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| name = Academy of Music
| native_name = Muzička akademija (MUZA)
| image = Zagreb University Music Academy.jpg
| caption = Academy new building
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| established = {{start date and age|1829}} as Zagreb Musical Society's school<br/>1921 (re-established)
| type = Public
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| dean = Igor Lešnik
| students = 500
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| city = [[Zagreb]]
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| country = [[Croatia]]
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| website = {{URL|www.muza.unizg.hr}}
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| faculty = 150
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The '''Academy of Music''' ({{langx|hr|Muzička akademija}} or '''MUZA''') is a [[Croatia]]n [[music school]] based in [[Zagreb]]. It is one of the three art academies affiliated with the [[University of Zagreb]], along with the [[Academy of Dramatic Art, University of Zagreb|Academy of Dramatic Art]] and the [[Academy of Fine Arts Zagreb|Academy of Fine Arts]].
It is the oldest and largest music school in the country, tracing its origins back to 1829 when the Zagreb Musical Society's school ({{langx|de|Tonschule des Agramer Musikvereines}}) was established, at a time when Croatia was part of the [[Austrian Empire]]. After World War II the Academy was officially recognized as an institution of higher education and in 1979 it became part of the [[University of Zagreb]]. The Academy today has around 500 students and a 150-member teaching staff.<ref name="onama" />
The Academy traditionally organizes two grand concerts every year held at the [[Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall]], along with almost 300 various smaller concerts throughout the year held at smaller venues around Zagreb.<ref name="onama" />
==History==
The Academy traces its roots to the in-house music school established in February 1829 by the German-language ''Agramer Musikverein'' (or Zagreb Musical Society) modeled after the [[Musikverein]] in Vienna and which later evolved into the present-day [[Croatian Music Institute]].<ref name="onama" /> The school originally offered three-year courses in singing and [[wind instrument]]s.
The school became the Institute's [[music school|conservatory]] in 1916. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries the school continued to grow and was renamed several times. Following the dissolution of [[Austria-Hungary]] in 1918 and the establishment of the [[Kingdom of Yugoslavia]] it became the "Royal Conservatory" in 1921 (''Kraljevski konzervatorij'') and then the "Royal Academy of Music" (''Kraljevska muzička akademija'') in 1922.<ref name="onama" /> At the time the school comprised primary, secondary and tertiary levels of musical education. In 1923 its teachers first gained the title of professors and the Academy was re-organized into five main departments. In 1940 the Academy was officially recognized as a university-level [[Faculty (division)|faculty]].
After World War II in 1951 the school is broken up into the primary and secondary music school (the present-day "Vatroslav Lisinski" School of Music) and the university-level academy named Zagreb Academy of Music (''Muzička akademija u Zagrebu''), which originally had seven departments. In 1967 the Academy established its [[Musicology]] Institute which later grew into an additional department in 1974, and five years later the Academy was incorporated into the [[University of Zagreb]] in 1979. The Academy is the only Croatian member of the [[European Association of Conservatoires]] (AEC), the main European association of [[college]]s and [[university]] schools of music.<ref name="EAC">{{cite web |url=http://www.aecinfo.org/MembersView.aspx?id=-2 |title=Members |publisher=[[European Association of Conservatoires]] |access-date=29 November 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100730095807/http://www.aecinfo.org/MembersView.aspx?id=-2 |archive-date=2010-07-30 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==Location==
[[File:Blagoje Bersa Concert Hall.jpg|thumb|250x250px|Blagoje Bersa Concert Hall inside the academy building.]]
The Academy currently occupies the reconstructed Ferimport building at [[Republic of Croatia Square]] which was completed in September 2014, following delays which pushed its completion date by three years from the originally planned date of 2011. The Academy had signed a 100-year lease contract with the City of Zagreb in 2009, which also agreed to provide half of the [[Croatian kuna|HRK]] 210 million ([[Euro|€]]27.5 million) funding spent to restore the building (with the other half provided by the University of Zagreb and the Croatian Ministry of Science, Education and Sports).<ref name="zgrada">{{cite web |url=http://www.muza.hr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=117&Itemid=202 |title=Zgrada muzičke akademije |publisher=Academy of Music |language=hr |access-date=29 November 2010}}</ref> The restored building occupies some 12.000 square meters spread over three underground and eight ground levels, and hosts 7 departments of the Academy with its 150 full-time employees, several dozen contractors and 550 students. The Academy also operates a regional department in [[Rijeka]] which offers courses in singing and piano.
==Organisation==
===Departments===
As of 2010 the academy has eight departments:<ref name="onama">{{cite web |url=http://www.muza.hr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=66:muzika-akademija&catid=36:o-muzi&Itemid=164 |title=Muzička akademija |publisher=Academy of Music |language=hr |access-date=29 November 2010}}</ref>
* [[Musical composition]] and [[music theory]] department (''Odsjek za kompoziciju i teoriju glazbe'')
* [[Musicology]] department (''Odsjek za muzikologiju'')
* [[Conducting]], [[harp]] and [[percussion instruments]] department (''Odsjek za dirigiranje, harfu i udaraljke'')
* [[Singing]] department (''Odsjek za pjevanje'')
* [[Piano]], [[harpsichord]] and [[Organ (music)|organ]] department (''Odsjek za klavir, čembalo i orgulje'')
* [[String instrument]]s and [[guitar]] department (''Odsjek za gudačke instrumente i gitaru'')
* [[Wind instrument]]s department (''Odsjek za duhačke instrumente'')
* [[Music education]] department (''Odsjek za glazbenu pedagogiju'')
==See also==
* [[University of Zagreb]]
* [[Croatian Music Institute]]
* [[Academy of Dramatic Art, University of Zagreb|Academy of Dramatic Art Zagreb]]
* [[Academy of Fine Arts Zagreb]]
==References==
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==External links==
* {{official website|http://www.muza.unizg.hr/}} {{in lang|hr}}
{{University of Zagreb}}
{{Zagreb}}
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[[Category:Educational institutions established in 1829]]
[[Category:Faculties of the University of Zagreb]]
[[Category:Donji grad, Zagreb]]
[[Category:1829 establishments in Europe]]