Felix Mendelssohn College of Music and Theatre

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History

Names

• 1843–1876: Conservatorium der Musik
• 1876–1924: Königliches Konservatorium der Musik zu Leipzig
• 1924–1941: Landeskonservatorium der Musik zu Leipzig
• 1941–1944: Staatliche Hochschule für Musik, Musikerziehung und darstellende Kunst
• 1946–1972: Staatliche Hochschule für Musik – Mendelssohn-Akademie
• 1972–1992: Hochschule für Musik „Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy“
• 1992–0000: Hochschule für Musik und Theater „Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy“ Leipzig

Notable People

Notable Alumni

• Sir Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900), English composer
• Edvard Grieg
  Edvard Grieg
  
  Edvard Grieg was a Norway composer and pianist who composed in the Romantic period. He is best known for his Piano Concerto , for his incidental music to Henrik Ibsen's Play Peer Gynt , and for his collection of piano miniatures Lyric Pieces....
   (1843–1907), Norwegian composer
• Hugo Riemann
  Hugo Riemann
  
  Karl Wilhelm Julius Hugo Riemann was a Germany music theory. He should not be confused with the mathematician Bernhard Riemann.Riemann was born at Grossmehlra, near Sondershausen....
   (1849–1919), German music theorist, music historian, music educator and music lexicographer
• Leoš Janácek
  Leoš Janácek
  
  Leo? Jan?cek , was a Czech people composer, Music theory, Folkloristics, publicist and teacher. He was inspired by Moravian and all Slavic folk music to create an original, modern musical style....
   (1854–1928), German composer
• Christian Sinding
  Christian Sinding
  
  Christian August Sinding was a Norway composer and the brother of the painter Otto Ludvig Sinding and the sculptor Stephan Sinding.He was born in Kongsberg and studied music first in Oslo before going to Germany, where he studied at the conservatory in Leipzig under Salomon Jadassohn and fell under the musical influences of Richard Wagne...
   (1856–1941), Norwegian composer
• Ethel Smyth
  Ethel Smyth
  
  Dame Ethel Mary Smyth, Order of the British Empire was an England composer and a leader of the women's suffrage movement.Early career ...
   (1858–1944), English composer
• Isaac Albéniz
  Isaac Albéniz
  
  Isaac Manuel Francisco Alb?niz i Pascual was a Spain Catalonia pianist and composer best known for his piano works based on folk music.=Life=...
   (1860–1909), Spanish composer and pianist
• Frederick Delius
  Frederick Delius
  
  Frederick Albert Theodore Delius Order of the Companions of Honour was an England composer....
   (1862–1934), English composer
• Felix von Weingartner (1863–1942), Austrian conductor, composer, pianist and writer
• Sigfrid Karg-Elert
  Sigfrid Karg-Elert
  
  Sigfrid Karg-Elert was a Germany composer of considerable fame in the early twentieth century, best known for his Choir works, lieder, chamber music and orchestral music, works for the piano, and especially his compositions for organ and harmonium....
   (1877–1933), German composer
• Carl Adolf Martienssen (1881–1955), German pianist and music educator
• Wilhelm Backhaus
  Wilhelm Backhaus
  
  Wilhelm Backhaus was a Germany pianist and pedagogue.Born in Leipzig, Backhaus studied at the conservatoire in Leipzig with Alois Reckendorf until 1899, later taking private lessons with Eugen d'Albert in Frankfurt am Main....
   (1884–1969), German pianist
• Hermann Keller (1885–1967), German church musician und musicologist
• Rudolf Mauersberger
  Rudolf Mauersberger
  
  Rudolf Mauersberger was a Germans choir director and composer who was born on 29 January 1889 in Mauersberg of Marienberg and died on 22 February 1971 in Dresden....
   (1889–1971), German choir director und composer, cantor of the Dresdner Kreuzchor
• Sir Adrian Boult (1889-1983), English conductor
• Erwin Schulhoff
  Erwin Schulhoff
  
  Erwin Schulhoff was a composer and pianist....
   (1894–1942), Czech composer and pianist
• Johannes Weyrauch (1897–1977), German composer
• Günther Ramin
  Günther Ramin
  
