Latin American Classical Composers

Latin American Classical

Composers
A Biographical Dictionary
Third Edition

Martha Furman Schleifer and

Gary Galván

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 DEDICATIONS

Together we dedicate this third edition to

MIGUEL FICHER
June 24, 1922 – November 3, 2011
*****
Gary Galván – Para mis hijos, La Tisha y Geddy, mis nietos, Chase y
Quinn, mis primos en California, y mi querida Gina.

Martha Furman Schleifer – To Charles R. Schleifer, my supportive,

encouraging, loving husband.
 CONTENTS

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Sources

The Dictionary A-Z

Composers by Country

Women Composers

About the Authors

 FOREWORD

There are compelling reasons why a volume such as this is needed,

foremost of which is the huge gap in our knowledge about Latin American
composers of the past as well as the present. Reference works in English
have tended to neglect large numbers of serious Latin American composers
while informing the public of only those who could not be ignored.

Gilbert Chase, who served as Latin American specialist in the Library of

Congress from 1940 to 1943, was a major factor in bringing Hispanic music
to the attention of North Americans. His book, The Music of Spain (1941)
and his efforts to gather the music of South American composers for The
Edwin A. Fleisher Collection of Orchestral Music, cast what he called “the
spell of Spanish music” over multitudes of musicians and their audiences in
the United States.

A decade later, the Pan-American Union of the Organization of American

States began a series of volumes entitled Composers of the Americas,
which up to now had presented biographical and bibliographical
information on some two hundred Latin American composers. Still later
specialists in the music of their own countries presented studies that greatly
enhanced our knowledge of Latin American music.

Despite all these worthy efforts, however, no comprehensive research was

done to bring the information together into one volume. Dr. Miguel Ficher,
in the late eighties, recognized the need for a biographical dictionary that
would present the latest data available and, at the same time, correct as
many of the errors of the past as possible. This volume presents a new
generation of composers, and revives interest in those of the past who may
have been deleted from earlier reference works or may have appeared only
in studies of the music of their own countries. With editorial assistance
from Dr. Martha Furman Schleifer and John Furman, Dr. Ficher has made a
monumental contribution to our understanding of Latin American music.

Sam Dennison, Curator Emeritus

The Edwin A. Fleisher Collection of Orchestral Music, The Free Library of
Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
 PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION

The third edition of Latin American Classical Composers: A Biographical

Dictionary has been in progress since 2010 and continues to represent a
unique, single, English-language source on the topic. The first edition,
published in 1996 included 377 entries. The second edition, published in
2002, expanded the number to 1555 composers. The third edition adds
another 800 composers to the list. Access to the internet, genealogic
websites, newly-published Spanish-language reference resources over the
last decade, and continued research have brought myriad composers to light
and shed new light on previous entries.

We began this edition with our friend and colleague Miguel Ficher, who
passed away on November 3, 2011. After much contemplation we decided
to continue his mission of bringing Latin American classical composers to a
wider audience and to dedicate the book to him and his vision.

As we enter a Latin American epoch, a continuous stream of new sources

and recordings flow with rising tide of new composers and new
information; however, we must temporarily suspend the never-ending swim
through a deluge of information long enough to meet a publication
schedule.

Abbreviations are used in works lists for instruments, voice parts,

institutions, and more (see: Abbreviations). All works lists are selective for
practical purposes. Entries from the second edition have been edited in
some cases in order to save space in the volume. As in the second edition,
names of composers are listed in traditional Latino manner – father’s
surname followed by the mother’s (if known or documented in sources).
Birth and death dates have been updated wherever possible.
 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We are very grateful to the following people whose contributions have been
of instrumental in making this project possible (in alphabetical order):

Enrique A. Arias, musicologist, Chicago, IL, USA;

Susan Berdahl, musicologist, Kingsville, TX, USA;

Eduardo Cáceres, composer, Agrupación Musical ANACRUSA, Santiago

de Chile, Chile;

Daisy Coll, SACVEN, Caracas, Venezuela;

Cecília Conde, director, Conservatôrio Brasileiro de Música, Rio de

Janeiro, Brazil;

Daniel A. Cozzi, secretary of cultural affairs, Facultad de Humanidades y

Artes, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Rosario, Province of Santa Fe,
Argentina;

Ricardo Dal Farra, composer, Buenos Aires, Argentina;

Manuel de Elías, national coordinator for music and opera, Instituto

Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mexico D.F., Mexico;

Helen Feinberg, researcher, Philadelphia, PA;

Igor De Gandarias, Dirección General de Promoción Cultural, Guatemala

City, Guatemala;

Kerlinda Degláns, musicologist, Río Piedras, Puerto Rico;

Gerardo Dirié, coordinator, Latin American Music Center, Indiana

University at Bloomington, IN, USA;
Edwin Einbender-Luks, translator, researcher, Philadelphia, PA;

Marta R. de Fahsen, minister of culture and sports, Guatemala;

Mario Godoy, musicologist, Ecuador;

Alvaro González Otero, cultural attaché, Embassy of Uruguay,

Washington, DC, USA;

Dante Grela, composer, Instituto Superior de Música, Universidad

Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, Province of Santa Fe, Argentina;

Laura Grüb Geschwindt, composer, Voorhees, NJ, USA;

Nancy L. Harper, musicologist, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal;

Stephen F. Henner, cataloguer (retired), The Edwin A. Fleisher Collection

of Orchestral Music, The Free Library of Philadelphia, PA, USA;

Malena Kuss, director, Center Latin American Music Bibliography, North

Texas State University, Denton, TX, USA;

María Landis, Embassy of Guatemala, Washington, DC, USA;

Eva I. Lopszyc, composer and conductor, Conservatorio Superior de

Música Manuel de Falla, Buenos Aires, Argentina;

Cristina Magaldi Rocha, musicologist, Los Angeles, CA, USA;

José Augusto Mannis, musicologist, Centro de Documentação de Música

Contemporánea, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil;

Pablo Marentes, cultural attaché, Embassy of Mexico, Washington, DC,

USA;

Maritza H.F. Mascarenhas, musicologist, Houston, TX, USA;

Michael Meckna, associate professor of music, Texas Christian University,

Fort Worth, TX, USA;
Emilio Mendoza, State University of New York, Potsdam, NY, USA;

Nancy Paddleford, musicologist, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN, USA;

Efraín Paesky, general secretary, CIDEM, Organization of American

States, Washington, DC, USA;

Mirtha V. de Perea, cultural attaché, Embassy of Costa Rica, Washington,

DC, USA;

María Elena Reilly, executive director, Mexican Cultural Center,

Philadelphia, PA, USA;

Joâo G. Ripper, composer, Brazil;

Luis Carlos Rodríguez Alvarez, musicologist and physician, Centro de

Investigación Musical Gonzalo Vidal, Medellín, Colombia;

Waldemar Axel Roldán, musicologist, Argentina;

James Ryon, assistant professor of music, The University of Akron, Akron,

OH, USA;

Susana Salgado, musicologist, Alexandria, VA, USA;

Jorge Sarmientos, composer and conductor, Guatemala City, Guatemala;

Stuart S. Serio, Assistant Curator, Edwin A. Fleisher Collection of

Orchestral Music, Free Library of Philadelphia, PA

Kile Smith, composer and retired curator of the Edwin A. Fleisher

Collection of Orchestral Music, Free Library of Philadelphia, PA;

Juan María Solare, High School of Music, Cologne, Germany;

Frederico Lemos de Souza, assistant executive, UBC, Rio de Janeiro,

Brazil;
Darío Suro, plenipotentiary minister of cultural affairs, Embassy of the
Dominican Republic, Washington, D.C.;

Carmen Helena Tellez, director, Latin American Music Center, Indiana

University at Bloomington, IN, USA;

Emilio Terraza, composer, Brazil;

René Teseo, composer, Asociación Argentina de Compositores, Buenos

Aires, Argentina;

Donald Thompson, musicologist, Río Piedras, Puerto Rico;

Aurelio de la Vega, composer, California State University, Northridge, CA,

USA;

Werner Wagner, composer, Buenos Aires, Argentina;

Johanna Walczak, researcher, Providence, RI;

Arlene B. Woehl, professor of music, Holy Names College, Oakland, CA,

USA;

Benjamín Yepez, director, Centro Documentación Musical, Colcultura,

Bogotá, Colombia.
 ABBREVIATIONS
Acad Academy, Academia
accomp accompaniment
ADEMA Asociación de Músicos de Argentina
AGMA Agrupación Gremial de Músicos de la Argentina
alt contralto, alto
alt alto
ANPPOM Associaçâo Nacional de Pesquisa e Pos-Graduação em Música
(Brazil)
Asst Assistant
b born
BA Bachelor of Arts
bar baritone
BBC British Broadcasting Corporation (England)
bcl bass-clarinet
bibl bibliography
BM Bachelor of Music
bs bass (voice)
bsn bassoon
ca circa
cb contrabass/double bass
CBS Columbia Broadcasting System (USA)
cbsn contra-bassoon
ch chorus, choir, choral
chamb chamber
CENIDIM Centro Nacional de Investigación, Documentación e
Información Musical (Mexico)
CICMAT Centro de Investigación y Comunicación Masiva, Arte y
Tecnología (Argentina)
CIDEM Consejo Interamericano de Música, Washington, DC (USA)
CIDEMP Centro de Investigaciones y Desarrollo de la Música Peruana
(Peru)
CIEM Centro de Investigación y Estudios Musicales de Mexico City
(Mexico)
CIM Consejo Internacional de la Música (United Nations)
cl clarinet
CONAC Consejo Nacional de la Cultura (Venezuela)
cons conservatory, conservatorio
CPEIP Centro de Perfeccionamiento, Experimentación e
Investigaciones Pedagógicas del Ministerio de Educación
(Chile)
CREA Consejo de Recursos para Atención de la Juventud (Mexico)
crn cornet
CUDA Compositores Unidos de la Argentina
d died
DDF Departamento del Distrito Federal (Mexico)
dept department
dir director
DMA Doctor of Musical Arts
eh English horn
EMBAP Escola de Música y Belas Artes de Paraná (Brazil)
EMUFRJ Escola de Música de Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
(Brazil)
ENA Escuela Nacional de Arte (Cuba)
ENM Escuela Nacional de Música (Cuba)
ENMUB Escola Nacional de Música da Universidade do Brasil
ENP Escuale Nacional Preparatoria de UNAM (Mexico)
ens ensemble
FAC Federación Argentina de Compositores
FARME Federación Argentina de Música Electrónica
FEFIERF Federação das Escolas Isoladas do Estado de Rio de Janeiro
(Brazil)
fl flute
fl flourished
FONAPAS Fondo Nacional para Actividades Socialses (Mexico)
FUNARTE Fundación Nacional de Arte (Brazil)
gtr guitar
hn horn, French horn
ICAIC Grupo de Experimentación Sonora del Instituto Cubano del
Arte e Industria Cinematográficos
IMS International Musicological Society
IMSS Instituto Mexicano de Seguridad Social
INBA Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes (Mexico)
INI Instituto Nacional Indigenista (Mexico)
INM Instituto Nacional de Música (Brazil)
instr instrument, instrumental, instrumentos
inst Institute, Instituto
IPN Instituto Politécnico Nacional (Mexico)
ISA Instituto Superior de Arte (Cuba)
ISCM International Society for Contemporary Music
IUDEM Instituto Universitario de Estudios Músicales (Venezuela)
LIPM Laboratorio de Investigación y Producción Musical
(Argentina)
MA Master of Arts
MEC Ministerio de Educação e Cultura (Brazil)
mez sop mezzo-soprano, mezzosoprano
MIS Museu da Imagem e do Som (Brazil)
MM Master of Music
NACUSA National Association of Composers (USA)
nar narrator/speaker/speaking voice/spoken voice
ob oboe
ODILA Orquesta de Instrumentos Latinoamericanos (Venezuela)
orch orchestra/orchestral
org organ
orq orquesta
OSSODRE Orquesta Sinfónica de SODRE (Uruguay)
perc percussion
Phil Philharmonic/Filarmonica
pic piccolo
pn piano
Presb Presbyterian, presbyter
Prof Professor
prov province/provincial
qnt quintet
qt quartet
Rev Reverend
RILM Répertoire International de Litterature Musical (France)
SACM Sociedad de Autores y Compositores de México
SACVEN Sociedad de Autores y Compositores de Venezuela
SADAIC Sociedad Argentina de Autores y Compositores de Musica
sax saxophone
SAYCE Sociedad de Autores y Compositores del Ecuador
SAYCO Sociedad de Autores y Compositores de Colombia
SCIUM Society of Composers of the University of Miami (USA)
SEP Secretaría de Educación Pública (Mexico)
SODRE Servicio Oficial de Difusión Radio Eléctrica (Uruguay)
sop soprano
str string
symph symphonic/symphony
synth synthesizer
tb tuba
tnr tenor
tpt trumpet
trb trombone
UANL Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León (Mexico)
UBC União Brasileira de Compositores (Brazil)
UFBA Universidade Federal de Bahía (Brazil)
UFMG Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Brazil)
UFRJ Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
UNAM Universidad Nacional Autónoma Mexicana (Mexico)
UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural
Organization
UNESP Universidade do Estado do São Paulo (Brazil)
UNIRIO Universidade do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
Univ University/Universidad/Universatorio
USA United States of America
USSR Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
va viola
vc violoncello
vn violin
voc voice
xyl xylophone
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 A
Abad Antón, Andrés, Argentine composer, stage director, and tenor of
Spanish origin; fl.19th century. He settled in Buenos Aires in 1885 where he
composed music for theater productions that established local styles seen in
porteño farces. He performed in various zarzuelas and directed companies
at the Teatro Mayo and the Italian company at the Teatro San Martín.
Works: De paso por aquí (1890); A la pesca de noticias (1890); El año 92
(1892); Casos y cosas (1891); La gran avenida de Mayo (1894); El general
Picaso (1894).
Sources: DMEH

Aberle, Juan, Salvadoran composer of Italian origin; b.11 Dec 1846,

Naples, Italy; d.28 Feb 1930, San Salvador, El Salvador. Aberle studied
music at the Cons. Napolitano He settled first in Guatemala where he
directed the banda marcial and the National Cons. starting in 1890. He later
moved to El Salvador.
Works: Salvadoran National Anthem; Marcha morazón; Chamb, sacred, pn
music.
Sources: DM, DMEH, MLA, NG

Abita, Víctor, Venezuelan composer, pianist, and teacher of Italian origin;

b.1916, Palermo, Italy; d.? He started music studies in Palermo then went to
Pescara, Italy, where he graduated as composer and pianist. In 1937 he was
appointed Prof. of piano and harmony at the Liceo Musicale of Pescara. In
1948, he settled in Trujillo, Venezuela, and was appointed Prof. of piano
and composition at the Escuela de Música del Ateneo of Trujillo. He also
was Prof. of music and director of the choir of the Liceo Rafael Rangel, in
the town of Valera, Venezuela.
Works: Riberas del Caribe, Impresiones venezolanas (1956).
Sources: DMEH, EMV

Abrajim Elcure, Jr., José E., Colombian composer of Lebanese descent,

b.7 Jul or Sep 1922, San José de Cúcuta, Colombia. He studied music as a
child with his mother and maternal grandmother. He was sent to Beirut at
age 9 to study piano and violin at the College du Sacre Coeur before joining
the Symph. Orch. of the American Univ. of Beirut at age 20. After the
formation of Israel he returned to South America and performed in a group
that gave rise to the Orq. Sinfónica del Norte de Santander. In 1970 he
turned down the post of director for the cons. He participated in the first
Colombian music contest organized by Colcultura in 1979 with several
works.
Works: Lo que el viento se llevó; Sin alma y corazon, pn. 1
Sources: DMEH

Abreu, José Antonio, Venezuelan composer, organist, pianist, and

conductor; b.17 May 1939, Valera, Venezuela. He studied with local
teachers in Valera and in 1957 moved to Caracas, Venezuela, where he
studied piano, organ, conducting, and composition with Moisés Moleiro,
Evencio Castellanos, Gonzalo Castellanos Yumar, and Vicente Emilio Sojo
at the Escuela de Música José Angel Lamas. Conductor of the Orq.
Sinfónica Venezuela, Orq. de Cámara of the Univ. Central of Venezuela,
and the Orq. Estudiantil of the same Univ. Abreu established the highly
successful and internationally influential El Sistema that produced
prominent figures such as conductor Gustavo Dudamel.
Works: Sinfonietta neoclásica; 2 symphonies; Sancta et Immaculata
Virginitas, symph poem; Concierto grosso, pn, str; Tríptico, 11 instr;
Quintet, wind instr. Str qts, ch music.
Sources: BB, CTA14, DMEH, EMV

Acevedo Guajardo, Remigio, Chilean composer, organist, and conductor;

b.1863, Santiago de Chile, Chile; d.29 May 1911, Chile. He studied organ
and composition at the Cons. Nacional of Chile. In 1902, he was granted a
scholarship to continue studying in Milan, Italy. Organist in several
churches in Santiago de Chile.
Works: Caupolicán, opera (1902). Religious music.
Sources: DMEH, HMC, MMLA

Acevedo Raposo, Remigio Segundo, Chilean composer; b.16 Dec 1896,

Recoleta, Santiago de Chile, Chile; d.5 Jun 1951, Chile. He started music
studies with Francisco Avendaño, and then studied composition with
Federico Stöber. Member of the Sociedad de Compositores of Chile.
Director and Prof. of piano and composition at the Escuela Remigio
Acevedo Gajardo of Santiago de Chile.
Works: Thamar, biblical opera; El corvo, creole opera; Rapa Nui, ballet.
Sinfonía de América; Suite araucana; Choapinos; Las tres pascualas; La
diosa de la montaña; Concerto, vc, pn; Libertad, concerto; String Quartet;
Leyenda mexicana, pn. Pn, voc music.
Sources: DMEH, HMC, MMLA

Acevedo Vargas, Jorge Luís, Costa Rican composer, baritone, and choral
conductor; b. 24 Aug 1943, San José de Costa Rica. He began musical
studies with Isidro Aguilar Sáenz then attended the Cons. of Music at the
Univ. of Costa Rica. A grant from the univ. allowed him to study
ethnomusicology and choral music in Paris at the Sorbonne and Catholic
Univ. He studied and wrote about indigenous music in Costa Rica and
served as the primary researcher for music of Costa Rica in the Diccionario
de Música Española e Hispanoamericana (DMEH).
Works: Mamaduka (1983), opera; Serrabá (1997), opera; instrumental
ensembles; Pequeña obertura, orch (1984); songs; piano music; La
cathedral olvidad (1996), Dos piezas, fl, pn; Guabo, Apunte interior
(1989); Chamb music.
Sources: DMEH

Aconcha Acosta, Leandro, Colombian pianist, composer, and conductor;

b.30 Nov 1966, Lugano, Switzerland, from Colombian parents. He began
music study with his father, Roberto Aconcha, and gave piano recitals in
many European cities by the age of 5.
Works: Estudios No.1, No.2, and No.3, pn; Strutture, introducción y fuga,
str orch (1978).
Sources: LCRA

Acosta, Rodolfo, Colombian composer; b.1970, Santafe de Bogatá,

Colombia. He studied theory and composition in Colombia, Uruguay,
France, the U.S., Mexico, and the Netherlands at facilities including the
Institut International de Musique Electroacoustique de Bourges, Foundation
Royaumont, the Studio for Electro Instrumental Music, and Berklee College
of Music. His instructors included Roger Cochini, Coriún Aharonian,
Ferneyhough, Klaus Huber, and Graciela Paraskevaídis. He worked as a
prof. of music at the Acad. Superior de Artes de Bogatá. Founder and Art
Dir. of Ensemble CG, a group dedicated to the performance of
contemporary Latin American music.
Works: Si tan solo fueramos libres, tape (1993); Carceris Tonalis, amplified
objects, electronics, gtr, perc, voc (1995); La muerte de Stephen Albert, fl,
electronics (1996); Us a calm mystery, tape (2000); Doft, bs cl, perc,
electronics (2000); Fluye, bs fl, pn (2010).
Sources: NMLA

Acosta de Barón, Joséfina, Colombian composer, pianist, and teacher;

b.12 Jun 1897, Bogotá, Colombia; d.? She began music lessons in 1905 and
studied theory, solfeggio, and harmony with Santos Cifuentes, and piano
with María de Cifuentes at the Academia Beethoven of Bogotá. She took
piano lessons with Eliseo Hernández and Honorio Alarcón, and harmony
with Guillermo Uribe Holguín (1909-12), went to Barcelona, Spain, to
study at the Academia Marshall with Mass y Serracán and Manuel Burges
(1913) and founded the Centro Musical de Chapinero of Bogotá (1917)
which she directed until 1929. Prof. of music at the Inst. Pedagógico
Nacional and the Cons. Nacional, both in Bogotá; prof. at the Cons. of
Ibagué, Tolima, Colombia (1936-45).
Works: Las estaciones, pn; Romanza de la Fuente; Valses, nocturnos e
impromptu, in Chopin’s style; Preludio y fuga, in Bach’s style. Religious, pn
music.
Sources: MMLA, DMEH

Acosta Gadea, Cecilio, Venezuelan pianist, composer, writer, and teacher;

b.2 Aug 1899, Caracas, Venezuela; d.? He started to study music at the
Colegio San José de Tarbes, in Caracas, and then he continued at the
Academia de Música in Barquisimeto, Venezuela. Founder of the daily
newspaper, El Ciudadano.
Works: Sueño de Acíbar, zarzuela; Vía Dolorosa, religious march. Dance,
military, voc music.
Sources: EMV, DMEH

Adalid y Gamero, Manuel de, Honduran composer; b.8 Feb 1872, Danlí,
Honduras; d.29 Mar 1947. He studied music with his mother, then solfeggio
and voice with Leopoldo Cantilena, and piano with Peralta at the Cons. of
Guatemala. He also studied harmony and composition with Axel F. Holm,
and counterpoint with Deliponti. Director of the Banda Marcial of
Tegucigalpa, Honduras, in 1915. He organized the Banda de los Supremos
Poderes, which he conducted until 1924. Founder of the Escuela de
Músicos Mayores of Tegucigalpa where he taught theory, harmony, and
conducting. Tulane Univ. houses a collection of his autograph scores and
ephemera as part of its Latin American Library.
Works: Remembranzas hondureñas, concert waltz; Suite tropical; La novia
del torero, Spanish march; Voces de la tarde, waltz; Rosas de otoño, waltz;
Una noche en Honduras, symph intermezzo. Mañana de primavera en
Washington, march (1934); Funerales de un conejito, symph poem (1936).
Books: Arte de Dirigir, 1921.
Sources: DM, DMEH, MLA, MMLA

Adam de Aróstegui, Maria de las Mercedes, Cuban composer; b.24 Sept

1873, Camagüey, Cuba; d.20 Oct 1957, Madrid, Spain. She began her
musical training after moving to Spain with her family at the age of 9 and
continued piano, harmony, and composition at the Cons. Real in Madrid.
After moving to Paris she studied piano with Louis Diémer and
composition with Jules Massenet and Vincent d’Indy. She performed in
Paris, gave chamber music concerts with Pablo Casals in Spain and her
music was performed by the Havana Symph. Orch. and Havana
Philharmonic Orch. in Cuba.
Works: La peregrinación de Childe Harold (1898-9); Poema sinfónico
(1914); La vida es sueño (opera, 1930’s), La infancia, orch; Ballade
guierrère ecossaise (text by Sir Walter Scott), orch.
Sources: NGDWC

Adame Gómez, Rafael, Mexican composer, guitarist, and cellist; b.11 Sep
1905/1906, Autlán de Navarro, Jalisco; d.1963, Mexico City. He studied
cello and guitar, attended the Cons. Nacional de Música, and served as
principal cellist of the Orq. Sinfónica of Mexico, Mexico City. He is
credited with writing and publishing the first concerto for guitar in South
America.
Works: Sinfonía folklórica, military band; Concertino, gtr, orch.
Sources: DM, MLA, DMEH, GP
Adames, [José] Vinicio, Venezuelan composer; b.1 Sep 1960, Caracas. Son
of José Vinicio Adames Pinedo, he attended the Escuela de Música Juan
Manuel Olivares to study theory and solfege with Blanca Estrella de
Méscoli and piano with Beatriz Castallenos. He studied flute, composition,
and electronic music in Ferney, France. He explored Venezuelan aboriginal
communities to rescue lost chants. His work for stage often incorporates
video, design, digital imaging, and cinematographic illusion.
Works: Soundtrack for Venezzia (2009); Un lado del tiempo; Circle of
Azahar, ballet. Film, television music.
Sources: DMEH

Adames Pinedo, José Vinicio, Venezuelan composer and conductor; b.1

Mar 1927, Barquisimeto, Venezuela; d.3 Sep 1976, in an accident at the
Lajes airport, Terceira Island, Azores, Portugal. He began music studies at
the Escuela de Música of Barquisimeto under Doralisa Giménez de Medina.
He settled in Caracas, Venezuela (1950) and studied at the Univ. Central of
Venezuela. Member of the Orfeón Univ. Later, he studied theory and
solfeggio with Raimundo Pereira and Inocente Carreño, voice with Lidia
Butturini de Panaro, piano with Pablo Manelsky, music history and
aesthetics with Juan Bautista Plaza and Eduardo Plaza, and composition
with Vicente Emilio Sojo at the Escuela de Música José Angel Lamas. In
1969, he founded the Grupo Vocal Metropolitano and the Orq. de Cámara
Metropolitana.
Works: Luna de los maizales, ch; Canción de cuna, ch; Mirandolina; Reloj
rococo, ch; El pregón de las flores, ch; Escucha mi serenata, ch; Himno del
Colegio de Internacionalistas, ch; Himno de la Federación de Abogados,
ch; Dos aguinaldos para los presos, ch; Pasaje, ch; Tres poemas
patrióticos, ch. Incidental music for several plays.
Sources: EMV, DMEH, MMV

Adamo, Gabriel Salvador, Argentine composer and choral conductor; b.6

Nov 1955, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied at the Cons. Superior de
Música Manuel de Falla of Buenos Aires with Roberto García Morillo and
Virtú Maragno, composition privately with Enrique Cipolla, piano with
Rosa Teach, electronic and electroacoustic music with Ricardo Dal Farra,
pedagogy, didactics, methodology, expression, and theater with Adelaida
Mangani, and puppets with Ariel Bufano. He took courses with Francisco
Kröpfl, Sergio Hualpa, and Emilio Renart. Prof. at the Escuela Nacional de
Arte Dramático, the Inst. Vocacional de Arte Labardén, the Cons. Superior
de Música Manuel de Falla, the Escuela de Titiriteros of the Teatro
Municipal General San Martín, and the Dept. de Músicoterapia of the
Facultad de Psicología of the Univ. Nacional of Buenos Aires, all of Buenos
Aires.
Works: Luz y oscuridad, symph impression (1987); La búsqueda, suite
(1989-92); América (1992); Fantasía, vn (1996); Dos movimientos, str
(1998); Movimiento lento, str orch (2006); Tríptico, op.57, wind qnt (2006).
Pn, gtr, chamb, ch, incidental music for puppet theater.
Sources: ISC

