regularly again in 1822 a few years after the Restoration brought about by the Congress of Vienna. The years between that reopening and the end of the Papal States in 1870 were ones of great change. The organization opened its membership to hitherto excluded categories, such as dancers, poets, music historians, musical instrument makers, and music publishers. In 1838, the Congregation of Santa Cecilia was officially proclaimed an Academy and then a Papal Academy. The list of active and honorary members of the Accademia during that period is formidable and includes Cherubini, Mercadante, Donizetti, Rossini, Paganini, Auber, Liszt, Mendelssohn, Berlioz, Gounod, and Meyerbeer. Among the crowned heads of Europe who were honorary members was Queen Victoria. After the unification of Italy, the Accademia reestablished itself with the formation of a permanent symphony orchestra and choir, beginning in 1895. It went from being the seat of a Liceo musicale—a music "high school"—to being a full-blown conservatory; also, it hosts the "Eleonora Duse" Drama School, as well as a centre for experimental cinema. The most recent innovation has been the digitisation and cataloguing of centuries of musical documents—including an important collection of traditional music in the ethnomusicological archives—and their preservation and eventual display in the Accademia's multimedia library and archive also available to the public online. The Accademia also maintains a musical instruments museum (the MUSA). Alumni Gaqo Çako Alfredo Costa Franco Donatoni Ferenc Farkas Jorgjia Filçe-Truja Beniamino Gigli Aristodemo Giorgini Aurelio Giorni Gaetano Giuffrè Preng Jakova Ramiz Kovaçi Sylvia Kersenbaum Hersi Matmuja Anna Moffo Lúcia Moniz Bruno Nicolai Piero Niro Carlo Peroni Zoltán Peskó Franco Piersanti Sergei Rachmaninoff Diogenes Rivas Sonya Scarlet Victor Togni Tessie Mobley References External links Official website Music schools in Italy 1585 establishments in Italy Education in Rome Learned societies of Italy Educational institutions established in the 1580s