Conservatorio Nacional de Música (Mexico)

Conservatorio Nacional de Música
(National Conservatory of Music)
Location
Mexico City, Federal District
Mexico Mexico
Information
Type Public
Established 1866
Enrollment Approximately 1,200
Campus Urban
Website conservatorianos.com.mx

The Conservatorio Nacional de Música (National Conservatory of Music, in Spanish) is a music conservatory located in the Polanco neighborhood of Mexico City, Federal District, Mexico.

History

The Conservatory was founded on July 1, 1866, by the priest, teacher and choir conductor Agustín Caballero, with the support of the Mexican Philharmonic Society (Sociedad Filarmónica Mexicana) and Emperor Maximilian I.

It is the oldest official school of music in Mexico City (the oldest conservatory in Mexico and in the Americas is the Conservatorio de las Rosas in Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico, created in 1743), and it is the host institution of the oldest symphonic orchestra in the country (Orquesta Sinfónica del Conservatorio Nacional, founded in 1881).

Since March 18, 1949, its campus is located in the Polanco section of Mexico City in an architectural complex designed and built by Mario Pani.

Front view of the National Conservatory of Music of Mexico.

Noted alumni

Noted professors

(main discipline(s) indicated)

References

  1. ↑ Agustin Lara - A Cultural Biography Wood, Andrew Grant. Oxford University Press. New York. 2014 p. 34 ISBN 978-0-19-989245-7 Juan Arvizu - Biography on books.google.com
  2. ↑ El Siglo de Torréon - Néstor Mesta Cháyres Biography on elsiglodetorreon.com(in Spanish)
  • Torres-Chibras, Armando Ramon. 2002. "José Pablo Moncayo, Mexican Composer and Conductor: A Survey of His Life with a Historical Perspective of His Time." DMA diss., University of Missouri, Kansas City. Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms International. ISBN 0-493-66937-X

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