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Based in the home-town of German Classicism and rich in tradition, the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar is an institution of higher education for young musicians, academics, and ambassadors of music from across the entire globe. It is indebted to the legacy of Franz Liszt, who successfully combined in his person composer, virtuoso, ensemble musician, pedagogue, and pensive philosopher. The institution aims to compete with the world's most renowned music academies. The envisaged outcome of education at Weimar is the ideal artistic, academic, and pedagogic personality — a figure expressed equally well in performance, musical research, and music mediation. Such a person has commanded a pool of general knowledge regarding the world's and Europe's cultural heritage and holds deep insights into contemporary culture. They are confident music entrepreneurs, active in diverse areas. They have obtained the skills necessary to be successful in the international cultural sphere. The University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar gives particular weight to a strong sense of team-spirit in teaching and performance alike, in its dialogue with scholarship, and its many co-operations with the professional music world. It supports personal initiatives and encourages the distillation of an individual profile. The school's teaching centers around the modern musician as an ensemble player who brings to life artistic ideals across diverse periods and styles in various settings and contexts, from musical performance and scholarship to music mediation. The LISZT UNIVERSITY provides broad, cosmopolitan competencies relevant to the current fields of musical performance, scholarship, and music mediation. It seeks to reflect and communicate the world's music in as many facets as possible and pays particular attention to transcultural transfer processes. In an exemplary manner, the LISZT UNIVERSITY is engaged in promoting exceptionally gifted children and adolescents from an early age. Consequently, it includes in its educational portfolio the Music High School for talented musicians at Schloss Belvedere. The University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar is proud to have its home in the Thuringian town of Weimar. It grasps the opportunities offered by its historical rootedness in this region: in its close ties with other cultural institutions in the state of Thuringia and intellectually, continuing the tradition represented by this heartland of culture and European art music. It dedicates its work to the promotion of the Baroque music of the country's churches and residencies, the music of Weimar Classicism, and the efforts of Franz Liszt and his circle surrounding a renovation of music during the nineteenth century. Weimar's living tradition of the Bauhaus movement also suggests the active engagement with the music of the historical and contemporary avant-gardes, with particular weight being given to interdisciplinary considerations. Weimar is an excellent choice to study music: the classical city situated on the Ilm has approximately 950 students with almost ideal studying conditions. Four wholly renovated and historically essential locations are distributed around the city but are within walking distance. One can study almost every music aspect: all orchestral instruments, piano, guitar, accordion, voice, theatre, organ, early music, composition, conducting, school music, and music pedagogy. Also, jazz and music theory, musicology, and arts management are offered. Those who decide to study at the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar receive the best quality teachers in a European city of culture. A lively history including Goethe and Schiller and Bach and Liszt greets the students, just as today's active organization. We can take the ultramodern studio of electroacoustic music as such an example, which works in co-operation with the neighboring Bauhaus University. Other examples include the first children's university at a German school of music and an international branch - the German School of Music Weimar in South Korea. Franz Liszt first had the idea to establish a school of music in Weimar: already in 1835, he had thoughts about the establishment of "progress schools of music". Highly-qualified instrumentalists had to be sought after to make the orchestras efficient enough for the new music of their time. For a long time, Liszt fought to establish a training center for orchestral musicians in Weimar. However, in 1872, Liszt's pupil Carl Muellerhartung realized this dream and established the first orchestral school in Germany. View full university