SAINT PETERSBURG CONSERVATORY

The 'St. Petersburg State N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov 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.

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History

Directors and rectors

Notable graduates

Notable teachers

See also

External link

History

The conservatory was founded in 1861 by the Russian pianist and composer Anton Rubinstein. On his retirement in 1867, he was succeeded by Nikolai Zaremba. Rimsky-Korsakov joined the faculty in 1871 and the conservatory has borne his name since 1944.
The current building was erected in the 1890s on the site of the old Bolshoi Theatre of Saint Petersburg and still preserves a 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).
It is a central Russian composition school whose graduates have included such notable composers as Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Sergei Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich, George Balanchine, 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 teaching brought additional fame to the Conservatory. 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 graduates

★ Anna Yesipova

★ Anatoly Lyadov

★ Sergei Prokofiev

★ Grigory Sokolov

★ Vladimir Sofronitsky

★ Léon Theremin

★ Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

★ Dmitri Shostakovich

★ Maria Yudina

★ Jascha Heifetz

★ Nathan Milstein

Notable teachers

★ Leopold Auer (violin)

★ Anna Yesipova (piano)

★ Leonid Korchmar (conducting)

★ Teodor Leszetycki (piano)

★ Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (composition, orchestration)

★ Anton Rubinstein (piano, the history of piano literature)

See also

★ Moscow Conservatory

External link

★ Official site (in Russian and English)