CHILD COMPOSERS IN THE OLD CONSERVATORIES

Conservatori were founded across Italy, from Venice and Florence to Parma and Naples, many specializing in a particular trade.                                                                

Four music conservatori in Naples gained particular renown for their exceptional training of musicians, both performers and composers, all boys.                                          

By the eighteenth century, the graduates of the Naples conservatories began to spread across Europe, with some 600 boys formerly in residence beginning to dominate the European musical world.