Marie-Luise Neunecker, born on July 17, 1955 in Erbes-Büdesheim, Germany, is a German hornist who studied musicology, German studies, and horn under Erich Penzel at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln. In 1978, Neunecker began as second hornist at the Frankfurt Opera, became solo hornist with the Bamberger Symphoniker in 1979, and played as solo hornist for the Radio Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt from 1981 to 1989. In January 2001, Neunecker premiered György Ligeti’s horn concerto Hamburgisches Konzert. Record releases include Benjamin Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, Op. 31 (1999) and Richard Strauss’s Horn Concertos No. 1 and 2 (2016). Neunecker’s career earned prizes at the German Music Competition in Bonn in 1982, the ARD International Music Competition in Munich in 1983, and the Concert Artists Guild International Competition in New York in 1986, as well as the Frankfurter Musikpreis in 2013.
