Neue Schule für Musik und Bühnenkunst, Wien
New School for Music and Dramatic Art, Vienna
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Music school located at Vienna I, Hegelgasse 3, administered by Marianne Munk-Weissberger and directed by Alfred Weissberger. The School was in operation at least in the 1930s.
According to the School’s prospectus c.1932, its music curriculum covered all principal classical instruments, voice, and composition, and included jazz, microphone techniques, recording on to disk, and acoustics. The dramatic arts curriculum embraced opera, drama, dance, film, and radio. There was also a junior division. The teaching staff number about fifty.
The School and Schenker
Schenker was contacted in August 1933 with a view to his teaching a year-long course on Beethoven; he declined the proposal. He subsequently recommended Moriz Violin to the School, but that came to nothing.
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- Ian Bent