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The N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov Saint Petersburg State Conservatory is a music school in Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg is a types of inhabited localities in Russia and a federal subjects of Russia of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea....
. In 2004, the conservatory had around 275 faculty members and 1,400 students.

conservatory was founded in 1861 by the Russian pianist
Pianist

A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an musical ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers....
 and composer
Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, usually in the medium of musical notation, for interpretation and performance. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of music....
 Anton Rubinstein
Anton Rubinstein

Anton Grigorevich Rubinstein was a Russian pianist, composer and Conducting. As a pianist he was regarded as a rival of Franz Liszt, and he ranks amongst the great keyboard virtuosos....
.






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The N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov Saint Petersburg State Conservatory is a music school in Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg is a types of inhabited localities in Russia and a federal subjects of Russia of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea....
. In 2004, the conservatory had around 275 faculty members and 1,400 students.

History

The conservatory was founded in 1861 by the Russian pianist
Pianist

A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an musical ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers....
 and composer
Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, usually in the medium of musical notation, for interpretation and performance. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of music....
 Anton Rubinstein
Anton Rubinstein

Anton Grigorevich Rubinstein was a Russian pianist, composer and Conducting. As a pianist he was regarded as a rival of Franz Liszt, and he ranks amongst the great keyboard virtuosos....
. On his resignation in 1867, he was succeeded by Nikolai Zaremba
Nikolai Zaremba

Nikolai Ivanovich Zaremba was a Russian musical theorist and composer.Zaremba was born in the province of Vitebsk in 1821. He was one of the original professors at the St....
. 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 (????????????? ?????????????) and Leningrad Conservatory (????????????? ?????????????).

Today, it is a renowned Russian composition school whose graduates have included such notable composers as Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Sergei Prokofiev
Sergei Prokofiev

Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev was a Russian composer who mastered numerous musical genres and came to be admired as one of the greatest composers of the 20th century....
, Dmitri Shostakovich
Dmitri Shostakovich

Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was a List of Russian composers of the Soviet Union period.After a period influenced by Sergei Prokofiev and Igor Stravinsky , Shostakovich developed a hybrid of styles as exemplified in his opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District ....
, Artur Kapp
Artur Kapp

Artur Kapp was a notable Estonians composer.Born in Suure-Jaani, Viljandimaa, Estonia, he was the son of Joosep Kapp, who was also a classically trained musician....
, and Rudolf Tobias
Rudolf Tobias

Rudolf Tobias was the first Estonians professional composer, as well as a professional organist. He studied at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory....
. The youngest musician ever admitted to the Conservatory was five-year old violinist Clara Rockmore
Clara Rockmore

Clara Rockmore is generally considered to be the most accomplished performer ever of the theremin electronic musical instrument....
, who later became one of the world's foremost theremin
Theremin

The theremin is an early electronic musical instrument controlled without contact from the player. It is named after its Russian inventor, Professor Leon Theremin, who patented the device in 1928....
 players. During the 1960s, Shostakovich taught at the conservatory, which brought it additional fame. Amongst his pupils were German Okunev
German Okunev

German Grigoryevich Okunev was a Soviet Union Russian people composer, piano and teacher....
 and Boris Tishchenko
Boris Tishchenko

Boris Ivanovich Tishchenko Transliteration: Boris Ivanovic Ti?cenko Russian language: ?????? ????????? ????????, born March 23, 1939, Saint Petersburg) is a Russian people and Soviet Union composer and pianist....
.

Directors and rectors

  • Anton Rubinstein
    Anton Rubinstein

    Anton Grigorevich Rubinstein was a Russian pianist, composer and Conducting. As a pianist he was regarded as a rival of Franz Liszt, and he ranks amongst the great keyboard virtuosos....
     (1862 — 1867)
  • Nikolai Zaremba
    Nikolai Zaremba

    Nikolai Ivanovich Zaremba was a Russian musical theorist and composer.Zaremba was born in the province of Vitebsk in 1821. He was one of the original professors at the St....
     (1867 — 1871)
  • Mikhail Azanchevsky (1871 — 1876)
  • Karl Davydov (1876 — 1887)
  • Anton Rubinstein
    Anton Rubinstein

    Anton Grigorevich Rubinstein was a Russian pianist, composer and Conducting. As a pianist he was regarded as a rival of Franz Liszt, and he ranks amongst the great keyboard virtuosos....
     (1887 — 1891)
  • Alexander Glazunov
    Alexander Glazunov

    Aleksandr Konstantinovich Glazunov was a Russian composer, music teacher and Conducting. He served as director of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory between 1905 and 1928 and was also instrumental in the reorganization of the institute into the Petrograd Conservatory, then the Leningrad Conservatory, following the October Revolution....
     (1905 — 1928, as of 1918 — rector)


