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.
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.
Carlos Chávez, composer and conductor
Julián Carrillo, composer, conductor and theorist
Plácido Domingo, opera singer and conductor
Blas Galindo, composer and conductor
Luis Garcia-Renart, cellist
Mario Lavista, composer and teacher
Eduardo Mata, composer and conductor
José Pablo Moncayo, composer and conductor
Jorge Federico Osorio, pianista
Carlos Prieto, cellist
Carlos Miguel Prieto, conductor
Felix Carrasco, conductor
Silvestre Revueltas, composer and conductor
Antonio Castillo de la Gala, pianist and composer
Eduardo Diazmuñoz, composer, conductor and arranger
María Teresa Rodríguez, pianist
Javier Torres Maldonado, composer
Luis Humberto Ramos, clarinetist
Humberto Hernández Medrano, composer
Salvador Contreras, clarinetist
Ricardo Bernal, tenor
Saul Bitran, violinist
Rolando Villazón, tenor
Rafael Negrete, baritone
Jose carlos de la vega basulto, pianist
Francisco de Paula León Olea, composer
Arturo Márquez, composer
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Gerónimo Baqueiro Foster, music history
Eliosa de Baqueiro, music history
Julián Carrillo, composition
Carlos Chávez, composition
Ernesto Enríquez, music history
Blas Galindo, composition
Rodolfo Halffter, composition, music theory
Eduardo Hernández Moncada, choir conducting, piano, harmony, opera ensembles
Candelario Huízar, harmony, counterpoint and analysis
Mario Lavista, composition
Agustín Loera, Mexican culture history
Armando Luna Ponce, composition
Laura Mendez
Vicente T. Mendoza, music history
José Pablo Moncayo, composition, conducting
Salvador Novo, Mexican literature
Julián Orbón, composition
Carlos Pellicer, Mexican literature
Silvestre Revueltas, violin, chamber music, composition, conducting
María Teresa Rodríguez, piano
José Rolón, harmony, counterpoint and fugue
Jesús C. Romero, music history
Luis Sandi, choir conducting
Henryk Szeryng, violin
Victor Loyo, piano, guitar
Antonio Castillo de la Gala, piano, composition
