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    Mátyás Seiber) and in 1931 the Elementary Music Department. Dr. Hoch's conservatory offers instruction in the Music Education for Youth and Adults (ANE)...
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    Frankfurt had an institute for the teaching of music since 1878. The Hoch Conservatory flourished and had a worldwide reputation in the late 19th and early...
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  • Paul Johannes Hoch (3 May 1815 – 19 September 1874) was a German lawyer and benefactor. He willed his fortune to the Hoch Conservatory Foundation, founded...
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  • Frankfurt (1878). Some of these, such as the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt, still exist today as Conservatories (with the status of a Musikakademie) offering...
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    Otto Klemperer (category Hoch Conservatory alumni)
    he was about five he started piano lessons with his mother. At the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt he studied the piano with James Kwast and theory with...
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    Roger Quilter (category Hoch Conservatory alumni)
    fellow-student of Percy Grainger, Cyril Scott and H. Balfour Gardiner at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt, where he studied for almost five years under the guidance...
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    Joachim Raff (category Academic staff of Hoch Conservatory)
    composition. From 1878 he was the first Director of, and a teacher at, the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt. There he employed Clara Schumann and a number of other...
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    their new seat close to the Großmarkthalle at the Main river. The Hoch Conservatory are also located in the Ostend. "Frankfurt Statsitik Aktuell 07/2021"...
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    Ernest Bloch (category Hoch Conservatory alumni)
    (where he studied composition from 1900 to 1901 with Iwan Knorr at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt), on to Paris in 1903 and back to Geneva before settling...
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    Percy Grainger (category Hoch Conservatory alumni)
    Gardens". Grainger left Australia at the age of 13 to attend the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt. Between 1901 and 1914 he was based in London, where...
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    Gran Teatre del Liceu Conservatory in Barcelona. In 1887, he returned to Cologne. He was appointed professor at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt in 1890...
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    Edward MacDowell (category Hoch Conservatory alumni)
    being at the top of his class, he continued his education at Dr. Hoch's Conservatory in Frankfurt, Germany, where he studied piano with Carl Heymann and...
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    Paul Hindemith (category Hoch Conservatory alumni)
    Warnecke. He was taught the violin as a child. He entered Frankfurt's Dr. Hoch's Konservatorium, where he studied violin with Adolf Rebner, as well as conducting...
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    with jazz. In 1928 he became director of the jazz department at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt, which offered the first academic jazz courses anywhere...
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  • Cyril Scott (category Hoch Conservatory alumni)
    He showed a talent for music from an early age and was sent to the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt, Germany to study piano in 1892 at age 12. He studied...
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    Carl Friedberg (category Hoch Conservatory alumni)
    Clara Schumann at the Hoch Conservatory, Frankfurt. He became a teacher there (1893–1904) and later at the Cologne Conservatory (1904–1914). From 1923...
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    Richard Tauber (category Hoch Conservatory alumni)
    for which his voice was not suited. His father entered him at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt to study piano, composition and conducting. He made rapid...
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    Herbert Graf (category Academic staff of Hoch Conservatory)
    Poland), Frankfurt (where he was director of the Opera School at the Hoch Conservatory, 1930–1933; when the Nazis came to power he was released from his...
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    Hans Pfitzner (category Hoch Conservatory alumni)
    studied composition with Iwan Knorr and piano with James Kwast at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt. (He later married Kwast's daughter Mimi Kwast, a granddaughter...
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    Alexander Schneider (category Hoch Conservatory alumni)
    study violin with Adolf Rebner, the principal violin tutor at the Hoch Conservatory. In 1927, Alexander became leader (concertmaster) of an orchestra...
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    H. Balfour Gardiner (category Hoch Conservatory alumni)
    obtained only a pass degree, Gardiner was a piano student at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt, where he was taught by Iwan Knorr and Lazzaro Uzielli...
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    Frankfurt Opera. He succeeded Hugo Heermann as professor of violin at the Hoch Conservatory and became famous as leader of his string quartet, which toured Germany...
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    Albert Mangelsdorff (category Academic staff of Hoch Conservatory)
    Albert Mangelsdorff (September 5, 1928 – July 25, 2005) was a German jazz trombonist. Working mainly in free jazz, he was an innovator in multiphonics...
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  • Max Rudolf (conductor) (category Hoch Conservatory alumni)
    and trumpet. He was a composition student of Bernhard Sekles at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt. He held positions in Freiburg as assistant conductor...
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    Alfred Hollins (category Hoch Conservatory alumni)
    Shortly afterwards another period of study presented itself at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt. In the ensuing eleven years, Hollins was organist at...
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    Delius, and Hindemith—but also began studying music composition at the Hoch Conservatory while taking private lessons with well-respected composers Bernhard...
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    composer. He succeeded to Joseph Rubinstein [de] in teaching at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt am Main from 1879 to 1880. Following his period in Frankfurt...
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  • Anton Biersack (category Hoch Conservatory alumni)
    1932 to 1936 he was a fellow at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt am Main. He joined the staff of that conservatory in 1936 where he spent the next 4 years...
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  • Sekles initiated the first academic jazz studies anywhere at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt in 1928 - the first courses in the United States were...
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    Bernhard Sekles (category Academic staff of Hoch Conservatory)
    Bernhard Sekles (20 June 1872 – 8 December 1934) was a German composer, conductor, pianist and pedagogue. Bernhard Sekles was born in Frankfurt am Main...
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