Wien, 3. Bezirk (the art of historic public places in the suburbs not far away from downtown Vienna), Lisztstraße/Lothringerstraße (Akademietheater)

University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna

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Motto tradition and innovation

Founded in 1817

Government-sponsored

Location Vienna, Austria

Director Ulrike Sych

Approximately 3,000 students

Approximately 850 employees

Professors of about 140

www.mdw.ac.at website

The University of Music and Performing Arts 2007

Columned hall to the stairs, Kaiserstein

Pillar staircase to open shaft, Kaiserstein

Institution building and former main building including Academy Theatre, Lothringerstraße 18

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

History

Already in 1808, was discussed on the establishment of a conservatory of music modelled on Paris (Conservatoire de Paris). The Society of Friends of Music in Vienna, founded in 1812 had set itself this ventur to the main task, so in 1817 a singing school was launched, which laid the foundation stone for such an institution. Thus 1817 is also known as the official founding year of mdw. In 1819 began with the Engagierung (engagement) of Joseph Boehm, professor of violin, music lessons.

With short interruptions was during the 19th Century the curriculum massively expanded 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 cooperation with the Vienna Konzerthaus Society from 1912 in the Lisztstraße was built a building together with a sample stage (Academy Opera, today), in which alreay in January 1914 could moved in. After World War I the institution was then State College (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 (Reich high school) under exclusion of Jewish high school teachers and students.

After the war in 1946 the institution was again an art school, from 1970 to 1998 it was called the University of Music and Performing Arts, since 1998 it has been a university. In 1952 Walter Kolm-Veltée established a special training course for film making. In 1960 a film class led by Hans Winge was added. In 1963 the two courses were combined into the newly formed "Department of Film and Television". This was followed by additional courses, and since 1998, the department is also known as the Vienna Film Academy.

Building

In addition to the headquarters, the mdw-campus at Anton-von-Webern-Platz in the third district, are other branches in the 3rd district in Ungargasse 14, Rennweg 8, in the Metternichgasse 8 and 12 and in the Lothringerstraße 18. In Vienna's first district teaching places are at Karlsplatz 1 and 2, at Schubertring 14 at the corner of Johannesgasse/Seilerstaette and in the Singerstraße 26. Furthermore, in the 4th district in Rienösslgasse 12, in 13th district in the Schoenbrunn Palace Theater as well as in the Palais Cumberland in Penzingerstrasse.

Campus

The monumental functional purpose building in the sober classicising forms of the Hofbauamtes (Vienna Court Building Department) located at the former Wiener Neustadt Canal (speed train track), is situated at the Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1. In 1776 was here at the suggestion of the Emperor Joseph II in the former Jesuit dairy farm an animal hospital built. 1821-1823 followed a new building by Johann Nepomuk Amann a sprawling complex being planned. The main building extends with long façade to the left Bahngasse, there are numerous additional buildings. A large contract received the Kaisersteinbrucher stonemasons, the spacious entrance hall with Tuscan columns, pilasters and coupled columns, the spacious pillar staircase around open shaft, all of them made of light Kaiserstein with the typical blue translucent inclusions - a special room for friends of the imperial stone (Kaiserstein). Until 1996, the building was the headquarters of the University of Veterinary Medicine and its predecessor institutions.

In 1996 the building was chosen as the new seat of the University, and refurbished by architect Reinhardt Gallister. The historic structure was preserved, elements such as glass, wood and stone are the defining style resources and modern technology and equipment has been connected with good acoustics. Studios, classrooms and halls can be hired externally.

Study

Composition and Music Theory

Conducting

Sound engineer

Instrumental studies

Church Music

Educational Studies

Singing and musical theater director

Performing Arts

Film and Television

PhD

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 countries take part in two weeks of top-class master classes in the Semmering region and in Vienna. The summer campus was founded in 1991 as an initiative of Michael Frischenschlager. The isa emerged from the euphoria over the fall of the Iron Curtain, with the aim of exceptionally talented young students, mainly from the Central and Eastern European countries (CEE-countries) to 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 management

Institute for Analysis, Theory and History of Music

Department of Keyboard Instruments (panel/concert)

Institute for string and other string instruments (panel/concert)

Leonard Bernstein Institute for wind and percussion instruments

Joseph Haydn Institute of Chamber Music and Special Ensembles

Institute for organ, organ and church music research

Institute for singing and music theater

Institute for Drama and Acting Director (Max Reinhardt Seminar)

Institute for Film and Television (Film Academy Vienna)

Institute for Music Education

Institute for Music and Movement Education and Music Therapy

Research Institute of Musical Style

Institute of Popular Music

Institute Ludwig van Beethoven (keyboards in music pedagogy)

Hellmesberger - Institute ( String id Plucked and other music education)

Franz Schubert Institute (wind and percussion instruments in music pedagogy)

Institute Antonio Salieri (vocals 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 Culture Studies (IKM)

Science

Apart from artistic training form the scientific institutions (or professors and lecturers with the great teaching qualification - Venia Docendi) a significant part of the university's work. A special feature of the MDW is the high integration of science and art. The promotion law is the foundation of a university, and is implemented on the MDW in the PhD program. Departments of scientific work are here:

Dramaturgy

Film Studies

Gender Studies

History and Theory of Popular Music

Gregorian chant and liturgy

Historical musicology (including analysis, music theory and Harmonic Research)

Musical style and performance practice

Cultural Production Engineering,

Musical Acoustics

Music Education

Sociology of music

Music Theory

Music Therapy

Systematic musicology in interdisciplinary approaches

Folk Music Research, Ethnomusicology

Famous graduates

Claudio Abbado

Barbara Albert

Peter Alexander

Christian Altenburger

Maria Andergast

Walter Samuel Bartussek

Johanna Beisteiner

Erwin Belakowitsch

Achim Benning

Zsófia Boros

Thomas Brezinka

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

Eugene 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-Majdan

Michael Radanovics

Sophie Rois

Gerhard Rühm

Kurt Rydl

Clemens Salesny

Heinz Sandauer

Klaus-Peter Sattler

Wolfgang Sauseng

Nikolaus 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, (*1957), österreichischer Komponist

Roman Summereder

Hans Swarowsky

Jenő Takács

Wolfgang Tomböck

Karolos Trikolidis, griechisch-österreichischer Dirigent

Mitsuko Uchida

Timothy Vernon, (*1948), kanadischer Dirigent

Eva Vicens, Cembalistin aus Uruguay, lebt in Spanien

Annette Volkamer

Johanna Wokalek

Adolf Wallnöfer

Gregor Widholm

Bruno Weil

Hermann Wlach

Paul Zauner

Herbert Zipper

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