Dr. Hoch's Conservatory

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Dr. Hoch's Conservatory - Music Academy
Frankfurt am Main
Administrative Director Christian Heynisch
founding year 1878
place Frankfurt am Main , Germany
Students / pupils about 1000
Lecturers 80
Website www.dr-hochs.de

Dr. Hoch's Conservatory - Music Academy in Frankfurt am Main was founded on September 22nd, 1878 as a foundation by the Frankfurt citizen Joseph Hoch as a musical and artistic training facility for all ages. In the first decades of its existence, it achieved world fame thanks to its famous teachers such as Clara Schumann , Engelbert Humperdinck and Joachim Raff and attracted talented students such as Hans Pfitzner , Alfred Hoehn , Edward MacDowell , Percy Grainger , Paul Hindemith , Ernst Toch and Otto Klemperer .

Departments

Training center Ostend: Sonnemannstr. 16. Domicile of Dr. Hoch'schen Conservatory - Music Academy since 2005

The institute is divided into three departments for different training directions:

  • The department for young people and adult education (ANE) with a variety of courses is aimed at interested parties of all ages who want to complete a non-professional music education. The courses on offer include early musical education , instrumental and vocal lessons, early music and new music / composition, as well as various courses in music theory .
  • In the department of the study preparation ( Pre-College -Frankfurt) be gifted to an entrance to a music academy or a conservatory prepared.
  • Prospective professional musicians are trained in the study department. The course lasts about eight semesters with a Bachelor of Music degree. There is no age limit.

Other departments are the Ballet Department , the Early Music Department and the New Music and Composition Department.

history

From the foundation to 1938

Saalhof around 1900. Domicile of Dr. Hoch Conservatory from 1878 to 1888
Eschersheimer Landstrasse 4. Dr. Hoch's Conservatory around 1900. Domicile of the Conservatory from 1888 to 1943
Eschersheimer Landstrasse 4. Volksbildungsheim. Domicile of Dr. Hoch Conservatory from 1951 to 1988
Hebelstrasse 15-19. Philanthropist Frankfurt, domicile of Dr. Hoch Conservatory from 1986 to 2004
Back of the 100 DM note (revised series 1997) with a picture of the former institute building

As early as 1857, Joseph Hoch had determined in his will to use his fortune to found an "Institute for Music". For this he made his entire fortune worth one million gold marks available.

"In the event of my childless death, or in the event that the children and heirs I left behind would die without the legacy of marital heirs, my dearest will is that my entire fortune (with the sole exception of that in this will and its enclosures to others Purposes) to set up an institute for music in Frankfurt am Main, my hometown, under the name of Dr. To establish and maintain Hoch's Conservatory . "

- Joseph Hoch : Testament of July 14, 1857

After his death in 1874 this was achieved with the establishment of the Dr. Hoch's Conservatory implemented in 1876. The opening of “Dr. Hoch's Conservatorium ”took place on September 22nd, 1878 in the historic building of the Frankfurt Saalhof , the founding director was Joachim Raff . Numerous internationally known artists could be won as teachers, so that the institute attracted students from all over the world and achieved world fame shortly after its founding.

The rapidly growing number of schoolchildren soon required a spatial expansion, for which the building at Eschersheimer Landstrasse 4 was built and opened in 1888. Over the decades, the range of courses has been continuously expanded: the seminar for music teachers was opened under the direction of Iwan Knorr in 1884, the preschool for talented young people in 1886, the orchestral school in 1908, the seminar for school singing in 1918 and the opera school in 1924. From 1892 the conservatory took over the training of the Mozart Foundation scholarship holders .

Under the direction of Bernhard Sekles , the conservatory was way ahead of its time in the 1920s. In 1928, Sekles initiated the first jazz classes worldwide under the direction of Mátyás Seiber , and in 1931 a department for early musical education and courses for adult education. The orchestral school and the conducting class were directed by Hermann von Schmeidel from 1925 to 1933 , and concerts were held in the Volksbildungsheim from 1928 onwards .

Period of National Socialism and foundation of the state university

After the seizure of power by the Nazis took place on 10 April 1933 to the dismissal of director Sekles well as all Jewish and foreign teachers; this had a lasting negative effect on the quality of the training. In the same year the jazz classes were also closed.

