Robert Schumann University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf

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Robert Schumann University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf
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founding December 21, 1972
Sponsorship State of North Rhine-Westphalia
place Dusseldorf
state North Rhine-WestphaliaNorth Rhine-Westphalia North Rhine-Westphalia
country GermanyGermany Germany
Rector Raimund Wippermann
Students 850 (as of 2018)
Employee > 200
including professors 45
Annual budget 8.5 million euros (2008)
Website www.rsh-duesseldorf.de
Robert Schumann University
Villa Engelhardt, Rectorate Administration (2019)

The Robert Schumann University of Applied Sciences (RSH) is a music academy in the Düsseldorf district of Golzheim : around 850 students are trained in the North Rhine-Westphalian capital. The range of courses extends from the courses in music and music education to the artistic and technical subject "sound and image", which combines technical and scientific training at the University of Applied Sciences in Düsseldorf (HSD) with music studies.

It bears its name after the German conductor, composer and music critic Robert Schumann (1810–1856).

Focus

The university offers six artistic courses of study: Music comprises the fields of study orchestral instruments, singing, guitar, piano, organ and composition, while music education covers the fields of music education, music theory, choral conducting, orchestral conducting and church music. These two courses can be taken both as a bachelor's and master's degree. The third bachelor's degree in Music and Media is taught at the university's own Institute for Music and Media. He specializes in classical music recording, media composition, music informatics, music production, music and AV production, music and media management, music and text as well as visual music. The fourth bachelor's degree in sound and image is offered jointly with the Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences and is oriented towards engineering. In addition, there are the two master's courses in Sound and Reality and Artistic Music Production , which are also offered at the Institute for Music and Media, as well as the excellence courses in concert exams and composition .

In addition, the musicological institute of the university offers a scientific degree.

The Robert Schumann University places an emphasis on its opera school. At least once a year the students show their skills in a scenic performance, whereby the university works closely with the Deutsche Oper am Rhein. Further emphasis is on orchestral training and Protestant and Catholic church music. In addition, the military musicians of the Bundeswehr training music corps from the Waldkaserne in neighboring Hilden study in Düsseldorf .

In 2008 the university founded its own training center for highly talented young people. “Schumann junior” is aimed at particularly talented schoolchildren between the ages of 10 and 17. In addition, the RSH maintains a large symphony orchestra, several ensembles and various choirs.

During the semester, the RSH organizes numerous lecture and practice evenings in the university's own concert hall, the Partika Hall. Further concerts will take place in the Düsseldorf Tonhalle , in the Robert Schumann Hall in Düsseldorf and in the house of the University of the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf. On the initiative of Thomas Leander , the university organized three concerts with the band Die Toten Hosen in 2013 . Under the title Degenerate Music - Welcome to Germany , the musicians, under the direction of Rüdiger Bohn, presented works by composers who were persecuted by the National Socialists in the Tonhalle Düsseldorf. A compilation of the concerts was published as a double CD in October 2015.

history

As an independent music school, the university is relatively young. However, their beginnings go back further. The foundation stone for today's Robert Schumann University was laid in 1935 by the general music director Hugo Balzer . He had the idea of ​​merging three large private music schools, the oldest of which, the Buths-Neitzel Conservatory, named after its founders Julius Buths and Otto Neitzel , from 1902, to form a conservatory. The institute was to be called the “ Robert Schumann Conservatory”. This is how the composer, who is not always well treated in Düsseldorf, should be thought of. Balzer's goal in expanding the conservatory was as practical a training as possible, and so the focus was on the professional training of full students. Until the outbreak of World War II, the conservatory developed very well. However, it remained closed during the war and did not reopen until 1945 on Inselstrasse. It was now under the direction of the Düsseldorf musician Joseph Neyses , who until his retirement in 1964 expanded it into a training center that was also respected throughout the region. Thus, among other things, a department for Catholic church music was set up and in 1950 the BIKLA image and sound academy by Friedrich Trautwein was integrated , to which today's bachelor's degree in sound and images , which the Robert Schumann University offers in cooperation with the Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences , ultimately goes back. The conservatory grew steadily. Under the direction of Jürg Baur , the conservatory moved into premises on Homberger Strasse ( Villa Engelhardt ) and Fischerstrasse. A new building at Fischerstrasse 110 was prepared by him. The inauguration took place in 1975 by Helmut Kirchmeyer , who headed the conservatory from 1972.

