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Saint Petersburg Conservatory

The N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov Saint Petersburg State Conservatory () (formerly known as the Petrograd Conservatory and Leningrad Conservatory) is a school of music in Saint Petersburg, Russia. In 2013, the conservatory had around 400 faculty members and over 1300 students.

History

The conservatory was founded in 1862 by the Russian Music Society and Anton Rubinstein, a Russian pianist and composer. On his resignation in 1867, he was succeeded by Nikolai Zaremba. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov was appointed as a professor in 1871, and the conservatory has borne his name since 1944, the centenary of his birth. In 1887, Rubinstein returned to the conservatory with the goal of improving overall standards. He revised the curriculum, expelled inferior students, fired and demoted many professors, and made entrance and examination requirements more stringent. 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. As the city changed its name in the 20th century, the conservatory was renamed Petrograd Conservatory (Петроградская консерватория) and Leningrad Conservatory (Ленинградская консерватория).

School alumni have included such composers as Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Sergei Prokofiev, Artur Kapp, Rudolf Tobias, and Dmitri Shostakovich, who taught at the conservatory during the 1960s. Amongst his pupils were German Okunev and Boris Tishchenko. Composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov taught at the conservatory for almost forty years, and his bronze monument is located outside the building in Theatre Square. The youngest musician ever admitted to the conservatory was four-year-old violinist Clara Rockmore, who later became one of the world's foremost theremin players.

Directors and rectors

  • Anton Rubinstein (1862–1867 and 1887–1891)
  • Nikolai Zaremba (1867–1871)
  • Mikhail Azanchevsky (1871–1876)
  • Karl Davydov (1876–1887)
  • (1891–1897)
  • Auguste Bernhard (1897–1905)
  • Alexander Glazunov (1905–1928) (formally 1930) – rector
  • Aleksey Mashirov (1930–1933)
  • Veniamin Buchstein (1935–1936)
  • Boris Zagursky (1936–1939) – rector
  • Pavel Serebryakov (1939–1952, 1962–1977)
  • Yuri Briushkov (1952–1962)
  • Yuri Bolshiyanov (1977–1979)
  • Vladislav Chernushenko (1979–2002)
  • Sergei Roldugin (2002–2004)
  • Alexander Chaikovsky (2004–2008)
  • Sergei Stadler (2008–2011)
  • Mikhail Gantvarg (2011–2015)
  • Aleksey Vasilyev (since 2015)

Notable faculty

Notable graduates

See also

References

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