LISZT SCHOOL of Music Weimar

The LISZT SCHOOL of Music is a lively, internationally oriented music academy in the city of Weimar, which belongs to UNESCO world heritage.

Through its three faculties it offers a wide spectrum of education in artistic, music-pedagogical and musicological subjects. The LISZT SCHOOL promotes international research and has outstanding plans for future artistic developments. The approximately 900 students of the LISZT SCHOOL and the 120 pupils of the Musikgymnasium Schloss Belvedere - as the centre of excellence of the LISZT SCHOOL - are educated by 76 professors and around 280 associates and lecturers. The LISZT SCHOOL of Music Weimar sets a standard for education in music with its Thuringian Orchestra Academy and its Thuringian Opera Studio, international master-classes, competitions, exchange programs, festivals and conventions.

Multi-Faceted Array of Subjects

From the recently founded Department of Early Music to the newly founded Ensemble for New Music the LISZT SCHOOL offers students of music a great spectrum of educational opportunities. The LISZT SCHOOL especially values a practice-oriented education in orchestral instruments, thorough training in singing/acting for opera and musical theatre and modern education for future music teachers in the Department of School Music. There is a high demand for the Bachelor's and Master's programmes in Musicology and Arts Management, a joint programme of the Department of Musicology of the LISZT SCHOOL and the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena.

Global Networking

In addition to the 30 percent foreign students, the LISZT SCHOOL is very successful on the international stage and exports its excellent educational offering to the Far East: in 2005, the German School of Music Weimar was founded in South Korea. The school holds the highest rank in the Erasmus/Socrates exchange programme, which provides for the exchange of students and lecturers from around 50 partner schools in all of Europe. The LISZT SCHOOL has especially made a name for itself through its well known Weimar Master Classes and its international competitions for piano, violin, organ and chamber music. All this is rounded off by the only national competition for school piano techniques.

Ideal Environment for Studies

Four completely modernised buildings offer, in addition to their historical ambience, the most modern equipment and breath-taking views. In addition to the magnificent Fürstenhaus, there is the Monastery Building Am Palais, the School Centre am Horn and the "Kavaliershäuser" of the castle Belvedere; this offers sufficient practice space for all students. In the last few years, around 1.7 million euros was invested into the purchase of new Steinway concert grand pianos.