The Conservatorio Luigi Cherubini is located in piazza delle Belle Arti in

Florence Florence ( ; it, Firenze ) is a city in Central Italy and the capital city of the Tuscany region. It is the most populated city in Tuscany, with 383,083 inhabitants in 2016, and over 1,520,000 in its metropolitan area.Bilancio demografico an ...

. The conservatory, among the most important in Italy, is named after the Florentine composer

Luigi Cherubini Luigi Cherubini ( ; ; 8 or 14 SeptemberWillis, in Sadie (Ed.), p. 833 1760 – 15 March 1842) was an Italian Classical and Romantic composer. His most significant compositions are operas and sacred music. Beethoven regarded Cherubini as the gre ...

(1760–1842).

History

The conservatory occupies part of a former nunnery which was closed in the 18th century by the Grand Duke of Tuscany.

Alumni

* Luigi Dallapiccola * Sylvano Bussotti *

Albert Mayr Albert Mayr (born 1943 in Bolzano) is an Italian composer of experimental and contemporary music. He studied music and composition in three different cities: at conservatories in both Bolzano and Florence and at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse in Ger ...

Francesco Filidei Francesco Filidei (born 1973) is an Italian concert organist and composer. A student of Salvatore Sciarrino, he has performed internationally. As a composer, he has collaborated with singer-songwriter Claire Diterzi and written operas premiered i ...

Eva Mei Eva Mei (born 1967) is an Italian coloratura soprano. Mei was born in Fabriano. She graduated from the Conservatorio Luigi Cherubini in Florence. In 1990, at the Mozart Competition in Vienna, she won the Catarina Cavalieri Prize for her interp ...

Benedetto Ghiglia Benedetto Ghiglia (27 December 1921 – 4 July 2012) was an Italian composer, conductor and pianist. Life and career Born in Fiesole, Ghiglia graduated in composition and piano at the conservatory of Florence.Enzo Giannelli. "Benedetto Gh ...

Andrea Portera Andrea Portera is an Italian composer of contemporary music. Biography Andrea Portera studied at Conservatorio Luigi Cherubini in Florence, following the composition course with Salvatore Sciarrino at the same time. He studied at School of music ...

* Susanna Rigacci *

Sergio Maltagliati Sergio Maltagliati (born 1960 in Pescia, Italy) is an Italians, Italian Internet-based artist, composer, and visual-digital artist. His first musical experience with the Gialdino Gialdini Musical Band was in the early 70s. Biography Sergio Ma ...

Stefano Bollani Stefano Bollani (born 5 December 1972) is an Italian composer, pianist and singer, also active as a writer and a television presenter. He has worked with such musicians as Gato Barbieri, Chick Corea, Bill Frisell, Sol Gabetta, Richard Gallian ...

Faculty

* Luigi Dallapiccola *

Roberto Lupi Roberto Lupi (28 November 1908 – 17 April 1971) was an Italian composer, conductor, and music theorist. Born in Milan and trained at the conservatory there, he began his conducting career in 1937. His compositions of experimental music include ...

Pietro Grossi Pietro Grossi (15 April 1917, in Venice – 21 February 2002, in Florence) was an Italian composer pioneer of computer music, visual artist and hacker ahead of his time. He began experimenting with electronic techniques in Italy in the early sixt ...

* Riccardo Gandolfi

Musical instruments museum

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The conservatory acquired a notable collection of musical instruments, mainly dating from the time of the

Grand Duchy of Tuscany The Grand Duchy of Tuscany ( it, Granducato di Toscana; la, Magnus Ducatus Etruriae) was an Italian monarchy that existed, with interruptions, from 1569 to 1859, replacing the Republic of Florence. The grand duchy's capital was Florence. In th ...

. They are displayed to the public as the Museo degli strumenti musicali, accessed via the

Galleria dell'Accademia The Galleria dell'Accademia di Firenze, or "Gallery of the Academy of Florence", is an art museum in Florence, Italy. It is best known as the home of Michelangelo's sculpture ''David (Michelangelo), David''. It also has other sculptures by Mic ...

, which is best known as the home of Michelangelo's ''David''. The instruments include: * instruments by Stradivari from a set by this luthier which belonged to the Medici court ** Medici cello (1690) **

Medici tenor viola The Medici tenor viola is a notable tenor viola by Antonio Stradivari. It is part of a set of instruments by this luthier which belonged to the Grand Dukes of Tuscany. (subscription required) (subscription required) History The instrument was m ...

(1690) *6 controviolino by

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*a viola by

Igino Sderci Igino (Iginius) Sderci (1884 - 1983, born in Gaiole in Chianti, Italy) was a violin maker who studied under master maker Leandro Bisiach. Making more than 700 instruments including many large violas, he won gold medals at the prestigious Stradiv ...

*a violin and a viola by

Luciano Sderci Luciano Sderci (13 December 1924, in Florence – 22 June 1986, in Florence) was an Italian violin maker. Biography Luciano Sderci began his career in 1945 while studying the art of violin-making from his father Igino Sderci. Starting out as mere ...

*a doublebass by Bartolomeo Cristofori * keyboard instruments by Bartolomeo Cristofori, the inventor of the piano, who was employed by the Medici to look after their instruments

References

External links

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