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Academy uproar: Weimar shuts down early music

A woman staged an opera in America in 1935

The Council and Senate of the Weimar University of Music decided last night to close the Institute for Early Music. It’s not just Oxford and Cambridge that have devalued music studies.

Weimar is reallocating its priorities to pedagogy, teacher training and cultural management.

Goethe, Schiller, any thoughts?

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