Royal Academy of Music
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The Royal Academy of Music in London
London
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, England
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, is a conservatoire
Music school
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, Britain's oldest degree-granting music school and a constituent college of the University of London
University of London
-20th century:Shortly after 6 Burlington Gardens was vacated, the University went through a period of rapid expansion. Bedford College, Royal Holloway and the London School of Economics all joined in 1900, Regent's Park College, which had affiliated in 1841 became an official divinity school of the...

 since 1999. The Academy was founded by Lord Burghersh
John Fane, 11th Earl of Westmorland
General John Fane, 11th Earl of Westmorland GCB, GCH, PC , styled Lord Burghersh until 1841, was a British soldier, politician, diplomat and musician.-Background:...

 in 1822 with the help and ideas of the French harpist and composer Nicolas Bochsa and in 1830 was granted a Royal Charter
Royal Charter
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 by King
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 George IV
George IV of the United Kingdom
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. It is a registered charity
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 under English law.
The Academy’s current facilities are situated on Marylebone Road
Marylebone Road
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 in central London
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 adjacent to Regent's Park
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