Adomián, Lan, Mexican composer of Russian origin; b.29 Apr 1905,

Mogilev, Belarus, formerly part of Russia; d.9 May 1979, Mexico City,
Mexico. He began music study in Russia then moved to the USA (1923) to
study viola, chamber music, counterpoint, composition, and conducting at
the Peabody Cons. of Music in Baltimore, MD, and the Curtis Inst. of
Music in Philadelphia, PA. He moved to Mexico (1952) and became a
Mexican citizen (1957).
Works: Luftmenschen, ballet (1931); Canto de amor a Stalingrado, tnr,
male ch (1943); Shadows of Conscience, ballet (1947); Israel, suite (1949);
El eco, ballet (1953); Notturno patético, orch (1953); Los cazadores, ballet
(1958); Fantasía, ballet (1962); Cantata de las ausencias, tnr, mixed ch
(1964); Auschwitz, bar, instr (1970); La Macherata, opera (1969-72);
Kodesh-Kodashim, mez sop, bar, nar, mixed ch (1978); 8 symphonies. Ch,
chamb, voc music.
Sources: BB, DCMMC, DMEH, GP

Adrianza, Alfredo Marcano, Venezuelan composer and percussionist:

b.13 Nov 1953, Maracaibo, Zulia, Venezuela. He studied music history and
percussion at the Cons. Nacional de Música Juan José Landaeta in Caracas,
Venezuela, and composition with Yannis Ioannidis, from 1973 to 1976.
From 1976 to 1978, with a scholarship from CONAC, he studied at the
CICMAT in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He completed his composition
studies at the Robert Schumann Inst. of Düsseldorf, Germany, under
Gunther Becker. As a percussionist he played in the Orq. de Cámara of the
Radio Nacional of Caracas, the Orq. Sinfónica Venezuela, and the Orq.
Sinfónica Juvenil Simón Bolívar. Member of the Sociedad Venezolana de
Música Contemporánea.
Works: Coincidencias, perc (1975); Opresión, pn, gong (1976); Cidencias,
10 instr (1976); Dencias, magnetic tape (1977); Sur, orch (1981); Urano,
small orch (1981); Sinfonietta del Avila, chamb orch (1987). Chamb,
electronic music.
Sources: EMV, ISC

Advinent, Ulises, French-born Argentine pianist and composer; fl.1860-

1868, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He established residency in Buenos Aires
and in 1868 became the dir. of the society Orféon Francés. He participated
in concerts organized by Louis Moreau Gottschalk at the Theatre Colón and
directed a concert in Salón Coliseum that featured the virtuosic Belgian
flutist Mathieu-André Reichert.
Works: Lablache, mazurka.
Sources: DMEH

Advis, Luis, Chilean composer, pianist, and art historian; b.10 Feb 1935,
Iquique, Chile; d.9 Sep 2004. He studied at the Cons. of Santiago de Chile,
Chile. Prof. at the Univ. of Chile, Santiago de Chile. He studied and wrote
about esthetics and symbolic logic as it is applied to music and one of his
most important collaborations in this field is the book Displacement and
Transcendentalism in Art (1978). He also taught at the Univ. of Chile and
the Catholic Univ. of Chile.
Works: Sinfonía popular, orch; Canción, ancient instr. Chamb, theater,
television music.
Sources: KTL, DMEH

Aguayo Alonso, Cándido, Argentine organist and composer of Spanish

birth; b.?, Burgos, Spain; d.11 Nov 1883, Argentina. He studied at the
school of the Cathedral of Burgos de Osmo and served as organist (1830-
32) before working as organist at the Cathedral of Segovia (1833-36). He
served as organist and choirmaster at Santa María de Tolosa (1853-67). He
resigned to take Nicolas Ledesma’s spot at the Basilica de Santiago in
Bilbao and became choirmaster at the cathedral of Buenos Aires (1879).
His Libera me was performed in Buenos Aires on the death of María de la
Mercedes de Montpensier, Princess of Asturias and first wife of Alfonso
XII.
Works: Libera me; Mass, 3 voc; Post agnum typicum, motet. Sacred choral
music.
Sources: DMEH

Agudelo Murguía, Graciela Josefina Eugenia, Mexican pianist, singer,

teacher, and composer; b.7 Dec 1945, Mexico City, Mexico. She studied
piano with Homero Valle at the Escuela Nacional de Música, and
composition with Héctor Quintanar and Mario Lavista at the Cons.
Nacional de Música, both of Mexico City. She devoted her time to musical
education for children, published, and in 1990 was appointed associate
producer of the program, Hacia una Nueva Música on the radio at UNAM.
President of the Consejo de la Música en Mexico (CIM/UNESCO);
Honorary Committee member of the Consejo General de la Música de
Barcelona and the Fundación Musicae, Spain; Consejo Académico
Honorífico de la Maestría “Creación Musical: Nuevas Tecnologías y Artes
Tradicionales" (Univ. Nacional de Tres de Febrero, Buenos Aires). She was
a member of the Colegio Artístico de la Orquesta Sinfónica del Estado de
Michoacán. She co-founded the Ensamble ONIX with flutist Alejandro
Escuer.
Works: Parajes de la memoria, orch (1993); Sonósferas, str (1986);
Sinfonietta, str (1994); Navegantes del crepúsculo, cl, bsn, pn (1993).
Chamb, electronic, pn, voc music.
Sources: DCMMC, DMEH, GP, IBCC, IEW, NGDWC

Agüero y Barreras, Gaspar, Cuban composer, musicologist, and teacher;

b.15 Feb 1873, Camagüey, Cuba; d.18 May 1951, Havana, Cuba. He
studied at the Univ. of Havana. Prof. at the Cons. de Música of Havana. In
1915, he was appointed prof. at the Escuela Normal para Maestros of
Havana. Member of the Academia Nacional de Artes y Letras de la
Sociedad Económica de Amigos del País.
Works: Symphonies; 10 zarzuelas; Piano concerto; masses.
Sources: DMC2, KTL

Aguiar, Ernâni Henrique Chaves, Brazilian violinist, conductor, and

composer; b.30 Aug 1950, Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He studied
theory and solfeggio at the Escola de Música Santa Cecilia of Petrópolis
(1960). Later, he studied violin and viola with Paulina D’Ambrosio,
composition with César Peixe Guerra, conducting with Carlos Alberto Pinto
Fonseca, and chamber music with Santino Parpinelli. He also took courses
at the Mozarteum of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and at the Escola de Música
Santa Cecilia in Petrópolis. At the Cons. Luigi Cherubini of Florence, Italy,
he studied violin with Roberto Michelucci, conducting with Annibale
Gianuario, chamber music with Franco Rossi, and music history with Mario
Fabri. Prof. at UFRJ since 1986, and member of the Academia Brasileira de
Música since 1993.
Works: O menino malunquinho, orch (1993); Cantata de Natal, ch; O
menino malunquiho, cantata (1989); Sinfonietta prima (1990); Cantos
sacros para Orixá, ch (1994). Chamb, ch music.
Sources: DMB2

Águila, Miguel del, Uruguayan composer and pianist; b.15 Sep 1957,
Montevideo, Uruguay. He studied piano with Santiago Baranda Reyes and
composition with Vicente Ascone in Uruguay. He entered the San Francisco
Cons., San Francisco, CA, USA (1979) to study piano with Paul Hersh then
continued at the Hochschule für Musik in Vienna, Austria, with Erich
Urbanner.
Works: Cuauhtemoc, opera (1992); Symphonic Scenes, chamb orch;
Prisons, orch; The Naked King, orch; Toccata, orch; Concerto, cl, orch; A
Conga Line in Hell, chamb ens (1993). Chamb, pn, voc, ch music.
Sources: DMEH, ISC

Aguilar, Cipriano, Peruvian composer and choirmaster; b.ca.1770, Lima;

d.? An Augustinian, he began his work in 1788 in the convent of Saint
Augustin de Lima. He was a choirmaster of his order and director of
academic music in the Augustinian convent in Lima.
Works: sacred choral works.
Sources: DMEH

Aguilar, Luis David, Peruvian composer; b.9 Jul 1950, Lima. He studied
music with Enrique Iturriaga at the Cons. Nacional de Musica. He also
studied sociology at the Univ. de San Marcos.
Works: Mayhuay, str qt; Mundo Nuevo, ch, chamb orch; Nayhuay, voc,
prepared pn; Eventualmente siempre, ob; Meditación sobre un tema culina,
pn; Microcuarteto, str, pn; Huayno; Grito, orch; Piano Sonata; Coral
lúdico; Suite sinfónica El pájaro azul; Huayno’ para trío (1974); Dúo para
violín y oboe (1975); Latinoamérica I para piano (1975). Film music.
Sources: NMLA

Aguilar Ahumada, Miguel, Chilean composer, pianist, and teacher; b.12

Apr 1931, Huara, Chile. He studied at the Cons. Nacional de Música de la
Univ. de Chile, with Domingo Santa Cruz and Juan Orrego Salas, then took
courses in conducting in Cologne, Germany. Prof. at the Escuela Moderna
de Música of Santiago de Chile and the Cons. de la Orq. Sinfónica and
Escuela de Música of the Univ. of Concepción, Chile. An archive of his
recorded works resides at the Univ. de Chile. Consejo Chileno de la Música
medal (1999) for contributions to Chilean music.
Works: Obertura al teatro integral, orch (1954); Septet, wind instr, cb
(1954); Metamorfosis sobre un lied de Mozart (1956); Sonatina
concertante, cl, pn (1956); Simetrías, pn (1958); Tonada sin Palabras, orch
(1960); Música aleatoria, orch (1969); Sonatina, a sax, vc (2002). Vocal
works to texts by the Chilean poet Vicente Huidobro.
Sources: BB, CTA14, DCM, HMC

Aguirre, Julián Antonio Tomás, Argentine pianist, and composer, b.28

Jan 1868, Buenos Aires, Argentina; d.13 Aug 1924, Buenos Aires. He
studied piano with Dámaso Izabalza and Carlos Beck and became an
internationally recognized pianist. He studied composition with Emilio
Arrieta Corera and Aranguren, and fugue with Cató at the Cons. Nacional
de Música of Madrid, Spain. Member of the Academia Nacional de Bellas
Artes of Buenos Aires. Secretary and Prof. of solfeggio and piano at the
Cons. Nacional de Música Carlos López Buchardo, Buenos Aires. Ernest
Ansermet orchestrated his Gato y huella, op.49)
Works: Tres aires criollos; Aires nacionales argentines; Gato; Zamba;
Huella; Dos íntimas; La Danza de Belkiss; El Nido ausente; Serenata
campera; Caminito; Rosas orientales; Las mañanitas; Vn, pn music.
Bibl.: J.F. Giacobbe, Julián Aguirre, Buenos Aires, 1945. C. García Muñoz,
Julián Aguirre, Buenos Aires (1970).
Sources: BB, CA, DM, DMEH, EMA, GDM, MLA, MMLA
Aguirre, Manuel, Peruvian composer; b.1 Aug 1863, Arequipa, Peru; d.6
Feb 1951, Arequipa. Self-taught in music. In 1945, he was appointed
lifetime honorary director of the Escuela de Música Regional del Sur of
Peru. He included elements of Indian music in his compositions.
Works: Danza India, pn. Pn, voc music.
Sources: CTA13, DMEH

Aguirre Lizaola, Avelino de, Argentine composer and conductor of

Spanish origin; b.10 Aug 1838, Bilbao, Spain; d.1901. He settled in Buenos
Aires, Argentina (1876). He conducted the orch. of the Teatro de la Opera
of Buenos Aires, and taught at the Escuela Prov. de Música, Prov. of
Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Works: Gli amanti di Teruel, opera (1865); Covadonga, opera (1875); Lo
que puede el mate, zarzuela (1877); Nicolasita, zarzuela (1885); Misa de
Gloria (1877); Ch, orch. music.
Books: Nuevo Método Teórico-Práctico de Lectura Musical, 1877.
Sources: EMA, NGO

Aharonián, Coriún, Uruguayan composer, musicologist, critic, and

teacher; b.4 Oct 1940, Montevideo, Uruguay. He studied piano with Adela
Herrera-Lerena and Héctor Tosar, musicology with Lauro Ayestarán and
composition with Luigi Nono. He taught at the Univ. of the Republic in
Uruguay, wrote articles, essays and a book. With a Guggenheim Fellowship
he studied musicology (2004-05).
Works: Mestizo, orch (1993); Secas las pilas de todos los timbres, tape
(1995); Una canción, fl, cl, va, vc, pn (1998); Llueve sobre el Río de la
Plata, gtr (2000); Una carta, small orch (15 players) (2001); Cachó la
barreta, 6 perc (2004); ¿De qué estamos hablando, bcl (+ E-flat cl), bsn, vc,
2006. Electroacoustic, film, theater, voc, chamb, orch. music.
Sources: DMEH

Aizaga Yerovi, Claudio, Ecuadorian composer, choral conductor, and

pianist; b.7 Aug 1925, Quito, Ecuador; d.25 Aug or 1 Sep 2008. He studied
with Julia Espinosa and Françoise Lambert at the Cons. Nacional of Quito.
He published biographies of Ecuadorian composers.
Works: Cumandá, ballet; Daquilema, ballet; Niño agua, ballet; Abalorios,
ballet; Navidad montubia, ballet; Acuarelas cero, ballet; Misa popular
ecuatoriana, soloists, ch, orch; 3 suites, orch; Hijo, ten, pn; Piano concerto.
Chamb, solo instr, pn music.
Sources: ISC

Ajubita, Marcelo, Argentine composer and violist; b.19 Nov 1958, Venado
Tuerto, Prov. of Santa Fe, Argentina. He studied viola with Mary Barg and
Tomás Tichauer, and composition with Dante Grela. Member of the
Agrupación de Música Contemporánea Klank and Agrupación Nueva
Música, both of Rosario, Prov. of Santa Fe. Founding member of the Grupo
de Avant Rock Fritz the Cat. Violist in several orch. and of the Quinteto
Barroco.
Works: Talking talking dreams, str orch, electric gtr, synth; Idiot
performance, str, tnr sax, electric gtr, prepared pn, mez sop; La caja de
Pandora, str, perc, 3 electric gtr, rhythmic box; Una Casita en el Hogar,
voc, str. Chamb music.
Sources: CAMR, DMEH

Akl Jáuregui, Corín, Venezuelan composer, teacher, and pianist; b.26 Aug
1966, Caracas, Venezuela. In 1975, she studied music theory and solfeggio
at the Cons. Nacional de Música Juan José Landaeta with Esther Calatrava,
Carmen Defendini, and Rubén Alfonzo, then, harmony with Violeta Lárez
and counterpoint, composition, and analysis with Juan Francisco Sans. She
studied history and aesthetics with Walter Guido at the Escuela de Música
José Angel Lamas, and chamber music with Marisela González and Jaime
Martínez. Prof. of music at the Escuela de Música Ars Nova and Escuela
Pablo Castellanos, both in Caracas.
Works: Vals para dormir monstrous, pn (1987); Ofrenda a Bach, pn (1987);
Tocattina, tpt qt (1989); Percusión, cl qt; Tres bocetos medievales, 2 cl
(1991); Choro “común,” pn (1991).
Sources: EMV

Alais Moncada, Juan, Argentine composer and guitarist; b.7 Dec 1844,
Buenos Aires, Argentina; d.7 Oct 1914, Argentina. Inspired to play guitar
after hearing his brother, Guillermo, he was largely autodidactic. Alais
began performing publicly at age 11 and attained fame as a guitarist. One of
the first significant guitarists in Argentina, suffered a paralyzing stroke in
1910.
Works: More than 80 pieces for guitar, including La perezosa, mazurka;
Estilo en La; Un momento, waltz.
Sources: EMA, DMEH

Alamo, Lázaro del, Mexican composer of Spanish origin; b.ca.1530, El

Espinar, near Segovia, Spain; d.between 17 Mar and 19 May 1570, Mexico
City, Mexico. He studied with Gerónimo de Espinar and Bartolomé de
Olaso, choirmaster at the Cathedral of Segovia, Spain. Singer at the
Cathedral of Mexico City, and in 1556, after being ordained, he was
appointed choirmaster at the same Cathedral.
Works: Alternatim Psalm, composed for the commemoration services for
Charles V, held in Mexico City on 29 November 1559. Motets; villancicos;
chansonnettes for Corpus Christi and Christmas.
Bibl: R. Stevenson, Lázaro del Alamo, Primer Compositor Europeo en
México, Heterofonía: Revista Musical Bimestral, 1970.
Sources: GDM

Alandia Canipa, Edgar, Bolivian composer; b.12 Aug 1950, Oruro,

Bolivia. He moved to Italy (1969) and studied composition and conducting
at the Accademia Musicale Santa Cecilia of Rome where he earned
diplomas in 1977, 1980, and 1981. He was active in Bolivia, Italy, and
Belgium and won awards in the Valentino Bucchi competition in Rome
(1978) and the Carreño competition (1981). Director of the group Nuove
Forme Sonore, Rome, and Prof. at the Accademia Musicale Santa Cecilia.
He taught composition at the Cons. Francesco Morlacchi in Perugia from
1995 and gave seminars in Belgium, Bolivia, Cuba, Italy, and Peru. Casa
Ricordi publishes his music.
Works: Mutamenti, fl, pn (1977); Pampa, cl orch (1978); Vientos, fl, ob, cl,
bsn, 2 hn (1979); Sajsayhuamàn, orch (1980); Brisa, fl, ob, cl, bsn (1981);
Huayra, gtr (1982); Sonatina concertante, vn, pn, str orch (1982); Arietta,
gtr (1983); Kjimsa, fl, gtr, va (1988); A wolf in my living room, cb, str orch
(1989); Arie sospese, vibraphone, orch (1990); Guitarreando, 3 gtr (1991);
Khana, cl, vn, vc, pn (1991); Paititi, str qt, orch (1991); …y sigue la
escondida senda, va, orch (1992); homenaje, sop, perc (1993); Mientras, trb
(1994); Solo, sop, fixed media (1996);…sottile canto III, tb, live electronics
(1997); Piccola serenata per due, vc, pn (1998); …como se sueña de la rosa
y del viento, str qt (2002).
Sources: CDMC, DMEH

Alarcón Pérez, Honorio, Colombian composer and pianist; b.1 Jan 1859,
Santa Marta, Colombia; d.18 May 1920, aboard the ship Magdalena,
traveling to Santa Marta. He started to study music with his father, José
Crisóstomo Alarcón, then, in 1881, studied counterpoint and fugue with
Benjamin Godard, and piano with Georges Mathias at the Cons. de
Musique in Paris, France. In 1882, he studied piano and composition with
Carl Reinecke and Salomon Jadassohn at the Leipzig Royal Cons. In 1886,
he returned to Colombia and was appointed general director of the Bandas
Nacionales. Prof., and later director, of the Academia Nacional de Música
of Colombia.
Works: Albumblätter, pn.
Sources: LCRA

Alas, Ciriaco Jesús, Salvadoran composer and conductor; b.7 Apr 1866,
Santa Tecla, El Salvador; d.1952, Sonsonate, El Salvador. After taking
music lessons at the Liceo de San Luis, El Salvador, under Juan Daniel
Alas, he studied violin with Rafael Oledo, and composition with Juan
Aberle and José Kessels. Voice teacher at the Inst. Central of El Salvador, in
1886. Director of the Banda de los Supremos Poderes, from 1888 to 1890,
and of the Banda Regimental de Sonsonate, from 1901 to 1944, both in El
Salvador.
Works: Fantasy on themes from Cavalleria rusticana, orch; Rosita, orch;
Fantasy on themes from Il trovatore, orch; El maestro Hiram; Neo Cadina;
La coronación, overture on themes from the Salvadoran National Anthem;
Marden, intermezzo. Vn, band, religious music.
Sources: DM, DMEH, MLA, MMLA

Albano, Enrique, Argentine composer; b.22 Apr 1910; d. 1992. Coronel

Suárez, Prov. of Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied under Alfredo L.
Schiuma and collaborated in the formation of the Inst. de Cultura Musical
of the Escuela de Arquitectura, Univ. Nacional of Buenos Aires, Argentina,
and was its first dir.
Works: Misa de Gloria; Cantata a la Virgen de Luján, soloists, ch, orch;
Dos series argentinas, orch; Obertura Norteña (1950); Trio, pn, vn, vc; 2
sonatas, vn, pn. Songs.
Sources: EMA, DMEH

Albarellos, Nicanor, Argentine physician, guitarist, and composer; b.1810,

Buenos Aires; d.5 Feb 1891, Buenos Aires. He studied medicine in Paris
and wrote a dissertation in obstetrics. While in France, he studied guitar.
Upon returning to Buenos Aires, he became active in the music culture,
politics, and aspired to become a Grand Master Mason. His guitar concerto
premiered at the Casa de Comedias in Montevideo (1842) possibly the
earliest work for guitar and orch. in Argentina. Prof. of Medicine at the
Univ. of Buenos Aires. He was influential in disseminating the works of
Fernando Sor and Dionisio Aguado in Argentina. In 1882 he performed in a
concert honoring Juan Alais. Founder and vice president of the Buenos
Aires Sociedad del Cuarteto. Most of his works were not preserved.
Works: Variaciones del fandango, gtr; Variaciones del cielito, gtr, orch;
Valsa, gtr.
Sources: DMEH

Alberdi, Father Francisco María, Ecuadorian composer and choral

conductor of Spanish origin; b.5 Jan 1878, Durango, Vizcaya, Spain; d.7
Mar 1934, Quito, Ecuador. A self-taught musician, he settled in Ecuador in
1890, and was ordained priest in 1891.
Works: 5 misas de Requiem, 3 voc, org; Misa de Requiem, 2 voc; Misa de
Pastorela Jesu Redemptor, 3 voc, org; Las siete palabras, oratorio; El
capricho quiteño, suite based on Inca themes. Sacred music.
Sources: DMEH, MMLA

Alberdi, Juan Bautista, Argentine philosopher, jurist, statesman, poet,

diplomat, and composer; b.29 Aug 1810, Tucumán, Prov. of Tucumán,
Argentina; d.18 Jun 1884, Paris, France. He studied music under Cambeses
in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Music critic for the weekly newspaper, La
Moda, using the pen name “Figarillo.” One of the most eminent
personalities of Latin American liberalism.
Works: Dances, voc music.
Books: Las Bases, which established the basis for the writing of the
Argentine Constitution in 1853; El Espíritu de la Música a la Capacidad de
todo el Mundo; Ensayo sobre un Método Nuevo para Aprender a Tocar el
Piano con la Mayor Facilidad.
Sources: DM, DMEH, DMM, EMA, MLA, MMLA

Alberti, Luis Felipe, Dominican composer; b.19 Apr 1906, La Vega,

Dominican Republic; d.26 Jan 1976, Santo Domingo. He studied under
Emilio Arté and Juan Francisco García. Prof. of choral singing at public
schools of Santiago and San Cristóbal, Dominican Republic. Choirmaster at
the Iglesia Parroquial Mayor of Santiago.
Works: Compadre Pedro Juan, merengue; Potpourri Albertiano, serenata.
Sources: DM, DMEH, MMLA

Alboni, Avelina, Argentine composer; b.12 Mar 1902, Buenos Aires;

d.1977, ? She studied music with Genaro Romano and Alfred Pinto at the
Cons. Beethoven of Buenos Aires and graduated as a teacher of piano and
violin then studied composition with Gilardo Gilardi. She used folk rhythms
and elements from the milonga in her music. After nearly forty years of
teaching music, the Comisión Argentina del Día de la Música awarded her
with a diploma (1960).
Works: Vivalita triste (1957), Súplica, voc, pn (1961); Nubecitas blancas,
chamb orch (1964). Pn, voc, orch. music.
Sources: DMEH

Albornoz, Pedro, Argentine composer, conductor, and pianist; b.1808,

Buenos Aires, Argentina; d.1880, Buenos Aires. He studied with Father
Picassarri and Juan Pedro Esnaola. He conducted opera at the old Teatro
Colón of Buenos Aires. In 1860, he was appointed ball director of the Club
Progreso of Buenos Aires, a leading social institute of the day.
Works: Series of lanceros (for Club Progreso). Arrangement of the
Argentine National Anthem. Salon music.
Sources: DMEH, EMA

Albuquerque, Armando Amorim, Brazilian composer, pianist, and

musicologist; b.29 Jun 1901, Pôrto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil; d.16
Mar 1986, Pôrto Alegre. He studied violin with Oscar Simm and harmony
with J. Schwartz Filho at the Cons. de Música of the Inst. de Bellas Artes of
Pôrto Alegre. Music consultant for the Rádio da Univ. Federal do Rio
Grande do Sul. Founding member of the Sociedade Brasileira de Música
Contemporánea. Prof. of composition at the Inst. de Artes of the Univ.
Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. Member of the Academia Brasileira de
Música.
Works: Trip, pn, str qt (1947); Suite breve, orch (1954); Evocaçâo de
Augusto Meyer, orch (1970); Caleidoscopio, str orch. Pn music.
Sources: DMB2, HMB

Alcalde Cordero, Andrés, Chilean composer; b.14 Sep 1952, Santiago de

Chile. He studied piano with Alcalde Langdon then attended the Univ. of
Chile where he studied composition with Alfonso Letelier. He continued at
the St. Cecilia Cons. in Rome with Mauro Bertolotti before moving to Siena
to study with Franco Donatoni. He returned to Chile (1985). His music
combines elements of traditional European music with the national music of
Chile.
Works: Tres canciones corales, ch (1973-74); Cuatro piezas para orquesta
(1976-77); Añoranza, electroacoustic (1977); Suite de las cabezas trocadas,
orch (1980); Stravinskiana, orch (1982). Theater, voc, chamb, orch., ch,
solo instr music.
Sources: DMEH

Alearaz, José Antonio, Mexican composer and music critic; b.5 Dec 1938,
Mexico City, Mexico; d.1 Oct 2001, Mexico City. He started music studies
at the Cons. Nacional de Música of INBA, with Armando Montiel Olvera,
Esperanza Pulido, and José Pablo Moncayo. Later, he studied at the Cons.
National de Musique of Paris, France, the Inst. for Contemporary Music of
Darmstadt, Germany, the Cons. Benedetto Marcello of Venice, Italy, and the
London Opera Center of London, England. Music critic for several national
journals and newspapers.
Works: Elegía nocturna, str, harp, glockenspiel (1958). Theater, film,
electroacoustic, voc, instr music.
Sources: DCMMC, DMEH

