Royal Music Institute Berlin
The Royal Music Institute in Berlin was a training facility for musicians and a predecessor of today's Institute for Church Music at the Berlin University of the Arts .
history
The institute was founded in 1822 by Carl Friedrich Zelter and served to train organists, cantors and teachers at seminars and grammar schools. In the early years, the training usually only lasted one year, but could be extended to two years if necessary. The first teachers at the facility, which was popularly known as the Organ Institute , were August Wilhelm Bach (organ) and Bernhard Klein (vocals and instrumentation). Carl Gottlieb Reissiger followed in 1825, followed by Eduard Grell soon after . Directors after Zelter's death were:
- August Wilhelm Bach , 1832–1869,
- August Haupt , 1869-1891,
- Robert Radecke , 1892–1907,
- Hermann Kretzschmar , 1907–1922,
- Carl Thiel , 1922–1927,
- Hans Joachim Moser , 1927–1933.
- Fritz Stein , 1933–1934.
- Eugen Bieder , 1934–1945.
Initially, the institute was located in Zelter's apartment in the Singakademie building on the fortress moat. In 1832 the company moved to Papenstrasse 10 to the official apartment of August Wilhelm Bach, which was located in the immediate vicinity of St. Mary's Church , where Bach worked as music director and organist. In 1854 the Royal Church Music Institute had its own premises at Spandauer Straße 72 for the first time . Later the institute was renamed the Institute for Church Music and around 1922 the State Academy for Church and School Music .
Institute for Church Music
The State Academy for Church and School Music took place after several other parades in 1903 a final home on today's Ernst-Reuter-Platz (at that time: knee ) in the Hardenbergstraße 41 in Berlin-Charlottenburg ; opposite the confluence of Schillerstrasse. The building still exists in the area of the Technical University of Berlin and belongs to the Berlin University of the Arts .
On May 6, 2014, a year and a half renovation of the interior was completed; after the Second World War they were only made usable in a simplified manner.
Auditorium
The hall with the organ is located on the second floor in the rear part of the building and is accessible from the stairwell via an elaborately designed double door.
The large organ in the auditorium is from the organ builder Karl Schuke and has a main work , swell , positive and pedal work with mechanical action and a total of 48 stops with electric action.
On the walls are the three busts of the former directors Hermann Kretzschmar and Carl Thiel as well as the choir director of the State and Cathedral Choir Berlin Hugo Rüdel .
- Bronze busts in the auditorium
Known students
Well-known students of the institute were Franz Commer , Gustav Heuser , Carl Albert Löschhorn and Wilhelm Middelschulte . Justus Hermann Wetzel was one of the teachers between 1926 and 1937 .
Library
The extensive institute library, which goes back to the valuable private library of Johann Nikolaus Forkel and which was taken over by the Royal Library in 1845 , was well known.
Student associations
- Academic Association Organum Berlin (1885) - motto : Loyalty for loyalty! Principles: art, personality, friendship . - Rejection of duels, ban on scaling; certified satisfaction. - 1937 formation and support of the Comradeship Organum by the AHV, 1942 adoption of the name "Johann Sebastian Bach", 1944/1945 disintegration of the comradeship. The AV Organum was not reconstituted after 1945 and remains dissolved.
- Academic association "Teutonia" (1893) → color-bearing academic association → 1929 as a military for the Bamberg Chargierten-Convent.
literature
- August Wilhelm Bach, advertisement for the profile of the institute. In: Yearbooks for Scientific Criticism , Volume 2, Berlin 1833, p. 3, books.google.de
- Max Schipke (Ed.): Festschrift to celebrate the centenary of the State Academic Institute for Church Music in Berlin (1822–1922) . Berlin 1922
- Heinrich Martens, development and establishment of the educational departments of the State Academy for Church and School Music in Berlin . In: Hermann Halbig (Ed.): Yearbook of the State Academy for Church and School Music Berlin . Kassel, Vol. 2, 1929, p. 21 ff.
- Georg Sowa: Beginnings of Institutional Music Education in Germany (1800–1843) . Regensburg 1973
- Christoph Wolff : Bach reception and sources from the early days and in the vicinity of the Royal Institute for Church Music in Berlin . In: Yearbook of the State Institute for Music Research Prussian Cultural Heritage . Stuttgart 1993, pp. 79-87
Web links
- Institute for Church Music / Academy for Church and School Music, 1822–1933 . University of the Arts Berlin , accessed on February 17, 2014
Individual evidence
- ^ Church Music Institute . In: General housing gazette for Berlin, Charlottenburg and surroundings , 1854, part 4, p. 315.
- ^ Institute for Church Music , Berlin University of the Arts , accessed on July 12, 2018
- ^ Disposition of the Karl Schuke organ (III / 57), 1960/1993 , Institute for Church Music, accessed on August 8, 2018