  G?nther Werner Hans Ramin was an influential German organist, Conductor , composer and pedagogue in the first half of the 20th century.Ramin, the son of a pastor, was born in Karlsruhe, Germany....
   (1898–1956), German organist, choir director and composer
• Wilhelm Weismann (1900–1980) German composer and musicologist
• Franz Konwitschny
  Franz Konwitschny
  
  Franz Konwitschny was a Germany Conducting and viola.He started his career on the viola, playing in the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra under Wilhelm Furtw?ngler....
   (1901–1962), German conductor
• Erhard Mauersberger (1903–1982), German organist, music teacher, cantor of the Thomanerchor
• Kurt Thomas
  Kurt Thomas
  
  Kurt Thomas is the name of:* Kurt Thomas , NBA player* Kurt Thomas , American gymnast...
   (1904–1973), German composer and choir director
• Hugo Distler
  Hugo Distler
  
  Hugo Distler was a German composer.He was born in Nuremberg and is known mostly for his church choral music. He attended Leipzig Conservatory first as a conducting student with piano as his secondary subject, but changing later, on the advice of his teacher, to composition and organ....
   (1907–1942), German composer and church musician
• Wolfgang Fortner
  Wolfgang Fortner
  
  Wolfgang Fortner was a Germany composer, composition teacher and conducting....
   (1907–1987), German composer, composition teacher and conductor
• Helmut Walcha
  Helmut Walcha
  
  Helmut Walcha was a blind Germany Organ who specialized in the works of the Dutch and German baroque masters and is known for his subtly interpreted and powerful recordings of the complete organ works of Johann Sebastian Bach....
   (1907–1991), German organist and harpsichordist
• Miklós Rózsa
  Miklós Rózsa
  
  Mikl?s R?zsa or Miklos Rozsa was a Hungary-born composer, best known for his film scores, most notably the score to the 1959 epic Ben-Hur ....
   (1907–1995), Hungarian American Hollywood film composer
• Robert Köbler (1912–1970), German university organist
• Martin Flämig (1913–1998), German choir director, protestant state-church music director, cantor of the Dresdner Kreuzchor
• Amadeus Webersinke
  Amadeus Webersinke
  
  Amadeus Webersinke was a Germany pianist and organist.He studied from 1938 to 1940 at the Institut f?r Kirchenmusik in Leipzig with Karl Straube, Johann Nepomuk David, and Otto Weinreich....
   (1920–2005), German pianist and organist
• Karl Richter
  Karl Richter
  
  Karl Richter was a Germany conducting, organist, and harpsichordist. He was born in Plauen and studied first in Dresden, where he was a member of the Dresdner Kreuzchor and later in Leipzig, where he received his degree in 1949....
   (1926–1981) German choir director, conductor, harpsichordist, organist
• Klaus Tennstedt
  Klaus Tennstedt
  
  Klaus Tennstedt was a Germany conductor from Merseburg. He studied violin and piano at the Leipzig Conservatory. He became concertmaster of the orchestra at the Halle Municipal Theatre in 1948....
   (1926–1998), German conductor
• Ruth Zechlin (1926–2007), German composer, organist
• Götz Friedrich
  Götz Friedrich
  
  G?tz Friedrich was a German opera and theatre director.He was a student and assistant of Walter Felsenstein at the Komische Oper Berlin in Berlin, where he went on to direct his early productions....
   (1930–2000), German director
• Ulrich Mühe
  Ulrich Mühe
  
  'Friedrich Hans Ulrich M?he' was a German film, television and theatre actor. He played the role of Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler in the Academy Awards-winning film The Lives of Others , for which he received the award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role, Gold, at Germany's most prestigious film awards, the Deutscher Filmpreis'...
   (1953–2007), German actor
• Gerhard Bosse (* 1922), German violinist and conductor
• Kurt Masur
  Kurt Masur
  
  Kurt Masur is a Germany conducting, particularly noted for his interpretation of German Romantic music....
   (* 1927), German conductor
• Karl-Heinz Kämmerling (* 1930), German piano teacher
• Siegfried Thiele (* 1934), German composer
• Harry Kupfer
  Harry Kupfer
  
