The College of Music
The College of Music ranks as one of the largest music education institutes in Europe, rich in content and quality. Dating back to the Royal (later State) Academy of Music founded in 1869, it has been one of the leading schools of music in Germany from the outset.
Composers such as Max Bruch, Engelbert Humperdinck and Paul Hindemith, performers such as Artur Schnabel, Wanda Landowska and Emanuel Feuermann, and academics such as Philipp Spitta, Curt Sachs and Kurt Singer taught here.
In the 1920s, the area of teacher training gained significant importance in the State School of Music through the implementation of a new type of artistic, academic and educational training. In the course of its history, several noted institutes of learning in Berlin’s music life have been integrated into the Berlin State School of Music (since 1975 part of the Berlin University of the Arts).
A diversely unique entity has developed which can in fact be regarded as a music university – not least, because possible co-operations with other Colleges at the University open up many interdisciplinary art forms and experimental fields.
The College of Music represents a wide spectrum of today’s artistic, educational and academic culture and offers differentially organised courses of study for almost all professions of music. The high percentage of foreign students mirrors the College’s international reputation.
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