Priscilla Paetsch
| Priscilla McClure Johnson Paetsch | |
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Priscilla Paetsch playing her violin.
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November 18, 1931 Evanston, Illinois,  United States
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| Occupation | Violinist |
| Spouse(s) | Günther Johannes Paetsch (m. 1959) |
| Children | Phebe Verena Paetsch (b. 1960) Michaela Modjeska Paetsch (b. 1961) Brigitte McClure Paetsch (b. 1963) Johann Sebastian Paetsch (b. 1964) Christian Friedeman Paetsch (b. 1966) Engelbert Raphael Paetsch (b. 1968) Siegmund Amadeus Paetsch (b. 1971) |
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Priscilla McClure Paetsch (née Johnson, born November 18, 1931), is an American violinist, composer, artist, sculptor, horse trainer, and co-founder of the Paetsch Family Chamber Music Ensemble in Colorado Springs, Colorado. She is the wife of cellist Günther Johannes Paetsch and the mother to their seven children.
Priscilla McClure Johnson was born in Evanston, Illinois, United States, on 18 November 1931, her parents were Harry McClure Johnson (1886–1932) a prominent Chicago Attorney and Helena Modjeska Chase (1900–1986) an artist. She was the fifth child of Harry Johnson who died on 29 March 1932 (from a sudden attack of influenza which developed into pneumonia) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada where he was visiting his mother. He died when she was only 4 months old. Although she was reared all over the country, she considers Steamboat Springs, Colorado the closest thing to a hometown because she spent her summers there on her mothers horse ranch called the Pine Springs Ranch. She is the youngest sister of Mansi McClure Johnson (1924-2013), Harry McClure Johnson (1925-2007), Elizabeth McIlvaine Johnson (b. 1926), and Sarah Jane McClure Johnson (1929-2013).
At the age of 15 (1946) she wrote and illustrated (with beautiful drawings of horses) the children's book "How the Eggplant Came to Be" that was published by the Adventure Trails Publication and were written at her mother's 'Pine Springs Ranch' in Steamboat Springs, CO.
From 1946 until 1950, Priscilla McClure Johnson was educated at The Putney School in Vermont, which had an excellent Music Department, majoring in violin, chamber music, and orchestral playing. She continued her education at Bennington College in Vermont from 1950 – 1952 majoring in violin performance. At the University of Wyoming, she received a Bachelor of Arts degree (BA) with major in Violin, and in 1956 a Master of Arts degree (MA) with major in Music Composition, with highest donors. She wrote her Thesis about "An Analysis of Strawinsky's Symphony in Three Movements" on 24 April 1956 and her Thesis about "Some Aspects of Bach's Technique in the Solo Violin Sonatas and Suites" on 1 May 1956. She also studied at the Aspen Institute of Music in Colorado from 1954 – 1955 and at the Detmold Musikhochschule in Germany in 1957.
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