The Stern Conservatory (''Stern'sches Konservatorium'') was a private music school in Berlin with many distinguished tutors and alumni. The school is now part of Berlin University of the Arts.

History

It was founded in 1850 as the ''Berliner Musikschule'' by Julius Stern, Theodor Kullak and Adolf Bernhard Marx. 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 Berlin Philharmonic concert hall on Bernburger Strasse in Berlin- Kreuzberg. In the course of the ''

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'' process, the Stern Academy in 1936 was renamed ''Konservatorium der Reichshauptstadt Berlin'' controlled by the Nazi regime. 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 West Berlin. 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 Berlin University of the Arts. GustavHollaender

Directors

* 1883–1894: Jenny Meyer * 1894–1915: Gustav Hollaender * 1915–1930:

Alexander von Fielitz Alexander von Fielitz (December 28, 1860 – July 29, 1930) was a German composer. Life and work Fielitz studied with Julius Schulhoff and Edmund Kretschmer in Dresden. He worked as a theater conductor in Zurich, Lübeck, and Leipzig, a ...

* 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 Mos ...

Professors

* 1854–1864 Hans von Bülow * 1855- ?: Ferdinand Laub * 1864–1871: Rudolf Radecke * 1866–1869: Friedrich Kiel * 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 he ...

* 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 18 ...

* 1890–1897:

Friedrich Gernsheim Friedrich Gernsheim (17 July 1839 – 10 September 1916) was a German composer, conductor and pianist. Early life Gernsheim was born in Worms. He was given his first musical training at home under his mother's care, then starting from the age of ...

* 1897–1903: Hans Pfitzner * 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 * 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 c ...

* 1898–1905:

Ernst Eduard Taubert Ernst Eduard Taubert (25 September 1838 in Regenwalde – 14 July 1934) was a Pomeranian composer, music critic, and music educator. He began his education in Bonn where he was first a student of theology and later a music pupil of Albert Dietrich. ...

* 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 wh ...

* 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 Rudolf Maria Breithaupt (11 August 1873 – 2 April 1945) was a German composer and music educator (piano). Life Born in Braunschweig, Breithaupt attended the grammar school in Braunschweig. He studied jurisprudence, then philosophy, psycholog ...

* 1934–1940, 1962–1966: Konrad Wölki * 1935–1960:

Conrad Hansen Conrad Hansen (24 November 1906 – 22 June 2002) was a German pianist and an eminent piano teacher. Life Born in Lippstadt, as an eight-year-old, Hansen had his first piano lessons in his hometown, and only two years later he was giving public ...

* 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 Selma Nicklaß-Kempner, occasionally also Niklas-Kempner, (2 April 1850 – 22 December 1928) was a German operatic soprano and singing teacher. Life Born in Breslau, Nicklass-Kempner was a Student of Jenny Meyer (1834–1894) and made her ...

* 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 *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 * 1896: Edwin Fischer * 1899–1902 Selmar Jacobson (Janson) * 1901–1979:

Mischa Portnoff Mischa Portnoff (August 29, 1901 – May 15, 1979) was a German-born American composer and teacher. Introduction German-born American composer and teacher Mischa Portnoff's distinctive gift as a musician was the breadth of his mastery. His cla ...

, composer and pianist * 1902–1903: Melitta Lewin * 1903–1907: Emil Honigberger * 1903–1906: Charles Griffes * 1905: Otto Klemperer * 1906–? :

Marek Weber Marek Weber (24 October 1888 – 9 February 1964) was a German violinist and bandleader. Early life and education Born in Lviv (then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire), Weber moved in 1906 to Berlin and studied at the Stern Conservatory. C ...

* 1906–1908: Manuel Ponce * 1906–1909: Clara Abramowitz, soprano * 1908–1913: Boris Kroyt, violinist and violist * 1909–1911: Max Nivelli * 1910–1913:

Efim Schachmeister Chaim "Efim" Schachmeister (22 July 1894 – 6 October 1944) was a German violinist and bandleader. He also recorded under the pseudonyms ''Sascha Elmo'' and ''Joan Florescu''. Born in Kiev to Romanian Jewish parents, from 1910 to 1913 he studied ...

, violinist * 1912–1917:

Meta Seinemeyer Meta Seinemeyer (September 5, 1895 – August 19, 1929) was a German opera singer with a spinto soprano voice. Seinemeyer was born in Berlin, where she studied at the Stern Conservatory with Ernst Grenzebach. She made her debut at the Deutsche Op ...

*1913-1914: Gustaf Nordqvist * 1913–1915: Margarete Krämer-Bergau * 1913–1918: Claudio Arrau * 1914–1924: Friedrich Löwe * 1915–1920:

Lisy Fischer Elisabeth (Lisy) Fischer (born 22 August 1900Certified Archival Documents with birth and marriage dates (Charlottenberg, Berlin), birth certificate of daughter (Amsterdam) and death certificate for Lisy Fischer (UK) in Zurich – died 6 June 1999 ...

, pianist * 1920– ? : İzzet Nezih Albayrak, violinist * 1924–1926:

Marc Lavry Marc Lavry ( he, מרק לברי) (December 22, 1903, Riga – March 24, 1967, Haifa) was an Israeli composer and conductor. Born in Latvia and trained in Germany, Lavry immigrated to Palestine in 1936, where he was instrumental in developing the ...

* 1924–1929: Kees van Baaren * 1924–1929:

Karl Ristenpart Karl Ristenpart (26 January 1900 – 24 December 1967) was a German conductor. Career Born in Kiel, Germany, he studied at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin and in Vienna. He was heavily involved in creating three orchestras in his lifetim ...

* 1925- ?:

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, German/British artist * 1930–1935:

Ruth Schönthal Ruth Esther Hadassah Schonthal (June 27, 1924 in Hamburg, Germany – July 10, 2006 in Scarsdale, New York, United States) was a pianist and composer. Early years Ruth Schonthal was born in Hamburg of Viennese parents. At the age of five she be ...

* 1946–1952: Hans-Wilfrid Schulze-Margraf * 1956–1965: Christian Schmidt * ? –1936: Haim Alexander * ? –1933: Manfred Bukofzer * Robert Christian Bachmann *

Siegfried Eberhardt Siegfried is a German-language male given name, composed from the Germanic elements ''sig'' "victory" and ''frithu'' "protection, peace". The German name has the Old Norse cognate ''Sigfriðr, Sigfrøðr'', which gives rise to Swedish ''Sigfrid' ...

, violinist * Issy Geiger * Asparukh Leschnikoff, tenor *

Estelle Liebling Estelle Liebling (April 21, 1880 – September 25, 1970) was an American soprano, composer, arranger, music editor, and celebrated voice teacher and vocal coach. Born into the Liebling family of musicians, she began her professional opera car ...

, soprano and voice teacher * Moritz Moszkowski * Josef Plaut *

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, pianist *

Willi Sommerfeld Willi is a given name, nickname (often a short form or hypocorism of Wilhelm) and surname. Notable people with the name include: Given name * Willi Apel (1893–1988), German-American musicologist * Willi Boskovsky (1909–1991), Austrian violin ...

Frieda Hempel Frieda Hempel (26 June 1885 – 7 October 1955) was a German lyric coloratura soprano singer in operatic and concert work who had an international career in Europe and the United States. Life Hempel was born in Leipzig and studied first at th ...

* Else Streit, composer *

Fred Werner Fred Werner born ''Gottfried W Werner'' was an Australian composer, music teacher. He was possibly born near Berlin where he attended the prestigious Stern Conservatory and studied under Polish composer Theodor Kullak. He migrated to Coolabah, ...

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