  Harry Kupfer is a Germany List of opera directors known for his avant-garde productions of Richard Wagner, which often got him into trouble under the former communist regime of East Germany....
   (* 1935), German impresario
• Annerose Schmidt (* 1936), German pianist
• Peter Sodann
  Peter Sodann
  
  Peter Sodann is a Germany actor, director and politician. He is the The Left 's nominee for the German presidential election, 2009....
   (* 1936), German actor
• Christoph Schroth (* 1937), German director
• Ludwig Güttler (* 1943), German trumpeter
• Rosemarie Lang, German singer
• Jürnjakob Timm (* 1949), German cellist
• Freya Klier (* 1950) German author, director
• Georg Christoph Biller (* 1955), cantor of the Thomanerchor
• Ulrich Böhme (* 1956), German organist
• Matthias Eisenberg (* 1956), German organist
• Tom Pauls (* 1959), German actor and cabaret artist
• Steffen Schleiermacher
  Steffen Schleiermacher
  
  Steffen Schleiermacher is a Germany composer, pianist, and conducting.After studying at the Leipizig Music School with Siegfried Thiele, he continued working at this institute as a music theory and ear training assistant....
   (* 1960), German composer and pianist
• Michael Schönheit (* 1961), German organist and conductor
• Irina Pauls (* 1961), German choreographer
• Tobias Künzel (* 1964), German pop singer
• Frank-Michael Erben (* 1965), German violinist
• Ralf Stabel (* 1965), German theatre scholar/ dance scholar
• Sebastian Krumbiegel
  Sebastian Krumbiegel
  
  Sebastian Krumbiegel is a German singer and musician. He is a member of the a cappella band Die Prinzen.From 1976 to 1985 Krumbiegel attended the Thomasschule zu Leipzig where he took the Abitur examination in 1985....
   (* 1966), German pop singer
• Matthias Goerne
  Matthias Goerne
  
  Matthias Goerne is a Germany baritone.Born in Weimar, he studied with Hans-Joachim Beyer, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Elisabeth Schwarzkopf....
   (* 1967), German singer
• Nadja Uhl (* 1972), German actor

Notable faculty

• Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847), German composer, pianist and Music Director of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
  Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
  
  The Gewandhausorchester Leipzig is a famous German orchestra based in Leipzig, Germany. It is named after the concert hall in which it is based, the Gewandhaus ....
  
• Ferdinand David (1810-1873), German violin virtuoso and composer
• Johann Nepomuk David
  Johann Nepomuk David
  
  Johann Nepomuk David was an Austrian composer.He began his musical career in the monastery of Sankt Florian, and was a composition student of Joseph Marx....
   (1895-1977), Austrian composer
• Karl Davydov (1838-1889), Russian cellist
• Friedrich Grützmacher
  Friedrich Grützmacher
  
  Friedrich Wilhelm Gr?tzmacher was a noted Germany cellist in the second half of the 19th century.Gr?tzmacher was born in Dessau, Anhalt, and was first taught by his father....
   (1832-1903), German cellist
• Moritz Hauptmann
  Moritz Hauptmann
  
  Moritz Hauptmann , Germany composer and writer.He was born at Dresden, and studied violin under Scholz, piano under Franz Lanska, composition under Grosse and Francesco Morlacchi, the rival of Carl Maria von Weber....
   (1792-1868), German composer and writer
• Salomon Jadassohn
  Salomon Jadassohn
  
  Salomon Jadassohn was a Germany composer and pedagogue....
   (1831-1902), German composer
• Sigfrid Karg-Elert
  Sigfrid Karg-Elert
  
  Sigfrid Karg-Elert was a Germany composer of considerable fame in the early twentieth century, best known for his Choir works, lieder, chamber music and orchestral music, works for the piano, and especially his compositions for organ and harmonium....
   (1877-1933), German composer
• Julius Klengel
  Julius Klengel
  
