The Stern Conservatory (Stern'sches Konservatorium) was a private music school in Berlin with many notable tutors and alumni. Today the school is part of the Berlin University of the Arts.
It was founded in 1850 as the Berliner Musikschule by Julius Stern, Theodor Kullak and Adolf Bernhard Marx. Kullak withdrew from the conservatory in 1855 in order to create a new academy of sculpture and three-dimensional art. With Marx's withdrawal in 1856, the conservatory came exclusively under the Stern family and adopted its name. In 1894 it was taken over by Gustav Hollaender (the uncle of film composer Friedrich Hollaender), who moved the school's location to the Berlin Philharmonic concert hall on Bernburger Strasse in Berlin-Kreuzberg.
In the course of the Gleichschaltung process, the Stern Academy in 1936 was renamed Konservatorium der Reichshauptstadt Berlin controlled by the Nazi regime. Gustav Hollaender's heirs were disseized, but for a few years they were able to run a "Jewish Private Music School Hollaender" until they were deported and murdered in 1941.
After the end of the Second World War in 1945, the school was again renamed as the Städtisches Konservatorium (City Conservatory) in what was to become West Berlin. In 1966 it was merged with the public Akademische Hochschule für Musik into the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst (Berlin State School of Music and the Performing Arts), since 2001 the Berlin University of the Arts.
1883–1894: Jenny Meyer1894–1915: Gustav Hollaender1915–1930: Alexander von Fielitz1930–1933: Paul Graener1933–1935: Siegfried EberhardtKonservatorium der Reichshauptstadt Berlin:
1936–1945: Bruno KittelStädtisches Konservatorium:
1946–1949: Heinz Tiessen1950–1960: Hans Joachim Moser1854–1864 Hans von Bülow1855- ?: Ferdinand Laub1864–1871: Rudolf Radecke1866–1869: Friedrich Kiel1867–1878: Eduard Franck1874–1877: Arnold Krug1890–1897: Friedrich Gernsheim1897–1903: Hans Pfitzner1884–1906(?): Georg von Petersennmind. 1896–1911: Martin Krause1897–1904: Ernst Jedliczka1898–1905: Ernst Eduard Taubert1898–1900: David Maurice Levett1904–1906: Sandra Drouker1906–1915: Leo Portnoff1900–1920: Engelbert Humperdinck1902–1903 and 1911: Arnold Schoenberg1904–1924: Arthur Willnermind. 1919–1929: Rudolf Maria Breithaupt1934–1940, 1962–1966: Konrad Wölki1935–1960: Conrad HansenHerbert AhlendorfWilhelm KlatteJames KwastMax LöwengardPaul LutzenkoSelma Nicklass-KempnerGustav PohlNikolaus RothmühlVictor HollaenderLeopold SchmidtRobert Lösch1992–2012: David Friedman1860–1862: Hermann Goetz1884– ? : Bruno Walter1884–1885: Georg Wilhelm Rauchenecker1892–1894: Alberto Nepomuceno1896: Edwin Fischer1899–1902 Selmar Jacobson (Janson)1901–1979: Mischa Portnoff, composer and pianist1902–1903: Melitta Lewin1903–1907: Emil Honigberger1903–1906: Charles Griffes1905: Otto Klemperer1906–? : Marek Weber1906–1908: Manuel Ponce1906–1909: Clara Abramowitz, soprano1910–1913: Efim Schachmeister, violinist1912–1917: Meta Seinemeyer1913–1915: Margarete Krämer-Bergau1913–1918: Claudio Arrau1914–1924: Friedrich Löwe1915–1920: Lisy Fischer, pianist1924–1926: Marc Lavry1924–1929: Kees van Baaren1924–1929: Karl Ristenpart1930–1935: Ruth Schönthal1946–1952: Hans-Wilfrid Schulze-Margraf1956–1965: Christian Schmidt ? –1936: Haim Alexander ? –1933: Manfred BukofzerRobert Christian BachmannSiegfried Eberhardt, violinistIssy GeigerAsparukh Leschnikoff, tenorMoritz MoszkowskiJosef PlautHeinrich Reimers, pianistWilli SommerfeldThe Marc Lavry Heritage Foundation.
