The University
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Overview
At the Mozarteum University, artistic encounters and challenges are combined with art education and art university research. Highly talented students from all over the world, together with renowned teachers at the Salzburg and Innsbruck campuses, dedicate themselves to developing and opening up the arts and training outstanding talent.
Mozarteum University Salzburg
Mirabellplatz 1
5020 Salzburg
Mozarteum University Innsbruck
Haus der Musik
Universitätsstraße 1
6020 Innsbruck
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PEMA II
Amraser Straße 4
6020 Innsbruck
As diverse, fascinating and provocative, poetic and stirring, subtle and powerful, disturbing and reconciling as art, the Mozarteum University Salzburg sees itself as a place of artistic encounter and challenge. It is the only art university in Austria to combine music, performing arts and fine arts.
The Mozarteum University stands for special quality, openness and a historically close connection with Salzburg, characterized by an outstanding reputation and personalities such as Bianca Bianci, Bernhard Paumgartner, Clemens Krauss, Paul Hindemith, Lilli Lehmann, Carl Orff, Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Sándor Végh.
As a universal cultural institution, the Mozarteum University positions itself in Salzburg's cultural life with numerous events organized by students and faculty, and offers a wide range of opportunities for networking for later professional careers in the context of intensive studies in an artistic environment.
As an artistic, pedagogical and scientific center, the Mozarteum University fulfills regional and international tasks in equal measure. Through international exchanges of teachers and students, scholarship programs, exchange concerts and joint projects, the University maintains worldwide relations with friendly music and art colleges.
At one glance
Study
With over 2,000 students and 550 lecturers from all over the world, the Mozarteum University is one of the largest European universities of the arts. 15 departments cover a comprehensive range of studies and research in the fields of music, drama, directing, applied theatre, stage design, music, dance and art education as well as open arts. This unique, wide-ranging programme makes it possible to further develop new forms of collaboration, interaction and participation between the arts as well as between science and art and art and education.
Studies at the cutting edge promote the artistic, scientific and pedagogical education of young talents with the aim of being able to actively move in the cultural and creative world as well as in education or research after graduation. Teaching is highly individualised, but at the same time linked to personal responsibility. Some of the lecturers are renowned artists, educators and researchers, so that practical content flows directly into the teaching. In addition to Bachelor's, Master's, diploma, pedagogical and teacher training programmes, Mozarteum University offers a range of Pre-College, university courses and PhD programmes.
Research
The combination of scientific and artistic research has the potential to find answers to the pressing questions of the present and future. The Mozarteum University has therefore been focussing for years on the expansion of research infrastructure, research funding and networking, thereby laying a broad foundation for university research activities.
Research management organises training courses, an annual Research Competition and research funding and supports research dialogue, for example in the context of the lecture series research and/in the arts. The inter-university institution Science and Art (W&K) in cooperation with the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg operates at the interface and organises a diverse range of symposia, courses, conferences and workshops. The immanent research focus on Wolfgang deus Mozart is bundled across departments and institutes in the Mozart:Forum, which sets thematic priorities and highlights. The School of Music and Arts Education (SOMA) specialises as an overarching platform for high-quality, research-based education for music, art and theatre educators and the promotion of young talent based on this. A particular concern of the School of Music and Arts Education is the networking of artistic-pedagogical studies with internal and external fields of practice and research.
Cooperate
The complex challenges of the 21st century call for new forms of collaboration. Against the backdrop of a rapidly changing society, overcoming global problems and shaping the future can only be achieved by working together. Mozarteum University cooperates with 110 European and international partner universities, both traditionally and in this context, and maintains worldwide co-operations.
International projects, students and researchers - outgoing and incoming - create a diverse, multifaceted learning and working environment that enriches both the university and the public and recognises trans-university, trans-cultural and trans-disciplinary collaboration as a method and key competence of our time.