  Julius Klengel was a Germany cello who is most famous for his etudes and solo pieces written for the instrument.Born in Leipzig the son of a lawyer, Klengel studied with Emil Hegar in his youth....
   (1859-1933), German cellist
• Kurt Masur
  Kurt Masur
  
  Kurt Masur is a Germany conducting, particularly noted for his interpretation of German Romantic music....
   (* 1927), Germann conductor
• Ignaz Moscheles
  Ignaz Moscheles
  
  Ignaz Moscheles was a Bohemian composer and piano virtuoso, whose career after his early years was based initially in London, and later at Leipzig, where he succeeded his friend and sometime pupil Felix Mendelssohn as head of the Conservatoire....
   (1794-1870), Bohemian composer and piano virtuoso
• Max Reger
  Max Reger
  
  Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger was a German composer, Conducting, pianist, organist, and teacher....
   (1863-1917), German composer, conductor, pianist and organist
• Carl Reinecke
  Carl Reinecke
  
  Carl Heinrich Carsten Reinecke was a Danemark composer, Conducting, and pianist....
   (1824-1910), Danish composer, conductor, and pianist
• Robert Schumann
  Robert Schumann
  
  Robert Schumann, sometimes given as Robert Alexander Schumann, was a German composer, aesthete and influential music critic. He is one of the most famous Romantic music composers of the 19th century....
   (1810-1856), German composer, aesthete and influential music critic
• Hans Sitt
  Hans Sitt
  
  Hans Sitt , was a Germany violinist, teacher, and composer. During his lifetime, he was regarded as one of the foremost teachers of violin. Most of the orchestras and conservatories of Europe and North America then sported personnel who numbered among his students....
   (1850-1922), German violinist and composer

Institute of Church Music

Administration

• 1843–1847: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809–1847)
• 1849–1881: Heinrich Conrad Schleinitz (1805–1881)
• 1881–1897: Otto Günther (1822–1897)
• 1897–1902: Carl Reinecke
  Carl Reinecke
  
  Carl Heinrich Carsten Reinecke was a Danemark composer, Conducting, and pianist....
   (1824–1910)
• 1902–1907: Arthur Nikisch
  Arthur Nikisch
  
  Arthur Nikisch was a Hungary conducting who performed mainly in Germany. He was considered an outstanding interpreter of the music of Anton Bruckner, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Liszt....
   (1855–1922)
• 1924–1932: Max Pauer (1866–1945)
• 1932–1942: Walther Davisson
  Walther Davisson
  
  Walther Davisson, a Germans violinist and Conductor , was born on December 15, 1885 in Frankfurt and died on July 18, 1973 in Bad Homburg, Germany....
   (1885–1973)
• 1942–1945: Johann Nepomuk David
  Johann Nepomuk David
  
  Johann Nepomuk David was an Austrian composer.He began his musical career in the monastery of Sankt Florian, and was a composition student of Joseph Marx....
   (1895–1977)
• 1945–1948: Heinrich Schachtebeck (1886–1965)
• 1948–1973: Rudolf Fischer
  Rudolf Fischer (musician)
  
  Rudolf Karl Fischer was a German pianist, pedagogue and rector at the Felix Mendelssohn College of Music and Theatre in Leipzig....
   (1913–2003)
• 1973–1984: Gustav Schmahl (* 1929)
• 1984–1987: Peter Herrmann (* 1941)
• 1987–1990: Werner Felix (1927–1998)
• 1990–1997: Siegfried Thiele (* 1934)
• 1997–2003: Christoph Krummacher (* 1949)
• 2003–2006: Konrad Körner (* 1941)
• 2006-        : Robert Ehrlich (* 1965)

Departments

Bologna process

Orchestra

Departments

• Faculty I
• Wind instrument
  Wind instrument
  
  A wind instrument is a musical instrument that contains some type of resonator , in which a column of air is set into vibration by the player blowing into a mouthpiece set at the end of the resonator....
  s and percussion instrument
  Percussion instrument
  
  A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound by being hit with an implement, shaken, rubbed, scraped, or by any other action which sets the object into vibration....
  s
• Conducting
  Conducting
  
  Conducting is the act of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. Orchestras, choirs, concert bands and other musical ensembles often have conductors....
   and correpetition
  Répétiteur
  
  R?p?titeur , repetitore , or Korrepetitor / Repetitor , originally from the French language verb r?p?ter meaning "to repeat, to go over, to learn, to rehearsal"....
  
