School of music facts for kids

The Rimsky-Korsakov Saint Petersburg Conservatory. Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, and George Balanchine all graduated here.

A school of music or conservatoire teaches music in all its aspects. It may be called a college of music, or academy of music or conservatory (American English) or a conservatorium (Australian English).

It is a place of higher education where young people who want a career in music can study how to play musical instruments, singing, composition, musicology, music history and music theory.

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Based around the Notre Dame Cathedral, the Notre Dame School was an important centre of polyphonic music
Musikgymnasium Schloss Belvedere is a specialist music school in Germany
300 children attend the Royal College of Music's Junior Department
Jacobs School of Music, part of Indiana University, has more than 1,600 students
The Oberlin Conservatory of Music shares its campus with Oberlin College.
Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland.

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