University of Music and Performing Arts Mannheim

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University of Music and Performing Arts Mannheim
founding 1971
Sponsorship state
place Coat of arms Mannheim.svg Mannheim
state Baden-WürttembergBaden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg
country GermanyGermany Germany
president Rudolf Master
Students 642 WS 2012/13
Website www.muho-mannheim.de
The University

The State University for Music and Performing Arts Mannheim is a university in Mannheim .

history

The university sees itself as the successor to the Academie de Danse, founded in Mannheim in 1762, and the private clay school at the court of Carl Theodor, established in 1776 . However, there are no historical connections. In 1971, the Mannheim University of Music and Theater and the state-recognized Heidelberg University of Music and Theater merged to form the State University of Music Heidelberg-Mannheim , from which the present-day State University of Music and Performing Arts Mannheim emerged . The university exercises the right to award doctorates and habilitation.

courses

The university offers the following courses:

  • Preparatory course in dance

basic studies

  • artistic education
  • Music teacher
  • School music
  • Degree programs in music research and media practice
  • Jazz / popular music
  • dance
  • Children's dance education

Postgraduate courses

  • Soloist training
  • Part-time course soloist training
  • Orchestral soloist
  • Additional studies
  • Dance education for professional dancers
  • Artistic training in dance / stage practice
  • Soloist training in the opera studio

Library

The library comprises around 17,500 books, 45,200 sheet music and 11,000 sound carriers.

Current

According to the plans of the Ministry of Science, Research and Art Baden-Württemberg from July 2013, training in the fields of orchestra and school music is to be saved. a. with piano and vocals. Resistance in the form of concerts, open letters and a petition stirs against it.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. http://www.muho-mannheim.de/frame.php?path=/personal/index.htm
  2. Federal Statistical Office: Number of students by type of university, state and university, WS 2012/13, pp. 66–113 (accessed on November 3, 2013)
  3. "The twofold restructuring of the institute - initially as a municipal university for music in the thirties and finally the merger with the Heidelberg University of Music and its nationalization in 1971 - no longer allows any connection to the situation in the twenties" (Herbert Schneider, in: Detection of evidence, edited by H. Jung, 2007, p. 92 f.).
  4. ^ Petition to save the conservatoires

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