Landesmusikakademie Sondershausen

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The state music academy complex in Sondershausen

The Landesmusikakademie Sondershausen or Landesmusikakademie Thuringia in Sondershausen has been a regional central institution for musical education, training and further education as well as a conference location for musicians, for musical amateurs and young musicians on the grounds of the residential palace of the city.

The academy continues the tradition of Sondershausen, which goes back to the work of the Loh orchestra , the musicians and composers Max Bruch , Max Reger and Franz Liszt as well as the music conservatory founded by Carl Schroeder in 1883 . The academy is a member of the working group of music education institutions in Germany.

tasks

The palace park with a view of the
palace complex , the seat of the academy

The music academy has set itself the goal of becoming a home for old and new music in Thuringia as well as a documentation and archiving center for current musical creativity. It promotes encounters at national and international music conferences, workshops, courses and seminars, also for associations and clubs.

The facility organizes advanced training seminars for music school teachers and school musicians and qualifies amateur and young musicians in vocal and instrumental courses. It also offers conferences for music-making youth ensembles from all areas. The academy in Sondershausen is also the work center of the state youth ensemble. Ultimately, the facility is also a venue for various national and international music competitions.

In the Landesmusikakademie take place

  • Training as a music mentor
  • Music in elementary school
  • Solo and chamber music courses
  • Voice training
  • Early musical education
  • Media courses
  • Competitions: State competition for young people composes, State competition for young people making music, State competition for choirs, State competition for school and youth big bands
  • "Notes with Dip"

description

The stables
The octagonal house with concert hall and jazz cellar

The music academy is located on the grounds of the palace gardens and the residential palace of the former principality of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen .

The facility currently has five buildings - the former princely carriage house , the classicist stables and the octagonal house , which includes a large baroque concert hall with two surrounding auditoriums. At the end of 2011, the guest house with 54 beds and a cafeteria opened on campus. It is a restored baroque house and a new building.

In the Marstall building there are two large practice rooms for ensemble rehearsals, seven practice rooms for chamber music and individual work as well as two concert and performance halls for final rehearsals and concerts, the large eastern and western columned halls. Instruments available in all rooms include Förster, Steingräßer and Yamaha grand pianos, Irmler / Blüthner pianos, drums and a Kramer harpsichord, as well as percussion instruments of various styles (Orff instruments, Latin percussion). The house also has a recording studio.

A cafeteria is located in the neighboring car house next to the administration.

In the octagonal house, the academy offers a baroque concert hall with around 300 seats for performances by the entire ensemble. There is a jazz cellar underneath.

For working conditions close to concerts or for concerts outside the academy, academy visitors use other concert halls in the city of various sizes at special conditions. These include the world's deepest concert hall in the Glückauf Sondershausen potash plant , the ballrooms and the lovers ' theater in the castle, the auditorium of the Geschwister-Scholl-Gymnasium , the Trinity Church and open-air stages in the castle courtyard or on Lohplatz.

Cooperations

The Landesmusikakademie cooperates with the Musikgymnasium Schloss Belvedere in Weimar , the Thuringian Singers Association , the Institute for Music Education at the Liszt School of Music Weimar , the Landesmusikrat Thuringia, the Goethegymnasium / Rutheneum in Gera , the Kulturpass Thuringia and the funding atlas of the Musik gGmbH.

literature

  • Sondershausen - Faces of a City 1990 to 2010 . Ed .: City of Sondershausen, Starke printing works, Sondershausen 2010, ISBN 978-3-00-032395-9

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Coordinates: 51 ° 22 ′ 17.7 ″  N , 10 ° 52 ′ 12.4 ″  E