University of Music and Theater Munich
Coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 46 ″ N , 11 ° 34 ′ 4 ″ E
University of Music and Theater Munich | |
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founding | 1846 |
Sponsorship | state |
place | Munich |
state | Bavaria |
country | Germany |
president | Bernd Redmann |
Students | 1098 SS 2019 |
Employee | about 300 |
including professors | approx. 125, including approx. 35 honorary professors |
Website | website.musikhochschule-muenchen.de |
The Munich University of Music and Drama is one of the largest universities in the cultural sector in Germany . It was founded as the Royal Conservatory for Music in 1846 and has had its current name since 1998. Its current president is Bernd Redmann . The university is located in the former " Führerbau " of the NSDAP at Arcisstrasse 12 in the Munich art area . The university's branches are located in Luisenstrasse 37a (with “Reaktorhalle” and “Carl Orff Auditorium”), Wilhelmstrasse 19 (Ballet Academy), in the Prinzregententheater (theater professions) and in the Gasteig cultural center .
On August 1, 2008, the city's Richard Strauss Conservatory was integrated into the Munich University of Music and Theater.
Structure and training
In its eleven institutes and academies, the university provides training in all artistic and educational music professions and dance, in culture and music management, music journalism and theater professions - in cooperation with the August Everding Theater Academy .
There are the following institutes and academies:
- Institute for artistic instrumental courses (with the areas of woodwinds, brass instruments, strings, plucked instruments, keyboard instruments, percussion, chamber music)
- Ballet Academy
- Institute for artistic singing and theater training
- Institute for artistic-pedagogical courses (IGP, EMP, folk music)
- Institute for School Music
- Institute for Church Music
- Jazz Institute
- Institute for Historical Performance Practice
- Institute for New Music, Composition and Conducting
- Institute for Cultural Management and Media (a) Music Journalism / Media b) Cultural Management)
- Institute for Musicology
Other facilities:
- Youth academy for the promotion of gifted children
- Music Pedagogical Institute for Teacher Training and Classroom Research (MILU)
The following choirs , orchestras and ensembles are permanent institutions of the university:
- Arcis ensemble
- Big Band LaG
- Choirs of the University of Music and Theater Munich ( university choir , small and large church choir )
- ensemble oktopus for modern music
- University symphony orchestra
- Madrigal choir
- Salsa ribbon
- Schola Cantorum Munich
- School musician orchestra A, B
- UMPA Jazz Orchestra
- Vocal soloist ensemble
ladder
Central Singing School (from 1830):
- Franz Löhle (director 1830–1837)
- Georg Mittermayer (director 1837–1841)
- Franz Lachner (director 1842–1843)
Royal Conservatory for Music (in the Odeons building , from 1846):
- Franz Hauser (director 1846–1864)
Royal Bavarian Music School (1867–1869 private, from 1874 public):
- Hans von Bülow (director 1867–1869)
- Karl Freiherr von Perfall (1824–1907; General Manager and Director 1874–1892)
- Josef Rheinberger and Franz Wüllner (inspectors 1874–1892)
Royal Academy of Music (from 1892):
- Karl Freiherr von Perfall (General Manager and Director 1892–1901)
- Josef Gabriel Rheinberger and Franz Wüllner (inspectors 1892–1901)
- Bernhard Stavenhagen (director 1901–1904)
- Felix Mottl (director 1904–1911)
- Hans Bußmeyer (director 1911-1919)
- Berthold Kellermann (1853–1926; director 1919–1920)
Staatliche Akademie der Tonkunst, Hochschule für Musik (from 1920; 1946 in the Maximilianeum , 1946–1957 in the Villa Stuck and the Larisch Villa, from 1957 in the “ Führerbau ” in Arcisstraße):
- Siegmund von Hausegger (President 1920–1934)
- Richard Trunk (President 1934–1945)
- Joseph Haas (President 1946–1950)
- Robert Heger (President 1950–1954)
- Karl Höller (President 1954–1972)
- Fritz Schieri (1922–2009; President 1972–1981)
- Diethard Hellmann (1928–1999; President 1981–1988)
- Klaus Schilde (* 1926; President 1988–1991)
- Cornelius Eberhardt (1932–2011; President 1991–1995)
- Robert Maximilian Helmschrott (* 1938; President 1995–1998)
University of Music and Theater (from 1998):
- Robert Maximilian Helmschrott (President 1998–1999, Rector 1999–2003)
- Siegfried Mauser (Rector 2003–2007, 2007–2014)
- Bernd Redmann (President since October 1, 2014)
literature
- Stephan Schmitt (Hrsg.): History of the University of Music and Theater Munich. From the beginning to 1945 ( musicological writings of the University of Music and Theater Munich, 1). Tutzing 2005.
See also
Web links
- University website
- Josef Focht: University of Music and Theater, Munich . In: Historical Lexicon of Bavaria
Individual evidence
- ↑ University management on musikhochschule-muenchen.de (as of December 14, 2019).
- ↑ Federal Statistical Office: Students at Universities, SS 2019 , p. 46, accessed on May 21, 2020
- ↑ Munich University of Music and Theater as an employer , accessed on June 3, 2020.
- ↑ From the Central Singing School to the University of Music and Theater. University of Music and Theater Munich, accessed on December 23, 2012 .