On 25 March, it will have been 100 years since Claude Debussy’s passing—reason enough to give some extra thought to his music.

The fifth edition of what has now become Vienna’s largest competition for opera singers once again saw over 120 participants from all over the world gather at Schlosstheater Schönbrunn.

Just where the term comes from etymologically, how artists deal with criticism, and why music criticism often devolves into mere music journalism.

In December 2017, a concert of scholarship recipients at the mdw’s Penzing location saw the rehearsal stage [Probebühne] renamed “Anny Felbermayer Probebühne”.

May we permit ourselves to reject criticism? And would, absent criticism, the endeavours of art, music, and literature lose their social functions?

Objectivity, Crisis and Ratings, Praise and Derision.

The results of research into how the digital media revolution has changed the way people in Austria access and use music.

The starting point for this publication was a day of study held at the mdw for the purpose of conveying and exchanging knowledge about just what is purported to be ugly, evil, and perhaps even wrong in music.