Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst, Università per Musica e Arte Scenica, Universidad para Música y las Artes escénicas, Université pour la Musique et le Spectacle vivant, University of Music and Performing arts (Rennweg)

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University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna

Motto tradition and innovation

Founded in 1817

State sponsorship

Location Vienna, Austria

Rector Werner Hasitschka

About 3,000 students

Employees about 850 of which about 140 professors

www.mdw.ac.at site

 

The University of Music and Performing Arts 2007

Columned hall to staircase, Kaiserstein

Pillar staircase around open shaft, Kaiserstein

Institute building and former main building, including the Academy Theater, Lothringerstraße 18

The University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (mdw) is an Austrian university located in third District of Vienna highway (Landstraße), Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1. It claims to be the greatest art university in Austria and greatest university of music worldwide. Approximately 3,000 students are supported by more than 850 teachers. It is since 2002 structured into 24 institutions offering the artistic, artistic-scientific and purely scientific doctrine. Since 2002 Werner Hasitschka is rector.

History

Already 1808 was discussed on the establishment of a conservatory of Music according to Parisian model (Conservatoire de Paris). The 1812 founded Society of Friends of Music in Vienna this venture had set as it main task, so that already in 1817 a singing school could be launched, which laid the headstone for such an institution. Thus the year 1817 is considered the official founding year of the mdw. In 1819 with the Engagierung (engagement) of violin professor Joseph Böhm instrumental lessons have been started.

With short interruptions during the 19th Century the curriculum was expanded massively, so that in the 1890s more than 1,000 students could be counted. In 1909, this private institution was nationalized on resolution of the emperor and was now kk Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.

With the nationalization it also received an own house: in collaboration with the Vienna Konzerthaus Society from 1912 in Liszstraße a building together with a sample stage (today Academy Theater) was built, into which already in January 1914 could be moved. After World War I, the institution was called State Academy (1919). In 1928, the Academy has been extended to a drama seminar (Reinhardt-Seminar) and a music educational seminar. Between 1938 and 1945 it was continued as a Reichshochschule (Academy of the German Reich) by exclusion of Jewish teachers and students.

After the war, in 1946 the institution again became an art school, from 1970 to 1998 it was called University of Music and Performing Arts, since 1998 it is a university.

In 1952 Walter Kolm-Veltée established special training for film design. In 1960, a film class, led by Hans Winge, was added. In 1963, the two courses were combined into the newly founded "Film and Television Department". There were other additional courses, and since 1998, the department is also known as the Vienna Film Academy.

Building

In addition to its headquarters, the mdw-campus at Anton-von-Webern-Platz in the third district, are other branches in 3rd District in Ungargasse 14, am Rennweg 8, in the Metternichgasse 8 and 12 as well as in the Lothringerstraße 18. In the first district of Vienna teaching locations are situated at Karlsplatz 1 and 2, at the Schubertring 14, at the corner of John Street/Seilerstätte and in the Singerstraße 26. Furthermore, in the 4th District in Rienößlgasse 12, in 13th district in the Schoenbrunn Palace Theater as well as at the Palais Cumberland in the Penzingerstrasse.

Campus

The monumental functional purpose building in the sober, classicist forms of Hofbauamtes located at the former Wiener Neustadt channel (rapid rail line), is located at the Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1. 1776 there on the suggestion of Emperor Joseph II. an animal hospital was built in the former Jesuit dairy farm. 1821-1823 followed a new building by Johann Nepomuk Amann, being planned a sprawling complex. The main building with a long façade extends to the left Bahngasse, there are numerous additions. A major contract received the Kaisersteinbrucher master stonemasons, the spacious entrance hall with Tuscan columns, pilasters and mullioned pillars, the spacios pillar staircase around open shaft, all made of light Kaiserstein with typical blue translucent embeddings - a special room for friends of the emperor stone (Kaiserstein). By 1996, the building was the seat of the University of Veterinary Medicine and its predecessor institutions.

In 1996 the building was chosen as the new seat of the University, and completely renovated by architect Reinhardt Gallister. The historic structure was preserved, elements such as glass, wood and stone are the defining stylistic devices and modern technology and equipment was connected with good room acoustics. Studios, classrooms and halls can be rented externally, too.

Disciplines of study

Composition and Music Theory

Conducting

Sound engineer

Instrumental study

Church Music

Educational Studies

Singing and opera directing

Performing Arts

Film and Television

Doctoral Studies

Summer Campus

The isa - International Summer Academy is the musical summer campus of the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. More than 200 students from over 40 nations are taking part in two weeks of master classes of the highest calibre in the Semmering region and in Vienna. The summer campus was founded in 1991 as an initiative of Michael Frischenschlager. The isa arose from the euphoria over the fall of the Iron Curtain with the aim, exceptionally talented young students, mainly from the Central and Eastern European countries (CEE countries), allow musical encounters and build international relationships. Since 2005 Johannes Meissl is artistic director of the isa.

