stucki. Aida Stucki with Anne-Sophie Mutter 1979 Salzburg (photo: private) There have been a lot of questions about Aida Stucki’s violin teaching approach. Anne-Sophie Mutter stated recently about Aida: "In every respect a point of reference, an incomparable violinist, a noble human being and a marvellous woman. As a teacher, what distinguishes Aida Stucki are her great empathy and her intuitive knowledge of the giftedness of her pupils. Each pupil was thus given the best-possible, personal encouragement. In us pupils she was quick to instil humility towards the work and stimulate our never-ending search for the ideal interpretation. Aida Stucki is crucial artistic advisory board member of the "Friends of Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation" based in Munich. Among her tasks is the evaluation of potential candidates and recommendations to the foundation committee. portrait Aida Stucki and Anne-Sophie Mutter Aida Stucki concentrated mainly on concerts in Switzerland due to (by coutesy of Atelier Beat Pfändler, family and educational commitments and couldn’t pursue interesting Swiss Guest Book 2007) opportunities with Sir Georg Solti (international recitals), Hermann Scherchen or an invitation to perform in Israel in 1975. Anne-Sophie Mutter stated in the booklet about her Beethoven sonata recordings: "In the history of the gramophone record and of female instrumentalists, women's equality has only been achieved in my generation. Although there is no lack of wonderful female instrumentalists in the history of music, they are certainly poorly represented in the history of the record. Significantly, my first memory of the Beethoven sonatas is associated with a FEMALE PERFORMER, my teacher Aida Stucki. She played the entire cycle of sonatas for piano and violin, which was very rare for a woman of her time." The foundation between her and Aida Stucki, felt A.S.Mutter already after the first semester: "I still remember as if it were yesterday my first summer holiday as a pupil of Aida Stucki's master class. I Biography Aida Stucki – page 4 / 8 wasn't looking forward to it because I knew that I would now be deprived for weeks of the exchange of views with my wonderful teacher and of the human warmth that enveloped me during each lesson. My joyful anticipation of the autumn semester, on the other hand, was simply enormous." Also Noemi Schindler, one of the last graduates of her master class, emphasized that every lesson with her was a sort of being utterly rewarded. In the history of the violin playing, no other violinist has comparably managed a similar broad life's work: Aida Stucki was active and successful as a soloist, chamber musician, member of a string quartet, teacher, wife and mother. Fortunately, many studio recordings, radio productions and live recordings of over 90 works have been preserved and transferred to CD. Several official releases are in preparation with Aida Stucki and they will be published by • Doremi(complete cycle of concerts and sonatas by Mozart) and • Tahra (Beethoven's
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