Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg

Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg
Established 1872
Type Public
Location Nuremberg, Germany

The Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg (also known as the Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg, formerly Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg-Augsburg) is a music conservatoire based in Nuremberg (with a secondary building in Augsburg), Germany.

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The Hochschule

The Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg is the result of the merging of the Meistersinger-Konservatoriums in Nuremberg and the Leopold-Mozart-Konservatorium in Augsburg in 1998.[1] The Meistersinger-Konservatorium dates back from 1821 when Johannes Scharrer founded a the Städtische Singschule, which later became the State Music School (1883) and from 1972 as the "Fachakademie für Musik und Meistersinger-Konservatorium".

The courses

The hochschule offers degrees and postgraduate qualifications in all orchestral instruments, jazz, popular music, singing, opera, music education, conducting and composition.[1]

Notable alumni and faculty

This is a partial list of present and former staff and alumni.

References

  1. ^ a b "The History of the Nuremberg School of Music". http://www.hfm-n-a.de/metanavigation/english.htm. Retrieved 16 May 2010.