Hochschule für Kirchenmusik Heidelberg

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The School of Church Music Heidelberg or its predecessor, the Evangelical Church Music Institute in Heidelberg, (abbreviated AI ), was founded in 1931 by Prof. Meinhard Hermann Poppen to improve the training of church musicians - Baden state church. Was modeled on the Church Music Institute in Leipzig, where Poppen had previously studied, including the founder of the Institute, the organist Karl Straube. Were offered in Heidelberg all church music subjects ( organ and other instrumental subjects, choral conducting, vocal, etc.) and theoretical subjects (harmony, counterpoint, figured bass, stylistics, etc.) in several studies. First housed in the building system 62, a new development in the Hildastraße was planned from 1965, which was based in 1971 and is still used today. After Poppens death in 1956, Dr. Herbert Haag took over ( organist ) the management of the Institute until 1973. More guides were Prof. Wolfgang Herbst, Prof. Hermann Schäffer and Bernd Stegmann ( since 2006). As lecturers had, inter alia, Wolfgang Fortner, Walter abdomen, Helmut Tramnitz, Bruno Penzin, Heinz Werner Zimmermann, Kurt Bossler, Gerhard Wagner, Rolf Schweizer, Gudula Kremers, Hermann Schemmel, Eugen Polus, Gerhard Luchterhandt and Martin Sander at the Institute.