Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg
# Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg

The Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg (formerly Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg-Augsburg) is a music conservatoire based in Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany. The conservatoire has a secondary building in Augsburg.

## The Hochschule

The Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg is the result of the merging of the Meistersinger-Konservatorium in Nuremberg and the Leopold-Mozart-Konservatorium in Augsburg in 1998. The Meistersinger-Konservatorium dates back from 1821 when Johannes Scharrer founded the Städtische Singschule, which later became the State Music School (1883) and from 1972 as the "Fachakademie für Musik und Meistersinger-Konservatorium".

## The courses

The hochschule offers degrees and postgraduate qualifications in all orchestral instruments, jazz, popular music, singing, opera, music education, conducting and composition.

## Notable alumni and faculty

This is a partial list of present and former staff and alumni.

* Werner Andreas Albert (conductor)
* Measha Brueggergosman (singer)
* Willi Domgraf-Fassbaender (singer)
* Werner Egk (composer and conductor)
* Brigitte Fassbaender (singer)
* Aida Garifullina (singer)
* Peter Herbolzheimer (trombonist)
* Karola Obermueller (composer)
* Claus Ogerman (composer)
* Nicolás Pasquet (conductor)
* Hilde Scheppan (soprano)
* Karl Schmitt-Walter (singer)
* Magda Schneider (actress)
* Elisabeth Scholl (soprano)
* Irmgard Seefried (singer)
