The Milan Conservatory is a college of music which was established by a royal decree of 1807 in Milan

Milan

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, capital of the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy

Kingdom of Italy (Napoleonic)

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. It opened the following year with premises in the cloisters of the Baroque church of Santa Maria della Passione. There were initially 18 boarders, including students of both sexes. Today it is the largest institute of musical education in Italy

Italy

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During these two centuries, it has educated many of Italy's most important musicians, including Giacomo Puccini

Giacomo Puccini

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, Arrigo Boito

Arrigo Boito

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, Giovanni Bottesini

Giovanni Bottesini

Giovanni Bottesini was an Italian Romantic composer, conductor, and a double bass virtuoso.-Biography:Born in Crema, Lombardy, he was taught the rudiments of music by his father, an accomplished clarinetist and composer, at a young age and had played timpani in Crema with the Teatro Sociale before...

, Alfredo Catalani

Alfredo Catalani

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, Riccardo Chailly

Riccardo Chailly

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, Amelita Galli-Curci

Amelita Galli-Curci

Amelita Galli-Curci was an Italian operatic soprano. She was one of the best-known coloratura singers of the early 20th century with her gramophone records selling in large numbers.-Early life:...

, Vittorio Giannini

Vittorio Giannini

Vittorio Giannini was a neoromantic American composer of operas, songs, symphonies, and band works.-Life and work:...

, Bruno Maderna

Bruno Maderna

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, Pietro Mascagni

Pietro Mascagni

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, Gian Carlo Menotti

Gian Carlo Menotti

Gian Carlo Menotti was an Italian-American composer and librettist. Although he often referred to himself as an American composer, he kept his Italian citizenship. He wrote the classic Christmas opera, Amahl and the Night Visitors, among about two dozen other operas intended to appeal to popular...

, Francisco Mignone

Francisco Mignone

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, Riccardo Muti

Riccardo Muti

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, Kurken Alemshah

Kurken Alemshah

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, Italo Montemezzi

Italo Montemezzi

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, Alceo Galliera

Alceo Galliera

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, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli

Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli

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, Mario Nascimbene

Mario Nascimbene

Mario Nascimbene was one of the best known Italian film soundtrack composers of the 20th Century. His career spanned six decades, during which time he earned several awards for the innovative contents of his composing style...

, Maurizio Pollini

Maurizio Pollini

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, Ludovico Einaudi

Ludovico Einaudi

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, Riccardo Sinigaglia

Riccardo Sinigaglia

Born in Arona in 1953, Riccardo Sinigaglia is an architect as well as musician. He teaches electronic music at Milan Conservatory where he studied during the seventies with Angelo Paccagnini....

 and Claudio Abbado

Claudio Abbado

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. Among its past professors are the well-known voice teachers Francesco Lamperti

Francesco Lamperti

Francesco Lamperti was an Italian singing teacher.A native of Savona, Lamperti attended the Milan Conservatory where, beginning in 1850, he taught for a quarter of a century. He was director at the Teatro Filodrammatico in Lodi. In 1875 he left the school and began to teach as a private tutor...

 and his son Giovanni Battista Lamperti

Giovanni Battista Lamperti

Giovanni Battista Lamperti was an Italian singing teacher and son of the singing teacher Francesco Lamperti. He is the author of The Technics of Bel Canto and source for Vocal Wisdom: Maxims of Giovanni Battista Lamperti .-Life and career:Giovanni Battista Lamperti was born in 1839 in Milan to...

. Ranking among eminent professors who have taught at the Milan conservatory are Giorgio Battistelli

Giorgio Battistelli

Giorgio Battistelli is an Italian composer of contemporary classical music. A native of Albano Laziale , he studied at the conservatory in L'Aquila and is a former student of Stockhausen and Kagel, Battistelli has written nearly 20 operas on subjects ranging from Diderot and d'Alembert's...

, Franco Donatoni

Franco Donatoni

Franco Donatoni was an Italian composer.Born in Verona, he started studying violin at the age of seven, and frequented the local Music Academy...

, Lorenzo Ferrero

Lorenzo Ferrero

Lorenzo Ferrero is a contemporary Italian composer with a predilection for opera, a librettist, author, and book editor. He started composing at an early age and wrote over a hundred compositions thus far, including twelve operas, three ballets, and numerous orchestral, chamber music, solo...

, Riccardo Muti

Riccardo Muti

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, Amilcare Ponchielli

Amilcare Ponchielli

Amilcare Ponchielli was an Italian composer, largely of operas.-Biography:Born in Paderno Fasolaro, now Paderno Ponchielli, near Cremona, Ponchielli won a scholarship at the age of nine to study music at the Milan Conservatory, writing his first symphony by the time he was ten years old.Two years...

, and Salvatore Quasimodo

Salvatore Quasimodo

Salvatore Quasimodo was an Italian author and poet. In 1959 he won the Nobel Prize for Literature "for his lyrical poetry, which with classical fire expresses the tragic experience of life in our own times". Along with Giuseppe Ungaretti and Eugenio Montale, he is one of the foremost Italian poets...

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