Alcázar, Miguel, Mexican composer and guitarist; b.24 Apr 1942, Mexico
City, Mexico. He studied music at the Escuela Nacional de Música of the
UNAM, The Cleveland Inst. of Music, Cleveland, OH, USA, and at the
Cons. Nacional de Música of the INBA. He continued composition studies
with Karlheinz Stockhausen. Prof. at The Cleveland Inst. of Music, the
Cons. Nacional de Música, and the Univ. Veracruzana, Veracruz, Mexico.
Founder of the Dep. de Investigación Musical of the Univ. Veracruzana.
Works: La mujer y su sombra, opera (1978); Hommage a Webern, orch
(1978); Back Bay, orch (1981); Djebel, nar, ch (1984); Thanatos (1993). Pn,
gtr music.
Sources: DCMMC, DMEH, GP

Alcedo (Alzedo), José Bernardo, Peruvian composer; b.11 Aug 1798, DM

(1788, ADBM), Lima, Peru; d.28 Dec 1878, Lima. He studied at the
Convento de los Agustinos with the chapelmaster Fray Cipriano Aguilar.
Lived in Chile from 1823 to 1863, where he taught music at public schools
and conducted military bands. On his return to Peru in 1864, he was
appointed general dir. of the army bands.
Works: Peruvian National Anthem (1821); Miserere; Pasión para el
Domingo de Ramos; Pasión para el Viernes Santo; 3 misas solemnes;
Sacred, patriotic, band music.
Books: Filosofía Elemental de la Música.
Bibl.: E. Pereira Salas, Los Orígenes del Arte Musical en Chile, Santiago de
Chile, 1941.
Sources: ADBM, DM, DMEH, GMP, MMLA

Alchourrón, Rodolfo, Argentine guitarist and composer; b.25 Apr 1934,

Buenos Aires, Argentina; d.16 May 1999, Buenos Aires. He studied with
Alberto Ginastera, Julián Bautista, Jacobo Ficher, and Francisco Kröpfl.
Works: Música, gtr, sextet (1959); Preludio, pn (1960); Sonata, pn (1961);
Aldeana, ch (1962); Microhombre, bandoneon, gtr (1962); Tres Piezas, gtr,
perc (1963); Quartet, str (1967).
Sources: DMEH, EMA

Alcócer, Rafael, Venezuelan composer of Spanish origin; b.1883, Valencia,

Spain; d.19 Sep 1913, Baraivar, Venezuela. He moved to Barranquilla,
Colombia (1898), where he began music studies with his father. Later, he
moved to Coro, Venezuela, where he won an award for his Himno in 1905.
Most of his compositions have been lost.
Works: Himno del Estado de Falcón on a text by Elías David Curiel.
Bibl.: Luis Arturo Domínguez, Músicos y Compositores del Estado de
Falcón, Academia Nacional de la Historia, Caracas, 1982.
Sources: DMEH, EMV

Alcorta, Amancio, Argentine economist and composer; b.16 Aug 1805,

Santiago del Estero, Prov. of Santiago del Estero, Argentina; d.3 May 1862,
Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied harmony, flute, and violin at the
Colegio de Monserrat, Córdoba, Prov. of Córdoba, Argentina, under Prof.
Cambeses.
Works: Lamentaciones, alt, ten, bs, org; Gradual para el día de San Martín,
bar, fl, pn/org; Trio in E-flat, pn, fl, vn; Trio in G, pn, fl, vn; Quartet, pn, fl,
vn, vc; Gran fantasía, fl, pn. Voc, pn music.
Bibl.: A. Williams, Antología de Compositores Argentinos, Comisión
Nacional de Cultura, Buenos Aires.
Sources: DM, DMEH. EMA, GDM, MLA, MMLA

Aldana, José Manuel, Mexican composer and violinist; b.1758, Mexico

City, Mexico; d.7 Feb 1810, Mexico City. He studied violin with Nicolás
Gil de la Torre at the Cathedral Colegio de Infantes of Mexico City.
Works: Te Deum; Misa in D major. Religious music.
Bibl.: G. Saldívar, Historia de la Música en México, Mexico City, 1934. O.
Mayer-Serra, Panorama de la Música, Mexicana, Mexico City, 1941. R.
Stevenson, Music in Mexico, New York, 1952.
Sources: DMEH, GDM, MLA, MMLA

Alea Fernández, María Matilde, Cuban teacher and composer; b.6 Mar
1918, Camajuani, Cuba; d.9 Nov 2006, Havana. She started music studies
in Pinar del Rio, Cuba. Later, she studied at the Cons. Orbón of Havana.
She was a distinguished teacher. Member of UNEAC, SGAE, and
ComuArte.
Works: Miniaturas rítmicas cubanas no.1, no.2, and no.3, pn (1940, 1977,
1987). Voc, chamb, dance music.
Sources: DMC2, DMEH

Alejandro De León, Esther, Puerto Rican composer; b.10 Mar 1947, New
York City, NY, USA. She studied languages at the Univ. of Puerto Rico, and
music education and composition at the Cons. de Música of Puerto Rico
with Luis Antonio Ramírez. She studied with Nadia Boulanger at the Ecole
Américain dès Arts in Fontainebleau, France (1972) then later composition
and conducting at the graduate school of the Univ. of California at Los
Angeles, CA, USA.
Works: Autobiografía de trapo, orch (1978); Hecatombe, tape (1978); Suite
de danzas antiguas, chamb orch (1978); Lares 1868, soloists, ch, orch
(1979); El zapatero prodigioso, orch (1980); Gloria, ch, orch (1982);
Quietud, synth (1985); Choteo, female or male voc, synth (1986); Sonseis,
orch (1987). Chamb, pn, voc, ch music.
Sources: CPR, DMEH

Alemann, Eduardo Armando, Argentine composer and music critic; b.12

Jan 1922, Buenos Aires, Argentina; d. 25 July 2005. He studied harmony
and counterpoint with Erwin Leuchter, composition with Guillermo
Graetzer and Carlos H. Veerhoff, and piano with Tila Montés. Member of
the Asociación Argentina de Compositores. Founding member of the
Asociación Jóvenes Compositores de la Argentina. Director and music
critic of the newspaper, Argentinisches Tageblatt of Buenos Aires.
Works: Sinfonietta concertante, fl, ob, cl, bsn, str orch (1955); Bahiana
nova, str orch (1971); Encuentro, cl, str orch (1971); Ensayo, str orch
(1974); Cuatro caminos, chamb orch (1976); Episodios, perc, chamb orch
(1979); Curriculum vitae (1982); Balada, electric gtr, str orch (1988);
Odisea (1991). Chamb, solo instr, voc music.
Sources: DMEH, ISC, VMA

Alén Rodriguez, Andrés, Cuban pianist and composer; b.7 Oct 1950,
Havana, Cuba. He studied with his parents then entered the National School
of Art in 1962, where he completed his studies in 1970. He studied piano
with Margot Díaz Dorticós and Cecilia Tieles. He continued his studies at
the Chaikovsky Cons. in Moscow before returning to Cuba (1976). He
taught simultaneously at the National School of Music, the Cons. Alejandro
García Cuturla, and the Superior Inst. of Art. He performed with Cuban
orchestras and gave recitals. After 1982 his music often employed
polytonality and polymodality.
Works: Concierto infantile, pn, orch (1992); Rondó, fl, orch (1992); Tema
con variaciones y fuga, fl, cl, orch (c.1990). Pn, chamb, voc, ch music.
Sources: DMEH
Alencar Pinto, Aloisio de, Brazilian pianist and composer; b.3 Feb 1912,
Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil, d. 6 Oct 2007, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He studied
piano with Ester Salgado Studart da Fonseca and composition with Luiggi
María Smiddio in Fortaleza, and then, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, at the Inst.
Nacional de Música, with Joaquím Antônio Barroso Neto. Later, he went to
France where he studied at the Fontainebleau Cons. with Robert Casadesus
and Jean Batalla, and in Paris, with Nadia Boulanger and Marguerite Long.
Works: Romance antigo; Valsa-Capricho; Nocturno; Folha de album. Voc
music.
Sources: EMB2, HMB, MMLA

Alessio, Nicolas Alfredo, Argentine professor, pianist, and composer; b.13

Feb 1919, Santa Fé, Argentina; d. 25 Aug 1985, Córdoba, Argentina. He
began his music studies with his father then he taught harmony,
counterpoint, composition, and piano in several schools including the
School of Arts of the National Univ. of Córdoba. He also worked at radio
stations.
Works: Oboe Concerto; Cantata. Orch, chamb, pn music.
Sources: DMEH

Alexander, Leni, Chilean composer of German origin; b.8 Jun, 1924,

Breslau, Germany; d.7 Aug 2005. She settled in Chile (1939) and studied
with Free Focke, and then in Paris, France, with Olivier Messiaen at the
Cons. of Paris, and privately with René Leibowitz. She also studied with
Bruno Maderna and Luigi Nono. She returned to Chile (1955). Prof. at the
Univ. Estatal and at the Inst. Goethe, both of Santiago de Chile. From 1969
to 1970, she worked at the electronic studio of Columbia Univ., New York,
NY, USA.
Works: Música para el Teatro de Niños, pantomime (1955); Divertimento
rítmico, incidental music for the theater (1956); Las tres faces de la luna,
ballet (1966); Música para orquesta (1951); Cinco epigramas, orch (1952);
Sinfonía tríptica (1954); Divertimento rítmico (1956); De la muerte a la
mañana, bar, women’s ch (1958); Equinoccios (1962); Tessimenti, cantata
(1964); Aconteceres (1965); Aulicio (1968). Chamb, pn, voc perc music.
Sources: DMEH, HMC, IBCC, IEW, NGDWC
Alexander Bodenhöfer, Andreas, Chilean composer; b.12 Nov 1945,
Santiago de Chile. Son of composer Leni Alexander. He studied piano with
Lucila Césped, Arabella Plaza, and Alberto Spikin at the Escuela
Experimental Artística del Ministerio de Educación in Santiago. He began
studying composition with Erhard Karkoschka and conducting with Hans
Müller-Fry at the Musik Hochschule in Stuttgart, Germany (1963). He
returned to Chile (1971) to teach composition in the Univ. de Chile. In 1982
he began to compose popular and theater music.
Works: Hören-Schalte-Segen or Las aventuras estructurales del material
concreto (1969)
Sources: DMEH

Alfagüell [Alfaro Güell], Mario Victor de los Angeles, Costa Rican

composer; b.27 Apr 1948, San José, Costa Rica. Between 1966 and 1976,
he studied composition and piano at the Univ. Nacional de Costa Rica in
Heredia then began postgraduate studies in composition at the Hochschule
für Musik Freiburg in Freiburg im Breisgau with Brian Ferneyhough and
Klaus Huber. He taught various music topics at the Univ. Nacional de Costa
Rica from 1975. He received the Premio Nacional en Compositión from the
Costa Rican government.
Works: Episodios sinfónicos, orch (1982); Siete Invenciones para la mano
izquierda, op.16, pn (1982); String Quartet, op.10 (1979); Once
Proporciones, op.21, str orch (1983); Cocorí, op.30, ballet (1987); Elegía,
op.43, 5 tpt (1990); Sinfonía Coral Morazán, op.57, mez sop, bar, mixed ch,
orch (1992); 30 Meditaciones, op.66, org (1994); Otra sinfonía de
despedida, op.102 (texts from indigenous Costa Rican sources), sop/mez
sop, nar, orch (1998); Mo, op.120, symph tale with text by Lara Ríos, nar,
orch (2001); Pedro nada más, op.140, opera (2002); Concierto para la
mano izquierda y orquesta, op.145, pn, orch (2003); Piano Concerto No.4,
op.162 (2006); Fábula del bosque, op.173, opera (2006–07). Chamb, pn,
voc, ch music.
Sources: NMLA, TV

Alfonseca de Baris, Juan Bautista, Dominican composer and military

officer; b.23 Jun 1810, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; d.9 Aug
1875, Dominican Republic. He is often called the “Father of Merengue” for
his early and influential use of Dominican folk elements in formal musical
settings. Instructor in the band of the national army. His national hymn,
written after secession from Haiti, was the first proposed national anthem,
but was never officially adopted.
Works: Himno de la Independencia (1844).
Sources: DM, DMEH, MLA, MMLA

Alfonzo, Pedro Antero, Venezuelan composer; b.13 Jul 1866, La Victoria,

Aragua, Venezuela; d.1938, Valencia, Carabobo, Venezuela. He studied
music at the Seminario Diocesano of Caracas, where he was ordained a
priest in 1893. He was appointed parson at the San José church of Valencia,
where he completed music studies with José Antonio Rius, Sebastián
Echeverría Lozano, and Rafael Romero.
Works: Mainly religious music: Misa de Requiem, 4 voc, orch (1911); Ecce
Sacerdos, 4 voc, orch; Himno de la Sociedad Mutuo Amparo, 4-voice ch;
Los náufragos, zarzuela (1932); Himno a Nuestra Señora de Belén, voice,
pn (1927).
Sources: DMEH, EMV

Alfonzo Peyre, Rubén Rolando, Venezuelan composer, teacher, and choral

conductor; b.14 Oct 1959, Caracas, Venezuela. He began music studies in
1968 at the Escuela de Música Juan Manuel Olivares, and in 1978, he
entered the Cons. Nacional Juan José Landaeta of Caracas. At the same
time he took special courses with Héctor Tossar Errecart, Florencia Pierret,
Mirka Streatigopolou, Alfredo del Mónaco, Angel Sauce, Pablo
Castellanos, and Blas Emilio Atehortúa. Prof. at the Cons. Nacional de
Música Juan José Landaeta.
Works: Piano pieces.
Sources: EMV

Alimonda, Heitor, Brazilian pianist, harpsichordist, composer, and teacher;

b.8 Aug 1922, Araraquara, São Paulo, Brazil, d.19 Apr 2002, Rio de
Janeiro. He studied at the Cons. Dramático e Musical of São Paulo,
graduating with a DM in 1941. He also took a course with Magdalena
Tagliaferro, then continued music studies in the USA, with Vittorio
Giannini in composition in New York, NY, and with Olga Samaroff in piano
in Philadelphia, PA. Together with Tomás Terán, he founded the first group
of contemporary music in Brazil, Música Viva. Prof. of music at ENMUB
and EMUFRJ.
Works: Serioso, str (1983); Fantasía, pn, fl, cl, vn, vc (1986); Trio, pn, vn,
vc. Voc, pn music.
Sources: EMB2

Allende, Juan José, Ecuadorian composer and violinist of Argentine birth;

b.1814, Buenos Aires, Argentina; d.1880 Ecuador. He settled in Guayaquil
and later in Quito, Ecuador. He served in the Ecuadorian army at the rank of
Sergeant Major and directed a military band in the capital before he was
placed in charge of all military bands (1865). That same year he composed
an Ecuadorian national anthem.
Works: First Ecuadorian National Anthem (1865).
Sources: DMEH, EMA

Allende Blin, Juan, Chilean composer and teacher; b.24 Feb 1928,
Santiago de Chile, Chile. He studied in Santiago de Chile with his uncle,
Humberto Pedro Allende, and with Free Focke; then, composition with
René Amengual and oboe with Pizzi at the Cons. Nacional of Chile. In
1951, he went to Germany where he studied with Günter Bialas and Kurt
Thomas at the Detmold Musikakademie, with Kaufmann in Hamburg, and
with Olivier Messiaen in Darmstadt. In 1954, he returned to Chile and was
appointed Prof. at the Cons. Nacional of Chile. He returned to live
permanently in Germany in 1957, and worked for radio stations in Hamburg
and Frankfurt.
Works: Sequence, ballet (1961); Profils, ballet (1964); Open Air and Water
Music, orgelwiese, outdoor instr which uses water-filled cylinders to
produce aural and visual effects. Chamb, org, voc music.
Sources: DMEH, GDM, HMC

Allende Sarón, Adolfo, Chilean composer and music critic; b.29 Aug
1892, HMC (1890, DM), Santiago de Chile, Chile; d.1966, Santiago de
Chile. Brother of Humberto Pedro Allende Sarón. He studied with Enrique
Soro at the Cons. Nacional de Música of Santiago de Chile.
Works: Nocturno chileno; Talagante, set of 6 songs; Cantos populares
chilenos; Canciones araucanas; Canciones y rondas infantiles. Orch,
chamb, ch music.
Sources: DM, DMEH, HMC, MLA

Allende Sarón, Humberto Pedro, Chilean composer; b.29 Jun 1885,

Santiago de Chile, Chile; d.16 Aug 1959, Santiago de Chile. Brother of
Adolfo Allende Sarón. He studied violin, music theory, harmony, and
composition at the Cons. Nacional of Chile of Santiago de Chile. Prof. of
violin at the Escuela Normal de Preceptores No.1, and of music at the
Escuela Normal José A. Nuñez, both in Santiago de Chile. He taught
harmony and composition at the Cons. Nacional of Chile.
Works: La cenicienta, chamb opera for children (1948); Overture in G
major (1904); Symphony in B-flat (1910); Escenas campesinas chilenas,
orch (1913); Cello concerto (1915); La voz de las calles, symph poem
(1920); Tres tonadas, (1925); La despedida, 2 sop, alt (1934); Violin
concerto (1942); Piano concerto (1945). String quartet (1945); 3 piano
sonatas (1906-15); 12 Tonadas de carácter popular chileno, pn (1918-22).
Chamb, ch, voc, pn music.
Bibl.: Special issue of Revista Musical Chilena, Sept. 1945. N. Slonimsky,
Humberto Allende, First Modernist of Chile, Musical America, Aug. 1942.
V. Salas Viú, La Creación Musical en Chile, Santiago de Chile, 1952.
Método Original de Iniciación Musical, Santiago de Chile, 1937.
Sources: BB, CTA2, DCM, DM, DMEH, GDM, HMC, MLA, MMLA

Allica, Alfredo, Argentine composer and pianist; b.4 Nov 1945, Rosario,
Prov. of Santa Fe, Argentina. He studied piano and composition at the Cons.
Rivera of Rosario. In 1976, he graduated from the Escuela de Música de la
Facultad de Humanidades y Artes of the Univ. Nacional of Rosario, where
he studied piano with Ricardo Vidal, Antonio de Raco, and Aldo
Antognazzi, and composition with Virtú Maragno. He also took
composition lessons with Dante Grela. Prof. of history of music and music
analysis at the Escuela de Música of the Univ. Nacional of Rosario.
Founding member of the Asociación Santafesina de Compositores.
Works: Orch., chamb, ch, pn music.
Sources: CAMR, DMEH

Almeida, Antônio José de, Brazilian composer; b.1811, São Paulo, Brazil;
d.27 Mar 1876, São Paulo. He studied music with André da Silva Gomes.
Choirmaster in São Paulo; he helped to raise musical standards in several
churches of that city.
Works: Novena da Conceiçâo de Nossa Senhora, 4 voc, small orch; Novena
do Rosario, 5 voc, small orch.
Sources: EMB2

Almeida, Carlos Viana de, Brazilian composer, violinist, conductor, and

teacher; b.7 Jul 1906, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; d.31 Jul 1990, Rio de Janeiro.
He studied harmony with Agnelo França, composition with Newton Pádua,
conducting with Hostilio Soares, and analysis with Francisco Braga,
graduating from the Inst. Nacional de Música of Rio de Janeiro (1928).
Director and Prof. at the Inst. Villa-Lobos (1945-60).
Works: Introduçâo e dança brasileira, pn, orch (1962); Concerto brasileiro,
vn, orch (1963). Pn, voc music.
Sources: EMB2

Almeida, Laurindo, Brazilian guitarist and composer; b.2 Sep 1917,

Miracatu, São Paulo, Brazil; d.26 Jul 1995, Los Angeles, CA, USA. He
settled in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (1933) and began piano studies with his
mother. Later at the Escola Nacional de Música in Rio de Janeiro to study
composition with Mario Castelnuovo Tedesco. He moved to California,
USA (1947).
Works: More than 500 compositions, mainly for the guitar. Complete
database of all his works is available at the Univ. of California Northridge
Music Library.
Sources: ISC

Almeida, Waldemar de, Brazilian pianist and composer; b.24 Aug 1904,
Macau, Brazil; d.26 May 1975, São Paulo, Brazil. He studied solfeggio and
music theory with José de Lima Coutinho, piano with Luciano Gallet, and
harmony with Agnelo França at the Inst. Nacional de Música of Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil. Later, he studied piano with Rudolf Hauschild and harmony
with Wilhelm Marx in Berlin, Germany, then piano with Vlado Perlemutter
in Paris, France. Prof. of choral singing and religious music at Colegio San
Antonio, and founder and director of the Inst. Musical, both of Rio Grande
del Norte, Natal, Brazil.
Works: Paisagens de Leque, pn; Dança de indios, pn, orch; Cuatro
divertimentos, pn; Dança de mamulengos, pn (1940). Religious, pn music.
Sources: DM, EMB2, MMLA

Almeida Neto, Cussy de, Brazilian violinist and composer; b.10 Mar 1936,
Natal, Brazil. He studied music initially with his father Waldemar de
Almeida, then with Vicente Fittipaldi in Recife, Brazil. In 1958, he went to
Paris, France, to study with René Benedetti at the Cons. National de
Musique, and in 1959, he studied at the Cons. de Musique of Geneva,
Switzlerland, violin with Corrado Romano and Franz Walter, and chamber
music with Doris Rossiaud. Director of the Cons. de Música of
Pernambuco, Brazil, from 1967 to 1979.
Works: Kyrie, 4-voc ch, chamb orch; Abertura; Aboio.
Sources: EMB2

Almeida Prado, José Antônio Resende de, Brazilian composer, pianist,

conductor, and teacher; b.8 Feb 1943, Santos, Brazil; d.21 Nov 2010, São
Paulo, Brazil. He began music studies with his brother. At the age of 8 he
studied piano with Dinorah de Carvalho, and at 14 harmony with Osvaldo
Lacerda and composition with Camargo Guarnieri. He studied in
Darmstadt, Germany, with Gyôrgi Ligeti and Lukas Foss, and later, in Paris,
France, with Nadia Boulanger and Olivier Messiaen. Director of the Cons.
Municipal of Cubatâo, São Paulo, Brazil, from 1973 to 1974. Prof. of
composition at the Univ. Estatal of Campinas, Brazil, in 1974.
Works: A Missa da Paz, ch (1965); Os pequenos funerais cantantes,
soloists, ch, orch (1969); Sinfonía No.1 (1970); Villegagnon or Les isles
fortunées, sop, orch (1973); Exoflora, pn, orch (1974); Aurora, pn, small
chamb ens (1975); Thérése or O amor de Deus, oratorio (1975); Concerto,
vn, orch (1976). Chamb, pn, ch, voc music.
Sources: EMB2, GDM, HMB

Almenare Núñez de Arreaza, Josefa Victoria, Venezuelan pianist and

composer; b.28 July 1886, Maturín, Venezuela; d.16 Oct 1975, Maturín,
Venezuela. She studied with her mother Josefa María Núñez Isava, María
Tucker, and Ángel María Linares y Ana Ortiz de Plaz. In 1895 she
performed at the Theater of Maturín then wrote her first composition at 10.
Her family moved to Caracas where she continued her studies with Narciso
L. Salicrup. She returned to Maturín (1907) married, and worked as a
pianist and music teacher. She concertized (1916-34). Most of her works
were dispersed among her descendants, but a few are still known.
Works: Mass in C minor, March fúnebre; waltzes.
Sources: DMEH

Almeyda, Manuel de, Ecuadorian composer; b.ca.1646; d.ca.1700, Quito,

Ecuador. Composer, joined the Franciscans 28 March 1664, graduated from
the Univ. Real of Saint Thomas.
Works: Dulce Jesús mio, villancico.
Sources: DMEH

Almouhian, Jean, Argentine composer and choral conductor of Greek

origin; b.?, Greece. He settled in Argentina in 1947. He studied with Emilio
Sampietro, Carlos Tuxen-Bang, Pedro Valenti Costa, Alberto Ginastera, and
Roberto Kinsky. In 1960, he traveled to Armenia to study and research
Armenian ethnic music.
Works: Sonata, cl, pn; Trio, wind instr; Quintet, cl, str; Movimiento
sinfónico, orch. Pn, voc, ch music.
Sources: VMA

Alomía Robles, Daniel, Peruvian composer and ethnomusicologist; b.3 Jan

1871, Huánaco, Peru; d.17 Jul 1942, Lima, Peru. He studied in Lima with
Claudio Rebagliati and in Buenos Aires, Argentina, with Felipe Pedrell.
Chief of the Sección de Bellas Artes of the Ministerio de Educación
Pública. He spent most of his life collecting indigenous songs of Peru,
Ecuador, and Bolivia.
Works: Illa-Cori, opera; El amanecer andino, symph poem; El indio,
symph poem; El resurgimiento de los Andes, symph poem; Evocación en el
templo del sol, symph poem. Folkloric music.
Bibl.: R. Holzmann, Daniel Alomía Robles and La Obra Musical de Alomía
Robles, Eco Musical, Buenos Aires, July 1943. Catálogo de las Obras de
D. Alomía Robles, Boletín Bibliográfico de la Biblioteca Central de la
Univ. Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, July 1943.
Sources: BB, DM, GDM, MLA, MMLA, DMEH

Alonso, Julia, Mexican composer, organist, pianist, and teacher; b.1889,

Oaxaca, Mexico; d.? She studied at the Cons. Nacional de Música of
Mexico City, where she also taught organ, piano, and composition after
graduating.
Works: Tonantzin, opera; 2 symph; 2 suites for chamb orch; 2 str qts.
Sources: IEW

Alonso-Crespo, Eduardo, Argentine composer and conductor; b.13 Mar

1956, San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina. He trained at the School of
Musical Arts of the National Univ. of Tucumán where he also received a
civil engineering degree. He came to the USA on a Fulbright Grant and
received a master’s degree in conducting at Carnegie Mellon Univ. after
studying with Lukas Foss, Leonardo Balada, and Samuel Jones. He has
been a guest conductor in Europe and Latin America and served as music
director of the Tucumán Symph. Orch. in Argentina and the Carnegie
Mellon Contemporary Ensemble in the USA. Many of his works have been
recorded.
Works: Chacona, orch (1984), Piano Concerto (1984); Danzas sinfónicas
(1988); String Quartet, no.1 (1982); Macbeth, ballet (ca.1984); Juana, la
loca, opera (1st perf 1991), Putzi (1st perf 2004). Orch, ballet, opera, chamb
music.
Sources: DMEH

Alsina, Carlos Roqué, Argentine composer; b.19 Feb 1941, Buenos Aires,
Argentina. He studied music with Teodoro Fuchs and electronic physics
with Francisco Kröpfl in Buenos Aires. He lived in Berlin, Germany (1964-
66) where he studied with Luciano Berio. He joined the Agrupación Nueva
Música of Buenos Aires (1951). He taught at the New York State Univ. at
Buffalo, NY, USA (1966-68) then founded the improvisatory group New
Phonic Art, together with Vinko Globokar, Jean Pierre Drouet, and Michel
Portal (1969). He spent several years in Berlin and finally settled in Paris,
France.
Works: Three Pieces, str (1964); Texts 1967, sop, fl, trb, vn, vc, cb, perc, pn
(1967); Dispersión, orch (1969); Symptom, orch (1969); Conquest, 4 instr
soloists (1970); Omnipotenz, chamb orch (1971); Schichten I and II (1971,
1972); Aproach, pn, perc (1972); Fusión, choreographic music, dancer, 2
pn, 2 perc (1974); Thema II, perc, str (1974-75); Encore, musical spectacle
(1976); Stécke (1977); Señales, pn, chamb orch (1977); Decisions, chamb
orch (1977); Etudes, tape (1979); La muraille, opera (1981); Del tango,
azione scenica (1982); Prima sinforian, sop, fl, vc (1983); Piano concerto
(1985). Chamb, ch music.
Sources: BB, DCM, DMEH, EMA

Alsuyet, Claudio Alberto, Argentine composer; b.14 Oct 1957, Argentina.

