page_title: Hoch Conservatory
section_title: Distinguished students
hierarchical_section_title: Hoch Conservatory / Teachers and students / Distinguished students
caption_attribution_description: Dansk: Paul Hindemith, 1895-1963, Tysk Komponist. Deutsch: Paul Hindemith, 1895-1963, deutscher Komponist. English: Paul Hindemith, 1895-1963, German composer. Nederlands: Paul Hindemith, 1895-1963, Duits componist.
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: 1879–1882: Edward MacDowell
  1886–1890: Hans Pfitzner
  1891–1893 and 1896–1899: Cyril Scott (Frankfurt Group)
  1893–1895: Margarete Dessoff
  1893–1897: Norman O'Neill (Frankfurt Group)
  1894–1896: Henry Balfour Gardiner (Frankfurt Group)
  1894–1901: Walter Braunfels
  1895–1900: Percy Grainger (Frankfurt Group)
  1895–1903: Johanna Senfter
  1895–1898: Hans Jelmoli
  1897–1901: Roger Quilter (Frankfurt Group)
  1898–1903: Boris Hambourg
  1900–1901: Ernest Bloch
  1901–1902: Otto Klemperer
  1903–1909: Reinhard Oppel
  1904–1907: Hans Gebhard-Elsaß
  1904–1908: Frederick Septimus Kelly
  1908–1910: Richard Tauber
  1909–1917: Paul Hindemith
  1909–1913: Ernst Toch
  1913–1916 and 1918–1920: Ottmar Gerster
  ca. 1915 : Hans Rosbaud
  1917–1931: Kurt Hessenberg
  1924–1927: Alexander Schneider
caption: Paul Hindemith aged 28 (1923). Hindemith studied violin and composition at the Conservatory
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