The University of Music and Theatre "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig () is a

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Leipzig Leipzig (, ; ; Upper Saxon: ; ) is the most populous city in the States of Germany, German state of Saxony. The city has a population of 628,718 inhabitants as of 2023. It is the List of cities in Germany by population, eighth-largest city in Ge ...

Saxony Saxony, officially the Free State of Saxony, is a landlocked state of Germany, bordering the states of Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, and Bavaria, as well as the countries of Poland and the Czech Republic. Its capital is Dresden, and ...

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. Founded in 1843 by

Felix Mendelssohn Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (3 February 18094 November 1847), widely known as Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic music, Romantic period. Mendelssohn's compositions inc ...

as the Conservatorium der Musik (Conservatory of Music), it is the oldest university school of music in Germany. The institution includes the traditional Church Music Institute founded in 1919 by

Karl Straube Montgomery Rufus Karl Siegfried Straube (6 January 1873 – 27 April 1950) was a German church musician, organist, and choral conductor, famous above all for championing the abundant organ music of Max Reger. Career Born in Berlin, Straube stu ...

(1873–1950). The music school was renamed ″Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy″ after its founder in 1972. In 1992, it incorporated the Theaterhochschule "Hans Otto" Leipzig. Since the beginning there was a tight relationship between apprenticeship and practical experience with the

Gewandhaus Gewandhaus () is a concert hall in Leipzig, the home of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. Today's hall is the third to bear this name; like the second, it is noted for its fine acoustics. History The first Gewandhaus (''Altes Gewandhaus'') The ...

and the

Oper Leipzig The Leipzig Opera () is an opera house and opera company located at the Augustusplatz and the Inner City Ring Road at its east side in Leipzig's district Mitte, Germany. History Performances of opera in Leipzig trace back to Singspiel perfo ...

, as well as theaters in

Chemnitz Chemnitz (; from 1953 to 1990: Karl-Marx-Stadt (); ; ) is the third-largest city in the Germany, German States of Germany, state of Saxony after Leipzig and Dresden, and the fourth-largest city in the area of former East Germany after (East Be ...

(''

Theater Chemnitz Theater Chemnitz is a German municipal theater organization based in Chemnitz. Performances of opera, ballet, plays, symphonic concerts, and puppet theater take place in its three main venues: * ''Opernhaus Chemnitz'' (for opera, ballet and musica ...

''),

Dresden Dresden (; ; Upper Saxon German, Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; , ) is the capital city of the States of Germany, German state of Saxony and its second most populous city after Leipzig. It is the List of cities in Germany by population, 12th most p ...

('' Staatsschauspiel Dresden''), Halle (''Neues Theater Halle''),

(''Schauspiel Leipzig'') and

Weimar Weimar is a city in the state (Germany), German state of Thuringia, in Central Germany (cultural area), Central Germany between Erfurt to the west and Jena to the east, southwest of Leipzig, north of Nuremberg and west of Dresden. Together w ...

(''Deutsches Nationaltheater in Weimar''). The university of music and theater is one of 365 places chosen in 2009 by the

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and the ''Office of the Representative of German Industry and Trade'' for the campaign ''Germany – Land of Ideas''.

History

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, the composer and Music Director of the Gewandhaus Orchestra, founded a Conservatory in the city of Leipzig on 2 April 1843. It was financed by a senior civil servant of the

Kingdom of Saxony The Kingdom of Saxony () was a German monarchy in Central Europe between 1806 and 1918, the successor of the Electorate of Saxony. It joined the Confederation of the Rhine after the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire, later joining the German ...

, the Oberhofgerichtsrat Heinrich Blümner (1765–1839), who provided King Frederick Augustus II of Saxony with 20,000

Thaler A thaler or taler ( ; , previously spelled ) is one of the large silver coins minted in the states and territories of the Holy Roman Empire and the Habsburg monarchy during the Early Modern period. A ''thaler'' size silver coin has a diameter o ...

. The music school's home was in the first

(in the Gewandgäßchen/Universitätsstraße street at the city center, today the city's department store is based there). The musicians of the Orchestra were obligated to act as teaching staff, a tradition that was unbroken until

German reunification German reunification () was the process of re-establishing Germany as a single sovereign state, which began on 9 November 1989 and culminated on 3 October 1990 with the dissolution of the East Germany, German Democratic Republic and the int ...

in 1990.

