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Hochschule Für Musik, Theater Und Medien Hannover
Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media (german: Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover, italics=unset, abbreviated to HMTMH) is a university of performing arts and media in Hanover, the capital of Lower Saxony, Germany. Dating to , it has reorganised and changed names as it developed over the years, most recently in 2010 when it changed from State College of Music and Drama Hanover (, or simply ). Since 2010, its president has been Susanne Rode-Breymann. As of , the university has students and a total of staff. History The origins of the university date back to 1897 with the establishment of the private Conservatory of Music (). However, just over a decade later, in 1911, it became the conservatory for the city and changed name to Hanover Conservatory (, also called ). In 1943, during the Second World War, it became State Music School (). After the war, in 1950, it merged with the private Hanover Drama School () becoming the Academy of Music and Theatre (), b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Public University
A public university or public college is a university or college that is in owned by the state or receives significant public funds through a national or subnational government, as opposed to a private university. Whether a national university is considered public varies from one country (or region) to another, largely depending on the specific education landscape. Africa Egypt In Egypt, Al-Azhar University was founded in 970 AD as a madrasa; it formally became a public university in 1961 and is one of the oldest institutions of higher education in the world. In the 20th century, Egypt opened many other public universities with government-subsidized tuition fees, including Cairo University in 1908, Alexandria University in 1912, Assiut University in 1928, Ain Shams University in 1957, Helwan University in 1959, Beni-Suef University in 1963, Zagazig University in 1974, Benha University in 1976, and Suez Canal University in 1989. Kenya In Kenya, the Ministry of Ed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Staatsoper Hannover
Hanover State Opera (german: Staatsoper Hannover) is an opera company in Hanover, the state capital of Lower Saxony, Germany. The company is resident in the Hanover Opera House (), and is part of a publicly-funded umbrella performing arts organisation called Hanover State Theatre of Lower Saxony (), or simply Hanover State Theatre (). Hanover State Theatre comprises the following divisions that put on operas, stage productions, and concert programs, in addition to maintaining a theatre museum, with seasons running from September through to June. Hanover Opera House Hanover State Opera is resident in the Hanover Opera House, built in classical style between 1845 and 1852 based on a plan by Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves. The building was rebuilt from 1948 after being badly damaged by the aerial bombings of Hanover during World War II. In 1985, the acoustics were improved, and between 1996 and 1998, the stage facilities were renovated. The International Choreographic Competitio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reinhard Febel
Reinhard Febel (born 3 July 1952) is a German composer, notable for his operas. He is also a music theorist and a university professor at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover and the Mozarteum. Career Febel was born in Metzingen, Baden-Württemberg, and first studied music and piano with Jürgen Uhde at the Musikhochschule Stuttgart. On a recommendation from Helmut Lachenmann he studied composition from 1979, with Klaus Huber at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg and at the IRCAM in Paris where he attended courses in electronic music in 1982. On a commission of the Bayerische Staatsoper he composed the chamber opera Euridice, premiered in 1983. He described his work "The musical world of Euridice is a hybrid of instrumentation, pastiche, collage, composition, sound-noise, and song-language-speech particles." He worked from 1983 to 1988 as a freelance composer in London, in 1984 in Rome on a scholarship of the Villa Massimo. In 1985 his ''Symphony'', composed for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Engel
Karl (Rudolf) Engel (Birsfelden, 1 June 1923 - Clarens, Switzerland, Chernex, 2 September 2006) was a Switzerland, Swiss pianist. In 1952 Engel was awarded the second prize at the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition, Queen Elisabeth competition. Throughout his concert career, he cultivated the lied, art song repertory and worked extensively on works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven and Robert Schumann. He also held a professorship at Musikhochschule Hannover for three decades. Engel was a student of Paul Baumgartner (1903–1976) at the Basel Conservatory from 1942 to 1945. After World War II, he studied with Alfred Cortot at the École Normale de Musique de Paris in 1947-1948. Karl Engel toured internationally as a soloist with orchestras, a recitalist and a chamber music performer. He became particularly known for his complete cycles of Mozart piano concertos 1974-1976, Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, Leopold Hager (Till Engel & L. Hager playing the two double co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Bungarten
Frank Bungarten (born 6 May 1958) is a classical guitarist from Germany. Although he is often regarded as a Bach expert on the guitar, Bungarten plays a wide and diverse repertoire. Biography Born in Cologne, Bungarten first came in touch with the guitar aged ten. His first teacher was Paraguayan virtuoso Carlos Baez, then a temporary resident in the Rhineland. As a teenager he played in a school band. He had an early passion for jazz and taught himself tenor and soprano saxophone. Despite his later career as a classical musician, he has always regarded John Coltrane as one of his towering influences. Later he has played the saxophone with his group "Extempore", including engagements in radio productions, festivals and jazz clubs. Bungarten studied the guitar at the Academy of Music, Cologne, where he studied with Karl-Heinz Bottner and Hubert Käppel. He also attended a master class with Oscar Ghiglia in Italy. In 1981, Andrés Segovia honoured him with the first prize at the G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Brauß
