Born in Hanover,[1] Sott was a student of Heinrich Lutter and (around 1935) Alfred Hoehn at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt.
In the 1930s and 1940s she was one of the best up-and-coming pianists in Germany, but the war events thwarted a great career.
[1] After the war, she continued this activity at the newly founded Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts, where she taught, as professor since 1971, until 1982.
There she made a number of remarkable recordings, including piano concertos by Britten, Tchaikovsky and Scriabin and music by Prokofiev and Strawinsky, which testify to a piano playing that is as differentiated as it is rousingly vital.
After her work as a university teacher, the pianist was known in specialist circles for her valuable assistance in mastering technical problems.