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. It should not be confused with the Milan Conservatory or Como Conservatory; schools which have also been known as the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi.
History The Turin Conservatory was founded on 11 June 1866 with the name Liceo Musicale. In 1887 its name was changed to the Istituto Musicale when composer Giovanni Bolzoni became director of the school. In 1936 it was enlarged to become the Conservatorio Statale di Musica Giuseppe Verdi. Other directors of the conservatory include composer and pianist Franco Alfano and composers Lodovico Rocca and Sandro Fuga.
Notable alumni
Irene Abrigo Cinico AngeliniSalvatore De Salvo (1988). "Cinico, Angelo". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 34 (in Italian). Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. Giuseppe Pietro Bagetti Arturo Basile Carlo Emilio Bonferroni Fred Buscaglione Carlo Adolfo Cantù Matilde Capuis Andrea Carè Gianluca Cascioli Giulio Castagnoli (also faculty) Umberto Clerici Giancarlo Chiaramello Azio Corghi (also faculty) Luciana Littizzetto Riccardo MalipieroBernardoni, Virgilio. 2001. "Malipiero, Riccardo". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan Publishers. Enzo Muccetti Fernando Previtali Carlo Savina Marina Scalafiotti (also faculty) Flavio TestiRaffaele Pozzi. "Flavio Testi" The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, edited by Stanley Sadie (1992). and Edgard Varèse"Edgard Victor Achille Charles Varèse (Varese, Edgard)" , biography at s9.com Arturo Vigna Alfredo Rizzo
Notable faculty
Elio Battaglia Pierluigi Cimma Andrea Della Corte Giorgio Federico Ghedini Dado Moroni Luigi Perrachio Alberto Soresina Pietro Spada
References
External links Official Website of the Turin Conservatory