Saint Petersburg Conservatory Explained
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The N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov Saint Petersburg State Conservatory (Russian: Санкт-Петербургская государственная консерватория имени Н. А. Римского-Корсакова) (formerly known as the Petrograd Conservatory and Leningrad Conservatory) is a school of music in Saint Petersburg, Russia. In 2004, the conservatory had around 275 faculty members and 1,400 students.
History
The conservatory was founded in 1862 by the Russian Music Society and Anton Rubinstein, a Russian pianist and composer.[1] 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.[1] 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).
The 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
Notable faculty
Notable graduates
- Anton Arensky - composer
- George Balanchine – choreographer
- Alexander Barantschik - violin
- Semyon Barmotin - pianist, composer, teacher
- Sidor Belarsky - operatic basso, educator [3] [4] [5] [6]
- 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, 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 – 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
- 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[7]
- 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
- 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
External links
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Notes and References
- Book: N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov Leningrad Conservatory. Great Soviet Encyclopedia. 1979. Sovetskaya Entsiklopediya. E. S. BARUTCHEVA.
- Rubinstein. A., Autobiography of Rubinstein (New York, Haskell House Publishers Ltd, 1969. 1st Published 1890) pp.104-105
- https://rsa.fau.edu/sidor-belarsky Biography of Sidor Belarsky at Florida Atlantic University
- http://archives.lib.byu.edu/agents/people/2213 Brigham Young University Special Collections - Biography of Sidor Belarsky on lib.byu
- https://www.google.com/books/edition/Ellis_Island_Interviews/O6MPfrG61SEC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Sidor+belarsky&pg=PA268&printsec=frontcover Ellis 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
- https://www.google.com/books/edition/Jewish_Frontier/x-ZtAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=Sidor+belarsky&dq=Sidor+belarsky&printsec=frontcover "Jewish Frontier" Labor Zionist Letters Inc. 1995 p. 22 Sidor Belarsky On Google Books
- Encyclopedia: Vaitmaa. Merike. Kuldar Sink. Grove Music Online. 2001. 10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.25881.
