Royal Music Institute of Berlin

The institute was founded in 1822 by Carl Friedrich Zelter and served to train organists, cantors and teachers at seminars and grammar schools.

In 1854, the Royal Church Music Institute had its own premises at Spandauer Straße 72 for the first time.

After several relocations, the State Academy for Church and School Music found its final domicile at today's Ernst-Reuter-Platz (at that time: Knie) in Hardenbergstraße 41 in Berlin-Charlottenburg, opposite the intersection of Schillerstraße.

The auditorium with the organ is located on the second floor in the rear part of the building and is accessible from the stairwell via an elaborately designed double door.

Well-known students of the institute were Franz Commer, Gustav Heuser, Carl Albert Löschhorn, Wilhelm Middelschulte, and Joseph Ahrens.