Moscow Conservatory

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The Moscow Conservatory (Московская Государственная Консерватория им. П.И.Чайковского) is a prominent music school in Russia.

It was co-founded in 1866 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.

Some notable alumni

• Nelly Akopian-Tamarina - pianist
• Rowena Arrieta - pianist
• Vladimir Ashkenazy - pianist, conductor
• Yuri Bashmet - violist, conductor
• Boris Berezovsky - concert pianist
• Lazar Berman - pianist
• Sofia Gubaidulina - composer
• Natalia Gutman - cellist
• Bella Davidovich - pianist
• Edison Denisov - composer
• Samuil Feinberg - pianist, composer
• Andrei Gavrilov - pianist
• Emil Gilels - pianist
• Alexei Gorokhov - violinist, musicologist, professor
• Rustem Hayroudinoff -pianist
• Waleed Howrani - composer and pianist
• Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky - composer and pianist
• Olga Kern - pianist
• Tikhon Khrennikov - composer
• Leonid Kogan - violinist
• Aram Khachaturian - composer
• Yuri Kholopov - musicologist, music theorist
• Josef Lhévinne - pianist
• Radu Lupu - pianist
• Nikolai Lugansky - pianist
• Dmitry Malikov - pianist
• Victor Merzhanov - pianist
• Viktoria Mullova - violinist
• Anahit Nersesyan - Armenian classical pianists
• Tatiana Nikolayeva - pianist
• Lev Oborin - pianist
• Aleksandra Pakhmutova - composer
• Dmitry Paperno - pianist
• Gregor Piatigorsky - cellist
• Mikhail Pletnev - pianist, composer, conductor
• Ivo Pogorelić - pianist
• Sergei Rachmaninoff - composer, pianist, and conductor
• Sviatoslav Richter - pianist
• Mstislav Rostropovich - cellist and conductor
• Alfred Schnittke - composer
• Vladimir Spivakov - violinist, conductor
• Alexander Scriabin - composer and pianist
• Aleksandr Sokolov - Russian Minister of Culture
• Rodion Shchedrin - composer and pianist
• Viktor Tretiakov - violinist
• Eliso Virsaladze - pianist

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.

See also

• Saint Petersburg Conservatory
• Pan Asian Ensemble

External links

• Moscow Conservatory website (in Russian)
• Moscow Conservatory website (in English)
• MoscowComposer.com

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