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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

Preparation for Music Studies

Music Education for Youth and the Talented

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 in Frankfurt am Main was founded September 22, 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.

Today Dr. Hoch's Conservatory offers instruction in the Music Education for Youth and the Talented (ANA) 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, compostion, performance, and Elementary Music Pedagogy.

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. 100 DM bill Reverse 100 DM bill Front

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Chronology

Clara Schumann, in 1878, taught at the Hoch Conservatory 1878-1892
Saalhof ca. 1900: Home of the Hoch Conservatory 1878-88
Philanthropin Frankfurt: Home of the Hoch Conservatory 1978-2005
  • 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 Bausznern 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 Jazz classes in Europe under the direction of Matyás 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. 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.
  • 1978: Move to Philanthropin, a former jewish School in Frankfurt.
  • 1979: Frank Stähle becomes director (until 2007). Under his direction the Conservatory is restructured and again becomes an institute for training professional musicians.
  • 2002: The Hoch Conservatory is given the status of a music academy.
  • 2005: Move to the newly built Education Center Ostend.
  • 2007: Werner Wilde is provisional director for one year, after which Mario Liepe is appointed director in 2008.

Directors

The first director: Joachim Raff in 1878

Famous Teachers

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

Famous Students

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

Questionable for the lists: Famous Teachers and Students

(More research is needed)

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

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