Anna Barbara Speckner

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Anna Barbara Speckner (20 October 1902 – 10 February 1995) was a German harpsichordist, pianist, and music editor. She was married to Thrasybulos Georgiades, a Greek musicologist, pianist and philosopher who directed the Athens Conservatoire.

Speckner was born in Munich and studied piano with August Schmid-Lindner at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich from 1927 to 1936, later continuing her studies with Dorothee Günther-Schule in Munich. From 1962 to 1968 she taught harpsichord during the summers at Mozarteum University Salzburg, and in 1966 she began teaching at the Orff Institute Salzburg, part of the Mozarteum.

In 1936, she married Thrasybulos Georgiades (1907–1977). Speckner taught and performed in Munich, Athens, Heidelberg, and Salzburg. In 1963 a documentary by Aito Mäkinen was made at the Ateneum Museum featuring Speckner performing Bach. Her students included Michael Radulescu, a Romanian-German composer and organist. She died in Munich on 10 February 1995 at age 92. She also worked as an executive music editor for various publications, editing historical keyboard works.