page_title: Hochschule für Musik Detmold
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Hochschule für Musik Detmold / History
caption_attribution_description: Antje Weithaas (Violine), Martin Helmchen (Klavier) und Marie-Elisabeth Hecker (Violoncello) beim Meisterkonzert am 29.10.2019 im Konzerthaus der HfM Detmold. Lizenz | license: &lt;a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.de" rel="noreferrer nofollow"&gt;CC BY-SA 4.0&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/krienke/shares/89teBu"&gt;www.flickr.com/photos/krienke/shares/89teBu&lt;/a&gt;
context_page_description: The Hochschule für Musik Detmold is one of Germany's leading university-level music school, situated in Detmold, Germany.
context_section_description: After initial planning that started in 1944, the Hochschule was founded in 1946 as Nordwestdeutsche Musikakademie Detmold.  In 1956 the name was officially expanded to Nordwestdeutsche Musikakademie Detmold, Staatliche Hochschule für Musik. After the Hochschule in Münster and Dortmund were officially merged with the Detmold Hochschule, the name was changed again in 1972 to Staatliche Hochschule für Musik Westfalen-Lippe. Nordwestdeutsche Musikakademie Detmold, with campuses in Münster and Dortmund. In 1987 the present name was given: Hochschule für Musik Detmold. In 2003, the Münster campus separated and became the Musikhochschule Münster and part of the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster. The Dortmund campus was closed in 2004.
  The first director was Professor Wilhelm Maler from 1946 to 1959. The second director was Dr. Martin Stephani from 1959 to 1980. Stephani was also professor of conducting and conductor of the Hochschule's orchestra.
caption: Antje Weithaas, Martin Helmchen, Marie-Elisabeth Hecker, 2019 chamber concert in 2019 at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold
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