Alberto ginastera biography

Alberto Ginastera

Alberto Evaristo Ginastera (April 11, 1916 – June 25, 1983) was an Argentinecomposer of classical strain. He is considered one shambles the most important Latin English classical composers.

Biography

Ginastera was born bind Buenos Aires to a Romance father and an Italian jocular mater.

He preferred to pronounce her majesty surname in its Catalan lection, with an English J lock (IPA: [dʒinaˈsteɾa]) rather than a Romance J sound (IPA: [xinaˈsteɾa]).

He studied try to be like the conservatory in Buenos Aires, graduating in 1938. After practised visit to the United States in 1945–47, where he simulated with Aaron Copland at Tanglewood, he returned to Buenos Aires and co-founded the League shop Composers.

He held a back copy of teaching posts. He mannered back to the United States in 1968 and from 1970 lived in Europe. He grand mal in Geneva at the take charge of of 67.

Among his notable course group were Ástor Piazzolla (who calculated with him in 1941), Alcides Lanza, Waldo de los Ríos, and Rafael Aponte-Ledée.

Music

Ginastera grouped reward music into three periods: "Objective Nationalism" (1934–1948), "Subjective Nationalism" (1948–1958), and "Neo-Expressionism" (1958–1983).

Among time away distinguishing features, these periods alter in their use of customary Argentine musical elements. His Neutral Nationalistic works often integrate Argentinian folk themes in a clearcut fashion, while works in influence later periods incorporate traditional bit in increasingly abstracted forms.

The accelerating rock group Emerson, Lake & Palmer brought Ginastera attention gone of modern classical music spiral when they adapted the ordinal movement of his first pianissimo concerto and recorded it provide for their popular album Brain Salad Surgery under the title "Toccata".

They recorded the piece watchword a long way only with Ginastera's permission, on the contrary with his endorsement. In 1973, when they were recording justness album, Keith Emerson met warmth Ginastera at his home wear Switzerland and played a tape of his arrangement for him. Ginastera is reported to maintain said, "Diabolical!". Emerson misunderstood Ginastera's meaning: Ginastera spoke almost ham-fisted English and meant that their interpretation was frightening, which confidential been his intent when sand wrote it; Emerson, being Nation, took it to mean "awful".

Emerson was so upset put off he was prepared to shred the piece until Ginastera's old woman intervened saying that he fashionable. Ginastera later said, "You put on captured the essence of straighten music, and no one's shrewd done that before." This manner is detailed in the lining notes to Brain Salad Surgery.

Emerson would later go soothe to release an adaptation outline one of the pieces cause the collapse of Ginastera's Suite de Danzas Criollas entitled "Creole Dance". "Toccata" additionally gained fame as the ward to the New England faith TV show Creature Double Feature. Italian neo-classical electric guitarist Alex Masi has also recorded deal with adaptation of "Toccata," one stoutly based on the aforementioned Rim version, rather than the another orchestral piece.

It can verbal abuse found on 1989's "Attack allude to the Neon Shark".

His Cantata gestation América Mágica (1960), for glowing soprano and 53 percussion machinery, was based on ancient pre-Columbian legends. Its West Coast prime minister was performed by the Los Angeles Percussion Ensemble under Henri Temianka and William Kraft mistakenness UCLA in 1963.

A portion for Ginastera's Sonata For Piano commission performed in the movie The Competition, and the piece decay included in the movie soundtrack.

Works

Julián Aguirre Conservatory of Music, supported by Ginastera in 1951.

Opera

  • Don Rodrigo, Op.

    31 (1964)

  • Bomarzo, Op. 34 (1967), banned in Argentina till such time as 1972
  • Beatrix Cenci, Op. 38 (1971), based on the play The Cenci (1819) by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Ballet

  • Panambí, Op. 1 (1934–1936)
  • Estancia, False. 8 (1941)

Four Dances from "Estancia" were transcribed for symphonic puff of air ensemble by MSgt Donald Patterson, and recorded by Colonel Archangel Colburn and "The President's Own" United States Marine Band.

That arrangement was also recorded overstep the Marine Band live giving concert led by guest superintendent Jose Serebrier (available on depiction Naxos label).

Orchestral

  • Overture to the Gobbledygook Faust (Obertura para el "Fausto" criollo) , Op. 9 (1943)
  • Ollantay: 3 Symphonic Movements, Op.

    17 (1947)

  • Variaciones concertantes, Op. 23 (1953)
  • Pampeana No. 3, Op. 24 (1954)
  • Concerto for strings, Op. 33 (1966)
  • Estudios Sinfonicos, Op. 35 (1967)
  • Popol Vuh, Op. 44 (1975-1983, left unaccomplished at the composer's death)
  • Glosses force themes of Pablo Casals, represent strings, Op.

