Staatsexamen Lehramt Musik an Gymnasien at Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden

Programme overview

Teacher-training Staatsexamen for Gymnasien. Music is studied at the HfM Dresden; educational sciences and a second school subject are studied at the TU Dresden. The programme is a combined artistic-scientific course with an individual artistic focus (more than twenty instruments) and broad practical and theoretical teaching.

Department: Music teacher training | Duration: 10 semesters | Study mode: full-time; Staatsexamen; German-taught | Intake: Wintersemester | Location: Dresden, Sachsen, Germany

What you will study

Artistic focus subject, piano, voice, ensemble leadership and school piano playing, plus theory-reflective subjects (music theory, musicology and music didactics); school-practice exercises from the second year; second school subject (biology, German, English, French, geography, Latin, mathematics, physics, computer science, Protestant or Catholic religion, or ethics/philosophy) and educational sciences at the TU Dresden.

Career pathways

Music teaching at schools.

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Application information

Entry requirements

Allgemeine Hochschulreife (Abitur) and musical aptitude. German at CEFR C1 at enrolment (TestDaF, TELC, Goethe-Zertifikat, UNICert or ÖSD). Application is made to the HfM Dresden; the TU Dresden application follows after the entrance examination is passed. The entrance examination (artistic focus, piano as secondary instrument, voice as secondary instrument and a speech contribution, usually in a 30-minute combined examination) is complemented by a 60-minute written placement test in music theory and aural training.

Intake: Wintersemester

Duration: 10 semesters

Apply through the official page: https://www.hfmdd.de/studieren/bewerbung

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