In Paris, the Serge Rachmaninoff conservatory threatened with disappearance

Will the Serge Rachmaninoff conservatory in Paris disappear?

Its managers were amazed to learn that, without warning them, officials from the Paris city hall had decided to sell the 600 m2 mansion that houses it, at 26 Avenue de New York in the sixteenth arrondissement. district of Paris.

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There is, on three floors, a concert hall, a Russian canteen and classrooms where group or individual lessons in French, English and Russian.

In 1987, when Charles Jourdan, then owner of the building, decided to part with it, Jacques Chirac, mayor of Paris, immediately bought it.

It seemed unthinkable to him to wipe off the map what remains, abroad, a symbol of the history of our capital.

This school was created in 1923 by former teachers of the imperial conservatories of Russia, who emigrated to Paris after the revolution of 1917. Serge Rachmaninoff was its first Honorary President.

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