College for Church Music of the Evangelical Church of Westphalia
| College for Church Music of the Evangelical Church of Westphalia | |
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| founding | 1948 |
| Sponsorship | denominational |
| place | Herford |
| state |
 North Rhine-Westphalia
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| country |
 Germany
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| Rector | Helmut Fleinghaus |
| Students | 58 WS 2018/19 |
| Website | www.hochschule-kirchenmusik.de |
The University of Church Music of the Evangelical Church of Westphalia in Herford is an institution of the Evangelical Church of Westphalia . It is the only Protestant church music academy in northwest Germany and the second largest of the seven Protestant music academies in Germany and the almost 30 German training centers for Protestant church music . 10 percent of the students of Protestant church music are trained in Herford.
The university offers courses leading to the degrees "Church Music B" and "Church Music A" and also prepares students for the artistic maturity examination in the subjects of organ, organ improvisation, choir conducting, piano and historical keyboard instruments.
history
Herford location
The Herford College of Church Music received its first statute on April 22, 1949 as a church music school for the Evangelical Church of Westphalia in Herford, after it had already started teaching in January 1948. The training center emerged from the Institute for Church Music of the Dortmund Municipal Conservatory , which opened on November 1, 1925 and which was established in Aschersleben before what was generally known as Germany's oldest church music school . After the Second World War, Herford's superintendent Hermann Kunst was commissioned by the Evangelical Church of Westphalia to re-establish the school. As he could not find a suitable building in the Ruhr area or in Münster, Bielefeld or Minden because of the war damage, he decided to relocate the school in Herford. Hermann Kunst commissioned Wilhelm Ehmann, who is controversial today because of his proximity to National Socialism , as the founding rector .
The lessons initially took the form of courses for part-time church musicians; the first B exams for full-time employees were held in 1951, the first A exam (based on the B exam) in 1971. Today, the training center trains B and A church musicians and also offers particularly qualified people the opportunity to take the artistic maturity examination in some selected subjects. Under Ehmann's successor, church music director Uwe Karsten Groß (from 1976), the institute, which had given itself the name "Westphalian State Church Music School", was converted in 1991 into the state-recognized "College for Church Music of the Evangelical Church of Westphalia". In 1993 a second professorship for organ playing in worship and improvisation was established, and Christiane Michel-Ostertun became the first professor .
Witten location
Since 2016 it has been possible to study "Evangelical Church Music Popular" at the Evangelical Pop Academy at the Witten location .
Rectors
- 1948–1976: Wilhelm Ehmann
- 1976–1993: Church music director Uwe Karsten Groß
- 1995–2007: Church music director Rolf Schönstedt
- since 2007: Helmut Fleinghaus
Education
In addition to the main subjects organ and choir conducting, the focus of the training is on practical community work with extensive wind work as well as community singing and children's choir conducting. Participation in the work of the university choir is compulsory for students . Concert tours have taken the university choir to France, Iceland, Hungary and Romania in recent years. The university offers the following courses of study: training to become a full-time B and A musician (with appropriate qualifications in the context of the B exam) and studies with the aim of the artistic maturity test (with appropriate qualifications in the B or A exam ) in one of the subjects organ literature playing, organ improvisation, choir conducting, piano playing and playing on historical keyboard instruments (harpsichord, clavichord, etc.). The course lasts 8 semesters until the B-exam, another 4 semesters until the A-exam.
students
The university's teaching operations are designed for up to 50 students. 39 students were enrolled in the 2015/16 winter semester.
Westphalian Kantorei
The Westfälische Kantorei is affiliated to the Herford University of Church Music . This mixed choir was founded in 1948 (initially as the "Ravensberger Kantorei") by Wilhelm Ehmann. Guest performances all over Europe , in the USA , Japan and South Africa testify to the importance of the choir during the fifties to seventies of the 20th century. Successors in the work with the choir were the Herford choir conducting professors Klaus-Martin Ziegler and Hannelotte Pardall. Since 1986 the management has been in the hands of Hildebrand Haake. Under his leadership, the ensemble developed into a chamber choir with a focus on early music and the 20th century; there were recordings for the SFB and the WDR . In 2006 the choir won first prize in the German-Dutch choir competition.
literature
- Walter Blankenburg : The idea of the Protestant church music school 1928–1948 . In: Musik und Kirche , vol. 38 (1968), p. 270ff.
- Helmut Fleinghaus: 63 years of training as a church musician in Westphalia. A contribution to the fortieth anniversary of the Westphalian State Church Music School . In: Helmut Fleinghaus, Uwe Karsten Groß, Lebrecht Schilling (eds.): 40 years of the Westphalian State Church Music School in Herford . Westphalian State Church Music School, Herford 1988.
Web links
- Website of the EKvW School of Church Music
- Website of the Westphalian Kantorei
- Website of the college's pop academy
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.hochschule-kirchenmusik.de/hochschule/geschichte/
- ↑ Federal Statistical Office: Students at universities. Winter semester 2018/2019 (= Fachserie 11, Reihe 4.1), October 18, 2019, p. 70.
Coordinates: 52 ° 6 ′ 42 ″ N , 8 ° 41 ′ 2 ″ E