• Singing
  Singing
  
  Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the human voice, which is often contrasted with regular speech. A person who sings is called a singer or vocalist....
   and musical theatre (e.g. opera
  Opera
  
  Opera is an Performing arts in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work which combines a text and a musical score. Opera is part of the Western classical music tradition....
  )
• String instrument
  String instrument
  
  A string instrument is a musical instrument that produces sound by means of vibrating strings. In the Hornbostel-Sachs scheme of musical instrument classification, used in organology, they are called chordophones....
  s and harp
  Harp
  
  The 'harp' is a stringed instrument which has the plane of its strings positioned perpendicular to the Sounding board. It is also considered to be a percussion instrument....
  
• Faculty II
• Early music
  Early music
  
  Early music is commonly defined as European classical music from the Medieval music and the Renaissance music.The Early Music Movement as a trend in history is the study and performance of music from composers before our own era and began in 1829 when Felix Mendelssohn conducted Johann Sebastian Bach's St Matthew Passion ....
  
• Piano
  Piano
  
  The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard instrument. Widely used in Western music for solo performance, ensemble use, chamber music, and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to musical composition and rehearsal....
  
• Musical composition
  Musical composition
  
  Musical composition is:* an original piece of music* the musical form of a musical piece* the process of creating a new piece of music...
   and music texture
  Texture (music)
  
  Texture is one of the basic elements of music. People use texture to describe the amount of rhythms played at a specific time. In music, texture also means the overall quality of sound of a piece , most often indicated by the number of melody in the music and by the relationship between these voices ....
  
• Musicology
  Musicology
  
  Musicology is the scholarly study of music. The word is used in narrow, broad and intermediate senses. In the narrow sense, musicology is confined to the music history of Western culture....
  , music education
  Music education
  
  Music education is a field of study associated with the teaching and learning of music. More than merely teaching notes and rhythms, music education seeks to develop the whole person....
   and languages
• School music education
• Church Music Institute
• Faculty III
• Dramaturgy
  Dramaturgy
  
  Dramaturgy is the art of dramatic composition and the representation of the main elements of drama on the stage. Some dramatists combine writing and dramaturgy when creating a drama....
  
• Jazz
  Jazz
  
  Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
  , pop music
  Pop music
  
  Pop music is a music genre that features a noticeable rhythmic element, melodies and hook , a mainstream style and a conventional structure.The term "pop music" was first used in 1926 in the sense of "having popular appeal" , but since the 1950s it has been used in the sense of a musical genre, originally characterized as a lighter alternat...
   and musical theater ("musical")
• Acting
  Acting
  
  Acting is the work of an actor or actress, which is a person in theatre, television, film, or any other storytelling medium who tells the story by portraying a Fictional character and, usually, Speech communication or singing the written text or Play ....
  

Students

Tuition Fees

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Partner Universities

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  Hogeschool Antwerpen
  Hogeschool Antwerpen
  
  Artesis Hogeschool Antwerpen is one of the major colleges of Flanders, the northern part of Belgium. It consists of many faculties, from Linguistics and Industrial Engineering to Teaching and Applied Computer Science....
  , Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel
  Koninklijk Conservatorium (Brussels)
  
  The Koninklijk Conservatorium is a drama and music college in Brussels, Belgium. An academy for acting and the arts, it has been attended by many of the top actors and actresses in Belgium such as Josse De Pauw, Luk van Mello and Luk De Konink....
  
