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Revision as of 20:34, 6 April 2008
The Birmingham Conservatory of Music, founded by Benjamin Guckenberger in 1895, was a notable music school with a full time faculty in several specialties. It was located at 1816 2nd Avenue North.
In 1953 the school's programs were absorbed into the Music Department of Birmingham-Southern College as the Birmingham-Southern College Conservatory of Fine and Performing Arts.
Notable faculty
- Ottokar Cadek
- Joe Gauggel
- Benjamin Guckenberger
- Edna Gockel Gussen, director, mid 1920s
- Carolyn Pfau
- Hugh Thomas
- Albert Urbach
- Dorsey Whittington
- Frances Whittington