The Stern Conservatory (''Stern'sches Konservatorium'') was a private

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in Berlin with many distinguished tutors and alumni. The school is now part of

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History

It was founded in 1850 as the ''Berliner Musikschule'' by Julius Stern,

Theodor Kullak Theodor is a masculine given name. It is a German form of Theodore. It is also a variant of Teodor. List of people with the given name Theodor * Theodor Adorno, (1903–1969), German philosopher * Theodor Aman, Romanian painter * Theodor Blue ...

and

Adolf Bernhard Marx Friedrich Heinrich Adolf Bernhard Marx . B. Marx(15 May 1795, Halle – 17 May 1866, Berlin) was a German music theorist, critic, and musicologist. Life Marx was the son of a Jewish doctor in Halle who, though a member of the congregation, was ...

. Kullak withdrew from the conservatory in 1855 in order to create a new academy of sculpture and three-dimensional art. With Marx's withdrawal in 1856, the conservatory came exclusively under the Stern family and adopted its name. In 1894 it was taken over by Gustav Hollaender (the uncle of film composer Friedrich Hollaender), who moved the school's location to the

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concert hall on Bernburger Strasse in Berlin-

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. In the course of the ''

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'' process, the Stern Academy in 1936 was renamed ''Konservatorium der Reichshauptstadt Berlin'' controlled by the

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. Gustav Hollaender's heirs were disseized, but for a few years they were able to run a "Jewish Private Music School Hollaender" until they were deported and murdered in 1941. In 1945, the school was again renamed as the ''Städtisches Konservatorium'' (City Conservatory) in what was to become

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. In 1966 it was merged with the public ''Akademische Hochschule für Musik'' into the ''Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst'' (Berlin State School of Music and the Performing Arts), since 2001 the

Directors

* 1883–1894: Jenny Meyer * 1894–1915: Gustav Hollaender * 1915–1930: Alexander von Fielitz * 1930–1933: Paul Graener * 1933–1935: Siegfried Eberhardt ''Konservatorium der Reichshauptstadt Berlin'': * 1936–1945: Bruno Kittel ''Städtisches Konservatorium'': * 1946–1949: Heinz Tiessen * 1950–1960:

Hans Joachim Moser Hans Joachim Moser (25 May 1889, Berlin''Die kleine Enzyklopädie'', Encyclios-Verlag, Zurich, 1950, Vol. 2, p. 202. – 14 August 1967, Berlin) was a German musicologist, composer and singer. Moser was the son of the music-professor Andreas M ...

Professors

* 1854–1864

Hans von Bülow Freiherr Hans Guido von Bülow (8 January 1830 – 12 February 1894) was a German conductor, virtuoso pianist, and composer of the Romantic era. As one of the most distinguished conductors of the 19th century, his activity was critical for es ...

* 1855- ?: Ferdinand Laub * 1864–1871: Rudolf Radecke * 1866–1869:

Friedrich Kiel Friedrich Kiel (8 October 182113 September 1885) was a German composer and music teacher. Writing of the chamber music of Friedrich Kiel, the scholar and critic Wilhelm Altmann notes that it was Kiel’s extreme modesty which kept him and his ex ...

* 1867–1878: Eduard Franck * 1874–1877:

Arnold Krug Arnold Krug (16 October 1849 – 14 August 1904) was a German composer and music teacher. Biography Born in Hamburg, Krug began his music studies with piano lessons from his father, Diederich Krug, who was himself a pianist and composer. Later ...

* 1884–1885:

Georg Wilhelm Rauchenecker Georg Wilhelm Rauchenecker (8 March 1844, in Munich – 17 July 1906, in Elberfeld, today part of Wuppertal) was a German composer, conductor and violinist. Life Childhood and youth (1844–1860) Rauchenecker was born in Munich on 8 March 1844; ...

