Sichuan Conservatory of Music was founded in 1939. 1939 At the beginning of March, Mr. Xiong Foxi, a pioneer of China drama movement and a famous drama educator, and the drama department founded the "Sichuan Drama Education Experimental School". In June of the same year, 5438+065438+ 10, in order to avoid the bombing of Japanese aggressor planes, the school was evacuated from Chengping Street in Chengdu to Jixiang Temple in Xinmin Township, Pixian County, northwest Chengdu, and the music department was added, and the school name was changed to "Sichuan Drama Music Experimental School". China's famous dramatists, such as Chen, Ye, Ye, Chen Zhice, Wu Yin and Xiao Xiquan, have all taught drama, and China's famous musicians, such as Lang, Cai, Ye, Ma Geshun, Licensing Jing and Yu Peng, have all taught music. 194 1 spring, the school was renamed "Sichuan Provincial Institute of Technology".

1942 was renamed "Sichuan Provincial Art College" (referred to as "Provincial Art College" for short), with Mr. Li Youxing, a famous painter and educator who returned from France, as the principal. There are four subjects: music, applied arts, architecture and painting. During the Anti-Japanese War, a large number of famous experts and professors from the literary and art circles in enemy-occupied areas gathered in Sichuan. Musicians Yu, painters Zhang Daqian, Wu Zuoren, Ye,,, sculptor, arts and crafts artists, Pang Xunqin, Shen, architects Liu Wenbao, Gu Qiyi, Bing Hui, linguist Lv Shuxiang, etc. came to our school to teach successively. The "Provincial Academy of Fine Arts" with abundant teachers, celebrities and students became a famous academy of fine arts in China at that time. 1950 5438+00 In June, the Sichuan Provincial People's Government decided to merge the Music Department of West China University into the "Provincial Art College" and renamed it "Chengdu Art College".

1953 10 during the adjustment of colleges and universities nationwide, the music department of Chongqing Southwest People's Art College (formerly Linfen Northwest Art School, Shanxi Province) was merged into Chengdu Art College, and the Southwest Conservatory of Music (hereinafter referred to as Southwest Conservatory of Music) was established, with three departments of composition, vocal music and instrumental music. The subjects of architecture and fine arts will be assigned to Chongqing Institute of Civil Engineering and Architecture and sichuan fine arts institute. 1957 Newly added national instrumental music department.

1959, after six years, Southwest Conservatory of Music was officially upgraded and renamed Sichuan Conservatory of Music with the approval of the Ministry of Education, becoming one of the first six famous higher conservatories with undergraduate degrees in China. The first dean was Mr. Su Min, a famous music educator in China.

In 2000, Sichuan Conservatory of Music was established as a public professional art college-Chengdu Academy of Fine Arts.