Conservatori Superior Liceu

ACADEMIC PLANS

During the first periods after its establishment, the Liceo Filarmónico Dramático de S.M. la Reina Isabel II, offered music and theater courses, based on its own regulations. The first enactments from the Directive Board state that Mariano Obiols and Pere Mata were in charge of the music and declamation classes, and there were professors of different disciplines, such as: aural skills, harmony, voice, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, trombone, violin, cello, double bass, declamation, poetry, Italian, dance, sword fighting, and a al cembalo. From this incomplete list it can be deduced that, during the first decades of teaching activity, the academic plan corresponded to the Italian and French norms of the time. An example of the interest there was to increase the level of knowledge of the students can be appreciated in Josep Rodoreda’s proposal, when in 1875 as he was incorporated to the faculty he requested to add theory and history classes to the syllabus.

By decree, on August 25th 1917, an official music studies program was established for the first time in Spain, which provided a official certificate for the students who followed it.

After the Civil War, by decree on June 15th 1942, a new academic plan was established for each level: elementary, middle and superior, and created the certifications for professors of middle and superior levels and the certificate of aptitude. The only institution recognized as Conservatorio Superior was the Real Conservatorio de Madrid, and the Conservatori del Liceu –despite its long pedagogic trajectory- it was only recognized as an elementary education center. This irregularity was corrected by decree on January 26th 1944, with which the Conservatorio Superior de Música y Declamación was created in Barcelona, and the instruction was assumed by the Escola Municipal de Música, the Conservatori del Liceu and the Institut del Teatre. Since then the Conservatori del Liceu has kept its condition of conservatori superior along all the academic plans that have followed. The Conservatori del Liceu is therefore the only private institution that offers higher education and an official title to the students completing the course.

By decree, on September 10th 1966, a new program was established –known as the “old plan” or the “66 plan”-, which today has almost disappeared. This plan kept a division between the three levels and accredited studies for elementary level, an instrumentalist diploma, a certificate of middle school professor, and superior level professor.

The laws that came out of the 1978 Constitution matched the degrees and titles of older plans, and with the Royal Decree 1104/1982 of May 28th the old diploma from 1917, the professional titles and plan of 1942, as well as the title of professor of the superior level became equivalent to a Bachelor’s degree. After the Royal Decree 1542/1994 of July 8th the LOGSE (Llei Orgànica 1/990 d’Ordenació del Sistema Educatiu) was created, and its equivalency to a University degree was reinforced.

The LOGSE brought a new academic plan, which aimed towards updating music education in Spain and eventually respond to the concern of many professionals to bring up the music level in order to parallel the countries of our cultural standards. During the last decade of the 20th Century the LOGSE was also applied to the middle level, and with the arrival of the new Century it is now expanding to the superior level. As an institution that has imparted music teachings to all levels for 165 years, the Conservatori del Liceu adopted once again a new academic plan (ENS/1933/2002 de 27 de Junio) in order to offer the superior music education that our time requires and that is worthy of a society with a true desire for music culture.

CONCERTS

Since the beginning of the pedagogic activity, the students of the Conservatori del Liceu have had the space to demonstrate their own skills and knowledge with the different studio recitals, the Christmas concert, the Santa Cecilia concert or the End of the Year concert.

Prominent stars of the international artistic world have had their first performance opportunities at these events, which the Conservatori del Liceu organizes also to thank all the persons and entities that support the institution and who make possible the formation of the most talented students.