Notable teachers

  • Leopold Auer
    Leopold Auer

    Leopold Auer , was a Hungary violinist, teacher, conducting and composer....
     (violin
    Violin

    The violin is a Bow string instrument with four strings usually tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest and highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which also includes the viola and cello....
    )
  • Leonid Korchmar
    Leonid Korchmar

    Leonid Korchmar is a Russian Conductor .He is an Honoured Artist of the Russian Federation and of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania and a diploma-winner at the All-Russian Conducting Competition ....
     (conducting
    Conducting

    Conducting is the act of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. Orchestras, choirs, concert bands and other musical ensembles often have conductors....
    )
  • Teodor Leszetycki
    Teodor Leszetycki

    Teodor Leszetycki was a Poland pianist, teacher and composer. He was born in Lancut, Poland ....
     (piano
    Piano

    The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard instrument. Widely used in Western music for solo performance, ensemble use, chamber music, and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to musical composition and rehearsal....
    )
  • Ilya Musin
    Ilya Musin

    Ilya Aleksandrovich Musin was a Russian conductor, a prominent teacher and a theorist of conducting.He began his conducting studies under the conductors Nikolai Malko and Aleksandr Gauk....
     (conducting)
  • Cesare Pugni
    Cesare Pugni

    Cesare Pugni was an Italian composer of ballet music, a pianist and a virtuoso violinist. In his early career he composed operas, symphony, and various other forms of orchestral music....
     (violin, counterpoint
    Counterpoint

    In music, counterpoint is the relationship between two or more Register that are independent in contour and rhythm, and interdependent in harmony....
    , composition
    Musical composition

    Musical composition is:* an original piece of music* the musical form of a musical piece* the process of creating a new piece of music...
    )
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
    Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov , also Nikolay, Nicolai, and Rimsky-Korsakoff, was a Russian composer, and a member of the group of composers known as "The Five." Noted particularly for a predilection for folk and fairy-tale subjects as well as his extraordinary skill in orchestration, his best known orchestral compositions...
     (composition, orchestration
    Orchestration

    Orchestration is the study or practice of writing music for an orchestra or of adapting for orchestra music composed for another medium. It only gradually over the course of music history came to be regarded as a compositional art in itself....
    )
  • Anton Rubinstein
    Anton Rubinstein

    Anton Grigorevich Rubinstein was a Russian pianist, composer and Conducting. As a pianist he was regarded as a rival of Franz Liszt, and he ranks amongst the great keyboard virtuosos....
     (piano, the history of piano literature)
  • Nikolai Tcherepnin
    Nikolai Tcherepnin

    Nikolai Nikolayevich Tcherepnin was a Russian composer, pianist, and conducting. He was born in Saint Petersburg and studied under Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory....
     (conducting)
  • Anna Yesipova
    Anna Yesipova

    Anna Yesipova , sometimes cited as Anna Esipova, Anna Essipova, Annette Essipoff, Annette Essipova, Annette von Essipow, Anna Jessipowa) was a prominent Russians piano....
     (piano)
  • Alexander Ossovsky
    Alexander Ossovsky

    Alexander Ossovsky , was a renowned Russian musical writer, critic and musicologist, cousin of the composer Mykola Vilinsky, professor at Saint Petersburg Conservatory, pupil of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, friend of Sergei Rachmaninoff, Alexander Siloti and Nikolai Tcherepnin....
     (musicology
    Musicology

    Musicology is the scholarly study of music. The word is used in narrow, broad and intermediate senses. In the narrow sense, musicology is confined to the music history of Western culture....
    )
  • Sergei Slonimsky
    Sergei Slonimsky

    Sergei Mikhailovich Slonimsky is a Russian and Soviet Union composer, pianist and musicology....
     (composition)
  • Anatoly Ivanov percussion instrument
    Percussion instrument

    A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound by being hit with an implement, shaken, rubbed, scraped, or by any other action which sets the object into vibration....


Notable graduates

  • George Balanchine
    George Balanchine

    George Balanchine , born Giorgi Melitonis dze Balanchivadze in Saint Petersburg, Russia, to Georgians parents, was one of the 20th century's foremost choreographers, a pioneer of ballet in the United States, co-founder and balletmaster of New York City Ballet: his work created modern ballet, based on his deep knowledge of classical for...
  • Sergei Diaghilev
    Sergei Diaghilev

    Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev , also referred to as Serge, was a Russian people art critic, patron, ballet impresario and founder of the Ballets Russes from which many famous dancers and choreographers would later arise....
  • Valery Gergiev
    Valery Gergiev

