Liszt University of Music Weimar

Liszt University of Music Weimar
founding	1872
Sponsorship	state
place	Weimar
state	Thuringia
country	Germany
Rector	Christoph Stölzl
Students	876 summer semester 2017
Professors	72
Website	www.hfm-weimar.de

Main building on Democracy Square

The Liszt School of Music Weimar is a music academy in Weimar .

history

The Princely House of Weimar, built by the architect Anton Georg Hauptmann according to plans by the princely master builder Johann Gottfried Schlegel , was completed in 1774. That happened just in time to accommodate the Weimar Court, because the Weimar City Palace burned down almost completely that year.

Franz Liszt campaigned for the establishment of music schools from around 1850, especially a training center for orchestral musicians in Weimar. But it was not until 1872 that Germany's first orchestral school was founded in Weimar under Carl Müllerhartung . The training took place on all orchestral instruments, on the piano and in conducting. This was soon followed by singing, opera and theater, composition, pedagogical training as an instrumental and singing teacher and training for virtuosos. In 1948 the compulsory music theory and music history supplementary subjects were joined by the independent subject of musicology.

These differentiations resulted in many name changes over time:

1877 orchestra and music school ,
1885 orchestra, music and opera school ,
1899 music, opera and theater school ,
1902 Grand Ducal Music School ,
1919 State Music School ,
1930 State University of Music .
In 1956 the university was given its current name, the "Franz Liszt" Weimar Music Academy .

Like all institutions in the GDR era, the university maintained close cooperation with the Ministry for State Security , which has not yet been dealt with.

In October 1995, the Thuringian State Music Archive (proper name: HSA | ThLMA ) was founded as a central institution of the university .

Rectors

Professors and lecturers (selection)

Erich Wolf Degner (Rector 1902–1908)

Waldemar von Baußnern (Rector 1908–1916)

Bruno Hinze-Reinhold (Rector 1916–1933)

Hans Bassermann (violin 1930–1933)

Gustav Lewin (piano, score playing 1901–1933)

Alfred Hoehn (piano 1934–39)

Hermann Keller (organ 1910–1916)

Friedrich Martin (organ 1916–1931)

Richard Wetz (music history, composition 1916–1935)

Hermann Abendroth (Conducting Class 1945–1956)

Ottmar Gerster (Rector 1948–1951)

Johann Cilenšek (Rector 1966–1972)

Edgar Hartwig (Vice Rector for Social Sciences 1965–1989)

Carola Nasdala (lecturer for violin 1987–1988)

Leonid Chizhik (jazz piano)

Karl-Heinz Köhler (musicology)

Klaus-Jürgen Teutschbein (choir director 1996–2009)

Jörg Brückner (horn)

Wolfgang Bleibel (Institute for Jazz)

Wally Hase (Institute for Wind Instruments and Percussion / Flute)

Michael Gehrke (Institute for Singing / Music Theater)

Bernhard Klapprott (Institute for Early Music)

Michael Obst (Institute for New Music)

Hannes Pohlit (Institute for Conducting and Opera Coaching )

Frank Forst (Institute for Wind Instruments and Percussion / Institute Director)

Jo Thönes (jazz drum set)

Silvius von Kessel (Honorary Professor Organ)

Michael Kapsner (organ)

Michael Schiefel (jazz vocals)

Christian Sprenger (trombone)

Trivia

The Altenburg , the long-time home of Franz Liszt in Weimar, is now used by the music academy named after him.
The pop singer Ute Freudenberg studied at the university from 1972 to 1977.

literature

Wolfram Huschke: Future Music. A history of the Liszt School of Music Weimar . Böhlau, Weimar 2006, ISBN 3-412-30905-2 .
Christoph Stölzl , Wolfram Huschke (Eds.): Réminiscences à Liszt . Liszt School of Music Weimar, Weimar 2011 (256 pages).
Günter Knoblauch, Roland Mey: Defects in a university chronicle: The FRANZ LISZT University of Music in Weimar - a work-up . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 2018, ISBN 978-3-95462-952-7

photos

The Princely House with the equestrian statue of Carl August , main building of the university
The Rößler House , administration building of the university
The Kavaliershäuser Belvedere, institutes for guitar, singing and musical theater
The former Streichhan barracks, today the university center on the Horn of the HfM
The monastery building "Am Palais", building for school and church music of the university

Web links

Homepage
Table of contents of the work Réminiscences à Liszt from 2011 , accessed on February 7, 2020

Individual evidence

↑ Organigram on hfm-weimar.de (last accessed on December 14, 2019).

↑ Continuity and quality: The 60th Weimar master classes attract with top-class teaching and excellent concerts ( page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2

↑ Ehrhart Neubert: Review of the book "Defekte einer Hochschulchronik" by Günter Knoblauch and Roland Mey , February 8, 2018

↑ deutsche-liszt-gesellschaft.de (PDF) p. 4, accessed on May 12, 2019

50.97832 11.33154Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 42 " N , 11 ° 19 ′ 53.5" E

[1] Organigram on hfm-weimar.de (last accessed on December 14, 2019).


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