Special school for music

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This article deals with the special schools for music in the GDR without the Abitur level, for the extended high schools with a special branch of music see Extended High School .

The special school for music was a type of school to promote musical talents in the GDR . There were four such institutions, most of which were preparing to study at one of the four music universities and were located at the respective university location - in Berlin , Dresden and Weimar . Only the special school belonging to the Leipzig University of Music was located in Halle (Saale) . The lowest grade was the 6th grade, but due to the large number of additional subjects (artistic main subject, music theory, ear training, music studies, choir and orchestra), the subject matter up to the end of 10th grade was spread over six years, so that the graduates could attend school a year later when their peers left. This manifested itself externally in the fact that class 10 ^{I was} followed by class 10 ^II . Polytechnic lessons did not take place. The graduates of the special schools did not have to pass a regular aptitude test for studying at a university of music, but in the penultimate school year a pre-selection of the applicants took place in the form of a central performance comparison of the special schools.

Development after the fall of the Wall

After the German reunification , most of the special schools for music were converted into music high schools. In 1991 the Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach music school was founded in Berlin . Since 2005 it has been a school with a special pedagogical character . The school in Dresden is now the supraregional Saxon State High School for Music Carl Maria von Weber . The Belvedere Castle Music High School was established in Weimar in 1994 as a UNESCO project school . In Halle, the special school of the Leipzig University of Music, which was located at the “Georg Friedrich Händel” Conservatory, was affiliated to the Latina August Hermann Francke . All of the successor schools to the former special schools are now used to promote gifted children in Germany.

Special schools for music

• Special school for music at the “Hanns Eisler” University of Music in Berlin , today Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach high school
• Special school for music at the Carl Maria von Weber University of Music in Dresden , today the Saxon State High School for Music
• Special school for music at the Liszt School of Music Weimar , today the Belvedere Palace Music School
• Special school for music at the University of Music and Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig , today affiliated to the Latina August Hermann Francke in Halle

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 )
• Walter Brüning (Hrsg.): The music school in the German Democratic Republic: function and range of services, way of working, historical aspects . New Music Publishing House, Berlin 1985.

See also

• Music of the GDR
• Music high school
• Promotion of the gifted

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Prism . Panorama DDR, Berlin 1980, p. 28.