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Tracing the topicality of content and music: Under the leadership of the Forum Salzburger Volkskultur, a project was started to record the textual and musical variants of Silent Night! Holy Night!, which is jointly supervised by Wolfgang Dreier-Andres for the Salzburger Volksliedwerk and Thomas Hochradner of the Mozarteum University for the Silent Night Society.

What a beautiful story: In 1869, the Austrian Emperor Franz Josef travelled to Japan. On board was a Bösendorfer grand piano as a gift for the Japanese Emperor Meiji. Legend has it that a naval officer was allowed to play the instrument for the tenno - a first musical experience that cemented the friendship between the two countries. 

Establishing a similarity between the harmonic sequences in W. A. Mozart's Phantasia in C minor (KV 475) and the color chords of Salzburg is the starting point and program of the artistic-scientific cooperation project that brings together selected students of the University Mozarteum Salzburg and young people as well as adults of the class "Sound and Color" of the Landesmusikschule Bad Ischl.

The Mozart in Nairobi project tells the story of imprisoned mothers and their left-behind children in Kenya in an essay film,

Accompanied by the sounds of Mozart's Violin Sonata in E minor, which lays over the smoldering conflicts like an ideal world, IDYLL tells of a family in upheaval…

Unbounded deals with the transformation process of the first movement of Mozart's Symphony in A major (KV 201) into a gradually emerging abstract painting, realized in the form of an animated film.

VR MozART takes the audience on a journey through space and time, using virtual reality glasses to immerse us in the emotional world of experience that W. A. Mozart's music opens up in all of us. In the English reading, the title VR MozART refers to the cultural adaptation that Mozart's work has experienced in European and also worldwide reception.

Univ.-Prof. for guitar

Univ.-Prof. for Dance

The training at the Department of Voice is tailored to the needs of singers in the 21st century who can take on roles with demanding physical requirements and are also masters at working with colleagues, directors and conductors from around the world.

Recorder player Max Volbers and baroque violinist Mayumi Hirasaki were recently awarded an OPUS KLASSIK 2023. A conversation about the lively character of early music, the search for the new and the intensive research into the repertoire at the Department of Early Music at the Mozarteum University.