Pauline Sachse
Born in:
Hamburg
Current centre of life:
Leipzig
Instrument:
Viola
Second, third or even fourth instrument:
None
My career aspiration as a child:
Dancer
This was the profession my parents envisioned for me:
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Works or concert experiences that shaped me:
Playing Bruckner’s 7th Symphony in the youth orchestra at the age of 14 left a lasting impression on me. We collectively outgrew ourselves back then.
Work with the greatest music-making pleasure (and why?):
I would not like to commit myself to that. Firstly, I love variety and secondly, the pleasure of making music for me depends largely on my chamber music partners.
I would like a work for my instrument by this composer (and why?):
In addition to the “Sinfonia Concertante”, I would like to have another concerto by Mozart and one by Brahms, if only to expand the repertoire list for auditions, but also because I love both composers very much and they wrote wonderfully for the viola – if they had their sights set on it!
I would get up in the middle of the night for that:
The house would have to be under water…
Special / curious own concert experience:
I once ended the first movement of Mendelssohn’s A minor Quartet op.13 with a major chord instead of the minor he wanted. The concert took place in a church and the bells rang insistently on a C sharp towards the end of the first movement. Unwittingly, both the second violinist and I then accidentally played a C sharp as well and ended in the radiant A major.
My most valuable tip for the next generation of musicians:
Follow your passion!
That's what I associate with Leipzig as a city of music:
I am currently working on a project about Hildegard von Bingen with my own pieces and on the festival planning for the Brahms Festival in Lübeck, which will hopefully not have to be purely digital at the beginning of May.