Conservatorio San Pietro a Majella

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The Conservatory "San Pietro a Majella" ( Italian : Conservatorio "San Pietro a Majella" di Napoli ) is a music college in Naples .

Beethoven statue by the sculptor Francesco Jerace (1895) in the courtyard of the conservatory

history

The conservatory is one of the most traditional musical training centers in the world. It goes back to the four famous conservatories of the city, which were founded in the 16th century: " Santa Maria di Loreto ", " Pietà dei Turchini ", " Sant'Onofrio a Capuana " and " Poveri di Gesù Cristo ". They were originally orphanages , but in the 17th and 18th centuries they were so famous as musical training centers that they later became a model for other conservatories of the same name in other places. They were also directly related to the development of an own n-style opera in the 18th century, the so-called Neapolitan School .

In its current form, the institution was re-established in 1808 as Real Collegio di Musica and, by order of King Francesco I , moved into its current seat in the former convent next to the eponymous church of San Pietro a Majella with the designation Reale Conservatorio di Musica di San Pietro a Majella Majella .

The conservatory also has a very rich library with a wide variety of historical documents. The only known harp made by Antonio Stradivari is in the associated museum .

Important teachers and students

• Giovanni Paisiello (first director)
• Girolamo Crescentini (teacher)
• Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli (Director)
• Vincenzo Bellini (student)
• Gaetano Donizetti (teacher)
• Saverio Mercadante (student, teacher, director)
• Paolo Serrao (student, teacher, director)
• Francesco Paolo Tosti (student)
• Alessandro Longo (student, teacher, director)
• Francesco Cilea (student and teacher)
• Umberto Giordano (student)
• Aldo Ciccolini (student and teacher)
• Riccardo Muti (student)

literature

• Francesco Florimo: La scuola musicale di Napoli ei suoi conservatorii. Con uno sguardo sulla storia della musica in Italia . Napoli: Morano, 1880–1882 (reprinted by Bologna: Forni, 1969)
• Dinko Fabris: La città della Sirena. Le origini del mito musicale di Napoli nell'età spagnola , in: Monika Bosse & André Stoll (eds.): Napoli viceregno spagnolo. Una capitale della cultura alle origini dell'Europa moderna (sec. XVI - VII) [International Colloquium at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research Bielefeld]. Napoli: Vivarium; Kassel: Reichenberger, 2001, II, 473–501.
• Francesco Melisi: Biblioteca del Conservatorio di San Pietro a Majella di Napoli, catalogo dei libretti per musica dell'Ottocento (1800 - 1860) . Lucca: Libreria Musicale Italiana Ed., 1990, ISBN 88-7096-010-2

Web links

• Homepage (ital.)