The Madrid Royal Conservatory ( es, Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid) is a music college in

Madrid Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the second-largest city in the European Union (EU), and ...

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History

The Royal Conservatory of Music was founded on July 15, 1830, by royal decree, and was originally located in Mostenses Square, Madrid. In 1852 it was moved to the Royal Opera, where it remained until the building was condemned by royal order and classes ordered to halt in 1925. For the next sixty-five years, the school had no fixed home, operating in a variety of locations. Since 1990, the Conservatory has officially lived in a restored 18th-century building (previously ''San Carlos'' Royal Hospital) in front of Queen Sofia Museum.

Alumni

Famous alumni of the school include: *

Isaac Albéniz Isaac Manuel Francisco Albéniz y Pascual (; 29 May 1860 – 18 May 1909) was a Spanish virtuoso pianist, composer, and conductor. He is one of the foremost composers of the Post-Romantic era who also had a significant influence on his conte ...

* Francisco Tarrega *

Joaquín Achúcarro Joaquín Achúcarro (born November 1, 1932) is a Basque Spanish classical pianist. Biography and career Achúcarro was born in Bilbao, Spain, and grew up in the difficult years of the Spanish post-war period. He began piano lessons at the Bilb ...

José María Alvira José María Alvira (18 June 1864 – 31 July 1938) was a Spanish composer, singing teacher, and pianist. Life and work Alvira was born in Zaragoza, Aragon. At a young age, he was already showing unusual musical talent, and by eleven he was play ...

* Pedro Albéniz *

Ataúlfo Argenta Ataúlfo Exuperio Martín de Argenta Maza (19 November 1913 – 20 January 1958) was a Spanish conductor and pianist. Biography Argenta was born in Castro Urdiales, Cantabria, one of the two children, and the only son, of the local stat ...

* Emilio Arrieta * Teresa Berganza * Tomás Bretón *

Jorge Cardoso Jorge Cardoso ull name: Jorge Ruben Cardoso Krieger(born 26 January 1949) is a classical guitarist, composer, researcher, medical doctor ( National University of Cordoba, Argentina) and teacher (Madrid Royal Conservatory). He has performed in Euro ...

Pablo Casals Pau Casals i Defilló (Catalan: ; 29 December 187622 October 1973), usually known in English by his Castilian Spanish name Pablo Casals,

Penélope Cruz Penélope Cruz Sánchez (; ; born 28 April 1974) is a Spanish actress. Known for her roles in films of several genres, particularly those in the Spanish language, she has received various accolades, including an Academy Award and a British ...

* Ruperto Chapí * Miguel Ángel Coria *

José Cubiles José Antonio Cubiles Ramos (15 May 1894 5 April 1971) was a noted Spanish pianist, conductor and teacher. Biography Cubiles was born in Cádiz in 1894. His pianistic gifts were already apparent by the age of five. He first studied music theory ...

Manuel de Falla Manuel de Falla y Matheu (, 23 November 187614 November 1946) was an Andalusian Spanish composer and pianist. Along with Isaac Albéniz, Francisco Tárrega, and Enrique Granados, he was one of Spain's most important musicians of the first ...

Maria Galvany Maria Galvany or María Galvany (1878? - 2 August 1927J. B. Steane: ''Galvany, Maria'', in , Vol. 2, p.341.) was a Spanish coloratura soprano known for her showy, virtuoso singing technique. Her career, however, ended in obscurity. Her biograph ...

Antón García Abril Antón García Abril OAXS (19 May 1933 – 17 March 2021) was a Spanish composer and musician. He composed many classical orchestral works, chamber and vocal pieces, as well as over 150 scores for film and television. Biography Between 1974 ...

Luis Antonio García Navarro Luis Antonio García Navarro (30 April 1941 in Chiva, Valencian Community, Spain – 10 October 2001 in Madrid, Spain), was a Spanish conductor. Biography García Navarro was born in Chiva (Spain), and studied in Valencia and the Madrid Royal ...

Cristóbal Halffter Cristóbal Halffter Jiménez-Encina (24 March 1930 – 23 May 2021) was a Spanish classical composer. He was the nephew of two other composers, Rodolfo and Ernesto Halffter and is regarded as the most important Spanish composer of the gene ...

