page_title: Hoch Conservatory
section_title: Directors
hierarchical_section_title: Hoch Conservatory / Directors
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait of Joseph Joachim Raff (1822-1882), Swiss composer, teacher and pianist
context_page_description: Dr. Hoch's Konservatorium – Musikakademie was founded in Frankfurt am Main on 22 September 1878. Through the generosity of Frankfurter Joseph Hoch, who bequeathed the Conservatory one million German gold marks in his testament, a school for music and the arts was established for all age groups. Instrumental to the foundation, prosperity and success of the conservatory was its director Joachim Raff who did most of the work including setting the entire curriculum and hiring all its faculty. It has played an important role in the history of music in Frankfurt. Clara Schumann taught piano, as one of distinguished teachers in the late 19th century, gaining international renown for the conservatory. In the 1890s, about 25% of the students came from other countries: 46 were from England and 23 from the United States.
  In the 1920s, under director Bernhard Sekles, the conservatory was far ahead of its time: Sekles initiated the world's first Jazz Studies and in 1931 the Elementary Music Department.
  Dr.
context_section_description: 1878–1882: Joseph Joachim Raff
  1883–1908: Bernhard Scholz
  1908–1916: Iwan Knorr
  1916–1923: Waldemar von Baußnern (also: von Bausznern)
  1924–1933: Bernhard Sekles
  1933–1936: Bertil Wetzelsberger
  1936–1944: Hermann Reutter
  1950–1954: Walther Davisson
  1954–1958: Helmut Walcha, Erich Flinsch, Gustav Lenzewski
  1958–1973: Philipp Mohler
  1973–1977: Klaus Volk
  1977–1979: Hans Dieter Resch, Alois Kottmann
  1979–2007: Frank Stähle
  2007–2008: Werner Wilde (Provisional director)
  2008–2018: Mario Liepe
caption: The first director: Joachim Raff in 1878
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