University of Music and Performing Arts Munich
The University of Music and Performing Arts Munich (German: Hochschule für Musik und Theater München), also sometimes called the Academy of Music and Performing Arts, is one of the most respected traditional vocational universities in Germany, specialising in music and the performing arts. The main building it currently occupies is the former Führerbau of the NSDAP, located at Arcisstraße 12, on the eastern side of the Königsplatz, Munich. Teaching and other events also take place at Luisenstraße 37a, Gasteig, the Prinzregententheater (theatre studies), and in Wilhelmstraße (ballet). Since 2008, the Richard Strauss Conservatory (de), until then independent, has formed part of the University.
Contents
1 History
2 Programmes
3 Former and present staff
4 Alumni
5 Honorary doctorates
6 See also
7 External links
History
In 1846, a private institution called the Royal Conservatory of Music (Königliches Conservatorium für Musik) was founded, and in 1867, at the suggestion of Richard Wagner, this was transformed by King Ludwig II into the Royal Bavarian Music School (Königliche bayerische Musikschule), financed privately by Ludwig II until gaining the status of a state institution in 1874. It has since been renamed several times: to the Royal Academy of the Art of Music (Königliche Akademie der Tonkunst), the State Academy of Music (Staatliche Akademie der Tonkunst), the University for Music (Hochschule für Musik) and finally to the present name in 1998.
Its original location, the Odeonsgebäude, was destroyed in 1944. The current building was constructed for the Nazi party by Paul Troost and was called the Führerbau. Neville Chamberlain and Adolf Hitler signed the Munich Agreement in this building in 1938. Hitler's office, on the second floor above the main entrance, is now a rehearsal room, but has been changed little since it was built.
In 1974, the Bavarian University Act placed the Munich college, as well as all other Bavarian music colleges, on an educational par with art colleges.
Programmes
The University of Music and Performing Arts Munich offers study programmes in performing and teaching in all music subjects and ballet, as well as joint study programmes with the Bayerische Theaterakademie August Everding covering operatic performance, acting, directing, musicals, make-up for the theatre and lighting design.
Former and present staff
- Josef Rheinberger
Max Reger composition from 1905 to 1906
Fritz Lehmann 1953–1956
Fritz Schieri chorus line, composition and music theory from 1959 to 1990
Ernst Haefliger 1971– voice
Wilhelm Killmayer 1973–1992 composition
Diethard Hellmann 1974 choral conducting, 1981–1988 director
Max Beckschäfer 1988–2001 composition theory
Margarita Höhenrieder piano since 1991
Rudi Spring since 1999 Lied interpretation
Miku Nishimoto-Neubert, piano accompaniment since 2002
Siegfried Mauser, Rektor 2003–2007; 2007–2014
Christoph Poppen since 2003 violin and chamber music
Bernd Redmann since 2005 Musiktheorie und Gehörbildung
Jan Müller-Wieland since 2007 composition
Bernhard Haas since 2013 organ
Marcus Bosch (from 2016), conducting
Alumni
- Valentina Babor
- Jason Barry-Smith
- Nélida Béjar
- Martin Bernheimer
- Winfried Bönig
- Milana Chernyavska
- Annette Dasch
- Gabriel Dessauer
- Christoph von Dohnányi
- Claudia Eder
- Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos
- Ricardo Gallen
- Christian Gerhaher
- Gerold Huber
- Nicolaus A. Huber
- Gerhard Merkl
- Nils Mönkemeyer
- Carl Orff
- Helga Pogatschar
- Bernd Purkrabek
- Bernd Redmann
- Pichu Sambamoorthi
- Hanns-Martin Schneidt
- Jörg Widmann
- Heinz Winbeck
- Carl Valentin Wunderle
- Karl Maria Zwißler
Honorary doctorates
Hans Werner Henze 2004
See also
- Nazi architecture
- Music schools in Germany
External links
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Official website (in German)
Official website: courses (in English)
University of Music and Performing Arts Munich at study-in-Bavaria.de
University of Music &Performing Arts Munich at muenchen.de
University of Music and Performing Arts Munich at Facebook.com
THE UNIVERSITY OF MUSIC AND PERFORMING ARTS MUNICH at wdc-award.org
Academy of Music and Performing Arts Munich at 4icu.org
University of Music and Performing Arts Munich at university-directory.eu- Bayerische Theaterakademie August Everding
- Effects of the Bologna Declaration on Professional Music Training in Europe
- European Association of Conservatoires (AEC)
Coordinates: 48°08′46″N 11°34′04″E / 48.14611°N 11.56778°E / 48.14611; 11.56778