The Conservatorio Giovanni Battista Martini (previously known as the Liceo Musicale di Bologna, and better known in English as the Bologna Conservatory) is a college of music in Bologna, Italy. The conservatory opened on 3 December 1804, as the Liceo Musicale di Bologna. It was initially housed in the convent at the Basilica of San Giacomo Maggiore. The first faculty at the school included the composers Stanislao Mattei and Giovanni Callisto Zanotti, and the composer and singer Lorenzo Gibelli. Gioachino Rossini was a pupil at the school beginning in 1806, and was appointed head of the school in 1839. Later directors of the school included Luigi Mancinelli (1881–1886), Giuseppe Martucci (1886–1902), Marco Enrico Bossi (1902–1911), and Cesare Nordio (1925–1945).
In 1945, the conservatory became a state conservatory, and it was rebranded as the Conservatorio Giovanni Battista Martini, after musician and composer Giovanni Battista Martini. Directors of the conservatory from this point on include Guido Guerrini, Lino Liviabella, Adone Zecchi, Giordano Noferini, Lidia Proietti, Carmine Carrisi, and Donatella Pieri.
Notable alumni
Marietta Alboni* Arthur Pougin, Marietta Alboni (Paris, 1912; accessible for free online at gallica.bnf.fr Gallica – Bibliothèque nationale de France) Alice Barbi Gianni Bedori Chiara Benati Giacomo Benvenuti Marco Enrico BossiCominetti, Ennio (1999). Marco Enrico Bossi. Sannicandro Garganico: Gioiosa Editrice. Claudio Brizi Piero Buscaroli Luciano Chessa Giuliano Ciannella Ettore Campogalliani Giulio Confalonieri Franco Donatoni Gaetano DonizettiRossini in Allitt 1991, p. 42 Enrico Elisi Mafalda FaveroThe Last Prima Donnas, by Lanfranco Rasponi, Alfred A Knopf, 1982. Franco Ferrara Rodolfo FerrariRosa, Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani Carlo Forlivesi Gaetano Gaspari Giorgio Federico Ghedini Júlíus Vífill Ingvarsson Gian Francesco Malipiero Gianfranco MasiniThe Independent (30 June 1993). "Obituary: Gianfranco Masini". Retrieved 18 March 2016. Giacomo Orefice"Orefice, Giacomo" Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 5th ed., 1954 Luigi PiazzaOperissimo.com, "Piazza, Luigi" Ciro Pinsuti"Ciro Pinsuti, Obituary", The British Bandsman: The Official Organ of the National Brass Band Championships, Volume 1, Issue 24, 1888, p.119 Ezio Pinza Claudia Pinza Bozzolla Manuel PonceJorge Barrón Corvera: "Manuel María Ponce: A Bio-Bibliography", Westport, CT, Praeger, 2004 Ottorino RespighiComposer of the Week – Ottorino Respighi at 00:11:55–00:12:10 Andrea Roncato Gioachino RossiniOsborne, Richard (1986), Rossini (Master Musicians series). London: Dent. Publishers, Inc. Albert Spalding Enea Scala Riccardo StracciariM. Scott, The Record of Singing, Volume 2, (Duckworth, London, 1977) Giovanni TadoliniBiblioteca Nazionale Braidense, Taddolini, Giovanni, Catalogo nazionale dei manoscritti musicali redatti fino al 1900. Accessed 23 October 2009 (in Italian) Luigi Ferdinando TagliaviniE. Darbellay, Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini in "The New Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians", London 1980 Fabio Vacchi Celso Valli Franco Venturini Manuel Viscasillas Bernal Corrado Zambelli*Zambelli, Corrado at operissimo.com (in German) Fio Zanotti
Notable faculty
Marcello Abbado Cesare Augusto Nazario Carlo Bellandi Alessandro Busi"Busi, Alessandro" Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 5th ed., 1954 Ettore Desderi Benedetto Donelli Ines Maria Ferraris Gian Felice Fugazza Gaetano Gaspari Stefano Golinelli Adriano Guarnieri Leone Magiera Luigi MancinelliAntonio Mariani, Luigi Mancinelli. La vita, LIM, Lucca 1998, Giacomo Manzoni Giuseppe Martucci Antonio Melandri Luigi Mostacci Riccardo Nielsen Umberto Pineschi Paolo Ravaglia Paolo Renosto Gioachino Rossini Alessandro Solbiati Luigi Torchi Alessandro Vezzani Carlo Zangarini
See also Accademia Filarmonica di Bologna Museo internazionale e biblioteca della musica
References
Sources Allitt, John Stewart (1991), Donizetti – in the light of romanticism and the teaching of Johann Simon Mayr, Shaftesbury, Dorset, UK: Element Books. Also see Allitt's website
External links Official Website of Conservatorio Giovanni Battista Martini