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Musikhochschule Augsburg
The Leopold Mozart Centre (German: (LMZ) in Augsburg, Germany, is a university of music, founded as part of the University of Augsburg in 2008. It is located in the buildings of the former Musikhochschule as well as buildings on the university campus. The Leopold Mozart Centre was founded after the model of the Hochschule für Musik Mainz as part of the University of Mainz. It is focused on the interchange of music and science, offering music pedagogy, music therapy, mental training and improvisation, among others. The centre offers the common artistic and pedagogical bachelor and master courses such as string instruments, keyboard instruments, voice, wind instruments, percussion, conducting and musicology. All studies include elementary courses in psychology, sociology and political studies. The Collegium Musicum offers possibilities of music making in groups such as the orchestra, choir, chamber choir, big band, and various chamber music ensembles. Alumni Alumni include tho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Augsburg
The University of Augsburg () is a university located in the Universitätsviertel section of Augsburg, Germany. It was founded in 1970 and is organized in 8 Faculties. The University of Augsburg is a relatively young campus university with approx. 18,000 students in October 2012. About 14% of its students come from foreign countries, a larger percentage than at comparable German universities. In October 2011 Sabine Doering Manteuffel succeeded Alois Loidl as rector of the university. She is the first female rector of a Bavarian university. Organisation The university is divided into 8 faculties: * Faculty of Economics and Business (founded 1970) * Faculty of Law (founded 1971) * Faculty of Catholic Theology (founded 1971) * Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences (founded 1972) * Faculty of History and Philology (founded 1972) * Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences (founded 1981) * Faculty oApplied Computer Science(founded 2003) * Faculty of Medicine (founded 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georg Ludwig Jochum
Georg Ludwig Jochum (sometimes hyphenated as Georg-Ludwig Jochum) (10 December 1909 – 1 November 1970) was a German conductor and younger brother of better-known conductor Eugen Jochum. He was born in Babenhausen near Augsburg, Germany. After studies in Munich, in 1932 he was appointed General Music Director of the city of Münster. This made him the youngest orchestral chief in Germany. ''"Zum letzten Musikdirektor vor der nationalsozialistischen Machtübernahme wurde 1932 der 1909 in Babenhausen geborene Dirigent Georg Ludwig Jochum ernannt. Dieser hatte in München studiert und fand als Musikdirektor in der westfälischen Provinzialhauptstadt seine erste große Anstellung. Jochum war zu dieser Zeit der jüngste Generalmusikdirektor Deutschlands."'' Like his brother, he is especially associated with the music of Anton Bruckner. His recording of Bruckner's Symphony No. 2, released in 1944, was the first recording of this work available on records. He died in Mülheim, Ger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Educational Institutions Established In 2008
Education is the transmission of knowledge and skills and the development of character traits. Formal education occurs within a structured institutional framework, such as public schools, following a curriculum. Non-formal education also follows a structured approach but occurs outside the formal schooling system, while informal education involves unstructured learning through daily experiences. Formal and non-formal education are categorized into levels, including early childhood education, primary education, secondary education, and tertiary education. Other classifications focus on teaching methods, such as teacher-centered and student-centered education, and on subjects, such as science education, language education, and physical education. Additionally, the term "education" can denote the mental states and qualities of educated individuals and the academic field studying educational phenomena. The precise definition of education is disputed, and there are disagreements ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edith Wiens
