Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg

The Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg is a music conservatoire based in Nuremberg, Germany.The HochschuleThe Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg is the result of the merging of the Meistersinger-Konservatoriums 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 coursesThe hochschule offers degrees and postgraduate qualifications in all orchestral instruments, jazz, popular music, singing, opera, music education, conducting and composition.Notable alumni and facultyThis 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) Peter Herbolzheimer (trombonist) Claus Ogerman (composer) Nicolás Pasquet (conductor) Karl Schmitt-Walter (singer) Magda Schneider (actress) Elisabeth Scholl (soprano) Irmgard Seefried (singer)