The Odesa National Academy of Music (also known as the Odesa Conservatory or formally the A.V. Nezhdanova Odesa National Academy of Music) is a national

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music academy in

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, Ukraine.

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. The founder of the conservatory was a prominent Polish composer, conductor and teacher

Witold Maliszewski Witold Maliszewski (, ; 20 July 1873 – 18 July 1939) was a Polish composer, founder of Odessa Conservatory, and a professor of Warsaw Conservatory. Biography Maliszewski was born in Mohyliv-Podilskyi, Russian Empire (now Ukraine). He graduat ...

(1873-1939), a student of

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov. At the time, his name was spelled , which he romanized as Nicolas Rimsky-Korsakow; the BGN/PCGN transliteration of Russian is used for his name here; ALA-LC system: , ISO 9 system: .. (18 March 1844 – 2 ...

and

Alexander Glazunov Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov ( – 21 March 1936) was a Russian composer, music teacher, and conductor of the late Russian Romantic period. He was director of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory between 1905 and 1928 and was instrumental i ...

, and a teacher of Mykola Vilinsky and

Witold Lutosławski Witold Roman Lutosławski (; 25 January 1913 – 7 February 1994) was a Polish composer and conductor. Among the major composers of 20th-century classical music, he is "generally regarded as the most significant Polish composer since Szymanow ...

. In 1923, it was divided into a music institute and a technical school, which in 1928 were merged into the Music and Drama Institute. In 1934 the Odesa Conservatory was re-established in the previous form. In 1950, it was named after the outstanding opera singer

Antonina Nezhdanova Antonina Vasilyevna Nezhdanova (, – 26 June 1950) was a Russian and Soviet lyric coloratura soprano. Nezhdanova was born in , near Odessa, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire (today Odesa, Ukraine). In 1899, she entered the Moscow Conservat ...

. On May 8, 2012, by the decree of the

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Viktor Yanukovych Viktor Fedorovych Yanukovych (born 9 July 1950) is a Ukrainian politician who served as the fourth president of Ukraine from 2010 to 2014. He also served as the prime minister of Ukraine several times between 2002 and 2007 and was a member of t ...

, the conservatory was renamed to "A.V. Nezhdanova Odesa National Academy of Music" and was granted a national status.

References

External links

Official site
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