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 Bryushkov (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

Boris Abalyan (conducting) Leopold Auer (violin) Vladimir Bakaleinikov (viola) Louis Brassin (piano) Vitaly Bujanovsky (French Horn) Alexander Famitsin (musicology, composition) Georgiy Ginovker (cello, chamber music) Edouard Grikurov (conducting) Artur Lemba (piano) Theodor Leschetizky (piano) Alexander Ossovsky (musicology, history) Nikolai Malko (conducting) Ilya Musin (conducting) Leonid Nikolayev (piano) Cesare Pugni (violin, counterpoint, composition) Alexander Radvilovich (composition) Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (composition, orchestration) Anton Rubinstein (piano, the history of piano literature) Karl Bogdànovich Schuberth (cello)Rubinstein. A., Autobiography of Rubinstein (New York, Haskell House Publishers Ltd, 1969. 1st Published 1890) pp.104-105 Dmitri Shostakovich (composition) Sergei Slonimsky (composition) Vladimir Sofronitsky – piano Nikolai Tcherepnin (conducting) Boris Tishchenko (composition) Aleksandr Verzhbilovich (cello) Zino Vinnikov (violin) Jāzeps Vītols (composition) Hieronymus Weickmann (viola) Henryk Wieniawski (violin) Alexander Winkler (piano) Anna Yesipova (piano) Nikolai Zaremba (composition, harmony) Anatoly Zatin (composition, orchestration, chamber music) Leah Zelikhman (piano) Henri Vieuxtemps (violin)

Notable graduates

Anton Arensky - composer George Balanchine – choreographer Alexander Barantschik - violin Semyon Barmotin - pianist, composer, teacher Sidor Belarsky - operatic basso, educator Biography of Sidor Belarsky at Florida Atlantic UniversityBrigham Young University Special Collections - Biography of Sidor Belarsky on lib.byuEllis Island Interviews: Immigrants Tell Their Stories In their Own Words. Coan, Peter M. Fall River Press, 1997 p. 268 Interview & biography of Isabel Belarsky - daughter of Sidor Belarsky on Google Books"Jewish Frontier" Labor Zionist Letters Inc. 1995 p. 22 Sidor Belarsky On Google Books Richard Burgin – violinist, conductor Semyon Bychkov - conductor Gayane Chebotaryan - composer, pianist, musicologist Joseph Cherniavsky - cellist, conductor Peter Chernobrivets – composer, musicologist Leonid Desyatnikov – composer Sergei Diaghilev – impresario Sandra Drouker - pianist Heino Eller – composer Valery Gergiev – conductor Jascha Heifetz – violinist Aida Huseynova – musicologist and ethnomusicologist Alexander Ilyinsky – music teacher and composer Mariss Jansons – conductor Alfrēds Kalniņš – composer, organist Artur Kapp – composer Leokadiya Kashperova - pianist, composer Alexander Kashpurin - pianist, conductor Yuri Khanon – composer, writer, laureate of the European Film Awards. Eduard Khil – singer Vladimir Khomyakov – pianist Nadine Koutcher – opera singer Gustav Kross - pianist Miroslav Kultyshev - pianist Eugene Levinson - Double bassist Anatoly Lyadov – composer, teacher, conductor Sasha Mäkilä – Finnish conductor Witold Maliszewski – Polish composer, teacher, public figure Nathan Milstein – violinist Nikolai Myaskovsky - composer Nevsky String Quartet Tomomi Nishimoto - conductor Nikolai Obukhov – composer Leo Ornstein – composer Gavriil Popov - composer Sergei Prokofiev – composer, pianist, conductor Gal Rasché - conductor, pianist, teacher Lauma Reinholde - composer, pianist, teacher Nadia Reisenberg - pianist Clara Rockmore – violin prodigy, theremin performer Livery Antonovich Sacchetti – Russian music historian David Serero - opera singer Ilya Serov - trumpeter Don Shirley - pianist, arranger, composer Dmitri Shostakovich – composer, pianist Nadezhda Simonyan - composer Kuldar Sink — composer, flautist Vladimir Sofronitsky – pianist Grigory Sokolov – pianist Ilza Sternicka-Niekrasz - pianist, composer Lyubov Streicher - composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – composer Yuri Temirkanov – conductor Dimitri Tiomkin – pianist, composer Elena Tsallagova – soprano Vera Vinogradova-pianist, composer Zino Vinnikov – violinist Solomon Volkov – musicologist Ivan Yershov – singer Anna Yesipova – pianist Mikhail Youdin – composer Maria Yudina – pianist Aleksandra Zakharina (married name Aleksandra Unkovskaya) - violinist, pedagogue, conductor, musicologist Stefania Anatolyevna Zaranek - composer Anatoly Zatin - composer, pianist, conductor Valery Zhelobinsky – pianist, composer Efrem Zimbalist - violinist Emina Kamberović – ballet dancer, choreographer, teacher Edina Papo – ballet dancer, choreographer, teacher

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