Görlitz Music School

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Music school "Johann Adam Hiller" at the fish market in Görlitz

The Görlitz Music School is a public music school in Görlitz . It is named after the composer and conductor Johann Adam Hiller .

history

The Lusatian Conservatory was handed over on June 14, 1939; the municipal music school Görlitz was opened. In 1951, the folk music school was re-established in the rooms of the 10th high school. Contacts with Poland and the Czech Republic have been maintained since 1963 , so that after ten years a German-Polish friendship orchestra was founded. In 1977 the dance music department was established. In 1970 the music school played a pioneering role in early musical education in the GDR. In 1992 the Europera Orchestra was founded. In 1996 the city music school becomes a registered association; The sponsoring association is the music school "Johann Adam Hiller" e. V. Goerlitz. The club's chairman is currently Octavian Ursu . In 2009 an orchestra sponsorship “tutti pro” was established between the New Lusatian Philharmonic and the German-Polish Youth Symphony Orchestra. The music school has hosted the Görlitz / Zgorzelec international piano competition since 2002.

Former members and teachers

  • Eberhard Weise , who in 1957 together with other former students of the school (Richard Bergmann, Wolf Hudalla, Günter lump), the jazz orchestra Eberhard manner established
  • Other orchestras and bands were formed from alumni, such as the 32-piece classical orchestra Sinfonietta Meridiana
  • In 1964, on the initiative of the then director of the music school Maria Frenzel-Weiner, with the participation of Polish musicians, the amateur ensemble Lower Silesian Chamber Orchestra Görlitz , which made several radio appearances on the radio of the GDR .
  • Jan Paul Nagel (1934–1997), Sorbian composer

literature

  • Simone Wesner: Challenges to cultural policy and cultural management in Central and Eastern Europe: Minutes of an international symposium, Zittau, September 13-15, 1996 . Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 1997, ISBN 3-931922-74-X .

Web links

Commons : Musikschule Görlitz  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. A Long Night on Jazz in the GDR: Synopsis and Central Quartet. Deutschlandfunk , October 5, 2002, accessed on March 17, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Talk of the day: Sinfonietta Meridiana plays Schubert and Bottesini. In: Saxon newspaper . April 16, 2009, accessed on March 17, 2017 (online for a fee).
  3. ^ Lower Silesian Chamber Orchestra Görlitz. Regional Association of Saxon Lovers' Orchestra e. V., accessed on March 17, 2017 .
  4. ^ Hans-Hermann Krönert: Jan Paul Nagel. In: Lausitzer Rundschau . May 21, 2007. Retrieved March 17, 2017 .