In 1876 the school got permission to change its name to ''Königliches Konservatorium der Musik zu Leipzig'', Royal Conservatory of Music of Leipzig. The new premises at Grassistraße 8 were inaugurated on 5 December 1887. They were built 1885–1887 by the architect Hugo Licht in the music quarter of Leipzig, south-west of the city center. The benefactor was the pathologist Justus Radius. Not until 1924 was the Royal Conservatory renamed into Landeskonservatorium der Musik zu Leipzig, six years after the fall of the Kingdom of Saxony. Treppenhaus HMT Leipzig

In the summer term of 1938, 343 male students were enrolled at the Landeskonservatorium. This made the Conservatory the fourth biggest music school in the

German Reich German ''Reich'' (, from ) was the constitutional name for the German nation state that existed from 1871 to 1945. The ''Reich'' became understood as deriving its authority and sovereignty entirely from a continuing unitary German ''Volk'' ("na ...

after the Universität der Künste

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(633 students), the music school of

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(406 students) and the school for music and theater of

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(404 students). The Austrian composer Johann Nepomuk David (1895–1977) was the school's director from 1939 until 1945. The school was again renamed 8 June 1941 to ''Staatliche Hochschule für Musik, Musikerziehung und darstellende Kunst'', Public College for music, musical education and performing arts. In 1944 the school remained closed due to the

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. Once again, the school was renamed 1 October 1946 to Mendelssohn Academy and 4 November 1972, on the occasion of its founders name, to ''Hochschule für Musik Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy'', Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy College of Music. The Saxon University Constitution Law (''Sächsische Hochschulstrukturgesetz'') of 10 April 1992 confirmed the College of Music to Leipzig and expanded it with the annexation of the Hans Otto College of Theatre (Germany's first College of Theatre) to form the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy : the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy College of Music and Theatre. The new Great Hall was inaugurated 2001 and 2004 awarded by the ''Bund Deutscher Architekten'', a German architects union. The college's second premises were opened 2002 and there's an orchestra academy in co-operation with the Gewandhausorchestra since 2004 in order to support top musicians.

Names

* 1843–1876: Conservatorium der Musik * 1876–1924: Königliches Konservatorium der Musik zu Leipzig * 1924–1941: Landeskonservatorium der Musik zu Leipzig * 1941–1944: Staatliche Hochschule für Musik, Musikerziehung und darstellende Kunst * 1946–1972: Staatliche Hochschule für Musik – Mendelssohn-Akademie * 1972–1992: Hochschule für Musik "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" * 1992–: Hochschule für Musik und Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig

Notable people

Notable alumni

This is an assortment of notable alumni: (See also :University of Music and Theatre Leipzig alumni) * Gonzalo Brenes (1907–2003), Panamanian composer, musicologist, music educator, civil servant, and politician * Emil Büchner (1826–1908), German conductor and bandmaster *

Friedrich Baumfelder Friedrich August Wilhelm Baumfelder (28 May 1836 – 8 September 1916 in Dresden) was a German composer of classical music, Conducting, conductor, and pianist. He started in the Leipzig Conservatory, and went on to become a well-known compose ...

(1836–1916), German conductor, composer, and pianist * Jakob Grün (1837–1916), Austrian violinist * Sir Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900), English composer * Mykola Lysenko (1842–1912), Ukrainian composer, pianist and music educator *

Edvard Grieg Edvard Hagerup Grieg ( , ; 15 June 18434 September 1907) was a Norwegian composer and pianist. He is widely considered one of the leading Romantic music, Romantic era composers, and his music is part of the standard classical repertoire worldwid ...

(1843–1907), Norwegian composer *

Hugo Riemann Karl Wilhelm Julius Hugo Riemann (18 July 1849 – 10 July 1919) was a German musicologist and composer who was among the founders of modern musicology. The leading European music scholar of his time, he was active and influential as both a mus ...

(1849–1919), German music theorist, music historian, music educator and music lexicographer * Émile Sauret (1852–1920), French violin virtuoso and composer. * Johannes Helstone (1853–1927), Surinamese composer, pianist and writer. * George Whitefield Chadwick (1854–1931), American composer, of the ' Second New England School' *

Leoš Janáček Leoš Janáček (, 3 July 1854 – 12 August 1928) was a Czech composer, Music theory, music theorist, Folkloristics, folklorist, publicist, and teacher. He was inspired by Moravian folk music, Moravian and other Slavs, Slavic music, includin ...

