Saxon State High School for Music Carl Maria von Weber

Saxon State High School for Music Carl Maria von Weber
Main building on Mendelssohnallee in Blasewitz
type of school	State high school for music
founding	1965
address	Mendelssohnallee 34
place	Dresden
country	Saxony
Country	Germany
Coordinates	51 ° 3 '8 "  N , 13 ° 47' 45"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 3 '8 "  N , 13 ° 47' 45"  E
carrier	Free State of Saxony
student	146
Teachers	19th
management	NN
Website	www.landesmusikgymnasium.sachsen.de

The Saxon State High School for Music Carl Maria von Weber is a music high school in Dresden .

history

The University of Music Carl Maria von Weber in 1965, a specialist music school associated. It was one of four such schools for musically gifted students in the GDR . The school moved into the Villa Rothermundt , built by Karl Emil Scherz for Adolf Rothermundt in 1896–1897 based on neo-Renaissance forms . As at other polytechnic high schools , pupils from the eighth grade onwards attended the school. Since 1966 pupils have been accepted from the seventh grade and since 1975 from the sixth grade. The school time at the special school ended with the middle school graduation and possibly the transition to the extended secondary school . Sir Yehudi Menuhin attended the school on January 9, 1989 and was its patron from 1997 until his death in 1999. Then Colin Davis took over this task.

present

Even after the political change in the GDR in 1989 , the music high school remained linked to the music college. Professors and lecturers at the university, including many musicians from the Sächsische Staatskapelle and the Philharmonie , take on the entire instrumental training. Since 2004 the school has been called "Saxon State High School for Music Carl Maria von Weber" and accepts students from the fifth grade. In addition to the Saxon central high school diploma, graduates also take a final musical examination according to the criteria for admission to a music college . In addition to orchestral instruments, recorder, guitar and jazz music have also been part of the musical offer since 2004.

The Saxon State High School for Music is an all-day school . 75 boarding school places are available for foreign students, which are located in two new buildings in the park of Villa Rothermund. In 2010, the school moved into the building in Kretschmerstrasse (formerly Martin-Andersen-Nexö-Gymnasium ), also built by Karl Emil Scherz at the beginning of the 20th century and extensively expanded and restored from 2007 to 2010 for high school lessons .

literature

• Wolfgang Lessing: Experience space special school: Reconstruction of a music pedagogical model . transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2017, ISBN 978-3-8376-3979-7 . ( urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2017121211646 )

Web links

Commons : Sächsisches Landesgymnasium für Musik  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ School network planning of the state capital Dresden, p. 205, accessed on September 16, 2017
2. ^ Sächsische Schuldatenbank, Sächsisches Landesgymnasium für Musik Dresden CARL MARIA VON WEBER, number of teachers. Retrieved September 16, 2017 .