![]() The NTSM agreed, but after prolonged negotiations, the Royal Academy refused to enter into the proposed scheme. The original plan was to merge the Royal Academy of Music and the National Training School of Music into a single, enhanced organisation. As early as 13 July 1878, a meeting was held at Marlborough House, London under the presidency of the Prince of Wales, "for the purpose of taking into consideration the advancement of the art of music and establishing a college of music on a permanent and more extended basis than that of any existing institution". Įven before the 1880 report, it had become clear that the NTSM would not fulfil the role of national music conservatoire. And because its purpose was unclear, so was its provision. Like the RAM at that time, the NTSM simply failed to relate its teaching to professional need and so did not discriminate between the education required to turn out professional instrumentalists/singers and amateur/ social musicians nor between elementary and advanced teachers. In his 2005 study of the NTSM, Wright comments: The following year Sullivan resigned and was replaced by John Stainer. ![]() Under Sullivan, a reluctant and ineffectual principal, the NTSM failed to provide a satisfactory alternative to the Royal Academy and, by 1880, a committee of examiners comprising Charles Hallé, Sir Julius Benedict, Sir Michael Costa, Henry Leslie and Otto Goldschmidt reported that the school lacked "executive cohesion". In a 2005 study of the NTSM and its replacement by the RCM, David Wright observes that the building is "more suggestive of a young ladies' finishing school than a place for the serious training of professional musicians". The building was not large, having only 18 practice rooms and no concert hall. The school was housed in a new building in Kensington Gore, opposite the west side of the Royal Albert Hall. To establish for the United Kingdom such a School of Music as already exists in many of the principal Continental countries, – a School which shall take rank with the Conservatories of Milan, Paris, Vienna, Leipsic, Brussels, and Berlin, – a School which shall do for the musical youth of Great Britain what those Schools are doing for the talented youth of Italy, Austria, France, Germany, and Belgium. The NTSM's aim, summarised in its founding charter, was: Conservatoires to train young students for a musical career had been set up in major European cities, but in London the long-established Royal Academy of Music had not supplied suitable training for professional musicians: in 1870 it was estimated that fewer than ten per cent of instrumentalists in London orchestras had studied at the academy. After many years' delay it was established in 1876, with Arthur Sullivan as its principal. The school was the result of an earlier proposal by the Prince Consort to provide free musical training to winners of scholarships under a nationwide scheme. ![]() The college was founded in 1883 to replace the short-lived and unsuccessful National Training School for Music (NTSM). Its buildings are directly opposite the Royal Albert Hall on Prince Consort Road, next to Imperial College and among the museums and cultural centres of Albertopolis. The college is one of the four conservatories of the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music and a member of Conservatoires UK. ![]() RCM professors are musicians with worldwide reputations, accustomed to working with the most talented students of each generation to unlock their artistic potential. With more than 900 students from more than 50 countries, the RCM is a vibrant community of talented and open-minded musicians. The RCM also undertakes research, with particular strengths in performance practice and performance science. ![]() It offers training from the undergraduate to the doctoral level in all aspects of Western Music including performance, composition, conducting, music theory and history, and has trained some of the most important figures in international music life. The Royal College of Music is a conservatoire established by royal charter in 1882, located in South Kensington, London, UK. ![]()
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