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The University of Music and Theatre "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig ((ドイツ語:Hochschule für Musik und Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig)) is a public university in Leipzig (Saxony, Germany). Founded in 1843 by Felix Mendelssohn as the ''Conservatory of Music'', it is the oldest university school of music in Germany. The institution includes the traditional ''Church Music Institute'' founded in 1919 by Karl Straube (1873–1950). The music school was renamed ″Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy″ after its founder in 1972. In the year 1992 ''the Hans Otto Drama School of Leipzig'', Germany's oldest drama school, became part of the college. Since the beginning there was a tight relationship between apprenticeship and practical experience with the Gewandhaus and the Oper Leipzig, as well as theaters in Chemnitz (''Städtische Theater Chemnitz''), Dresden (''Staatsschauspiel Dresden''), Halle (''Neues Theater Halle''), Leipzig (''Schauspiel Leipzig'') and Weimar (''Deutsches Nationaltheater in Weimar''). The university of music and theater is one of 365 places chosen in 2009 by the Cabinet of Germany and the ''Office of the Representative of German Industry and Trade'' for the campaign ''Germany - Land of Ideas''. ==History== Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, the composer and Music Director of the Gewandhaus Orchestra, founded a Conservatory in the city of Leipzig on April 2, 1843. He was sponsored by a high civil servant of the Kingdom of Saxony, the Oberhofgerichtsrat Heinrich Blümner (1765–1839), who provided King Frederick Augustus II of Saxony with 20,000 Thaler. The music school's home was in the first Gewandhaus (in the Gewandgäßchen/Universitätsstraße street at the city center, today the city's department store is based there). The musicians of the Orchestra were obligated to act as teaching staff, a tradition that was unbroken until German reunification in 1990. In 1876 the school got permission to change its name to ''Königliches Konservatorium der Musik zu Leipzig'', Royal Conservatory of Music of Leipzig. The new premises at Grassistraße 8 were inaugurated on December 5, 1887. They were built 1885-1887 by the architect Hugo Licht (1841–1923) in the music quarter of Leipzig, south-west of the city center. The benefactor was the pathologist Justus Radius (1797–1884). Not until 1924 was the Royal Conservatory renamed into Landeskonservatorium der Musik zu Leipzig, six years after the fall of the Kingdom of Saxony. In the summer term of 1938 343 male students were enrolled at the Landeskonservatorium. This made the Conservatory the fourth biggest music school in the German Reich after the Universität der Künste Berlin (633 students), the music school of Cologne (406 students) and the school for music and theater of Munich (404 students). The Austrian composer Johann Nepomuk David (1895–1977) was the school's director from 1939 until 1945. The school was again renamed June 8, 1941 to ''Staatliche Hochschule für Musik, Musikerziehung und darstellende Kunst'', Public College for music, musical education and performing arts. In 1944 the school remained closed due to the Second World War. Once again, the school was renamed October 1, 1946 to Mendelssohn Academy and November 4, 1972, on the occasion of its founders name, to ''Hochschule für Musik Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy'', Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy College of Music. The Saxon University Constitution Law (''Sächsische Hochschulstrukturgesetz'') of April 10, 1992 confirmed the College of Music to Leipzig and expanded it with the annexation of the Hans Otto College of Theatre (Germany's first College of Theatre) to form the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy : the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy College of Music and Theatre. The new Great Hall was inaugurated 2001 and 2004 awarded by the ''Bund Deutscher Architekten'',〔Bundesarchitektenkammer Netzwerk Architekturexport: (Gerber Architekten ) (PDF), 13.07.2007〕 a German architects union. The college's second premises were opened 2002 and there's an orchestra academy in co-operation with the Gewandhausorchestra since 2004 in order to support top musicians. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「University of Music and Theatre Leipzig」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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