(1854–1928), Czech composer *

Paul Klengel Paul Klengel (13 May 1854 – 24 April 1935) was a Germans, German violinist, Viola, violist, Piano, pianist, Conducting, conductor, composer, editor and arranger. He was the brother of Cello, cellist Julius Klengel. Biography Klengel was born a ...

(1854–1935), German violinist, pianist, composer * Fritz Steinbach (1855–1916), German conductor * Richard Sahla (1855–1931) Austrian violin virtuoso, conductor and composer * Christian Sinding (1856–1941), Norwegian composer * Ethel Smyth (1858–1944), English composer * Bertha Tapper (1859–1915), Norwegian pianist and editor *

Isaac Albéniz Isaac Manuel Francisco Albéniz y Pascual (; 29 May 1860 – 18 May 1909) was a Spanish virtuoso pianist, composer, and conductor. He is one of the foremost composers of the post-romantic era who also had a significant influence on his con ...

(1860–1909), Spanish composer and pianist * Joseph Hirschbach (1860–1897), Musical Director, Tivoli Opera House, San Francisco *

Frederick Delius file:Fritz Delius (1907).jpg, Delius, photographed in 1907 Frederick Theodore Albert Delius (born Fritz Theodor Albert Delius; ; 29 January 1862 – 10 June 1934) was an English composer. Born in Bradford in the north of England to a prospero ...

(1862–1934), English composer *

Ferruccio Busoni Ferruccio Busoni (1 April 1866 – 27 July 1924) was an Italian composer, pianist, conductor, editor, writer, and teacher. His international career and reputation led him to work closely with many of the leading musicians, artists and literary ...

(1866–1924), Italian pianist and composer * Leota Henson (1866-1955), American piano accompanist for the Fisk Jubilee Singers * Felix von Weingartner (1863–1942), Austrian conductor, composer, pianist and writer * Anna Diller Starbuck (1868-1929) composer and pianist * Alfred Hill (1869–1960), Australian composer, conductor and teacher * Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (1875-1911), Lithuanian composer and painter * Sofie Rohnstock (1875-1964), Austrian composer * Sigfrid Karg-Elert (1877–1933), German composer * Gertrude Förstel (1880–1950), studied piano, but was remembered as soprano * Carl Adolf Martienssen (1881–1955), German pianist and music educator * Wilhelm Backhaus (1884–1969), German pianist * Juozas Gruodis (1884-1948), Lithuanian composer and conductor *

Leo Funtek Leo Funtek (August 21, 1885 – January 13, 1965) was a Slovenian violinist, conductor and arranger. He is best known for work as a music professor and for his 1922 arrangement of Modest Mussorgsky's piano suite '' Pictures at an Exhibition''. ...

(1885–1965), violinist, conductor, arranger and music professor *

Hermann Keller Hermann Keller (20 November 1885 – 17 August 1967) was a German Protestant church musician and musicologist. Life Born in Stuttgart the son of an architect, he followed his father's profession by also studying architecture in Stuttgart and Mun ...

(1885–1967), German church musician und musicologist *

Didia Saint Georges Maria Alexandra Saint Georges (24 September 1888 – 1979) was a Romanian composer, accompanist and pianist who was known as Didia Saint Georges. She won the Enescu Prize competition twice and knew George Enescu well. Life Saint Georges was born ...

(1888-1979), Romanian composer * Rudolf Mauersberger (1889–1971), German choir director und composer, cantor of the Dresdner Kreuzchor * Sir Adrian Boult (1889–1983), English conductor *

Erwin Schulhoff Erwin Schulhoff (; 8 June 189418 August 1942) was an Austro-Czech composer and pianist. He was one of the figures in the generation of European musicians whose successful careers were prematurely terminated by the rise of the Nazi regime in Germ ...

(1894–1942), Czech composer and pianist * Johannes Weyrauch (1897–1977), German composer * Günther Ramin (1898–1956), German organist, choir director and composer * Wilhelm Weismann (1900–1980) German composer and musicologist *

Franz Konwitschny Franz Konwitschny (14 August 1901, Fulnek, Moravia – 28 July 1962, Belgrade) was a German conductor and violist of Moravian descent. Biography Konwitschny came from a family of musicians. From 1920 to 1923 he took violin lessons at the Academ ...

