page_title: University of Music and Theatre Leipzig
section_title: Notable alumni
hierarchical_section_title: University of Music and Theatre Leipzig / Notable people / Notable alumni
context_page_description: The University of Music and Theatre "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig is a public university in Leipzig. Founded in 1843 by Felix Mendelssohn as the Conservatorium der Musik, it is the oldest university school of music in Germany.
  The institution includes the traditional Church Music Institute founded in 1919 by Karl Straube. The music school was renamed ″Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy″ after its founder in 1972. In 1992, it incorporated the Theaterhochschule "Hans Otto" Leipzig.
  Since the beginning there was a tight relationship between apprenticeship and practical experience with the Gewandhaus and the Oper Leipzig, as well as theaters in Chemnitz, Dresden, Halle, Leipzig and Weimar.
  The university of music and theater is one of 365 places chosen in 2009 by the Cabinet of Germany and the Office of the Representative of German Industry and Trade for the campaign Germany – Land of Ideas.
context_section_description: This is an assortment of notable alumni: (See also Category:University of Music and Theatre Leipzig alumni)
  Emil Büchner (1826–1908), German conductor and bandmaster
  Friedrich Baumfelder (1836–1916), German conductor, composer, and pianist
  Sir Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900), English composer
  Mykola Lysenko (1842–1912), Ukrainian composer, pianist and music educator
  Edvard Grieg (1843–1907), Norwegian composer
  Hugo Riemann (1849–1919), German music theorist, music historian, music educator and music lexicographer
  Émile Sauret (1852–1920), French violin virtuoso and composer.
  George Whitefield Chadwick (1854–1931), American composer, of the 'Second New England School'
  Leoš Janáček (1854–1928), Czech composer
  Paul Klengel (1854–1935), German violinist, pianist, composer
  Fritz Steinbach (1855–1916), German conductor
  Richard Sahla (1855–1931) Austrian violin virtuoso, conductor and composer
  Christian Sinding (1856–1941), Norwegian composer
  Ethel Smyth (1858–1944), English composer
  Isaac Albéniz (1860–1909), Spanish composer and pianist
  Joseph Hirschbach (1860–1897), Musical Director, Tivoli Opera House, San Francisco
  Frederick Delius (1862–1934), English composer
  Ferruccio Busoni (1866–1924), Italian pianist and composer
  Felix von Weingartner (1863–1942), Austrian conductor, composer, pianist and writer
  Alfred Hill (1869–1960), Australian composer, conductor and teacher
  Sigfrid Karg-Elert (1877–1933), German composer
  Gertrude Förstel (1880–1950), studied piano, but was remembered as soprano
  Carl Adolf Martienssen (1881–1955), German pianist and music educator
  Wilhelm Backhaus (1884–1969), German pianist
  Leo Funtek (1885–1965), violinist, conductor, arranger and music professor
  Hermann Keller (1885–1967), German church musician und musicologist
  Rudolf Mauersberger (1889–1971), German choir director und composer, cantor of the Dresdner Kreuzchor
  Sir Adrian Boult (1889–1983), English conductor
  Erwin Schulhoff (1894–1942), Czech composer and pianist
  Johannes Weyrauch (1897–1977), German composer
  Günther Ramin (1898–1956), German organist, choir director and composer
  Wilhelm Weismann (1900–1980) German composer and musicologist
  Franz Konwitschny (1901–1962), German conductor
  Erhard Mauersberger (1903–1982), German organist, music teacher, cantor of the Thomanerchor
  Kurt Thomas (1904–1973), German composer and choir director
  Hugo Distler (1907–1942), German composer and church musician
  Wolfgang Fortner (1907–1987), German composer, composition teacher and conductor
  Helmut Walcha (1907–1991), German organist and harpsichordist
  Miklós Rózsa (1907–1995), Hungarian American Hollywood film composer
  Anne Macnaghten (1908–2000), British violinist and pedagogue
  Herman Berlinski (1910–2001), German-born American composer, organist, pianist, musicologist and choir conductor
  Sina Berlinski née Goldfein (1910–2011), German-born American pianist and piano teacher
  Robert Köbler (1912–1970), German university organist
  Martin Flämig (1913–1998), German choir director, Protestant state-church music director, cantor of the Dresdner Kreuzchor
  Heinz Wunderlich (1919–2012), German organist, academic and composer
  Amadeus Webersinke (1920–2005), German pianist and organist
  Karl Richter (1926–1981) German choir director, conductor, harpsichordist, organist
  Klaus Tennstedt (1926–1998), German conductor
  Ruth Zechlin (1926–2007), German composer, organist
  Götz Friedrich (1930–2000), German director
  Gerhard Bosse (1922–2012), German violinist and conductor
  Kurt Masur (1927–2015), German conductor
  Karl-Heinz Kämmerling (1930–2012), German piano teacher
  Hans-Joachim Schulze (born 1934), German Bach scholar
  Siegfried Thiele (born 1934), German composer
  Harry Kupfer (1935–2019), German impresario
  Annerose Schmidt (born 1936), German pianist
  Peter Sodann (born 1936), German actor
  Christoph Schroth (born 1937), German director
  Ludwig Güttler (born 1943), German trumpeter
  Rosemarie Lang, German singer
  Jürnjakob Timm (born 1949), German cellist
  Freya Klier (born 1950) German author, director
  Ulrich Mühe (1953–2007), German actor
  Georg Christoph Biller (born 1955), canto
caption: Edvard Grieg
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