Turin Conservatory

{{Short description|Music conservatory in Turin, Italy}} thumb|Conservatorio Statale di Musica Giuseppe Verdi, also known as the Turin Conservatory 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.<ref name="Grove">{{Cite encyclopedia |last=Pestelli |first=Giorgio |date=2002 |entry=Turin (It. Torino) |encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.28602}}</ref> 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'''.<ref name="Grove"/> In 1887 its name was changed to the '''Istituto Musicale''' when composer Giovanni Bolzoni became director of the school.<ref name="Grove"/> In 1936 it was enlarged to become the Conservatorio Statale di Musica Giuseppe Verdi.<ref name="Grove"/> Other directors of the conservatory include composer and pianist Franco Alfano and composers Lodovico Rocca and Sandro Fuga.<ref name="Grove"/>

==Notable alumni== {{div col|colwidth=18em}} *Irene Abrigo *Cinico Angelini<ref>Salvatore De Salvo (1988). "[https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/angelo-cinico%20(Dizionario-Biografico) Cinico, Angelo]". ''Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani'', Volume 34 (in Italian). Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana.</ref> *Giuseppe Pietro Bagetti *Arturo Basile *Carlo Emilio Bonferroni *Fred Buscaglione<ref>{{cite web|accessdate = 13 October 2008|url= http://www.italica.rai.it/index.php?categoria=bio&scheda=canzone_buscaglione|title= Biography of Fred Buscaglione (1921–1960)|work= Italica|author= Troiano, Francesco|url-status = dead|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20081014003009/http://www.italica.rai.it/index.php?categoria=bio&scheda=canzone_buscaglione|archive-date = 14 October 2008}}</ref> *Carlo Adolfo Cantù<ref>{{cite book|title=La musica italiana nel Novecento|author=Roberto Zanetti|page= 142|year=1985|publisher=Bramante}}</ref> *Matilde Capuis<ref>{{cite book |title=A Guide to Piano Music by Women Composers: Women born after 1900|author=Dees, Pamela Youngdahl|year=2004}}</ref> *Andrea Carè *Gianluca Cascioli *Giulio Castagnoli (also faculty)<ref>{{cite journal|author=Angela Ida De Benedictis|title= Castagnoli, Giulio|work=MGG Online|editor=Laurenz Lütteken|year=2000|url= https://www.mgg-online.com/article?id=mgg02567&v=1.0&rs=mgg02567}}</ref> *Umberto Clerici *Giancarlo Chiaramello *Azio Corghi (also faculty)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ricordi.com/de-DE/Composers/C/Corghi-Azio.aspx |title= Azio Corghi |publisher=Casa Ricordi |date=2022 |language=en |access-date=17 November 2022}}</ref> *Luciana Littizzetto *Riccardo Malipiero<ref>Bernardoni, Virgilio. 2001. "Malipiero, Riccardo". ''The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'', second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan Publishers.</ref> *Enzo Muccetti *Fernando Previtali *Carlo Savina<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uooJfq7gOa0C&pg=PA240 |first=Reuben |last=Musiker |first2=Naomi |last2=Musiker |title=Conductors and Composers of Popular Orchestral Music: A Biographical and Discographical Sourcebook |page=240 |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |year=1998 |isbn=9780313302602 |editor-first=David |editor-last=Ades}}</ref> *Marina Scalafiotti (also faculty) *Flavio Testi<ref>Raffaele Pozzi. "Flavio Testi" The ''New Grove Dictionary of Opera'', edited by Stanley Sadie (1992). {{ISBN|0-333-73432-7}} and {{ISBN|1-56159-228-5}}</ref> *Edgard Varèse<ref>[http://www.s9.com/Biography/Varese-Edgard "Edgard Victor Achille Charles Varèse (Varese, Edgard)"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081026060728/http://www.s9.com/Biography/Varese-Edgard |date=2008-10-26 }}, biography at s9.com</ref> *Arturo Vigna<ref name="nyt">{{cite news|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1927/01/30/96632489.pdf|title=Obituary:Arturo Vigna|work=The New York Times|date=January 30, 1927}}</ref> *Alfredo Rizzo<ref>{{cite book|title=I discendenti di Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli|author=Davide Daolmi|year=2023|publisher=Mondadori}}</ref> {{div col end}}

==Notable faculty== {{div col|colwidth=18em}} *Elio Battaglia *Pierluigi Cimma<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.justclassicalguitar.com/pen%26nail/900/it/Cimma.php |title=PIER LUIGI CIMMA |access-date=2020-05-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713125501/http://www.justclassicalguitar.com/pen%26nail/900/it/Cimma.php |archive-date=2011-07-13 |url-status=dead }}</ref> *Andrea Della Corte<ref name="Grove"/> *Giorgio Federico Ghedini<ref name="Grove"/> *Dado Moroni *Luigi Perrachio<ref name="Grove"/> *Alberto Soresina *Pietro Spada {{div col end}}

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==External links== *[https://www.conservatoriotorino.eu Official Website of the Turin Conservatory]

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