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.
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 Herbert Ahlendorf Wilhelm Klatte James Kwast Max Löwengard Paul Lutzenko Selma Nicklass-Kempner Gustav Pohl Nikolaus Rothmühl Else Schmitz-Gohr Victor Hollaender Leopold Schmidt Robert Lösch 1992–2012: David Friedman Mayer-Mahr. (1932)
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 1914–1924: Friedrich Löwe 1915–1920: Lisy Fischer, pianist 1920– ? : İzzet Nezih Albayrak, violinist 1920s: Else Schmitz-Gohr, composer and pianist 1924–1926: Marc Lavry 1924–1929: Kees van Baaren 1924–1929: Karl Ristenpart 1925- ?: Nadia Friedlander, German/British artist 1930–1935: Ruth Schönthal 1946–1952: Hans-Wilfrid Schulze-Margraf 1956–1965: Christian Schmidt ? –1936: Haim Alexander ? –1933: Manfred Bukofzer Robert Christian Bachmann Siegfried Eberhardt, violinist Issy Geiger Marie Goetze, contralto Alexander Heinemann, baritone Asparukh Leschnikoff, tenor Estelle Liebling, soprano and voice teacher Moritz Moszkowski Josef Plaut Julius Prott (aka Guilio Perotti), tenor Heinrich Reimers, pianist Willi Sommerfeld Frieda Hempel Else Streit, composer Fred Werner Kathinka Paulsen White, soprano
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