(1901–1962), German conductor * Erhard Mauersberger (1903–1982), German organist, music teacher, cantor of the Thomanerchor * Kurt Thomas (1904–1973), German composer and choir director * Hugo Distler (1907–1942), German composer and church musician *

Wolfgang Fortner Wolfgang Fortner (12 October 1907 – 5 September 1987) was a German composer, academic composition teacher and conductor. Life and career Fortner was born in Leipzig. From his parents, who were both singers, Fortner very early on had intense ...

(1907–1987), German composer, composition teacher and conductor * Helmut Walcha (1907–1991), German organist and harpsichordist *

Miklós Rózsa Miklós Rózsa (; April 18, 1907 – July 27, 1995) was a Hungarian-American composer trained in Germany (1925–1931) and active in France (1931–1935), the United Kingdom (1935–1940), and the United States (1940–1995), with extensi ...

(1907–1995), Hungarian American Hollywood film composer * Anne Macnaghten (1908–2000), British violinist and pedagogue *

Herman Berlinski Herman Berlinski (18 August 1910 – 27 September 2001) was a German-born American composer, organist, pianist, Musicology, musicologist and choir conducting, conductor. Life Family background; early upbringing Before he was born, Herman Berlins ...

(1910–2001), German-born American composer, organist, pianist, musicologist and choir conductor * Sina Berlinski née Goldfein (1910–2011), German-born American pianist and piano teacher * Robert Köbler (1912–1970), German university organist * Martin Flämig (1913–1998), German choir director, Protestant state-church music director, cantor of the Dresdner Kreuzchor *

Heinz Wunderlich Heinz Wunderlich (25 April 1919 – 10 March 2012) was a German organist, academic, and composer. He was known for playing the organ works of Max Reger. He studied in Leipzig with Karl Straube, a friend of Reger. Wunderlich worked as both a churc ...

(1919–2012), German organist, academic and composer * Amadeus Webersinke (1920–2005), German pianist and organist * Karl Richter (1926–1981) German choir director, conductor, harpsichordist, organist * Klaus Tennstedt (1926–1998), German conductor * Ruth Zechlin (1926–2007), German composer, organist * Götz Friedrich (1930–2000), German director * Gerhard Bosse (1922–2012), German violinist and conductor *

Kurt Masur Kurt Masur (; 18 July 192719 December 2015) was a German Conducting, conductor. Called "one of the last old-style maestros", he directed many of the principal orchestras of his era. He had a long career as the Kapellmeister of the Leipzig Gewand ...

(1927–2015), German conductor * Karl-Heinz Kämmerling (1930–2012), German piano teacher *

Hans-Joachim Schulze Hans-Joachim Schulze (born 3 December 1934) is a German musicologist, a Bach scholar who served as the director of the Bach Archive in Leipzig from 1992 to 2000. With Christoph Wolff, he was editor of the ''Bach-Jahrbuch'' (Bach yearbook) from 19 ...

(born 1934), German Bach scholar * Siegfried Thiele (born 1934), German composer * Harry Kupfer (1935–2019), German impresario * Annerose Schmidt (1936–2022), German pianist * Peter Sodann (born 1936), German actor * Christoph Schroth (born 1937), German director * Peter Herrmann (1941–2015), German composer * Ludwig Güttler (born 1943), German trumpeter * Rosemarie Lang, German singer * Jürnjakob Timm (born 1949), German cellist * Freya Klier (born 1950) German author, director * Ulrich Mühe (1953–2007), German actor *

Georg Christoph Biller Georg Christoph Biller (20 September 1955 – 27 January 2022) was a German choral conductor. He conducted the Thomanerchor as the sixteenth Thomaskantor since Johann Sebastian Bach from 1992 to 2015. He was also a baritone, an academic teacher, ...

(1955–2022),

Thomaskantor (Cantor at St. Thomas) is the common name for the musical director of the , now an internationally known boys' choir founded in Leipzig in 1212. The official historic title of the Thomaskantor in Latin, ', describes the two functions of Cantor ( ...

* Ulrich Böhme (born 1956), German organist * Matthias Eisenberg (born 1956), German organist * Tom Pauls (born 1959), German actor and cabaret artist * Steffen Schleiermacher (born 1960), German composer and pianist * Michael Schönheit (born 1961), German organist and conductor * Irina Pauls (born 1961), German choreographer * Tobias Künzel (born 1964), German pop singer * Simone Kermes (born 1965), operatic soprano * Frank-Michael Erben (born 1965), German violinist * Ralf Stabel (born 1965), German theatre scholar / dance scholar * Sebastian Krumbiegel (born 1966), German pop singer * Matthias Goerne (born 1967), German singer *

David Timm David Timm (born 24 April 1969) is a German pianist, organist, Conducting, choral conductor and jazz musician. Since February 2005 he has been (University Music Director) of the Leipzig University, and thus also director of the Leipziger Univers ...

