German Academy for Music and Performing Arts in Prague
The German Academy for Music and Performing Arts in Prague , often referred to as the German Music Academy Prague for short , was a university training facility for performing artists in Prague that existed from 1920 to 1945 .
history
In 1808 the Prague Conservatory was founded as a German-Bohemian educational institution for performing artists. This conservatory, which was run in two languages, Czech and German for a long time, was nationalized and continued as the Czech State Conservatory in 1919 after the First World War . The German minority in Prague around Rudolf Freiherr von Procházka and others decided in 1919 to found the German Academy for Music and Performing Arts . It was finally founded in 1920. The Austrian conductor and composer Alexander von Zemlinsky became the first rector of the new training facility in 1920. At the same time he taught composition and conducting at the new institute.
It was operated and financed by an association, the Association of the German Academy for Music and Performing Arts in Prague , until autumn 1938 , and it also received a subsidy from the Czechoslovak state. In 1940 the academy was transformed into the University Institute for Music and Performing Arts at the German Charles University and dissolved in 1945.
Academy teachers
literature
- Annual report. Association of the German Academy for Music and Performing Arts in Prague . 2, 1920 (1921) - 14/15, 1933/34 (1934)
- German Academy for Music and Performing Arts in Prague. Festschrift 1920-1930 . Prague 1931.
- Peter Brömse: The Prague Conservatory and the German Academy for Music and Performing Arts in Prague . In: Writings of the Sudeten German Academy of Sciences and Arts Volume 10: Music and Musicology , Munich 1989, pp. 37–51.
- Susanne Habel: 200 years of the Prague Conservatory . In: Sudetendeutsche Zeitung March 11, 2011, p. 7.
- Franziska Stoff: Between the chairs. On the affiliation process of the German Academy for Music and Performing Arts in Prague to the German Charles University 1938–1945 . In: Acta Universitatis Carolinae - Historia Universitatis Carolinae Pragensis 53, 2, 2013, pp. 81–153 ( digitized version ).