He studied piano and guitar at the Cons. Mozart, and harmony,
counterpoint, orchestration, and composition at the Collegium Musicum of
Buenos Aires, with Guillermo Graetzer. He also studied music appreciation
with Julio Palacio and music synthesis with Francisco Kröpfl. Dir. of Arte
and Extensión Cultural of the Asociación Cultural Pestalozzi.
Works: Estrictas escrituras, voice, pn (1986); Máquina de estampillar,
electronic sounds (1987); J.S.Roger, Tres estampas de un homenaje, fl, cl,
vn, vc, pn, perc (1993); 7 Postales, mez sop, vocal oct, fl, cl, hn, vn, vc, pn,
perc (1994-95). Chamb, org, pn, ch music.
Sources: ISC

Alterio, Ricardo, Venezuelan composer and instrumentalist; b.24 Feb

1910, Valencia, Venezuela; d.22 Sep 1974, Caracas. A priest, he was the
director of several colleges. He taught composition and counterpoint at the
Escuela de Música Sebastián Echeverría Lozano.
Works: San Pablo, oratorio; La Siembra; Miguel Magone, zarzuela; Sapo
no canta en verano, 4 voc; Aunque la mona se vista de seda, 4 voc.
Sources: DMEH

Altuna Fray, Antonio, Ecuadoran composer, singer, and organist; b.1772,

Quito Ecuador; d.ca.1812, Quito. A Franciscan, he established a music
school in Quito. In 1811 he was appointed music director in the cathedral in
Quito.
Works: Religious music.
Sources: DMEH

Alva, Alfredo, Mexican composer and cellist; b.18 Jan 1947, Guadalajara,
Mexico. He studied cello at the Escuela Nacional de Música of the UNAM,
and composition at CENIDIM with Federico Ibarra.
Works: Música para cuerdas, str orch. Dance music.
Sources: DCMMC
Alvarado, Paulo Renato, Guatemalan composer, producer, and cellist;
b.1960, Guatemala City, Guatemala. His father, Manuel Alvarado
Coronado, founded the Sinfónica Juvenil de Guatemala and started him on
cello. He played in the youth orch. and in rock bands in adolescence then
studied architecture in college.
Works: El Manifiesto Consumista, voc, effects, 3 actors (1989); Cuarteto
No.3, str qt (with auxiliary tape) (1990); Una ciudad deshauciada,
electroacoustic music (1995;) Concierto, marimba, orch (and auxiliary tape)
(1996); Octágono, marimba, 6 instr, tape (1997;) Mi Familia, voc, synth
(2000); Voces and el Umbral, voc, perc, synth (2002). Electroacoustic,
experimental, chamb, voc, orch, theater, dance, installation music.
Sources: UNESCO Knowledge Portal

Alvarado López, Alberto M., Mexican violinist, conductor, and composer;

b.10 Dec 1864, Durango, State of Durango, Mexico; d.18 Jun 1939,
Durango. He began to study music very early in life with Pedro H.
Ceniceros, and continued with Manuel Herrera. Conductor of the Banda del
Estado of Durango.
Works: Overtures; fantasias; operas; operettas; symphonic pieces including
El príncipe de Asturias and Cuauhtémoc. Two waltzes, Río rosa and
Recuerdo, became internationally famous. Angel mujer; Almas destrozadas;
La fiesta encantadora; Suite tropical; Corazón latino.
Sources: BB, GMM

Alvares Lobo, Elías, Brazilian composer, conductor, and teacher; b.9 Aug
1834, Itu, State of São Paulo, Brazil; d.15 Dec 1901, São Paulo, Brazil.
Very little is known about his musical education. He founded two music
societies, Filomila and Orfelina. Prof. at the Escola Normal of São Paulo.
Works: A Noite da São Joâo, opera (1850); A Louca, opera (1861). Missa
de São Pedro de Alcôntora, opera (1858). Sacred, pn music, salon music
(modinhas and lundus).
Sources: EMB2, GDM, HMB, MMLA

Alvares Pinto, Luiz, Brazilian composer, teacher, and poet; b.ca.1719,

Recife, Brazil; d.ca.1789, Recife. He first studied music in his native town,
then went to Portugal where he studied music theory and composition with
Henrique da Silva Esteves Negrâo. He taught in Lisbon, Portugal, and was a
cellist in the royal chapel ensemble. In 1762, he returned to Brazil and
became a member of the Irmandade de Nossa Senhora do Livramento. In
1782, he was appointed choirmaster of San Pedro dos Clérigos in Recife,
and in 1787, he founded the Irmandade de Santa Cecilia dos Músicos.
Works: Te Deum; Salve Regina; Amor mal correspondido, musical comedy.
Sacred music.
Bibl.: J. C. Diniz, Revelação de um Compositor Brasileiro do Século XVIII,
Yearbook, Inter-American Inst. for Musical Research, Vol.4, 1968.
Sources: EMB2, GDM, MMLA

Alvarez, Ignacio, Argentine composer; b.1837, Mendoza, Prov. of

Mendoza, Argentina; d.16 Oct 1888, Argentina. He studied under Ledesma
in Santiago de Chile, Chile. Prof. at the Monasterio de María and the
Escuela Nacional, both of Mendoza.
Works: Variaciones sobre La Sonámbula; Variaciones sobre La Traviata.
More than 100 works, in general suited for the salon repertoire: mazurkas;
polkas; waltzes.
Sources: DM, DMEH

Alvarez, Javier, Mexican composer and clarinetist; b.8 May 1956, Mexico
City, Mexico. He studied music at The City Univ. and The Royal College of
Music, both in London, England, at the Univ. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee,
WI, USA, and at the Escuela Ollin Yoliztli and the Cons. Nacional de
Música of INBA, both in Mexico City. His teachers included Mario Lavista,
Daniel Catán, John Dowey, and John Lambert. Prof. at the Royal Academy
of Music of London.
Works: Mambo, opera (1993); Gramática de dos, orch; Yaotl, orch; Etudes,
winds, str (1979); Trirema, hn (1983); Metro chabacano, str (1987); Música
para piel y palangana, perc (1993); Cello concerto (1995). Winds, str, perc
ensembles, chamb, band, ch, voc, electroacoustic, computer music.
Sources: DCMMC, DMEH, GP

Alvarez, Jesús, Venezuelan guitarist and composer; b.1961, Caracas,

Venezuela. He studied music in Caracas and guitar with Manuel E. Pérez
Díaz. With a scholarship from the Consejo Nacional de la Cultura of
Caracas, he went to London, England, where he studied at the Royal
College of Music.
Works: Pieza para orquesta, 2 orch with 2 conductors; Pieza para piano
con un mimo; Rotación, 2 trb, ob, perc, cb; Movimiento de cámara, str.
Sources: EMV

Alvarez, Lucía, Mexican composer and pianist; b.28 Nov 1948, Mexico
City, Mexico. She received a Licentiate degree in piano from the Escuela
Nacional de Música of UNAM, where she studied under Carlos Vázquez,
Pablo Castellanos, and Jorge Suárez. She also took lessons from Américo
Caramuta and Pierre van Hawe. Prof. at the Escuela Nacional de Música of
UNAM.
Works: Moctezuma, nar, soloists, mixed ch, symph orch. (1984); Angeles en
el destierro, chamb orch. (1994); Moctezuma, str orch (1985). Ch, solo instr
music.
Sources: DCMMC, GP

Álvarez, Luis Manuel, Puerto Rican composer and guitarist; b.31 Mar
1939, Humacao, Puerto Rico. He studied guitar with Moisés Cordero and
received Master’s degrees in composition and ethnomusicology from the
Univ. of Indiana at Bloomington, IN, USA, where he studied with Héctor
Tosar Errecart, Roque Cordero, Juan Orrego Salas, Bernard Hayden, Iannis
Xenaquis, and John Eaton. Prof. of Guitar and Composition at the Univ. of
Puerto Rico.
Works: La creación, nar, orch (1974); La Calle poemario de Dalia Nieves,
nar, synth, gtr, cuatro, perc (1975); Ay, ay, ay, de mi tierra, ballet (1978).
Chamb, pn, voc, solo instr music.
Sources: CPR, DMEH

Álvarez Álvarez, Teófilo, Peruvian composer, clarinetist, and conductor; b.

1944, Trujillo, Peru. He started piano and clarinet lessons with his father,
Teófilo Álvarez Dávila. He studied at the Cons. Carlos Valderrama, where
he taught. He played first clarinet and later conducted the Orq. Sinfónica de
Trujillo.
Works: Marinera Trujillana; Trío, cl; Pakatnamú, orch; Festejo para
orquesta (1970); Concertino para piano y orquesta (1970); Vals de
marionetas para piano (1981); Prismas para piano (1981); Concertino
para guitarra y orquesta (1981); Miniaturas para piano (1982); Preludio
para piano (1982); Tocata barroca para piano (1982); El Cid, orch (1982);
Matalaché para piano (1983); Paisaje (Homenaje a Debussy), str orch
(1983); Feria india para piano (1984); Trío para dos clarinetes y fagot
(1984); Tres escenas Vicús, fl, bsn (1984).
Sources: NMLA

Álvarez Davila, Teófilo, Peruvian composer, instrumentalist, and

conductor; b.30 Sep 1915, Trujillo, Peru; d.14 Jan 1991, Lima. He studied
at the Seminario de San Carlos y San Marcelo and performed in the school
band, which he directed. In 1946, he was a founding prof. of the Escuela
Regional de Música and in the 1950s directed the newly formed
philharmonic. In 1968 he was a founding member of the Sinfónica de
Trujillo. In the 1970s, he moved to Ecuador where he taught and joined the
Sinfónica del Cons. in Loja.
Works: Symphony; Diez Estudios, ob, bsn; Pequeña Sonatina, bsn, orch
(1988); Remembranza Española, bsn, orch. Dances, huaynos, hymns, and
marches.
Sources: CW

Alvarez del Toro, Federico, Mexican composer and guitarist; b.16 Nov
1953, Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, Mexico. He studied music at the Escuela
Superior de Música of INBA, Escuela Nacional de Música of UNAM, and
Cons. Nacional de Música of INBA, all in Mexico City, Mexico, with Leo
Brouwer, Francisco Savín, Rodolfo Halffter, and Eduardo Mata. Prof. of
music history and music analysis.
Works: Sinfonía de las plantas, 4 soloists, mixed ch (1978); Cristalogénesis
(1979); Mitl (Corazón joven), nar, mixed ch (1985); El gigante, soloists, ch
(1988); Umbral, str (1989). Chamb, solo instr, voc, electroacoustic,
computer, theater, film, dance music.
Sources: DCMMC, DMEH, GP

Álvarez Fernández, Calixto César, Cuban composer, pianist, and organist;

b.15 Mar 1938, Santa Isabel de las Lajas, Cuba. He studied at the Cons. de
Santa Clara, Cuba then moved to the USA to study piano, organ, and
composition from 1958-66. He took courses at the Warsaw Cons. in Poland
where he studied with Andrzej Dobrowolski and Wlodzimierz Kotonski.
From 1967 to 1970, he studied in Poland with Andrzej Dobrowolski. In
Cuba he also studied with Federico Smith, Leo Brouwer, and José Ardévol.
Works: Sonatina; Wind qnt; Torus; Pocker; Stripofumios, chamb orch;
Varsiflorius, chamb orch; Trio; Canto Cardinal, alt, pn, perc; Tema y 6
variaciones, pn (1967); Póker, str qt (1970); Torus, cb (1969); Canon II, pn
(1969); Canon II, pn, tape (1981).
Sources: DMC

Alvarez (Ovalle), Rafael, Guatemalan composer; b.24 Oct 1858,

Comalapa, Dept. of Chimaltenango, Guatemala; d. 31 Dec 1946. He studied
theory with his father, Rosendo Alvarez, and later harmony, orchestration,
and composition with Emilio Dresner. Dir. of the Escuela de Música of
Comalapa.
Works: Guatemalan National Anthem, 1887.
Sources: DM, DMEH, MMLA

Alvarez Ríos, María, Cuban composer; b.5 Jun 1919, Tuinicú, Cuba; d.6
Dec 2010, Cuba. She began music studies very early in life, then attended
the Univ. of Havana, Cuba, and received a DM from the Univ. of Michigan,
Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
Works: Abrázame amor; Anda dí, corazón; Ya no me llamas; La rosa y el
ruiseñor; Como se duele. She wrote music on poems by Nicolás Guillén;
stage music.
Sources: DMC, DMEH

Alvarez Sanabria, Carlos, Cuban composer; b.2 May 1946, Havana,

Cuba. He studied flute, composition, and conducting at the Escuela
Nacional de Arte, Cubanacán, Cuba, with Roberto Ondina, Emigdio Mayo,
Federico Smith, and Roberto Valdés Arnau.
Works: M-267; Ser; Pueblo invisible, chamb orch; Sobre piedras;
Grabados. Despedida a un guerrillero, voice, pn. Theater, film, voc, ch
music.
Sources: DMEH, DMC

Alzamora R., Eduardo, Chilean composer; b.19th century. According to

an article in La Libertad Electoral he wrote multiple works registered in the
national library of Santiago, Chile.
Works: La azucena, mazurka, pn (1886).
Sources: DMEH
Alzola, Facundo, Uruguayan composer; b.1839, Zarauz (Guipúzcoa),
Uruguay; d.20 Feb 1911, Mercedes, Uruguay. He founded the Philharmonic
Orch. Lira in 1867. In 1882 he organized and debuted with the choral group
Orfeón Español and in 1890 he founded the Apolo Musical Society,
successor to the Lira. In 1895 he conducted Recuerdos with an orchestra of
twenty young musicians.
Works: Requiem mass, op.3 (1868); Dies Irae, 3 voc, org; Amor funeste
(1881), orch; La feria (1893), pn, orch; Brisas y huracanes, pn. Recuerdos
de España, women’s chorus, orch. (1895). Sacred, pn music.
Sources: DMEH

Amador Piñero, Efraín, Cuban guitarist, lutist, composer, and professor;

b.15 Jun 1947, Morón, Ciego de Avila, Cuba. He studied guitar with Isaac
at the Havana Municipal Cons. He earned a doctorate from the Inst.
Superior de Arte (1981) where he studied guitar with Nicola and Leo
Brouwer, and composition with José Ardévol, Roberto Valera, and José
Loyola. He pursued post-graduate guitar studies with Alirio Díaz and
Antonio Lauro and wrote method books for the Cuban lute and tres. Prof. at
the Inst. Superior de Arte.
Works: En un rincón de Viet Nam, children’s ch (1968); He recorrido
children’s ch (1969); Cuatro comentarios sobre Leo Brouwer, gtr (1970);
Suite para un cacique, gtr (1972); Un río es un niño, children’s ch (1973);
Contrapuntos cubanos y Guajira, gtr (1975); Dos estudios con el dedo
quinto y Preludio con tumbao, gtr (1976); Estudio para la mano izquierda,
gtr (1976); Para la palma una nave, voc, pn (1976); Differencias sobre tres
temas cubanos, gtr (1977); Tríptico, ch, orch (1978); Y las palabras, textos:
Alex Fleites, (1979-1980); Días de Etiopía, texto: Nelson Herrera Ysla,
(1981); Fantasía del son, Fantasía y Son de la mano diestra, gtr (1981);
Fantasía guajira, lute, gtr, pn (1983-1984); Suite campesina no.1, lute, pn
(1984-1985); Escuela del laúd campesino, lute (1983-1986); Son para un
amigo, lute (1985); Escuela del tres cubano, tres (1986); Guanabaquiste,
tres, pn (1986); Regreso a mi tres, tres (1986); Rondó campesino, tres
(1986); Sonata amanecer, (1986); De lo real maravilloso (Homenaje a José
Manuel Rodríguez), lute, pn (1986-1987); Preludio espirituano núms. I y II,
gtr (1987); Concierto, tres y orquesta sinfónica, tres, orch (1987-1988);
Concierto, lute, gtr, orch (1988-1989); Estudio en Mi menor, gtr (1988);
Concierto para amanecer, orquesta de guitarra, (1991); Primavera en
Estocolmo, tres (1991); Variaciones sobre aires sureños, tres (1992); Cuatro
preludios, lute (1995-1996); Estudio en estilo barroco, tres (1998);
Variaciones para amanecer, tres, pn (1998).
Sources: NMLA

Amat, José Zapata y, Argentine composer, conductor, performer, and

publicist of Spanish origin; b.ca.1810 Catalonia Spain; d.ca. 1875, Paris.
He studied voice in Madrid and Paris where his teachers included Vicente
Arregui Garay, Giulio Marco Bordogni, and Manuel García. He studied
conducting and composition with Oreste Carlini. He arrived in Rio de
Janeiro (1848), a former captain in the Carlist Wars. He moved to
Montevideo (1853) and Buenos Aires (1854) and began publishing La Lira
Argentina, a periodical dedicated to publishing music by both local and
European composers. He directed the Sociedad Filharmónica de Buenos
Aires (1855-56) and invited Sigismund Thalberg to perform with them.
Returned to Rio de Janeiro (1857) and founded the Opera Nacional of
Brazil. Founder and manager of the Acad. Imperial de Música in Rio de
Janeiro, which premiered with his zarzuela. In 1860, when Empressa de
Ópera Lírica Nacional replaced the Acad. Imperial, Amat directed that
ensemble (1860-62/63-64). In a failed effort to find talent to save the Ópera
Lyrica he traveled to Europe before returning to Argentina in 1866. He
helped establish the singing school at the Cons. de Buenos Aires. In 1869,
he directed the Teatro do Recife, but in Nov. that year, the theater burned
down with his music library (valued then at 80,000 francs). He then became
a private tutor of voice and in the following decade retired to Paris.
Works: Ne t’en va pas! (1847); Mélodies brésiliennes, poems by Gonçalves
Días (1851); L’autre Waterloo, opera (1851); Il gondoliero, opera (1851);
Himno a la armonía (1855); Las noches del Plate, voc, pn (1856); A estréia
de um artista, zarzuela (1857); Les nuits brésiliennes (1862); Recueil d’airs
et de romances, pn, voc (1868); Le Canard d’Amerique, operetta (1878);
Mon Credo, voc, pn (1880); Lettres d’amour, romance (1881); Recuerdos
de España, pn; Antoniquito, vov, pn; El moribundo, voc, vc.
Book: Gramática Musical, theory text (1855).
Sources: DMEH, EMA, EMB2, MLA, MMLA

Amavet, Francisco, Argentine pianist and composer; b.1840, Toulouse,

France; d.1911, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He went to Buenos Aires in 1858
then to Córdoba in 1871 where he became dir. of the provincial band in
1873 and a prof. at the provincial Inst. of Music in 1888.
Works: Transcriptions of traditional music for band, chamb, voc, pn music.
Sources: DMEH.

Amaya, Alberto, Mexican violinist and composer, b.12 Feb 1856,

Durango, Mexico; d.16 Dec 1930, México, D.F. He began music studies in
1866 then received support from the government of Durango to continue at
the National Cons. of Music (1882). In 1884 he formed a quartet with other
graduates of the National Cons. He was concertmaster in the cons. orch.
until 1886 when it dissolved, and then he became concertmaster of an opera
company in Mexico (1880-1920).
Works: Overtura sinfónica (1905); Ave maria, op.12, voice, pn; Cuarteto
no.1 (1900); Técnica para violin; Pn music.
Sources: DMEH

Amelong, Juan Enrique, Argentine composer of German origin; b.1814,

Hamburg, Germany; d.1906, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He settled in
Argentina in 1838. Teacher of Manuelita Rosas, daughter of Juan Manuel
de Rosas. He conducted choirs and promoted chamber music.
Works: Gran fantasía y variaciones, pn; El carnaval de Buenos Aires, pn.
Sources: DMEH, EMA

Amenábar Ruíz, Juan, Chilean composer; b.22 Jun 1922, Santiago de

Chile, Chile; d.3 Feb 1999, Santiago de Chile. He originally studied music
with his father, Alfredo Amenábar Ossa, a cellist, then entered the Cons.
Católico of Santiago de Chile, where he studied music theory and piano.
From 1948 to 1952, he studied composition with Jorge Urrutia Blondel at
the Cons. Nacional de Música of Santiago de Chile. He was interested in
electronic music and, in 1956, he created the Laboratorio de Sonido
Experimental of the Univ. Católica and, in 1958, he studied electronic
music with Werner Meyer Eppler at the Univ. of Bonn, Germany. Board
member and president of the Asociación Nacional de Compositores of
Chile.
Works: Los peces (1957); Klesis (Invitación) (1968); El vigía del personal
(1968); Música contínua (1969); High Key (1970); Sueño de un niño
(1970); Amacata (1972); Ludus vocalis (1972). Misa litúrgica, male ch, ens
(1964); Sol de septiembre, male ch, ens, perc (1964). Instr music.
Bibl.: R. Escobar, Instituto Chileno-Alemán de Cultura, Revista Musical
Chilena, 1970.
Sources: CTA17, DCM, DMEH, GDM, HMC

Amengual Astaburuaga, René, Chilean composer; b.2 Sep 1911, Santiago

de Chile, Chile; d.2 Aug 1954, Santiago de Chile. He studied piano with
Alberto Spikin and Rosita Renard, 1923-34, and composition with
Humberto Allende, 1929-39, at the Cons. Nacional de Música of Santiago
de Chile. He studied music aesthetics and pedagogy at the Teachers College
of Columbia Univ. of New York, NY, USA. Secretary of the Inst. de
Extensión Musical of Chile, director of the Sección de Música de Cámara at
the same Inst., and Prof. of piano and composition at the Cons. Nacional de
Música of the Univ. of Chile.
Works: Preludio, orch (1934); Sonatina, pn (1938); Introducción y allegro,
2 pn (1939); Concerto, pn, orch (1942); El vaso, voice, chamb orch (1944);
2 string quartets (1941, 1942); Sonata, vn, pn (1943); Harp Concerto
(1943). Ch, pn, voc music.
Bibl.: M. Aguilar, La Evolución Estilística en la Obra de René Amengual,
Revista Musical Chilena, 1954. V. Salas Viú, La Obra de René Amengual
del Neoclasicismo al Expresionismo, Revista Musical Chilena, 1964.
Sources: BB, DCM, DM, DMEH, HMC, MLA, MMLA

Amícola, Víctor Juan Carlos, Argentine composer; b.20 Oct 1931,

Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied violin with Eduardo Acedo and
composition with Carlos Suffern. Vice president of the Asociación de
Jóvenes Compositores de la Argentina. Consultant for SADAIC.
Works: Una luz en los espejos, opera (1989); Temperamentos, str orch
(1963); Diálogos, str orch (1964); Oda a García Lorca, nar, female ch, orch
(1965); Impromptu, orch (1968); Odas sin destino, orch (1982); Sueños
recurrentes, orch (1984); Juegos, orch (1985). Chamb, pn, voc, solo instr
music.
Sources: DMEH, ISC, VMA

Amozurrutia, José, Mexican composer; b.3 Oct 1950, Mexico City,

Mexico. He studied music with his parents, then, with Joaquín Amparán
and at the Taller de Composición of Federico Ibarra.
Works: Inversión, str qt (1982); Suite de Romelia, fl, vc, pn (1989); Suite
Miros, vn, va, vc, pn (1992). Pn, electroacoustic, computer music.
Sources: DCMMC, DMEH

Ampuero, Joaquín de, Peruvian harpist and composer; b.18th century,

Lima, Peru. In the 1750s, he applied for and then passed on the position of
second harpist at the Catedral de Lima to harpist and violinist Sebastián
Monterrey.
Works: Inviatorio de difuntos, 4 voc, vn, fl, continuo, org; Vigilia, 4 voc,
vn. Sacred music.
Sources: DMEH

Anaya Arze, Franklin, Bolivian architect, teacher, composer; b. 4 Oct

1912 Cochabamba, Bolivia; d.1998, ? He studied music at the National
Cons. of Santiago, Chile. He taught solfeggio and choral music at the
Academy of Music Man Césped (1946). He continued his studies in Paris
(1959) and founded the Eduardo Laredo National Inst. of Integral Education
and Musical Training (1961), which he directed until his death. An
important teacher of the second half of the 20th century in Bolivia.
Works: Canción de cuna, ch, pn (1940); No dudes más, voc, pn (1940);
Takypa-yanaku, ch (1955); El regalo, villancico, ch (1960); Juana Azurduy,
ch, native wind instr (1960); Amapolita, 3 voc, pn (1966); La guitarra, gtr,
pn (1973); Tres aires bolivianos, str qnt (1989).
Sources: DMEH

Anckermann, Carlos, Cuban clarinetist, violinist, and composer of

Spanish origin; b.10 Mar 1829, Palma de Mallorca, Spain; d.17 Feb 1909,
Havana, Cuba. Father of Jorge Anckermann. He settled in Cuba in 1847.
First violin at the orchestra of the Teatro Tacón and Prof. at the Cons.
Hubert de Blanck, both in Havana.
Works: Gran Misa, 4 voc, known as the Misa de los asturianos; several
zarzuelas.
Sources: DMC, DMEH, MMLA

Anckermann, Jorge, Cuban pianist, composer, and conductor; b.22 Mar

1877, Havana, Cuba; d.3 Feb 1941, Havana. Son of Carlos Anckermann,
with whom he originally studied music. Beginning in 1892, he taught music
in Mexico for several years, then in California, USA. He returned to Cuba
in 1911 and directed the Alhambra Theater (24 years) during which time he
produced more than 400 vernacular theater works.
Works: Alhambra, orch (1918); Suite cubana no.2, orch (1926); La isla de
las cotorras; El arroyo que murmura; El quitrín; Flor de Yamurí. Pn, voc,
dance, theater music, zarzuelas, reviews, comedies.
Sources: DMC2, DMEH

Andino, Julián, Puerto Rican composer and violinist; b.1842; d.13 Sept
1926, San Juan, Puerto Rico. He was concertmaster in opera company
orchestras and for zarzuelas in the Municipal Theater of San Juan and the
cathedral orch. of San Juan.
Works: Seis de Andino. Pn, voc, sacred music.
Sources: DMEH

