The State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart is a professional school for musicians and performing artists in Stuttgart,

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. Founded in 1857, it is one of the oldest schools of its kind in Germany.

History

The school was founded in 1857 as "Stuttgarter Musikschule" (Stuttgart music school) by Sigmund Lebert, Immanuel Faißt, Wilhelm Speidel and Ludwig Stark. It was named a conservatory in 1865. From 1869 it was named "Königliches Konservatorium für Musik" (Royal conservatory of music) of the

Kingdom of Württemberg The Kingdom of Württemberg (german: Königreich Württemberg ) was a German state that existed from 1805 to 1918, located within the area that is now Baden-Württemberg. The kingdom was a continuation of the Duchy of Württemberg, which exist ...

, and from 1921 "Württembergische Hochschule für Musik" (Württemberg university of music).

Notable teachers and students

* Iveta Apkalna * Nicola Bulfone *

Adelaide Casely-Hayford Adelaide Casely-Hayford, MBE (née Smith; 2 June 1868 – 24 January 1960), was a Sierra Leone Creole advocate, an activist of cultural nationalism, a teacher and fiction writer and a feminist. Committed to public service, she worked to improv ...

Cecil Coles Cecil Frederick Coles (7 October 1888 – 26 April 1918) was a Scottish composer who was killed on active service in World War I. Life and career Coles was born in Tongland, near Kirkcudbright, to Frederick Coles and Margaret Coles (née Bl ...

Johann Nepomuk David Johann Nepomuk David (30 November 1895 – 22 December 1977) was an Austrian composer. Life and career David was born in Eferding. He was a choirboy in the monastery of Sankt Florian and studied at an episcopal teacher training college in Linz, ...

Jörg Demus Jörg Wolfgang Demus (2 December 1928 – 16 April 2019) was an Austrian classical pianist who appeared internationally and made many recordings. He was also a composer and a lecturer at music academies. In composition and playing, he focused on ...

* Melanie Diener (born 1967), soprano * Árpád Doppler (1884–1927) * Jörg Faerber (1929–2022), conductor *

Sylvia Geszty Sylvia Geszty (born Sylvia Maria Ilona Wytkowsky; ; 28 February 1934 – 13 December 2018) was a Hungarian-German operatic coloratura soprano who appeared internationally, based first at the Staatsoper Berlin in East Berlin and from 1970 at the S ...

(1934–2018), soprano * Karl Ludwig Gerok (1906–1975), organist *

Percy Goetschius Percy Goetschius (August 10, 1853 – October 29, 1943) was an American music theorist and teacher who won international fame in the teaching of composition. Career Goetschius was born in Paterson, New Jersey. He was encouraged by Ureli Corel ...

(1873) *

Harry Plunket Greene Harry Plunket Greene (24 June 1865 – 19 August 1936) was an Irish baritone who was most famous in the formal concert and oratorio repertoire. He wrote and lectured on his art, and was active in the field of musical competitions and examinatio ...

* Hans Grischkat (1903–1977), church musician, professor *

Natalia Gutman Natalia Grigoryevna Gutman (russian: Наталья Григорьевна Гутман) (born 14 November 1942 in Kazan), PAU, is a Russian cellist. She began to study cello at the Moscow Music School with R. Sapozhnikov. She was later admitted t ...

, cellist * Joseph Haas (born 1916) * Eugen Haile (1873–1933), composer * Luise Jaide * Udo Kasemets * Maria Kalesnikava, Music teacher, political activist * Erhard Karkoschka * Gustav Kastropp * Edgar Stillman Kelley (1880) * Eun Sun Kim * Richard Rudolf Klein (1921–2011) *

Helmut Lachenmann Helmut Friedrich Lachenmann (born 27 November 1935) is a German composer of contemporary classical music. His work has been associated with "instrumental musique concrète". Life and works Lachenmann was born in Stuttgart and after the end ...

Nathan Laube Nathan J. Laube (born 1988) is an American organist. He is on the organ faculty at the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart, Germany. He was associate professor of Organ at the Eastman School of Music from 2013 to 2020. He is re ...

Kolja Lessing Kolja Lessing (born 15 October 1961) is a German violinist, pianist, composer and academic teacher. His focus as a soloist and chamber musician has been the neglected repertoire by composers who were ostracised under the Nazi regime. His recordin ...

(born 1961) *

Karl Marx Karl Heinrich Marx (; 5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist, critic of political economy, and socialist revolutionary. His best-known titles are the 1848 ...

Barry McDaniel Barry McDaniel (October 18, 1930 – June 18, 2018) was an American operatic baritone who spent his career almost exclusively in Germany, including 37 years at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. He appeared internationally at major opera houses and f ...

(1930–2018) * Elke Neidhardt (1941–2013) *

Lauren Newton Lauren Amber Newton (born 16 November 1952) is an avant-garde jazz and contemporary classical singer and founding member of the Vienna Art Orchestra. Biography Newton earned a degree in music at the University of Oregon. In 1974 she moved to E ...

(1974) *

Anja Petersen Anja Petersen (''née'' Metzger) is a German operatic soprano and university lecturer. She works as a soloist in opera and concert, and as a member of the RIAS Kammerchor. She has appeared in world premieres in both opera and concert, including ...

* Marlis Petersen * Felix Petyrek * Dionys Pruckner * Sigurd Rascher *

Hermann Reutter Hermann Reutter (; 17 June 19001 January 1985) was a German composer and pianist who worked as an academic teacher, university administrator, recitalist, and accompanist. He composed several operas, orchestral works, and chamber music, and especi ...

Harald Schmidt Harald Franz Schmidt (born 18 August 1957) is a German actor, comedian, television presenter and writer best known as the host of two popular German late-night shows. Early and private life A son of refugees who fled from Sudetenland (now Cz ...

Benyamin Sönmez Benyamin Sönmez (January 16, 1983 – November 30, 2011) was a Turkish classical cellist. Early years and family Benyamin was born to Turkish parents in Bremen, Germany. His father went in the 1970s to Germany as a tourist taking his musical i ...

Ewandro Stenzowski Ewandro Stenzowski (born September 27, 1984) is a Brazilian operatic tenor and veteran of the Brazilian Marine Corps. He appeared in concerts and leading tenor roles in South America and Europe. Biography Ewandro Cruz Stenzowski was born in C ...

(born 1984) * Marco Stroppa *

Hermann Suter Hermann Suter (28 April 1870 – 22 June 1926) was a Swiss composer and conductor. Biography Born in Kaiserstuhl, Aargau, Suter studied in the conservatories at Basel, Stuttgart and Leipzig, under Hans Huber and Carl Reinecke. He was an orga ...

* Ernest Torrence * Kathe Volkart-Schlager * Michael Volle (born 1960) *

Karl Wendling Karl/Carl Wendling ( entling (10 August 1875, Strasbourg – 27 March 1962, Stuttgart) was a German violinist and musical educator. He studied in his hometown with Heinrich Schuster and , and later in Berlin with Carl Halir and Joseph Joachi ...

(born 1929) *

Florian Wiek Born in 1972, Florian Wiek was scholarship-holder of Villa Musica in Mainz from 1994 to 1997 where he performed chamber music with leading German musicians like Thomas Brandis, Ida Bieler, Martin Ostertag, Wolfgang Gaag and Rainer Moog. Toget ...

(born 1972) * Yehuda Yannay * Karl Maria Zwißler

Library

The university library currently consists of 18,000 books, 80,000 scores and 9,000 recordings.

References

External links

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Official website in English
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