Conservatory in New York. Founded in 1916 as the David Mannes School by Mannes and his wife (formerly Clara Damrosch), it was the first music school in the USA to offer a degree course in the performance of early music.
Mannes College The New School for Music
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| Established | 1916 |
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| School type | Private |
| Dean | Joel Lester |
| Location | New York, New York, USA |
| Enrollment | 295 college division, 490 preparatory division, 350 extension division |
| Campus | Urban |
| Homepage | www.mannes.edu |
Mannes College of Music is The New School university's music conservatory. It is located in New York City, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
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General
Originally called The David Mannes Music School, it was founded in 1916 by David Mannes, concertmaster of the New York Symphony Orchestra and Clara Damrosch, sister of Walter Damrosch, then conductor of that orchestra. Originally housed on East 70th Street (later occupied by the Dalcroze School), the campus was created out of three brownstones on East 74th St, in Manhattan's Upper East Side. After 1938, the school was known as the Mannes Music School (possibly in conjunction with the retirement of David and Clara Mannes from active teaching). In 1953 Mannes began offering degrees and changed its name to the Mannes College of Music. It later merged with the Chatham Square Music School. In 1984 the school moved to its current home on West 85th Street. In 1989 Mannes joined New School University, comprising eight schools (including Parsons School of Design, Eugene Lang College, and the New School for Drama). In 2005 Mannes changed its name to Mannes College the New School for Music.
All students at Mannes are expected to be well rounded in their musical studies beyond their particular major or field. Mannes's internationally renowned faculty is active in New York City's musical scene, and many are members of the New York Philharmonic, Metropolitan Opera, and New York City Opera, and also maintain active freelance or solo careers. Mannes is the host of several hundred concerts per year. Performed by both students and faculty, these concerts feature a wide variety of classical music from many eras, including modern premieres of works composed by the students and faculty at Mannes.
Techniques of Music
The Techniques of Music program is the foundation for academic musical study at Mannes, encompassing the range of elementary to advanced music theory and aural skills classes.
Though music theory was taught at Mannes from its inception, a major turning point occurred in 1931 with the hiring of Hans Weisse, one of the leading students of Heinrich Schenker.[1] Over the following nine years, Weisse promoted not just the study of Schenkerian Analysis but began to incorporate it into the musical life of the school, including performance and composition. Because of his association with the school, Schenker's publication Five Graphic Music Analyses (Fünf Urlinie-Tafeln) was published jointly by his regular publisher, Universal-Edition and the David Mannes School in 1932.[2]
In 1940, Weisse died unexpectedly and was replaced by Felix Salzer. Salzer, also a student of Schenker, built upon Weisse's foundation by reorganizing the theory program into the Techniques of Music department. The philosophy behind this move was and is to integrate musicianship, theory, and performance - which was based on Schenker's concept of the role of theory in music.[3] Salzer's leading student, Carl Schachter, as well as his students, continued and strengthened the department.
Notable faculty
- Leonard Hindell, bassoon
- Philip Myers, horn
- Michael Newman, guitar
- Edwin Bachmann, violin
- Carl Bamberger, orchestral conducting
- Adolfo Betti, violin
- Ernst Bloch, composition
- Paul Boepple, solfege (Dalcroze method)
- Howard Brockway, piano
- Semyon Bychkov, conductor
- Alfred Cortot, piano
- Georges Enescu, interpretation
- Lillian Fuchs, violin, chamber music
- Felix Galimir, violin, chamber music
- Harold Goltzer, bassoon
- Richard Goode Grammy-winning pianist
- Reginald Kell, clarinet
- Chin Kim, violin
- Yakov Kreizberg, conductor
- William Kroll, violin
- David Loeb, composition, theory
- Nicolai Lopatnikoff, composition
- Clara Mannes, chamber music
- David Mannes, violin, and orchestra conductor
- Leopold Mannes, theory
- Sylvia Marlowe, harpsichord
- Bohuslav Martinu, composition
- Frank Miller, cello
- Mitch Miller, oboe, English horn
- Paul Neubauer, viola
- Orin O'Brien, double bass
- Ernst Oster, theory
- William Polisi, bassoon
- Richard Rychtarik, stagecraft
- Felix Salmond, chamber music
- Felix Salzer, theory
- Olga Samaroff, "layman's music courses"
- Rosario Scalero, solfege, theory, composition
- Carl Schachter, theory
- Sol Schoenbach, bassoon
- Frank Sheridan, piano
- Martial Singher, voice
- Julia P. Stoessel, violin, chamber music
- George Szell, composition, instrumentation, theory
- Roman Totenberg, violin
- Rosalyn Tureck, piano
- Isabelle Vengerova, piano
- Frederic Waldman, opera coach, conductor
- Hans Weisse, theory, composition
- Peter Wilhousky, singing, choral conducting, chorus
- John Wummer, flute
- Vladimir Feltsman, piano
- Michael Werner, percussion
- Vincent Penzarella, trumpet
Notable alumni
- Burt Bacharach composer, pianist
- Robert Bass (conductor), conductor
- Johanna Beyer composer
- Natan Brand pianist
- Semyon Bychkov conductor
- Myung-Whun Chung pianist and conductor
- Bill Evans jazz pianist, composer
- JoAnn Falletta conductor
- Richard Goode Grammy-winning pianist
- Eugene Istomin pianist
- Yakov Kreizberg conductor
- Gail Kubik composer
- David Loeb, composer and theorist
- Anthony Newman keyboardist/composer
- Patricia Neway operatic soprano and Tony Award-winning musical theatre actress
- Tim Page Pulitzer Prize-winning music critic
- Murray Perahia Grammy-winning pianist
- Eve Queler conductor
- Jerome Rose pianist
- Shulamit Ran Pulitzer Prize-winning composer
- George Rochberg American composer
- Adam Rogers Jazz Guitarist
- Julius Rudel conductor
- Carl Schachter musicologist and theorist
- Florence Schwartz violinist, Chicago Symphony
- Lawrence Leighton Smith conductor
- Frederica von Stade mezzo-soprano
- Linda Toote principal flute, Boston Lyric Opera
- Jennifer Zetlan soprano, Florida Grand Opera
- Lara St. John violinist
- Craig Walsh composer
References
- ^ Historical information is derived from annual Mannes catalogs.
- ^ As indicated on the cover of the publication's first edition.
- ^ See David Carson Berry, "Hans Weisse and the Dawn of American Schenkerism," Journal of Musicology 20, no. 1 (Winter 2003): 104-156.
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