University of Music and Theatre Hamburg

Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg
Hochschule für Musik und Theater Budge residence
Former names	State University of Music (Staatliche Hochschule für Musik)
Type	Public
Established	1950
Students	750
Location	Hamburg , Germany
Website	http://www.hfmt-hamburg.de

The Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg is one of the larger universities of music in Germany.

It was founded 1950 as Staatliche Hochschule für Musik (Public college of music) on the base of the former private acting school of Annemarie Marks-Rocke and Eduard Marks.

Courses cover various musical genres, including church music, jazz, pop, composition, conducting, instrumental music as well as voice. The theatre academy offers courses in drama and opera and directing in these fields. A third academy offers scientific and educational degrees and qualifications (musicology, music education and therapy).

The university is located in the prestigious Budge-Palais in Hamburg Rotherbaum at the Außenalster, close to the city centre.

Directors

• Philipp Jarnach (1950–59)
• Wilhelm Maler (1959–69)
• Hajo Hinrichs (1969–78)
• Hermann Rauhe (1978–2004)
• Michael von Troschke (April to October 2004)
• Elmar Lampson (since October 2004)

Faculty

• Beatrix Borchard, musicology (from 2002)
• Margot Guilleaume, voice (1950–78)
• György Ligeti, composition (1973–1988)
• Henny Wolff, voice (1950–1964)
• Heinz Wunderlich, organ (1919–2012)

Former students

See also

• Education in Hamburg
• Music schools in Germany

External links

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