| Even throughout the various
transformations experienced over time, the Institute has maintained its original character
of association, according to its current statute made up of 70 actual academics (italian)
and 30 honorary academics (non-italian). The academic
register has included throughout centuries, the most prestigious names of italian music;
to be particularly remembered amongst the others, Giovanni Pierluigi from Palestrina, who
played an important part in forming the congregation: Archangelo Corelli, Claudio
Monteverdi, Luigi Cherubini, Girolamo Frescobaldi, Gaspare Spontini, Nicoḷ Paganini,
Gioacchino Rossini, Gaetano Donizetti, Giuseppe Verdi, Alfredo Casella, Ottorino Respighi,
Giorgio Federico Ghedini, Ildebrando Pizzetti, Gianfranco Malipiero, Luigi Dallapiccola,
Goffredo Petrassi, Luigi Nono, Luciano Berio, as well as other major contemporary
interpreters.
Even if the goals of the institution have been subject to, in the
course of the centuries, continuos modifications, the inspirations of the Institute have
been, and remain to promote and increase the art of music in each performance.
With the inauguration on February 2 , 1985, of the Hall in Via dei Greci, the Academy of
Saint Cecilia begins its regular concert activity, which in 1908 develops further with the
constitution of the Orchestra and of the choir. |
