Anne-Sophie Mutter

Anne-Sophie Mutter is one of those musicians who makes you rethink what a violin can even do. She burst onto the scene at thirteen — thirteen! — debuting with the Berlin Philharmonic under Herbert von Karajan in 1977, and she never really stopped being that prodigious. What I love about her is that she didn't coast on the classical canon; she became a genuine champion of living composers, premiering works by Penderecki, Previn, and John Williams (yes, that John Williams), and treating new music like it deserved the same reverence as Beethoven. Her tone is unmistakably hers — warm but precise, never precious. Decades in and she's still the standard against which other violinists quietly measure themselves.

Name (English)

Anne-Sophie Mutter

Name (Japanese)

アンネ＝ゾフィー・ムター

Reading

あんね＝ぞふぃー・むたー

Born

June 29, 1963 (age 63)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Rabbit

Origin

Rheinfelden, Freiburg Government Region, Germany

Occupation

violinist / music educator / woman conductor / music arranger / musician

University

Zurich University of the Arts

Awards & achievements

• 2005 Officer of Arts and Letters
• Bavarian Order of Merit
• 2009 Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 1999 Order of Merit of Baden-Württemberg
• 2005 Austrian Decoration for Science and Art
• 2008 Grand Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria
• 2001 Léonie Sonning Music Prize
• 2001 Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttps://www.anne-sophie-mutter.de
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/anne_sophie_mutter/
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%83%8D%EF%BC%9D%E3%82%BE%E3%83%95%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A0%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC

Tags

• Freiburg Government Region
• violinist
• music educator
• woman conductor

Last updated

2026-06-02

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