The Ukrainian National Tchaikovsky Academy of Music (), formerly Kyiv Conservatory, is a national music tertiary academy in
Kyiv
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,
Ukraine
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. Its courses include
postgraduate education
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.
History
The Kyiv Conservatory was founded on 3 November 1913 at the
Kyiv
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campus of the Music College of the
Russian Musical Society
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. The organization of the conservatory was spearheaded by
Sergei Rachmaninoff
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and
Alexander Glazunov
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. The first directors were V. Pukhalsky (1913) and Reinhold Glière (1914–1920). In 1925, the junior classes were separated from the conservatory to form a Music College, while the senior classes were merged into the formerly private Music and Drama Institute of Mykola Lysenko (today the
Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University
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The conservatory was revived when Kyiv once again became the capital of Ukraine in 1934. The Music and Drama Institute of Mykola Lysenko was dissolved and its music department was merged back with the Music College, while the drama department served as the basis for creation of the Kyiv State Theater Institute of Les Kurbas. In 1938, the conservatory received the
Order of Lenin
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award. In 1940, the conservatory was named after the Russian composer
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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. In 1995, the President of Ukraine elevated the conservatory's status, and renamed it the Petro Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine. In 2022, after Russian invasion, the removal of Tchaikovsky's name was proposed and largely disputed.
The conservatory occupies a building built in the 1890s as the Hotel Continental (built by architects Eduard Bradtman and Georg Schleifer). The building was destroyed during
World War II
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, but was rebuilt in 1955, when a concert hall was added (architects L. Katok and Ya. Krasny). It is located on Horodetsky street 1-3/11.
Rectors
* 1913–1914 Vladimir Pukhalskiy
* 1914–1920 Reinhold Glière
* 1920–1922
Felix Blumenfeld
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He was born in Elisavetgrad, which was in 2016 renamed to Kropyvnytskyi (in pr ...
Riccardo Muti
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Jack Ma
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Ye Xiaogang
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