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The origin of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music can be traced back to the National College of Music, which was established on November 27, 1927 by
Cai YuanpeiCài Yuánpéi was a Chinese educator and the chancellor of Peking University, known for his critical evaluation of the Chinese culture that led to the influential May Fourth Movement...
. Dr. Xiao Youmei was the director of the new school and curriculum. His teachings were based on the
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, where he graduated. It was one of the first institutions of higher learning of modern music in China.
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The
Shanghai Conservatory of Music is a public
universityA university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education...
in
ShanghaiShanghai is the largest city in China, and one of the largest metropolitan areas in the world, with over 20 million people. Located on China's central eastern coast at the mouth of the Yangtze River, the city is administered as a municipality of the People's Republic of China with province-level...
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ChinaChina is a cultural region, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....
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History
The origin of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music can be traced back to the National College of Music, which was established on November 27, 1927 by
Cai YuanpeiCài Yuánpéi was a Chinese educator and the chancellor of Peking University, known for his critical evaluation of the Chinese culture that led to the influential May Fourth Movement...
. Dr. Xiao Youmei was the director of the new school and curriculum. His teachings were based on the
Leipzig Conservatory of MusicThe University of Music and Theatre "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig is a public university in Leipzig . Founded in 1843 by Felix Mendelssohn as the Conservatory of Music, it is the oldest university school of music in Germany....
, where he graduated. It was one of the first institutions of higher learning of modern music in China. It was considered the premiere institution for western music learning. Professors came from as far as
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. The conservatory sponsored the printing of 27 music books through the
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It was renamed several times: National Training School of Music (1929), Branch of National Conservatory of Music (1943), Shanghai National Training School of Music (1945), Shanghai and Huadong Branches of Chinese Conservatory of Music (early 1950s). It received its current name in 1956.
Programs
The Conservatory offers 5-year-undergraduate programs. It is authorized to confer degrees of bachelor, master and doctor standings. It has eight departments: musicology, composition and conducting, voice, piano, orchestral instruments, Chinese instruments, music education and musical drama.
The Conservatory also has a music research institute, an affiliated elementary school, an affiliated middle school, and a music instruments workshop.
Faculty and student body
The Conservatory has 50 professors and 120 associate professors. There are approximately 1,200 students.
Notable alumni
- Lü Ji (composer)
He was born in Xiangtan, Hunan in 1909 and became interested in music from an early age, learning to play several traditional instruments. He graduated from Changsha Chang Jun Secondary School in Changsha, and studied music at the Shanghai Music Training School...
, composer of revolutionary music
- Hai-Ye Ni
- Muhai Tang
Muhai Tang is a Chinese conductor. He is the youngest son of celebrated Chinese film director Xiaodan Tang and brother of painter and poet Muli Tang....
- Yuan-Qing Yu
- Li Wei Qin
- Jian Wang (cellist)
Jian Wang is a cellist from Shanghai. Born into a musical family, he began studying the cello with his father at the age of four. At the age of nine he was enrolled in the Shanghai Conservatory where he made rapid progress....
- Zhou Yi (musician)
Zhou Yi is a Chinese pipa player.Zhou is from Shanghai. As a child prodigy, Zhou began studying music at the age of five and gave her first public recital at six. She trained for four years on the pipa before enrolling in the elementary school of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, one of China's...
- Jiaxin Cheng
-Career:The cellist Jiaxin Cheng graduated from Shanghai Conservatory of Music, China, in 1997. She was already giving performances with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra but left China for further studies in New Zealand where she received her Master Degree at Auckland University in 2001.While in New...
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