* Gareth Koch *

Ricardo Llorca Ricardo Llorca (born 1958, Alicante) is a Spanish-American Composer based in New York City since 1988. Llorca is a Juilliard School graduate and a faculty member of the performing arts conservatory's Evening Division since 1996. In addition, Ll ...

* Fernando Malvar-Ruiz *

Jaime Mendoza-Nava Jaime Mendoza-Nava (December 1, 1925 – May 31, 2005) was a Bolivian-American composer and conductor. Early life and work Mendoza-Nava was born in La Paz, Bolivia. He studied at The Juilliard School and Madrid Royal Conservatory, the Sorbonne, ...

María José Montiel María José Montiel (born 24 June 1968) is a Spanish mezzo-soprano opera singer born in Madrid. In 2011 she was awarded the '' Premio Teatro Campoamor'' for her interpretation of '' Carmen'' by the Fundación Premio Líricos Teatro Campoamor. L ...

* Manuel Ochoa *

Luis de Pablo Luis de Pablo Costales (28 January 1930 – 10 October 2021) was a Spanish composer belonging to the generation that Cristóbal Halffter named ''the Generación del 51''. Mostly self-taught as a composer and influenced by Maurice Ohana and Ma ...

Manuel Quiroga Manuel López-Quiroga Miquel (January 30, 1899 – December 13, 1988), better known as Maestro Quiroga, was a Spaniards, Spanish composer especially known for his ''copla (music), coplas'', ''cuplés'', and ''zarzuelas''. He was also a pianist ...

* Miguel Roig-Francolí * Amadeo Roldán * Dulce María Serret * Joaquín Turina * Octavio Vazquez * Marcos Vidal * Marie Azpiroz Mellini

Professors

* Pedro Albéniz * Emilio Arrieta * Rafael Benedito Vives * Francisco Calés Otero * Francisco Calés Pina *

Conrado del Campo Conrado del Campo y Zabaleta (28 October 1878 – 17 March 1953) was a Spanish composer, violinist and pedagogue. Career Del Campo was born in Madrid and became professor at the Real Conservatorio de Música in Madrid in 1915, where he was an ...

* Ramón Carnicer y Batlle *

Pau Casals Pau Casals i Defilló (Catalan: ; 29 December 187622 October 1973), usually known in English by his Castilian Spanish name Pablo Casals,

* Teresa Catalán * Arturo Dúo Vital * Miguel Hilarión Eslava *

Óscar Esplá Óscar Esplá y Triay (5 August 1886 – 6 January 1976) was a Spanish composer. The Conservatorio Superior de Música ( conservatory) of the city of Alicante is dedicated to him. The ''Premio internacional de composición Óscar Esplá'' (Ós ...

* Manuel Fernández Alberdi * Enrique Fernández Arbós * Antonio Fernández Bordas *

Ismael Fernández de la Cuesta Ismael Fernández de la Cuesta (born 1939) is a Spanish vocalist and musicologist specialising in Gregorian chant. Fernández de la Cuesta was born in the village of Neila, Burgos, Spain. He entered the Abbey of Santo Domingo de Silos at a young ...

* Manuel Fernández Grajal * Tomás Fernández Grajal * Gaspar Ángel Tortosa Urrea * Carlos Gómez Amat * Julio Gómez García * Alberto Gómez (pianista) * Ana Guijarro *

Jesús Guridi Jesús Guridi Bidaola (25 September 1886 – 7 April 1961) was a Spanish Basque composer who was a key player in 20th-century Spanish and Basque music. His style fits into the late Romantic idiom, directly inherited from Wagner, and with a stron ...

* Enrique Iniesta * José Inzenga * Ildefonso Jimeno de Lerma * José de Aranguren y de Añivarro * Antonio López Almagro * Juan Medina (compositor) * Víctor Mirecki Larramat * Jesús de Monasterio * Laura Nieto Oliver * Ángel Manuel Olmos * Julia Parody * Bartolomé Pérez Casas *

Juan Ruiz Casaux Juan Antonio Ruiz-Casaux y Lopez de Carvajal, V. marqués de Atalaya Bermeja, usually known as Juan Ruiz Casaux (23 December 188916 January 1972) was a noted Spanish cellist and teacher. Along with Pablo Casals and Gaspar Cassadó, he was a member ...

* Vicente Spiteri * Juan Tellería * José Tragó * Joaquín Turina * Mariano Vázquez Gómez * Dámaso Zabalza

External links

Madrid Conservatory website
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