Overview
The State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart is a professional school for musicians and performing artists in Stuttgart, Germany. 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, and from 1921 "Württembergische Hochschule für Musik" (Württemberg university of music).
Notable teachers and students
Iveta Apkalna
Nicola Bulfone
Adelaide Casely-Hayford
Cecil Coles
Johann Nepomuk David
Jörg Demus
Melanie Diener (born 1967), soprano
Árpád Doppler (1884–1927)
Jörg Faerber (1929–2022), conductor
Sylvia Geszty (1934–2018), soprano
Karl Ludwig Gerok (1906–1975), organist
Percy Goetschius (1873)
Harry Plunket Greene
Hans Grischkat (1903–1977), church musician, professor
Natalia Gutman, 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
Nathan Laube
Kolja Lessing (born 1961)
Karl Marx
Barry McDaniel (1930–2018)
Elke Neidhardt (1941–2013)
Lauren Newton (1974)
Anja Petersen
Marlis Petersen
Felix Petyrek
Dionys Pruckner
Sigurd Rascher
Hermann Reutter
Harald Schmidt
Benyamin Sönmez
Ewandro Stenzowski (born 1984)
Marco Stroppa
Hermann Suter
Ernest Torrence
Kathe Volkart-Schlager
Michael Volle (born 1960)
Karl Wendling (born 1929)
Florian Wiek (born 1972)
Yehuda Yannay
Karl Maria Zwißler
Victor Herbert (1859-1924), operetta composer
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