Andrade, Ángela Tercero Elizade de, Mexican pianist, teacher and

composer; b.20 Aug 1898, México, D.F.; d.4 Mar 1990, México, D.F. She
attended the Free Cons. of Music, studied with Luis Moctezuma at his
piano academy, collaborated with the Saloma Quartet and the National
Classical Quartet. In 1928 she won first place in the chamber music
competition at the First National Congress of Music. After 1930 she was
primarily an accompanist. In 1953 she began to work with the group Paz
Villalabos in the rehabilitation of deaf-mute children.
Works: Ahí van los soldados marchando; El caballo corre; Madrecita mia
Paseando en el campo. Voc, pn music.
Sources: DMEH

Andrade Rodríguez, Ricardo Margarito, Salvadoran composer, pianist,

teacher, and composer; b. 10 Jun 1931, San Salvador, El Salvador. From a
family of musicians, he completed his musical studies at the age of 18 then
worked with the orchestra of José Sandoval. He taught in the music dept. at
Centro Nacional De Artes de El Salvador (CENAR) then from 1975-78 he
studied piano, composition, harmony, and orchestration in the Escuela
Superior De Música del CENAR. At the Univ. Autónoma de México he
studied piano and took composition classes with Humberto Hernández
Medrano (1978). He taught at Colegio Cristóbal Colón for three years and
at the Escuela de Bellas Artes de Toluca (México) for four years. After
traveling in Latin American and the USA he returned to El Salvador (1988)
to teach music.
Works: Himno al niño; Canción de la paz, vn, pn.
Sources: DMEH

André, José, Argentine composer, teacher, and music critic; b.17 Jan 1881,
Buenos Aires, Argentina; d.13 Jul 1944, Buenos Aires. He studied in
Buenos Aires with Alberto Williams and Julián Aguirre, then received an
official scholarship to study at the Schola Cantorum of Paris, France, with
Vincent D’Indy, Florent Schmidt, and Albert Roussel. Founding member of
the Sociedad Nacional de Música, renamed in 1915 Asociación Argentina
de Compositores. Music critic for the daily newspaper, La Nación, of
Buenos Aires. Prof. of composition at the Cons. Nacional de Música Carlos
López Buchardo of Buenos Aires.
Works: Santa Rosa de Lima, cantata (1930); Impresiones porteñas, orch
(1929); Quintet, str, pn (1923). Series of songs on French poems by Paul
Verlaine, Alfred de Musset, and Tristan Klingsor.
Sources: CA, DMEH, DMM, EMA, MLA, MMLA

Andrés, Alfredo, Argentine composer and pianist; b.25 Aug 1934, Buenos
Aires, Argentina. He studied at the Cons. Williams in 1941, then he entered
the Cons. Nacional de Música Carlos López Buchardo, both of Buenos
Aires, where he studied piano and graduated in 1950. He also studied piano
with Jorge de Lalewicz, harmony with Julián Bautista, counterpoint and
fugue with José Torre Bertucci, and rhythm with Athos Palma. Prof. at the
Cons. Provincial, Prov. of Buenos Aires, and at the Cons. Nacional de
Música Carlos López Buchardo.
Works: Dos canciones, on poems by Rafael Alberti (1950); Momentos
musicales, pn (1950); Coral de los ángeles, text by González Lanuza, voice,
pn (1951); Sonata, pn (1951); Movimiento sinfónico, orch (1951); El ciervo
herido, text by Leopoldo Marechal, voice, str orch (1953); Quintet, vn, va,
vc, ob, cl (1954); Dos coros populares, 4 female voc; El espantapájaros, 2
pn, tpt, trb, perc.
Sources: CA, DMEH

Andrino, José Escolástico, Guatemalan organist and composer; b.1837,

Guatemala; d.14 Jul 1862, El Salvador. He settled in El Salvador where he
spent most of his life. He studied music with his brother, Máximo Andrino.
In 1845, he established a school of music in El Salvador and, as a result, is
considered the founder of the musical art in that country.
Works: La mora generosa, opera; Lejos de la patria; Brisas guatemaltecas;
Recuerdos del hogar. Sacred, voc music.
Bibl.: V. Miguel Díaz, Las Bellas Artes en Guatemala, Guatemala, 1934. R.
González Sol, Historia del Arte de la Música en El Salvador, San Salvador,
1940.
Sources: MLA, MMLA

Angelis, Arturo de, Argentine composer and conductor of Italian origin;

b.1879, Perusa, Italy; d.1916, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied in
Bologna, Italy.
Works: Beatrice, lyric comedy.
Sources: MMLA

Angulo, Eduardo, Mexican composer and violinist; b.14 Jan 1954, Puebla,
Mexico. He studied violin at the Cons. Nacional de Música of Mexico City,
Mexico, under Vladimir Vulfman. He entered the Royal Cons. of The
Hague, Netherlands, where he studied violin and composition.
Works: Violin concerto (1979); Sonata, str (1983); Suite mexicana, plucked
str instr (1986); Arcano, orch suite (1986); Pacífico, tone poem (1989);
Harpsichord concerto (1990); Inducción, tone poem (1991); Viola concerto
(1993); Guitar concerto. Solo instr music.
Sources: DCMMC, GP

Angulo, Héctor, Cuban composer; b.3 Sep 1932, Santa Clara, Cuba. He
originally studied music in Santa Clara, and then, in Havana, Cuba. He also
entered architecture school but did not complete the degree. In 1959, he
received a scholarship to study at the Manhattan School of Music in New
York City, NY, USA. He returned to Cuba in 1964 and continued studies
with Leo Brouwer. Music consultant for the Teatro de Guiñol of Havana.
Works: Ibeyi Ana, chamb opera for puppets; Trio, fl, vn, pn; Sonata, 11
instr; String Quartet; Variations, str orch; Poema, 6 instr; Sonera, pn; Son,
pn; Sonata, pn; Dos Canciones, on poems by Nicolás Guillén; Poemas
africanos; El himno unánime (on text by José Martí and Nicolás Guillén),
cantata, sop, male ch, orch.
Sources: DMC, DMEH

Anido, María Luisa [Isabel], Argentine guitarist and composer; b.26 Jan
1907 or 1908, Morón, Prov. of Buenos Aires, Argentina; d.4 Jun 1996,
Tarragona, Spain. She studied with her father, Juan Carlos Anido, founder
of the magazine, La Guitarra, then continued with Domingo Prat, Hilarión
Leloup, a Spaniard living in Buenos Aires, and Miguel Llobet. She gave her
first concert (1918) in the Salón la Argentina, when she was 11 and had an
active career as a soloist in Latin America, Europe, the USA, and Japan.
She lived in Barcelona from 1976 until her death except for two years in
Havana, Cuba (1987-89), where she taught guitar.
Works: Pericones; Aires norteños; De mi tierra; Gato; Canciones de
Yucatán; Barcarola; Preludio; Canción de cuna; Estudio; Triste; Aire de
vidalita; Estilo; Tres preludios; Camperos; Vidala; Danza; Variaciones de
gato; Chacarera; Preludio criollo; Preludio pampeano; Canto de la
llanura; Boceto indígena; Catamarqueña; Misachico; Santiagueña;
Variaciones camperas. Gtr transcriptions of works by composers including
Bach, Debussy, Grieg, Handel, Mendelssohn, McDowell, Mozart, Purcell,
Tchaikovsky, Scharwenka, Schumann, Scriabin.
Sources: CA, DMEH, EMA

Anleu Díaz, Enrique, Guatemalan composer and violinist; b.1940,

Guatemala City, Guatemala. He studied solfeggio, harmony, counterpoint,
composition, violin, history of music, and conducting with Augusto
Ardenois, José Castañeda, Enrique Raudales, Humberto Ayestas, and José
Luis Abelar at the Cons. Nacional de Música in Guatemala City. He played
the violin at the Orq. del Cons. and the Orq. Sinfónica, both of Guatemala,
and was a founding member of the Ernest Bloch Quartet.
Works: Adagio, str (1960); Obertura para el Siglo XX (1963); Homenaje a
Debussy (1963); 3 symphonies (1967, 1968, 1970); Ciudades mayas, suite
(1967); La fundación de Guatemala (1968); Viola Concerto (1968); Dos
parábolas sinfónicas (1969); Sinfonietta (1969); Tres espacios (1970);
Concerto grosso, vn, va, vc, str (1971). Chamb, pn, voc music.
Sources: CTA18, DMEH

Antireno Consolaro, Fernando, Chilean composer; b.17 Oct 1955,

Valparaiso, Chile. He began his musical studies at an early age then in
secondary school studied piano, harmony, and counterpoint. He studied
composition at the Facultad de Artes de la Univ. de Chile (1980-86) while
working as an asst. to Juan Amenábar, composer and chairman of the Taller
De Sonido y Música Electroacústica. President of Juventudes Musicales de
Chile he composed electroacoustic music at the Facultad de Artes. He is a
member of the Asocición Nacional de Compositores.
Works: Obertura, orch (1984); El muro, ballet, electric instr (1987);
Paisajes de la Patagonia, alt, synth, pn, mixed ch (1989-90); Sonata
Despertar, vc, pn (1982).
Sources: DMEH

Antón, Susana, Argentine composer and teacher; b.19 Aug 1941 or 1947,
Guaymallén, Prov. of Mendoza, Argentina. She studied at the Escuela de
Música of the Univ. Nacional of Cuyo in Mendoza, Prov. of Mendoza, with
Miguel Francese and Elifio Rosaenz. She took classes with Jorge Fontenla
and Eduardo Tejeda and studied electronic music with Francisco Kröpfl.
Prof. at the Escuela de Música of the Univ. Nacional of San Juan, Prov. of
San Juan, Argentina, and at the Escuela de Música of the Univ. Nacional of
Cuyo.
Works: El cíclope, nar, ch, orch (1972-73); Paradigma, orch (1973);
Carnaval, orch (1976); Vanidad, mixed ch, chamb ens (1979-80). Chamb,
pn, ch music.
Sources: DMEH, ISC

Antunes, Jorge (Jorge de Freitas Antunes), Brazilian composer; b.23 Apr

1942, Rio de Janeiro, Guanabara, Brazil. He studied violin with Carlos de
Almeida, and composition and conducting at the Univ. Federal of Rio de
Janiero, Brazil, with Henrique Morelembaum, José Siqueira, and Eleazar de
Carvalho. He took composition lessons with César Peixe Guerra from 1964-
67 and 1969-70, studied electronic music at the Inst. Di Tella of Buenos
Aires, Argentina, under Alberto Ginastera, Luis de Pablo, and Gerardo
Gandini. He continued at the Inst. of Sonology (electronic music) of the
Univ. of Utrecht, Netherlands, with Gottfried Koenig, and at the Groupe de
Recherches Musicales in Paris, France, with Pierre Schaffer, François
Bayle, Guy Reibel, and Luiz Heitor. Prof. of composition and director of
the Dept. de Música Electrónica of the Univ. of Brasilia, Brazil.
Works: Sarau No.1 and No.2, orch (1962-63); Contato, chamb opera (1966-
68); Dissolução, chamb orch, perc, magnetic tape (1966); Tres eventos da
luz branca, chamb orch, magnetic tape (1967); Cromoplastofonía, tape,
moving object (1967-68); Acusmorfose, chamb orch (1968); Isomerism,
chamb orch (1970); Tartinia MCMLXX, vn (1970); Qorpo Santo (1983).
Ch, chamb, magnetic tape music; integral art (use of sounds, colors, odors,
and flavors).
Sources: CTA16, EMB2, GDM, HMB

Antúnez, Alfredo, Mexican composer and pianist; b.3 Aug 1957, Mexico
City, Mexico. He studied piano with Arceo Jácome and composition with
Francisco Nuñez at the Escuela Superior de Música of INBA.
Works: Esm, orch (1987); La sombra de la apariencia (1988); imágenes de
la luz (1988); Roja luna, 4 sop, 2 mez sop (1989). Chamb, pn, voc, ch
music.
Sources: DCMMC

Anzures Polo, Manuel, Mexican composer; b.ca.1885, Calpulalpan,

Mexico; d.8 Apr 1983, Mexico City, Mexico. He studied music with
Hermilo Camacho and Cirilio Conejo Roldán at a Mexican seminary and
violin with Julian Carrillo. He was a violinist in the Orq. Sinfónica de
México then went to Rome, where he received a doctorate in composition.
He then entered the Schola Cantorum in Paris where he studied with
Vincent d’Indy. He returned to Mexico and taught composition, organ, and
Gregorian chant.
Works: O sacrum convivium, 4 voc (1934); Ave María, 4 voc, org; Adagio,
org; Elevación, org; Comunión, org; Sortie, org.
Sources: DMEH

Aponte Ledée, Rafael, Puerto Rican composer; b.15 Oct 1938, Guayama,
Puerto Rico. He studied composition with Cristóbal Halffter at the Cons. of
Madrid, Spain (1957-64) and with Alberto Ginastera at the Centro
Latinoamericano de Altos Estudios Musicales of the Di Tella Inst. of
Buenos Aires, Argentina. Together with Francis Schwartz he founded the
Fluxus Group for the promotion of new music in San Juan, Puerto Rico
(1967) and taught composition and music theory at the Univ. of Puerto Rico
and at the Cons. de Música of Puerto Rico (1968-74).
Works: Tema y seis diferencias, pn (1963); Dialogantes 1, fl, vn (1965);
Elegía, 13 str (1965); Presagio de pájaros muertos, nar, tape (1966);
Epithasis, 3 ob, 2 trb, cb, 3 perc (1967); Dialogantes 2, 3 fl, 3 trb, 3 cl
(1968); La ventana abierta, 3 mez sop, 3 fl, cl, tpt, 2 perc, celesta, pn, vn,
vc, cb (1968); Streptomicyne, sop, fl, cl, tpt, pn (1970); SSSSSS, cb solo, 3
fl, tpt, perc (1971); Volúmenes, pn (1971); Elvira en sombras, pn, orch
(1973); Estravagario, In Memoriam Salvador Allende, orch, tape (1973);
Cuídese de los ángeles que caen, musique concréte (1974); Los huevos de
Pandora, cl, tape (1974); El palacio en sombras, orch (-vn, -vc) (1977); La
ventana abierta, orch (1986); Cantata, soloists, orch (1986); Dos cuentos
para orquesta (1986); A flor de piel, sop, mez sop, fl, cl, hn, vn, vc, cb
(1986). Chamb, pn music.
Sources: BB, CPR, CTA17, DCM, DMEH

Aragón Guerrero, Carlos Alfredo, Colombian composer; b.31 Aug 1935,

Cali, Colombia. He studied music theory at the Cons. Antonio María
Valencia of Cali, and bassoon, piano, and harmony at the Cons. Nacional of
Bogotá, Colombia. He also studied privately, harmony and counterpoint
with Santiago Velasco Llanos, musical pedagogy with Luis Carlos
Espinosa, orchestration and music analysis with Alvaro Ramírez Sierra, and
musical form and history with Andrés Pardo Tovar. Private prof. of music in
Bogotá.
Works: Tres canciones, fl; Vojago al la Astralo (Viaje al Astral), vn, str;
Omago (Homenaje), vn, vc, fl, ob, cl, perc, str; Jubilea Meso (Misa de
Jubileo), soloists, chor, str. Chamb, voc, ch, pn music.
Sources: LCRA

Araguari, [Erich Kropsch] “Nelson,” Brazilian composer of Austrian

birth; b.1903, Trieste, Austria (now Italy); d.1953. He was a member of the
Sociedade Brasileira de Autores Teatrais and published with Irmãos Vitale
in Rio de Janeiro, most commonly under the pseudonym “Nelson.” He
wrote settings of works by poets such as Manuel Antônio Álvares de
Azevedo, Casimiro José Marques de Abreu, Luís Nicolau Fagundes Varela,
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Antônio Gonçalves Dias, but
occasionally wrote his own text.
Works: Carioca, song (1945); By the Rivers of Babylon, op.24 (1949)
Pequeña sinfonia, op.80, orch (1954); Terra Grand Concerto Carioca,
orch; Terra Bemdito: Um hino ao Brasil em stilo fugado, sop or ten, orch;
Cancionero de Aragauri, song cycle; voc, pn music.
Sources: FCA, FC77

Aranaz, Antonio de, Uruguayan composer and conductor of Spanish birth;

b.1745 or 1746, Santander, Spain d.ca. 1805, Montevideo, Uruguay. He
directed music for the Teatro de la Ranchería de Buenos Aires and arrived
at this post from Cadiz by Dec. 1787. He was active in the Rio de la Plata
area in both Buenos Aires and Montevideo.
Works: Mass, voc, vn, continuo; Como no puedo echarte, bolero, voc; El
que a muchos amos sirve, tirana. Songs.
Sources: DMEH

Arancibia Bastarrica, Enrique, Chilean composer and physician; b.26

Nov 1875, Talca, Chile; d.5 Mar 1945, Santiago de Chile, Chile. He studied
music in Santiago de Chile with Arturo Hügel, cello with Michel Penha,
and composition with Domingo Brescia. He entered the Escuela de
Medicina de la Univ. de Chile while studying music. He played in the orch.
of the Acad. Musical Beethoven and in the Chuchunco String Quartet
(1913-27) with Carlos Isamitt, another physician. He was chief of
gynecology at the Hospital de El Salvador, where he periodically organized
chamber music concerts for the workers and patients.
Works: Andante para orquesta; Alienta mi corazón, voc, fl, ob, cl, bsn. Voc,
pn, chamb music.
Sources: DMEH

Aranda Pedraza, Fernando Alexis, Mexican composer; b.1974, Mexico

City. He began playing piano at 6 and studied at the Cons. Nacional de
Música and later at the Cons. of Padua in Italy. He studied composition with
Marion Lavista and piano with Magdalena León Mariscal, and Nadia
Stankovitch. In 2002, the Austrian ambassador to Mexico presented him
with the Mozart Medal for Excellence in Music. The Cons. of Padua
awarded him the Cesare Pollini Prize for Composition, and he received two
grants (1999, 2005).
Works: Thanatos (2000); Jericho, orch (2001); 1720: El Stradivarius Rojo
(2003); Piano Concerto (2004); Concerto Da Vinci, vc (2007); Punctus
Contra Punctum (2008); Concerto de fuego, vc (2009); Mnemósine, fl, pn;
Acqua; Ophiuco. Amar sin límites, television series music.
Sources: GP

Arandía Navarro, Jorge, Argentine composer and pianist; b.1 Jan 1929,
Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied piano with Clara Chaplin and Roberto
Locatelli at the Cons. Nacional de Música Carlos López Buchardo of
Buenos Aires. He later studied harmony, counterpoint, fugue, and musical
form with Alejandro Szenkar and Roberto García Morillo, and
instrumentation with Roberto Kinsky. In 1963, with a scholarship awarded
by the Inst. Di Tella of Buenos Aires, he studied with Alberto Ginastera,
Bruno Maderna, Iannis Xenakis, and Olivier Messiaen. Founding member
of the Asociación de Jóvenes Compositores of Buenos Aires.
Works: Intemperancias, sop, chamb ens (1962); Playas rítmicas No.1, pn
(1963); Combinatoria, pn, woodwind qt (1964); Forma sonora de Ondina,
sop, children’s ch, magnetic tape, orch (1964); El martes fantástico, ballet
(1964-65); String quartet No.1 (1965); Concerto, pn, orch (1965); Espacios
de tiempo, 2 pn (1965); Playas rítmicas No.2, pn (1966); String quartet
No.2 (1968); Estudios, pn (1994).
Sources: DMEH, DMM, EMA, ISC

Arango Gallo, Sixto, Colombian composer, organist, and director; b.10

Apr 1916, El Carmen de Viboral, Colombia; d. 1989 He took piano lessons
and studied under Ernesto Tirado. He directed municipal bands and his
church choir.
Works: Hymn to Carmen de Viboral; La muñeca china, zarzuela; María
Salomé, zarzuela. Gloria, requiem masses, folklore masses, motets.
Sources: DMEH

Aranzamendi, Genaro de, Puerto Rican composer and professor; b.1831,

San Juan, Puerto Rico; d.1888, Bayamón, Puerto Rico. A member of a
distinguished 19th century family in San Juan, he received his education in
Europe. Some of his works are in the Archivo General del Puerto Rico and
in the musicology section of Centro de Investigaciones Históricas de la
Facultad de Humanidades de la Univ. de Puerto Rico.
Works: Mass; Los baños de Coamo, zarzuela; Camoens, opera. Voc, sacred,
secular, theater music. Lyrics.
Sources: DMEH

Araque Reyes, Virgilio, Venezuelan composer and guitarist; 26 Nov 1953,

Caracas, Venezuela; d.17 Jan 1984, Caracas. He started his music studies in
Caracas with Nelly Mele Lara, Enrique Quevedo, Guerry Wells, and
Leopoldo Billings. He studied in England with Manolo Buenaventura and
Bryant Davidson (1971-77) then went to the USA (1977) where he studied
at the Music School of the Univ. of Berkeley, CA, the Boston
Contemporary School of Music, Boston, MA, The Juilliard School of
Music, New York, NY, and the America Inst. of Guitar, New York, NY.
Founder and director of the group Imagen, Sonido, Luz, Tiempo, y Color.
Works: Obertura; Luz del mañana; Virgilio; Sueños de montaña; Preludio
en diciembre; Simón Bolívar; Sonriéndole al mundo; Jazmín en Venezuela.
Sources: DMEH, EMV

Araújo, Damião Barbosa de, Brazilian composer, violinist, and conductor;

b.27 Sep 1778, Itaparica, Brazil; d.20 Apr 1856, Salvador, Brazil. A self-
taught musician. Member of the Real Irmandade de Santa Cecilia and of the
Academia Brasileira de Música.
Works: Intriga amorosa, opera buffa; Os dois rivais Desafiados por amor,
2 voc, orch; Memento baiano, ch, orch; 4 masses; 2 Tantum ergo.
Sources: EMB2

Araújo, Gina de (Araujo Regis d’Oliveira), Brazilian singer and

composer; b.3 Apr 1890, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; d.1960, Rio de Janeiro. She
studied voice in Paris, France, with Jules Massenet, André Gédalge, and
Jean de Reszke.
Works: Evocação, symph poem; Cega rega, orch (1943). Sacred, pn, voc
music.
Sources: IEW

Araújo, Joâo Gomes de, Brazilian composer, teacher, and conductor; b.5
Aug 1846, Pindamonhangaba, São Paulo, Brazil; d.8 Sep 1943, São Paulo.
After preliminary music studies in his native town, he went to Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil, where he studied theory with Francisco Manuel da Silva,
and violin with Demétrio Rivera at the Cons. de Música. He returned to
Pindamonhangaba in 1863 and founded a music cons. with José María
Leite.
Works: March triunfal Carlos Gómes, orch (1880); Edméia, opera (1884);
Carmosina, opera (1888); 6 symphonies (1899, 1900, 1906, 1908, 1908,
1923); Maria Petrovna, opera (1904); Helena, opera (1916); A vitória de
São Paulo (1932); Marcha a marinha brasileira (1935); Hino marcha
(1938). Masses.
Sources: EMB2

Araújo, Juan, Spanish composer who lived in different Latin American

countries; b.1646 Villafranca de los Barros, Extremadura, Spain; d.1712, La
Plata (now Sucre), Bolivia. As a youth he traveled with his father to Peru,
where he studied at the Univ. San Marcos; he also studied music with
Tomás de Torrejón y Velasco. He was appointed choirmaster at the
Cathedral of Lima, Peru. He traveled to Panama and Guatemala and went to
La Plata (1680) where he worked as choirmaster at the Cathedral. Little is
known about his compositions, but he was an important and prolific
composer of the Colonial period in Latin America. He wrote over 200
pieces, almost all of them polyphonic villancicos.
Works: 2 Magnificats; 3 Lamentaciones; Pasionario en canto fygurado;
Dixit Dominus; Ut queant laxis; Los negritos.
Bibl.: R. Stevenson, The Music of Peru, Washington, DC, 1960; R.
Stevenson, Renaissance and Baroque Musical Sources in the Americas,
Washington, DC, 1970.
Sources: DMEH, DMM, GDM

Araújo, Teófilo, Mexican composer; b.ca.1820, Salamanca, Guanajuato,

Mexico; d.after 1875. He wrote sacred music and composed Christmas
carols. Organist at the Parroquia Antigua de Salamanca. He was considered
by his peers to be the best instrumentalist of Salamanca.
Works: La trenza de suscabellos; Vals del judío; Salve, salve, Doncella
preciosa, ch; Plegaria al Señor del Hospital; Mananitas Salmantinas.
Sources: DMEH

Araújo Porto Alegre, Ignacio Francisco de, Brazilian composer; b.24 Oct
1854, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; d.16 Oct 1900, Rio de Janeiro. He studied
music in Portugal with Guilherme Joâo Daddi and Monteiro de Almeida,
and in Florence, Italy, with Teodulo Mabellini and Guido Tacchinardi. Prof.
of solfeggio and choral singing at the Inst. Nacional de Música of Brazil.
Music critic for Diário de Noticias.
Works: Fariboles, series of pieces for piano. Pn, ch music.
Sources: EMB2, MMLA

Arce Revilla, Luis Felipe, Bolivian composer and teacher; b.25 Aug 1900,
Potosí, Bolivia; d.1 Sep 1966, La Paz, Bolivia. He studied at the Escuela
Nacional de Maestros Mariscal Sucre of Chuquisaca, Bolivia, and then, at
the Cons. Nacional de Música Carlos López Buchardo of Buenos Aires,
Argentina. Director of the Dirección Nacional de Educación Musical of
Bolivia, for 30 years, the position he relinquished due to an accident that
damaged his spine. He was appointed director of the Cons. Nacional de
Música in 1962, a position kept until his death. Founder of music schools in
Tarija and Oruro, Bolivia.
Works: Canto a Eduardo Avaroa; Canto a los próceres; Canción a Murillo;
Evocación al maestro.
Sources: CB, DMEH

Arcílagos, Pedro Luis, Puerto Rican composer; b.13 Oct 1860, Bayamón,
Puerto Rico; d.25 Dec 1922, Caracas, Venezuela. He studied at the Acad. of
Sandalio Callejo in Bayamón where he learned the horn and was invited to
play in the band in Bayamón. He studied in Ponce and joined the orchestras
in that city. He emigrated to Venezuela (1885) where he played in bands and
orchestras in Caracas and directed concerts, operettas, and religious
festivals. In addition to horn he played the tuba and violin, and worked in
various municipal and theater orchestras he organized. He founded and
managed la Banda de la Escuela para Varones del Buen Consejo, with thirty
boys who took his classes in institution.
Works: Agueybaná, indian fantasy, orch; Capricho oriental, orch; El triunfo
de los bandos, orch; Fatima la sultana, orch; Duque y parients, zarzuela.
Chamb, pn, sacred music.
Sources: DMEH

