Cincinnati Conservatory of Music
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.jpg) On the lawn of The Cincinnati Conservatory of Music 1913 | |
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| Type | Conservatory |
| Established | 1867 |
| Founder | Clara Baur |
| Closed | 1955 |
| Affiliation | University of Cincinnati – College-Conservatory of Music |
The Cincinnati Conservatory of Music was a conservatory, part of a girls' finishing school, founded in 1867 in Cincinnati, Ohio. It merged with the College of Music of Cincinnati in 1955, forming the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, which is now part of the University of Cincinnati.
Noted alumni include cancer researcher Aldred Scott Warthin, singer and entertainer Tennessee Ernie Ford, trumpeter Al Hirt, jazz pianist Pat Moran McCoy, and composers Harold Morris, Conlon Nancarrow, and Margaret McClure Stitt.
History
[edit]The Cincinnati Conservatory of Music was founded by Clara Baur in 1867.[1][2] It was the first music school in Cincinnati and was a conservatory, part of a girls' finishing school.[1][2] On June 10, 1924, Burnet Corwin Tuthill, general manager of the conservatory, instigated a meeting for the formation of the National Association of Schools of Music together with five other institutions: the American Conservatory of Music, the Bush Conservatory of Music, the Louisville Conservatory of Music, the Pittsburgh Musical Institute, and the Walcott Conservatory of Music.[3]
It merged with the College of Music of Cincinnati in 1955, forming the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, which is now part of the University of Cincinnati.
Student activities
[edit]The conservatory had a chapter of Sigma Iota Chi literary sorority from 1905 to 1915.[4]
Notable people
[edit]Alumni
[edit]- Lou Busch, record producer, musician and songwriter
- Tennessee Ernie Ford (1939), singer and television personality
- Corinne Stocker Horton, elocutionist, journalist, and newspaper editor
- Pat Moran McCoy, jazz pianist
- Harold Morris, pianist, composer, and educator
- Conlon Nancarrow, composer
- Carrie Obendorfer Simon, communal leader
- Margaret McClure Stitt, dramatist
Faculty
[edit]- Emma Heckle, professor of voice (also alumni),[5] and for part of the time co-director of the conservatory[6]
- James G. Heller, professor of musicology
References
[edit]- 1 2 Shotwell, John Brough (1902). A History of the Schools of Cincinnati. The School Life Company. p. 373.
- 1 2 Southern, Eileen (1997). Music of Black Americans. New York: W.W. Norton & Co. p. 221. ISBN 0-393-03843-2.
- ↑ Tuthill, Burnet Corwin (1963). NASM — The First Forty Years: A Personal History of the National Association of Schools of Music LC:ML27.U5 N2634. Washington, D.C.: National Association of Schools of Music. p. 1.
- ↑ Carroll Lurding; Fran Becque, eds. (July 11, 2025). "Inactive Women's Organizations: Sigma Iota Chi" (PDF). Almanac of Fraternities and Sororities. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Retrieved October 16, 2025 – via University Library: Student Life and Culture Archives.
- ↑ "Singer of Yesteryear Dead. Miss Emma Heckle Only Cincinnati Guest Soprano During First May Festival in 1873". The Cincinnati Enquirer. April 25, 1941. p. 10.
- ↑ "Emma Heckle Honored in Cincinnati". The Musical Courier. Vol. 86, no. 23. June 7, 1923. p. 50.
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