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

music school A music school is an educational institution specialized in the study, training, and research of music. Such an institution can also be known as a school of music, music academy, music faculty, college of music, music department (of a larger in ...

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

Berlin University of the Arts The Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK; also known in English as the Berlin University of the Arts), situated in Berlin, Germany, is the second largest art school in Europe. It is a public art and design school, and one of the four research uni ...

History

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

Adolf Bernhard Marx Friedrich Heinrich Adolf Bernhard Marx . B. Marx(15 May 1795, Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Halle – 17 May 1866, Berlin) was a German people, German Music theory, music theorist, Music criticism, critic, and musicologist. Life Marx was the son of ...

. 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 Friedrich Hollaender (in exile also Frederick Hollander; 18 October 189618 January 1976) was a German film composer and author. Life and career He was born in London to a Jewish family, where his father, operetta composer Victor Hollaend ...

), 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 Paul Graener (11 January 1872 – 13 November 1944) was a German composer and conductor. He composed numerous operas and orchestral works in the Romanticism style. Biography Graener was born in Berlin and orphaned as a young child. A boy s ...

* 1933–1935: Siegfried Eberhardt ''Konservatorium der Reichshauptstadt Berlin'': * 1936–1945: Bruno Kittel ''Städtisches Konservatorium'': * 1946–1949: Heinz Tiessen * 1950–1960: Hans Joachim Moser

Professors

* 1854–1864

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

* 1855- ?: Ferdinand Laub * 1864–1871: Rudolf Radecke * 1866–1869: Friedrich Kiel * 1867–1878: Eduard Franck * 1874–1877: Arnold Krug * 1884–1885: Georg Wilhelm Rauchenecker * 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 * 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 criticism, music critic, and writer. Career Krause was ...

* 1897–1904: Ernst Jedliczka * 1898–1905: Ernst Eduard Taubert * 1898–1900: David Maurice Levett * 1904–1906: Sandra Drouker * 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 and American composer, music theorist, teacher and writer. He was among the first Modernism (music), modernists who transformed the practice of harmony in 20th-centu ...

* 1904–1924: Arthur Willner * mind. 1919–1929: Rudolf Maria Breithaupt * 1927-c.1933: Ottilie Metzger (also an alumnus) * 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 theory, music theoretician, pedagogue, journalist and Conducting, conductor. Life Born in Bremen, after studying music in Leipzig, Klatte began his professional career as a ...

* James Kwast * Max Löwengard * Paul Lutzenko * Selma Nicklass-Kempner * Gustav Pohl * Nikolaus Rothmühl * Else Schmitz-Gohr * Victor Hollaender * Leopold Schmidt * Robert Lösch * 1992–2012: David Friedman * Mayer-Mahr. (1932)

Distinguished students

* 1860–1862: Hermann Goetz * 1884– ? :

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

*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 Edwin Fischer (6 October 1886 – 24 January 1960) was a Swiss classical pianist and conductor. He is regarded as one of the great interpreters of J.S. Bach and Mozart in the twentieth century. Biography Fischer was born in Basel and studied m ...

* late 19th-early 20th century:

Charlotte Ruegger Charlotte Ruegger (17 November 187616 June 1959) was a Swiss composer, conductor, violinist, and music educator who taught at several colleges in the United States. She received Belgium's Medal for Bravery for her service during World War I. Earl ...

* 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 Vocal music, voice. His initial works are influenced by German Romanticism, but after he relinquished the German st ...

* 1905:

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 ...

* 1906–? : Marek Weber * 1906–1908:

Manuel Ponce Manuel María Ponce Cuéllar (8 December 1882 – 24 April 1948), known in Mexico as Manuel M. Ponce, was a Mexican composer active in the 20th century. His work as a composer, music educator and scholar of Mexican music connected the concert s ...

* 1906–1909: Clara Abramowitz, soprano * 1908–1913: Boris Kroyt, violinist and violist * 1909–1911: Max Nivelli * 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 and American pianist known for his interpretations of a vast repertoire spanning the baroque music, baroque to 20th-century classical music, 20th-century composers, especially B ...

* 1914–1924: Friedrich Löwe * 1915–1920: Lisy Fischer, pianist * 1920– ? : İzzet Nezih Albayrak, violinist * 1920s: Else Schmitz-Gohr, composer and pianist * 1924–1926: Marc Lavry * 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 lifeti ...

* 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 o ...

* Robert Christian Bachmann * Siegfried Eberhardt, 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 career ...

, soprano and voice teacher * Moritz Moszkowski * Josef Plaut * Heinrich Reimers, pianist * Willi Sommerfeld * Frieda Hempel * Else Streit, composer * Fred Werner

References

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