Mozarteum University Salzburg

Mozarteum University Salzburg is a public university in Salzburg, Austria, specialising in music, drama and directing, music and dance pedagogy, and art education. Its main building, the New Mozarteum, stands at Mirabellplatz 1 in the right half of Salzburg's Old Town, with the Mirabell Gardens next door. Frohnburg Castle holds a student residence and the Orff Institute for Orff Schulwerk, and a branch office with the Department of Music Education sits in Innsbruck's House of Music.

The institution traces its history to the Dommusikverein und Mozarteum, founded in Salzburg in 1841 as a conservatory and for collecting old Mozart documents. In 1880 it became the Public Music School Mozarteum, in 1914 it was recognised as the Mozarteum Conservatory with public rights, and it has carried the name Mozarteum University Salzburg since 1998. It is one of three separate entities under the Mozarteum name in Salzburg, alongside the International Mozarteum Foundation and the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg. Like its affiliates, the university was established in honour of Salzburg-born Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Teaching covers instruments (string, plucked, wind, percussion and keyboard), voice, Catholic and Protestant church music, conducting, composition and music theory, each in performance and music education. Teacher training includes music education (instrumental and vocal pedagogy), music and movement education, art education, crafts, and textile design. There are also programmes in acting, directing and stage design. The university may award doctoral degrees, and the PhD programme sits in the departments of Musicology and Music Education, in Salzburg and Innsbruck. Students play in the Mozarteum University Symphony Orchestra, which has worked with conductors including Nikolaus Harnoncourt, André Previn and Bruno Weil.

The Austrian national register lists the institution in the university category as a public university, with 93 programmes of all kinds and languages. Two of them are English-taught degree programmes: one Master's degree and one PhD or doctorate. The subjects fall under Arts, Design and Architecture.

For an international student, the practical points are these. You apply directly to the Mozarteum, which sets its own application period and entrance procedure. Students from outside the EU and EEA need a Residence Permit for Students. At public universities, EU, EEA and Swiss students pay no tuition within the standard duration of study plus two semesters, and most other students pay a per-semester fee. Every student pays the student union fee.