* 1890–1897: Friedrich Gernsheim * 1897–1903:

Hans Pfitzner Hans Erich Pfitzner (5 May 1869 – 22 May 1949) was a German composer, conductor and polemicist who was a self-described anti-modernist. His best known work is the post-Romantic opera ''Palestrina'' (1917), loosely based on the life of the ...

* 1884–1906(?):

Georg von Petersenn Georg (Georges) Ferdinand von Petersenn (13 September 1849 – 14 November 1930) was a German music educator. Life Born in Valmiera (Latvia), Petersenn was the youngest of five children of Heinrich von Petersenn and his wife Jutta, ''née'' Baro ...

* mind. 1896–1911:

Martin Krause Martin Krause (17 June 18532 August 1918) was a German concert pianist, piano teacher,James Methuen-Campbell (2001). Krause, Martin. ''Grove Music Online'', Oxford University Press music critic, and writer. Career Martin Krause was born in L ...

* 1897–1904:

Ernst Jedliczka Ernst Jedliczka (24 May 1855 – 3 August 1904) was a Russian-German pianist, piano pedagogue, and music critic. The ''Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition'' stated that Jedliczka "did much to spread Russian music in Germany, placing Russian co ...

* 1898–1905: Ernst Eduard Taubert * 1898–1900: David Maurice Levett * 1904–1906:

Sandra Drouker Sandra Droucker (Drouker or Droucher) (7 May 18751 April 1944) was a Russian concert pianist, composer and music pedagogue. Life and career Sandra Droucker was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, the daughter of a Jewish German father and a mother w ...

* 1906–1915: Leo Portnoff * 1900–1920: Engelbert Humperdinck * 1902–1903 and 1911:

Arnold Schoenberg Arnold Schoenberg or Schönberg (, ; ; 13 September 187413 July 1951) was an Austrian-American composer, music theorist, teacher, writer, and painter. He is widely considered one of the most influential composers of the 20th century. He was as ...

* 1904–1924: Arthur Willner * mind. 1919–1929: Rudolf Maria Breithaupt * 1934–1940, 1962–1966: Konrad Wölki * 1935–1960: Conrad Hansen * Herbert Ahlendorf *

Wilhelm Klatte Wilhelm Klatte (13 February 1870 – 25 July 1930) was a German music theoretician, pedagogue, journalist and conductor. Life Born in Bremen, after studying music in Leipzig, Klatte began his professional career as a musician first at the De ...

* James Kwast * Max Löwengard * Paul Lutzenko * Selma Nicklass-Kempner * Gustav Pohl * Nikolaus Rothmühl * Victor Hollaender * Leopold Schmidt * Robert Lösch * 1992–2012: David Friedman

Distinguished students

* 1860–1862:

Hermann Goetz Hermann Gustav Goetz (7 December 1840 – 3 December 1876) was a German composer who spent much of his career in Switzerland. He is best known for his 1872 opera '' Der Widerspänstigen Zähmung'', based on Shakespeare's ''The Taming of the Shrew ...

* 1884– ? :

Bruno Walter Bruno Walter (born Bruno Schlesinger, September 15, 1876February 17, 1962) was a German-born conductor, pianist and composer. Born in Berlin, he escaped Nazi Germany in 1933, was naturalised as a French citizen in 1938, and settled in the U ...

*1887-1976

Bertha Tideman-Wijers Albertha Wilhelmina Tideman-Wijers (8 January 1887 – 1 January 1976) was a Dutch composer who lived in Indonesia for almost two decades and incorporated Indonesian elements into her compositions. She published her music under the name Bertha Tide ...

*1891–1894: Ernst Mielck * 1892–1894:

Alberto Nepomuceno Alberto Nepomuceno (July 6, 1864October 16, 1920) was a Brazilian composer and conductor. Career and music Nepomuceno was born in Fortaleza, the capital of the state of Ceará in Northeastern Brazil. His parents were Vitor Augusto Nepomuceno ...