Edith Wiens Order of Canada, OC (born 9 June 1950) is a Canadian opera, recital and concert singer with a soprano voice. Early life and education Wiens, daughter of a Mennonite pastor, grew up in Vancouver where she finished high school at the age of 16. She studied theology and church music at Columbia Bible College in Clearbrook. At age 20 she received a bursary to study singing in Hannover, Germany. She went on to Oberlin Conservatory of Music to study with Richard Miller (singer), Richard Miller. She received her Bachelor of Music, Bachelor and Master of Music degrees here. Career Her international career started in 1980 when the Berlin Philharmonic engaged her. This collaboration extended to well over 30 concerts with that orchestra. She has worked with well known conductors like Daniel Barenboim, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Kurt Masur, Seiji Ozawa, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Klaus Tennstedt and Sir Georg Solti. Wiens had her operatic debut in 1986 at the Glyndebourne Festival as Don ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rudi Spring
Rudi Spring (born 17 March 1962) is a German composer of classical music, pianist and academic. He is known for vocal compositions on texts by poets and his own, and for chamber music such as his three Chamber Symphonies. Career Born in Lindau, Rudi Spring received piano instructions from Alfred Kuppelmayer (1918–1977), starting in 1971. He studied chamber music in 1978 in Bregenz with Heinrich Schiff, with whom he also played in concert. He studied at the Musikhochschule München from 1981 to 1986 composition with Wilhelm Killmayer and Heinz Winbeck, and piano with Karl-Hermann Mrongovius. He composed songs and song cycles, inspired by poems of Heinrich Heine, Hermann Lenz, including ''Galgenliederbuch'' (after Christian Morgenstern, four volumes), ''Nero lässt grüßen'' (song cycle after Martin Walser's monodram), ''So nah in der Ferne'' (song cycle after poems of Wolfgang Bächler), ''Liederfolge für mittlere Singstimme und Klavier'' after poems of August Stramm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heinrich Kaspar Schmid
Heinrich Kaspar Schmid (11 September 1874 – 8 January 1953) was a German composer. Biography Schmid was born at Landau. As a boy he studied music with his father who was a school teacher and choral conductor. He also sang in the boys choir at Regensburg Cathedral for several years. He entered the Munich Akademie der Tonkunst where he studied composition with Ludwig Thuille. In 1905 he was appointed to teach at the Munich Academy and in 1919 was promoted to a full professor. After World War I, Schmid entered a highly successful part of his career both as a performer and composer. He toured throughout Austria, Scandinavia, and Russia. In 1921 he became director of the Karlsruhe Conservatory and assumed the directorship of the Augsburg Music School ow Conservatoryin 1924. He retired from academic work in 1932. He died at Geiselbullach, near Munich, in 1953. Work Stylistically, Schmid's compositions were more in keeping with the late-Romantics than with 20th-century ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emmy Lisken
Emmy Lisken (3 February 1923 in Moers – 11 October 2020 in Berlin) was a German contralto in opera and concert. Career Born in Moers, Lisken studied voice at the Konservatorium Düsseldorf with Franziska Martienssen-Lohmann. She was engaged from 1955 at the Theater Basel and the Cologne Opera. In Cologne, she participated in 1957 in the premiere of Wolfgang Fortner's '' Bluthochzeit'' in the role of Leonardo's Wife. A live recording of the premiere was issued 50 years later. From 1958 she worked mainly as a concert and oratorio singer, performing in European countries and at international festivals such as Festival du Marais in Paris. She recorded compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach with conductors such as Wolfgang Gönnenwein, Helmut Kahlhöfer, Hans Thamm, and others. Lisken was a voice teacher at the Leopold-Mozart Konservatorium in Augsburg from 1976 to 1998. Her daughter Annette Seiltgen Annette Seiltgen (born 26 June 1964 in Wuppertal) is a German operatic mez ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz Kelch
Franz Kelch (1 November 19155 June 2013) was a German bass-baritone lied and oratorio singer. His discography includes works of Johann Sebastian Bach, Dieterich Buxtehude, George Frideric Handel, and Claudio Monteverdi. Biography Franz Kelch was born in Bayreuth. He started voice training in difficult times in 1937 with Henriette Klink in Nürnberg after mandatory military service. He had to interrupt his studies with the outbreak of World War II. After he returned from a prisoner-of-war-camp, he started teaching and singing for the Bayerischer Rundfunk (Bavarian broadcast) in programs of early music and new works of Munich composers such as Joseph Haas, Hermann Zilcher or Wolfgang Jacobi. In 1948, Franz Kelch was the soloist for '' A German Requiem'' of Brahms with the Münchner Philharmoniker, then Bach's '' Mass in B minor'' with the Heinrich-Schütz-Kreis conducted by Michael Schneider, and Beethoven's '' 9th Symphony'' with the Bamberger Symphoniker and Joseph Keil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorenzo Ghielmi
