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The department was founded in 1992 and now has 17 principal study classes with over 50 students from many different countries. We have 11 teaching/practice rooms in a recently renovated building in the centre of Leipzig, about 100 metres from the St.Thomas Church. There we have numerous instruments (harpsichords, early pianos, organ, clavichords, lutes and consorts of string instruments, renaissance recorders, traversi and dulcians). The school has an excellent central library and the department has its own collection of facsimile editions.
We offer a broad early music education; we actively encourage chamber music and organise regular large-scale projects in which we aim to include as many students as possible. Our department also works together with the Bach Archiv/Bach Museum and the Instrument Museum of the University of Leipzig.
We offer the following courses of study:
| Bachelor of Music | 4 years | 8 semesters |
| Master of Music (verbreiternd) | 2 years | 4 semesters |
| Master of Music (vertiefend) | 1 year | 2 semesters |
| Meisterklassestudium | 2 years | 4 semesters |
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Age limits: Unlike many other departments in the Hochschule, the Department of Early Music has no age limits for any of the courses.
Language requirements: Although our teachers and students come from many countries, classes are taught in German and for all studies, good working German is essential, because of the demands of the classes.
Foreign Applicants for the bachelor degree programmes and most of the artistic master courses require a knowledge of German on level B1 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) by a recognized language test.
Equivalent certificates:
• Goethe-Zertifikat B1 or
• TestDaF Level 2 or
• Deutsche Sprachprüfung für den Hochschulzugang (DSH-1).
Every term, the HMT Leipzig offers special language courses of German language for beginners and advanced students.
Please note: If, at the time of the entrance examination, the examiners find that an applicant cannot speak sufficient German, they are not permitted to admit that person to these courses.
Principal Study
| Historical Singing | Gundula Anders, Florian Sievers |
| Recorder | |
| Traverso | Anne Freitag |
| Baroque Oboe | Michael Bosch |
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Baroque Bassoon/ Dulcian |
Györgyi Farkas |
| Cornetto | Arno Paduch |
| Natural Horn | Stephan Katte |
| Natural Trumpet | Julian Zimmermann |
| Sackbutt | Sebastian Krause |
| Baroque Violin/Viola | |
| Baroque Cello | Prof. Jan Freiheit |
| Viola da gamba | Irene Klein |
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Violone/17th century string bass |
Jörg Meder |
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Lute |
Simon Linné |
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Chamber music |
Prof. Stephan Rath (Head of Department) |
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Harpsichord and Accompaniment |
Michaela Hasselt, Nick Hensel, Eckhart Kuper, |
| Fortepiano |
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| Historical Instrument Studies | Dr. Veit Heller (from the Instrument Museum, Leipzig) |
| Tuning and Acoustics | Dr. Veit Heller (from the Instrument Museum, Leipzig) |
| Historical Dance | Mareike Greb |
| Historical Gesture | Niels Badenhop |
| Historical Improvisation | Martin Erhardt |
| Historical Source Studies | Dr. Martin Küster |
| Historical Notation Studies | Claudia Nauheim |
| Harpsichord tuning and maintenance | Prof. Tobias Schade |
| Basso continuo Sources | Prof. Alexander von Heißen |
Dittrichring 21
04109 Leipzig
Hauspostfach D 010
stephan.rath@hmt-leipzig.deApplications:
