Hanover mourns Conservatoire chief

Hanover mourns Conservatoire chief

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norman lebrecht

July 12, 2017

Professor Richard Jakoby, longterm head of the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hanover and president of the Deutsches Musikrat, has died at 88.

He was a leading member of the International Society for Music Education (ISME), the International Music Councils (IMC) and the Comité Consultatif de la Musique auprès des Communautés Européennes.


photo: Karin Blüher

Comments

  • Stephan Möller says:

    Unquestioning the former merits of Prof. Jakoby: The name of the city is “Hannover”!

    • norman lebrecht says:

      In English we persist in spelling it with one ‘n’, just as we write Munich for München.

    • norman lebrecht says:

      In English we persist in spelling it with one ‘n’, just as we write Munich for München. We are ruled by the House of Hanover.

  • Scotty says:

    The Deutsches Musikrat is also no more, having been absorbed by “Musikfonds.”

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