Ardévol, José, Cuban composer of Spanish origin; b.13 Mar 1911,

Barcelona, Spain; d.7 Jan 1981, Havana, Cuba. He settled in Cuba in 1930.
He studied with his father, Fernando Ardévol, director of the Orq. de
Cámara of Barcelona and conducting with Hermann Scherchen. In 1930, he
settled in Havana. Dir. of the Orq. de Cámara of Havana, which he founded
in 1934. Editor in chief of the journal Musicalia. Music critic for the
newspaper Acción. Prof. at the Cons. Municipal of Havana. Music dir. of
Consejo Nacional de Cultura, until 1965. Dean of the Dept. de Música del
Inst. Superior de Arte of Havana.
Works: Concerto, 3 pn, orch (1938); 3 symphonies (1943, 1945, 1946);
Variaciones sinfónicas, vc, orch (1951); El son, vn, orch (1952); Tríptico de
Santiago, orch (1953); Música, chamb orch (1957); Música para pequeña
orquesta (1958); Cantos de la revolución (1962); Por Viet-Nam, words by
Fidel Castro (1966); Música, gtr, chamb orch (1967); Movimientos
sinfónicos Nos.1-2 (1967, 1969); Cantata Che comandante (1968); Cantata
Lenin (1970); Tríptico sinfónico de Pinar del Río; La victoria de playa
Girón, cantata. Chamb, pn, voc music.
Sources: BB, CTA1, DCM, DM, DMC, DMC2, GDM, MLA, MMLA

Areán, Juan Carlos, Mexican composer and guitarist; b.6 Jun 1961,
Mexico City, Mexico. He studied at the Mannes College of Music, New
York, NY, USA, the Inst. de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique-
Musique, Paris, France, and at the Cons. Nacional de Música of INBA.
Works: Canto de amor, vida, y esperanza para Frida Kahlo (1985);
Epicedium in memoriam Augusto Novaro, pn, str (1987); Coyoacán, small
ens (1989); La vida es sueño, 6 actors, perc, str (1991); Serenata, fl, str
(1992). Gtr, chamb music.
Sources: DCMMC, DMEH, GP

Arellano, Lino María, Venezuelan composer and teacher; b. 23 Sep 1890,

Santa Ana del Táchira, Venezuela; d. 24 Aug 1961, Venezuela. Student of
Francisco Antonio Blanco, Arturo Arciniegas, and Francisco Javier
Marciales.
Works: Ave María; Bolívar, march; Orinoco, joropo; Luisa; La cafeteria.
Waltzes, horn exercises.
Sources: DMEH

Arena, José, Argentine composer and director of Italian origin; b.1869,

Palmi, Calabria, Italy; d.1954, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He settled in
Argentina at the end of the 19th century. Director of military bands.
Works: Curu-Malal, march; Suipacha, march; General Belgrano, march.
Sources: EMA, DMEH

Arencibia, María Luisa, Venezuelan composer, teacher, and organist; b.3

Sep 1959, Caracas, Venezuela. She initially studied at the Escuela de
Música Juan Manuel Olivares with Adda Sauce. Later, she entered the
Escuela de Música of the Fundación Fusiyama of Caracas, where she
studied with José Luis Arreaza and José Peñín. Choirmaster at the church El
Valle and music teacher at the Escuela de Música Juan Manuel Olivares,
San Antonio de los Altos, Fundación José Antonio Carmen Calcaño, and
Escuela de Música José Angel Lamas, all of Caracas.
Works: Fantasía; Fín de la jornada, chamb orch; Soñé que tu me llevabas,
4 dark voc; Cultivo una rosa blanca, 3 voc; String quartet; Woodwind
quartet; Pequeña suite para metales; Sonata, fl, pn; Romanza, 4 cl. Pn, solo
instr music.
Sources: EMV

Arenzana, Manuel, Mexican choirmaster; fl.1791-1821. He was the most

prolific Master of Ceremonies of the cathedral of Puebla. His sacred music
can be found in the musical archive of the cathedral of Puebla.
Works: Réquiem, ch, orch; Officium defunctorum, ch; 4 masses, soloist, ch,
orch; Te Deum, ch. Vespers.
Sources: DMEH

Aretz de Ramón y Rivera, Isabel, Argentine composer and

ethnomusicologist; b.13 or 14 Apr 1909, Buenos Aires, Argentina; d.2 Jun
2005, San Isidro. She studied piano with Rafael González, harmony,
counterpoint, and composition with Athos Palma, and orchestration with
Heitor Villa-Lobos in Buenos Aires. She received a Ph.D. in musicology in
1967 from the Univ. Católica of Buenos Aires, then studied anthropology,
folklore, and musicology with José Imbellone, Enrique Palavecino, and
Carlos Vega at the Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales of Buenos Aires.
In 1933, she entered the Sección de Musicología of the Museo Argentino de
Ciencias Naturales, under the direction of Carlos Vega and devoted most of
her time to research Hispanic American music and its sources. She served
as an associate member of the Inst. Argentino de Musicología, 1938-50,
then became the first Prof. of ethnomusicology at the Inst. Nacional de
Danza of Argentina, 1950-52. In 1953, she settled in Caracas, Venezuela,
and was appointed research fellow in ethnomusicology and folklore at the
Inst. de Folklore Nacional of Venezuela. In 1965, she became director of the
Dept. de Folklore of the Inst. Nacional de Cultura y Bellas Artes in Caracas,
and in 1970, she was appointed director of the Inst. Inter-Americano de
Etnomusicología y Folklore.
Works: Altipampa, chamb piece (1936); Puneñas, orch (1937); Dos
acuarelas, orch (1939); Serie criolla, orch (1949); El Llamado de la tierra,
ballet (1954); Soneto de la fe en Cristo, orch (1956); Tocuyana, ballet
(1957); Ahonaya, ballet (1958); Chimiterias, orch (1959); Movimientos de
percussion, ballet (1960); Páramo, ballet (1961); Simiente, cantata (1964);
Tres en sonata (1965); Suite (1966); Yekuana, 8 voc (1972); Argentino
hasta la muerte, orch (1975); Kwaltaya, ethnodrama (1980); Constelación
spectral, orch (1982); Padre libertador, ch (1983); Gritos de una ciudad,
orch (1988); Hombre al cosmos, pn, magnetic tape. Pn, voc music.
Bibl.: Música Tradicional Argentina: Tucumán, Historia y Folklore,
Buenos Aires, 1946; El Folklore Musical Argentino, Buenos Aires, 1953;
Manual de Folklore Venezolano, Caracas, 1952; Cantos Navideños en el
Folklore Venezolano, Caracas, 1962; Instrumentos Musicales en Venezuela,
Caracas, 1967; La Artesanía en Venezuela, Caracas, 1967; El Traje en
Venezuela, Caracas, 1972; El Tamunangue, Barquisimeto, 1976; Historia de
la Etnomusicología en América Latina, Caracas, 1991; Literatura
Folklórica Tachirense, Caracas, 1996.
Sources: BB, CTA17, DM, EMA, DMEH, GDM, ISC, MLA, NGDWC

Arévalo, Luis Hilario, Mexican composer; b.1977. He studied at the Inst.

Cardenal Miranda earned a certificate from Trinity College London. He did
postgraduate study in composition at the Univ. Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona
and received grants in 2004, 2006, and 2009. A recipient of Rockefeller
Foundation support for a residency at the Bellagio Inst. in Italy in 2009 and
a UNESCO-sponsored residency at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts,
USA in 2010.
Works: Aian (2009); Caracol (2005); Itzmiquixochitl (2004-6).
Sources: GP

Arévalo, Miguel Santiago, Mexican composer and guitarist. b.5 Jul 1843,
Guadalajara, Mexico; d.29 Jun 1900, Los Angeles, CA, USA. He lived in
San Francisco, CA (1869-71) and taught guitar. He moved to Los Angeles
where he taught, performed, and composed. The Daily Evening Express
called him the best artist residing in Los Angeles in a review of a four-
concert appearance, 25-28 Jun. 1871. First president of the Phil. Society of
Los Angeles founded 14 Nov. 1871.
Works: Compositions and Arrangements for the Guitar; La súplica;
Variaciones sobre el tema del Carnaval de Venencia.
Sources: DMEH

Arévalo Guerra, José, Guatemalan pianist and composer; b.ca.1925,

Guatemala; d.1959. He graduated from the Cons. Nacional de Música,
where he taught piano. He performed in the Orq. Sinfónica Nacional. In
1955, he received a scholarship to study with Jorge Sarmientos in Paris. He
directed the Acad. of Chopin, school of private music in the Guatemala
City.
Works: Scherzino (1952); La cubana, pn; Rumba, pn.
Sources: DMEH

Argüello Montero, Antonio, Costa Rican composer, pianist, and lecturer;

b.31 Aug 1906, San José, Costa Rica; d.? He studied piano with Alvise
Castegnaro, David Sequeira, and Guillermo Aguilar Machado. Pianist of
the Orq. de Músicos Profesionales, society of which he was president in
1936, and secretary, 1940-43.
Works: Viuda desnuda, musical comedy (1942); Los refugiados, zarzuela
(1943); Mariposa trágica, ballet piece (1943).
Sources: DMEH, MMLA

Arguiz Romo, Dagoberto, Cuban guitarist, professor, and composer; b.31

Jul 1951, Havana, Cuba. He received a music degree from the Inst. Superior
de Arte de Cuba, where he specialized in guitar, in 1984. He was a guitar
prof. at the Escuela de Intructores de Arte de Cuba and Prof. of history of
the guitar at the Cons. Amadeo Roldán de La Habana (1974-91). As a
guitarist, he accompanied the national chorus of Cuba for recordings
produced by Areitó, as well as for the Inst. Cubano del Arte e Industria
Cinematográficos (ICAIC). He toured as a guitarist in Guyana, Venezuela,
France, Hungary, Spain, and Belgium.
Works: Cyrano deBergerac, incidental music; Ajíaco bufo, theater music;
Un niño va a cantar, voc, gtr.
Sources: DMEH

Arias, Casimiro, Venezuelan composer, organist, and chapelmaster; fl.mid-

19th century. Choirmaster at the parochial church of Altagracia. Some of
his works are in the Biblioteca Nacional de Venezuela.
Works: Overture to Nabucodonosor; Antífona a la Santísima Virgen, 4 voc,
2 fl, 2 tpt, str; Plegarias de las exequias de Manuel Ma. Poleo; Gradual
para la Virgen de Guadalupe, 3 voc and an unspecified instrument; 2
Misereres; Mass.
Bibl.: José Antonio Calcaño, La Ciudad y su Música, Caracas, 1985.
Sources: EMV, MMV

Arias, Luis, Argentine composer; b.16 Jul 1940, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
He studied with Alberto Ginastera, Gerardo Gandini, and Roberto Caamaño
at the Facultad de Artes y Ciencias Musicales of the Univ. Católica
Argentina, 1962-66, and also at the Centro Latinoamericano de Altos
Estudios Musicales of the Inst. Di Tella, both in Buenos Aires. Prof. at the
Cons. Provincial of Buenos Aires and at the Escuela Superior de Bellas
Artes of the Univ. Nacional of La Plata, both in the Prov. of Buenos Aires,
Argentina.
Works: Introducción y cortejo, orch (1960); Tres movimientos, chamb orch
(1962); Elegía, chamb orch (1963); Variaciones, chamb orch (1964);
Isofonias, orch (1965); Fonosintesis II, orch (1966); Polarizaciones, orch
(1972); Transiciones IV, orch (1973); Ricercare’s Blues, orch (1976);
Contactos II, orch (1980); Contactos IV, chamb orch (1981); Equisonancias
III, mixed ch (1982); Introducción y passacaglia (1986). Chamb, solo instr,
ch music.
Sources: DMEH, EMA, ISC

Arias Arias, Gerardo, Ecuadorian composer and pianist; b.17 Oct 1914,
San Juan-Riobamba; d.1984, Quito, Ecuador. The son of chapel master,
Manuel Arias, he studied bassoon and piano at the National Cons. of Quito
and graduated from the Neumane Cons. of Guayaquil (1945). He taught at
Pedro Vicente Maldonado y Juan Velasco colleges and served as dir. of
Coro Santa Cecilia de Riombamba.
Works: Virgenes del sol; Huiracocha (1935). Dances, airs.
Sources: DMEH
Arias López, Luis Felipe, Guatemalan composer and teacher; b.23 Aug
1870, Guatemala de la Asunción, Guatemala; d.24 Mar 1908, assasinated in
Guatemala City, Guatemala. He studied at the Cons. Nacional de Guatemala
with Leopoldo Cantinela. He then commenced an eight-year study of piano,
violin, and harmony at the Cons. Reale di Música San Pietro a Majella of
Naples, Italy, with the sponsorship of Ángel Muttini. Upon return to
Guatemala in 1895, he acquired fame giving virtuosic piano recitals in the
manner of Franz Liszt. He was appointed director of the Cons. Nacional of
Guatemala.
Works: Danse Mauresque, orch; Himno a Minerva, ch. Pn pieces.
Sources: DMEH, HMG, MLA

Arias Luna, Emmanuel, Mexican violinist, teacher, conductor, and

composer; b.16 May 1935, Mexico City, Mexico. He studied at the Escuela
Superior Nocturna de Música of Mexico City under Francisco Contreras,
Rafael Galindo, Herbert Froehlich, Boris Jankoff, Henryk Szeryng, Raquel
Bustos, and Jesús Zárate. Prof. of violin, harmony, counterpoint, and
composition, and later director, of the Escuela Superior de Música of INBA.
Conducted several orchestras in Mexico. Associate conductor of the Orq.
Sinfónica of Coyoacán, Mexico.
Works: Sonoralia “Antigua”; Sonoralia “Barroca”; Sonoralia
“Zacatecana”; Symphony I; México, tone poem; Tlahuizcalli; Zavielza,
suite; Tríptico; Violin concerto; Cello concerto. Chamb, voc, ch, solo instr
music.
Sources: DCMMC, DMEH, GP

Arias Quintero, Carlos Efraín, Panamanian composer; b.2 Feb 1903,

Ciudad de David, Panama, d. 4 Feb 1953, ? He studied at the Colegio La
Salle of Panama, Panama City, and graduated from the Accademia di
Música Santa Cecilia of Rome, Italy, in 1932. Prof. of music in several
schools in Panama. Prof. of piano and deputy director of a cons. in Ecuador.
Works: Religious compositions; preludes; waltzes.
Sources: DMEH, MMLA

Arismendi, Diana, Venezuelan composer and teacher; b.8 Nov 1962,

Caracas, Venezuela. She studied at the Escuela de Música Prudencio Esáa
and at the Cons. Juan José Landaeta, both in Caracas. In 1982, with a
scholarship from the Venezuelan government, she went to Paris, France,
where she studied at the Ecole Normale de Musique with Jacques Castérède
and Yoshisha Taira, graduating in composition in 1986. Prof. at the Cons.
Simón Bolívar in Caracas, 1986-1990. In 1990, she received a scholarship
from OEA to study at the Catholic Univ. of America in Washington, DC,
USA, where she obtained a MM in 1992 and a DMA in 1994.
Works: Dinago, un éxodo imaginario, orch (1988); Ficciones, orch (1990-
91); El Gato y la golondrina: Una Historia de amor, opera (1992-93);
Inerrantes, concertino for marimba (1993-94). Chamb, pn, solo instr, ch
music.
Sources: DMEH, EMV

Arizaga, José Tomás, Argentine composer of Spanish origin; fl.1829-1838,

b.Guipúzcoa, Spain; d.? He appears to have settled in Argentina in the early
19th century and may have once been employed in the court of Portugal.
Works: Grand minuet and valse (1830), dedicated to Juan Manuel de
Rosas. Songs published in the Cancionero Argentino (1838): La niña
enferma; E7 recuerdo; La última tarde; A los lechuginos enamorados;
Vidalita; A una lágrima.
Bibl: Manuel de Falla, Buenos Aires, 1961; Juan José Castro, Buenos
Aires, 1963; Enciclopedia de la Música Argentina, Buenos Aires, 1971.
Sources: DMEH, EMA

Arizaga, Rodolfo Bernardo, Argentine composer and music critic; b.11

Jul 1926, Buenos Aires, Argentina; d.12 May 1985, Buenos Aires. He
studied with Alberto Williams, José Gil, Luis Gianneo, and Teodoro Fuchs
in Buenos Aires. In Paris, France, he studied with Nadia Boulanger, Olivier
Messiaen, and Ginette Martenot. He also studied law and philosophy. Music
critic for the daily newspaper, El Clarín, and a weekly magazine, Primera
Plana, both of Buenos Aires. Founding member of Asociación de
Conciertos de Cámara, Seminario de Jóvenes Músicos Argentinos, Unión
de Compositores de la Argentina, and Consejo Argentino de Música. Prof.
at the Inst. Superior de Música of the Univ. Nacional of Rosario, Prov. of
Santa Fe, Argentina, and at the Univ. del Salvador of Buenos Aires.
Works: Jacquinot, ballet (1945); 2 chorals (1945); Pequeño vals en tono
gris (1948); Prometeo, dramatic poem (1948); Sonada de la anunciación
(1949-51); Tango (1951); El martirio de Santa Olalla, cantata (1952);
Serenata (1953); Passacaglia (1953); Scherzo de juguete (1954); Delires,
cantata (1957); Serranillas del jaque (1958); Prometeo 45, opera (1958);
Concerto, pn (1963); Tientos para Santa María (1965); Música para
Cristóbal Colón (1966); El ombligo de los limbos, la momia y una encuesta
(1969); Hymnus, str (1970); Paralaxi (1971). Chamb, ch, voc, solo instr
music, incidental music for 20 theatrical works and 5 movies.
Sources: BB, CA, CTA5, DCM, DMEH, DMM, EMA

Arizti, Fernando, Cuban composer and teacher; b.1828. Havana, Cuba:

d.23 Apr 1888, Havana, Cuba. He studied piano with Juan Federico
Edelmann, Agusín Cascantes, and Eneas Elías. He gave concerts in Cuba,
went to Paris to study with Friedrich Kalkbrenner in 1842, then spent time
in Spain. He returned to Havana in 1848 where he taught and continued to
perform.
Works: Fantasia, pn; Melodía, vn.
Sources: DMEH

Arizti Sobrino, Cecilia, Cuban composer, pianist, and teacher; b.28 Oct
1856, Havana, Cuba; d.30 Jun 1930, Havana. She studied music with her
father, Fernando Arizti, and with Francisco Fuente and Nicolás Ruíz
Escudero. Prof. at the Cons. Peyrellade de Música of Havana.
Works: Trio; Impromptu in F minor; Vals lento, romanza, nocturno, and
capricho, pn. Chamb music; pn pieces; songs.
Sources: DMC, DMEH, NGDWC

Armijo Torres, Leticia, Mexican composer; b.24 May 1961, Mexico City.
She began guitar studies at age 4. She studied music at the Autónoma de
Madrid, where she was awarded a Ph.D. in musicology. She studies
Mexican women in music. Prof. at the Escuela Nacional de Música.
Works: A tus recuerdos (1992); Coyolxauhqui, ballet (2008); El Quijote y
las mujeres (2012); Las mujeres y el Quijote (2011); Oikabeth, orch (2008);
Villancicos navideños (1997).
Sources: GP

Arnedo, Leónidas, Argentine composer; b.25 Dec 1944, Buenos Aires,

Argentina; d.25 Dec 1989, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied piano with
Orestes Castronuovo and composition with Horacio López de la Rosa
before he began composing atonal music and music with aleatoric elements.
He studied composition and instrumentation on scholarship at the Cons.
Tchaikovsky in Moscow (1969-70). He also studied folklore there and uses
elements of it in his music. He received an award for his choral
arrangements of popular Argentine music. In 1978 he became the vice
president of the Asociación de Jóvenes Compositores.
Works: Movimiento para arcos, op.2, str orch; Avanza, orch (1967); String
Quartet (1967); Triángulos, vn. Songs.
Sources: DMEH

Aromatori, Eduardo, Argentine composer of Italian origin; b.1850, Rome,

Italy; d.?, Buenos Aires He studied with Giovanni Sgambatti in Italy then
continued in Munich with Reinberger. In 1885 he began teaching piano in
Buenos Aires and the following year became the director of the chorus at
the Academia Alemana de Canto where he also composed for the choir.
Most of his works have been lost.
Works: Gavotte et musette, chamb orch (1886); Paráfrasis sobre un tema
del Otello de Verdi, pn (1887). Voc, pn music.
Sources: DMEH

Arredondo, José María, Dominican composer and organist; b.24 Oct

1840, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; d.14 Apr 1924, Santo
Domingo. From a musical family he is regarded as one of the most
important composers of religious music and wrote over 135 masses. He was
Dir. of the Military Band and chorus master at the Cathedral of Santo
Domingo in Trujillo. He wrote criticism of social injustice and North
American political intervention in the 1910s.
Works: Misa infantile, (1869); Misa Espíritu Santo, (1923); Dominican
National Anthem; El calambanche, zarzuela. Overtures; religious music;
zarzuelas; songs; marches; popular pieces.
Sources: DM, DMEH, MLA, MMLA

Arredondo Miura, Clodomiro, Dominican violinist and composer; b.13

Mar 1864, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; d.27 Jun 1935, Santo
Domingo, Dominican Republic. Son of José Maria Arredondo, his primary
teacher.
Works: Religious music; marches; waltzes; indigenous barcarollas.
Sources: DMEH, MLA
Arriagada, Jorge, Chilean composer; b.20 Aug 1943, Santiago de Chile,
Chile. In 1962 he began studies in composition, piano, and music theory at
the Cons. Nacional de Música. He continued studies at the Facultad de
Ciencias y Artes Musicales de la Univ. de Chile, with Gustavo Becerra,
Carlos Botto, and León Schidlowski. With a grant from the French
government he studied composition with Max Deutsch in Paris (1967-71)
and worked with the Groupe de Recherches Musicales de la Radio y
Telvisión Francesa under Pierre Schaeffer. In 1970, he founded the Estudio
de Músique Experimental del Centro Americano de París and directed it
until 1974. In 1972, he traveled to California to study computer music with
Leland Smith at Stanford Univ. In 1972, he also received a Guggenheim
Foundation grant for composition and represented Chile at the International
Congress of Composers, organized by UNESCO in Paris. In 1986 he
became a French citizen. He had a long-time collaboration with the
experimental Chilean filmmaker Raúl Ernesto Ruiz Pino.
Works: Quatre moments musicaux, tape (1970); Le Toit de la baleine, film
music (1981); Inio II, indigenous instr, orch (1985); 3 piezas, orch (1985); 3
Poemas de la Villa Adriana, sop, orch (1985). Instr, ch, electroacoustic
music.
Sources: DMEH

Arroyave de la Calle, Fabio, Colombian pianist and composer; b.11 Dec

1923, Yolombó, Antioquia, Colombia; d.7 Aug 1972, Bogotá, Colombia.
He studied music with his father, Pastor Emilio Arroyave, but was self-
taught in solfeggio and piano. In 1943, he entered the Inst. de Bellas Artes
of Medellín, Colombia, where he studied piano with Luisa Manighetti and
other areas of music. Pianist of the Orfeón Antioqueño. Prof. at the Liceo
de la Univ., of Antioquia. Member of the Sociedad de Autores y
Compositores of Colombia.
Works: El proel de las quimeras, orch. Pn, ch music.
Sources: DMEH, LCRA

Arto, Francisco Rodrigo, Venezuelan composer of Spanish origin; b.17

May 1938, Valtierra, Navarra, Spain. He began music studies at the Cons.
Victoria Eugenia in Granada, Spain. He settled in Venezuela in 1964, and in
1967, he became a Venezuelan citizen. In Caracas, Venezuela, he continued
to study harmony, counterpoint, and fugue with Vicente Emilio Sojo, and
later, he studied with Evencio Castellanos at the Escuela Superior de
Música José Angel Lamas. In 1972, he attended courses in orchestral and
choral conducting with Gonzalo Castellanos Yumar. In 1974, he
participated in a course in new musical techniques given by Alberto
Ginastera, in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Prof. at the Cons. José Angel
Lamas, the Academia de Música Lino Gallardo, and the Inst. Univ. de
Estudios Musicales, all in Caracas.
Works: Hoy nos ha nacido un salvador, cantata (1977); Lamentación en el
mar, cantata (1977); Tres antífonas de Santa Cecilia, sop, double chor
(1977); La epopeya de la espiga, choral-symph poem (1979); Churum-
Meru, symph poem (1981); Itinerario místico de Santa Teresa de Avila,
symph poem (1982); Doliente amada, voice, chamb orch (1983); Himno al
Santísimo Sacramento, choral-symph poem (1983); Mandolin concerto
(1984); Escorzos sonoros (1987); Eguara, symph poem (1989); Harp
concerto (1990); Cantiga de la pasión, sop, ch (1991); Isabel La Católica,
Reina de España, symph poem (1991); Clarinet concerto (1993); Piano
concerto (1993). Chamb, sacred, pn, ch, org, solo instr music.
Sources: DMEH, EMV, ISC

Asato, Pedro Seiji, Peruvian composer and teacher; b.11 Jul 1940, Lima,
Peru. He studied with Enrique Iturriaga and Edgar Valcárcal at the Cons.
Nacional de Lima, where he later taught. His early work focused on free
experiments in timbre and after 1974 on neo-Baroque polyphony that
contained folkloric elements.
Works: Quasar I, various instr (1971); Segismundo, opera (1981); Suite
Martínez de Compañón, orch (1983); Ichullamanta, cl, vn, vc (1985);
Proteo, transformaciones de un tema de Enrique Iturriaga, wind, perc
(1989)
Sources: DMEH

Aschero, Sergio, Argentine composer, theorist, and teacher; b.8 Jun 1945,
Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied at the Cons. Nacional López Buchardo
and at the Cons. de Música de Río de Janeiro. He established a wind quintet
and a chamber choir in Jujuy, in northwest Argentina. He studied
indigenous chalhuanca in Argentine communites (1966). In 1968 he moved
to Spain and wrote songs on Spanish texts, especially by Cuban poet
Nicolás Guillén, and performed many of them with Ángeles Rubial in the
duo Los Juglares. He published a book dealing with his own notation
system using shapes and colors. He returned to Buenos Aires (1975) and
established a musical education center. Consultant to the Ministry of
Education curricular reform in music education; Music dir. of the Teatro
San Martín.
Works: Trío, op.2, vn, va, vc (1960); Microtiempo, pn (1961); Concierto
para dos pianos (1966); Balada de Simón Caraballo, song; La media luna,
song.
Books: Teoría desprejuiciada de la música. Tratado de composición
Sonora, Madrid, 1977; Sistema musical Aschero: muerte y renacimiento de
la escritura musical; Sonocolores: método de flauta dulce soprano.
Sources: DMEH

