The Evangelische Hochschule für Kirchenmusik Halle (Saale) is a university, specialised in music, in

Halle an der Saale Halle (Saale), or simply Halle (; from the 15th to the 17th century: ''Hall in Sachsen''; until the beginning of the 20th century: ''Halle an der Saale'' ; from 1965 to 1995: ''Halle/Saale'') is the largest city of the German state of Saxony-Anh ...

. It was established as the Evangelischen Kirchenmusikschule on 18 April 1926 by the consistory of the

Evangelical Church of the Church Province of Saxony The Evangelical Church of the Church Province of Saxony (''Evangelische Kirche der Kirchenprovinz Sachsen''; KPS) was the most important Protestant denomination in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt. As a united Protestant church, it combined both ...

Aschersleben Aschersleben () is a town in the Salzlandkreis district, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It is situated approximately 22 km east of Quedlinburg, and 45 km northwest of Halle (Saale). Geography Aschersleben lies near the confluence of ...

. On 29 January 1939, it moved from Aschersleben to Halle, into the building of the on Wilhelmstraße, today

Emil Abderhalden Emil Abderhalden (9 March 1877 – 5 August 1950) was a Swiss biochemist and physiologist. His main findings, though disputed already in the 1910s, were not finally rejected until the late 1990s. Whether his misleading findings were based on f ...

-Straße. In 1993, the Evangelischen Kirchenmusikschule was granted the status of a

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, and renamed. In 2001, it moved to the Händelkarree (Kleine Ulrichstraße 35). The now located in the immediate vicinity of the musicological institute of the

University of Halle Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg (german: Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg), also referred to as MLU, is a public, research-oriented university in the cities of Halle and Wittenberg and the largest and oldest university in ...

, the Halle music library and the Handel House.

Directors

* 1926–1936 Julius Bürger, organist at the St.-Stephani-Kirche, Aschersleben * 1936–1939 Bernhard Henking, cantor of

Magdeburg Cathedral Magdeburg Cathedral (german: Magdeburger Dom), officially called the Cathedral of Saints Maurice and Catherine (german: Dom zu Magdeburg St. Mauritius und Katharina), is a Protestant cathedral in Germany and the oldest Gothic cathedral in the cou ...

* 1939–1951 Kurt Fiebig * 1951–1965

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* 1965–1977 Walter Bruhns * 1977–1978 Ursula Hermann (provisional management) * 1978–1999 Helmut Gleim * 2000–2017 Wolfgang Kupke * 2017–present Peter Kopp

References

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* {{portal bar, Classical music, Germany Reformed universities and colleges 1926 establishments in Germany Halle (Saale)