The “Benedetto Marcello” Conservatory of Music is located in the historic Palazzo Pisani in Campo Santo Stefano in the sestiere of San Marco.
Founded as the Liceo Civico e Società Musicale in 1867, the institute was legally turned into a conservatory by Gian Francesco Malipiero in 1940.

The Venetian Conservatory is famous for having one of the richest and most important libraries of Italian music, with assets estimated at more than 50,000 books and documents, including books, scores and orchestral scores.
Today, thanks to the financing by the Veneto Region, it has started computerised cataloguing of the library’s most important heritage, the Fondo Correr, a collection of valuable manuscripts from the 1700s and 1800s.

In July 2007 work began on structural consolidation of the vaults and the staircases leading to the library, as well as restoration of alcove decorations.
The Soprintendenza per i Beni Architettonici e Paesaggistici di Venezia is responsible for carrying out the works.

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