The Leopold Mozart Centre for Music and Music Education at the University of Augsburg
The Leopold Mozart Centre for Music and Music Education is an institute belonging to the University of Augsburg. It links research and teaching in the disciplines of Music Education, Musicology and Music Therapy with musical artistic training at conservatory level, and thus occupies a special position among German institutions of higher education.
The Leopold Mozart Centre, with its current staff of 43 professors and lecturers, was founded in 2008. It arose from a fusion of the disciplines of Music Education and Musicology, which were already well established at the University of Augsburg, and large parts of the Augsburg branch of the former Nuremberg-Augsburg College of Music.
The Centre, which is part of the university’s Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences, consists of three institutes:
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an Institute of Music Education (teacher training), Music Therapy and Musicology
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an Institute of Elementary Music Education, Singing, String and Keyboard Instruments and
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an Institute of Wind Instruments, Percussion and Directing for Wind Ensembles.
Since the winter semester of 2008/2009 the Leopold Mozart Centre has offered a range of top-level courses of international standard that can be combined with diverse arts and education science profiles. These courses are geared towards a wide spectrum of professional fields of activity and thereby open up excellent career opportunities:
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Bachelor of Music with the profiles of Elementary Musical Education, Instrumental/Vocal Music Education and Directing for Wind Ensembles;
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Music as a main or subsidiary subject as part of a teacher training course for primary schools or certain types of secondary school (“Hauptschule” and “Realschule”);
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Master of Music Therapy as an extra-occupational postgraduate course;
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Bachelor of Arts (BA) in education science with “Aesthetic Education” as the main subject or with music as an elective.
One special feature of this innovative range of courses is the choice of specialisations, such as intercultural music education, elements of music therapy for people with special needs, making music in the classroom, jazz/pop/music media or musicology/theory of music. These courses take the challenges and requirements of contemporary music education and music therapy into account and are pioneering in the way in which they make use of the wide variety of opportunities a university has to offer (complementary activities in other departments such as Philosophy, Education Science, History, Psychology, etc., cultural events, contacts, sports courses, use of central resources etc.).
The emphasis on artistic training allows students with outstanding artistic achievement to complete a postgraduate degree in “Master of Music (performing arts)” in cooperation with a music conservatory.
The Leopold Mozart Centre is currently located at three different sites:
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in the building of the former music conservatory, Maximilianstrasse 59, 86150 Augsburg
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in the university buildings in Schillstrasse 100, 86167 Augsburg (Music Education) and
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on the university campus, Universitätsstrasse 10 (Musicology).
By 2011 the institutes of the Leopold Mozart Centre, together with the department of Art Education, are to be housed in a planned new building on campus (http://idw-online.de/pages/de/news252029).
Homepage of the Leopold Mozart Centre of the University of Augsburg:
http://www.leopold-mozart-zentrum.de
Homepage of the University of Augsburg:
http://www.uni-augsburg.de
Further information about the Leopold Mozart Centre:
http://idw-online.de/pages/de/news257794
http://idw-online.de/pages/de/news284962
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- 16.02.2010