Places such as workshops, event venues, exhibition spaces or the X-Reality-Lab planned in the new Mozarteum University building at the Kurgarten enable intensive work between the departments and external partners. In terms of society as a whole, the Mozarteum University assumes responsibility by actively participating in democratic processes and discourses - for example in the context of projects such as ‘Practicing Care’, which provides freedom for artists threatened by freedom through an artist-in-residence programme, artistic interventions or participation in the UniNEtZ project. In the heart of the cultural cities of Salzburg and Innsbruck, the Mozarteum University promotes contemporary discourse in cooperation with institutions such as the Museum der Moderne, the International Mozarteum Foundation, Szene Salzburg, ARGE Kultur, the Salzburg Festival, the Salzburg State Theatre and Treibhaus Innsbruck. It is a host and meeting place for symposia, conferences and network meetings. Numerous competitions and tenders in co-operation with institutions from the fields of culture, business, the city and province of Salzburg, the city of Innsbruck and the province of Tyrol support students.
Principles & History
The Mozarteum University is committed to integrity, professionalism, fairness, reliability and respect in all its actions. This is defined by the university's guidelines for teaching, development and development of the arts, science and research, and management and administration.
Work and decision-making processes are guided by the principles of legality, economic efficiency, expediency, economy and transparency. In the event of a suspicion of illegal actions or unfair conduct, members of the Mozarteum University Salzburg can submit information by e-mail to whistle.blower@moz.ac.at in implementation of the EU Directive on the Protection of Persons Reporting Breaches of Union Law (Whistleblower Directive).
The Mozarteum University has a central socio-political mission in the transfer of a diversity of artistic and scientific results. It is precisely with the help of artistic productions that it is possible to question norms, to open up spaces for critical discourse and, building on this, to bring about change. We are committed to a clear stance of anti-discrimination, justice and openness towards people of all sexual identities. A Gender and Diversity Sensitive Language Guide defines mindful and reflective language use.
The Mozarteum University has a central socio-political mission in the transfer of a variety of artistic and scientific results. With the help of artistic productions in particular, it is possible to question standardisations, open up spaces for critical discourse and, building on this, bring about change.
We are committed to a clear stance of anti-discrimination, justice and openness towards people of all sexual identities. A guideline for gender- and diversity-sensitive language defines a mindful and reflective use of language.
Social dimension & responsibility
We perceive lived diversity in the consideration of different socio-cultural backgrounds, a variety of ways of dealing with gender, physical or psychological challenges and talents as an opportunity and valuable potential. It is a principle of thinking, acting, interacting and communicating with one another.
The following institutions are particularly responsible for the coordination, monitoring and evaluation of this process:
- Working Group for Equality (AKG)
- Institute for Equality & Gender Studies
- Working Group for Inclusion and Diversity (AG ID)
In consultation with the Rectorate, the Department of Quality Management and Development Planning of the University, the Staff Office for Personnel Project Development, the Department of Career and Career Development (Personnel Development and Family Service Office), the Department of Study and Examination Management, the Austrian National Union of Students, as well as the representatives of the Gender Studies Platform, the members of the Institute and the Working Group act as multipliers in the dialogue with the representatives of various committees and groups (Senate, meetings of the heads of departments, AG Curricula) and especially in individual discussions.
Vision
Diversity-sensitive resource orientation enables continuous development:
- in communicating and acting together
- in the reflection and integration of different perspectives.
The University Mozarteum Salzburg has a central socio-political mission in the transfer of a diversity of artistic and scientific results. It is precisely with the help of artistic productions that it is possible to question norms, to open up spaces for critical discourse and, building on this, to bring about change.
