Saint Petersburg Conservatory facts for kids
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The conservatory, as seen in 2013
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The N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov Saint Petersburg State Conservatory is a special music school in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It's a place where talented students learn to become amazing musicians and composers. In 2004, about 275 teachers worked there, teaching around 1,400 students.
History of the Conservatory
This famous music school started in 1862. It was founded by the Russian Music Society and a brilliant pianist and composer named Anton Rubinstein.
Rubinstein left the school in 1867, and Nikolai Zaremba took over. Later, in 1871, the famous composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov became a professor there. The school was named after him in 1944, to celebrate 100 years since his birth.
In 1887, Rubinstein came back to the conservatory. He wanted to make the school even better. He changed the lessons, asked some students to leave if they weren't doing well, and made the entrance tests harder. He left again in 1891 because of disagreements about who could attend the school.
The building you see today was built in the 1890s. It stands where an old theater used to be. As the city of Saint Petersburg changed its name over the years, the conservatory's name also changed. It was called the Petrograd Conservatory and then the Leningrad Conservatory before getting its current name.
Famous People Who Studied Here
Many incredible musicians and composers have studied at this conservatory. Some of the most well-known include:
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, a very famous composer.
- Sergei Prokofiev, another great composer.
- Dmitri Shostakovich, who also taught at the school in the 1960s.
- Clara Rockmore, who was only four years old when she started studying violin there. She later became a world-famous player of the theremin, a unique electronic musical instrument.
Composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov taught at the conservatory for almost 40 years. You can see a bronze statue of him outside the building in Theatre Square.
Notable Graduates
- Anton Arensky - composer
- George Balanchine – choreographer
- Alexander Barantschik - violin
- Semyon Barmotin - pianist, composer, teacher
- Sidor Belarsky - opera singer
- 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
- Yuri Khanon – composer, writer
- 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 – composer
- Nathan Milstein – violinist
- 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
- 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
See also
In Spanish: Conservatorio de San Petersburgo para niños
- Free Music School
