MA Musikwissenschaft at Hochschule für Musik und Theater Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Leipzig

Programme overview

Four-semester consecutive Master of Arts (120 credit points) in musicology. It offers intensive supervision in small groups, close contact with research practice and flexible study organisation with profile modules, including aesthetics and theory of music and historical and contemporary media. The Leipzig profile covers the fields 'Music as Text and Performance', 'Music and Media' and 'Music and Theory'.

Department: Institut für Musikwissenschaft | Duration: 4 semesters (2 years) | Study mode: full-time | Intake: Wintersemester | Location: Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany

What you will study

Three profile areas: performance practice and interpretation analysis, music and media (for example film music, music in computer games, library, printing and publishing) and music and theory (for example Tonsatz, instrumentation and composition, aesthetics and philosophy of music). Practical experience comes from a research, a teaching and a professional placement, and students organise a student symposium.

Career pathways

Qualifies for work in research, cultural management, publishing, media and archives.

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Application information

Entry requirements

Admission requires submission of at least one own musicological text sample (for example a seminar paper or the Bachelor thesis) and a motivation letter of about two pages, followed by an interview of about 20 minutes (possibly online). The programme is open to graduates of musicology Bachelor programmes and of teacher training, and career changers with musicological prior knowledge can also be admitted. Application window for the winter semester 2027/28: 1-31 May 2027 via the HMT online portal; examinations 31 May-5 June 2027.

Intake: Wintersemester

Duration: 4 semesters (2 years)

Apply through the official page: https://campus.hmt-leipzig.de/

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