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.
Seal of the Imperial-Royal Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, ca. 1917
The newly constructed Academy building on Lothringerstraße, 1914
Handwritten letters sent by Arnold Rosé (1912) and Franz Schreker (1919)
The faculty of the State Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, ca. 1920
Programme from an evening of music by Arnold Schönberg, 1929
Academy diploma of Hans Hugo Ahlgrimm, 1932
Collected press clippings, ca. 1930
Poster announcing the establishment of “Master Schools and Special Classes”, 1931
Summer School, Bad Aussee, 1953
Information sheets for prospective Academy applicants, 1959/60
Musical instruments, gift of the Thai royal house, 1960s
Beethoven Ring awarded to (and refused by) Friedrich Gulda, 1969
The mdw Archive Stacks
