Theatre Square and the conservatory in 1913.

The St Petersburg Conservatory (Санкт-Петербургская консерватория in Russian; Sankt-Peterburgskaya konservatoriya in transliteration) is a music school in Saint Petersburg. Its full name is the St Petersburg State Conservatory named after N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov (Санкт-Петербургская государственная консерватория имени Н.А. Римского-Корсакова); former names are the Petrograd Conservatory (Петроградская консерватория) and the Leningrad Conservatory (Ленинградская консерватория). Image File history File links Stpeteconservatory. ... Image File history File links Stpeteconservatory. ... Transliteration in a narrow sense is a mapping from one system of writing into another. ... A music school or conservatory (American English) — also known as a conservatoire (British English) or a conservatorium (Australian English) — is an institution dedicated to teaching the art of music, including the playing of musical instruments, musical composition, musicianship, music history, and music theory. ... Saint Petersburg (Russian: Санкт-Петербу́рг, English transliteration: Sankt-Peterburg), colloquially known as Питер (transliterated Piter), formerly known as Leningrad (Ленингра́д, 1924–1991) and Petrograd (Петрогра́д, 1914–1924), is a city located in Northwestern Russia on the delta of the river Neva at the east end of the Gulf of Finland... Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (Russian: , Nikolaj Andreevič Rimskij-Korsakov), also Nikolay, Nicolai, and Rimsky-Korsakoff, (March 6/18, 1844–June 8/21, 1908) was a Russian composer and teacher of harmony and orchestration. ...

The conservatory was founded in 1862 by the Russian pianist and composer Anton Rubinstein. The current building was erected in the 1890s on the site of the old Bolshoi Theatre of Saint Petersburg and still preserves a grand staircase and landing from that historic theatre. As a centre of a Russian school of composition (along with the Moscow Conservatory, founded a little later), its graduates have included such giants as Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Sergey Prokofiev, Dmitry Shostakovich, and George Balanchine. Its most famous career-professor was Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, who joined the faculty in 1871 and whose name the conservatory has born since 1944. In 2004, the conservatory had around 275 members of staff and 1,400 students. 1862 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Anton Rubinstein Anton Grigorevich Rubinstein (Анто́н Григо́рьевич Рубинште́йн) (November 28, 1829 – November 20, 1894) was a Russian pianist, composer and conductor. ... The St. ... The Moscow Conservatory (Московская Государственная Консерватория им. П.И.Чайковского) is a prominent music school in Russia, whose graduates included Sergey Rachmaninoff, Alexander Scriabin, Aram Khachaturian, Mstislav Rostropovich, and Alfred Schnittke. ... Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Russian Пётр Ильи́ч Чайко́вский, sometimes transliterated as Piotr, Anglicised as Peter Ilich), (May 7, 1840 – November 6, 1893 (N.S.); April 25, 1840 – October 25, 1893 (O.S.)) was a Russian composer of the Romantic era. ... Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (Серге́й Серге́евич Проко́фьев) (April 271, 1891 – March 5, 1953) was one of the Soviet Unions greatest composers. ... Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich  listen (Russian: ) (September 25, 1906 – August 9, 1975) was a Russian composer of the Soviet period. ... George Balanchine (January 9 (O.S.) = January 22 (N.S.), 1904–April 30, 1983) was one of the 20th centurys foremost choreographers, and one of the founders of American ballet. ... Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (Russian: , Nikolaj Andreevič Rimskij-Korsakov), also Nikolay, Nicolai, and Rimsky-Korsakoff, (March 6/18, 1844–June 8/21, 1908) was a Russian composer and teacher of harmony and orchestration. ... 1871 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

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