The International Summer Academy "Mozarteum" was founded in 1916 by Lilly Lehmann in the form of voice courses and in the following years was extended to include courses for violin, piano, composition, conducting and opera. In the years 1930-1937 this institution was known as "Musical Summer Courses", from 1937 to 1940 "The Mozarteum Summer Academy for Music, Theatre and Dance" and 1940 to 1944 "Summer Academy for Foreigners at the Mozarteum". Since 1947 it has been called " International Summer Academy "Mozarteum" and offers an extensive range of musical masterclasses.

Lecturers have included among others:

Luciano Berio, Boris Blacher, Friedrich Cerha, Georg Crumb, Gottfried von Einem, Wolfgang Fortner, Sofia Gubaidulina, Paul Hindemith, Mauricio Kagel, György Kurtág, Bruno Maderna, Frank Martin, Carl Orff, Alfred Schnittke, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Viktor Suslin, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Herbert von Karajan, Clemens Kraus, Erich Leinsdorf, Günther Ramin, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Hermann Scherchen, George Szell, Bruno Walter, Udo Zimmermann, Arleen Auger, Kim Borg, Grace Bumbry, Ileana Cotrubas, Hans Hotter, Siegfried Jerusalem, Sena Jurinac, George London, Christa Ludwig, Rosa Papier-Paumgartner, Julius Patzak, Thomas Quasthoff, Irmgard Seefried, Graziella Sciutti, Giulietta Simionato, Rita Streich, Renata Tebaldi, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Geza Anda, Friedrich Gulda, Karl-Heinz Kämmerling, Kurt Leimer, Tatiana Nikolaeva, Alexis Weissenberg, Dieter Zechlin, Renato De Barbieri, Ivry Gitlis, Gidon Kremer, Yehudi Menuhin, Wolfgang Schneiderhan, Sandor Vegh, Gérard Caussé, Kim Kashkashian, Zara Nelsova, Antonio Janigro, Enrico Mainardi, Pepe Romero, Wolfgang Schulz, Harald Kreutzberg, George Tabori, Peter Ustinov.

Webpage:

http://www.moz.ac.at