Lizzy Blau
 

Lizzy had played classical piano and sung in the Limburg Domchor over 10 years when she started to play the hurdy-gurdy in 1982. She learned to play the hurdy-gurdy from Erich Kern, Gaby Schneider-Jung, Valentin Clastrier, Martin Swart and improved her play in workshops with Anne-Lise Foy, Patrick Bouffard, Gregory Jolivet and Oscar Fernandez continuously.
 
She presented the hurdy-gurdy in radio and television and played with classical orchestras. With performances - often outside the hurdy-gurdy and folk scene - she inspired again and again people for the hurdy-gurdy.
 
As a teacher of German and religion and mother of three children, she gave private lessons for hurdy-gurdy and began in 2000 to organize courses for hurdy-gurdy. By her loving and open way and her musical skills, she made the hurdy-gurdy courses in Bad Homburg to what they are today:
 
They are over Germany the largest pure hurdy-gurdy courses, where it is worked extensively with the hurdy-gurdy in an almost familiar atmosphere and where beginners find easily access to the instrument and are included to the community.
 
Lizzy died on the 6th of November 2012 too early after a severe illness.
 
Her hurdy-gurdy courses which were an issue of her heart, will be continued in her memory and her sense by her husband Thomas and her daughter Marianne.