ABOUT PRAGUE CONSERVATOIRE

Foreign students may choose to study any major subject offered, either in the form of:

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REGULAR STUDIES – full 6-years curriculum, free of charge, knowledge of the Czech language is required. For more information in Czech language

 
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PAID COURSES short-term, taught in a foreign language

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Admission to special courses requires only an examination in the major subject, which can be completed by sending an audio or audio-video recording that will be assessed by the particular department; the applicant will be notified of the result by mail.

The academic year at the Prague Conservatory begins on September 1 and ends on June 30. Foreign applicants for special courses may also enroll during the course of the academic year except for July and August which are reserved for summer vacation. Potential applicants who have not yet consulted any of the faculty will be referred to the head instructor for their selected major subject, with whom the program, its scope, and its duration may be arranged. Special courses program can be arranged for periods ranging from several months to several years. Students are required to pay their term tuition fees in advance depending on the scope and duration of the arranged study program. As a part of special courses students may participate in some of the chamber ensembles, the choir, or the symphony orchestra. Like Czech students, foreign students may perform in various concerts organized by the Conservatory and also in the end-of-year exams.

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Upon completing the course graduates receive a certificate giving the subject, duration, and scope of studies, the name of the head instructor in their major, and a brief description of the student’s academic performance. Graduates of the full-fledged six-year course of instruction are awarded a regular certificate of graduation.

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Unfortunately, the Prague Conservatory does not have its own dormitory. Nevertheless the school can provide assistance with finding accommodation and catering facilities to some extent.

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For more information, contact secretary for foreign students, Ms. Emilie Kratochvilova: kratochvilova@prgcons.cz

The library and the archive of the Prague Conservatory is one of the richest of its kind in Middle Europe. It is unique for its collection of 19th century documents, but it also contains unique items dating back to even earlier periods. The activity of this highly specialized library ranges from obtaining musical publications and documents, cataloging them, and making them accessible to users—both in printed and electronic form—to providing research services and preserving sheet music. It’s academic activity is focused on cataloging Czech as well as foreign sheet music and, by gradually transferring data into electronic databases, on making the items widely accessible to scholars and laymen alike.

The library holds a large amount of sheet music to be checked out not only by the students and teachers of the conservatory, but also by the wider musical community. The collections of historical pieces of sheet music is serving more and more the purposes of local as well as international researchers. Scores, piano transcripts of operas, choir sheet music, and even sheet music and music course books for particular instruments, etudes, chamber sheet music and other items may be checked out. The library also contains books on music. Those range from textbooks on harmony and counterpoint to books on instruments, music history, and encyclopedias. Recent publications as well as 19th century publications may be found here, in Czech and world languages alike.
The library and the archive hold a large collection of old manuscripts, sign manuals and prints of a variety of music genres. One can find here pedagogical pieces, symphonies, chamber music pieces, operas and sacral music, and even contemporary works. As part of this collection there is also a large number of audio recordings—vinyl records, cassettes, CDs, phonograph reels and others. Furthermore, the archive also contains a rare collections of letters, primarily of famous personalities (Dvořák, Janáček, Kubelík, or to name some of the foreign ones, e.g. Wagner, Liszt, Spohr, and others).

The library collections are being processed to gradually transfer the records into an internet-based electronic system. As a result of this, users can search the library collections via the internet at On-line catalog Tritius
Users of the Prague Conservatory Library might also be interested in being able to view rare historical documents online. With the aid of the Memoria Project (www.manuscriptorium.com) in the Manuscriptorium database, they can view a digitized version of the rare manuscript of the score and the piano transcript of W.A. Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni, which belongs to the collections of the library.