University of Music Freiburg

University of Music Freiburg
founding	1946
Sponsorship	state
place	Freiburg in Breisgau
state	Baden-Württemberg
country	Germany
Rector	Ludwig Holtmeier
Students	488 (WS 2017/18)
Professors	66, 120 lecturers
Website	www.mh-freiburg.de

The music academy in Freiburg

Art at the main entrance of the music college

The Freiburg University of Music is a university supported by the state of Baden-Württemberg for scientific research and artistic and pedagogical training in the field of music.

history

The Freiburg Conservatory of Music, a music college, had existed in Freiburg since 1898 . Today's Hochschule für Musik was founded in 1946 as a municipal institution under the direction of Gustav Scheck . Two years later it passed into the sponsorship of the state of Baden . Their spatial basis was two intact old town houses in the largely destroyed city ​​center of Freiburg .

Many of the students later included renowned musicians such as Fritz Wunderlich . Numerous outstanding instrumental soloists and educators have taught here, including Harald Genzmer , Ulrich Grehling, Aurèle Nicolet , Ulrich Koch , Wolfgang Marschner , Ludwig Doerr , Carl Seemann , Erich and Elma Doflein , Edith Picht-Axenfeld and James Avery . Jörg Brena first studied here and then taught.

In 1954, Wolfgang Fortner founded the "Institute for New Music" at the university, which was doing pioneering work at the time. It came to cooperation with the electronic experimental studio of the Heinrich Strobel Foundation in the Freiburg House of South West Radio (SWF) (today South West Broadcasting).

After the university had been spread over many buildings throughout the city, it was able to move into a new building tailored to its needs in 1983 - now sponsored by the state of Baden-Württemberg.

In the Freiburg Institute for Musicians' Medicine - founded in 2005 - there is a collaboration with the University Clinic Freiburg to research and teach a previously less noticed connection between music practice and health and to enable specific patient care.

International partnerships exist with the music academies in Odessa , Rochester (USA) , Warsaw , Sydney and Kyoto .

A hailstorm on May 13, 2015 caused damage of presumably more than one million euros to the roof of the concert hall. The concert hall could not be used for almost a year. This will be called the Wolfgang-Hoffmann-Saal , named after the post-war Freiburg mayor who promoted the establishment of the music college.

courses

The university offers courses in all three study cycles. The Bachelor of Music degree program is divided into an artistic and an artistic-pedagogical profile. Since the 2018/19 winter semester, it has been possible to choose a minor in addition to the main subject, which enables individual focus areas to be set.

• Bachelor Music (B.Mus.)
• Master Music (M.Mus.)

• Bachelor Church Music Evangelical / Catholic (B.Mus. Church Music ev./cath.)
• Master of Church Music Protestant / Catholic (M.Mus. Church Music Protestant / Catholic)

• Bachelor of Music (Music Teaching at High Schools) (M.Mus.)
• Master of Education (Music Teaching at High Schools) (M.Ed.)

• Concert exam / master class (3rd cycle)

• Scientific / artistic-scientific doctorate (Dr. phil.)

Institutes

Six institutes with special focuses have been set up at the university: the Institute for Church Music , the Institute for New Music , the Institute for Music Theater , the Institute for Historical Performance Practice , the Freiburg Institute for Musicians' Medicine and the Freiburg Academy for the Promotion of Talented Students .

Rectors

• Gustav Scheck , 1946–1964
• Carl Seemann , 1964–1974
• Lars Ulrich Abraham , 1974–1980
• Johann Georg Schaarschmidt , 1980–1996
• Mirjam Nastasi , 1996-2006
• Rüdiger Nolte , 2006–2017
• Ludwig Holtmeier , since October 1, 2017

Well-known lecturers and graduates

• Julia Rebekka Adler
• James Avery
• Wolfgang Baumgratz
• Wolfram Christ
• Fola Dada
• Helmut Deutsch (organist)
• Ludwig Doerr
• Egidius Doll
• Elma Doflein
• Erich Doflein
• Vincent Dubois
• Lukas rock
• Markus Flaig
• Herbert Froitzheim
• Harald Genzmer
• Hortense from Gelmini
• Bernd Glemser
• Gottfried von der Goltz
• Stanislav Heller
• Robert Hill
• Ludwig Holtmeier
• Ernst Horn
• Christoph Hönerlage
• Klaus Huber
• Bertold Hummel
• Kay Johannsen
• Eckehard Kiem †
• Ulrich Koch
• Robert D. Levin
• Dieter Klöcker
• Argyris Kounadis
• Axel Kühn
• Rainer Kussmaul
• Eric Le Sage
• Michael Leuschner
• Dieter Mack
• Vitaly Margulis
• Wolfgang Marschner
• André Marchand
• Gerbert mother
• Hans Musch
• Mirjam Nastasi
• Adalbert Nauber
• Fritz Neumeyer
• Aurèle Nicolet
• Patrick O'Byrne
• Younghi Pagh-Paan
• Božo Paradžik
• Brice pause
• Edith Picht-Axenfeld
• Anthony Plog
• Jean-Guihen Queyras
• Christian Reichert
• Ludger Rémy †
• Bernhard Richter
• Wolfgang Rihm
• Stephan Rommelspacher
• Wolfgang Schäfer (choir director)
• Gustav check
• Hans-Ludwig Schilling
• Karl-August Schirmer
• Martin Schmeding
• Martin Gotthard Schneider
• Klemens Schnorr
• Christoph Schoener
• Heino Schubert
• Mathias Spahlinger
• Claudia Spahn
• Alexander Schulin
• Carl Seemann
• Fany Solter
• Tibor Szász
• Zsigmond Szathmáry
• Winfried Toll
• Francis Travis
• Carl Ueter
• Sándor Végh
• Jörg Widmann
• Christoph Wolff
• Bernhard Wulff
• Fritz Wunderlich
• Hans Zender
• Simone Zgraggen
• L'Art du Bois (several members of the ensemble)

Web links

Commons : Hochschule für Musik Freiburg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• University website

Individual evidence

1. ^ University of Music Freiburg: Rectorate. 2019, accessed December 14, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Federal Statistical Office: Number of students by type of university, state and university, WS 2017/18, p. 75, accessed on October 26, 2018.
3. ↑ Ursula Huggle: The Freiburg University of Music and its predecessors. In: Schau-ins-Land, 121, 2002, pp. 209–252.
4. ↑ Freiburg: After storms: Roof damage: the music college cannot use the hall for a long time - badische-zeitung.de. Retrieved July 1, 2015 .  ; University of Music Freiburg: News. Retrieved May 10, 2016 .  ; Alexander Dick: Freiburg: 70th anniversary: ​​Science Minister Theresia Bauer sees international prospects for the Freiburg University of Music. Badische Zeitung, May 10, 2016, accessed on May 10, 2016 . 
5. ↑ Home. Retrieved May 17, 2020 . 

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