Princeton in Leipzig

This new collaborative program runs from June 2 to June 27, 2025, inclusive of arrival and departure dates. The Music faculty will teach seminars exploring the music on that year’s festival program from a historical and cultural context, while supporting students as they learn relevant repertory and perform it in a capstone recital. Students will attend German classes at the appropriate level offered by the interDaF program, supplemented with one-on-one conversational practice with Princeton instructors. And all of this takes place in Leipzig, considered by many to be currently one of the most exciting cities in Germany.

Enrollment through the Global Program System (GPS) begins on November 15, 2024 and ends on January 19, 2025. The program fee for the summer of 2025 is $5,100.

Funding assistance for tuition is available through the Dean’s Fund to students who receive financial aid. To apply for this funding, you must submit an application in Student Activity Funding Engine (SAFE) before January 19, 2025.

GER/MUS 233 The Music and Culture of J.S. Bach in Context

Prerequisite: Successful completion of at least one course in Princeton’s German language sequence (at the 100-level).

Two Music Department faculty members oversee this component of the course. One faculty member will provide two afternoon seminars weekly on musical background and context during the first three weeks of the month, and another faculty member will offer coaching and mentoring for the student musicians during weeks 2–4 of the program, culminating in a student performance in the historic Alte Börse, Leipzig’s oldest Baroque building.

Integrated into the musical program are guided visits to sites at the heart of Leipzig’s musical and political culture, including the Bach Museum, the Bach Archive, and the Mendelssohn house; and various sites throughout the city connected with the 1989 “peaceful revolution” that brought down the wall between West and East Germany, during which Leipzig played a central role.

The language component of the program takes place at the interDaF language school, the pedagogical arm of the Herder Institute at the University of Leipzig, with additional one-on-one tutoring for conversation and pronunciation.

Grading will be based on the InterDaF assessments, overall participation, and a final reflection paper that integrates the experiences of studying, hearing and performing music over the course of the month.

The program fee covers all instructional costs, course books, program fees, housing, and selected cultural activities and other types of excursions. The fee does not include airfare.

For general planning and financial aid purposes, here is an estimated breakdown of the costs involved:

• Tuition (this includes a $500 non-refundable deposit): $3,640
• Program Fee: $1,460
• Books, course materials, supplies, and equipment: $0
• Housing: $0
• Food: $600
• Transportation: $1,500
• Miscellaneous personal expenses: $500

To apply, please complete the online application in Global Programs System (GPS) before midnight of the deadline.

Notifications of acceptance will be sent out on January 31, 2025, and the deadline to accept an offer is February 7, 2025.

For more information, contact @email.

Apply to all of the SAFE funding opportunities for which you are eligible, even though you do not yet know if you are going to be accepted into Princeton in Leipzig. If necessary, you can withdraw your funding application later.

Download the Budget Information PDF to enter into your SAFE application.

Please also note that for summer courses taken for credit, the Office of Financial Aid offers aid recipients student loans to help meet the costs of summer courses. Princeton in Leipzig satisfies these criteria.