Odesa Conservatory
Odesa National Music Academy named after AV Nezhdanova (Ukrainian: Одеська національна музична академія імені А. В. Нежданової) or Odesa Conservatory is a Ukrainian state institution of higher music education. Its courses include postgraduate education.
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History
The Odesa Conservatory was established in 1913 on the foundation of the music college (opened in 1897) of the Odesa branch of the Imperial Russian Music Society.[1][2] The founder of the conservatory was a prominent Polish composer, conductor and teacher Witold Maliszewski (1873-1939), a student of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Alexander Glazunov, and a teacher of Mykola Vilinsky and Witold Lutosławski.
In 1923 it was divided into a music institute and a technical school, which in 1928 were merged into the Music and Drama Institute.[1]
In 1934 the Odesa Conservatory was re-established in the previous form.[2][1] In 1950 it was named after the outstanding opera singer Antonina Nezhdanova.[1][2]
On May 8, 2012, by the decree of the President of Ukraine, the conservatory was renamed to academy and granted the national status.[3]
References
- "Odesa National Music Academy". Internet encyclopedia of Ukraine.
- "Odesa national music academy" (PDF). Ukrainian music encyclopedia. Kyiv.
- "About granting the national status to the Odesa state musical academy named after Nezhdanova" (in Ukrainian). President of Ukraine.