As early as the 1920s - aided by the global economic crisis - there was a decrease in the foundation's assets, which resulted in the use of municipal grants. According to contracts between the City of Frankfurt and the Dr. In 1938, Hoch's Conservatory established the State University (today the University of Music and Performing Arts Frankfurt am Main ), which was accompanied by the separation of the vocational departments that the university took over from then on. The other departments for lay training remained in the training area of ​​the conservatory. As a result, it became a college preschool, so to speak. However, the state university continued to use the name Dr. Hoch's Conservatory next.

The building on Eschersheimer Landstrasse was destroyed by the air raids on Frankfurt during the Second World War in October 1943, followed by the move to the Passavant-Gontard'sche Palais, which was also destroyed in February 1944.

The conservatory from 1951 until today

In 1951, teaching was resumed in the newly constructed building at Eschersheimer Landstrasse 4 next to the adult education center . The position of chairman of the foundation was held by a full-time city councilor.

In 1967 the contract from 1937 was canceled by the city of Frankfurt. Plans to merge the conservatory with the youth music school in 1971 were not implemented, instead the conservatory became an educational link between the music school and the music college.

After the training areas had previously only included lay lessons, the range of courses was expanded again in 1981 to include full-time university preparation, a department for early music and a department for new music. A year later a seminar for music criticism and comparative interpretation was set up, and the conservatory's choir and orchestra were brought back to life. Since 1985 music educators have been trained with the completion of the "State Music Teacher Exam".

In 1989, the move to the converted Philanthropin's building on Hebelstrasse, which had begun three years earlier, was completed. Since 1995 a cooperation agreement has been concluded between the conservatory and the conservatory, which enables the students of the conservatory to gain access to a diploma. On January 1, 2002, the study department of the Conservatory received the status of a music academy .

In 2005 the conservatory moved to the newly established Ostend Education Center (BOZ) on Sonnemannstrasse.

The Deutsche Bundesbank paid tribute to the importance of the conservatory by displaying the original institute building at Eschersheimer Landstrasse 4 on the back of the 100 DM banknote from 1990 onwards . The front had a picture of Clara Schumann , piano teacher.

Directors

The first director: Joachim Raff. Picture approx. 1878

Known teachers (selection)

Known students (selection)

literature

  • Nicolas Slonimsky (Ed.): Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians. 5th edition completely revised. Schirmer, New York NY 1958.
  • Foundation Dr. Hoch's Conservatory. Joseph Hoch on the 100th anniversary of his death. Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1974, ISBN 3-7829-0152-5 .
  • Peter Cahn : The Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt am Main (1878–1978). Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1979, ISBN 3-7829-0214-9 (also: Frankfurt am Main, Univ., Diss., 1980).
  • Werner Wilde (Red.): Festschrift 125 Years of the Dr. Hoch's Conservatory Frankfurt am Main. Foundation Dr. Hoch's Conservatory, Frankfurt am Main 2003.

Web links

Commons : Dr. Hoch's Conservatory (Frankfurt am Main)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dr. Hoch's Conservatory: Administration. Accessed March 31, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Annual reports from 1878 to 1921. In: edocs.ub.uni-frankfurt.de. Archived from the original on March 24, 2014 ; Retrieved June 23, 2012 .
  3. ↑ a b Sonja Stöhr: Dr. Hoch's talent factory. In: Frankfurter Rundschau. April 12, 2016, accessed May 20, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Kathrin Massar: Exile and inner biography: the composer Erich Itor Kahn in his letters . Peter Lang Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-631-60972-9 , p. 232.
  5. ^ A b University of Music and Performing Arts Frankfurt am Main: History. Retrieved May 19, 2020 .
  6. ^ Peter Cahn: The Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt am Main (1878–1978) . Zugl. Frankfurt am Main, Univ., Diss., 1980. Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1979, ISBN 3-7829-0214-9 .
  7. ↑ Werner Wilde (Red.): Festschrift 125 Years of the Dr. Hoch's Conservatory Frankfurt am Main . Foundation Dr. Hoch's Conservatory, Frankfurt am Main 2003.
  8. ^ Leonard Borwick in the English language Wikipedia
  9. ↑ Frederick Septimus Kelly in the English language Wikipedia
  10. ↑ Norman O'Neill in the English language Wikipedia

Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 36.7 ″  N , 8 ° 41 ′ 59.5 ″  E