The University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar (in
German
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: Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar) is an institution of music in
Weimar
Weimar is a city in the state of Thuringia, Germany. It is located in Central Germany between Erfurt in the west and Jena in the east, approximately southwest of Leipzig, north of Nuremberg and west of Dresden. Together with the neighbouri ...
,
Germany
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.
The Hochschule
Franz Liszt, who spent a great deal of his life in Weimar, encouraged the founding of a school in 1835 for the education of musicians in orchestral instruments. It was his student Carl Müllerhartung who realized Liszt's dream, founding the university on 24 June 1872.
Campus
The university is located in several different buildings in the centre of
Weimar
Weimar is a city in the state of Thuringia, Germany. It is located in Central Germany between Erfurt in the west and Jena in the east, approximately southwest of Leipzig, north of Nuremberg and west of Dresden. Together with the neighbouri ...
.
Courses
The university offers courses in all musical disciplines, including
composition
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Arts and literature
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,
conducting,
jazz
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,
musical theatre and
pedagogy
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at undergraduate and postgraduate level.
People
Some notable former students
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David Afkham (conductor)
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Andreas Bauer Kanabas (bass)
Tatyana Ryzhkova(classical guitarist)
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Wolfgang Unger (choral conductor)
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Lorenzo Viotti
Lorenzo Viotti (born 15 March 1990) is a Swiss conductor. He is currently chief conductor of the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, and Dutch National Opera.
Biography
Born in Lausanne the son of conductor Ma ...
(conductor)
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Ekkehard Wlaschiha
Ekkehard Wlaschiha (; 28 May 1938 – 20 February 2019) was a German operatic baritone who specialized in Wagnerian "villains", such as Alberich, Klingsor and Friedrich von Telramund. He performed at the Bayreuth Festival and at the Metropolita ...
(baritone)
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Sylke Zimpel (composer and choral conductor)
Some notable present and former staff
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Waldemar von Baußnern
Waldemar Edler von Baußnern (also ''Baussnern'' or ''Bausznern''; 29 November 1866 – 20 August 1931) was a German composer and music teacher.
Life
Born in Berlin, and descended from Transylvanian Saxons, Baußnern was the son of a financia ...
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Ricardo Gallen
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People Given name
*Ricardo de Araújo Pereira, Portugu ...
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Gunter Kahlert
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Erhard Mauersberger
Erhard Mauersberger (29 December 1903 in Mauersberg, Saxony – 11 December 1982 in Leipzig) was a German choral conductor who conducted the Thomanerchor as the 14th Thomaskantor since Johann Sebastian Bach. He was also an academic teacher and ...
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Dorothee Mields
Dorothee Mields (born 15 April 1971) is a German soprano concert singer of Baroque and contemporary music.
Career
Mields was born in Gelsenkirchen. She studied at the University of the Arts Bremen with Elke Holzmann, Harry van der Kamp and Ga ...
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Robin Minard
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Michael Obst
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Nicolás Pasquet
Nicolás Pasquet (born 1958) is a conductor from Uruguay and professor of conducting.
Biography
Born in 1958 in Montevideo, Uruguay, Pasquet studied violin and conducting at the National Music College. He later studied in Germany, violin at the ...
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Jürgen Rost
Jürgen Rost (born 7 March 1945)Press release on the occasion of his 70th birthday in 2015: https://www.hfm-weimar.de/de/journalisten/pressemitteilungen/detailansicht.html?tx_jobase_pi2%5BjoNewsDetail%5D=728&tx_jobase_pi2%5BjoRefererId%5D=142&tx_jo ...
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Monika Rost
Monika Rost (born 21 February 1943)Józef Powroźniak: ''Gitarren-Lexikon'' (Berlin: Verlag Neue Musik, 1986), p.180. is a classical guitarist, lute player and musicologist. She studied with Ursula Peter at the Liszt School of Music Weimar, German ...
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Manfred Schmitz
Manfred Schmitz (25 April 1939 – 7 July 2014) was a German composer and pianist.
Biography
He received a degree in piano at the Franz-Liszt Academy in Weimar, where he later taught from 1968 to 1984. After 1984, Schmitz acted as a freelance c ...
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Klaus Storck
Klaus Storck (11 February 1928 – 18 March 2011) was a German cellist who appeared internationally as soloist and chamber musician. He also edited music for cello. He often appeared in a duo with his wife, the harpist Helga Storck, and composers ...
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Richard Wetz
See also
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Music schools in Germany
External links
Official Website (in English)
Music schools in Germany
Education in Weimar
Public universities and colleges in Germany
Franz Liszt
Educational institutions established in 1872
1872 establishments in Germany
Universities and colleges in Thuringia
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