Cincinnati Conservatory of Music

The Cincinnati Conservatory of Music was a conservatory, part of a girls' finishing school, founded in 1867 in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Noted alumni include cancer researcher Aldred Scott Warthin, singer and entertainer Tennessee Ernie Ford, trumpeter Al Hirt, jazz pianist Pat Moran McCoy, and composers Harold Morris, Conlon Nancarrow, and Margaret McClure Stitt.

The Cincinnati Conservatory of Music was founded by Clara Baur in 1867.

[1][2] It was the first music school in Cincinnati and was a conservatory, part of a girls' finishing school.

[1][2] On June 10, 1924, Burnet Corwin Tuthill, general manager of the conservatory, instigated a meeting for the formation of the National Association of Schools of Music together with five other institutions: the American Conservatory of Music, the Bush Conservatory of Music, the Louisville Conservatory of Music, the Pittsburgh Musical Institute, and the Walcott Conservatory of Music.