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7 unusual facts about Berlin Conservatory


Apolinary Szeluto

In 1909 Szeluto took a position as a professor at the Berlin Conservatory, and later relocated to work as a judge near Astrachan, Russia.

Berlin Conservatory

Berlin University of the Arts, founded in 1975 with the merger of the Berlin State School of Fine Arts and the Berlin State School of Music.

Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv

Later, in the 1920s, it was relocated to become part of the Berlin Conservatory, and then in the 1930s, part of the Museum für Völkerkunde (now the Ethnological Museum of Berlin), with which the Phonogramm-Archiv had earlier cooperated.

Kurds in Armenia

Komitas loved the Kurdish popular art and in 1897 he made a diploma research at Berlin Conservatory on Kurdish music.

Kurt Leimer

At the age of 18, he received a scholarship to the Berlin Conservatory, where he studied alongside Rachmaninov student Vladimir Horbowski and Winfried Wolf.

Vasyl Yemetz

In 1921 he moved to Berlin where he continued his studies at the Berlin Conservatory.

Vladimir Horbowski

After Kreutzer was driven from his teaching post by the Nazi government in 1933 and emigrated to Japan, Horbowski took over the piano class at the Berlin Conservatory.



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Oskar Sala

In 1929, he moved to Berlin to study piano and composition with composer and violinist Paul Hindemith at the Berlin conservatory.