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Conservatorio di San Pietro a Majella
The Naples Conservatory of Music is a music school located in Naples, Italy. It is situated in the complex of San Pietro a Majella.
It was originally located in the church of the former monastery of San Sebastiano and was called the Conservatorio di San Sebastiano, formed in 1807 by the merger of the Conservatorio di Santa Maria di Loreto, the Conservatorio di Sant' Onofrio in Capuana, and the Conservatorio della Pietà dei Turchini. It also became known as the Real Collegio di Musica, and after 1826 when it moved to its current location, as the Conservatorio di Musica San Pietro a Majella.[1][2]
The conservatory and adjacent church are today part of the old San Pietro a Majella monastic complex, built at the end of the 13th century and dedicated to the monk Pietro da Morone, who became
The historic conservatories
San Pietro a Majella is the last in a long string of establishments that have been music conservatories in Naples. Their existence goes back to the Spanish rule of the city as a vicerealm starting in the early 16th century. These early conservatories were Santa Maria di Loreto, Pietà dei Turchini, Sant'Onofrio a Capuana, and I Poveri di Gesù Cristo. They enjoyed a considerable reputation as training grounds not only for young children to be trained in church music, but, eventually, as a feeder system into the world of commercial music once that opened up in the early 17th century.
Conservatorio di Santa Maria di Loreto
Santa Maria di Loreto was built in 1535 and was the original conservatory in Naples, coming at the beginning of the Spanish expansion of Naples under the city's most famous viceroy,
Conservatorio di Sant'Onofrio a Capuana
Sant'Onofrio a Capuana dates from 1578 and counts as its alumni
Conservatorio della Pietà dei Turchini
The building of the Conservatorio della Pietà dei Turchini, built in 1583, still stands on via Medina, near city hall. The
Evidence of the productivity of this conservatory is that among its pupils were:
Teachers of this Conservatory, some of whom had been pupils listed above, included: Giovanni Maria Sabino, Erasmo di Bartolo, Giovanni Salvatore, Francesco Provenzale (1624–1704), Cristoforo Caresana, Gennaro Ursino, Nicola Fago (1677–1745), Lorenzo Fago (1704–1793), Nicola Sala (1713–1801), Girolamo Abos (1715–1760), Pasquale Cafaro (1716–1787), and Giacomo Tritto (1733–1824).
Conservatorio dei Poveri di Gesù Cristo
The Conservatorio dei Poveri di Gesù Cristo was founded in 1589 by Marcello Fossataro, a Franciscan friar. It was adjacent to the church of Santa Maria a Colonna on via dei Tribunale. Illustrious names connected with the school include the philosopher
Conservatorio di San Sebastiano
In 1806, with
References
- Notes
- ^ Riordinamento – Conservatorio di Musica San Pietro a Majella; accessed 29 May 2012.
- ^ Di Benedetto & Fabris 2001
- ISBN 0-252-02487-7.
- . Retrieved 2020-02-24.
- ^ Di Benedetto & Fabris 2001 (suppression of the Conservatorio dei Poveri di Gesù Cristo)
- Sources
- Di Benedetto, Renato; Fabris, Dinko (2001). "Naples. 3: The Spanish era (1503–1734). (vi) The conservatories." in Sadie 2001.
- Di Giacomo, Salvatore (1924). I quattro antichi conservatori di musica a Napoli (The Four Ancient Music Conservatories of Naples). Milan: Sandron.
- Florimo, Francesco (1882). La scuola musicale di Napoli e i suoi conservatori, con uno sguardo sulla storia della musica in Italia (The Music School and Conservatories in Naples, with a look at the musical history of Italy). Four volumes. Napoli: Morano.
- Sadie, Stanley, editor; John Tyrell; executive editor (2001). OCLC 419285866(eBook).