* 1896: Edwin Fischer * 1899–1902 Selmar Jacobson (Janson) * 1901–1979: Mischa Portnoff, composer and pianist * 1902–1903: Melitta Lewin * 1903–1907: Emil Honigberger * 1903–1906:

Charles Griffes Charles Tomlinson Griffes ( ; September 17, 1884 – April 8, 1920) was an American composer for piano, chamber ensembles and voice. His initial works are influenced by German Romanticism, but after he relinquished the German style, his lat ...

* 1905:

Otto Klemperer Otto Nossan Klemperer (14 May 18856 July 1973) was a 20th-century conductor and composer, originally based in Germany, and then the US, Hungary and finally Britain. His early career was in opera houses, but he was later better known as a concer ...

* 1906–? : Marek Weber * 1906–1908:

Manuel Ponce Manuel María Ponce Cuéllar (8 December 1882 – 24 April 1948) was a Mexican composer active in the 20th century. His work as a composer, music educator and scholar of Mexican music connected the concert scene with a mostly forgotten traditi ...

* 1906–1909: Clara Abramowitz, soprano * 1908–1913:

Boris Kroyt Boris Kroyt (3 June 1897 – 15 November 1969) was a classical violinist and violist. He was the violist of the Budapest String Quartet from 1936 until the ensemble disbanded in 1967. Kroyt was born to a Jewish-Ukrainian family in Odessa, but sp ...

, violinist and violist * 1909–1911:

Max Nivelli Max Nivelli (January 1, 1878 - February 27, 1926) was a film producer in Berlin during the Weimar Republic era. He was among the first to examine the issues of anti-Semitism and prejudice in his films. Nivelli died at an early age (48) and worked ...

* 1910–1913: Efim Schachmeister, violinist * 1912–1917: Meta Seinemeyer *1913-1914: Gustaf Nordqvist * 1913–1915: Margarete Krämer-Bergau * 1913–1918:

Claudio Arrau Claudio Arrau León (; February 6, 1903June 9, 1991) was a Chilean pianist known for his interpretations of a vast repertoire spanning the baroque to 20th-century composers, especially Bach, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt and B ...

* 1914–1924: Friedrich Löwe * 1915–1920: Lisy Fischer, pianist * 1920– ? : İzzet Nezih Albayrak, violinist * 1924–1926: Marc Lavry * 1924–1929:

Kees van Baaren Kees van Baaren (;In isolation, ''van'' is pronounced . 22 October 1906 – 2 September 1970) was a Dutch composer and teacher. Early years Van Baaren was born in Enschede. His early studies (1924–29) were in Berlin with Rudolph Breithaup ...

* 1924–1929: Karl Ristenpart * 1925- ?: Nadia Friedlander, German/British artist * 1930–1935: Ruth Schönthal * 1946–1952: Hans-Wilfrid Schulze-Margraf * 1956–1965: Christian Schmidt * ? –1936: Haim Alexander * ? –1933:

Manfred Bukofzer Manfred Fritz Bukofzer (27 March 1910 – 7 December 1955) was a German-born American musicologist. Life and career He studied at Heidelberg University and the Stern conservatory in Berlin, but left Germany in 1933 for Switzerland, where he ob ...

* Robert Christian Bachmann * Siegfried Eberhardt, violinist * Issy Geiger * Asparukh Leschnikoff, tenor * Estelle Liebling, soprano and voice teacher *

Moritz Moszkowski Moritz Moszkowski (23 August 18544 March 1925) was a German composer, pianist, and teacher of Polish-Jewish descent.

* Josef Plaut * Heinrich Reimers, pianist * Willi Sommerfeld * Frieda Hempel *

Else Streit Else Streit (born 27 July 1869) was a German composer, pianist, teacher, and violinist. Streit was born in Lauenburg, Pomerania, on the border of Poland and Germany. She studied music at the Karlsruhe Conservatory and the Stern Conservatory. Her ...

, composer * Fred Werner
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