The Conservatoire Américain

The history of the Conservatoire Américain, the French musical institution responsible for training generations of American musicians, is captured for the first time in this full-length narrative, which draws on rare materials from the Conservatoire's archives, combining them with personal correspondence, interviews, and first-person narratives with students and faculty. The Conservatoire Américain discusses various topics important to the institution, such as the dissemination...
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The history of the Conservatoire Américain, the French musical institution responsible for training generations of American musicians, is captured for the first time in this full-length narrative, which draws on rare materials from the Conservatoire's archives, combining them with personal correspondence, interviews, and first-person narratives with students and faculty. The Conservatoire Américain discusses various topics important to the institution, such as the dissemination of French repertoire during the twentieth century, the pedagogical approaches used in teaching American music students, the impact of training Americans abroad, and the influence their French training had on performance, interpretation, and composition.