Martin Brauß (born 1958) is a German pianist, conductor and music theorist and university professor at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover. Biography Brauß was born in Mannheim. He studied music education, philosophy and Germanic studies, first in Heidelberg and Mannheim, in Hanover and then conducting in Berlin. He was an artistic assistant of Heinz Hennig with the Knabenchor Hannover while he was still a student, From 1985 to 1991 he was conductor of the Youth Symphony Orchestra in Hanover. In addition, he worked from 1987 to 1992 as concert artistic director at the Staatsoper Hannover and from 1989 to 1998 and led the Hanover oratorio choir. In 1992 he was appointed professor of music theory at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media (german: Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover, italics=unset, abbreviated to HMTMH) is a university of performing arts and media in Hanover, the capit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Christoph Becker-Foss
Hans Christoph Becker-Foss (born 1949 in Höxter) is a German conductor, organist and harpsichordist and professor at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover. Biography Becker-Foss studied church music in Bremen. From 1973 to 1979 he was director of the Hastedter Kantorei in Bremen. Since 1993 he has been director of the Göttinger Vokalensemble. With the NDR Radiophilharmonie and the NDR Sinfonieorchester, Jenaer Philharmonie, the Staatsorchester Rheinische Philharmonie Koblenz, the Prague Symphony Orchestra, the Folkwang Kammerorchester Essen among others. Becker-Foss has contributed to many performances of Schubert, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms and Mahler and has conducted the Capella Classica in works of Mozart, Beethoven, Haydn and Schubert. Since 1980 he has been a lecturer of organ and early music at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover, appointed professor in 1993. Essentially a specialist for Baroque organ music, he has performed the works of Dieterich ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Markus Becker (pianist)
Markus Becker (born 13 May 1963) is a German pianist and academic teacher. He is focused on chamber music, and on piano concertos from the time around 1900. His recording of the complete piano works by Max Reger earned him awards. He is also a jazz pianist, and has been professor of piano and chamber music at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover since 1993. Career Becker was born in Osnabrück, the son of and his wife Bärbel. Both his parents were music educators; his father would become president of the Musikhochschule Hannover. Becker attended school in Hannover, and sang as a member of the Knabenchor Hannover. He studied at the Musikhochschule Hannover with Karl-Heinz Kämmerling. He was appointed professor of piano and chamber music there in 1993. From the 1990s, Becker became known by performances, recordings and teaching master classes, in Salzburg, Weiden and Leipzig, among others. He recorded the complete piano works by Max Reger, which earned him a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theo Altmeyer
Theo Altmeyer (16 March 1931 – 28 July 2007) was a German classical tenor. Although he was a successful opera singer, he is chiefly remembered for his work as an oratorio soloist. He possessed a rich and lyrical voice that he employed with great expression and nuance. Biography Born in Eschweiler, Altmeyer began his performance career while still a voice student at the Hochschule für Musik Köln, where he studied under Clemens Glettenberg from 1953 to 1956. His first successes were primarily as an oratorio soloist. He was hired by the Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) to perform in several recordings of cantatas and other religious music. He went on to win second prize at the WDR's singing competition in 1955. In 1956, Altmeyer joined the roster of singers at the Berlin State Opera, where he sang for the next four years. While there he notably portrayed the title role in the world premiere of Humphrey Searle's ''The Diary of a Madman (opera), The Diary of a Madman''. Then starting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klaus-Ernst Behne
Klaus-Ernst Behne (29 June 1940 – 9 August 2013) was a German professor of musicology with a focus on music psychology. Life Born in Uelzen, Behne studied school music, musicology, psychology and physics in Freiburg im Breisgau, Bonn and Hamburg. He belonged to a group of young musicologists around Hans-Peter Reinecke. (1927-2003) - besides Klaus-Ernst Behne also Helga de la Motte-Haber, Ekkehard Jost, Günter Kleinen and Eberhard Kötter. When Reinecke was commissioned in 1964 to set up the department for musical acoustics at the State Institute for Music Research of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, he took four of the above-mentioned, including Klaus-Ernst Behne (from 1967), with him to West Berlin as research assistants or staff members. There Behne founded the (West) German editorial office of the Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM). In 1972, Behne received his doctorate in Hamburg with his empirical study ''Der Einfluß des Tempos auf di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Jakoby
Richard Matthias Jakoby (11 September 1929 – 9 July 2017) was a German music teacher and cultural manager and until 1993 director of the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover. Life Born in Dreis, Jakoby was the sixth of seven children (he had a twin sister with whom he received piano lessons). He attended school in Klüsserath (where his father was a teacher) and from 1937 in Trier (Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium from 1940). During the Second World War he was a student in the medical service and for a short time he was called up for the Volkssturm to dig tank trenches. The family moved back to Dreis after the destruction of Trier by bombing in 1944. At times he worked and lived in the winery of his piano teacher. From 1946 he attended the Cusanus-Gymnasium in Wittlich with the Abitur in 1949, after which he studied Romance languages and literature, musicology and music education and philosophy in Mainz. He financed his studies by teaching and as a working student before he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
