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unusual facts about Leipzig Conservatory



Conrad Ansorge

He was born in Buchwald, Silesia, studied at the Leipzig Conservatory between 1880 and 1882, and under Franz Liszt in Weimar in 1885 and 1886.

David Maurice Levett

He studied music in New York, Germany, and France, and graduated from the Leipzig Conservatory in 1871.

Oskar Rieding

Born in Stettin (early North of Germany), he attended first the recently founded Academy of Musical Arts in Berlin, and later the Leipzig Conservatory.

Rentarō Taki

In the same year, Taki went to the Leipzig Conservatory, Germany to study music further, but fell seriously ill with tuberculosis of the lungs and came back to Japan.


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Johannes Paul Thilman

After a private lesson with Paul Hindemith and Hermann Scherchen, he attended the Leipzig Conservatory in 1929 and studied Composition with Hermann Grabner.