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"It is due to the vision of its founder, the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII, that the Royal College of Music owns a celebrated instrument collection as well as manuscripts, rare printed music and portraits of musicians. As he stated in his inaugural speech on 28 February 1882: ‘A school giving the best instruction … is but a branch of what I desire to found. I wish to establish an institution having a wider basis and a more extended influence than any existing school or college of music in this country ... It will be to England what the Berlin Conservatoire is to Germany, what the Paris Conservatoire is to France, or the Vienna Conservatoire to Austria–the recognised centre and head of the musical world.’ " ...
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