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The St Petersburg Conservatory (''Санкт-Петербургская консерватория'' in Russian ; ''Sankt-Peterburgskaya konservatoriya'' in Transliteration ) is a Music School in Saint Petersburg . Its full name is the St Petersburg State Conservatory named after N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov (Санкт-Петербургская государственная консерватория имени Н.А. Римского-Корсакова); former names are the Petrograd Conservatory (Петроградская консерватория) and the Leningrad Conservatory (Ленинградская консерватория). The conservatory was founded in 1862 by the Russian pianist and composer Anton Rubinstein . The current building was erected in the 1890s on the site of the old Bolshoi Theatre Of Saint Petersburg and still preserves a grand staircase and landing from that historic theatre. As a centre of a Russian school of composition (along with the Moscow Conservatory , founded a little later), its graduates have included such giants as Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky , Sergey Prokofiev , Dmitry Shostakovich , and George Balanchine . Its most famous career-professor was Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov , who joined the faculty in 1871 and whose name the conservatory has born since 1944. In 2004 , the conservatory had around 275 members of staff and 1,400 students. LINKS
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