• 
  Det Kongelige Danske Musikkonservatorium Kopenhagen, Rytmisk Musikkonservatorium Kopenhagen
  Rhythmic Music Conservatory
  
  The Rhythmic Music Conservatory is a music conservatoire in Copenhagen, Denmark. The RMC was founded in 1986 as an independent institution of Danish Higher Education under the Danish Danish Ministry of Culture and is the only school in Denmark specializing in contemporary music training programmes....
  , Vestjysk Musikkonservatorium Esbjerg
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  Eesti Muusikaakadeemia Tallinn
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  Sibelius-Akatemia Helsinki
  Sibelius Academy
  
  The Sibelius Academy is a university level music school which operates in Helsinki and Kuopio, Finland . The Academy is the only music university in Finland....
  , Finnland Helsinki Polytechnic Stadia
  Helsinki Polytechnic Stadia
  
  Helsinki Polytechnic Stadia is a multidisciplinary institution of higher education, one of the biggest and the most attractive polytechnic in Finland in 2005....
  
• 
  Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris
  Conservatoire de Paris
  
  The Conservatoire de Paris is a music college founded in 1795, based in Paris, France. It offers instruction in music and drama of the highest standards, drawing on the traditions of the "French School."...
  , Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Lyon, CRR Centre Georges-Gorses Boulogne Billancourt
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  Birmingham Conservatoire, Royal Academy of Music London
  Royal Academy of Music
  
  The Royal Academy of Music in London, England, is a college or university school of music, Britian's oldest degree-granting music school and a constituent college of the University of London since 1999....
  , Royal Northern College of Music Manchester
  Royal Northern College of Music
  
  The Royal Northern College of Music or RNCM is a music school in Manchester, England. It is located on Oxford Road in Manchester city centre, and is at the western edge of the campus of the University of Manchester....
  , Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Guildhall School of Music & Drama
  Guildhall School of Music and Drama
  
  Guildhall School of Music and Drama is an independent music school and drama school which was founded in 1880 in London, England.It is a well known conservatoire and one of the leading music and drama institutions in the world....
  
• 
  Cork Institute of Technology - Cork School of Music
  Cork School of Music
  
  CIT Cork School of Music is located in the center Cork , Republic of Ireland. The college was founded in 1878 and became a school of Cork Institute of Technology in 1993....
  
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  Conservatorio Statale di Musica „Luigi Cherubini“ Firenze, Conservatorio di Musica „Giuseppe Verdi“ di Milano
  Milan Conservatory
  
  The Milan Conservatory is a college of music which was established by a royal decree of 1807 in Milan, capital of the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy ....
  , Conservatorio di Musica "Alfredo Casella" L'Aquila, Accademia di Belli Arti di Palermo, Conservatorio di musica "F.A. Bonporti" Trento
• 
  Lietuvos muzikos akademija Vilnius
  Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre
  
  The Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre in Vilnius, Lithuania, is a state-supported College or university school of music that trains students in music, theatre, and multimedia arts....
  
• 
  Conservatorium van Amsterdam
  Conservatorium van Amsterdam
  
  The Conservatorium van Amsterdam is a music conservatory, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and it's the music faculty of the Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten....
  , Hanze University Groningen
  Prins Claus Conservatorium
  
  The Prins Claus Conservatorium is one of the nine conservatoires in the Netherlands. It is one of the schools of the Hanzehogeschool Groningen located in the city of Groningen ....
  , Koninklijk Conservatorium Den Haag
  Royal Conservatory of The Hague
  
  The Royal Conservatory of The Hague is a College or university school of music, providing higher education in music and dance, it is located in The Hague, Netherlands and one of the leading music institutions in the Netherlands....
  , Conservatorium Maastricht
  Conservatorium Maastricht
  
  The Conservatorium Maastricht is located in the city of Maastricht and is one of the nine College or university school of music in Netherlands....
  , Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht
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  Universitetet i Agder, Norges Musikkhøgskole Oslo
  Norwegian Academy of Music
  
  The Norwegian Academy of Music is a music conservatory located in Oslo, Norway, in the neighbourhood of Majorstuen, Frogner. It is the largest music academy in Norway and offers the country's highest level of music education....
  
