Music school of the city of Innsbruck

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Music school of the city of Innsbruck
Former Ursuline monastery Innsbruck (IMG 0790) .jpg
type of school music school
founding 1818/1987
address

Innrain 5

place innsbruck
state Tyrol
Country Austria
Coordinates 47 ° 16 '2 "  N , 11 ° 23' 28"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 16 '2 "  N , 11 ° 23' 28"  E
carrier City of Innsbruck
student 4379 (as of 2017)
Teachers about 90
management Wolfram Rosenberger
Website Website

The music school of the city of Innsbruck emerged from the Innsbruck Music Association founded in 1818 and has existed independently since 1987, parallel to the Tyrolean State Conservatory . The public music school is completely subordinate to the city of Innsbruck .

history

The Innsbruck Music Association also included a music school from the start. Initially spread over different and changing rooms, from 1912 lessons took place in the newly built music club building. In 1934 the music school officially became a conservatory , and it was not until 1938 that a music school was added to it when the city of Innsbruck took over it, which under National Socialist rule operated as the music school of the Gau capital Innsbruck . This was closed during the Second World War in September 1944.

After the war, the administration remained with the city of Innsbruck, in 1957 the city music school under music director Kurt Rapf was raised to the status of a conservatory again after a restructuring and various investments. In 1961 this received permission to set up a seminar for music education, i.e. a train for music education . From 1965 there was also the training of music teachers for secondary schools, in cooperation with the University of Innsbruck . Associated with this were efforts to transform the institution into a full music academy in the long term. At the same time, however, the conservatory had to struggle with the rapid increase in the number of students, which led to space and financial problems. Under Karl Randolf (from 1966) there was an initial division of the tasks of the music director, which until then had included both the management of the conservatory and the symphony orchestra : Randolf delegated most of the management of the conservatory to his deputy Walter Kurz, while he himself took on himself concentrated his function as chief conductor. In 1972 the tasks were officially separated and Bruno Wind became the first director of the conservatory, while Edgar Seipenbusch took over the orchestra. Under the wind, the outposts of the conservatory, which were located in various schools in Innsbruck's districts, were upgraded, which solved some space problems. In the 1980s, space from the former Ursuline convent was also rented in addition to the former music club building.

In 1981 it was decided to set up a branch for music education at the Salzburg Mozarteum in Innsbruck, which meant that the conservatory's school music department had to be closed again. As a result, it became apparent that the Conservatory and Music School would soon be split up, also against the background that a large number of students from outside Innsbruck were enrolled in the Conservatory's courses and courses, which resulted in an imbalance in the distribution of grant costs between the City of Innsbruck and the state of Tyrol was born. In 1987 the conservatory (taken over by the State of Tyrol in 1990) and the music school were separated, which was now independently managed by Walter Kefer and which moved completely to the new premises of the former Ursuline monastery. Kefer was temporarily replaced as the music school director in 1995 by Walter Schneiderbauer and in 1997 by Wolfram Rosenberger.

building

Music school in the former Ursuline monastery

The music school is now housed in the building complex of the former Ursuline monastery, in the city center, west of Innsbruck's old town. In the middle of the 16th century the Hechtenburg residence was built there, which the Ursuline order bought up in August 1699. Under the direction of Johann Martin Gumpp d. Ä. In the following years, the monastery complex was built on the site of the castle, with a school and convent wing and a monastery church . In 1705 the construction work was finished and the order was able to move into the monastery. Over the years the buildings were damaged several times, for example by a lightning strike in 1830 and by a bomb strike in World War II.

In 1978 the monastery complex was sold to the Tiroler Genossenschaftskasse (today Raiffeisen Landesbank Tirol), while the Ursuline girls' high school moved to a new location. The school building west of the church was demolished in the early 1980s and replaced by a block of flats. On August 4, 1980, the Innsbruck city senate decided due to urgent space problems in the conservatory building on Museumsstrasse to occupy a large part of the former Ursuline convent with the music school. The new premises were ready for occupancy in October 1981 after extensive renovations. An event center was set up in the former church and opened in 1985.

With the separation of the conservatory and music school in 1987, the former remained in the old music club building, while the music school was completely moved to the new premises. Under Mayor Hilde Zach , the city bought the music school building in 2006 after renting it from the Raiffeisenbank. In 2015 and 2016, the Ursuline Halls in the former church of the music school were also made available for use.

offer

The music school currently (as of 2017) comprises 14 subject groups: I. keyboard instruments , II. String instruments , III. Plucked instruments , IV. Woodwind instruments , V. Recorder , VI. Brass instruments and percussion , VII. Solo singing and voice training , VIII. Singing school, IX. Early musical education and music workshop, X. Folk music , XI. Study preparation, theory and composition , XII. Project music class, XIII. Early music , XIV. Jazz and popular music . The possibilities for ensemble and orchestral playing include youth choir, youth wind orchestra, clarinet orchestra, big band, blues band, saxophone orchestra and several string orchestras, including the youth philharmonic orchestra and the youth orchestra Crescendo .

Among the branches of the music school, 26 kindergartens offer early musical education, 15 elementary schools offer instrumental lessons and two elementary schools offer both.

public relation

The music school appears in public, especially through regular concerts, for example at Christmas or semester / year-end concerts. Special occasions are the summer festivals in the courtyard garden or the moonlight concerts in the courtyard of the music school. The Youth Philharmonic performs annually together with the Tyrolean Symphony Orchestra . Over the years, the music school has also produced a number of CD productions.

The parents' association of the Innsbruck Music School has existed since 1996 . a. offers financial support for concert tours and provides further support to the students in close cooperation with the music school.

literature

  • Stadtarchiv / Stadtmuseum Innsbruck (ed.): 200 years of music association, music school, conservatory in Innsbruck . Innsbruck 2018, ISBN 978-3-903017-05-4 .

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Figures on the city of Innsbruck's music school. (PDF) City of Innsbruck, p. 4 , accessed on June 27, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b teaching staff of the music school of the city of Innsbruck . In: 200 years of music association, music school, conservatory in Innsbruck . 2018, p. 352-359 .
  3. ↑ 200 years of music association, music school, conservatory in Innsbruck . 2018, p. 228-234 .
  4. ↑ Robert Wagner . In: 200 years of music association, music school, conservatory in Innsbruck . 2018, p. 234-240 .
  5. ^ Karl Randolf . In: 200 years of music association, music school, conservatory in Innsbruck . 2018, p. 240-247 .
  6. ↑ 200 years of music association, music school, conservatory in Innsbruck . 2018, p. 247-252 .
  7. ↑ 200 years of music association, music school, conservatory in Innsbruck . 2018, p. 252-260 .
  8. ↑ a b c From the Hechtenburg to the home of the music school . In: 200 years of music association, music school, conservatory in Innsbruck . 2018, p. 261-267 .
  9. ↑ 200 years of music association, music school, conservatory in Innsbruck . 2018, p. 370-371 .
  10. ↑ 200 years of music association, music school, conservatory in Innsbruck . 2018, p. 315 .
  11. ↑ CD productions from the Innsbruck Music School. City of Innsbruck, accessed on October 16, 2018 .
  12. ↑ 200 years of music association, music school, conservatory in Innsbruck . 2018, p. 16 .