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    University of Music and Theatre "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig (German: Hochschule für Musik und Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig)...
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    Germany. He is the younger brother of actress Karoline Schuch. He studied acting at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig from 2006 to 2010. Schuch made...
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    Edvard Grieg (category University of Music and Theatre Leipzig alumni)
    Orchestra (Harmonien), and later became Music Director of the orchestra from 1880 to 1882. In 1888, Grieg met Tchaikovsky in Leipzig. Grieg was impressed...
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    studied law at Leipzig and Heidelberg Universities but his main interests were music and Romantic literature. From 1829 he was a student of the piano teacher...
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    Sigfrid Karg-Elert (category Academic staff of the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig)
    during World War I, Karg-Elert was appointed instructor of music theory and composition at the Leipzig Conservatory in 1919. From 1924, Karg-Elert gave weekly...
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  • Peter Schneider (actor) (category University of Music and Theatre Leipzig alumni)
    graduating from high school in 1994 and completing his military service, he studied music at the Leipzig University of Music and Theater from 1995 until 1998...
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    Sebastian Krumbiegel (category University of Music and Theatre Leipzig alumni)
    Krumbiegel was the singer of the band "Rockpol". Between 1987 and 1991 Krumbiegel attended the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig. During this time he...
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    Max Reger (category Academic staff of the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig)
    in Leipzig, and a music director at the court of Duke Georg II of Saxe-Meiningen. Reger first composed mainly Lieder, chamber music, choral music and works...
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  • the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig from 1994 to 1998. She was with the Volksbühne in Berlin from 1998 to 2001, and also has been a member of companies...
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  • Nicolo Pasetti (category University of Music and Theatre Leipzig alumni)
    2021 saw Pasetti star in multiple films and television series. Director Lucio Pellegrini's biopic on Italy's music legend Renato Carosone was Pasetti's first...
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    Stephanie Stumph (category University of Music and Theatre Leipzig alumni)
    Abitur in 2003, she studied at the Felix Mendelssohn College of Music and Theatre in Leipzig. Since 1995, Stumph has a role in the ZDF police investigation...
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    lived and worked in Leipzig, including Johann Sebastian Bach (1723 to 1750) and Felix Mendelssohn (1835 to 1847). The University of Music and Theatre "Felix...
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    Kurt Masur (category Academic staff of the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig)
    until 1948, he studied conducting, composition and piano at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig. He left at 21, never finishing his studies, when...
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    Ethel Smyth (category University of Music and Theatre Leipzig alumni)
    of teaching, and continued her music studies privately with Heinrich von Herzogenberg. While at the Leipzig Conservatory, Smyth met Dvořák, Grieg and...
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    Miklós Rózsa (category University of Music and Theatre Leipzig alumni)
    he sought to study music in Germany. He enrolled at the University of Leipzig in 1925, ostensibly to study chemistry at the behest of his practical-minded...
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    Mirja Boes (category University of Music and Theatre Leipzig alumni)
    School in 1991, and studied at the University of Düsseldorf and at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig. In 1994, she was a member of the theater company...
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  • Guilhermina Suggia (category University of Music and Theatre Leipzig alumni)
    appear as a soloist with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra under its conductor, Arthur Nikisch. From 1906 to 1912 she lived and worked in Paris with the cellist...
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  • Klaus Tennstedt (category University of Music and Theatre Leipzig alumni)
    In 1958, he became music director of the Dresden Opera, and in 1962, music director of the Schwerin State Orchestra and Theatre. He emigrated from East...
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    Tom Wlaschiha (category University of Music and Theatre Leipzig alumni)
    and sixth seasons of the TV series Game of Thrones, as well as Sebastian Berger in the TV series Crossing Lines. He also appeared in four episodes of...
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  • Oskar Böhme (category University of Music and Theatre Leipzig alumni)
    which is now part of Freital. For much of his early career, after studying trumpet and composition in the Leipzig Conservatory of Music until graduating...
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    Niels Gade (category Academic staff of the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig)
    the work positively, and conducted it in Leipzig in March 1843, to enthusiastic public reaction. His work attracted the notice of the king, who gave the...
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    composition and piano there and later in Vienna, Leipzig, and Cologne; where his teachers included Claude Debussy, Max Reger, Fritz Steinbach, and Willi Thern...
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  • Conservatory (today the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig) with Max Reger and Carl Reinecke. Her piano trio (for piano, violin and cello) won an award...
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    Matthias Goerne (category University of Music and Theatre Leipzig alumni)
    father's theater productions, including Carmen and La Bohème. From the age of 18 to 22 he studied voice in Leipzig under Hans-Joachim Beyer [de]. He would later...
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    apprenticeship at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig. Scholze became known as an actress through her role of the daughter of coroner Robert Kolmaar...
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    Wilhelm Backhaus (category University of Music and Theatre Leipzig alumni)
    a chamber musician. Born in Leipzig, Backhaus was the son of a well-known architect. He began learning piano at the age of four with his mother, an amateur...
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    Isaac Albéniz (category University of Music and Theatre Leipzig alumni)
    United States, giving concerts in New York and San Francisco and then travelled to Liverpool, London and Leipzig. By age 15, he had already given concerts...
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    George Whitefield Chadwick (category University of Music and Theatre Leipzig alumni)
    many other composers of his generation. He studied in Leipzig at the Royal Conservatory of Music under Carl Reinecke (1824–1910) and Salomon Jadassohn (1830–1902)...
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    Simone Kermes (category University of Music and Theatre Leipzig alumni)
    performed at many important theatres and concert halls internationally, including the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in...
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    Christian Sinding (category University of Music and Theatre Leipzig alumni)
    Sinding held by the State Archives in Leipzig, company archives of the Music Publishing House C.F.Peters (Leipzig). Rune J. Andersen. "Christian Sinding"...
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