Turin Conservatory

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.

Conservatorio Statale di Musica Giuseppe Verdi, also known as the Turin Conservatory

History

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

• 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

• Elio Battaglia
• Pierluigi Cimma^[13]
• Andrea Della Corte^[1]
• Giorgio Federico Ghedini^[1]
• Dado Moroni
• Luigi Perrachio^[1]
• Alberto Soresina
• Pietro Spada

References

1. Pestelli, Giorgio (2002). "Turin (It. Torino)". Grove Music Online. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.28602.
2. Salvatore De Salvo (1988). "Cinico, Angelo". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 34 (in Italian). Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana.
3. Troiano, Francesco. "Biography of Fred Buscaglione (1921–1960)". Italica. Archived from the original on 14 October 2008. Retrieved 13 October 2008.
4. Roberto Zanetti (1985). La musica italiana nel Novecento. Bramante. p. 142.
5. Dees, Pamela Youngdahl (2004). A Guide to Piano Music by Women Composers: Women born after 1900.
6. Angela Ida De Benedictis (2000). Laurenz Lütteken (ed.). "Castagnoli, Giulio". MGG Online.
7. "Azio Corghi". Casa Ricordi. 2022. Retrieved 17 November 2022.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. 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
11. "Edgard Victor Achille Charles Varèse (Varese, Edgard)" Archived 2008-10-26 at the Wayback Machine, biography at s9.com
12. "Obituary:Arturo Vigna" (PDF). The New York Times. January 30, 1927.
13. "PIER LUIGI CIMMA". Archived from the original on 2011-07-13. Retrieved 2020-05-06.

External links

• Official Website of the Turin Conservatory