Cincinnati Conservatory of Music

Cincinnati Conservatory of Music
Cincinnati Conservatory of Music
	On the lawn of The Cincinnati Conservatory of Music 1913
Location
	Cincinnati, Ohio; United States
Information
Type	Conservatory
Established	1867
Founder	Clara Baur
Closed	1955
Affiliation	University of Cincinnati – College-Conservatory of Music

The Cincinnati Conservatory of Music was a conservatory, part of a girls' finishing school, founded in 1867 in Cincinnati, Ohio. It merged with the College of Music of Cincinnati in 1955, forming the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, which is now part of the University of Cincinnati.

Noted alumni include cancer researcher Aldred Scott Warthin, singer and entertainer Tennessee Ernie Ford, trumpeter Al Hirt, jazz pianist Pat Moran McCoy, and composers Harold Morris, Conlon Nancarrow, and Margaret McClure Stitt.

History

The Cincinnati Conservatory of Music was founded by Clara Baur in 1867.^[1]^[2] It was the first music school in Cincinnati and was a conservatory, part of a girls' finishing school.^[1]^[2] On June 10, 1924, Burnet Corwin Tuthill, general manager of the conservatory, instigated a meeting for the formation of the National Association of Schools of Music together with five other institutions: the American Conservatory of Music, the Bush Conservatory of Music, the Louisville Conservatory of Music, the Pittsburgh Musical Institute, and the Walcott Conservatory of Music.^[3]

It merged with the College of Music of Cincinnati in 1955, forming the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, which is now part of the University of Cincinnati.

Notable people

Alumni

Tennessee Ernie Ford (1939), singer and television personality
Corinne Stocker Horton, elocutionist, journalist, and newspaper editor
Pat Moran McCoy, jazz pianist
Harold Morris, pianist, composer, and educator
Conlon Nancarrow, composer
Carrie Obendorfer Simon, communal leader
Margaret McClure Stitt, dramatist

Faculty

James G. Heller, professor of musicology

References

^ ^a ^b Shotwell, John Brough (1902). A History of the Schools of Cincinnati. The School Life Company. p. 373.
^ ^a ^b Southern, Eileen (1997). Music of Black Americans. New York: W.W. Norton & Co. p. 221. ISBN 0-393-03843-2.
^ Tuthill, Burnet Corwin (1963). NASM — The First Forty Years: A Personal History of the National Association of Schools of Music LC:ML27.U5 N2634. Washington, D.C.: National Association of Schools of Music. p. 1.

[:0-1] Shotwell, John Brough (1902). A History of the Schools of Cincinnati. The School Life Company. p. 373.

[:1-2] Southern, Eileen (1997). Music of Black Americans. New York: W.W. Norton & Co. p. 221. ISBN 0-393-03843-2.

[3] Tuthill, Burnet Corwin (1963). NASM — The First Forty Years: A Personal History of the National Association of Schools of Music LC:ML27.U5 N2634. Washington, D.C.: National Association of Schools of Music. p. 1.

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