The history of the Mozarteum International Summer Academy
Lilli Lehmann founded the Mozarteum International Summer Academy in 1916. At the beginning only private voice lessons were offered within the premises of the Mozarteum. In 1925 Willy Schweyda gave the first violin class. Classes in piano, composition, conducting and opera were added in 1929 thanks to the sponsorship of American Julian Freedman. Between 1930–1937 the “Academy” was known as “Musical Summer Courses”, from 1937 to 1940 as “The Mozarteum Summer Academy” for Music, Theatre and Dance, and between 1940 to 1944 as “Summer Academy for Foreigners at the Mozarteum”. After 1945 Bernhard Paumgartner reorganized the classes, and since 1947 it bears the name “Mozarteum International Summer Academy”. Former directors have been Bernhard
Paumgartner, Eberhard Preussner, Heinz Scholz, Robert Wagner, Paul Schilhawsky, Rolf Liebermann and Peter Lang, Paul Roczek and from 2003 until 2013 Alexander Mullenbach. Throughout the years, the Summer Academy has steadily expanded its rich artistic offerings.
Centenary of the International Summer Academy Mozarteum Salzburg -
Brochure Anniversary Exhibition
Lecturers have included among others
Luciano Berio, Boris Blacher, Friedrich
Cerha, George Crumb, Franco Donatoni,
Gottfried von Einem, Wolfgang Fortner,
Sofia Gubaidulina, Cristóbal Halffter,
Hans Werner Henze, Paul Hindemith,
Mauricio Kagel, György Kurtág, Helmut
Lachenmann, Bruno Maderna, Frank
Martin, Carl Orff, Wolfgang Rihm,
Alfred Schnittke, Kurt Schwertsik,
Karlheinz Stockhausen, Viktor Suslin, Hans
Zender, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Herbert von
Karajan, Clemens Kraus, Erich Leinsdorf,
Günther Ramin, Wolfgang Sawallisch,
Hermann Scherchen, George Szell, Bruno
Walter, Udo Zimmermann, Iris Adami-
Coradetti, Arleen Auger, Walter Berry,
Kim Borg, Grace Bumbry, Ileana Cotrubas,
Werner Hollweg, Hans Hotter, Siegfried
Jerusalem, Sena Jurinac, Rudolf Knoll,
George London, Christa Ludwig, Rosa
Papier-Paumgartner, Julius Patzak,
Thomas Quasthoff, Irmgard Seefried,
Graziella Sciutti, Giulietta Simionato,
Rita Streich, Renata Tebaldi, Elisabeth
Schwarzkopf, Ellen Müller-Preis, Geza
Anda, Friedrich Gulda, Claude Helffer, Kurt
Leimer, Hans Leygraf, Tatiana Nikolaeva,
Alexis Weissenberg, Dieter Zechlin,
Kenneth Gilbert, Renato De Barbieri, Ivry
Gitlis, Gidon Kremer, Yehudi Menuhin, Ruggiero Ricci
Wolfgang Schneiderhan, Ljerko Spiller,
Tibor Varga, Sandor Vegh, Gérard Caussé,
Kim Kashkashian, Zara Nelsova, Arto
Noras, Antonio Janigro, Enrico Mainardi,
Harvey Shapiro, Pepe Romero,
Wolfgang Schulz, Radovan Vlatkovic,
Oskar Kokoschka, Harald Kreutzberg,
George Tabori, Peter Ustinov.