All kinds of music

The 40,000 square metres that make up this space encompass all the stages of music: performance in the Auditori concert halls, training in the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya and history in the Museu de la Música. The ESMUC offers degree, postgraduate and Master’s courses in a cross-the-board education programme that includes every musical discipline: composing, conducting and performing classical and contemporary music, jazz and modern music and early and traditional music. This is complemented by other courses in musicology, pedagogy, sonology, production and management.

Rafael Moneo’s spectacular building

The building designed by Moneo is a spectacular compact concrete block covered with rusted steel panels that takes up two blocks of the Eixample. Its central body, resting on columns, forms a passage that lets you cross the building. There is a spectacular, monumental glass cube here, decorated by the sculptor Pablo Palazuelo, which acts as the building’s atrium.