Moscow Conservatory
The Moscow Conservatory (Russian: Московская Государственная Консерватория им. П. И. Чайковского, Moscow State Conservatory named for P. I. Tchaikovsky) is a higher musical education institution in Moscow, and the second oldest conservatory in Russia after St. Petersburg Conservatory. Along with the St. Petersburg Conservatory, it is one of the leading music universities in the country.
It was co-founded in 1866 as the Moscow Imperial Conservatory by Nikolai Rubinstein (brother of the famous Russian pianist and composer Anton Rubinstein, who founded the St. Petersburg Conservatory in 1862) and Prince Nikolai Petrovitch Troubetzkoy.
At its opening, Tchaikovsky was appointed professor of theory and harmony, a post he held until approximately 1878. Since 1940, the conservatory has borne Tchaikovsky's name.
Prior to the Revolution the choral faculty of the conservatory was second to the Moscow Synodal School and Moscow Synodal Choir, but in 1919 both were closed and merged into the choral faculty. Some of the students now listed as being of the conservatory were in fact students of the Synodal School.
Some notable alumni
- Valery Afanassiev – pianist
- Nelly Akopian-Tamarina – pianist
- Edward Artemyev – composer
- Vladimir Ashkenazy – pianist, conductor
- Vladimir Bakaleinikov – violist, teacher, composer, conductor
- Rudolf Barshai – violist, conductor
- Dmitri Bashkirov – pianist, teacher
- Yuri Bashmet – violist, conductor
- Boris Berezovsky – pianist
- Boris Berman – pianist, teacher
- Lazar Berman – pianist
- Đặng Thái Sơn – pianist
- Heinrich Neuhaus – pianist
- Stanislav Neuhaus – pianist
- Vadim Borisovsky – violist, teacher
- Anatoliy Brandukov – cellist
- Alexander Chuhaldin – violinist, conductor, composer
- Tish Daija - Albanian composer
- Bella Davidovich – pianist
- Nikolai Demidenko – pianist
- Edison Denisov – composer
- Fyodor Druzhinin – violist
- Youri Egorov – pianist
- Samuil Feinberg – pianist, composer
- Yakov Flier – pianist
- Andrei Gavrilov – pianist
- Michael L. Geller – composer, violist
- Emil Gilels – pianist
- Marina Goglidze-Mdivani – pianist
- Alexei Gorokhov – violinist, musicologist, teacher
- Vera Gornostaeva – pianist, teacher
- Sofia Gubaidulina – composer
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Notable current professors
References
- The Moscow Conservatory. Information Booklet. Second Edition. Moscow, 2001. ISBN 5-89598-111-9.
- Moscow Conservatoire. Moscow, 1994. ISBN 5-86419-006-3.
- Moscow Conservatory: Traditions of Music Education, Art, and Science 1866–2006. Moscow: "Moskovskaya Konservatoriya" Publishing House, 2006.
- Loomis, George (April 18, 2001), "Moscow's Great Hall Turns 100", International Herald Tribune, http://www.iht.com/articles/2001/04/18/loomis_ed2_.php
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