The BA and MA programmes (IGP and concert performance) offer various opportunities to engage intensively with historical instruments and performance practice from the 17th to 19th centuries. Information can be found in the PDF brochure.

This includes individual or group lessons on historical instruments, as well as chamber music, baroque orchestra, historical dance and theoretical subjects. Depending on availability, the following historical instruments are available:

• Baroque violin, baroque viola, baroque cello, viola da gamba, viola d’amore

• Transverse flute, baroque oboe/classical oboe, recorder, baroque bassoon/dulcian, historical clarinet/chalumeau

• Baroque trombone, baroque trumpet, natural horn

• Baroque guitar/vihuela, lute/theorbo, harpsichord, fortepiano

The various institutes at the mdw have a pool of historical instruments and replicas available for loan (subject to availability!).

Important: If you are interested, please contact the Institute for Early Music in good time – see the back for contact details!

• Some courses have early registration deadlines for an audition and aptitude interview.

• Contacting us in good time gives you the opportunity to obtain information. (Recommended: enquire one semester in advance!)

• The availability of teachers (KE/KG) must be clarified.

• The availability of a (loan) instrument must be clarified in good time if you do not have your own instrument.

• Send a short email to: altemusik@mdw.ac.at

Degree programmes with early music options

Information in the PDF brochure.

Bachelor’s degree programmes
• Instrumental concert performance [25W]
• IGP instrumental/vocal [21W, 24W]
• Piano concert performance [23W, 25W]
• Piano chamber music [17W]
• Concert Performance Song Interpretation Piano [24W]

Master’s programme
• Instrumental Concert Performance [25W]
• IGP Instrumental/Voice [19W]
• Piano Concert Performance [18W, 25W]
• Concert Performance Song Interpretation Piano [24W]

Diploma programme
• Instrumental Concert Performance [19W, phasing out]

Historical Instrument as an Elective [for all programmes]
• If interested, please enquire at the Institute for Early Music!

Selected recommendations for elective subjects

As a useful supplement to your major and profile, we recommend the following electives, among others:
• Historical Dance 1,2 (UE · 2 credits)
• Historical Performance Practice 3,4 (SE · 3 credits), subject to availability
• Style-based Improvisation and Ornamentation 1,2 (KG · 2 credits)
• Selected Chapters in Music History (SE · 2 credits)
• (Specific topics from the 17th and 18th centuries)
• Source Studies and Edition (PS · 3 credits)
• Performance Practice Classical and Romantic Chamber Music (with Clive Brown) WF (UE · 2 credits) – Changing Performing Practices from Haydn to Brahms: Reading between the Lines of the Notation