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4 unusual facts about Vienna Conservatory


Elza Leimane

Elza has had additional ballet training from the Paris Conservatoire (1999), Anaheim Ballet summer courses, USA (1999), International Batrolin Ballet seminar (2002 and 2003), Vienna Conservatory summer courses (2000), the St Petersburg Ballet Company, Maryinsky Theatre and Hamburg Ballet.

Rueibin Chen

At the Vienna Conservatory he was the youngest student admitted, under special waiver of age requirement, into the conservatory division, all his classmates being twenty-something competition winners.

Vienna Conservatory

University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, which incorporates the older Vienna Conservatory dating back to 1817, established by the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde

Konservatorium Wien, established in 1938 as Musikschule der Stadt Wien


Adolf Mišek

Born in Modletín (then a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire), he left for Vienna at the age of 15 to study with Franz Simandl at the Vienna Conservatory.

Edmund Eysler

He was supposed to enter the engineering profession, but his acquaintance with Leo Fall led him to study music at the Vienna Conservatory, where he studied composition under Robert Fuchs, and became educated as a piano teacher and Kapellmeister.

Ferdinand Rebay

He then studied composition at the Vienna Conservatory (of the Society for the Friends of Music) with Robert Fuchs, and also studied with Josef Wöss and Eusebius Mandyczewski.

Karl Graedener

From 1862 to 1865 he taught singing and music theory at the Vienna Conservatory and then at the Hamburg Conservatory until his death.

Marie Fillunger

She studied at the Vienna Conservatory from 1869-73.

Markus Hinterhäuser

He studied music at the Vienna Conservatory under Elisabeth Leonskaja and the Mozarteum University of Salzburg under Oleg Maisenberg.


see also

Ludwig Manoly

At the Vienna Conservatory, he studied double bass with Franz Simandl; harmony, counterpoint, and composition with Anton Bruckner; and conducting with Joseph Hellmesberger.