    Valery Abisalovich Gergiev is a Russian conducting and opera company director. He is general director and artistic director of the Mariinsky Theatre, principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, and principal guest conductor of the Metropolitan Opera....
  • Jascha Heifetz
    Jascha Heifetz

    Jascha Heifetz was a Jewish violin virtuoso born in Lithuania . He is hailed as the greatest violinist of the 20th century.Early life ...
  • Mariss Jansons
    Mariss Jansons

    Mariss Jansons is a Latvian conducting, the son of conductor Arvid Jansons. His mother, the singer Iraida Jansons, who was Jewish, gave birth to him in hiding in Riga, Latvia, after her father and brother were killed in the Riga ghetto....
  • Artur Kapp
    Artur Kapp

    Artur Kapp was a notable Estonians composer.Born in Suure-Jaani, Viljandimaa, Estonia, he was the son of Joosep Kapp, who was also a classically trained musician....
  • Anatoly Lyadov
  • Nathan Milstein
    Nathan Milstein

    Nathan Mironovich Milstein was a Jewish virtuoso violinist born in Russia.He died in London ten days before his 89th birthday.He is widely considered one of the finest violinists of the 20th century, well known for his interpretations of Johann Sebastian Bach solo violin works, and for works from the Romantic music period....
  • Sergei Prokofiev
    Sergei Prokofiev

    Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev was a Russian composer who mastered numerous musical genres and came to be admired as one of the greatest composers of the 20th century....
  • Dmitri Shostakovich
    Dmitri Shostakovich

    Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was a List of Russian composers of the Soviet Union period.After a period influenced by Sergei Prokofiev and Igor Stravinsky , Shostakovich developed a hybrid of styles as exemplified in his opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District ....
  • Grigory Sokolov
    Grigory Sokolov

    Grigory Lipmanovich Sokolov is a Russian piano.Sokolov began studying the piano at the age of five, entering the Saint Petersburg Conservatory to study with Leah Zelikhman when he was seven....
  • Vladimir Sofronitsky
    Vladimir Sofronitsky

    Vladimir Vladimirovich Sofronitsky was a Russia piano, best known as an interpreter of the Russian composer Alexander Scriabin, whose daughter he married....
  • Yuri Temirkanov
    Yuri Temirkanov

    Yuri Khatuevich Temirkanov is a Russian conducting of Circassian origin.Yuri Temirkanov has been the Music Director and Chief Conductor of the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic since 1988....
  • Léon Theremin
    Léon Theremin

    L?on Theremin was a Russian inventor. He is most famous for his invention of the theremin, one of the first electronic musical instruments. He is also the inventor of interlace, a technique of improving the picture quality of a video signal, widely used in video and television technology....
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – ) was a Russian composer of the Romantic music era. He wrote some of the most popular concert and theatrical music in the current classical repertoire, including the ballets Swan Lake and Nutcracker, the 1812 Overture, his Piano Concerto No....
  • Solomon Volkov
    Solomon Volkov

    Solomon Volkov is a Russian journalist and musicology. He is best known for Testimony , which was published in 1979 following his emigration from the Soviet Union in 1976....
  • Ivan Yershov
    Ivan Yershov

    Ivan Vasiliyevitch Yershov or Ershov , born November 8, 1867 - died November 21, 1943, was a great Russian opera singer. He earned renown for his brilliant performances at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg of some of the most demanding roles ever written for the dramatic tenor voice....
  • Anna Yesipova
    Anna Yesipova

    Anna Yesipova , sometimes cited as Anna Esipova, Anna Essipova, Annette Essipoff, Annette Essipova, Annette von Essipow, Anna Jessipowa) was a prominent Russians piano....
  • Maria Yudina
    Maria Yudina

    Maria Veniaminovna Yudina or Mariya Yudina was an influential Russian pianist.Yudina was born in Nevel, Russia. She studied at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory under Anna Yesipova and Leonid Vladimirovich Nikolayev....
  • Valery Viktorovich Zhelobinsky
    Valery Viktorovich Zhelobinsky

    Valery Viktorovich Zhelobinsky was a Russian people composer and pianist....
  • Anna Netrebko
    Anna Netrebko

    Anna Yur?yevna Netrebko born in Krasnodar, Russia, is a Russian-Austrian operatic soprano who currently resides in Vienna....
  • Gal Rasché
  • Witold Maliszewski
    Witold Maliszewski

    Witold Maliszewski , was a Poland composer, first Rector and founder of Odessa Conservatory and professor at Warsaw Conservatory, pupil of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov....


See also

  • Moscow Conservatory
    Moscow Conservatory

    The Moscow Conservatory is a prominent music school in Russia.It was co-founded in 1866 by Nikolai Rubinstein and Prince Nikolai Petrovitch Troubetzkoy....


External links

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