Lorenzo Ghielmi (born in Milan on 1 September 1959) is an Italian organist and harpsichordist. He teaches old music at the ''Accademia Internazionale della Musica'' in Milan and at the " Schola Cantorum Basiliensis" in Basel. He was professor in Trossingen and at the ''Hochschule für Musik'' in Lübeck too. Ghielmi also played with Ensemble Il Giardino Armonico (in the first recordings). Ghielmi combines his concert activities with a Musicology Musicology is the academic, research-based study of music, as opposed to musical composition or performance. Musicology research combines and intersects with many fields, including psychology, sociology, acoustics, neurology, natural sciences, .... He has published works by Girolamo Frescobaldi. External links Bach-cantatas.com* Italian harpsichordists Italian classical organists Italian male classical organists Italian performers of early music Academic staff of Schola Cantorum Basiliensis Living people Place of bir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frieder Bernius
Frieder Bernius (born 22 June 1947) is a German conductor, the founder and director of the chamber choir Kammerchor Stuttgart, founded in 1968. They became leaders for historically informed performances. He founded the Stuttgart festival of Baroque music, Internationale Festtage Alter Musik, in 1987, and is a recipient of the Edison Award (1990), Diapason d'Or (1990) and the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1993). Career Frieder Bernius was born in Ludwigshafen-Oppau, the second child of the Protestant minister Helmut Bernius and his wife Inge, a church musician. After his Abitur at the Karl-Friedrich-Gymnasium in Mannheim he studied music and musicology at the Musikhochschule Stuttgart and at the University of Tübingen. In 1968, his first year at the Musikhochschule, he founded the Kammerchor Stuttgart (Stuttgart chamber choir). They first concentrated on a cappella music of the 19th and 20th century, but expanded their repertoire. Since 1977, Bernius has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julius Berger (cellist)
Julius Berger (born 1954) is a German cellist, musicologist and an academic of chamber music and cello at the Leopold Mozart Centre of the Augsburg University. He recorded the sonatas and concertos by Luigi Boccherini, but also contemporary music by John Cage, Toshio Hosokawa, Adriana Hölszky and Sofia Gubaidulina. He is the artistic director of music festivals. Career Born in Augsburg, Berger studied at the Musikhochschule München with Walter Reichardt and Fritz Kiskalt, then at the Mozarteum in Salzburg with Antonio Janigro, before becoming his assistant from 1979 to 1982. He studied further at the University of Cincinnati with Zara Nelsova, and in a master class of Mstislav Rostropovich. He was appointed professor at the Musikhochschule Würzburg at age 28, as one of Germany's youngest professors at the time. From 1992, he has held a class at the Internationale Sommerakademie Mozarteum Salzburg. Berger is focused on the rediscovery of the complete works by Luig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irmgard Seefried
Irmgard Seefried (9 October 191924 November 1988) was a distinguished German soprano who sang opera, sacred music, and lieder. Maria Theresia Irmgard Seefried was born in , near Mindelheim, Bavaria, Germany, the daughter of educated Austrian-born parents. She studied at Augsburg University before making her debut in Aachen as the priestess in Verdi's '' Aida'' in 1940. She began to sing leading parts in 1942 (Agathe in Weber's '' Der Freischütz'' in 1942, and the next year she made her debut at Vienna State Opera with Eva in Wagner's '' Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg'' conducted by Karl Böhm). From then on, she remained with the State Opera until her retirement in 1976. She sang at the Salzburg Festival every year from 1946 to 1964 (except 1955, 1961 and 1962) in operas (Susanna in '' The Marriage of Figaro'', Fiordiligi in ''Così fan tutte'', Zerlina in ''Don Giovanni'', Pamina in '' The Magic Flute'', Marzelline in '' Fidelio'' and the Composer in '' Ariadne au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
