Anton Bruckner Private University

Even though the Anton Bruckner Private University has only been known under this name for a short time, musical education in Linz has a tradition stretching back more than 200 years. As early as 1799 the city musical director Franz Xaver Glöggl, a close friend of Michael Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, founded the first music school in Linz. Then in 1823 the newly founded Linz Musical Society set up a singing school – the real precursor of the Anton Bruckner Private University.

The attempt to persuade Anton Bruckner to become director of the Music School in 1863 was unsuccessful. But another important name – the Bruckner biographer and former secretary to Franz Liszt, August Göllerich, - was in charge of the newly strengthened institute from 1896 to 1923. And in 1923 the name of Bruckner was finally established with the upgrading of the Music School to the Bruckner Conservatory Linz – now renamed the Anton Bruckner Private University.

The original main function of the forerunner institute, which was to raise the quality of musical life in Linz by improving the training of amateur musicians, was taken over by the Linz Music School in 1950. From that time on the Bruckner Conservatory established itself progressively as a training ground for professional musicians. This development was carried through by the directors Carl Steiner (1945-1958), Wilhelm Jerger (1958-1973), Gerhard Dallinger (1973-1990), Hans Maria Kneihs (1990-1995) und Reinhart von Gutzeit (from 1995-2006), Univ. Prof. Anton Voigt (acting Rector from 2006-2007), and Dr. Marianne Betz (2007-2012). In autumn 2012 the Rectorship of the University was taken over by Ursula Brandstätter. From the 1990s on, the Bruckner Conservatory developed from a higher music school into one of the most active cultural centres in Linz. The educational spectrum of the former Bruckner Conservatory was likewise continuously expanded and became the educational basis when private university status was attained in 2004. The Anton Bruckner Private University now offers twenty two separate branches of study and three university courses in the fields of classical music, jazz, drama and contemporary dance. Students may study for the degrees Bachelor of Arts or Master of Arts, which are on a par with those of other European universities and Arts Academies.[4]

The Computer Music Studio offers lectures and courses in the field of music and media technology, media composition and computer music, and the range of subjects it offers is closely integrated with those of the Institute DKM – Composition, Conducting and the Theory of Music – and JIM, the Institute for Jazz and improvised Music.

The Computer Music Studio (CMS) is not only concerned with the teaching of media compositions and creating new works in the field of computer music. It is above all the computer as a performance instrument for the interpretation of existing works and new compositions which gives our courses at the ABPU the considerable reputation they enjoy on the national scene.[5]

History:

The Computer Music Studio was founded in 1995 as the SAMT by DI Adelhard Roidinger and the Rector of the Bruckner Conservatory, Hans Maria Kneihs in the buildings of the Software Park Hagenberg. Since 2008 the University Studio, as it became, has been under the direction of Weixler, Andreas · Ao.Univ.Prof. Mag. At the same time an institute directive changed the name of the studio to the CMS -Computer Music Studio.

There are currently co-operations with and connections to the following institutions (among others):

Internally:

• Institute for Composition, Conducting and the Theory of Music (DKM)
• Institute for Jazz and improvised Music (JIM)
• Institute for Theatre and Drama (ACT)
• Institute for Keyboard instruments (TAS)

Regionally:

• AEC - Ars Electronic Center
• Art University of Linz
• InterfaceCulture
• JKU - Johannes Kepler University
• ElisabethInnen Hospital
• SCCH Software Park Hagenberg
• Klanglandschaften (Soundscapes), Musik der Jugend (Youth Music), Province of OÖ
• DorfTV
• Klavierhaus Merta

Nationally:

• ELAK - Institute for Composition and Electroacoustics, Vienna
• MDW - University for Music and Drama, Vienna
• Prima la Musica, Salzburg
• Bösendorfer

Internationally:

• JSEM - Japanese Society for Electro Acoustic Music
• TU Studio - Berlin
• SARC - Sonic Arts Research Center Belfast, Queens University, Northern Ireland
• UEA - University of East Anglia
• BEAST - Birmingham Electroacoustic Sound Theatre, University of Birmingham
• NOVARS - Manchester, UK
• Hope University Liverpool, UK
• Northeastern University, College of Arts, Media and Design, Boston/USA[6]

Sonic Lab is an intermedia computer music concert hall with a 24 audio channel surround dome and double video projection, initiated by Andreas Weixler.[7]

Since the recognition of our university status in 2004, the ABPU has attached great importance to internationalisation, in particular through our participation in the European Erasmus+ programme.

In the course of setting up the new generation programme Erasmus+ the ABPU was awarded the so-called Erasmus Charter in 2014.[8]

• http://www.bruckneruni.at
• Austrian Accreditation Council (responsible for accrediting private universities)
• Study in Austria: A Guide