The Cincinnati Conservatory of Music was a conservatory, part of a girls'

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, founded in 1867 in

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. It merged with the College of Music of Cincinnati in 1955, forming the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, which is now part of the

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. Noted alumni include cancer researcher Aldred Scott Warthin, singer and entertainer Tennessee Ernie Ford, trumpeter

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, jazz pianist Pat Moran McCoy, and composers Harold Morris,

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History

The Cincinnati Conservatory of Music was founded by Clara Baur in 1867. It was the first music school in Cincinnati and was a conservatory, part of a girls'

. On June 10, 1924, Burnet Corwin Tuthill, general manager of the conservatory, instigated a meeting for the formation of the

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together with five other institutions: the American Conservatory of Music, the Bush Conservatory of Music, the Louisville Conservatory of Music, the Pittsburgh Musical Institute, and the Walcott Conservatory of Music. It merged with the College of Music of Cincinnati in 1955, forming the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, which is now part of the

Notable people

Alumni

* Tennessee Ernie Ford (1939), singer and television personality * Corinne Stocker Horton, elocutionist, journalist, and newspaper editor * Pat Moran McCoy, jazz pianist * Harold Morris, pianist, composer, and educator *

, composer * Carrie Obendorfer Simon, communal leader *

, dramatist

Faculty

* James G. Heller, professor of musicology

References

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