| Asaf Zeynally Music School in Baku | |
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 College in 2016 | |
 Interactive map of the Asaf Zeynally Music School in Baku area | |
| General information | |
| Location | Baku,Azerbaijan |
| Coordinates | 40°22′37″N49°50′47″E / 40.3770521°N 49.8465048°E /40.3770521; 49.8465048 |
| Completed | 1916 |
TheBaku Musical College (now theAzerbaijan National Conservatory Music College) is a state college of professional secondary education inBaku and one of the leading secondary musical schools ofAzerbaijan.[1]
Asaf Zeynalli Baku College of Musuc is a four-year special secondary school. About 1,400 students study and 400 pedagogues teach there. More than 8,000 musical personnel studied in this college since its foundation. Nazim Kazimov, "Honored Art Worker of Azerbaijan" is the chairman of the college.[2]
In 1885, Antonina Yermolayeva, alumni of theMoscow Conservatory, opened a private music school with the support of her sisters Yelizaveta and Yevgeniya. Antonina Yermolayeva became director of the school. Musical classes under the Baku department of the "Musical Union ofRussia" were opened on the basis of this school in 1901. Antonina Yermolayeva was in charge of them too. Education in these classes was professional. In 1916, musical courses were transformed into a musical school. Pedagogical staff of the school mainly consisted of alumni of Russian conservatoires. Education was based on the curriculum which was accepted inSaint Petersburg andMoscow, in the beginning of the 19th century. In, 1922,Uzeyir Hajibeyov, eminent Azerbaijani composer, led the school. New faculties, where foundation of theory and play on Eastern instruments was also taught along with the European instruments, were opened in time of Uzeyir Hajibeyov's direction (1922-1926 and 1939–1941). In 1953, the school was named afterAsaf Zeynally, an Azerbaijani composer and pedagogue.[3]
