The Conservatorio Statale di Musica Giuseppe Verdi, also known as the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi or Conservatorio Torino and more commonly known in English as the Turin Conservatory, is a music conservatory in Turin, Italy.[1] It should not be confused with the Milan Conservatory or Como Conservatory; schools which have also been known as the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi.
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History edit
The Turin Conservatory was founded on 11 June 1866 with the name Liceo Musicale.[1] In 1887 its name was changed to the Istituto Musicale when composer Giovanni Bolzoni became director of the school.[1] In 1936 it was enlarged to become the Conservatorio Statale di Musica Giuseppe Verdi.[1] Other directors of the conservatory include composer and pianist Franco Alfano and composers Lodovico Rocca and Sandro Fuga.[1]
Notable alumni edit
- Irene Abrigo
- Cinico Angelini[2]
- Giuseppe Pietro Bagetti
- Arturo Basile
- Carlo Emilio Bonferroni
- Fred Buscaglione[3]
- Carlo Adolfo Cantù[4]
- Matilde Capuis[5]
- Andrea Carè
- Gianluca Cascioli
- Giulio Castagnoli (also faculty)[6]
- Umberto Clerici
- Giancarlo Chiaramello
- Azio Corghi (also faculty)[7]
- Luciana Littizzetto
- Riccardo Malipiero[8]
- Enzo Muccetti
- Fernando Previtali
- Carlo Savina[9]
- Marina Scalafiotti (also faculty)
- Flavio Testi[10]
- Edgard Varèse[11]
- Arturo Vigna[12]
Notable faculty edit
References edit
- ^ a b c d e f g h Pestelli, Giorgio (2002). "Turin (It. Torino)". Grove Music Online. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.28602.
- ^ Salvatore De Salvo (1988). "Cinico, Angelo". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 34 (in Italian). Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana.
- ^ Troiano, Francesco. "Biography of Fred Buscaglione (1921–1960)". Italica. Archived from the original on 14 October 2008. Retrieved 13 October 2008.
- ^ Roberto Zanetti (1985). La musica italiana nel Novecento. Bramante. p. 142.
- ^ Dees, Pamela Youngdahl (2004). A Guide to Piano Music by Women Composers: Women born after 1900.
- ^ Angela Ida De Benedictis (2000). Laurenz Lütteken (ed.). "Castagnoli, Giulio". MGG Online.
- ^ "Azio Corghi". Casa Ricordi. 2022. Retrieved 17 November 2022.
- ^ Bernardoni, Virgilio. 2001. "Malipiero, Riccardo". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan Publishers.
- ^ Musiker, Reuben; Musiker, Naomi (1998). Ades, David (ed.). Conductors and Composers of Popular Orchestral Music: A Biographical and Discographical Sourcebook. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 240. ISBN 9780313302602.
- ^ Raffaele Pozzi. "Flavio Testi" The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, edited by Stanley Sadie (1992). ISBN 0-333-73432-7 and ISBN 1-56159-228-5
- ^ "Edgard Victor Achille Charles Varèse (Varese, Edgard)" Archived 2008-10-26 at the Wayback Machine, biography at s9.com
- ^ "Obituary:Arturo Vigna" (PDF). The New York Times. January 30, 1927.
- ^ "PIER LUIGI CIMMA". Archived from the original on 2011-07-13. Retrieved 2020-05-06.
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