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  Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Graz, Universität Mozarteum Salzburg
  Universität Mozarteum Salzburg
  
  In Salzburg, the Universit?t Mozarteum Salzburg, the University of Music and Dramatic Arts Mozarteum Salzburg honours the Austrian city's most famous son, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart....
  , Anton Bruckner Privatuniversität für Musik, Schauspiel und Tanz Linz
  Anton Bruckner Private University for Music, Drama, and Dance
  
  Anton Bruckner Private University for Music, Drama, and Dance is one of four university in Linz, the capital of Upper Austria. It has ca. 800 students and was granted accredited private university status in 2004 ....
  , Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien
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  Akademia Muzyczna Katowice
  University of Music in Katowice
  
  University of Music in Katowice is one of the leading musical schools in Poland. It is located in Katowice, Silesia. Some of its most notable graduate include Henryk G?recki, Wojciech Kilar, Krystian Zimerman, Krzysztof Jablonski, Andrzej Jasinski, Tadeusz Zmudzinski, Marcin Dylla....
  , Akademia Muzyczna w Krakowie
  Academy of Music in Kraków
  
  The Academy of Music in Krak?w is located in downtown Krak?w, Poland. It was first conceived as a College or university school of music in 1888 by Wladyslaw Zelenski , and is known as the alma mater of the contemporary Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki....
  , Akademia Muzyczna Poznan, Akademia Muzyczna im. Karola Lipinskiego we Wroclawiu
  Karol Lipinski University of Music
  
  Karol Lipinski University of Music is a university level school of music in Wroclaw, Poland....
  
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  Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa, Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espectáculo do Porto
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  Universitatea de Muzica din Bucuresti
  National University of Music Bucharest
  
  The National University of Music Bucharest is a university-level College or university school of music located in Bucharest, Romania. Established as a school of music in 1863 and reorganized as an academy in 1931, it has functioned as a public university since 2001....
  
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  Kungliga Musikhögskolan i Stockholm
  Royal College of Music, Stockholm
  
  The Royal College of Music, Stockholm is an institution of higher education in music, founded in 1771 as the conservatory of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. The conservatory was made independent of the Academy in 1971....
  , Musikhögskolan vid Göteborgs universitet, Musikhögskolan i Malmö
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  Conservatoire de Lausanne, Hochschule für Musik und Theater Zürich, Musikhochschule Lugano
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  Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya Barcelona
  Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya
  
  ESMUC - Escuela Superior de M?sica de Catalu?a or Escola Superior de M?sica de Catalunya - is a music school in Barcelona, Spain....
  , Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid
  Madrid Conservatory
  
  The Madrid Royal Conservatory is a music college in Madrid, Spain....
  , Conservatorio de Música de Salamanca, Conservatorio Superior de Música "Manuel Castillo" de Sevilla
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  Janáckova akademie múzických umení v Brne, Akademie múzických umení v Praze
  Academy of Performing Arts in Prague
  
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  Hacettepe Üniversitesi Ankara
  Ankara State Conservatory
  
  The Ankara State Conservatory, the first College or university school of music to be founded in the Turkey, was established in 1936 by a directive of Mustafa Kemal Atat?rk....
  
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  Liszt Ferenc Zenemuvészeti Egyetem
  Franz Liszt Academy of Music
  
  The Franz Liszt Academy of Music is a concert hall and music conservatory in Budapest, Hungary, founded on November 14, 1875. It is home to the Liszt Collection, which features several valuable books and manuscripts donated by Liszt upon his death, and the AVISO studio, a collaboration between the governments of Hungary and Japan to provid...
  

