Academy for Music Art (Darmstadt)

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The Academy for Music in September 2010

The Academy for Tonkunst in Darmstadt is one of the oldest music training facilities in Germany. It is divided into a vocational academy and the municipal music school .

Karl Philipp Schmitt founded the Schmitt'sche Akademie für Tonkunst in 1851 . When it was taken over by the city in 1922, it was recognized by the state.

Today the academy has a modern building with large and small concert halls, chamber music and rhythm rooms, 46 classrooms and 24 practice rooms, over 100 keyboard instruments, an extensive music library and a high-quality sound studio.

The director since 2005 has been the Dutch composer Cord Meijering .

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Coordinates: 49 ° 51 ′ 1 ″  N , 8 ° 39 ′ 16 ″  E