Implementations
Cooperation & Networking
SDG 5
KEG-Berlin
Austria-wide gender platform
Cooperation with Paris Lodron University Salzburg
Platform Gender Research, Gender Studies
Human Resources & Students
Cultural diversity as a challenge & opportunity
Gender sensitive thinking & acting
Social diversity as a challenge
Dealing with people with disabilities as an enrichment of what we do
Research & development of the arts
Gender & diversity research
Migration research
Echoes of diversity: at the intersection of science & art
Teaching
Third Mission
Internal continuing education
Study supplement "Arts | Gender | Research)
Anchoring of gender & diversity issues in the curricula
Supporting measures in the delivery of teaching
The history of the Mozarteum University Salzburg begins in 1841: On the occasion of Wolfgang Amadé Mozart's fiftieth birthday, the music-loving citizens of Salzburg, with the support of the Prince-Archbishop, founded the "Dommusikverein und Mozarteum" as a conservatory for the cultivation of sophisticated church music. At that time there was a shortage of young instrumentalists, and the state of the musical landscape was accordingly: " The choir (...) was drowned out by the orchestra, which played quite too loudly (...) the best players were the three trombonists - the next best was the double bass player (...). In the birthplace of the most wonderful composer who ever lived, music is indeed in a state of sad decay " (Vincent and Mary Novello on the occasion of their visit to Salzburg in 1826, from the notes of the travel diary "A Mozart Pilgrimage").
The Mozarteum was primarily intended as a conservatory for the training of young musicians for the ecclesiastical service of the Salzburg Cathedral and was to initiate a revival for Salzburg. The founding goals also included organizing concerts, engaging and, above all, paying musicians*. Gifted students of the conservatory were additionally supported by the awarding of scholarships. In the first decades of its existence, the Mozarteum was not only an educational institution, but also an important crystallization point of the urban-civic cultural will and was strongly anchored in the political consciousness, through the upgrading of the city to a music and tourist center under the sign of Mozart.
In 1870, the International Mozart Foundation was established to promote talented musicians, and a decade later the Mozarteum Public Music School was founded, which in 1881 was taken over by the International Mozart Foundation, which at the same time changed its name to the International Mozarteum Foundation. In addition to the music school, the foundation administered an orchestra (later the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg) as well as a fund for the support of talented and needy musicians.
In 1914, the Mozarteum Public Music School became an independent educational institution and was recognized as a conservatory with public rights. Due to the difficult financial situation after the First World War, the music school was nationalized in 1922, and in 1939 it became the Mozarteum State University and in 1941 the Mozarteum Reich University. After the end of the Second World War, teaching, which had largely come to a standstill, was resumed on a continuous basis and the Mozarteum continued under the title of Musikhochschule. With the beginning of the 1950s, numerous new departments, scientific institutes and special courses were founded, and in 1953 the Academy of Music was elevated to the status of the "Mozarteum" Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Salzburg. With the enactment of the Kunsthochschul-Organisationsgesetz (KHOG) in 1970, the Academy, together with the three other Austrian art academies, became a university, a democratization of the development and development of the arts (read more: On the way to becoming an art university). in 1998, the former music school receives university status and since then bears the name Mozarteum University Salzburg.
In addition to the Mozarteum University, two other independent Salzburg institutions bear the name "Mozarteum": the International Mozarteum Foundation and the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg.
In 1981, a dislocated department was established in Innsbruck by the then Mozarteum University of Applied Sciences, where the field of study Music Education (now: Music Pedagogy) has been offered since the beginning, and Instrumental Music Education since 1986. In 2006, in cooperation with the Tyrolean State Conservatory Instrumental & Vocal Pedagogy was established as a degree program. In today's Department of Music Pedagogy - Innsbruck location about 200 students take the music pedagogical studies, in which a balanced artistic, pedagogical and scientific education is imparted by renowned teaching staff at a high university level. A large percentage of graduates of the offered studies are employed as teachers in secondary schools and music schools in music pedagogical professions, but also in the regional and supra-regional cultural and educational scene, for example as performing musicians, choirmasters, bandmasters and church musicians. Since 2018, the Department of Music Education and part of the Department of Musicology (Department of Musical Ethnology) have been located at the Haus der Musik in the center of Innsbruck.
Also the Department of Fine Arts & Design has a location in Innsbruck in PEMA 2 since 2019.