University of Music and Performing Arts Frankfurt am Main

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University of Music and Performing Arts Frankfurt am Main
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founding 1938
Sponsorship state
place Frankfurt am Main
state Hesse
country Germany
president Elmar Fulda
Students 903 WS 2018/19
Employee approx. 385
including professors approx. 65
Website www.hfmdk-frankfurt.de
University, exterior view
University entrance hall

The Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts is a state university for music, theater and dance and the only one of its kind in the state of Hesse .

The musical courses of study include artistic instrumental and vocal training as well as music pedagogical subjects as well as composition , conducting and church music . Further training courses are in the areas of musical theater , acting and dance . The university has the right to award doctorates in the subjects of musicology and music education .

history

Background: Dr. Hoch's Conservatory

Foundation of the State University - the Nazi era

As early as the 1920s there were negotiations, the traditional and renowned Dr. Convert Hoch's Conservatory into a State College. According to contracts between the City of Frankfurt and the Dr. Hoch's Conservatory in 1937, this was implemented in 1938. All vocational training branches, the corresponding teaching staff, the stately building, the collection of instruments and the library - all of this has been incorporated into the newly founded university. The other branches of training, including the pre-school and lay school, were separated from the university and have since continued as an independent training institute. This still bears the name Dr. Hoch's Conservatory , which the university also used as a nickname until the 1950s, but then abandoned it. After the start of the war in 1939, teaching was initially able to continue in a relatively orderly manner until, in October 1943, the university building was reduced to rubble by heavy Allied bombing raids. After the bombs fell victim to an alternative quarter that had been quickly moved into, classes were completely suspended in February 1944.

Since 1947

On the initiative of the organist Helmut Walcha , who had been teaching at the conservatory since 1932, the church music department of the university was first reopened in autumn 1947, soon afterwards the school music department and finally the private music teacher seminar in spring 1949. The gradual resumption of "artistic training", that is to say instrumental and vocal training in the narrower sense, only began after the violinist Walther Davisson , himself a student of Dr. Hoch'schen Conservatory and long-time director of the Leipzig University , who took over the management of the house. During these years the lessons took place partly in private apartments, partly in the poorly repaired university ruin. This untenable situation, which hindered the further development of the university massively, did not come to an end until 1956, when the Hessischer Rundfunk moved into its newly built domicile on Bertramswiese - originally designed as the seat of government and parliament for the planned "federal capital Frankfurt" left the radio house built in 1930 to the university. This "new" university building was only a stone's throw away from the old one, the ruins of which have now been finally torn down.

The gradual expansion of the range of courses has now been continued. The opera school, established in 1954, was expanded to include an opera choir school in 1958, a drama school was added in 1960, and finally a dance class in 1961. In the 1960s, the curriculum was expanded by the establishment of a “Studio for New Music”, for whose high-profile events personalities such as Theodor W. Adorno , György Ligeti and Luigi Dallapiccola could be won and as its counterpart also a “Studio for Old Music” Life was called. This impressive development came in the rector's era of Philipp Mohler , who during his 17-year tenure also won prominent musicians as teachers for the college and for whom the names Branka Musulin , Jiří Stárek , Edgar Krapp , Gerhard Mantel , Leonard Hokanson and Helmuth Rilling represented can be named.

Mohler's successor Hans-Dieter Resch , whose rectorate lasted two decades, completed the expansion of the range of subjects by establishing jazz and popular music as well as musicology at the university. A musicological seminar was set up in 1982, and in 1989 the “Music Education and Musicology” department was granted the right to award doctorates. In addition, the Hindemith Institute, a well-known research facility, was established in-house. Resch campaigned heavily for the realization of an urgently needed extension to the old broadcasting house, the dimensions of which had long been insufficient for the greatly expanded range of courses and the correspondingly increased number of students. Thanks to his efforts, a modern new building was finally completed in 1990, which has since taken over the function of the main house. In 1993, as the last construction measure for the time being, a new library building was completed.

In questions of appointment, Resch was able to continue the course of his predecessor and attract well-known teachers, including Edith Peinemann , Hartmut Höll , Charles Spencer , Hans Zender , Bernhard Kontarsky , Raymund Havenith , Karl Berger , Isabel Mundry and Tabea Zimmermann .

Thomas Rietschel was president of the university from 2004 to 2016.

Known teachers (selection)

→ see also: University professor at the Frankfurt University of Music

Well-known graduates (selection)

literature

  • Peter Cahn : The Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt am Main (1878–1978). Frankfurt am Main 1979.
  • Summer semester 1947 to winter semester 1966/7. Typescript in the archive of the University of Music and Performing Arts.
  • Peter Cahn: Chronicle of half a century. The Frankfurt Music Academy 1947–1997. In: 50th anniversary of the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts after reopening in 1947. Frankfurt am Main 1997.

Web links

Commons : University of Music and Performing Arts (Frankfurt am Main)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ University of Music and Performing Arts Frankfurt am Main: History. 2019, accessed December 14, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Central bodies> Presidium. In: www.hfmdk-frankfurt.info. Retrieved October 25, 2019 .
  3. ↑ (accessed on October 16, 2019)
Universities in Hessen
Universities and colleges with the right to award doctorates

Technical University Darmstadt  • Frankfurt School of Finance & Management  • Goethe University Frankfurt am Main  • Justus Liebig University Giessen  • University Kassel  • Philipps University Marburg  • EBS University for Economics and Law

Universities of applied sciences

accadis Hochschule Bad Homburg  • Hochschule Darmstadt  • Wilhelm Büchner Hochschule  • Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences  • University of Fulda  • University of Applied Sciences Mittelhessen  • Archivschule Marburg  • Hessian University of Finance and Administration of Justice  • Fresenius University  • University of the German Social Accident Insurance  • RheinMain University  • Diploma College  • Provadis School of International Management and Technology  • Hessian University for Police and Administration

Art and music colleges

University of Music and Performing Arts Frankfurt am Main  • State University of Fine Arts - Städelschule  • Art University Kassel  • University of Design Offenbach am Main

Church universities

Evangelical University Darmstadt  • Theological University Ewersbach  • Theological Faculty Fulda  • Free Theological University Gießen  • CVJM University  • Evangelical University Tabor  • Lutheran Theological University Oberursel  • Philosophical-Theological University Sankt Georgen

New type of university

Geisenheim University

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