Hochschule für Musik Würzburg

Hochschule für Musik Würzburg

Former name	Collegium musicum academicum
Established	1797; 224 years ago (1797)
Founder	Franz Joseph Fröhlich
President	Christoph Wünsch
Students	650
Location	Würzburg, Germany
Website	Official website

The Hochschule für Musik Würzburg (University of Music Würzburg) was founded in 1797 by Franz Joseph Fröhlich as Collegium musicum academicum (Academic college of music). From 1921 to 1973, it was named Bayerisches Staatskonservatorium der Musik (Bavarian State Conservatory of Music). The current name was given on 1 September 1973.

It is located in three buildings. Helmut Erb has been president since 1 October 2007. The number of full-time students was about 650 in 2007.

Subjects[]

The university offers a Bachelor of Music degree in artistic and educational programs:

• accordion
• conducting
• voice
• guitar
• historical instruments
• jazz
• church music
• piano
• composition
• music theory
• orchestral instruments
• organ
• elementary music education

There are several graduate programs and the possibility of promotion. Musically gifted children and adolescents are specifically promoted by the university (musical ECI).

Faculty and alumni[]

• Karl Muck (1859–1940), conductor
•  [de] (1908–1980), hornist
• Bertold Hummel (1925–2002), composer
• Siegfried Fink (1928–2006), percussionist and composer
•  [de] (1928–2016), composer
•  [de] (1936–2018), trombonist
• Klaus Hinrich Stahmer (born 1941), composer and musicologist
• Heinz Winbeck (1946–2019), composer
• Kolja Lessing (born 1961), violinist, pianist, composer and academic teacher
• Patrick Lange (born 1981), conductor
• Hong Jinho (born 1985), cellist and member of Hoppipolla

External links[]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Hochschule für Musik (Würzburg).

• Literature by and about Hochschule für Musik Würzburg in the German National Library catalogue
• Dieter Kirsch: Hochschule für Musik, Würzburg. In: Historisches Lexikon Bayerns