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Conservatorio di Musica Giuseppe Verdi, Milan - Centre
Famous Milan music school in an old monastery
The Milan Conservatory, named after Verdi though his application to study there was famously rejected, is Milan's most celebrated music college. Since 1808, it has been educating Milan's important, up and coming musicians.
This prestigious institution was established in 1807 as part of the project to revive the capital of the Napoleonic kingdom of Italy, and opened in 1808 in the dependencies of a former Baroque Lateran monastery.
Some of the most important musicians and conductors in Italian history have studied here, including Giacomo Puccini, Riccardo Muti and Ludovico Einaudi. Nowadays, there are two concert halls, the smaller Sala Puccini for chamber music and the bigger Sala Verdi for symphonic and choral music, as well as a vast library that includes manuscripts by Mozart, Donizetti, Bellini and Verdi, and a small museum with historical instruments.
