The Stern Conservatory (Stern'sches Konservatorium) was a private music school in Berlin with many distinguished tutors and alumni. The school is now part of Berlin University of the Arts.
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History
It was founded in 1850 as the Berliner Musikschule by Julius Stern, Theodor Kullak and Adolf Bernhard Marx. Kullak withdrew from the conservatory in 1855 in order to create a new academy of sculpture and three-dimensional art. With Marx's withdrawal in 1856, the conservatory came exclusively under the Stern family and adopted its name. In 1894 it was taken over by Gustav Hollaender (the uncle of film composer Friedrich Hollaender), who moved the school's location to the Berlin Philharmonic concert hall on Bernburger Strasse in Berlin-Kreuzberg.
In the course of the Gleichschaltung process, the Stern Academy in 1936 was renamed Konservatorium der Reichshauptstadt Berlin controlled by the Nazi regime. Gustav Hollaender's heirs were disseized, but for a few years they were able to run a "Jewish Private Music School Hollaender" until they were deported and murdered in 1941.
In 1945, the school was again renamed as the Städtisches Konservatorium (City Conservatory) in what was to become West Berlin. In 1966 it was merged with the public Akademische Hochschule für Musik into the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst (Berlin State School of Music and the Performing Arts), since 2001 the Berlin University of the Arts.
Directors
1883–1894: Jenny Meyer
1894–1915: Gustav Hollaender
1915–1930: Alexander von Fielitz
1930–1933: Paul Graener
1933–1935: Siegfried Eberhardt
Konservatorium der Reichshauptstadt Berlin:
1936–1945: Bruno Kittel
Städtisches Konservatorium:
1946–1949: Heinz Tiessen
1950–1960: Hans Joachim Moser
Professors
1854–1864 Hans von Bülow
1855- ?: Ferdinand Laub
1864–1871: Rudolf Radecke
1866–1869: Friedrich Kiel
1867–1878: Eduard Franck
1874–1877: Arnold Krug
1884–1885: Georg Wilhelm Rauchenecker
1890–1897: Friedrich Gernsheim
1897–1903: Hans Pfitzner
1884–1906(?): Georg von Petersenn
mind. 1896–1911: Martin Krause
1897–1904: Ernst Jedliczka
1898–1905: Ernst Eduard Taubert
1898–1900: David Maurice Levett
1904–1906: Sandra Drouker
1906–1915: Leo Portnoff
1900–1920: Engelbert Humperdinck
1902–1903 and 1911: Arnold Schoenberg
1904–1924: Arthur Willner
mind. 1919–1929: Rudolf Maria Breithaupt
1927-c.1933: Ottilie Metzger (also an alumnus)
1934–1940, 1962–1966: Konrad Wölki
1935–1960: Conrad Hansen
Distinguished students
1860–1862: Hermann Goetz
1884– ? : Bruno Walter
1887-1976 Bertha Tideman-Wijers
1891–1894: Ernst Mielck
1892–1894: Alberto Nepomuceno
1896: Edwin Fischer
late 19th-early 20th century: Charlotte Ruegger
1899–1902 Selmar Jacobson (Janson)
1901–1979: Mischa Portnoff, composer and pianist
1902–1903: Melitta Lewin
1903–1907: Emil Honigberger
1903–1906: Charles Griffes
1905: Otto Klemperer
1906–? : Marek Weber
1906–1908: Manuel Ponce
1906–1909: Clara Abramowitz, soprano
1908–1913: Boris Kroyt, violinist and violist
1909–1911: Max Nivelli
1910–1913: Efim Schachmeister, violinist
1912–1917: Meta Seinemeyer
1913-1914: Gustaf Nordqvist
1913–1915: Margarete Krämer-Bergau
1913–1918: Claudio Arrau