Ascone, Vicente, Uruguayan composer of Italian origin; b.16 Aug 1897,

Siderno, Calabria; d.5 Mar 1979, Montevideo, Uruguay. He studied trumpet
with Aquiles Gubitosi at the Cons. La Lira, and harmony and composition
with Luis Sambucetti at the Inst. Verdi, both in Montevideo. Dir. of the
Banda Municipal and director of the Escuela Municipal de Música, both in
Montevideo. First trumpet of the orchestra of the SODRE. Prof. of harmony
and composition at the Inst. Verdi. In 1938, he settled in Caracas,
Venezuela, by invitation of the Venezuelan government, to organize and
improve music programs in elementary schools.
Works: 5 operas, including Paraná Guazú. (1931); 3 symphonies (1945,
1955, 1959); Preludio y marcha de los Brahamines (1924); Suite uruguaya
(1926); Farsa sentimental y grotesca (1927); Salmo de David, soloist,
female ch, wind instr, perc (1931); Cantos del atardecer, orch (1933);
Nocturno nativo, ballet (1934); Acentos de América, symph poem (1941);
Sobre el Río Uruguay, symph poem (1946); Politonal, pn, orch (1967);
Trumpet concerto (1969); Violin concerto (1970). Voc, pn music.
Sources: BB, BHMCU, CTA16, EMV, DCM, DM, DMEH, MLA, MMLA,
MU

Asenjo, Florencio González, Argentine composer and mathematician; b.28

Sep 1926, Buenos Aires; d.10 Jun 2013, Pittsburgh, PA. He studied
composition with Jaime Pahissa. He also studied mathematics and
completed a Ph.D. from the Univ. of La Plata, Argentina, where he would
also teach. In 1958, he moved to the USA to teach at Georgetown Univ.
Asenjo also taught at the Univ. of Southern Illinois and joined the Univ. of
Pittsburgh mathematics faculty in 1963. He distinguished himself as a
mathematical theorist and an orchestral composer. When he retired in 2001,
he devoted himself to composing full time.
Works: Cavalcade of Cubes, orch; Angels Dancing on a Pin, orch; Sinfonía
para instrumentos de cuerda, str orch; Danza de los secretaries, orch;
Concierto para instrumentos de viento, orch; Instrumental dialogues, orch;
Crystallizations: A symphony in the nascent state, orch; Passion and
Apotheosis, orch; The Batrachomyomachia, orch.
Sources: FCA

Astor Salazar, Miguel Eduardo, Venezuelan composer; b.18 Oct 1958,

Caracas, Venezuela. He started private music studies with Miguel González,
196875, then entered the Univ. Simón Bolívar in 1975, where he joined the
Grupo Instrumental Simón Bolívar under the direction of Alfredo Rugeles.
In 1975, he studied music theory and solfeggio with Alvaro Fernaud and
Ada E. Sauce at the Escuela de Música Juan Manuel Olivares, and
harmony, counterpoint, and fugue with Violeta Lárez and Modesta Bor at
the Escuela de Música José Lorenzo Llamozas, and later, he continued his
studies with Yannis Ioannidis, Federico Ruíz, Primo Casale, Héctor Tosar,
and Beatriz Locart at the Univ. Simón Bolívar, and finally, in 1987, with
Antonio Mastrogiovanni at the Cons. Nacional de Música Juan José
Landaeta, all in Caracas. Prof. at the Cons. Nacional de Música Juan José
Landaeta, Escuela de Música Pedro Nolasco Colón, Inst. Univ. de Estudios
Musicales, and Escuela de Artes of the Univ. Central.
Works: Cántico espiritual, sop, tnr, mixed ch, nar, org, 2 tpt, 2 trb, tb, timp
(1986); Sinfonietta de Navidad, bar, mixed ch, chamb orch (1989); Navidad
venezolana, soloists, ch, orch (1994). Ch, chamb, pn music.
Sources: DMEH, EMV

Astuni, Silvia, Argentine composer; b.2 Aug 1959, Rosario, Prov. of Santa
Fe, Argentina. She studied composition with Dante Grela at the Escuela de
Música of the Facultad de Humanidades y Artes of the Univ. Nacional of
Rosario and took some courses with Mariano Etkin, Carmelo Saitta, and
Alcides Lanza. Founding member of the Asociación Santafesina de
Compositores and member of the Agrupación de Música Contemporánea
Klank of Rosario. Teacher at the Escuela Municipal de Música Juan
Bautista Massa, the Escuela de Música of the Univ. Nacional, and the
Escuela Nacional de Música, all of Rosario.
Works: Tres piezas, 2 perc (1982); Diáfana latencia, orch (1987); Tinku,
mixed ch (1989). Chamb, solo instr, pn music.
Sources: CAMR, DMEH

Asturias, Rodrigo, Guatemalan composer, musicologist, and conductor;

b.26 Apr 1940, Guatemala. He studied music at the Univ. of Lausanne
(1959-60). He also studied musical theory with Olivier Messiaen (1964),
harmony and counterpont with Simone Ple-Caussade (1960-64),
composition with René Leibowitz (1963-65), and conducting with I.
Markevitch (1966) and Bruno Maderna (1968). He made his debut as a
cond. in Guatemala City (1966). He was the first composer awarded the
Concurso Karleinz Stockhausen de Composición prize (1980). Founded Los
Grandes Conciertos de Guatemala (1982). He investigated Manuel Martinez
Sobral (1879-1946), Ricardo Castillo, and Manuel Herrarte.
Works: Cello Concerto (1971-75); Livre pour orchestra, orch (1979-90); 4
symph (1981, 1984, 1986, 1990). Ch, voc, chamb music. Published with
Edition Peters.
Sources: DMEH

Asuar, José Vicente, Chilean composer; b.20 Jul 1933, Santiago de Chile,
Chile. He studied composition with Jorge Urrutia Blondel at the Cons.
Nacional de Música of Santiago de Chile, and in Germany, with Boris
Blacher at the Hochschule für Musik of Berlin, and with Jacques
Wildberger at the Karlsruhe Hochschule für Musik. He also studied
engineering in Chile and in Germany. He taught acoustics and
contemporary music at the Cons. Nacional de Música of Santiago de Chile
(1963-65) and directed a studio for electronic music in Caracas, Venezuela
(1965-68). From 1968 to 1972, he taught a course in sound technology at
the Univ. of Chile.
Works: Estudio aleatorio, electronic tape (1962); Heterophonías, orch
(1965); Octet, 4 fl, 4 perc (1966); Guararia repano, indigenous indian instr
(1968); Formas I-II, computer, orch (1971, 1972).
Sources: BB, DCM, DMEH, GDM, HMC
Atehortúa, Blas Emilio, Colombian composer, conductor, and teacher; b.3
Oct 1933, Medellín, Colombia. He studied at the Cons. of the Univ.
Nacional of Colombia in Bogotá, Colombia, with Olav Roots, Andrés Pardo
Tovar, Fabio González Zuleta, and José Rozo Contreras. Later, he studied at
the Inst. Torcuato Di Tella of Buenos Aires, Argentina, with Alberto
Ginastera, Iannis Xenakis, and Luigi Nono. Prof. at the Univ. Pedagógica y
Tecnológica of Tunja and director of the Cons. de Música of Bogotá, both
in Colombia.
Works: Concertante, timpani, chamb orch (1968); Estudios sinfónicos, orch
(1968); Concerto, str orch (1970); Divertimento, str orch (1970);
Diagramas, orch (1971); Partita 72, str (1972); Dos pastiches a la manera
de Vivaldi y Haydn, str (1974); Sh’ma deuteronomio 6-4, orch (1976);
Soggetto da Vivaldi, orch (1977); Suite colombiana, orch (1977);
Symphony, pn, orch (1989); Seis piezas infantiles, 4 groups of vn (1989);
Divertimento concertante, mandolin, double orch, perc (1989); Sinfonía
para Ana Frank, soloists, children’s ch, mixed ch, orch. (1990). Ch, chamb,
pn, electronic music.
Sources: CA19, DMEH, GDM, EMV

Atienza y Pineda, Francisco de, Mexican composer probably of Spanish

origin; b.ca.1657, Spain; d.Mar 1726, Puebla, Mexico. He was ordained
priest. In 1703, he left Mexico City and settled in Puebla where he was
appointed choirmaster, a position he held until his death in 1726.
Works: Masses; motets; vesper psalms; hymns; villancicos.
Bibl.: R. Stevenson, Mexico City Cathedral Music: 1600-1750, The
Americas, 1964. A.R. Catalyne, Music of the 16th through the 18th
Centuries in the Cathedral of Puebla, Yearbook, Inter-American Inst. for
Musical Research, 1966.
Sources: DMEH, GDM

Atilano, María Eugenia, Venezuelan composer, pianist, and teacher; b.21

Dec 1958, Caracas, Venezuela. She started her music studies in 1970 at the
Cons. Nacional de Música Juan José Landaeta and at the Escuela Popular
de Música José Reyna, both in Caracas. In 1978, she went to Boston, MA,
USA, where she studied at the Berklee College of Music. She returned to
Venezuela in 1982, and studied piano with José García Guinot. Prof. of
Music at the Escuela de Música Musiyama and Escuela de Música
Cepromusic, both in Caracas. In 1987, together with her husband, the
guitarist Gonzalo Micó, she founded the Escuela de Música Ars Nova.
Works: El lila de sus mañanas, 2 fl, 2 vn, pn (1980); Poema sinfónico, orch
(1980); Fuga a cuatro voces, 2 tpt, 2 trb (1981); Momentos perdidos, jazz
qt, pn, drums, gtr (1981); Vuelo de Coro-Coras, jazz qt, pn, drums, gtr
(1981); Sonata, pn (1981).
Bibl.: Pedro Sanoja Vargas, Ars Nova o la Música Caliente, Caracas, 1990.
Sources: EMV

Aure, Fernando, Argentine composer and pianist; b.17 Feb 1964, Buenos
Aires, Argentina. He graduated from the Facultad de Artes y Ciencias
Musicales of the Univ. Católica Argentina in 1989, and studied with
Roberto Caamaño and Marta Lambertini. He was an asst. scholar in the
composition workshop of Camping Musical de Bariloche run by Gandini,
Lambertini, and Mariano Etkin (1989), assisting the following two years as
an invited composer. He received an award from the Fundación San Telmo
for his string quartet (1991) and by the Estímulo de Bellas Artes for his
quartet. His chamber opera received the Premio del Centro de
Experimentación en Ópera and Ballet del Teatro Colón (1993). Since 1993
he has been a teacher at the Escuela Municipal de Bellas Artes de Quilmes,
located close to Buenos Aires.
Works: Sinfonía de Lucy, str qt (1991); Nuevos recuerdos, qt; Más allá de
las ciudades, chamb opera (1993).
Sources: DMEH

Auza Ledé (León), Atiliano, Bolivian composer and violinist; b.5 Oct
1928, Sucre, Bolivia. He studied at the Escuela Normal of Sucre and
graduated as a music teacher in 1950. In La Paz, Bolivia, he studied violin
with Maldonado and counterpoint with Eisner, and later in Sucre he studied
piano with Thorrez and composition with Hochman. In Buenos Aires,
Argentina, he studied with Alberto Ginastera, Roger Sessions, Maurice Le
Roux, and Mario Davidovsky at the Inst. Torcuato Di Tella.
Works: Trío breve (1964); Madrigal y cueca, choral (1965); Anfiblástula;
Cinco epigramas griegos; Tránsito; Preludio, invención, passacaglia y
postludio, on a 12-note series of Dallapiccola.
Books: Dinámica Musical en Bolivia, La Paz, 1967.
Sources: DMEH, GDM
Auzzani, Ángel [Angiolo], Argentine composer teacher, and
instrumentalist of Italian birth; b.ca.1840, Florence, Italy; d.15 Jun 1894,
Córdoba, Argentina. He immigrated to Argentina in 1871 and lived in
Córdoba where he taught, composed, performed, and wrote books about
musical topics. He was the organist at the convent of Santo Domingo.
Works: Sanctus, voc, orch; La independencia argentina, band (1873);
Himno a la Patria, voc, pn (1883). Sacred, pn music.
Sources: DMEH

Avilés, Danilo, Cuban composer and clarinetist; b.5 May 1948, Holguín,
Cuba. He began to study composition with Argeliers León, and later,
entered the Escuela Superior de Arte of Havana, Cuba, where he studied
with José Ardévol and José Loyola.
Works: Mujer nueva and Tres poemas mínimos, voice, pn; Dibujos and
Variaciones, str qt; Esa sangre en las calles de Santiago, sop, orch; Siento
un bombo mamita, orch. Music for children; songs; incidental music.
Sources: DMC, DMEH

Awad, Emil, Mexican composer; b.1963, Mexico. He graduated from The

Juilliard School, the Manhattan School of Music and earned a doctorate
from Harvard. He studied with Milton Babbitt, Donald Martino, and David
Lewin. Taught theory and composition at the Univ. Veracruzana where he
directed graduate studies.
Works: Cuatro danzas, cl; Cuatro Elementos, 4 gtr; Macondito, ob, fl, bsn;
Paisaje, sop, fl, cl, vc, pn; Piedras Sueltas, fl, cl, sop, vc, pn; Danzas para
coro ingles y orquesta de cuerdas (2007); Paskát, orch (1999); Zazil, orch
(1995).
Sources: GP

Axenfeld, Salvador, Argentine composer and teacher; b.30 Nov 1913,

Buenos Aires, Argentina; d.24 Feb 1986, Buenos Aires. He studied under
Leopoldina Julia Roller, and later, with Miguel Mastroggiani and Athos
Palma at the Cons. Nacional de Música Carlos López Buchardo of Buenos
Aires. Artistic Dir. of the Teatro Argentino de la Plata (1953); General
Secretary of the Orq. Sinfonica Nacional (1960-71); Music Advisor at the
Biblioteca Blas Parera (SADAIC); Prof. at the Cons. de Música y Arte
Escénico.
Works: Suite, pn. Voc, pn music, studies.
Sources: DM, DMEH, EMA

Ayala Pérez, Daniel, Mexican violinist, composer, and conductor; b.21 Jul
1906, Abala, State of Yucatán, Mexico; d.20 Jun 1975, Veracruz, Mexico.
He studied at the Escuela de Música of Mérida, Mexico. Later, he studied
violin with Silvestre Revueltas and Ezequiel Sierra and composition with
Manuel Ponce, Candelario Huízar, and Julián Carrillo at the Cons. Nacional
de Música of Mexico City, Mexico. Violinist with the Orq. Sinfónica of
Mexico (1931) and Prof. of music at the Dept. de Bellas Artes, both in
Mexico City. In 1934, he formed the Grupo de los Cuatro together with José
Moncayo García, Salvador Contreras Sánchez, and Blas Galindo Dimas.
Director of the Banda Musical of the State of Yucatán and the Banda de
Policía of Mérida in 1940. Dir. of the Cons. de Música of the State of
Yucatán. In 1942, he founded the Orq. Sinfónica of Yucatán. Dir. of the Inst.
Veracruzano de Bellas Artes, Veracruz.
Works: Uchben x’ coholte, sop, chamb orch (1931); U kayil chaac, sop,
chamb orch, indigenous perc (1934); Tribu, symph poem (1935); Paisaje,
symph poem (1935); Panoramas de México, symph poem (1936); El
hombre maya, ballet (1940); La gruta diabólica, ballet (1940); Mi viaje a
Norteamérica, symph poem (1947); Piano concertino (1974). Chamb, voc
music.
Sources: BB, DCM, DCMMC, DM, DMEH, GDM, GP, MLA, MMLA

Ayestas, J. Humberto, Guatemalan composer and violist; b.11 Apr 1920,

Guatemala; d.11 Nov 2007, Guatemala City, Guatemala. He studied viola
and conducting at the Cons. Nacional de Guatemala with Gastón Pellegrini
and Franz Ippisch. He taught viola at the cons. and played principal viola in
the National Symph. Orch. of Guatemala. He was a member of the Orq.
Sinfónica Nacional, the Guatemalan Quartet, and the Jesús Castillo Quartet.
He moved to Nova Scotia, Canada (1956) where he joined the Halifax
Symph. and was Principal Violist and Asst. Conductor. He was a member of
the Baltimore Symph. Orch (1960-63) then returned to Guatemala where he
spent four years as Asst. Conductor of the National Symph. Orch. He
returned to the Baltimore Symph. Orch (1967-78). He did research on the
Guatemalan composer, José Eulalio Samayoa, performed and taught
throughout the Baltimore-Washington area, and was an artist who used
water colors and calligraphy.
Works: Quintento, winds; String Quartet; Partita, str orch; Suite, orch;
Homenaje a un amigo, orch. Va, pn, gtr, voc, ch music.
Sources: DMEH

Azpurúa, Manuel F., Venezuelan composer, cellist, and pianist; b.1850,

Caracas, Venezuela; d.May 1892. He studied cello with Bernardino
Montero and piano with his sister, Concepción Azpurúa de Ponce de León.
He completed his music studies in New York, NY, USA, where he resided
for a few months. Director of music at the Colegio Vargas of Curaçao. He
returned to Caracas and devoted his time to teaching piano and performing.
Member of the Academia de Música of the Inst. Nacional de Bellas Artes in
Caracas.
Works: Trio, pn, vn, vc. Sacred, voc, vn, pn music.
Bibl.: Ramón de la Plaza, Ensayos sobre el Arte en Venezuela, Caracas,
1883; José Antonio Calcaño, La Ciudad y su Música, Caracas, 1985.
Sources: DMEH, EMV, MMLA

Azurica, Ignácio, Argenine composer and organist; b.1758 Yapeyú,

Argentina; d.1793, Buenos Aires, Argentina. A Guaraní chief, he received
elementary instruction from the Jesuits. In 1770, he was sent to study in
Buenos Aires after the leaders of the mission died in an epidemic. In 1787
he became director of music at the cathedral and seminary of Buenos Aires.
Between 1790 and 1793 he served as chapelmaster in the convent of La
Merced.
Works: Misa a San Pedro Nolasco (1790). Motets, vespers, religious works.
Sources: DMEH
 B
Baca, Mariano, Ecuadorian organist and composer; b.end of 18th century,
Quito, Ecuador; d.1872, Quito, Ecuador. Franciscan lay brother, he
graduated from the school of music founded in 1810 by Antonio Altuna. He
became the director of music at the church of San Francisco of Quito and
taught music at the convent there and composed sacred music.
Works: works lost.
Sources: DMEH

Baca Elorriaga, Luis, Mexican composer; b.15 Dec 1826, Durango, State
of Durango, Mexico; d.1855, Mexico City, Mexico. He studied in Durango
with Vicente Guardado, and in Mexico City with José Antonio Gómez. He
went to France (1844) and entered the Cons. de Musique of Paris (1846)
where he studied harmony, counterpoint, composition, and orchestration
with Edmundo Jouvin.
Works: Leonor, opera; Juana de Castilla, opera; Ave Maria, voc, org.
Bibl.: F. Sosa, Biografías de Mexicanos Distinguidos, México, 1884. A.
Leduc and L. Lara y Pardo, Diccionario de Geografía, Historia, y
Biografías Mexicanas, Paris-México, 1910. J.C. Romero, Luis Baca,
Estudio Bibliográfico, Revista Musical Mexicana, 1944.
Sources: DMEH, GMM, MMLA

Baca Lobera, Ignacio, Mexican composer; b.28 Jun 1957, Mexico City,
Mexico. Initially self-taught he studied music at the Escuela Nacional de
Música of the UNAM in Mexico City. Later, he studied composition with
Julio Estrada, Juan Antonio Rosado, Joji Yuasa, Jean Charles François, and
Brian Ferneyhoug. He received a MM and a DMA in composition from the
Univ. of California, San Diego, CA, USA, 1985-91. Prof. at the Univ.
Autónoma of Querétaro, Mexico, and composer-in-residence of the Orq.
Filarmónica of Querétaro.
Works: Mapamundi (1993); Tierra incógnita (1995). Chamb, voc,
electroacoustic, computer music.
Sources: DCMMC, GP

Baena Solís, Federico, Mexican composer and performer; b.2 Mar 1917,
Mexico City, Mexico; d.18 Jun 1996. He studied violin with José
Rocabruna and Rodolfo Halffter, and played viola and piano. In 1962 he
participated in the first Gran Festival Mexicano de la Canción, which was
organized by the Sociedad de Autores y Compositores of México and won
first prize.
Works: Viola Concerto. Voc, vn music.
Sources: DMEH

Báez de Silva, Blanca, Cuban pianist and composer; b.30 Apr 1920,
Havana, Cuba. She moved to Tenerife with her family as a child. She
studied piano with Maruja Ara Recuero, harmony, counterpoint, fugue, and
composition with Santiago Sabina Corona, who was founder and director of
the chamber orchestra of Santa Cruz. She performed as a pianist.
Works: Lejanía, orch; Fuga en Sol menor, str qt; Minuetto, 2 vn (1945).
Voc music, texts of Federico Galtier. Pn, instr music.
Sources: DMEH

Baeza Saavedra, Juan de, Mexican composer, 17th century. Few

documents exist on this composer, and he is only known because of his
works that reside in the collection of Jesús Sánchez dated between 1662 and
1671. Most of his works were written for the celebration of matins for
Christmas Eve in the convent of Saint Trinidad of Puebla.
Works: Pastores velen se abraça. Religious music.
Sources: DMEH

Bal y Gay, Jesús, Mexican composer and pianist of Spanish origin; b.23
Jun 1905, Lugo, Spain; d.3 Mar 1993, Madrid, Spain. He studied piano at
the Cons. Real de Música in Madrid. He lived in Madrid until 1935, in
Cambridge, England, 1935-38, in Mexico City, Mexico, 1938-57, when he
returned to Madrid.
Works: Hojas de album, pn (1946-48); Cuatro piezas, voc, pn (1946);
Divertimento, fl, ob, cl, bsn (1946); Sonata, cl, pn (1947); Serenata, str orch
(1947); Concierto barroco (1951); Leñador, no tales el pino, ch; Concerto
grosso, symph orch (1965).
Sources: DMEH, GP, ISC
Bal y Gay, Rosa de, Mexican composer and pianist of Spanish origin; b.8
Apr 1902, Madrid, Spain, d.2 May 2002. Wife of Jesus Bal y Gay, maiden
name Ascot. She studied with her mother, Mrs. García Obispo, then she
took lessons from Felipe Pedrell and Enrique Granados, 1914-16, Manuel
de Falla, 1916-35, and Nadia Boulanger, 1938. The only woman member of
the Grupo de los Ocho (Group of the Eight) in Madrid. She lived in Madrid
until 1935, in Cambridge, England, 1935-38, in Mexico City, Mexico,
1939-65, when she returned to Madrid.
Works: Suite, orch; Piano Concerto; Preludio, pn (1947). Chamb, pn
music.
Sources: ISC

Baldeón, Agustín, Ecuadorian composer and violinist; b. 1815, Quito,

Ecuador; d.1847, Quito. He studied violin with Alejandro Séjers. Dir. of the
Sociedad Musical of Quito.
Works: 4 overtures; Violin Concerto. Motets; litanies.
Bibl.: Francisco Salgado, Un Compositor Nacional: Agustín Baldeón,
Quito, 1916; Mario Godoy Aguirre, Florilegio de la Música Ecuatoriana,
Guayaquil, Ecuador, 1989.
Sources: DMEH, MG

Ballivian, Adolfo, Bolivian statesman, writer, and composer; b.1831, La

Paz, Bolivia; d.14 Feb 1874, Sucre, Bolivia. Very little is known about his
musical background. He became President of Bolivia in 1873.
Works: Atahualpa, opera; Sueño de rosas, waltz.
Sources: CB

Ballón Farfán, Benigno, Peruvian composer and compiler; b.13 Feb 1892,
Arequipa, Peru; d.12 Jul 1957 Arequipa, Peru. His father started him
playing guitar. He was largely self-taught and wrote many popular and
classical works. He arranged and transcribed songs from oral tradition.
Works: Ave Maria; Requiem Mass. Voc music.
Sources: DMEH

Balzanelli, Alberto, Argentine composer and conductor; b.7 Jun 1941,

Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied piano with Alfredo Pinto, harmony,
counterpoint, and composition with Jacobo Ficher, choral conducting with
Robert Shaw and Pedro Valenti Costa, and orchestral conducting with
Enrique Sivieri. He also took courses in renaissance and baroque music
with Sergio Siminovich in Rome, Italy, and composition with Alberto
Ginastera in Geneva, Switzerland. Prof. of choral music and vocal ensemble
at the Inst. Superior de Arte of the Teatro Colón of Buenos Aires. Prof. of
choral conducting at the Facultad de Artes y Ciencias Musicales of the
Argentine Catholic Univ. of Buenos Aires. Dir. of the Inst. Superior de Arte
of the Teatro Colón.
Works: El mago de los sueños, opera (1972); El patito feo, ballet (1972);
Credo, ch, orch (1980); Soneto a Jesús crucificado, ch, orch (1982); Que
pena me da mirarte, ch, orch (1991). Pn, voc, ch music.
Sources: DMEH, ISC

Bandoni, Alfredo, Argentine composer; b.1946, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

He studied with Virtú Maragno and Roberto García Morillo in Buenos
Aires. Member of the Asociación Argentina de Compositores.
Works: El dragoncillo, comic opera; El gran dragón, comic opera; El
jardín de las delicias, orch; Concerto grosso, str orch; Sinfonía
madrigalesca, ch, orch; Bing, ch, perc; Misa, ch, 5 instr; Magnificat,
soloists, ch, orch; Laudate Domine, soloists, ch, orch; Sinfonía malabar,
orch. Chamb, voc, ch music.
Sources: DMEH, VMA

Bañón, Manuel Olmedo, Peruvian composer and instrumentalist; b.1785,

Lima, Peru; d.1863, Lima, Peru. A virtuoso flutist and guitarist, he taught
poor children in the convent of Saint Augustin where he was also the choral
director.
Works: Nuevo Himno Patriótico (1828); La Americana, orch (1831);
Fantasía, gtr, orch (1831); Canción nacional nueva, 4 voc (1831); Obertura
dedicada a Rossini (1832); El ataque de Uchumayo, military march (1835);
Nueva canción de la chicha (1836); Nuevas variaciones para flauta y
orquesta (1841). Voc, band, ch, instr music.
Sources: DMEH

Bañuelas, Roberto, Mexican baritone and composer; b.20 Jan 1931,

Camargo, Chihuahua, Mexico. He studied voice, piano, composition,
languages, and acting at the Cons. Nacional de Música of INBA of Mexico
City, Mexico. Member of the group Nueva Música, where he presented
some of his compositions. Prof. at the Escuela Nacional de Música of the
UNAM of Mexico City.
Works: Agamenón, opera (1967); Avenida Juárez, orch (1959); Tres piezas
sinfónicas (1967); Muerte sin fin, orch (1995); La muerte de Agamenón,
opera (2007); El regreso de Orestes, opera (2008); El juicio, opera (2009).
Pn, voc music.
Sources: DCMMC, DMEH, GP

