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Milan Conservatory

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Milan Conservatory
Conservatorio di Milano
Location
Map
Via Conservatorio, 12

Milan

Italy

45°27′54″N 9°12′13″E / 45.46500°N 9.20361°E / 45.46500; 9.20361
Information
Former nameConservatorio di Musica "Giuseppe Verdi"
TypeMusic school
Established1807
LanguageItalian
Websiteconsmilano.it

The Milan Conservatory, also known as the Conservatorio di Milano and the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi, is a college of music in Milan, Italy.

History

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Inner court of the conservatory

The conservatory was established by a royal decree of 1807 in Milan, capital of the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy. It opened the following year with premises in the cloisters of the Baroque church of Santa Maria della Passione. There were initially eighteen boarders, including students of both sexes. Today it is the largest institute of musical education in Italy.[1]

Giuseppe Verdi

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Giuseppe Verdi, after whom the conservatory is named, in 1832 applied unsuccessfully to study there.[2][3] Reasons given by the conservatory for rejecting Verdi included that he was over the age limit of 14 years,[4] that he was "a foreigner", that he was "musically inept" because of his "improper" positioning of hands on the piano, and because of his "lack of understanding of the rules of counterpoint".[5] One of the panelists opined that Verdi would "turn out to be a mediocrity".[6] Verdi maintained a lifelong resentment for this, and he kept the rejection letter among his papers.[7] In the decades that followed, the Milan Conservatory would vie for the honour of bearing his name,[8] but Verdi refused, and it was not until the composer's death that the renaming became possible.[9]

Alumni and faculty

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In its 200-year history, the conservatory has educated some of Italy's most prominent musicians and conductors, including Fausto Romitelli, Oscar Bianchi, Luca Francesconi, Stefano Gervasoni, Marco Stroppa, Giacomo Puccini, Alfredo Piatti, Amilcare Ponchielli, Arrigo Boito, Giovanni Bottesini, Alfredo Catalani, Riccardo Chailly, Amelita Galli-Curci, Vittorio Giannini, Scipione Guidi, Bruno Maderna, Pietro Mascagni, Gian Carlo Menotti, Francisco Mignone, Riccardo Muti, Kurken Alemshah, Italo Montemezzi, Feliciano Strepponi, Alceo Galliera, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Giuseppe Andaloro, Mario Nascimbene, Maurizio Pollini, Ludovico Einaudi, Antonino Fogliani, Vittorio Parisi, Enrique Mazzola, Gianandrea Noseda, and Claudio Abbado. Other notable students include composers Margrit Zimmermann, Alfredo Antonini,[10] and Alessandro Solbiati, and singers Florin Cezar Ouatu and Paolo Andrea Di Pietro.

Among its past professors are the well-known voice teachers Francesco Lamperti and his son Giovanni Battista Lamperti. Ranking among eminent professors who have taught at the Milan conservatory are Giorgio Battistelli, Franco Donatoni, Lorenzo Ferrero, Riccardo Muti, Enrico Polo, Amilcare Ponchielli, Salvatore Quasimodo, and Alessandro Solbiati.

High school

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The conservatory's Liceo Musicale for secondary school students opened in 1971. In 1981, it began an experimental collaboration with the Ministry of Education. The experimental phase ended in 2010 when it became "ad ordinamento".[11][12]

References

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  1. ↑ "Official website" (in Italian). Conservatorio "Giuseppe Verdi" di Milano. Archived from the original on 4 December 2015. Retrieved 13 January 2016. (In the Conservatorio drop down menu)
  2. ↑ "Giuseppe Verdi". britannica.com. Retrieved 10 July 2025.
  3. ↑ "Giuseppe Verdi e il Grand Hotel et de Milan" [Giuseppe Verdi and the Grand Hotel et de Milan]. Conoscere Verdi (in Italian). Retrieved 11 July 2025.
  4. ↑ "Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901)". operaphila.org. Retrieved 8 May 2026.
  5. ↑ "When Verdi was Rejected by the Conservatory of Milan". bulgarihotels.com. Retrieved 8 May 2026.
  6. ↑ "Aìda's Composer – Giuseppe Verdi". utahopera.org. 3 March 2016. Retrieved 8 May 2026.
  7. ↑ Roselli, John (2000). The life of Verdi. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 18–20. ISBN 0521660114.
  8. ↑ Jarvis, Stacy (10 February 2025). "The Grimaces of Fate: Giuseppe Verdi". University of Birmingham. Retrieved 22 May 2026.
  9. ↑ Hamilton, George (13 October 2013). "How the music school that turned down Verdi now bears his name". Irish Independent. Mediahuis Ireland. Retrieved 22 May 2026.
  10. ↑ "Alfredo Antonini". IMDb. Archived from the original on 16 February 2017. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
  11. ↑ "Presentazione" (in Italian). Istituto Omnicomprensivo Musicale Statale di Milano. Archived from the original on 11 January 2016. Retrieved 13 January 2016.
  12. ↑ "Il liceo musicale G. Verdi di Milano" (in Italian). Conservatorio "Giuseppe Verdi" di Milano. Archived from the original on 5 February 2020. Retrieved 13 January 2016.
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