Hanover mourns Conservatoire chief
mainProfessor 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
Unquestioning the former merits of Prof. Jakoby: The name of the city is “Hannover”!
In English we persist in spelling it with one ‘n’, just as we write Munich for München.
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.
The Deutsches Musikrat is also no more, having been absorbed by “Musikfonds.”