The Conservatorio Nacional Superior de Música is the national music conservatory for Argentina and it is located in Buenos Aires.
Ernesto de la Guardia, a member of the Wagnerian Society of Buenos Aires, first proposed the creation of a national conservatory.
He gained support from the president Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear and his wife Regina Pacini a noted soprano,[1] the Conservatorio Nacional de Música y Declamación (National Conservatory of Music and Recitation) was founded by Argentine musician Carlos López Buchardo, among others, on July 7, 1924.
The conservatory was renamed to honor its first director, and has since been known as the Conservatorio Nacional de "Carlos López Buchardo".
[2] In 1950, the Dance Department was split from the organization with the founding of the National School of Dance (Spanish: Escuela Nacional de Danzas) and then between 1957 and 1958, the Theater Arts Department was separated from the Conservatory to create the National School of Theater (Spanish: Escuela Nacional de Teatro).