Hoch Conservatory

Dr. Hoch’s Konservatorium - Musikakademie Frankfurt am Main
Director	Mario Liepe
Founded	1878
Location	Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany
Students	ca. 1000
Lecturers	80
Departments	Music Studies Department Diplom in Music Diploma as State Qualified Music Pedagogue Diploma in Performance Pre-College-Frankfurt Program (PCF) Preparation for Music Studies Music Education for Youth and Adults (ANE) Elementary Music Department Ballet Department Early Music Department New Music and Composition Department
Address	Sonnemannstr. 16 60314 Frankfurt am Main
Homepage	http://www.dr-hochs.de

Dr. Hoch’s Konservatorium - Musikakademie was founded in Frankfurt am Main on 22 September 1878. Through the generosity of Frankfurter Joseph Hoch, who bequeathed the Conservatory one million German gold marks in his testament, a school for music and the arts was established for all age groups. It has played an important role in the history of music in Frankfurt. Many famous musicians have taught there: in the late 19th century, with teachers like Clara Schumann on the faculty, the Conservatory achieved international renown. In the 1890s about 25% of the students were from other countries: 46 were from England and 23 from America.

In the 1920s, under director Bernhard Sekles, the Conservatory was far ahead of its time: Sekles initiated the world’s first Jazz Studies (directed by Mátyás Seiber) and in 1931 the Elementary Music Department.

Today 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 or Conservatory. There are also Ballet, Early Music and New Music departments. The following qualifications are available: Diplom in Music and Diplomas in Music Pedagogy in all instruments, voice, music theory, composition, performance, and Elementary Music Pedagogy.

100 DM bill Front

100 DM bill Reverse

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. Clara Schumann is pictured on the front side of the same bill.

Chronology

Clara Schumann, in 1878, taught at the Hoch Conservatory 1878-1892

Saalhof ca. 1900: Home of the Hoch Conservatory 1878-88

Eschenheimer Landstr. 4. Hoch Conservatory, c. 1900. Home of the Hoch Conservatory 1888-1943

Eschenheimer Landstr. 4. Volksbildungsheim. Home of the Hoch Conservatory 1951-1988

Philanthropin Frankfurt: Home of the Hoch Conservatory 1986-2004

Sonnenmannstraße 16: Home of the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt-Ostend

1857: 14 July: Dr. Joseph Hoch (1815–74) makes the Hoch 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 of the Hoch Conservatory.
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.
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 pre-school: Hans Pfitzner studies at the Hoch Conservatory (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 Hoch 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 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).
1923: 27 April Waldemar von Bausznern retires. Hermann Scherchen 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 "Hochschule". The Conservatory degraded to a pre-school.
1943: 4 October: Conservatory building 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 at the Hoch Conservatory in a building constructed on the ruins at Eschenheimer Landstr. 4 (Volksbildungsheim). Chairman of the foundation also funktions as city councillor.
1954: A board of directors installed for the "Hochschule" and Conservatory.
1958: Philipp Mohler becomes director of the unified "Hochschule" and the Hoch Conservatory.
1967: The Frankfurt Magistrate nullifies the 1937 contract.
1971: Plans for joining the Conservatory with the Music School meet with resistance. The Conservatory becomes a stepping stone between the Music School and "Musikhochschule".
1973: Philipp Mohler resigns as director of the Hoch Conservatory. Klaus Volk becomes director of the unified Conservatory and Music School.
1977: Klaus Volk resigns. Prof. Hans Dieter Resch, rector of the "Musikhochschule", becomes provisional director of the Conservatory, and in 1978 Alois Kottmann.
1979: Frank Stähle becomes director. Under his direction the Conservatory is restructured and again becomes an institute for training professional musicians.
1986: Alterations begin at the Philanthropin, 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 February 9. Stadträtin Jutta Ebeling replaces Bernhard Mihm as Chairperson of the foundation.
2002: The Hoch Conservatory 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

The first director: Joachim Raff in 1878

1878–1882: Joseph Joachim Raff
1883–1908: Bernhard Scholz
1908–1916: Iwan Knorr
1916–1923: Waldemar von Baußnern (also: von Bausznern)
1924–1933: Bernhard Sekles
1933–1936: Bertil Wetzelsberger
1936–1944: Hermann Reutter
1950–1954: Walther Davisson
1954–1958: Helmut Walcha, Erich Flinsch, Gustav Lenzewski
1958–1973: Philipp Mohler
1973–1977: Klaus Volk
1977–1979: Hans Dieter Resch, Alois Kottmann
1979–2007: Frank Stähle
2007–2008: Werner Wilde, Provisional Director
2008–: Mario Liepe