With the state treaty of December 21, 1972, the Robert Schumann Conservatory was given the status of a music academy and since April 19, 1973 has been called the “Robert Schumann Institute of the Rhineland State University of Music”. At the same time, the sponsorship passed from the city to the country. Since then, the “Robert Schumann Institute” (RSI) has been preparing budding musicians for their profession. The lay training no longer took place. Under the new sponsorship, the regional church music school of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland on Graf-Recke-Strasse was also attached to the institute as a separate department. Through a contract from 1976, the RSI, in cooperation with the Hilden Music Training Corps, assumed overall artistic responsibility for the training of all German Bundeswehr musicians. In 1984 additional rooms were opened in the building of the University of Applied Sciences, Georg-Glock-Str. 15, related.

A new chapter was opened with the passing of the law on art colleges in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia on October 20, 1987. For several years the state parliament had dealt with the restructuring of the university landscape and had come to the decision to make the “Robert Schumann Institute”, at that time the second largest German music academy based on location, independent. Düsseldorf was given all the rights of an independent university. Furthermore, in 1987 the construction of a music didactic museum began, which has been run as a central operating unit since 1980. In 1989 the university was granted the right to award doctorates. In the 1990s the Institute for Tonsatz (1990) and the Musicological Institute (1994) were founded. The university's own concert hall, the Partika Hall, which opened in 1993, is due to the university's senior director Josef Partika, who bequeathed his fortune to the training facility. The hall has around 250 seats and is the central venue.

structure

  • Musicological Institute
  • Institute for Composition and Music Theory
  • Institute for Music and Media
  • Institute for Church Music
  • Schumann Junior

Well-known graduates

Professors

Former teachers

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Robert Schumann University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf: Rectorate. Retrieved December 13, 2019 .
  2. ↑ rsh-duesseldorf.de/wir-ueber-uns , website of the Robert Schumann University in Düsseldorf. Retrieved April 26, 2018.
Universities and colleges in North Rhine-Westphalia
Universities

RWTH Aachen  • University of Bielefeld  • Ruhr University of Bochum  • Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University of Bonn  • Technical University of Dortmund  • Heinrich-Heine-University of Düsseldorf  • University of Duisburg-Essen  • Distance University in Hagen  • University of Cologne  • German Sport University Cologne  • Westfälische Wilhelms- University of Münster  • Philosophical-Theological University of Münster  • German Police University  • University of Paderborn  • Theological Faculty of Paderborn  • University of Siegen  • University of Witten / Herdecke  • University of Wuppertal  • Church University of Wuppertal / Bethel

State universities

University of Applied Sciences Aachen  • University of Applied Sciences North Rhine-Westphalia  • University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld  • University of Bochum  • University of Health  • University of the Federal Government for Public Administration  • University of Applied Sciences Dortmund  • University of Düsseldorf  • University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration North Rhine-Westphalia  • Westphalian University of Gelsenkirchen Bocholt Recklinghausen  • University of Hamm- Lippstadt  • University of Applied Sciences South  • Rhine-Waal University  • Technical University of Cologne  • Niederrhein University  • Technical University of East Westphalia-Lippe  • Ruhr West University  • Technical University of Münster  • University of Finance North Rhine-Westphalia  • Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences

Art and music colleges

Alanus University for Art and Society  • University of Music Detmold  • Art Academy Düsseldorf  • Robert Schumann University Düsseldorf  • Folkwang University of the Arts  • University of Fine Arts Essen  • University of Church Music of the Evangelical Church of Westphalia  • University of Music and Dance Cologne  • Art School for Media Cologne  • Münster Art Academy  • Münster University of Music

Church and private universities

Fachhochschule der Diakonie  • Fachhochschule des Mittelstands  • EBZ Business School  • Evangelical University of Rhineland-Westphalia-Lippe  • Technical University Georg Agricola  • University of the Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe  • European University of Applied Sciences  • International School of Management  • Fliedner University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf  • IST University for Management  • FOM - University of Economics and Management  • SRH University Hamm  • Business and Information Technology School  • Cologne Business School  • HSD University Döpfer  • Catholic University of North Rhine-Westphalia  • Practice University  • Rhenish University of Applied Sciences Cologne  • Cologne University of Catholic Theology (KHKT)  • Rhenish University of Applied Sciences Neuss for International Business  • University of Applied Sciences for Business

Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ′ 32.4 "  N , 6 ° 46 ′ 19.4"  E