Anne-Sophie Mutter: I never found lasting love
mainThe violinist has opened up to Bunte magazine: ‘I find the concept of having a long-lasting good relationship more attractive than a short-lived one. Unfortunately it did not work out for me.’
Mutter, 55, has been married twice. She divorced Andre Previn in 2006.
Both her husbands were far older than her
So?
In the case of Detlef Wunderlich, his age is not irrelevant, since it was his death that brought an end to their marriage after only five years. Even allowing for the fact that he died from cancer at a relatively young age, had Anne-Sophie been the same age as him they would have had many more years together and she would not have been widowed in her early 30s. In the case of André Previn, it may well be that the age difference of approximately 34 years had nothing at all to do with their divorcing after a fairly brief marriage.
I have loved Miss Mutter for a very long time.
I guess that didn’t work out for you, either.
Hahaha
How would you know?
Excellent. Enjoyed that….imagined Cary Grant saying it…..
Whatever happened to Previn? I haven’t seen anything about him for years.
He is very frail and unwell, a sad sight.
I honestly thought you were making macabre jokes because I could have sworn that he passed away a few years ago. I’m glad to learn that he is still alive, and sad to learn that he is now very frail and unwell.
Would it be insolent to ask how Michael Gielen is doing these days?
Previn’s 4th wife really dished the dirt here https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-402424/Conductors-fifth-marriage-fades-out.html
Oh, how nice of you. Thank for sharing!
Yup. I read that same article. If memory serves, he callously asked for a divorce by fax while in Germany preying on ASM.
Not long ago on this very site it was reported he had paid $1 million for a Manhattan condo.
I trust you don’t think that is a lot of money to purchase an apartment in Manhattan?
In this 2015 video clip he seems lucid.
In this 2015 video clip, Previn seems lucid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSk6T2GTtek
The life of an itinerant musician does not go well with married life. Previn himself admitted as much.
Was it really ‘the life of an itinerant musician’ that did for Previn’s five marriages? There are certainly itinerant musicians who have managed to stay married to the same person for life. Vladimir Ashkenazy and his wife Dody, for example, have been married for 57 years.
He was an itinerant musician throughout all of those marriages. But maybe you have insights into his personal life that the rest of us don’t have.
I have only the same insights as everybody else, namely, that several of his former wives have complained very publicly about his numerous infidelities. Also, he is on record as stating that one of his children does not exist on account of his disapproving of her choice of husband. None of this has anything to do with his lifestyle as an itinerant musician. It is quite possible to be an itinerant musician and to remain faithful to one’s wife. Have you ever heard a word of scandal about Ashkenazy or, say, Jon Vickers or Johan Botha?
Previn was a notorious womanizer. When he and Mutter split, an article came out on a magazine that the age difference was a problem. She wanted to go with her friends at night and he wanted her to stay home and be in bed by 9 catering to his whims. They had little in common other than music.
=I trust you don’t think that is a lot of money to purchase an apartment in Manhattan?
No, but Anne-Sophie got the 2.5m house in Munich, Heather got the estate in Surrey, and so on.
Actually there were interviews a couple of years with AP in an obviously large Manhattan appartment – so I guess he’s now downsizing
This site has “slipped” into Entertainment Tonight territory. Kind of a guilty pleasure, hopeless but not serious.
She’s only 55. When you seek out older men, there is always the possibility that they won’t work out because of that huge age difference. It’s unfortunate that her 1st husband died when he was only in his fifties, I believe she really loved him. But if she thought about someone in her own age group and maybe travelled less , then she could still find someone. It sucks to be alone, I hope she find someone.
She really loved her first husband and he is the father of her children. It might be that she never got over it and future relationships will always be compared to that “unfinished” relationship due to his untimely death. It is extremely lonely to be a traveling musician and the responsibility of being a single parent (although she has no money issues to raise them) is still very big.
I am not a Mutter fan by any means. Everyone (in the music business) knows that she has had numerous affairs with older men, whom she prefers. Remember Preucil, Levine, Bernstein, etc.? Everyone knew, too.
So? Good luck to her. As a person she is forceful and vigorous. It shows in her performance. So what if she has preferences?