Mozarteum University Salzburg (

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: ''Universität Mozarteum Salzburg'') is one of three affiliated but separate (it is actually a state university) entities under the “Mozarteum” moniker in Salzburg municipality; the International Mozarteum Foundation and the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg are the other two. It specializes in music, the dramatic arts, and to a lesser degree graphic arts. Like its affiliates it was established in honour of Salzburg-born musician

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History and clarification

In 1841, Mozart's widow Constanze Weber Mozart founded the first of the “Mozarteum” entities: the “Cathedral Music Association and Mozarteum,” whose mission was the “refinement of musical taste with regard to sacred music and concerts.” The association operated as predecessor to the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg through the 19th century and was at the heart of the city’s musical life, offering concerts and related activities. It assumed its present name in 1908. The International Mozarteum Foundation came next, toward the end of the 19th century. It built, and to this day maintains, a sizeable elegant office building on Schwarzstraße to which are attached two concert halls. Construction took place between 1910 and 1914 to a design by

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Richard Berndl (1875–1955). The larger of the two halls is itself known as the “Mozarteum” and is world-renowned; its proper name is simply "Großer Saal." The smaller hall is the "Wiener Saal." Besides maintaining this complex, the foundation runs two museums devoted to Mozart (the composer’s birth house, or "Geburtshaus," and his main Salzburg residence, or "Wohnhaus") as well as an annual January music festival devoted to Mozart's music (" Mozartwoche"). The more recently rebuilt University main building is at Mirabellplatz 1.

Organ of the Großer Saal

The original 100-rank grand concert hall organ was built by the Austrian firm Rieger in 1914. A completely new organ in neo-Baroque style was installed in 1970 by E. F. Walcker & Cie. This was dismantled in 2008. In 2010 a new 50-stop tracker action organ was installed by Hermann Eule Orgelbau,

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, and the 1914 façade for the instrument was reconstructed.

Organ of the Wiener Saal

The pipe organ in the "Wiener Saal" small concert hall, invisibly located in an organ chamber above the stage, was built in 1914 by Rieger with 25 stops and electro-pneumatic action. It was rebuilt in 1941, including a new console and some neobaroque modifications. The organ is in bad condition, but still playable.

Notable alumni

* Barbara Bonney (soprano) * Marios Joannou Elia (composer and artistic director) * David Frühwirth (violinist) * Ingrid Haebler (pianist) *

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(conductor) * Angelika Kirchschlager (mezzo soprano) * Herbert von Karajan (conductor) * Christiane Karg (soprano) * Genia Kühmeier (soprano) * Marjon Lambriks (soprano) * Giorgi Latso (pianist) * Erich Leinsdorf (conductor) * Igor Levit (pianist) * Kerstin Meyer (mezzo-soprano) * Nils Mönkemeyer (violist) * Pier Giorgio Morandi (conductor) * Alexander Mullenbach (composer and pianist) *

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(soprano) * Karola Obermueller (composer) *

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(opera conductor) * Alice Sara Ott (pianist) * Frank Philipp Schlößmann (born 1963), scenic and costume designer *

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(1918–1970), coloratura soprano * Sarah Traubel (soprano) * Norma Wendelburg (1918–2016), composer, pianist and academic teacher * Herbert Willi (born 1956), composer *

Tabea Zimmermann Tabea Zimmermann (born 8 October 1966) is a German violist. Born in Lahr, she began learning to play the viola at the age of three, and commenced piano studies at age five. At the age of 13, she studied viola with Ulrich Koch at the Conservato ...

(violist) *

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(pianist,arranger)

Notable teachers

* Barbara Bonney (voice) *

Reinhard Febel Reinhard Febel (born 3 July 1952) is a German composer, notable for his operas. He is also a music theorist and a university professor at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover and the Mozarteum. Career Febel was born in Metzinge ...

(composition) * Eliot Fisk (guitar) * Vittorio Ghielmi (viola da gamba) * Michael Gielen (conducting) *

Pavel Gililov Pavel Lvovich Gililov (russian: Павел Львович Гилилов; born 23 June 1950) is a Russian classical pianist who has held German citizenship since 2003. Life Born in Donezk, Gililov's musical talent was discovered by the Russi ...

(piano) * Reinhard Goebel (barock violin, conducting) * Veronika Hagen-Di Ronza (viola) *

(conducting) *

Sheila Jones Harms Sheila Harms (29 May 1931 – 12 December 2004) was a soprano in Germany and Austria. She specialized in the vocal interpretation of lieder, oratorio, and opera, which she combined with her musicianship at the piano. Biography Born in Carlisle ...

(voice) *

Nikolaus Harnoncourt Johann Nikolaus Harnoncourt or historically Johann Nikolaus Graf de la Fontaine und d'Harnoncourt-Unverzagt; () (6 December 1929 – 5 March 2016) was an Austrian conductor, particularly known for his historically informed performances of music ...

(conducting) * Adriana Hölszky (composition) *

Wolfgang Holzmair Wolfgang Holzmair (born 1952 in Vöcklabruck) is an Austrian baritone. Holzmair studied at the Vienna Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. He won 2nd prize in the baritone class of the 's-Hertogenbosch International Vocal Competition in 1981, and ...

(lied and oratorio) * Johannes Kalitzke (conducting of contemporary music) *

Karl-Heinz Kämmerling Karl-Heinz Kämmerling (6 May 1930 – 14 June 2012) was a notable German academic teacher of classical pianists, who trained pianists at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover for careers as performe ...

(piano) * Angelika Kirchschlager (voice) * Wilma Lipp (voice) * Tristan Murail (composition) * Felix Petyrek (composition) * Ildikó Raimondi (voice) * Ruggiero Ricci (violin) * Gerhard Röthler (harpsichord) * Jacques Rouvier (piano) * Heinrich Schiff (cello) * Otmar Suitner (conducting) * Laurence Traiger (composition) * Bruno Weil (conducting) *

Gerhard Wimberger Gerhard Wimberger (30 August 1923 – 12 October 2016) was an Austrian composer and Conducting, conductor. Career Wimberger studied at the Mozarteum University of Salzburg, Mozarteum in Salzburg. His teachers were Cesar Bresgen and Johann Ne ...

(conducting, composition) * Duo Tal & Groethuysen (piano)

References

External links

Official site

Mozarteum Precollege Program (German)

International Mozarteum Foundation website

Institute for historical and modern-day Mozart Opera Interpretation
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