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Department for New Music - Composition

Entry requirements (Department for Music Education for Youth and Adults - ANE)

  • Performance of original compositions or attempted compositions
  • Ear training test (simultaneous and successive intervals; chords; two-part free-tonal; listening dictation)

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Composition (Bachelor of Music)

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Composition as part of PreCollege Frankfurt (PCF)

In addition to composition lessons, the students can participate in several theoretical lessons. Within a period of max. 4 semesters the students prepare for the entrance examination for the major subject composition (bachelor's degree) at a music academy or music college.

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The composition programme is offered in three departments of the Conservatory.


Composition teaching in the Department for Music Education for Youth and Adults - ANE

Many talented and some highly gifted musicians from the ages of 9 to 25 have been making use of this option since 1984 - combining it with school or in parallel to study started elsewhere. Some of the first students of the Kühnl composition class have since achieved international success: Moritz Eggert, Bernhard König, Roland Böer, Franz Klee, Frank Gerhardt, Robin Hoffmann, Yiğit Aydın. They now work as professional composers or conductors. Other students have become established sound engineers or computer experts, such as Axel Gutzler and Frank Heckel.

Also see

Wilhelm Killmayer "Schumann in Endenich" / Concert as part of the programme commemorating the 150th anniversary of the death of Robert Schumann.


Teacher for composition

at Dr Hoch's Conservatory is the composer Snezana Nesic


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