(born 1969), German pianist, organist, choral conductor and jazz musician * Nadja Uhl (born 1972), German actress * Christel Loetzsch (born 1986), German mezzo-soprano * Louise Collier Willcox (1865–1929), American author, editor, anthologist, translator, suffragist
Soo Jung Kwon
(born 1979), Pianist, educator, musician

Notable faculty

* Adolph Brodsky (1851–1929), Russian violinist, later Principal of the

Royal Manchester College of Music The Royal Manchester College of Music (RMCM) was a tertiary level conservatoire in Manchester, north-west England. It was founded in 1893 by the German-born conductor Sir Charles Hallé in 1893. In 1972, the Royal Manchester College of Mu ...

Ferdinand David Ferdinand is a Germanic name composed of the elements "journey, travel", Proto-Germanic , abstract noun from root "to fare, travel" (PIE , "to lead, pass over"), and "courage" or "ready, prepared" related to Old High German "to risk, ventu ...

(1810–1873), German violin virtuoso and composer * Johann Nepomuk David (1895–1977), Austrian composer *

Karl Davydov Karl Yulievich Davydov (; ) was a Russian cellist, described by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky as the "czar of cellists". He was also a composer, mainly for the cello. His name also appears in various different spellings: Davydov, Davidoff, Davidov, an ...

(1838–1889), Russian cellist *

Niels Gade Niels Wilhelm Gade (22 February 1817 – 21 December 1890) was a Danish composer, conductor, violinist, organist and teacher. Together with Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann, he was the leading Danish musician of his day, in the period known as ...

(1817–1890), Danish composer * Friedrich Grützmacher (1832–1903), German cellist * Moritz Hauptmann (1792–1868), German composer and writer;

* Diethard Hellmann (1928–1999), German organist and choral conductor * Peter Herrmann (1941–2015), German composer * Salomon Jadassohn (1831–1902), German composer * Sigfrid Karg-Elert (1877–1933), German composer * Julius Klengel (1859–1933), German cellist *

(1854–1935), German violinist, pianist, composer * Kolja Lessing (born 1961), German violinist, pianist, composer and academic teacher * Fabien Lévy (1968– ), Composer *

(1927–2015), German conductor *

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (3 February 18094 November 1847), widely known as Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period. Mendelssohn's compositions include symphonie ...

(1809–1847), German composer, pianist and Music Director of the

Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra The Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra (Gewandhausorchester; also previously known in German as the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig) is a German symphony orchestra based in Leipzig, Germany. The orchestra is named after the concert hall in which it is bas ...

; Founder *

Ignaz Moscheles Isaac Ignaz Moscheles (; 23 May 179410 March 1870) was a Bohemian piano virtuoso and composer. He was based initially in London and later at Leipzig, where he joined his friend and sometime pupil Felix Mendelssohn as professor of piano in the Co ...

(1794–1870), Bohemian composer and piano virtuoso * Oscar Paul (1836–1898), German musicologist and writer * Günther Ramin (1898–1956), German composer, organist, cembalist, conductor, Thomaskantor *

Max Reger Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger (19 March 187311 May 1916) was a German composer, pianist, organist, conductor, and academic teacher. He worked as a concert pianist, a musical director at the Paulinerkirche, Leipzig, Leipzig University Chu ...

(1873–1917), German composer, conductor, pianist and organist * Carl Reinecke (1824–1910), Danish composer, conductor, and pianist * Julius Rietz (1812–1877), German cellist, composer and conductor * Ernst Friedrich Richter, German music theorist; Thomaskantor * Wilhelm Rust, German musicologist and composer; Thomaskantor * Richard Sahla (1855–1931) Austrian violin virtuoso, conductor and composer * Friedrich Schneider (1786–1853), German composer and conductor * Gustav Schreck, German music educator and composer; Thomaskantor *

Clara Schumann Clara Josephine Schumann (; ; née Wieck; 13 September 1819 – 20 May 1896) was a German pianist, composer, and piano teacher. Regarded as one of the most distinguished pianists of the Romantic music, Romantic era, she exerted her influence o ...

