Learning more about the academic foundations of music both historically and in the present while simultaneously digging deeper into the artistic and practical side of musical culture? Obtaining insights into professional practice as well as experience in research-based learning? The 2025/26 winter semester will see the mdw launch a new academic and artistic master’s degree programme.

The project deals with identity constructions at political events, celebrations and festivals in Austria.

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.

Report on the Annual Conference of the Austrian Society for Musicology at the mdw, 22 – 25 November 2017.

How do professors at the mdw assess the musical performances of students? This question has been examined in the qualitative study Quality of Arts.

It was ten years ago that exil.arte began documenting and studying the estates of emigrated Jewish musicians.

Soziologische, wissenstheoretische und musikwissenschaftliche Perspektiven.