Saint Petersburg Conservatory

Saint Petersburg Conservatory

The N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov Saint Petersburg State Conservatory (Russian: Санкт-Петербургская государственная консерватория имени Н.А. Римского-Корсакова) is a music school in Saint Petersburg. In 2004, the conservatory had around 275 faculty and 1,400 students.

History

The conservatory was founded in 1861 by the Russian pianist and composer Anton Rubinstein. On his resignation in 1867, he was succeeded by Nikolai Zaremba. Rimsky-Korsakov joined the faculty in 1871 and the conservatory has borne his name since 1944. In 1887, Rubinstein returned to the Conservatory with the goal of improving overall standards. He removed inferior students, fired and demoted many professors, made entrance and examination requirements more stringent, and revised the curriculum. In 1891, he resigned again over the Imperial demand of racial quotas.

The current building was erected in the 1890s on the site of the old Bolshoi Theatre of Saint Petersburg and still preserves the grand staircase and landing from that historic theatre. As the city changed its name in the 20th century, the conservatory was duly renamed "Petrograd Conservatory" (Петроградская консерватория) and "Leningrad Conservatory" (Ленинградская консерватория).

Today, it is a renowned Russian composition school whose graduates have included such notable composers as Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Sergei Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich, Artur Kapp, and Rudolf Tobias. The youngest musician ever admitted to the Conservatory was five-year old violinist Clara Rockmore, who later became one of the world's foremost theremin players. During the 1960s, Shostakovich taught at the conservatory, which brought it additional fame. Amongst his pupils were German Okunev and Boris Tishchenko.

Directors and rectors

* Anton Rubinstein (1862 — 1867)
* Nikolai Zaremba (1867 — 1871)
* Mikhail Azanchevsky (1871 — 1876)
* Karl Davydov (1876 — 1887)
* Anton Rubinstein (1887 — 1891)
* Alexander Glazunov (1905 — 1928, as of 1918 — rector)

Notable teachers

* Leopold Auer (violin)
* Leonid Korchmar (conducting)
* Teodor Leszetycki (piano)
* Cesare Pugni (violin, counterpoint, composition)
* Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (composition, orchestration)
* Anton Rubinstein (piano, the history of piano literature)
* Nikolai Tcherepnin (conducting)
* Anna Yesipova (piano)
* Sergei Slonimsky (composition)
* Anatoly Ivanov percussion instrument

Notable graduates

* George Balanchine
* Sergei Diaghilev
* Valery Gergiev
* Jascha Heifetz
* Mariss Jansons
* Artur Kapp
* Anatoly Lyadov
* Nathan Milstein
* Sergei Prokofiev
* Dmitri Shostakovich
* Grigory Sokolov
* Vladimir Sofronitsky
* Yuri Temirkanov
* Léon Theremin
* Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
* Anna Yesipova
* Maria Yudina
* Anna Netrebko
* Gal Rasché

ee also

*Moscow Conservatory

External links

* [http://www.conservatory.ru/ Official site] (in Russian and English)


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