(1819–1896), German pianist, teacher, and composer Nancy B. Reich, Clara Schumann: The Artist and The Woman, Revised edition, Cornell University Press, 1985, p. 123, 148. *

Robert Schumann Robert Schumann (; ; 8 June 181029 July 1856) was a German composer, pianist, and music critic of the early Romantic music, Romantic era. He composed in all the main musical genres of the time, writing for solo piano, voice and piano, chamber ...

(1810–1856), German composer, aesthete and influential music critic * Hans Sitt (1850–1922), German violinist and composer *

, German Organist and choral conductor; Thomaskantor * Wolfgang Unger (1948–2004), choral conductor, director of Leipziger Universitätsmusik

Institute of Church Music

The Institute of Church Music ''(Kirchenmusikalische Institut)'' was refounded 1992. The institute has a prominent role in Germany because of

(1873–1916), Kurt Thomas (1904–1973) and Günther Ramin (1898–1956). It offers programs in church music, chorus conduction and

organ Organ and organs may refer to: Biology * Organ (biology), a group of tissues organized to serve a common function * Organ system, a collection of organs that function together to carry out specific functions within the body. Musical instruments ...

. It offers research masters in those subjects as well. The Institute of Church Music was founded by

(1873–1950) in 1921 and 1926 it became part of the Saxon Evangelical-Lutheran Church.

Administration

Nicola Perscheid Portrait of Arthur Nikisch

Rectors of the university: * 1843–1847:

(1809–1847) * 1849–1881: Heinrich Conrad Schleinitz (1805–1881) * 1881–1897: Otto Günther (1822–1897) * 1897–1902: Carl Reinecke (1824–1910) * 1902–1907:

Arthur Nikisch Arthur Nikisch (12 October 185523 January 1922) was a Hungary, Hungarian conducting, conductor who performed internationally, holding posts in Boston, London, Leipzig and—most importantly—Berlin. He was considered an outstanding interpreter ...

(1855–1922) * 1907–1924: Stephan Krehl (1864–1924) * 1924–1932: Max Pauer (1866–1945) * 1932–1942: Walther Davisson (1885–1973) * 1942–1945: Johann Nepomuk David (1895–1977) * 1945–1948: Heinrich Schachtebeck (1886–1965) * 1948–1973: Rudolf Fischer (1913–2003) * 1973–1984: Gustav Schmahl (1929–2003) * 1984–1987: Peter Herrmann (1941–2015) * 1987–1990: Werner Felix (1927–1998) * 1990–1997: Siegfried Thiele (born 1934) * 1997–2003: Christoph Krummacher (born 1949) * 2003–2006: Konrad Körner (born 1941) * 2006–2015:

Robert Ehrlich Robert Leroy Ehrlich Jr. (born November 25, 1957) is an American lawyer and politician who served as the List of Governors of Maryland, 60th governor of Maryland from 2003 to 2007. A Republican Party (United States), Republican, Ehrlich represe ...

(born 1965) * 2015–2020: Martin Kürschner (born 1954) * 2020– : Gerald Fauth (born 1959)

Departments

Bologna process

Since 1999 the school is adapting to the

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. As of 2008 the adjustment to the

Bachelor's degree A bachelor's degree (from Medieval Latin ''baccalaureus'') or baccalaureate (from Modern Latin ''baccalaureatus'') is an undergraduate degree awarded by colleges and universities upon completion of a course of study lasting three to six years ...

and

Master's degree A master's degree (from Latin ) is a postgraduate academic degree awarded by universities or colleges upon completion of a course of study demonstrating mastery or a high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional prac ...

system is being organized. The education program with major in school music is since the winter term of 2006/07 already adapted to the Bologna process and as such leads to a bachelor's degree. The programs of the Institute of Church Music were changed to the beginning of the winter term 2008/09 and until the winter term of 2010/2011 all programs have to be adapted to the Bologna process.

Orchestra

The school has its own

symphony orchestra An orchestra (; ) is a large instrumental ensemble typical of classical music, which combines instruments from different families. There are typically four main sections of instruments: * String instruments, such as the violin, viola, cello, ...

under the conduction of Ulrich Windfuhr until 2013 and Matthias Foremny since 2014.

