title: Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg
text: # Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg
  
  The Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg (formerly Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg-Augsburg) is a music conservatoire based in Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany. The conservatoire has a secondary building in Augsburg.
  
  ## The Hochschule
  
  The Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg is the result of the merging of the Meistersinger-Konservatorium in Nuremberg and the Leopold-Mozart-Konservatorium in Augsburg in 1998. The Meistersinger-Konservatorium dates back from 1821 when Johannes Scharrer founded the Städtische Singschule, which later became the State Music School (1883) and from 1972 as the "Fachakademie für Musik und Meistersinger-Konservatorium".
  
  ## The courses
  
  The hochschule offers degrees and postgraduate qualifications in all orchestral instruments, jazz, popular music, singing, opera, music education, conducting and composition.
  
  ## Notable alumni and faculty
  
  This is a partial list of present and former staff and alumni.
  
  * Werner Andreas Albert (conductor)
  * Measha Brueggergosman (singer)
  * Willi Domgraf-Fassbaender (singer)
  * Werner Egk (composer and conductor)
  * Brigitte Fassbaender (singer)
  * Aida Garifullina (singer)
  * Peter Herbolzheimer (trombonist)
  * Karola Obermueller (composer)
  * Claus Ogerman (composer)
  * Nicolás Pasquet (conductor)
  * Hilde Scheppan (soprano)
  * Karl Schmitt-Walter (singer)
  * Magda Schneider (actress)
  * Elisabeth Scholl (soprano)
  * Irmgard Seefried (singer)
  