Famous Teachers

Engelbert Humperdinck composed Hänsel und Gretel ca. 1891 in Frankfurt am Main

1878–1880 and 1883-84: Julius Stockhausen
1878–1883: Anton Urspruch
1878–1882: Joachim Raff
1878–1892: Clara Schumann
1878–1880: Carl Heymann
1878–1904: Hugo Heermann
1878–1910: Bernhard Cossmann
1882–1907: Lazzaro Uzielli
1883–1908: Iwan Knorr
1883–1902: James Kwast
1884–1923: Ernst Engesser
1890–1897: Engelbert Humperdinck
1893–1904: Carl Friedberg (also: Karl)
1894–1906: Hugo Becker
1895–1897: Marie Hanfstängl
1896–1933: Bernhard Sekles
1899–1912: Johannes Hegar
1904–1908: Hermann Zilcher
1904–1907 and 1908–1933: Adolf Rebner
1905–1906: Johannes Messchaert (also: Johan)
1906–1933: Alfred Auerbach
1908–1916 and 1929–1942: Alfred Hoehn
1912–1917: Margarete Dessoff
1926–1928: Hermine Bosetti
1926–1932: Ludwig Rottenberg
1928–1933: Mátyás Seiber (Director of the first academic Jazz department)
1930–1933: Herbert Graf (Opera School)
1933–1938: Helmut Walcha
1933–1942: Kurt Hessenberg
1933–1945: Gerhard Frommel
1936–1940: Anton Biersack
1954–1974: Peter Cahn
1958–19??: Alois Kottmann
1976– : Albert Mangelsdorff
1985–1996: Richard Rudolf Klein
1981–2000: Gerhard Schedl

Famous Students

Hans Pfitzner studied composition and piano at the Hoch Conservatory

Paul Hindemith aged 28 (1923). Hindemith studied violin and composition at the Conservatory

1879–1882: Edward MacDowell
1886–1890: Hans Pfitzner
1891–1893 and 1896-1899: Cyril Scott (Frankfurt Group)
1893–1895: Margarete Dessoff
1893–1897: Norman O'Neill (Frankfurt Group)
1894–1896: Henry Balfour Gardiner (Frankfurt Group)
1894–1901: Walter Braunfels
1895–1900: Percy Grainger (Frankfurt Group)
1895–1903: Johanna Senfter
1895–1898: Hans Jelmoli
1897–1901: Roger Quilter (Frankfurt Group)
1898–1903: Boris Hambourg
1900–1901: Ernest Bloch
1901–1902: Otto Klemperer
1903–1909: Reinhard Oppel
1904–1907: Hans Gebhard-Elsaß
1904–1908: Frederick Septimus Kelly
1908–1910: Richard Tauber
1909–1917: Paul Hindemith
1909–1913: Ernst Toch
1913–1916 and 1918–1920: Ottmar Gerster
ca. 1915 : Hans Rosbaud
1917–1931: Kurt Hessenberg
1924–1927: Alexander Schneider

Other Teachers

Alma Moodie

Other Students

Oskar Fried, studied 1891-92 with Iwan Knorr

Questionable for the lists: Famous Teachers and Students

Theodor W. Adorno Private lessons with Bernhard Sekles, composition and Eduard Jung, piano
Hans von Bülow Taught at the Raff-Konservatorium in Frankfurt

References

Stiftung Dr. Hoch's Konservatorium Joseph Hoch zum 100. Todestag, Frankfurt am Main: Kramer, 1974.
Peter Cahn, Das Hoch'sche Konservatorium in Frankfurt am Main (1878-1978), Frankfurt am Main: Kramer, 1979. Chronology until 1978 used with kind permission of Dr. Peter Cahn, Frankfurt (translation by Edmund Brownless).
Festschrift 125 Jahre Stiftung Dr. Hoch's Konservatorium Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main, 2003.
Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, (Nicolas Slonimsky, Hrsg.) New York: G. Schirmer, 1958

External links

Coordinates: 50°06′37″N 8°41′59″E / 50.1102°N 8.69986°E / 50.1102; 8.69986

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 143240036 LCCN: n97047208 GND: 1074368932

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Thursday, March 24, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.