Municipal music school Braunschweig

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Municipal music school Braunschweig
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type of school music school
founding 1938
place Braunschweig
country Lower Saxony
Country Germany
Coordinates 52 ° 15 '26 "  N , 10 ° 31' 35"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 15 '26 "  N , 10 ° 31' 35"  E
carrier City of Braunschweig
student about 1,200
Teachers about 54
Website Municipal music school Braunschweig

The Braunschweig Municipal Music School is one of the oldest music schools in Germany.

history

Up until the beginning of the 20th century there were only a few public schools dedicated to the musical education of children and young people. The children of wealthy families were mostly taught by private tutors, while future professional musicians attended the conservatory . It was only through the impetus of representatives of the youth music movement in the 1920s such as Fritz Jöde and Leo Kestenberg that significant impulses for the development of a public music school system were given.

When the National Socialists came to power, a reorganization of musical life began. The youth music movement of the Weimar period was politically and ideologically co-opted by the music care of the Hitler Youth. The music school system was massively expanded. "Music schools for youth and people" founded according to uniform guidelines served an ideological, National Socialist education of the youth with the help of music. So also in Braunschweig. The school was housed in a building at Hochstraße 21 that had previously belonged to Schlaraffia Brunsviga , a cosmopolitan association for the cultivation of friendship, art and humor. The NSDAP had banned and expropriated this organization and converted its house into a "music home" for the Hitler Youth. The initiator of the “Music School for Youth and People” established there in October 1938 was the then “Follower Leader and Municipal Music Officer” Dr. Gerhard Bittrich , who was also the director of the Braunschweig State Music School . Here, a broad range of talented people should also lead to the Braunschweigische Staatsmusikschule getting young people for musical professional training. In January 1939, 200 students were admitted. By April 1945, after a rapid development and expansion, 1,800 schoolchildren had visited the facility. The teaching staff consisted of 28 teachers who taught all common instruments. The establishment of the facility was based on an agreement between the German Municipal Association, the Main Office for Local Politics, the Reich Ministry of Education and the Reich Ministry of the Interior.

During the National Socialist era, the National Socialist Teachers' Association in Braunschweig published the journal Völkische Musikbildung from 1934 to 1940 .

Opening of the evening program of the 2016 Summer Festival of the Braunschweig Municipal Music School with a big band and a youth symphony orchestra

The first student concerts after the Second World War took place in 1946. A music school orchestra was founded around 1950, from which today's Youth Symphony Orchestra (JSO) emerged.

In 1952 the school received a new statute. In 1957 a main office was established in the Hörstel'schen villa at Augusttorwall 5. The summer festival is held every year in the garden of this villa. In 2013 the music school celebrated its 75th anniversary.

Braunschweiger Musikschultage and Louis Spohr

The school organizes the “Braunschweiger Musikschultage” youth music festival every year with around 600 participants. Here the students appear in several concerts in the city's concert halls. The youth symphony orchestra organizes the opening concert every year. The repertoire ranges from classical and chamber music to jazz and rock music . The musical works are performed by soloists as well as ensembles or orchestras.

No renaming to “Spohr” music school

Louis Spohr (1784-1859) was a native of Braunschweig composer, conductor and court musician.

There were several discussions about renaming the municipal music school to “Spohr” music school. This was mostly rejected by both the teachers and the parents, as the prevailing opinion was that Spohr's life's work was not mainly created in Braunschweig and that a change of name was therefore not justified.

Teaching locations

Villa Hörstel

The city music school teaches at three locations:

  • Augusttorwall 5 (main office)
  • Magnitorwall 16 (branch)
  • Elementary school boast
Nils Wogram in the old pawn shop, Cologne (2009)

principal

  • 1946–1948: Werner Oehlmann
  • 1961–1973: Rudolf Bayer
  • 1973–1989: Gerhard Müller-Seidlitz
  • 1990–2002: Mario Liepe
  • 2003–2012: Hans Krauss
  • 2013–2013: Alexander Käberich
  • since 2015: Daniel Keding

Well-known graduates

See also

literature

  • Städtische Musikschule Braunschweig (Hrsg.): Städtische Musikschule Braunschweig. Braunschweig Augusttorwall 5. A brief history of developments in numbers. Braunschweig 1965, OCLC 833080065 .
  • Municipal music school Braunschweig. in: The musician. 1966, No. 6, p. 5, OCLC 833908184 .
  • Rolf Heckelsbruch: 50 years of the municipal music school in the press. Braunschweig 1988, OCLC 256270895 .
  • 50 years of the Braunschweig Municipal Music School. Concerts in the Braunschweig city hall. Braunschweig 1988, OCLC 833716770 .
  • Gerhard Müller-Seidlitz: Municipal music school. In: Luitgard Camerer , Manfred Garzmann , Wolf-Dieter Schuegraf (eds.): Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon . Joh. Heinr. Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1992, ISBN 3-926701-14-5 , p. 219 .
  • Mia Holz: Music schools and youth music movement. The institutionalization of the public music industry from the 1920s to the 1960s. Waxmann, Münster 2019, ISBN 3-830939-61-2

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The Chronicle 1938–2016 . Accessed January 30, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Website of the Braunschweig Municipal Music School (accessed on January 30, 2020)
  3. ^ Mia Holz: Music Schools and Youth Music Movement , Münster 2019
  4. ↑ Okerburg
  5. ↑ October 22, 1938 at newsletter-braunschweig.de
  6. ^ The Braunschweig Municipal Music School from its founding until today
  7. ^ National Socialist Teachers' Association: Völkische Musikbildung. H. Litolff, Braunschweig 1934 / 35-1943, OCLC 37358762 .
  8. ↑ a b City of Braunschweig: Youth Symphony Orchestra , accessed on May 10, 2016
  9. ↑ Jubilee program. Retrieved February 12, 2013 .
  10. ↑ Braunschweig Music School Days . on braunschweig.de, accessed on June 11, 2014.
  11. ^ Up baton for Louis Spohr. Retrieved February 12, 2013 .
  12. ↑ Contact. Retrieved March 6, 2013 .
  13. ↑ Former students of the municipal music school. Retrieved March 10, 2013 .