Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler

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The Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" (College or Academy of Music "Hanns Eisler") is one of the leading music conservatories in Germany. It was established in East Berlin in 1950 as the Deutsche Hochschule für Musik (German College of Music) because the older Hochschule für Musik Berlin (now the Berlin University of the Arts) was in West Berlin. After the death of one of its first professors, composer Hanns Eisler, the school was renamed in his honor in 1964. Located in Berlin's famed Gendarmenmarkt, the college has an international faculty and programs in performance, composition, voice, conducting, jazz and popular music, arts management, musical theater, stage direction and music theory. Also notable are its institutes for new music and musicians' health.