Early Music and Historical Performance Practice

The Institute for Early Music and Historical Performance Practice (ALT) takes a passionate and historically informed approach to music from the Renaissance to the early Romantic period. We offer our services to all students at the university, as well as to those who specialize in the study of Early Music, providing them with practical and theoretical training and reflection.

Our faculty are active internationally as performers and researchers and bring this experience to their teaching at the Anton Bruckner University. Students appreciate both the active Chamber Music and Baroque Orchestra life, combined with a broad range of theory courses on historical performance practice, as well as the interaction with the L'Orfeo Baroque Orchestra – an orchestra that emerged from the faculty and alumni of the ABPU and now has an international reach.

The Euridice Baroque Orchestra's projects, the International Early Music Days (ITAM) and the BRISK Ensemble Competition are fixed points in the academic year.

Workshops with international lecturers

Regular workshops with international lecturers focus on central aspects of historically informed performance practice and contribute to a lively exchange between students and faculty. In recent years, Ton Koopman, Peter van Heyghen, Anne Pustlauk, Eugène Michelangeli, Walter S. Reiter, Michael Form, Dagmar Glüxam, Ulrike Hofbauer, Elizabeth Dobbin, Roberta Invernizzi, Christian Hilz, Niels Badenhop, Margit Legler and Mojca Gal, among others, have been guests.

Early Music and Historical Performance Practice

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Alice-Harnoncourt-Platz 1, 4040 Linz

Wiesbauer, Elisabeth

Univ.Prof. Mag.a M.A.

Institute Director

Dragosits, Anne Marie

Univ.Prof. Dr.

Deputy Institute Director

Schweiger, Verena

Mag.art.

Institute Secretary

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Euridice Baroque Orchestra

The Euridice Baroque Orchestra is formed according to the repertoire in different line-ups from students of the Institute for Early Music and Historical Performance Practice and guests from other institutes. It was founded by Michi Gaigg in 2013 and has been under the artistic and organizational direction of Elisabeth Wiesbauer since 2018. Works and concert programs are developed in project work, covering a stylistic range from early Baroque to Classical.

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International Early Music Days (ITAM)

Every year, the ABPU Linz hosts the “International Early Music Days” as a forum for in-depth work on a topic relevant to historical performance practice. The course is aimed at students from Austria and abroad and is designed to promote education, exchange and networking. A top-class team of international guest lecturers and lecturers from the Anton Bruckner Private University will supervise the participants.

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BRISK Ensemble Competition

Every spring, the Institute for Early Music and Historical Performance Practice organizes an internal chamber music competition, with prizes and awards presented by an international jury. In recent years, Peter van Heyghen and Linde Brunmayr-Tutz have been invited as external jurors.

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