Liszt School of Music Weimar
- Liszt School of Music Weimar
Infobox University
name = Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar
established = 1872
type = Public
rector = Rolf-Dieter Arens
students = 850
city = Weimar
state = Thüringen
country = Germany
The Liszt School of Music Weimar (in German: Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar) is a famous academy of music in Weimar, Germany.
The Hochschule
Franz Liszt, who spent a great deal of his life in Weimar, encouraged the founding of a school in 1835 for the education of musicians in orchestral instruments. It was his student Carl Müllerhartung who realized Liszt's dream, founding the school on June 24th, 1872. The school offers programs in all orchestral instruments, piano, conducting and composition.
Campus
The school is located in several different buildings in the centre of Weimar.
Courses
The Hochschule offers courses in all musical disciplines, including composition, conducting, jazz, musical theatre and pedagogy at undergraduate and postgraduate level.
People
ome notable former students
* Lucille Chung
ome notable present and former staff
* Waldemar von Baußnern
* Johann Cilenšek
* Erich Wolf Degner
* Ottmar Gerster
* Hermann Keller
* Richard Wetz
References
* [http://www.hfm-weimar.de/index.php?lang=en Home page] (in English)
External links
* [http://www.hfm-weimar.de/index.php?lang=en Official Website (in English)]
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