Hochschule für Musik Würzburg
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{{Short description|University of music}}
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| founder = Franz Joseph Fröhlich
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File:Würzburg, Hochschule für Musik, Kammermusiksaal.jpg
The Hochschule für Musik Würzburg (University of Music Würzburg) was founded in 1797 by Franz Joseph Fröhlich as Collegium musicum academicum (Academic college of music). From 1921 to 1973, it was named Bayerisches Staatskonservatorium der Musik (Bavarian State Conservatory of Music). The current name was given on 1 September 1973.
It is located in three buildings. The number of full-time students was about 650 in 2007.
Subjects
The university offers a Bachelor of Music degree in artistic and educational programs:
- accordion
- conducting
- voice
- guitar
- historical instruments
- jazz
- church music
- piano
- composition
- music theory
- orchestral instruments
- organ
- elementary music education
There are several graduate programs and the possibility of promotion. Musically gifted children and adolescents are specifically promoted by the university (musical ECI).
Faculty and alumni
- Carlo Buonamici, pianist{{cite journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZO86AQAAMAAJ&dq=Carlo+Buonamici&pg=RA14-PA31|title=Obituary: Carlo Buonamici|journal=The Musical Courier|date=October 7, 1920|page=31}}
- Karl Muck (1859–1940), conductor
- {{ill|Fritz Huth|de}} (1908–1980), hornist
- Bertold Hummel (1925–2002), composer
- Siegfried Fink (1928–2006), percussionist and composer
- {{ill|Ernst Hoffmann (composer)|de|Ernst Hoffmann (Komponist)|lt=Ernst Hoffmann}} (1928–2016), composer
- {{ill|Martin Göß|de}} (1936–2018), trombonist
- Klaus Hinrich Stahmer (born 1941), composer and musicologist
- Heinz Winbeck (1946–2019), composer
- {{ill|Ulrich Schultheiss|de}} (born 1956), composer and academic teacher
- {{ill|Christoph Bossert|de}} (born 1957), organist
- Kolja Lessing (born 1961), violinist, pianist, composer and academic teacher
- Bernd Glemser (born 1962), pianist
- Roland Böer (born 1970), conductor and festival manager
- Martin Berger (born 1972), choral conductor, musicologist and university professor
- Patrick Lange (born 1981), conductor
- Hong Jinho (born 1985), cellist and member of Hoppipolla
- Tobias Feldmann (born 1991), violinist, finalist of Elisabeth Competition
References
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External links
- {{Official|https://hfm-wuerzburg.de/}}
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- {{DNB portal|1079715-4}}
- {{HistLexBay|46089|link|Dieter Kirsch|Hochschule für Musik, Würzburg}}
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Category:Hochschule für Musik Würzburg
Category:1797 establishments in the Holy Roman Empire
Category:18th-century establishments in Bavaria