University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna

As an international leader for studies in music and other performing arts along with related academic disciplines since 1817.

The university currently provides training to over 3,000 students from over 70 countries in105 degree programmesand68 supplementary programmesrun by24 departments.

At the mdw, these responsibilities are assumed primarily by the university’s research departments, the efforts of which are complemented by the research being carried out at several of those departments that are focussed mainly on performance and education-related instruction.

Two aspects characterise the academic work conducted at the mdw:

• The breadth and diversity of the arts-, culture- and science-related work that’s going on, in terms of both the topics themselves and the methodical approaches and methods employed.
• The close ties between this work and artistic practice.