Liszt University of Music Weimar

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Liszt University of Music Weimar
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founding 1872
Sponsorship state
place Coat of arms Weimar.svg 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)

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

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Organigram on hfm-weimar.de (last accessed on December 14, 2019).
  2. 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@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.hfm-weimar.de
  3. Ehrhart Neubert: Review of the book "Defekte einer Hochschulchronik" by Günter Knoblauch and Roland Mey , February 8, 2018
  4. deutsche-liszt-gesellschaft.de (PDF) p. 4, accessed on May 12, 2019

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