Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
The Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia ( Italian for National Academy of Saint Cecilia ) is one of the world's oldest music institutions. Its current seat is in the Auditorium Parco della Musica in the Italian capital Rome .
It was founded by the papal bull Ratione congruit of Sixtus V in 1585 in the form of a congregation , in which two saints are mentioned who are of outstanding importance in European musical history: Gregory the Great , after whom Gregorian chant is named, and the Saint Cecilia , the patron saint of music. Over the centuries it has grown from a local musicians' association to an internationally renowned music academy , with a choir and a symphony orchestra , the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia .
history
The first seat of the congregation was in the Church of Santa Maria ad Martires, better known as the Pantheon , from 1585 to 1622 . The community later resided in the Church of San Paolino alla Colonna (1622–1652), Santa Cecilia in Trastevere (1652–1661), San Nicola dei Cesarini (1661–1663), Chiesa della Maddalena (1663–1685), and finally from 1685 in San Carlo ai Catinari .
Famous contemporary musicians worked here in the first century of its existence, including Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina and Luca Marenzio . The academy's fame grew in the early 18th century, when personalities such as Arcangelo Corelli , Alessandro and Domenico Scarlatti , Niccolò Jommelli , Baldassare Galuppi and Pasquale Anfossi were associated with it. In 1716 Pope Clement XI decreed . compulsory membership in the congregation for all musicians working in Rome. In 1774 the composer Maria Rosa Coccia was accepted as the first female member. During the Napoleonic Wars , the activities of the Accademia ceased, but resumed in 1822 during the restoration after the Congress of Vienna . Until 1870, the end of the Papal States , a centuries-old rivalry with another major musical institution consisted of papal Rome, the choir of the Sistine Chapel .
The 19th century was a time of great change. The institution made membership possible for people who had been excluded up to that point: dancers, poets, music historians, musical instrument makers and music publishers. In 1838 the Congregation of Saint Cecilia was officially appointed an Academy and then the Pontifical Academy . At that time, its members included Luigi Cherubini , Mercadante , Donizetti , Rossini , Paganini , Auber , Liszt , Mendelssohn , Berlioz , Gounod and Meyerbeer . One of her honorary members was Queen Victoria .
After the unification of Italy in 1870, the academy was rebuilt in 1895 with the formation of a permanent symphony orchestra and choir. It developed from a musical liceo to a conservatory and is now also home to a drama school, initially named after Eleonora Duse and in 1936 after Silvio D'Amico, as well as a center for experimental cinema . Since 2008 the academy has also had a musical instrument museum called MUSA .
Famous Graduates
See also
Web links
- Homepage (Italian / English)
Footnotes
Alta formazione artistica, musicale e coreutica (AFAM) Italian higher education for art, music and choreography
Coordinates: 41 ° 55 ′ 44.4 " N , 12 ° 28 ′ 28.2" E