Music high school

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A music high school is a music school of the high school system , with a musical focus, which is intended to prepare specifically for musical education. Music high schools are partly all-day schools or boarding schools .

features

In music high schools, special musical subjects such as rhythm , music theory , ear training , composition and others are taught right from the start. Occasionally, attending a music performance course is compulsory.

Usually each student has to play at least one musical instrument. In addition to the general university entrance qualification, musical skills should be specifically trained and prepared for a music-related professional field. In some cases, there are collaborations with local music academies so that particularly talented musicians can receive instrumental lessons from music professors at an early stage .

history

The idea of ​​the modern music high school goes back to Leo Kestenberg , who developed his concept as early as 1921 and who was later, until 1932, Ministerialrat in the Prussian Ministry for Science, Art and Education . The first educational institution to include Kestenberg's ideas of the music high school in its conception was the Musisches Gymnasium in Frankfurt am Main (1939–1945) under the direction of Kurt Thomas . In 1941 a second music school was opened in Leipzig under the artistic direction of Günther Ramin . Incidentally, both schools were called "Musisches Gymnasium" because their conception differed from that of the "Musikgymnasium" in essential points. In addition, one did not want to fall back on the term coined by Kestenberg - Kestenberg was a Jew - "music high school" in the Third Reich. Both schools were closed in 1945.

List of music high schools

Germany

see also: Musisches Gymnasium

(Ex-) USSR

In the Soviet Union the music high schools (“Sondernmusikschulen”, Russian Средние специальные музыкальные школы ) were founded at some conservatories. The child began studying at the ages of 6-7 and lasted ten (now eleven) years. Many graduates continued their education at the respective conservatoire. Today these schools, or high schools, function in many post-Soviet states; so in Russia there were (2016) a total of nine such institutions. Several are listed below:

Russia

Ukraine

Lithuania

Austria

Upper secondary school for music students

Upper secondary schools with a special focus on music students (students attending a conservatory ), to complete the general education degree:

Private schools

Private schools with their own curriculum ( statutory schools ) are:

  • Polyhymnia Music Institute , at the location of the Bundesgymnasium and Bundesrealgymnasium 1030 Vienna, Kundmanngasse 20–22 (company headquarters: Neulengbach)

Switzerland

literature

  • German Music Council (ed.): Music Almanac 2007/08 Data and facts on musical life in Germany, ConBrio . Regensburg, 2006, ISBN 978-3-932581-77-9
  • Leo Kestenberg: Music education and music care. 1921, ISBN 3-7877-3601-8
  • Werner Heldmann: Musisches Gymnasium Frankfurt am Main 1939-1945. A school in the field of tension between educational responsibility, artistic freedom and political doctrine . Peter Lang, Frankfurt, 2004, 1045 pages, ISBN 3-631-51987-7

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ HMDK Stuttgart: Musikgymnasium Stuttgart. Retrieved January 31, 2017 .
  2. ^ Institute ( Memento of February 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) , polyhymnia.at