Institutions

Institute for Composition and Electro-Acoustics

Institute for Music Conducting

Institute for Analysis, Theory and History of Music

Institute for Keyboard Instruments (podium/concert)

Institute for Bowed and other String Instruments (podium/concert)

Leonard Bernstein Institute for Wind and Percussion instruments

Joseph Haydn Institute for Chamber Music and Special Ensembles

Institute for Organ, Organ Research and Church Music

Institute for Singing and Music Theater

Institute for Drama and Acting Direction (Max Reinhardt Seminar)

Institute for Film and Television (Film Academy Vienna)

Institute for Music Education

Institute for Music and Movement Education and Music Therapy

Institute of Musical Style Research

Institute of Popular Music

Institute Ludwig van Beethoven (keyboard instruments in music pedagogy)

Hellmesberger - Institute (string & other bowed instruments in Music Education)

Institute Franz Schubert (wind and percussion instruments in Music Pedagogy)

Institute Antonio Salieri (singing in Music Pedagogy)

Institute Anton Bruckner (music theory, ear training, ensemble direction)

Institute for Folk Music Research and Ethnomusicology

Institute for Viennese Sound Style (Musical Acoustics)

Institute for Music Sociology

Institute of Culture Management and Cultural Studies (IKM)

Science

Apart from artistic training form the scientific institutions (or full professors and university lecturers with great teaching qualification - venia docendi) a significant part of the university's work. A special feature of the MDW is the high interconnectedness of science and art. The right to award doctorates is the foundation of a university, and is realized at the MDW in the PhD graduate program. Departments of scientific work in this connection are:

Dramaturgy

Film Studies

Gender Studies

History and Theory of Popular Music

Gregorian chant and liturgy

Historical Musicology (including analysis, music theory and harmonic research)

Stylistics and performance practice

Cultural Business Operations

Musical Acoustics

Music Education

Sociology of Music

Music Theory

Music Therapy

Systematic musicology within interdisciplinary approaches

Folk Music Research, Ethnomusicology

 

Known graduates

Claudio Abbado

Barbara Albert

Peter Alexander

Christian Altenburger

Maria Andergast

Walter Samuel Bartussek

Johanna Beisteiner

Erwin Belakowitsch

Achim Benning

Zsófia Boros

Thomas Brezinka

Florian Brüning

Rudolf Buchbinder

Friedrich Cerha

Gabriel Chmura

Mimi Coertse

Luke David

Yoram David

Jacques Delacôte, French conductor

Jörg Demus

Helmut German

Johanna Doderer

Iván Eröd

Karlheinz Essl

Matthias Fletzberger

Sabrina Frey

Beat Furrer

Rudolf Gamsjäger

Raoul Gehringer

Nicolas Geremus

Wolfgang Glück

Wolfgang Glüxam

Eugen Gmeiner

Walter Goldschmidt

Stefan Gottfried

Friedrich Gulda

Robert Gulya

Ingomar Auer

Christoph Haas (born 1949), Swiss conductor

Georg Friedrich Haas

Hans Hammerschmid

Gottfried Hemetsberger

John Hiemetsberger

Robert Holl

Mariss Jansons

Leo Jaritz

Mariama Djiwa Jenie, concert pianist and dancer

Thomas Jöbstl

Thomas Kakuska

Bijan Khadem-Missagh, violin

Angelika Kirschschlager

Hermann Killmeyer

Patricia Kopatchinskaya

Leon Koudelak

Bojidara Kouzmanova

Tina Kordić

Klaus Kuchling

Rainer Küchl

Gabriele Lechner

Wolf Lotter

Gustav Mahler

Edith Mathis

Zubin Mehta

Tobias Moretti

Tomislav Mužek

Helmut Neumann

Josef Niederhammer

Ernst Ottensamer

Erwin Ortner

Rudolf Pacik

Harry Pepl

Günter Pichler

Josephine Pilars de Pilar

Peter Planyavsky

Stefanie Alexandra Prenn

Armando Puklavec

Carole Dawn Reinhart

Gerald Reischl

Wolfgang Reisinger

Erhard Riedlsperger

Jhibaro Rodriguez

Hilde Rössel-Maidan

Michael Radanovics

Sophie Rois

Gerhard Ruhm

Kurt Rydl

Clemens Salesny

Heinz Sandauer

Klaus-Peter Sattler

Wolfgang Sauseng

Nicholas Schapfl

Agnes Scheibelreiter

Heinrich Schiff

Michael Schnitzler

Peter Schuhmayer

Christian W. Schulz

Wolfgang Schulz

Ulrich Seidl

Fritz Schreiber

Kurt Schwertsik

Ulf-Diether Soyka

Christian Spatzek

Arben Spahiu

Götz Spielmann

Othmar Steinbauer

Hermann Sulzberger (b. 1957), Austrian composer

Roman Summereder

Hans Swarovsky

Jenő Takács

Wolfgang Tomböck

Karolos Trikolidis, Greek-Austrian conductor

Mitsuko Uchida

Timothy Vernon (b. 1948), Canadian conductor

Eva Vicens harpsichordist from Uruguay, lives in Spain

Annette Volkamer

Johanna Wokalek

Adolf Wallnöfer

Gregor Widholm

Bruno Weil

Hermann Wlach

Paul Zauner

Herbert Zipper

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