The Freiburg University of Music was founded in 1946 in a city in ruins and today is one of the leading music universities in Europe. It offers an individualized artistic, pedagogical and scientific education to approximately 700 students and more than 60 doctoral students. The education is tailored to their needs and covers the entire spectrum of music professions.Numerous Freiburg personalities had lobbied for it hand in hand with the French occupation administration. The goal was to promote and train outstanding young musical talent. But also, in the sense of international understanding and democratization, to create an institution that would bring people of different nations together and have an impact on the entire region of the border triangle of Germany, France and Switzerland. The new institution was conceived as a reform university. Its claim was not only to preserve artistic heritage, but also to create new, forward-looking art. For this reason, and due to its early involvement with New Music, founding rector Gustav Scheck saw it as the "Bauhaus of music".