Hochschule für Musik Würzburg
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Former name | Collegium musicum academicum |
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Established | 1797 |
Founder | Franz Joseph Fröhlich |
President | Christoph Wünsch |
Students | 650 |
Location | Würzburg, Germany |
Website | Official website |
The Hochschule für Musik Würzburg (University of Music Würzburg) was founded in 1797 by Franz Joseph Fröhlich as Collegium musicum academicum (Academic college of music). From 1921 to 1973, it was named Bayerisches Staatskonservatorium der Musik (Bavarian State Conservatory of Music). The current name was given on 1 September 1973.
It is located in three buildings. The number of full-time students was about 650 in 2007.
Subjects
The university offers a Bachelor of Music degree in artistic and educational programs:
- accordion
- conducting
- voice
- guitar
- historical instruments
- jazz
- church music
- piano
- composition
- music theory
- orchestral instruments
- organ
- elementary music education
There are several graduate programs and the possibility of promotion. Musically gifted children and adolescents are specifically promoted by the university (musical ECI).
Faculty and alumni
- Carlo Buonamici, pianist[1]
- Karl Muck (1859–1940), conductor
- Fritz Huth (1908–1980), hornist
- Bertold Hummel (1925–2002), composer
- Siegfried Fink (1928–2006), percussionist and composer
- Ernst Hoffmann (1928–2016), composer
- Martin Göß (1936–2018), trombonist
- Klaus Hinrich Stahmer (born 1941), composer and musicologist
- Heinz Winbeck (1946–2019), composer
- Ulrich Schultheiss (born 1956), composer and academic teacher
- Kolja Lessing (born 1961), violinist, pianist, composer and academic teacher
- Roland Böer (born 1970), conductor and festival manager
- Patrick Lange (born 1981), conductor
- Hong Jinho (born 1985), cellist and member of Hoppipolla
- Tobias Feldmann (born 1991), violinist, finalist of Elisabeth Competition
References
- ^ "Obituary: Carlo Buonamici". The Musical Courier: 31. October 7, 1920.
External links
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- Literature by and about Hochschule für Musik Würzburg in the German National Library catalogue
- Dieter Kirsch: Hochschule für Musik, Würzburg. In: Historisches Lexikon Bayerns
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