Baptista, Raphael (Batista, Rafael, EMB2), Brazilian composer,

conductor, pianist, musicologist, and teacher; b.17 Nov 1909, Petrópolis,
State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; d.2 Jun 1984, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He
studied piano, composition, and conducting at the Escola de Música of the
Univ. Federal of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1937-38, with Francisco Braga and
Paulo Silva. At the same time he took courses of piano with Rossini Freitas
and conducting with Francisco Mignone. He also took conducting lessons
from Eugen Szenkar in Brazil, and composition lessons with Jean Rivier in
Paris, France. Prof. at the Escola de Música of the Univ. Federal of Rio de
Janeiro, since 1945. Member of the Academias Brasileira and Nacional de
Música. Founder of the orchestra of the Club Univ. of Rio de Janeiro in
1934, the orch. of Suplemento Juvenil do Jornal A Noite in 1942, and the
Orq. Univ. in 1946.
Works: A Conquista do Sertéo, symph poem; Terenzhina, ballet; Lincoln;
Dansa da india enamorada; Papai Noel, orch, ch; Valsa; Instantáneos
folclóricos Nos 1 y 2, wind qnt. Voc music.
Sources: EMB2, ISC

Baqueiro Foster, Gerónimo, Mexican composer and musicologist; b.7 Jan

1898, Hopelchén, Mexico; d.29 May 1967, Mexico City, Mexico. He
studied composition with Julián Carrillo at the Cons. Nacional de Música of
Mexico, in Mexico City. Founder of the Unión Mexicana de Cronistas de
Teatro y Música in 1938, and of the Revista Musical Mexicana in 1942.
Prof. of solfeggio, music history, and acoustics at the Cons. Nacional de
Música of Mexico. He wrote on Mexican folk music and music history
Works: Huapangos, orch suite. Dances; voc music.
Sources: DM, DMEH, GDM, MLA
Baranda Reyes, Santiago, Uruguayan composer, teacher, and pianist; b.5
May 1910, Salto, Uruguay; d.17 May 1982, Montevideo, Uruguay. He
studied piano with Angelita Riffaud and Romualdo Moro, and solfeggio,
harmony, and composition with Francisco de Peñalosa, Manuel Fernández
Espiro, Guido Santórsola, Enrique Casal Chapí, and Carlos Estrada in
Montevideo. Founder of the Cons. de Música Johann Sebastian Bach in
Montevideo. Prof. at the Cons. Nacional de Música in Montevideo, and
director and prof. of the Cons. Oficial Departamental of the city of San
José, Uruguay.
Works: La sombra de un crimen, incidental music for a film (1952-53).
Chamb, pn, voc music.
Sources: BHMCU, DM, DMEH, MU

Baratta, María Mendoza de, Salvadoran composer; b.27 Feb 1894, San
Salvador, El Salvador; d.4 Jun 1978. She studied piano with her mother and
solfeggio with Agustín Solórzano. Later, she studied with María
Zimmermann and Antonio Gianoli at the Cons. Nacional de Música in San
Salvador, and with Agustín Roig and Vicente de Arrillaga. Founder of the
Asociación de Amigos del Arte. President of the Comisión de Investigación
de Folklore Nacional y Arte Nativo of the Ministerio de Educación Pública.
Works: Nahualismo, ballet; Ofrenda de la elegida, pn (also orch); Danza
del incienso, pn (also orch); La campana llora, song; Los tecomatillos,
song; Cancalaguitunal, song.
Sources: DM, MLA, MMLA

Barbacci, Rodolfo, Peruvian composer, pianist, and musicologist of

Argentine origin; b.28 Feb 1911, Buenos Aires, Argentina; d.? He studied
piano and harmony with Antonio Toro Chacón and Cayetano Troiani. In
Milan, Italy, he studied piano and composition with Héctor Pozzoli,
Moscarola, and Ferrari, and violoncello with Berti, then in Argentina, he
studied harp with Augusto Sebastiani. Founder of the journals América
Musical, Clave, Revista Musical Argentina, in Argentina, and Revista
Musical Peruana in Peru. He settled in Peru in 1937. Prof. of harp at the
Academia Nacional de Música Alcedo in Lima, Peru. First harpist at the
Orq. Sinfónica Nacional of Lima.
Works: Fugues; sonatas; fantasias; variations; suites. Harp, pn, voc, chamb
music.
Bibl.: La Nerviosidad de los Músicos, 1939; Educación de la Memoria
Musical, 1940; Anécdotas Musicales, 1942.
Sources: DM, DMEH, MLA

Barbosa, Cacilda Campos Borges, Brazilian pianist, choral conductor, and

composer; b.18 May 1914, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; d.6 Aug 2010, ? She
studied piano with Paulino Cháves, music theory with Lima Coutinho,
harmony with Oscar Lorenzo Fernández, counterpoint and fugue with Paulo
Silva, composition with Francisco Braga, and conducting with Francisco
Mignone at the Inst. Nacional de Música of Rio de Janeiro. She also studied
voice with María Figueró Bezerra and Vera Janacópulos. Dir. of the Inst.
Villa-Lobos of Rio de Janeiro. Chief of musical education at the Dept. de
Educaçâo of the State of Guanabara, Brazil.
Works: Uirapiranga, orch (1955); Chibraseando, orch (1973). Chamb, voc,
sacred music.
Sources: EMB2, IEW, NGDWC

Barbosa, Sérgio de Sousa, Brazilian composer, pianist, percussionist, and

teacher; b.18 Apr 1966, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He studied at the Escola de
Música Villa-Lobos. He received a scholarship (1989) to study composition
and orchestration at the Cons. of Kiev, Ukraine, with Lev Kolodub. He
went back to Brazil (1996) where he teaches in various music organizations.
Works: Cello concerto (1993); Poema sinfónico No.1 (1994-95);
Passacaglia (1996); Viola Concerto (1997); Ilusão, va, orch (1997).
Chamb, pn, voc music.
Sources: EMB2

Barboza, Pedro, Mexican violist and composer; b.23 Jun 1951, San Martín
Hidalgo, State of Jalisco, Mexico. He studied with Jesús Cortez and Mario
Kuri Aldana at the Escuela Superior de Música of INBA, and with Gela
Dubrova and Zoia Kamisheva at the Cons. Nacional de Música of INBA,
both in Mexico City. He also studied with Virgilio Valle. Violist in
orchestras in Mexico. Teacher at the Inst. Cultural Cabañas, Guadalajara,
Mexico. Since 1993, a member of the Taller de Creación Musical Manuel
Enríquez, directed by Víctor Manuel Medeles.
Works: Dos rolas para cuerdas, str orch (1986); Esquizoide, cl, str orch
(1987). Chamb, voc music.
Sources: DCMMC

Barceló, Jaime Alberto, Argentine composer; b.8 Jun 1935, Santa Fe,
Argentina. He began studying composition with Luis Rossetti (1952) and
took piano lessons with Tino Rossetti. He became interested in polyphonic
techniques of the Ars Nova and avant-garde music while studying with Juan
Carlos Paz. He also studied with Gerardo Gandini (1978-1986).
Works: Cuatro piezas para piano (1978-79); Respuestas, 2 gtr (1981);
Situaciones, fl, vc, tape (1988). Chamb, voc, pn music.
Sources: DMEH

Barceló Abeijón, Ricardo Iván, Uruguayan guitarist and composer; b.27

May 1960, Maldonado, Uruguay. He studied guitar with Alfredo Puig,
Eduardo Fernandéz and Abel Carlevaro and harmony, counterpoint and
composition with René Marino Rivero. At the Real Cons. Superior de
Música in Madrid he studied with Miguel Ángel Girollet and Demetrio
Ballesteros. He became a Spanish citizen (1993) and published his La
digitación guitarrística with Real Musical in 1995.
Works: Suite uruguaya, 2 gtr (1986); Manchas sonoras, vn, gtr (1989);
Murgotán, gtr (1991); El automata descompuesto, 2 gtr (1994); Un
emigrante en Carnaval, 2 gtr (1994).
Sources: DMEH

Bárcenas, Juan José, Mexican composer; b.6 Apr 1982, Santiago de

Querétaro, Mexico. He began studies in piano, composition, and theory at
the age of 7. He studied with Felipe de las Casas at the Inst. Nacional de
Bellas Artes and pursued graduate composition studies with Mauricio
Beltrán and Ignacio Baca-Lobera at UNAM. He received awards including
the UNAM First National Composition competition in 2014, and the
Iberoamerican Rodolffo Halffter Prize in 2010
Works: Águila-serpiente (2002); Confluenxes, orch (2004); Colibríes de
fuego (2006); Who lights the hearth of dawn (2009); Stenographic figure,
15 performers, chamb orch (2011).
Sources: CW, GP

Barletta, Alejandro, Argentine bandoneon player and composer; b.1925,

Buenos Aires, Argentina; d.26 Apr 2008, Argentina. He studied with Julián
Bautista, Athos Palma, and Alberto Ginastera in Buenos Aires, and with
Daniel Lesur in Paris, France.
Works: Dos aires de danza, bandoneon (1954); Tres íntimas, bandoneon
(1954). Chamb, orch, bandoneon music.
Sources: DMEH, EMA

Barón Superville, Susana, Argentine composer; b.1910, Buenos Aires,

Argentina; d.17 May 2004, San Pablo, Brazil. She studied with Nadia
Boulanger and Vera Vaurabourg in Paris, France, with Furio Francheschini
and Hans Koellreuter in São Paulo, Brazil, and with Gilardo Gilardi and
Juan Carlos Paz in Buenos Aires. Member of the Agrupación Nueva
Música.
Works: Str Qt (1947); Divertissement sériel, str qt, woodwind qt, tpt
(1952); Composición 57, 10 instr, perc (1957); Sonnet, voc, 6 instr (1960);
Poéme, voc, 8 instr (1962); Un homme va et vient, voc, 8 instr (1962). Tres
pequeños coros, mixed ch, pn (1932). Voc, pn music.
Sources: DMEH, EMA

Barradas, Carmen (María del Carmen Pérez Giménez), Uruguayan

composer and teacher; b.18 Mar 1888, Montevideo, Uruguay; d.10 May
1963, Montevideo. She studied with Antonio Franck, Aurora and Vicente
Pablo, and Martín López at the Cons. Musical La Lira of Montevideo. In
1914, she settled in Spain where she began to develop a new musical
notation system. In 1928, she returned to Montevideo and began teaching at
the Inst. Normal.
Works: Fabricación, pn (1924/rev. 1932); Taller mecánico, pn (1926);
Aserradero, pn (1928); Estudios tonales, pn (1930); Mar-Tragedia-
Misterio, triptych. Children’s songs.
Sources: BHMCU, DM, DMEH, MMLA, MU, NGDWC

Barraquero, Carlos Washington, Argentine composer and conductor;

b.1927, Mendoza, Argentina; d.2002. He studied at the Escuela Superior de
Música, today known as Facultad de Artes of the Univ. Nacional of Cuyo,
Mendoza. He continued his music studies with Emilio Dublanc, Alejandro
Derevitzky, Pedro Valenti Costa, Robert Shaw, and Clyton Kriebhel. Asst.
director and conductor of the chamber chorus of the Facultad de Artes of
the Univ. Nacional of Cuyo, and prof. of harmony, choral conducting,
musical form, and orchestration.
Works: Tripticum sacrum; Memento, Homo; Libera me domine; Tríptico
navideño; Cantos para mi tierra; Nostalgias del suelo amado; Cantata
antártica; Por mis valles y montañas, str; Violin Concerto. Chamb, ch, voc
music.
Sources: DMEH, VMA

Barreiro, Tomás, Mexican composer, guitarist, and pedagogue; b.1976,

Mexico City. He attended the Centro de Investigación y Estudios Musicales
where he worked with a traveling Mexican folklore group and completed a
degree in guitar performance and composition. Attended the San Francisco
Cons. on scholarships and graduated with a Master’s degree in performance
and music education. In 2013, he was invited to direct the Acad. de Arte de
Florencia in Mexico City.
Works: Sketches orquestales (2008); El tiempo (2009); Lamento de agua y
aire, str qt (2009); Concierto Dórfico (2010); Fantasía Exótica, 2 gtr.
Sources: GP

Barrera Morales, Euclides, Colombian composer and arranger; b.7 Sep

1949, San Gil, Colombia. He began studying piano at 7 years old and
studied music at the Cons. Nacional de Bogotá, where he earned a master’s
degree in composition. His instructors included Blas Emilio Atehortúa,
Francisco Zumaqué, and Fabio González Zuleta. He taught harmony and
theory there (1976-78). He played in the Orq. Filarmónica de Bogotá,
Musicar and worked as a commentator for concert broadcasts (1980-81). He
was a music critic and worked as an arranger with Patronato Colombiano de
Artes y Ciencias.
Works: El cañon del Chicamocha, symph poem, orch; Los comuneros nar,
orch; Obra sinfonica; Siete poemas de amor y una cancion a Colombia, 12
instr; Tema y variaciones, str orch.
Sources: DMEH

Barreto, Homero da Sá, Brazilian pianist, teacher, and composer; b.25

Mar 1884, Cravinhos, Brazil; d.2 Dec 1924, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He
studied, first in São Paulo, Brazil, and then went to Rio de Janeiro to study
at the Liceu de Artes e Oficios and at the Cons. Livre de Música. After
studying piano with Alfredo Bevilacqua, and harmony with Frederico
Nascimento, he became prof. of voice at the Inst. Nacional de Música of
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Works: Jati, opera (not orchestrated); Fiat lux, tone poem; Interludio e
scherzo, orch; Suite antiga. Chamb, solo instr, pn, voc, sacred music.
Sources: EMB2, MMLA

Barrios, Agustín Pío, Paraguayan composer and guitarist; b.23 May 1885,
San Juan Bautista de las Misiones, Paraguay; d.7 Aug 1944, San Salvador.
He studied guitar with Gustavo Sosa Escalada in Paraguay, and with
Antonio Giménez Manjón in Uruguay.
Works: Danza paraguaya, gtr; El cathedral, gtr.
Bibl.: P. Sensier, Agustín Barrios, Guitar, Vol.2, 1974.
Sources: DMEH, GDM

Barrios, Arturo, Venezuelan composer and director; b.17 Feb 1882, Santa
Lucía del Tuy, Venezuela; d.1 Oct 1970, Santa Lucía del Tuy, Venezuela.
He was a choirmaster for 70 years, founded the band Banda Santa Cecilia
(1922) and directed it until his death. In 1927, he founded the music school
that would become the Escuela de Música Municipal.
Works: Canción a la Virgen Dolorosa; Gloria Laus, vn; Himno al
Santísimo, vn; Himno a Sta. Teresa, fl (1930); La columna; Misa de
difuntos, vn; Ofertorio, cl; Stabat Mater, cl, saxhorn; Tomo a Sta. Rosa de
Lima; Villancico, cornet. Cuplés, foxtrots, joropas, marches, dances.
Sources: DMEH

Barrios Gallipoli, Andrés Humberto, Venezuelan composer and

clarinetist; b.3 Jun 1961, Caracas, Venezuela. He started music studies in
1978 at the Escuela de Música José Angel Lamas of Caracas. He also
studied clarinet with Alfonso Pagliuca and in 1979 joined the Coral Juvenil
Vinicio Adames and the Orfeón Univ. Prof. of chamber music at the
Escuela de Música José Angel Lamas.
Works: La danza de los tres fetos, ob, cl, bsn (1984); 2 wind qt, fl, ob, cl,
bsn (1985, 1987); Adiós pariente, fl, pn (1987); Cuculí, fl, pn (1987); Wind
qnt, fl, ob, cl, bsn, tpt (1987); Seis pequeños supositorios, cl, vibraphone
(1988); Poluciones, cl, vibraphone (1988). Ch music.
Sources: EMV
Barrios Morales, Aurilio, Mexican organist and composer; b.12 Nov
1880, Mexico City; d.29 Sep 1943, Mexico City. He entered the Cons.
Nacional de Música where he studied organ and composition with José
Guadalupe Velázquez and Gustavo Campa. He was organist and music
director at Nuestra Señora de Lourdes and taught at the Escuela Nacional de
Música de la Univ. Nacional Autónoma de México, the Escuela Popular
Nocturna de Música, and the Escuela Nacional de Arte para Trabajadores.
He played the organ to accompany films in the Granat and Monumental
theaters and inaugurated the organ at the Palacio de Bellas Artes. Most of
his work is unpublished and much is lost.
Works: Sinfonía en Fa menor, orch; Misa para la Virgen de Guadelupe, ch,
org (1920); Ad matutinum, 2 voc, orch; Polonesa, pn.
Sources: DMEH

Barros Marcarián, Nadile de, Brazilian pianist and composer; b.1914,

Brazil; d.?
Works: Toada e dansa, vc; Lamento e dansa, orch; Trio, pn, vn, vc; Poema,
orch, pn; Cantata, soloists, ch, orch; Cantiga de Roda, pn.
Sources: MMLA

Barroso, Sergio, Cuban composer and teacher; b.3 Mar 1946, Havana,
Cuba. He studied piano, theory, and composition at the Cons. Nacional of
Havana (1950-66). Also studied at the Prague Superior Academy of Music,
Czechoslovakia (today Czech Republic) (1966-68). He took classes in
computer music at Stanford Univ., CA, USA. Prof. at the Cons. Nacional of
Havana (1968-73, 1978-80), the Escuela Nacional de Música of Havana
(1968-76), the Inst. Superior de Artes of the Univ. of Havana (1976-80). He
settled in Canada (1980) and taught at the Trent Univ. of Ontario, Canada
(1981), the Univ. of Victoria, Canada (1981-82), and the Simon Fraser
Univ., Canada (1988 and 1991).
Works: Oda al soldado muerto, orch (1967); Oboe concerto (1967-68); La
casa de Bernarda Alba, ballet (1969); Plasmasis, ballet (1970); Yantra VII,
orch (1977); La fiesta grande, solo synthesizer (1990). Electroacoustic,
chamb, pn music.
Sources: DCM, DMEH, ISC
Barroso Neto, Joaquím Antônio, Brazilian composer, teacher, and pianist;
b.30 Jan 1881, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; d.1 Sep 1941, Rio de Janeiro. He
studied, first with Francisco Malio, and later, entered the Inst. Nacional de
Música of Rio de Janeiro, where he studied with Henrique Braga, Ignacio
Francisco Araújo de Porto Alegre, Frederico Nascimento, Alberto
Nepomuceno, and Alfredo Bevilacqua. Prof. of piano at the Inst. Nacional
de Música. Artistic dir. of the Sociedade de Cultura Musical of Rio de
Janeiro.
Works: Rainha da noite, opera (1905); Aruaná; Minha terra; Coriscos, pn;
Tarantela, pn; Valsa lenta, pn; Galhofeira, pn; Pastoral, pn; Ite missa est,
pn; Rapsodia guerreira. Voc, ch, vn, vc music.
Bibl.: T. Gomes, Barroso Neto, Rio de Janeiro, 1939.
Sources: BB, DM, EMB2, GDM, MLA, MMLA

Baruch Maldonado, René, Mexican composer; b.30 Jan 1957, San Andrés
Tuxtla, Mexico. He studied at the Facultad de Música of the Univ.
Veracruzana, Veracruz, Mexico, and at the Taller de Composición of
Armando Lavalle. Prof. at the Facultad de Música Veracruzana. In 1981, he
was awarded a scholarship to the Johannesen School of the Arts in Victoria,
Canada.
Works: Band, pn, ch, jazz groups, electroacoustic, computer music.
Sources: DCMMC

Bassi, Nicolás, Argentine violinist, conductor, and composer of Italian

origin; b.19th century, Italy. Conductor of the orchestra of the Teatro Colón
of Buenos Aires, between 1874 and 1888. Founding member of the
Sociedad del Cuarteto. Director and prof. of harmony at the Escuela de
Música de la Provincia, Prov. of Buenos Aires, Argentina. He conducted the
orchestra of the Teatro Alla Scala of Milan, and of the Teatro San Carlo of
Naples, both in Italy.
Works: Gran sinfonía dramática (1875); Himno, orch (1877); Gran marcha
Rivadavia (1880); Europa (1880); Fantasía (1883).
Sources: DMEH, EMA

Bastos, Hernani, Brazilian pianist, teacher, conductor, and composer; b.18

Apr 1892, Niterói, Brazil; d.27 Dec 1954, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He studied
theory with Henrique Braga, harmony with Agnelo França, organ with
Alberto Nepomuceno, and piano with Henrique Oswald at the Inst.
Nacional de Música of Rio de Janeiro. President of the Sociedade Sinfónica
Fluminense of Rio de Janeiro. He was one of the founders of the Cons. de
Música of Niterói.
Works: Suite fluminense, orch; Tiradentes, choral-symph poem. Voc music.
Sources: EMB2

Bauer, Guilherme Carneiro da Cunha, Brazilian composer and violinist;

b.1 Jul 1940, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He studied violin with Oscar Borgerth
and harmony with Hilda Pires dos Reis at ENMUB. He studied
composition, counterpoint, and fugue with Cláudio Santoro 1968-69),
composition with Ester Scliar (1969-73), and with César Guerra Peixe,
from 1974. He founded instrumental group Ars Contemporánea (1974) with
other composers for the promotion and diffusion of electronic music.
Taught at the Escola de Música VillaLobos and Univ. Estácio de Sá, both of
Rio de Janeiro.
Works: Introduçâo, secôes e coda (1979); Canto Flutuante (1981);
Cadências, vn, str (1982); Cadências, saxophone, str (1985). Chamb, voc
music.
Sources: EMB2

Bautista, Julián, Argentine composer of Spanish origin; b.21 Apr 1901,

Madrid, Spain; d.8 Jul 1961, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He settled in
Argentina (1940). He studied violin with Julio Francés, piano with Pilar
Fernández de la Mora, and composition with Conrado del Campo at the
Cons. Nacional de Música of Madrid. Taught harmony at the Cons.
Nacional de Música of Madrid, and the Cons. Nacional de Música Carlos
López Buchardo of Buenos Aires. Prof. of composition at the Cons. of
Puerto Rico.
Works: Juerga, ballet (1921); Colores, pn (1922); Sonatina, str trio (1924);
Obertura para una ópera grotesca, orch (1932); Suite all’antica, orch
(1932); Tres ciudades, voc orch (1937); Cuatro poemas gallegos, voc, fl,
ob, cl, va, vc, harp (1946); Cantar del mio Cid, soloists, ch, orch (1947);
Sinfonía breve (1956); Symphony No.2 (1957); 3 str qt (1922-23, 1926,
1958). Chamb, pn, voc music.
Sources: BB, DCM, DM, DMEH, DMM, EMA, GDM, MLA
Bazán, Oscar, Argentine composer; b.1936, Córdoba, Prov. of Córdoba,
Argentina. He studied in Buenos Aires with Alberto Ginastera, and in
Europe with Luigi Dallapiccola and Olivier Messiaen. Prof. at the Escuela
de Bellas Artes of the Univ. of Córdoba. Founder of El Grupo de Música
Experimental.
Works: Sonogramas, 2 pn (1964); Exégesis, orch (1968); Nueva, open instr
ens (1969); Episodios, electronic (1974); Los números, electronic (1980);
Los mitos, open instr ens (1984); Los signos, 2 gtr (1986); El círculo
invisible, electronic (1987); Austeras II, electronic (1988); El valle de las
profecías, electronic (1989).
Sources: DMEH, DMM

Becerra Schmidt, Gustavo, Chilean composer; b.26 Aug 1925, Temuco,

Chile. He studied composition with Pedro Humberto Allende and Domingo
Santa Cruz, conducting with Armando Carvajal, and musicology with
Vicente Salas Viú at the Cons. Nacional de Música of Santiago de Chile,
Chile. He graduated from the Univ. of Chile, Santiago de Chile (1949)
where he became prof. of music analysis and composition (1952). He
served as cultural attaché to the Chilean embassy in Bonn, Germany (1968-
70). Member of the Academia de Bellas Artes of the Inst. of Chile. Dir. of
the journal, Revista Musical Chilena, and of the Inst. de Extensión Musical
of the Facultad de Ciencias y Artes Musicales y Escénicas of the Univ. of
Chile. Prof. Emeritus at the Univ. Nacional of Chile.
Works: La muerte de Don Rodrigo, opera (1958); 3 symphonies (1955,
1958, 1960); 2 oratorios: La Araucana (1965), Lord Cochrane in Chile
(1967); Violin concerto (1950); Flute concerto (1957); Pn concerto (1958);
4 gtr concertos (1964-1970); Concerto, ob, cl, bsn, str orch (1970); 7 str qt;
Sax qt; 3 violin sonatas; Viola sonata; 3 vc sonatas; Sonata, cb, pn;
Provocación, mini-drama (1972); Parsifae, opera (1973); Trío Q-7, vn, vc,
pn. Chamb, solo instr, ch music.
Bibl.: Special issue of Revista Musical Chilena dedicated to Becerra
Schmidt, 1972.
Sources: BB, CDMC, CTA8, DCM, DMEH, GDM, HMC

Bechara, Mauricio, Colombian composer; b.17 Feb 1957, Bogotá,

Colombia. He studied piano with Andrés Linero and composition Fabio
Gonzáles Zuleta at the Cons. de la Univ. Nacional, and participated in the
composers’ workshop at CENIDIM (1979) under the direction of Federico
Ibarra, Manuel Henríquez, and Mario Lavista. He studied music of Arabic
culture. He traveled to Barcelona to continue music studies (1989).
Works: Capricho, str qt (1978); Pn Sonata no.1, 1978); Str Qt no.2 (1985);
Music para dos pianos y percussion (1985); A la vida, str qt (1987); Cinco
piezas, lute, perc, fl (1987); Musica para dos flautas, clarinet y percussion
(2987); Tres estudios, pn, tpt (1987).
Sources: DMEH

Bejarano, Mauricio, Colombian composer and architect; b.1955, Bogotá,

Colombia. Associate Prof. at the Facultad de Artes of the Univ. Nacional of
Colombia. Founding member of the Asociación Colombiana de Música
Electroacústica of Bogotá.
Works: Machinales (1994); Cuerda, magnetic tape (1995).
Sources: CDMC

Bello Montero, Atanasio, Venezuelan composer and teacher; b.ca.1800,

Caracas, Venezuela; d.after 1847. He studied with Pedro Palacios y Sojo.
He founded a music academy in Caracas with composer Luis Jumel and
established a philharmonic society with composer José María Izaza. Dir. of
the Escuela Libre de Música of the Sociedad Económica de Amigos del
País in Caracas.
Works: Pange lingua (1825); Lamentación a Nuestra Señora de los Dolores
(1826); Vigilia y misa para los muertos (1842); Miserere; Te Deum; Stabat
Mater; Lamentación para el miércoles de semana santa. