Dr. Hoch's Konservatorium – Musikakademie was founded in

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on 22 September 1878. Through the generosity of Frankfurter

Joseph Hoch Joseph Paul Johannes Hoch (3 May 1815 – 19 September 1874) was a German lawyer and benefactor. He willed his fortune to the Hoch Conservatory Foundation, founded in 1878 in Frankfurt. It is, after Leipzig and Berlin, the seventh oldest music con ...

, who bequeathed the Conservatory one million

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s in his

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, a school for music and the arts was established for all age groups. Instrumental to the foundation, prosperity and success of the conservatory was its director

Joachim Raff Joseph Joachim Raff (27 May 182224 or 25 June 1882) was a German-Swiss composer, pedagogue and pianist.James Deaville'Raff, (Joseph) Joachim' in ''Grove Music Online'' (2001) Biography Raff was born in Lachen, Switzerland, Lachen in Switzerland. ...

who did most of the work including setting the entire curriculum and hiring all its faculty. It has played an important role in the history of music in Frankfurt.

Clara Schumann Clara Josephine Schumann (; ; née Wieck; 13 September 1819 – 20 May 1896) was a German pianist, composer, and piano teacher. Regarded as one of the most distinguished pianists of the Romantic music, Romantic era, she exerted her influence o ...

taught piano, as one of distinguished teachers in the late 19th century, gaining international renown for the conservatory. In the 1890s, about 25% of the students came from other countries: 46 were from England and 23 from the United States. In the 1920s, under director

Bernhard Sekles Bernhard Sekles (20 June 1872 – 8 December 1934) was a German composer, conductor, pianist and pedagogue. Life and career Bernhard Sekles was born in Frankfurt am Main, the son of Maximilian Seckeles and Anna (née Bischheim). The family ...

, the conservatory was far ahead of its time: Sekles initiated the world's first Jazz Studies (directed by

Mátyás Seiber Mátyás György Seiber (, sometimes given as Matthis Seyber; 4 May 1905 – 24 September 1960) was a Hungarian-born British composer who lived and worked in the United Kingdom from 1935 onwards. His work linked many diverse musical influences, ...

)"This was actually the first academic program for the study of jazz anywhere in the world." Kathryn Smith Bowers, "East Meets West. Contributions of Mátyás Seiber to Jazz in Germany." ''Jazz and the Germans'', (Ed. Michael J. Budds), Hillsdale, NY: Pendragon Press, 2002, , S. 122. and in 1931 the Elementary Music Department. Dr. Hoch's conservatory offers instruction in the Music Education for Youth and Adults (ANE) program, the Elementary Music Department (Basisabteilung), and the Pre-College-Frankfurt (PCF) program, which provides preparation for future studies at a

Hochschule ' (, plural: ') is the generic term in German for institutions of higher education, corresponding to ''universities'' and ''colleges'' in English. The term ''Universität'' (plural: ''Universitäten'') is reserved for institutions with the right t ...

or conservatory. There are also Ballet,

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and New Music departments. The following qualifications are available: Bachelor of Music in Performance and

Pedagogy Pedagogy (), most commonly understood as the approach to teaching, is the theory and practice of learning, and how this process influences, and is influenced by, the social, political, and psychological development of learners. Pedagogy, taken ...

in all instruments, voice, music theory, composition, performance and Elementary Music Pedagogy.

Chronology

* 1857: 14 July: Dr. Joseph Hoch (1815–74) makes the conservatory foundation the main heir of his fortune. * 1874: Dr. Hoch dies on 19 September. * 1876: The foundation is officially recognized (16 March). * 1877: 16 February: Recognition of the foundation's governing body by the Frankfurt Magistrate, Chairman Dr. Heinrich Mumm von Schwarzenstein (until 1890). *: June: Joachim Raff elected first director. * 1878: 22 September: Opening ceremony in the Frankfurt Saalhof. *: 20 October: Clara Schumann's 50th anniversary as a performer. * 1879: 10 February: first internal student concert. *: 9 June: Frankfurt visit by

Franz Liszt Franz Liszt (22 October 1811 – 31 July 1886) was a Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor and teacher of the Romantic music, Romantic period. With a diverse List of compositions by Franz Liszt, body of work spanning more than six ...

. * 1880: Differences between Raff and Julius Stockhausen, who resigns on 1 September. * 1882: Joachim Raff dies on 24 June. His successor, Bernhard Scholz, appointed on 11. November. * 1883: 21. January: Secession of the followers of Raff, which leads in April to the opening of the Raff-Konservatorium. *: 21. March: Bernhard Scholz takes over as director. * 1884: Julius Stockhausen resigns for a second time (1 April). *: September: Opening of the Seminar (Director: Iwan Knorr). *1886: September: Opening of the prep-school: Hans Pfitzner studies (with scholarship) until 1890. * 1888: 29. April: Inauguration of the new conservatory building. * 1890: Dr. Theodor Mettenheimer takes over the chairmanship of the governors. State subvention for 2 scholarships. Engelbert Humperdincks begins teaching (1890–97). * 1892: Clara Schumann retires. The conservatory takes over the training for the scholarships of the Mozart-Foundation. * 1896: Clara Schumann dies on 20 May. * 1901: Heinrich Hanau becomes chairman of the governors (until 1904). * 1904: Emil Sulzbach called to be chairman (until 1923). * 1908: Bernhard Scholz resigns. Iwan Knorr becomes director. Opening of the Orchestra School. * 1909: Paul Hindemith receives a scholarship and is accepted as a student of Rebner. * 1916: Iwan Knorr dies 22 January. In September

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 ...

takes over as director. * 1918: Opening of the Singing School Seminar. * 1921: Tension between the governors and director. Inflation forces the foundation to ask for subventions from the city and the state of Hesse. Plans for a "Hochschule" for Frankfurt (

Leo Kestenberg Leo Kestenberg (27 November 1882 – 13 January 1962) was a German-Israeli classical pianist, music educator, and cultural politician. Working for the government in Prussia from 1918, he began a large-scale reform of music education (''Kesten ...

). * 1923: 27 April Waldemar von Bausznern retires.

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applies for the job of director. Resignation of Emil Sulzbach. * 1924: Bernhard Sekles appointed director. Opening of the Opera School. Dr. Oswald Feis becomes chairman of the foundation. * 1926: Seminar for private music teachers and »Conservatory for listeners of Music« opened. * 1928: Opening of the first academic Jazz classes anywhere under the direction of Mátyás Seiber. Concerts held in the "Volksbildungsheim" (Hermann von Schmeidel). * 1931: Courses in Children's Musical Pedagogy. * 1933: Dismissal of the director Bernhard Sekles and all Jewish and foreign teachers (10 April). *: Dr. Hans Rumpf becomes chairman of the foundation and Bertil Wetzelsberger director. *: 17 October: Opening of the »Hochschule für Musik und Theater der Stadt Frankfurt am Main« without permission of the Ministry of Culture. Growing influence of Artistic Director Hans Meißner. * 1936: Hermann Reutter becomes director. * 1937: 19 October: Contract between the City of Frankfurt and the foundation Dr. Hoch's Konservatorium concerning the establishing of a state "Hochschule" for Music. * 1938: 1 April: Opening of the state "

". The conservatory downgraded to a prep-school. * 1943: 4 October: the Conservatory building is hit by aircraft bombing. Move to the Passavant-Gontard'sche Palais. * 1944: February: Passavant-Gontard'sche Palais also destroyed. * 1947: Reopening of the Department of Church Music in April and the Department of School Music in the autumn. * 1950: Walther Davisson becomes Artistic Director of the "Hochschule". * 1951: Recommencing of teaching in a building constructed on the ruins at Eschenheimer Landstr. 4 (). Chairman of the foundation also functions as city councillor. * 1954: A board of directors installed for the Musikhochschule and the Conservatory. * 1958: Philipp Mohler becomes director of the unified "Hochschule" and Dr. Hoch's Konservatorium. * 1967: The Frankfurt Magistrate nullifies the 1937 contract. * 1971: Plans for joining the conservatory with the Musikhochschule cause resistance. The conservatory becomes a stepping stone between a music school and the Musikhochschule. * 1973: Philipp Mohler resigns as director of the conservatory. Klaus Volk becomes director of the unified Conservatory and Musikhochschule. * 1977: Klaus Volk resigns. Prof. Hans Dieter Resch, rector of the "Musikhochschule", becomes provisional director, and in 1978

Alois Kottmann Alois Kottmann (20 June 1929 – 4 December 2021) was a German violinist, music pedagogue, university professor and patron. He was based in Frankfurt, where he founded several ensembles, and taught at both the Hoch Conservatory and the Musikhoc ...

. * 1979:

Frank Stähle Frank Stähle (12 July 1942 – 10 December 2015) was a German musician, a choral conductor and the director of Dr. Hoch's Konservatorium in Frankfurt from 1979 to 2007. Chorale conductor Born in Stuttgart, Stähle went to schools in Hamburg ...

becomes director. Under his direction the conservatory is restructured and again becomes an institute for training professional musicians. * 1986: Alterations begin at the

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, a former Jewish school in Frankfurt's North End. Move to the Philanthropin takes place in stages: 1986–1989. * 1989: Move to Philanthropin completed. Opening ceremonies on 9 February. Stadträtin Jutta Ebeling replaces Bernhard Mihm as chairperson of the foundation. * 2002: Dr. Hoch's Konservatorium is given the status of Music Academy. * 2005: Move to the newly built Education Center Ostend (BZO). * 2007: Frank Stähle retires and Werner Wilde becomes provisional director for one year. * 2008: Mario Liepe is appointed director.

Directors

* 1878–1882: Joseph Joachim Raff * 1883–1908: Bernhard Scholz * 1908–1916:

Iwan Knorr Iwan Otto Armand Knorr (3 January 1853 – 22 January 1916) was a German composer and music teacher. Life A native of Gniew, Knorr was taken to southern Russia at the age of four, where he was surrounded by Russian folk music. His mother taught ...

* 1916–1923:

(also: von Bausznern) * 1924–1933:

* 1933–1936: * 1936–1944:

Hermann Reutter Hermann Reutter (; 17 June 19001 January 1985) was a German composer and pianist who worked as an academic teacher, university administrator, recitalist, and accompanist. He composed several operas, orchestral works, and chamber music, and especi ...

* 1950–1954: Walther Davisson * 1954–1958:

Helmut Walcha Arthur Emil Helmut Walcha (27 October 1907 – 11 August 1991) was a German Organ (music), organist, harpsichordist, music teacher and composer who specialized in the works of the Dutch and German Baroque music, Baroque masters. Blind since h ...

, Erich Flinsch, * 1958–1973: * 1973–1977:

Klaus Volk Klaus Volk (born 29 April 1944) is a German jurist, professor at University of Munich and defense lawyer specialized in commercial-law-related criminal cases. His doctorate thesis at University of Munich 1970 was about philosophy of law. Among ...

* 1977–1979: Hans Dieter Resch,

* 1979–2007:

* 2007–2008: Werner Wilde (Provisional director) * 2008–2018: Mario Liepe * 2018–2022: Christian Heynisch, Caroline Prassel, Karin Franke-André (directorate) * since 2022:

Fabian Rieser Fabian may refer to: People * Fabian (name), including a list of people with the given name or surname * Pope Fabian (died 250), Catholic saint * Fabian Forte (born 1943), 1950s American teen idol, singer and actor, known by the mononym Fabian * ...

, Caroline Prassel, Karin Franke-André (directorate)

Teachers and students

Distinguished teachers

* 1878–1910: Bernhard Cossmann * 1878–1904:

Hugo Heermann Hugo Heermann (3 March 1844, in Heilbronn – 6 November 1935, in Meran, Italy) was a German violinist. He studied the violin with Lambert Joseph Meerts at the Koninklijk Conservatorium (Brussels), Koninklijk Conservatorium in Brussels, and later ...

* 1878–1880: Carl Heymann * 1878–1882:

* 1878–1892:

* 1878–1880 and 1883–84:

Julius Stockhausen Julius Christian Stockhausen (22 July 1826 in Paris – 22 September 1906 in Frankfurt) was a German singer and singer master. Life Stockhausen's parents, Franz Stockhausen Sr. (1792–1868), harpist and composer, and Margarethe Stockhausen n ...

* 1878–1883: Anton Urspruch * 1882–1907:

Lazzaro Uzielli Lazzaro Uzielli (4 February 1861 − 8 October 1943) was an Italian pianist and music educator. Life Born in Florence, Uzielli studied in his home town with Luigi Vannuccini und Giuseppe Buonamici, then with Ernst Rudorff in Berlin, and with ...

* 1883–1908:

* 1883–1902:

James Kwast James Kwast (23 November 185231 October 1927) was a Dutch people, Dutch-German people, German pianist and renowned teacher of many other notable pianists. He was also a minor composer and editor. Biography Jacob James Kwast was born in Nijkerk, ...

* 1884–1923: Ernst Engesser * 1890–1897: Engelbert Humperdinck * 1893–1904:

Carl Friedberg Carl Rudolf Hermann Friedberg (September 18, 1872 in Bingen am Rhein, Bingen, German Empire, Germany – September 9, 1955 in Merano, Italy) was a German pianist and teacher of Jewish origin. Biography He was son of Eduard Friedberg (?–1937) ...

(also: Karl) * 1894–1906:

Hugo Becker Hugo Becker (born Jean Otto Eric Hugo Becker, 13 February 1863, died 30 July 1941) was a prominent German cellist, cello teacher, and composer. He studied at a young age with Alfredo Piatti, and later Friedrich Grützmacher in Dresden. Biogr ...

* 1895–1897: Marie Hanfstängl * 1896–1933:

* 1899–1912: Johannes Hegar * 1904–1908: Hermann Zilcher * 1904–1907 and 1908–1933: Adolf Rebner * 1905–1906: Johannes Messchaert (also: Johan) * 1906–1933: * 1908–1916 and 1929–1942: Alfred Hoehn * 1912–1917: Margarete Dessoff * 1926–1928:

Hermine Bosetti Hermine Bosetti ''née'' von Flick (28 September 1875, Vienna – 1 May 1936, Hohenrain or Munich), was a German coloratura soprano. Bosetti sang her debut in Wiesbaden (1898) as "Ännchen" in ''Der Freischütz''. In 1900, she was a member of t ...

* 1926–1932: Ludwig Rottenberg * 1928–1933:

(Director of the first academic Jazz department) * 1930–1933:

Herbert Graf Herbert Graf (10 April 1903 – 5 April 1973) was an Austrian-American opera producer. Born in Vienna in 1903, he was the son of Max Graf (1873–1958), and Olga Hönig. His father was an Austrian author, critic, musicologist and member of Si ...

(Opera School) * 1933–1938:

* 1933–1942:

Kurt Hessenberg Kurt Hessenberg (17 August 1908 – 17 June 1994) was a German composer and professor at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Frankfurt. Life Kurt Hessenberg was born on 17 August 1908 in Frankfurt, as the fourth and last child o ...

* 1933–1945: * 1936–1940: Anton Biersack * 1954–1974: * 1958–19??:

* 1976–1982:

Albert Mangelsdorff Albert Mangelsdorff (September 5, 1928 – July 25, 2005) was a German jazz trombonist. Working mainly in free jazz, he was an innovator in multiphonics. Early life Mangelsdorff was born in Frankfurt on September 5, 1928, as the son of the book ...

* 1985–1996: Richard Rudolf Klein * 1981–2000: Gerhard Schedl

Distinguished students

* 1879–1882:

Edward MacDowell Edward Alexander MacDowell (December 18, 1860January 23, 1908) was an American composer and pianist of the late Romantic period. He was best known for his second piano concerto and his piano suites '' Woodland Sketches'', ''Sea Pieces'' and ''Ne ...

* 1886–1890:

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 ...

* 1891–1893 and 1896–1899:

Cyril Scott Cyril Meir Scott (27 September 1879 – 31 December 1970) was an English composer, writer, poet, and occultist. He created around four hundred musical compositions including piano, violin, cello concertos, symphonies, and operas. He also wrot ...

( Frankfurt Group) * 1893–1895: Margarete Dessoff * 1893–1897:

Norman O'Neill Norman Houston O'Neill (14 March 1875 – 3 March 1934) was an English composer and conductor of Irish background who specialised largely in works for the theatre. Life O'Neill was born at 16 Young Street in Kensington, London, the youngest son ...

(Frankfurt Group) * 1894–1896:

Henry Balfour Gardiner Henry Balfour Gardiner (7 November 1877 – 28 June 1950) was a British musician, composer, and teacher. He was the son of Henry John Gardiner, a successful entrepreneur who made a considerable fortune in the drapery wholesale business in Brist ...

(Frankfurt Group) * 1894–1901:

Walter Braunfels Walter Braunfels (; 19 December 1882 – 19 March 1954) was a German composer, pianist, and music educator. Life Walter Braunfels was born in Frankfurt. His first music teacher was his mother, the great-niece of the composer Louis Spohr. He co ...

* 1895–1900:

Percy Grainger Percy Aldridge Grainger (born George Percy Grainger; 8 July 188220 February 1961) was an Australian-born composer, arranger and pianist who moved to the United States in 1914 and became an American citizen in 1918. In the course of a long and ...

(Frankfurt Group) * 1895–1903: Johanna Senfter * 1895–1898: Hans Jelmoli * 1897–1901:

Roger Quilter Roger Cuthbert Quilter (1 November 1877 – 21 September 1953) was a British composer, known particularly for his art songs. His songs, which number over a hundred, often set music to text by William Shakespeare and are a mainstay of the English ...

(Frankfurt Group) * 1898–1903:

Boris Hambourg Boris Hambourg (; – 24 November 1954) was a Russian Canadians, Russian Canadian cellist and music educator who settled in Toronto, Ontario, and made his career in the United States, Canada, England and Europe. With his father, the pianist Micha ...

* 1900–1901:

Ernest Bloch Ernest Bloch (; ; July 24, 1880 – July 15, 1959) was a Swiss-born American composer. Bloch was a preeminent artist in his day, and left a lasting legacy. He is recognized as one of the greatest Swiss composers in history. Several of his most no ...

* 1901–1902:

Otto Klemperer Otto Nossan Klemperer (; 14 May 18856 July 1973) was a German conductor and composer, originally based in Germany, and then the United States, Hungary and finally, Great Britain. He began his career as an opera conductor, but he was later bet ...

* 1903–1909:

Reinhard Oppel Julius Reinhard Oppel (1878 in Grünberg, Hesse – 1941 in Leipzig) was a German composer. He studied at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt 1903–1909, was briefly an organist in Bonn, then from 1911 professor of composition at the Kiel Conserv ...

* 1904–1907:

Hans Gebhard-Elsaß Hans Gebhard-Elsaß (née Hans Julius Gebhard; born 26 September 1882 – 4 October 1947) was a German composer and music educator. Family His father was Paul Julius Gebhard, a judge and later military personnel who took part in the Franco-Pruss ...

* 1904–1908:

Frederick Septimus Kelly Frederick Septimus Kelly (29 May 1881 – 13 November 1916) was an Australian and British musician and composer and a rower who competed for Britain in the 1908 Summer Olympics. He joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve during WWI and, aft ...

* 1908–1910:

Richard Tauber Richard Tauber (16 May 1891, Linz – 8 January 1948, London) was an Austrian lyric tenor and film actor. He performed the tenor role in numerous operas, including ''Don Giovanni'' by Mozart and Lorenzo Da Ponte. Early life Richard Tauber was b ...

* 1909–1917:

Paul Hindemith Paul Hindemith ( ; ; 16 November 189528 December 1963) was a German and American composer, music theorist, teacher, violist and conductor. He founded the Amar Quartet in 1921, touring extensively in Europe. As a composer, he became a major advo ...

* 1909–1913:

Ernst Toch Ernst Toch (; 7 December 1887 – 1 October 1964) was an Austrian composer of European classical music and film scores, who from 1933 worked as an émigré in Paris, London and New York. He sought throughout his life to introduce new approaches t ...

* 1913–1916 and 1918–1920:

Ottmar Gerster Ottmar Gerster (29 June 1897 in Braunfels, Germany – 31 August 1969 in Borsdorf) was a German viola player, conductor and composer who in 1948 became rector of the Liszt Music Academy in Weimar. Life Ottmar Gerster was born some 50 km ( ...

* ca. 1915 :

Hans Rosbaud Hans Rosbaud (22 July 1895 – 29 December 1962) was an Austrian conductor, particularly associated with the music of the twentieth century. Biography Rosbaud was born in Graz. As children, he and his brother Paul Rosbaud performed with thei ...

* 1917–1931:

* 1924–1927:

Alexander Schneider Abraham Alexander Schneider (October 21, 1908 – February 2, 1993) was a violinist, conductor and educator. Born to a Jewish family in Vilnius, Lithuania, he later moved to the United States as a member of the Budapest String Quartet. Early ...

Teachers

Alma Moodie Alma Mary Templeton Moodie (12 September 18987 March 1943) was an Australian violinist who established an excellent reputation in Germany in the 1920s and 1930s. She was regarded as being among the foremost female violinists during the inter-war ...

* since 2005:

Barbara Zechmeister Barbara Zechmeister is a German operatic soprano and voice teacher. A member of the Oper Frankfurt from 1996, she has appeared in major European opera houses and international festivals. She has performed in world premieres, and in recitals and ...

Students

* * Frederic Austin * * *

Franz Magnus Böhme Franz Theodor Magnus Böhme (11 March 1827 in Willerstedt – 18 October 1898 in Dresden) was a German academic, musicologist, composer, folksong collector and writer on music history and folksong. Biography The son of a farmer, Böhme became ...

Leonard Borwick Leonard Borwick (26 February 1868 – 15 September 1925) was an English concert pianist especially associated with the music of Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms. Early training and debuts Born in Walthamstow, Essex, of a Staffordshire fam ...

