University Mozarteum Salzburg

The Mozarteum University in Salzburg offers over forty arts and education majors including music, performing arts and visual arts. A comprehensive education is given to 1,500 young artists from around the world in all of the instrumental subjects, in composition, conducting, voice, music theater, drama, directing, stage design, music and dance education, art and industrial education as well as in music education and musicology. 500 instructors, many of whom are internationally renowned artists and educators, pass on their knowledge and art, filling the university with lively debate.

History
The history of the Mozarteum University dates back to 1841 and was shaped by outstanding personalities such as Bernhard Paumgartner, Clemens Krauss, Paul Hindemith, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Carl Orff and Sándor Végh. The Mozarteum was founded by the Salzburg Cathedral Music Society as a school of music. It became a conservatory in 1914, an academy in 1953, a college of music and performing arts in 1970 and a university in 1998.
With an international exchange of instructors and students, scholarship programs and mutual projects, the Mozarteum University has international relations with affiliated music and arts colleges.

The new building
The Mozarteum moved into the new building in the Mirabell Gardens in October along with 160 keyboard instruments, 2 organs, 240,000 books and manuscripts, 15,000 media formats (CDs, videos, DVDs, LPs), 300 cabinets, 2,000 chairs, 150 PCs, 320 desks, 400 music stands, 1,500 packing cases and 4,000 boxes for the library.
After the old building was closed in October 1998 due to constructional defects, the building underwent several years of rehabilitation. The new Mozarteum is a modern building with a useful area of 20,438 square meters designed to meet the needs of students and instructors. The chamber music hall - the "Solitaire," the big studio and the smaller event halls have turned the new Mozarteum into a young, creative and high-quality cultural venue in Salzburg. A 490 square meter rooftop terrace is the cherry on top of the 40-million euro state-of-the-art university building.


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