Conservatori Superior de Música del Liceu () is a music college in

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. It was created in 1837 with the name ''Liceo Filo-dramático de Montesión''. In 1847 the institution inaugurated the opera house

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. In 1854, the Liceo Filarmónico and the Gran Teatre del Liceu separated administratively. Nevertheless, both entities have always remained closely linked. TeatreDelLiceu

Among its students have been, among other, artists as: singers

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Maria Barrientos María Alejandra Barrientos Llopis (4 March 1884 - 8 August 1946) was a Spanish opera singer, a light coloratura soprano. Biography Barrientos was born in Barcelona on 4 March 1884. She received a thorough musical education (piano and violin ...

, Josefina Huguet,

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, Mercedes Capsir, Elvira de Hidalgo,

Miguel Fleta Miguel Burro Fleta (28 December 1897, in Albalate de Cinca, Province of Huesca, Aragon – 29 May 1938, in A Coruña) was a Spanish operatic tenor. Despite his short stage career, lasting from 1919 to 1935, Fleta has been described as one of the ...

Victoria de los Ángeles Victoria de los Ángeles López García (1 November 192315 January 2005) was a Catalan Spanish operatic lyric soprano and recitalist whose career began after the Second World War and reached its height in the years from the mid-1950s to the mid- ...

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, José Carreras, Eduard Giménez, Dalmacio González,

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, Nuria Rial,

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; guitarist

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; pianist Frank Marshall or composers

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, Agusti Grau

Joan Guinjoan Joan Guinjoan i Gispert (28 November 1931 – 1 January 2019) was a Catalan composer and pianist. Life Born in Riudoms, Guinjoan studied at the Conservatori Superior de Música del Liceu in Barcelona. In 1954, he moved to Paris and continued ...

Joan Lamote de Grignon Joan Lamote de Grignon i Bocquet (; 7 July 1872 – 11 March 1949) was a Catalan Spanish pianist, composer and orchestra director. Life Joan Lamote de Grignon was born and died in Barcelona, the son of parents of French descent, Lluis Lamote de ...

Ricard Lamote de Grignon Ricard Lamote de Grignon i Ribas (; 25 September 1899 – 5 February 1962) was a Catalan Spanish composer and orchestral conductor. Ricard Lamote de Grignon was born and died in Barcelona. He was the only son of the composer Joan Lamote de Gri ...

Frederic Mompou Frederic Mompou Dencausse (; alternatively Federico Mompou; 16 April 189330 June 1987) was a Spanish and Catalan composer and pianist. He is remembered for his solo piano music and songs. Life Early years Mompou was born in Barcelona to the ...

Carles Santos Carles Santos (; 1 July 1940 – 4 December 2017) was a Spanish artist who began his career as a pianist and later worked in many other creative disciplines, including musical composition, filmmaking, screenwriting, acting, scenic musical shows ...

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, and Joaquim Zamacois. Many of them also became professors there upon completion of their studies, including

. Among the professors there were Catalan composers Enric Morera, Graciano Tarragó and German composer Engelbert Humperdinck. The

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is based there. Since 1999 Maria Serrat i Martín has assumed the General Direction and in 2002 the Spanish composer and musicologist Benet Casablancas assumed the academic direction of the Conservatori Superior de Música del Liceu.

External links

Conservatori Superior de Música del Liceu website
(in Catalan, Spanish and English) Conservatori Superior de Música del Liceu Culture in Barcelona Educational institutions established in 1837 1837 establishments in Spain Arts organizations established in 1837 {{Catalonia-university-stub