Archive
The Athens Conservatoire Archive
The Athens Conservatoire Archive includes the Historical Archive of the institution (with rare material dating back to the founding of the Conservatoire in 1871), as well as other archives and collections that have been donated to or are housed at the ACRDC. Among them are the Archive of the Chourmouzios-Papaioannou Foundation (including the Archive of the Contemporary Music Research Centre – CMRC, founded by Iannis Xenakis); the Archive-Collection of Stathis Arfanis; the Musical Archive of Dionysios Lavrangas, the iconic composer of the Greek National School and the Archive of Jani Christou, the great Greek avant-garde composer.
Thus, the Historical Archive of the Athens Conservatoire, along with its new acquisitions, covers a period of more than 150 years of music production and activity, representing a real treasure of our modern cultural heritage.
This valuable material, much of it previously unknown and not used for research purposes, has contributed to numerous exhibitions, lectures, and concerts organized by ACRDC in recent years (see Activities/Events).
A large part of the archive material has been catalogued and digitized, and is physically available to researchers and the general public in the Archive facilities by appointment, via the email address archives@athensconservatoire.gr and online here: Digital Repository.
Historical Archive
of the Athens Conservatoire
The Historical Archive of the Athens Conservatoire includes material related to the institution’s operations from its founding (1871) and the beginning of its operations (1873) to the present day. Specifically, the archive is divided into two sections: the Αdministrative Αrchive and the Εducational-Αrtistic Αrchive.
Notably, the Administrative Archive includes:
- Annual Reports of the Board of Directors, Detailed Annual Reports of the Conservatoire, Handwritten Minutes of the Board of Directors, Minutes of professors’ meetings
- Correspondence of the Conservatoire (Incoming and Outgoing)
- Financial Documents (payment orders, requests for tuition-free study, payrolls, professor employment contracts, revenue-expenses logs, bank deposits, etc.)
- Legal Documents (wills, contracts, bequests)
The Educational-Artistic Archive includes:
- Student registers, Examination records, Student enrollment records, Student files, Student academic record booklets, Student applications, Examination minutes and written exams, Diplomas and Degrees, as well as Concert Programmes (student concerts, Conservatoire Orchestra concerts, other artists performing at the Conservatoire) from 1874 onwards.
Additionally, the Historical Archive of the Athens Conservatoire contains:
- A large collection of printed and manuscript scores by Greek and foreign composers, some of which are unknown or were considered lost (such as the vocal score of the opera Andronca (1905?) by Alexander Greck, which was considered lost and was found among unclassified material of the Athens Conservatoire’s archive in the Spring of 2014).
- A large collection of rare photographs dating from the 19th century to the present day
- Architectural plans of the old building on Pireos Street (by Ernst Ziller), as well as the building on Rigillis Street (by Ioannis Despotopoulos)
- Audiovisual material recorded on cylinders (piano rolls), magnetic tapes, vinyl records, and CDs, as well as videotapes. The volume of this material is quite large and it is continuously enriched with new donations of old and rare items.
The Historical Archive of the Athens Conservatoire also includes the archives of the Athens Choir and the "Conservatoire Theatre" company
Other archives and collections of ACRDC
In addition to the Historical Archive of the Athens Conservatoire, the Conservatoire’s archive also includes other archives and collections that have been donated or loaned to ACRDC
Archive Catalogue of ACRDC:
Stathis Arfanis Archive-Collection
Gina Bachauer Archive
Archive of the Chourmouzios-Papaioannou Foundation
Maria Christopoulou Archive
Jani Christou Archive
Markos F. Dragoumis Archive
Petros Epitropakis-Aliki Vitsou Archive
Daphne Evangelatou - Stefanos Gazoulias Archive
Spyros and Elli Farantatos Archive and Library
Mireille Flery Archive
Iosif Grekas Archive Antonios Delendas Archive
Gerasimos Kountouris Archive
Lila Lalaouni Archive
Dionysios Lavrangas Archive
Lina von Lottner Archive
Georgios Lykoudis Archive
Dimitrios Maris Archive
Armand Marsick Archive
Gerasimos Mavrokefalos Archive-Collection
Dimitri Mitropoulos Archive
Georgios Nazos Archive
Menelaos Pallantios Archive
Olga Papadiamandopoulou Archive
Urs Rüttimann Archive
Eda Sakellariou Archive
Georgios Sklavos Archive
Pavlina Spiliotopoulou Archive
Anna Synodinou Archive
Aura Theodoropoulou Archive
Michalis, Eleni, and Zoe Vlachopoulos
Archive
Titos Xirellis Archive
Archive of the Athens State Orchestra
Archive of the Contemporary Music Research Centre (CMRC)
Archive of the Greek Record Club (Leschi tou Diskou) Archive of the Concerts Association (Syllogos Synaulion)
Archive of the Hellenic Association for Contemporary Music (ΗΑCM)
Athenaeum Archive
Historical Archive of the Athens Conservatoire
