Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia

The Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia (Italian for National Academy of St. Cecilia ) is one of the world's oldest musical institutions. Its present headquarters are located in the Auditorium Parco della Musica in the Italian capital Rome.

It was the papal bull Ratione congruit of Sixtus V in 1585 founded in the form of a congregation in which two saints are mentioned which are in European music history of outstanding importance: Gregory the Great, after the Gregorian chant is named, and the St Cecilia, patron saint of music. Over the centuries it has evolved from a local musicians union to become an internationally famous music academy, with its own choir and its own symphony orchestra, the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.

History

The first seat of the Congregation was located from 1585 to 1622 in the church of Santa Maria ad Martires, better known as the Pantheon. Later, the community resided in the church of San Paolino alla Colonna (1622-1652), Santa Cecilia in Trastevere (1652-1661), San Nicola dei Cesarini (1661-1663), Chiesa della Maddalena (1663-1685), and finally from 1685 San Carlo ai Catinari.

In the first century of its existence worked here famous contemporary musicians, including Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina and Luca Marenzio. In the early 18th century, the fame of the Academy, as figures such as Arcangelo Corelli, Alessandro and Domenico Scarlatti, Niccolò Jommelli, Baldassare Galuppi and Pasquale Anfossi were associated with it grew. 1716 Pope Clement XI decreed. for all active musicians in Rome mandatory membership in the Congregation. In 1774 the composer Maria Rosa Coccia was recorded as the first female member. During the Napoleonic Wars, the activities of the Accademia were set, but taken in 1822 during restoration after the Congress of Vienna. By the year 1870, the end of the Papal States, was a centuries-long rivalry with another important musical institution of papal Rome, the choir of the Sistine Chapel.

The 19th century was a time of great changes. The institution allowed the membership to persons who were excluded up to this moment: dancers, poets, music historians, instrument makers and music publishers. 1838, the Congregation of St. Cecilia was officially appointed to the Academy and on to the Pontifical Academy. Among its members at that time included Luigi Cherubini, Mercadante, Donizetti, Rossini, Paganini, Auber, Liszt, Mendelssohn, Berlioz, Gounod and Meyerbeer. One of its honorary members was Queen Victoria.

After the unification of Italy in 1870, the Academy was re-established in 1895 with the formation of a permanent symphony orchestra and a choir. It developed from a musical to a Liceo Conservatory and is now home to an acting school, which was initially named after Eleonora Duse and 1936 by Silvio D' Amico, as well as a center for experimental cinema. Since 2008, the Academy also maintains a musical instrument museum called MUSA.

Famous graduates

Pantheon, Rome Alessandro Scarlatti Gaetano Donizetti Hector Berlioz Giacomo Meyerbeer Music school
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