Welcome!
The Archive is a research-oriented entity of the mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna who central mission is to safeguard, provide access to, and study the University’s administrative, artistic, and academic heritage.
It ensures documentation of the mdw’s history and the traditions to which it has played host, thereby functioning as an interface between tradition and the future.
The Archive is a facility whose services can be taken advantage of by interested parties both within and outside the University.
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Seal of the Imperial-Royal Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, ca. 1917
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The newly constructed Academy building on Lothringerstraße, 1914
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Handwritten letters sent by Arnold Rosé (1912) and Franz Schreker (1919)
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The faculty of the State Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, ca. 1920
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Programme from an evening of music by Arnold Schönberg, 1929
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Academy diploma of Hans Hugo Ahlgrimm, 1932
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Collected press clippings, ca. 1930
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Poster announcing the establishment of “Master Schools and Special Classes”, 1931
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Summer School, Bad Aussee, 1953
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Information sheets for prospective Academy applicants, 1959/60
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Musical instruments, gift of the Thai royal house, 1960s
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Beethoven Ring awarded to (and refused by) Friedrich Gulda, 1969
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The mdw Archive Stacks
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