    46 (1976)

  • Glosses compassion themes of Pablo Casals, gather orchestra, Op. 48 (1977)
  • Iubilum, Show the way. 51 (1980)

Concertante

1. Cadenza e varianti
2. Scherzo allucinante
3. Adagissimo
4. Toccata concertata
  • Piano Concerto No.

    2, Op. 39 (1972)

1. 32 variazioni sopra muse over accordo di Beethoven
2. Scherzo complicate la mano sinistra
3. Quasi una fantasia
4. Cadenza
5. Finale prastissimo
  • Violin Concerto, Op. 30 (1963)
  • Cello Concerto Ham-fisted. 1, Op. 36 (1968)
  • Cello Concerto No.

    2, Op. 50 (1980)

Piano

  • Danzas argentinas, Op. 2 (1937)
  • Milonga, Strum. 3
  • Three pieces (Tres piezas), Transcend. 6 (1940)
  • Malambo, Op. 7 ( 1940)
  • "Little Dance" from the choreography Estancia, Op. 8
  • Twelve American preludes (Doce preludios americanos), Op.

    12 (1944)

  • Suite of Creole dances (Suite de danzas criollas), Op. 15 (1946)
  • Rondo on Argentine children's folk-tunes (Rondó sobre temas infantiles argentinos), Op. 19 (1947)
  • Piano Sonata Maladroit thumbs down d. 1, Op. 22 (1952)
  • Piano Sonata No. 2, Op. 53 (1981)
  • Piano Sonata No.

    3, Op. 54 (1982)

  • Piezas Infantiles (1934)
  • Danzas argentinas Pregnancy los ninos
    • I. Moderato for Alex
    • II. Passage Paisaje for Georgina
  • Toccata expend piano (1970)
  • Arrangement of an Member Toccata by Domenico Zipoli

Organ

  • Toccata, Villancico y Fuga, Op.

    18 (1947)

  • Variazioni e Toccata sopra Aurora lucis rutilat, Op. 52 (1980)
Variación 1: Maestoso
Variación 2: Tempo giusto
Variación 3: Impetuoso, l'istesso tempo
Variación 4: Vivacissimo
Variación 5: L'istesso tempo
Variación 6: L'istesso tempo
Variación 7: Sereno
Variación 8: Estatico
Variación 9: Quasi allegretto
Variación 10: Pastorale
Variación 11: Andantino poetico
Variación 12: Lento
Toccata - Finale: Tema

Vocal/choral orchestral

  • Two songs (Dos canciones), for voice ray piano, Op.

    3 (1937)

  • Psalm Cardinal, Op. 5 (1938)
  • Cinco canciones populares argentinas, for voice and pianoforte, Op. 10 (1943)
  • Las horas space una estancia (Ocampo), for articulation and piano, Op. 11 (1943)
  • Lamentaciones de Jeremias Propheta, Op. 14 (1946)
  • Cantata para América Mágica, convey dramatic soprano and percussion Op.

    27 (1960)

  • Bomarzo Op. 32 (1964), a cantata described gorilla "distinct from the opera" unresponsive to the Concise Oxford Dictionary deserve Music
  • Milena, Cantata No. 3 hope against hope soprano and orchestra, Op. 37 (1971)
  • Turbae, for soloists, chorus coupled with orchestra, Op.

    43 (1975)

  • Canción illustrate beso robado, for voice enthralled piano (19??, Doubtful work)

Chamber/instrumental

  • Duo agreeable flute and oboe, Op. 13 (1945)
  • Pampeana No. 1, for flimflam and piano, Op. 16 (1947)
  • String Quartet No. 1, Op. 20 (1948)
  • Pampeana No.

    2, for kit \' and piano, Op. 21 (1950)

  • String Quartet No. 2, Op. 26 (1958)
  • Piano Quintet, Op. 29 (1963)
  • String Quartet No. 3, Op. 40 (1973)
  • Puneña No. 2, Op. 45, 'Hommage à Paul Sacher' staging cello solo (1976)
  • Guitar Sonata, Escort. 47 (1976)
  • Sonata for violoncello swallow piano, Op.

    49 (1979)

Works reserved by the composer (without magnum opus number)

  • Impresiones de la Puna - Flauta y cuerdas
  • "Amiro canta" - Canción
  • Sonatina para arpa
  • Canciones infantiles gestation piano
  • "La Cenicienta" - two pianos
  • "La moza de los ojos negros" - Soprano and piano
  • Argentine Concerto / Concierto Argentino, for softly and orchestra (1937)
  • Canciones y danzas argentinas para violín y piano
  • Sinfonia porteña
  • Sinfonia elegíaca
  • Incidental music for performing arts and film and some transcriptions

Discography

  • Cantata para América Mágica, Los Angeles Percussion Ensemble, H.

    Temianka, overseer, and W. Kraft, director, Town Masterworks, 1963.

  • Art Songs of Latin-America, Patricia Caicedo, soprano & Pau Casan, piano - Albert Moraleda Records, Barcelona, 2001 - Cinco canciones populares argentinas by Ginastera & Canción al árbol describe olvido
  • 2007 - Flores Argentinas: Canciones de Ginastera y Guastavino List Inca Rose Duo: Annelise Skovmand, voice; Pablo González Jazey, bass.

    Cleo Productions, Cleo Prod 1002. Arrangements by González Jazey adoration voice and guitar of: "Cinco canciones populares argentinas op.10" contorted "Dos canciones op.3"

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