Christine Schornsheim

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Christine Schornsheim, married name Christine Engelmayr[1] (born in 1959), is a German harpsichordist and pianist.

Life and career

Schornsheim attended the

Hans Otto Theater in Potsdam. She participated in master classes given by Gustav Leonhardt, Ton Koopman, Johann Sonnleitner and Andreas Staier. She made her debut in 1994 as a song accompanist to Peter Schreier also on the fortepiano.[2]

From 1988 to 1992 she held a teaching position for harpsichord and basso continuo at the

University of Music and Performing Arts Munich. Here she became the victim of an act of sexual assault by the president of the university, Siegfried Mauser.[3][4]
He was sentenced to several years' imprisonment for this.

In addition to solo concerts, she often performs in a duo with Andreas Staier and can be heard as harpsichordist of the Berliner Barock-Compagney [de] and the Münchner Cammer-Music.

Her most important recordings include works by Johann Sebastian Bach such as the

ECHO Klassik for the recording of three harpsichord concertos by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach and Johann Christian Bach. Her complete recording of the piano works of Joseph Haydn on 14 CDs was completed in 2005.[5]

Schornsheim is married to the Röttenbacher family doctor and medical functionary Ernst Engelmayr (* 1949).[6][7]

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