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The University of Music and Theatre »Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy« Leipzig offers its approximately 1,200 students a broad and professionally sound range of education in 12 disciplines and about 700 public events a year for the interested public. Founded in 1843 as a conservatory by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, it was the first higher musical education institution in Germany. The second main building of the HMT is located at Dittrichring 21.