Moscow Conservatory
The
Moscow Conservatory (Московская "осударственная Консерватория им. П.И.Чайковского) is a prominent
music school in
Russia, whose graduates included
Sergei Rachmaninoff,
Alexander Scriabin,
Aram Khachaturian,
Mstislav Rostropovich, and
Alfred Schnittke.
It was founded in 1866 by
Nikolai Rubinstein, brother of the famous Russian pianist and composer
Anton Rubinstein, who founded the
St. Petersburg Conservatory in 1862.
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.
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Saint Petersburg Conservatory*
Moscow Conservatory website (in Russian)
