Odessa Conservatory
Odessa National Music Academy named after AV Nezhdanova () or Odessa Conservatory is a Ukrainian state institution of higher music education. Its courses include postgraduate education. History. The Odessa Conservatory was established in 1913 on the foundation of the music college (opened in 1897) of the Odessa branch of the Imperial Russian Music Society. The founder of the conservatory was a prominent Polish composer, conductor and teacher Witold Maliszewski (1873-1939), a student of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Oleksandr Glazunov, and a teacher of Mykola Vilinsky and Witold Lutoslawski. In 1923 it was divided into a music institute and  a technical school, which in 1928 were merged into the Music and Drama Institute. In 1934 the Odessa Conservatory was re-established in the previous form. In 1950 it was named after the outstanding opera singer Antonina Nezhdanova. On May 8, 2012, by the decree of the President of Ukraine, the conservatory was renamed to academy and granted the national status.