Further reading

In German

• Whistling, Karl W.: Statistik des Königl. Conservatoriums der Musik zu Leipzig 1843-1883. Aus Anlass des vierzigjährigen Jubiläums der Anstalt. Breitkopf & Härtel. Leipzig 1883.
• Das neue Königliche Konservatorium der Musik in Leipzig. Erbaut von Baurath Hugo Licht daselbst. Architektonische Rundschau. Leipzig 1886.
• Vogel, C. B.: Das Königliche Conservatorium der Musik zu Leipzig. Felix Schloemp. Leipzig 1888.
• Das Königliche Konservatorium der Musik zu Leipzig. 1843-1893. Königliches Konservatorium der Musik. Leipzig 1893.
• Königliches Konservatorium der Musik Leipzig: Festschrift zum 75-jährigen Bestehen des Königl. Konservatoriums der Musik zu Leipzig. Am 2. April 1918. Siegel Verlag. Leipzig 1918.
• Das Königliche Konservatorium der Musik zu Leipzig. 1893-1918. Königliches Konservatorium der Musik. Leipzig 1918.
• Landeskonservatorium der Musik zu Leipzig. 85. Studienjahr 1928/29. Eigenverlag. Leipzig 1928.
• Seidel, Christine: Namhafte Musiker als Musikerzieher am Konservatorium der Musik zu Leipzig von der Entstehung am 2. April 1843 bis zur Jahrhundertwende. Staatsexamensarbeit. Leipzig 1953.
• Hochschule für Musik Leipzig. Gegründet 1843 als Conservatorium der Musik von Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy. Herausgegeben anlässlich der Festwoche vom 17. bis 24. April 1955. Leipzig 1955.
• Wehnert, Martin (Hrsg.): Hochschule für Musik Leipzig. Gegründet als Conservatorium der Musik. 1843-1968. Leipzig 1968.
• Forner, Johannes: Mendelssohns Mitstreiter am Leipziger Konservatorium. Verlag Neue Musik. Berlin 1972.
• Forner, Johannes: 150 Jahre Musikhochschule 1843-1993. Hochschule für Musik und Theater Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Leipzig. Festschrift. Verlag für Kunst und Touristik. Leipzig 1993. ISBN 3-928-80220-8
• Zandt, Herman S.J.: Der Einfluß des Dessauer Musikinstitutes und des Leipziger Konservatoriums auf die niederländische (protestantische) Orgelkunst. Landesverb. Hagen 1993.
• Rosenmüller, Annegret: Zur Geschichte des Kirchenmusikalischen Institutes von der Gründung bis zur Wiedereröffnung 1992. Materialsammlung anhand von Akten des Archivs der Hochschule für Musik und Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy". Hochschule für Musik und Theater. Leipzig 1999.
• Goltz, Maren: Das Kirchenmusikalische Institut. Spuren einer wechselvollen Geschichte. Dokumentation der Ausstellung "Das Kirchenmusikalische Institut" im Rahmen der Wandelausstellung zum Bach-Jahr 2000 in Leipzig. Hochschule für Musik und Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy". Leipzig 2001. ISBN 3-930550-16-4
• 10 Jahre Fachrichtung Alte Musik. Festschrift. Rektor der Hochschule für Musik und Theater. Leipzig 2001.
• Reisaus, Joachim: Grieg und das Leipziger Konservatorium. Untersuchungen zur Persönlichkeit des norwegischen Komponisten Edvard Grieg unter besonderer Berücksichtigung seiner Leipziger Studienjahre. Eigenverlag. Norderstedt 2002. ISBN 3-8311-4069-3
• Nedzelskis, Adelbertas: Der litauische Künstler M. K. Ciurlionis in Leipzig. Der Studienaufenthalt des Meisters am Königlichen Konservatorium 1901-1902. Ed. Bodoni. Berlin 2003.
• Goltz, Maren: Studien zur Geschichte der Bibliothek der Hochschule für Musik und Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig von 1843 bis 1945 mit einem Ausblick bis zur Gegenwart. Hausarbeit. Berlin 2003.
• Krumbiegel, Martin: Hochschule für Musik und Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig. Eigenverlag. Leipzig 2004.
• Jäger, Andrea: Die Entwicklung eines Bestandserhaltungskonzeptes für den historischen Sonderbestand der Bibliothek der Hochschule für Musik und Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig. Diplomarbeit. Leipzig 2004.
• Wasserloos, Yvonne: Das Leipziger Konservatorium im 19. Jahrhundert. Anziehungs- und Ausstrahlungskraft eines musikpädagogischen Modells auf das internationale Musikleben. Georg Olms Verlag. Hildesheim 2004. ISBN 3-487-12598-6

In English

• Phillips, Leonard Milton Jr.: The Leipzig Conservatory 1843-1881. UMI Dissertation Publishing. Ann Arbor, Michigan 2001.

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