Departments

* Faculty I **

Wind instrument A wind instrument is a musical instrument that contains some type of resonator (usually a tube) in which a column of air is set into vibration by the player blowing into (or over) a mouthpiece set at or near the end of the resonator. The pitch ...

s and

percussion instrument A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a percussion mallet, beater including attached or enclosed beaters or Rattle (percussion beater), rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or ...

s **

Conducting Conducting is the art of directing a musical performance, such as an orchestral or Choir, choral concert. It has been defined as "the art of directing the simultaneous performance of several players or singers by the use of gesture." The primary d ...

and correpetition **

Singing Singing is the art of creating music with the voice. It is the oldest form of musical expression, and the human voice can be considered the first musical instrument. The definition of singing varies across sources. Some sources define singi ...

and musical theatre (e.g.

opera Opera is a form of History of theatre#European theatre, Western theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by Singing, singers. Such a "work" (the literal translation of the Italian word "opera") is typically ...

) **

String instrument In musical instrument classification, string instruments, or chordophones, are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings when a performer strums, plucks, strikes or sounds the strings in varying manners. Musicians play some ...

s and

harp The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has individual strings running at an angle to its soundboard; the strings are plucked with the fingers. Harps can be made and played in various ways, standing or sitting, and in orchestras or ...

* Faculty II **

Early music Early music generally comprises Medieval music (500–1400) and Renaissance music (1400–1600), but can also include Baroque music (1600–1750) or Ancient music (before 500 AD). Originating in Europe, early music is a broad Dates of classical ...

Piano A piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, activating an Action (music), action mechanism where hammers strike String (music), strings. Modern pianos have a row of 88 black and white keys, tuned to a c ...

Musical composition Musical composition can refer to an Originality, original piece or work of music, either Human voice, vocal or Musical instrument, instrumental, the musical form, structure of a musical piece or to the process of creating or writing a new pie ...

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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, ...

music education Music education is a field of practice in which educators are trained for careers as primary education, elementary or secondary education, secondary music teachers, school or music conservatory ensemble directors. Music education is also a rese ...

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languages Language is a structured system of communication that consists of grammar and vocabulary. It is the primary means by which humans convey meaning, both in spoken and signed forms, and may also be conveyed through writing. Human language is ch ...

** School music education ** Church Music Institute * Faculty III **

Dramaturgy Dramaturgy is the study of dramatic composition and the representation of the main elements of drama on the stage. The role of a dramaturg in the field of modern dramaturgy is to help realize the multifaceted world of the play for a production u ...

Jazz Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Its roots are in blues, ragtime, European harmony, African rhythmic rituals, spirituals, h ...

pop music Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom.S. Frith, W. Straw, and J. Street, eds, ''iarchive:cambridgecompani00frit, The Cambridge Companion to Pop ...

and

musical theater Musical theatre is a form of theatrical performance that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance. The story and emotional content of a musical – humor, pathos, love, anger – are communicated through words, music, moveme ...

("musical") **

Acting Acting is an activity in which a story is told by means of its enactment by an actor who adopts a character—in theatre, television, film, radio, or any other medium that makes use of the mimetic mode. Acting involves a broad range of sk ...

Students

A total of 813 students were enrolled at the college in 2007 (375 males and 438 females). There were 260 (32%) international students enrolled at the time. They come above all from

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukrai ...

Russia Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the list of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the world, and extends across Time in Russia, eleven time zones, sharing Borders ...

South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the southern half of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and borders North Korea along the Korean Demilitarized Zone, with the Yellow Sea to the west and t ...

and

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...

. Thirteen of them are scholarship holders of the

German Academic Exchange Service The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD; ), founded in 1925, is a joint organization of German universities and student bodies to foster their international relations. Since 1 January 2020, the president has been Joybrato Mukherjee. Organisa ...

, this makes the school the best one on the scholarship holders list out of every German Music Colleges.

Contests

The Felix Mendelssohn College of Music and Theatre organizes many music contests. The Lions-Club Leipzig hosts the ''Albert-Lortzing-Förderpreis'' Singing Contest with a €2,500 prize. Furthermore, the college organizes a contest for ensembles and the recognized ''Young Concert Artists European Auditions'' together with the Young Concert Artists (YCA),

New York New York most commonly refers to: * New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States * New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New York New York may also refer to: Places United Kingdom * ...

. The school leads among all German colleges of music with a total of 470 public events yearly.HMT Leipzig
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