Anton Bruckner Private University for Music, Drama, and Dance

Anton Bruckner Private University for Music, Drama, and Dance
Anton Bruckner Privatuniversität für Musik, Schauspiel und Tanz
Type Private university
Established 1823
Location Linz, Austria
Website https://www.bruckneruni.at/en
Old building of Anton Bruckner Private University

Anton Bruckner Private University for Music, Drama, and Dance (in German Anton Bruckner Privatuniversität für Musik, Schauspiel und Tanz, common short forms are Anton Bruckner Private University or Bruckner University) is one of five Austrian Universities for Music, Drama and Dance, and one of four universities in Linz, the European Capital of Culture 2009. 850 students from all parts of the world study here. They are taught by 200 Professors and teaching staff, who are internationally recognised artists, academics and teachers. The university was granted accredited private university status in 2004 (its name from 1932 to 2004 was Bruckner Conservatory Linz, but the roots of the institution go back to 1823 or even to 1799).

The cultural landscape of Upper Austria sets an example in music education all over Europe. The Upper Austrian Provincial Government gives particular support to artistic education, which is why – compared with similar institutions – tuition fees here are extremely moderate.[1]

The university is named after the Austrian composer Anton Bruckner (1824-1896).

The ABPU is a university for music, drama and dance. The artistic work of the university is focussed on performing, pedagogy and research in each of these fields, with an equal emphasis on artistic communication, development and outreach.[2]

History

Even though the Anton Bruckner Private University has only been known under this name for a short time, musical education in Linz has a tradition stretching back more than 200 years. As early as 1799 the city musical director Franz Xaver Glöggl, a close friend of Michael Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, founded the first music school in Linz. Then in 1823 the newly-founded Linz Musical Society set up a singing school – the real precursor of the Anton Bruckner Private University.

The attempt to persuade Anton Bruckner to become director of the Music School in 1863 was unsuccessful. But another important name – the Bruckner biographer and former secretary to Franz Liszt, August Göllerich, - was in charge of the newly-strengthened institute from 1896 to 1923. And in 1923 the name of Bruckner was finally established with the upgrading of the Music School to the Bruckner Conservatory Linz – now re-named the Anton Bruckner Private University.

The original main function of the forerunner institute, which was to raise the quality of musical life in Linz by improving the training of amateur musicians, was taken over by the Linz Music School in 1950. From that time on the Bruckner Conservatory established itself progressively as a training ground for professional musicians. This development was carried through by the directors Carl Steiner (1945-1958), Wilhelm Jerger (1958-1973), Gerhard Dallinger (1973-1990), Hans Maria Kneihs (1990-1995) und Reinhart von Gutzeit (from 1995-2006), Univ. Prof. Anton Voigt (acting Rector from 2006-2007), and Dr. Marianne Betz (2007-2012). In autumn 2012 the Rectorship of the University was taken over by Ursula Brandstätter. From the 1990’s on, the Bruckner Conservatory developed from a higher music school into one of the most active cultural centres in Linz. The educational spectrum of the former Bruckner Conservatory was likewise continuously expanded and became the educational basis when private university status was attained in 2004. The Anton Bruckner Private University now offers twenty two separate branches of study and three university courses in the fields of classical music, jazz, drama and contemporary dance. Students may study for the degrees Bachelor of Arts or Master of Arts, which are on a par with those of other European universities and Arts Academies.[3]

Computer music studio

The Computer Music Studio offers lectures and courses in the field of music and media technology, media composition and computer music, and the range of subjects it offers is closely integrated with those of the Institute DKM – Composition, Conducting and the Theory of Music – and JIM, the Institute for Jazz and improvised Music.

The Computer Music Studio (CMS) is not only concerned with the teaching of media compositions and creating new works in the field of computer music. It is above all the computer as a performance instrument for the interpretation of existing works and new compositions which gives our courses at the ABPU the considerable reputation they enjoy on the national scene.[4]

History:

The Computer Music Studio was founded in 1995 as the SAMT by DI Adelhard Roidinger and the Rector of the Bruckner Conservatory, Hans Maria Kneihs in the buildings of the Software Park Hagenberg. Since 2008 the University Studio, as it became, has been under the direction of Weixler, Andreas · Ao.Univ.Prof. Mag. At the same time an institute directive changed the name of the studio to the CMS -Computer Music Studio.

There are currently co-operations with and connections to the following institutions (among others):

Internally:

Regionally:

Nationally:

Internationally:

Sonic Lab

Sonic Lab is an intermedia computer music concert hall with a 24 audio channel surround dome and double video projection, initiated by Andreas Weixler.[6]

Erasmus

Since the recognition of our university status in 2004, the ABPU has attached great importance to internationalisation, in particular through our participation in the European Erasmus+ programme.

In the course of setting up the new generation programme Erasmus+ the ABPU was awarded the so-called Erasmus Charter in 2014.[7]

References

  1. ↑ "The University - Anton Bruckner Privatuniversität". www.bruckneruni.at. Retrieved 2015-11-24.
  2. ↑ "Guiding Principles - About us - The University - Anton Bruckner Privatuniversität". www.bruckneruni.at. Retrieved 2015-11-24.
  3. ↑ "History - About us - The University - Anton Bruckner Privatuniversität". www.bruckneruni.at. Retrieved 2015-11-24.
  4. ↑ "Computer Music Studio - Conducting, Composition, Theory of Music - Institutes - Anton Bruckner Privatuniversität". www.bruckneruni.at. Retrieved 2015-11-24.
  5. ↑ "Computer Music Studio - Conducting, Composition, Theory of Music - Institutes - Anton Bruckner Privatuniversität". www.bruckneruni.at. Retrieved 2015-11-24.
  6. ↑ "Sonic Lab". avant.mur.at. Retrieved 2015-11-24.
  7. ↑ "International Relations - International - The University - Anton Bruckner Privatuniversität". www.bruckneruni.at. Retrieved 2015-11-24.

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Coordinates: 48°18′56″N 14°17′07″E / 48.31556°N 14.28528°E / 48.31556; 14.28528


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