Article: The art of the Mutter Violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter wants it both ways. She seeks publicity but protects her privacy. She is as contradictory as the music she plays.

THE brilliant and beautiful German fiddle-player Anne-Sophie Mutter, daughter of a journalist, plays the round of Press interviews before an appearance with a straight, defensive bat. She both desires publicity but guards her privacy like a wicket. No, she will not tell me how old her children are now. "They are private individuals. I think they would prefer to stay that way." I dare not ask anything about her husband, Detlef Wunderlick, a tax adviser, who died in 1995. More cunning American journalists before me have wheedled his name into their copy.

Still, if the Kinder are anything like their extraordinary Mutter, they already know their own minds. "When I decided at the age of six to ...

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