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Music communication is a broad field of activity. It includes concerts and introductions, interactive formats and media communication forms such as radio features and apps.

In addition to school, many children and teenagers would like to learn an instrument or make music in an ensemble. There is a wide range of opportunities for this.

Music on the radio plays a central role in everyday life for most Germans. They can benefit from the versatile service of the public broadcasters as well as from private offerings.

Instrumental and orchestral music, music teaching and musicology are the most popular subjects. In total, the degree programmes for music professions have more than 33,000 enrolments.

In 2022, music programmes accounted for 63% of the total programme of the state-level broadcasters. The airtime for classical music recently dropped.

A total of 30 % of the pupils in the two highest grades take music as a subject. The majority of them study in courses with a basic level.

Millions of people attend music theatre performances in Germany every year. Half of the over 11,000 events are opera performances, followed by dance, musicals and operettas.

Germany’s jazz scene has an extremely wide range of styles and institutions. With its players and artistic results, the scene can present itself with confidence.

Mozart's ‘The Magic Flute’ was Germany's most performed opera of the 2021-22 season. Overall, peformance figures stabilised after COVID-19 breakout.

‘The Merry Widow’ by Franz Lehár and Johann Strauss's ‘Die Fledermaus’ were Germany's most performed operettas of the 2021-22 season.

National productions continue to make up a large part of the German longplay charts. International productions are becoming more popular again.

In 2019 and 2020, national productions dominated the German singles charts. Most recently, the ratio of national and international productions was balanced.

Almost 239,000 pop and classical recordings were available on the German music market in 2022, 73 % of which were audio albums in the pop segment. About 14,500 titles were new releases.

Pop music achieved the largest share of music industry's turnover in 2022, though significantly less than in the noughties. The hip-hop and rock genres were also strong in terms of turnover.

Germany's states differ in the number of weekly hours they allot to music lessons. Music can be a mandatory or compulsory elective subject under its own name, or a component of larger learning areas.

Music is anchored in the curricula of Germany's states in almost all grades 5 to 10. However, there are differences in the quantity of music lessons to be taught.