Catherine Carswell Catherine Roxburgh Carswell (née Macfarlane; 27 March 1879 – 18 February 1946) was a Scottish author, biographer and journalist, now known as one of the few women to take part in the Scottish Renaissance. Her biography of the Scottish poet R ...

* Torsten de Winkel *

Moritz Eggert Moritz Eggert (born 25 November 1965 in Heidelberg) is a German composer and pianist. Life Moritz Eggert began his studies in piano and composition in 1975 at Hoch Conservatory, Dr. Hoch's Konservatorium in Frankfurt (with Wolfgang Wagenhaeu ...

* * Ernst Fischer * Clemens von und zu Franckenstein * Oskar Fried * Else Gentner-Fischer * *

Konrad Georg Konrad Georg (1914–1987) was a German film, stage and television actor. A veteran performer he appeared in numerous films and television programmes in West Germany. Between 1963 and 1966 he played the title role in the television crime series '' ...

* *

Ria Ginster Ria Ginster (15 April 1898 – 11 May 1985) was a German soprano who appeared mainly in recital and concert, including international tours. She was an academic voice teacher at the Zürich Conservatory, and gave master classes internationally, i ...

* * Daniel Hensel * * Robin Hoffmann *

Alfred Hollins Alfred Hollins (11 September 1865 – 17 May 1942) was an English organist, composer and teacher, who was noted as a recitalist in Scotland. Early life and education Hollins was born in Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, and ...

Erich Itor Kahn Erich Itor Kahn (23 July 1905 - 5 March 1956) was a German composer of Jewish descent, who emigrated to the United States during the years of National Socialism. Biography He was born in Rimbach in the Odenwald, the son of Leopold Kahn, a mathema ...

* *

Hans Klotz Hans Klotz (October 25, 1900 – May 11, 1987) was a German organist and musicologist. Life and career Hans Klotz was born on October 25, 1900 in Offenbach am Main. He graduated from the Hoch Conservatory in 1922 with a diploma in piano. He later ...

Christof Lauer Christof Lauer (born 25 May 1953) is a German jazz tenor and soprano saxophonist, born in Melsungen, Germany, perhaps most well known in Europe where he has done projects with various musicians, such as Palle Danielsson, Carla Bley,

Tiana Lemnitz Tiana Lemnitz (26 October 1897 – 5 February 1994) was a German operatic soprano. Her major operatic career took place between the two world wars (1919–1939). Life and career The youngest of 10 children, she was born in Metz to a musica ...

* Uli Lenz *

Emil Mangelsdorff Emil Mangelsdorff (; 11 April 1925 – 20 January 2022) was a German jazz musician who played alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, clarinet and flute. He was a jazz pioneer under the Nazi regime which led to his imprisonment. After World War II an ...

* Annette Marquard * Heinz Moog * * Walter Rehberg * Max Rudolf *

Fritzi Scheff Fritzi Scheff (born Friederike Scheff; August 30, 1879 – April 8, 1954) was an American actress and singer. Biography Born Friederike Scheff in Vienna to Dr. Gottfried Scheff and Anna Yeager, she studied at the Hoch Conservatory in Frank ...

* Erich Schmid * * Johanna Senfter * Hermine Spies *

Rudi Stephan Rudi Stephan (29 July 1887 – 29 September 1915) was a German composer of great promise who was considered one of the leading talents of his generation. He was killed in action during World War I. Life Stephan was born at Worms, Grand Duchy o ...

* Stefan Thomas * Richard Trunk *

Hans-Jürgen von Bose Hans-Jürgen von Bose (born 24 December 1953) is a German composer. Life After an unsettled adolescence, Bose entered the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt in 1969, where he received instruction in piano and music theory. Upon graduating from the ...

* Hermann Hans Wetzler * Heike Matthiesen

Legacy

The German Federal Bank honored the conservatory on the reverse side of the former 100 DM bill with a picture of the original conservatory building, unfortunately bombed in

World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

, the first piano teacher, is pictured on the front side of the bill.

References

External links

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The early reception of Jazz in Germany: Mátyás Seiber and the Jazz Orchester of the Hoch Conservatory in a radio recording from 1931

* ttp://www.omm.de/feuilleton/hochs-konservatorium.html Dr. Hoch's Konservatorium seit Januar Musikakademie / Bericht vom Festakt zur Verleihung des Status einer Akademie(in German) Online Musik Magazin, 6 February 2002 * Sonja Stöhr
Dr. Hoch's Konservatorium / Dr. Hoch's Talentschmiede

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