The N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov Saint Petersburg State Conservatory () (formerly known as the Petrograd Conservatory and Leningrad Conservatory) is a school of music in Saint Petersburg, Russia. In 2013, the conservatory had around 400 faculty members and over 1300 students.

History

thumb|left|Theatre Square and the conservatory, as seen in 1913

The conservatory was founded in 1862 by the Russian Music Society and Anton Rubinstein, a Russian pianist and composer. 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.

  • Dmitri Shostakovich (composition)
  • Sergei Slonimsky (composition)
  • Vladimir Sofronitsky – piano
  • Nikolai Tcherepnin (conducting)
  • Boris Tishchenko (composition)
  • Aleksandr Verzhbilovich (cello)
  • Zino Vinnikov (violin)
  • Jāzeps Vītols (composition)
  • Hieronymus Weickmann (viola)
  • Henryk Wieniawski (violin)
  • Alexander Winkler (piano)
  • Anna Yesipova (piano)
  • 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
  • Alexander Kashpurin - pianist, conductor
  • 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
  • Nikolai Myaskovsky - composer
  • 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
  • Lauma Reinholde - composer, 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
  • Vladimir Sofronitsky – pianist
  • Grigory Sokolov – pianist
  • Ilza Sternicka-Niekrasz - pianist, composer
  • 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
  • Aleksandra Zakharina (married name Aleksandra Unkovskaya) - violinist, pedagogue, conductor, musicologist
  • 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

See also

  • Free Music School

References

  • Official website (in Russian, French and English)
  • Documentary A Music Lesson on Saint Petersburg Conservatory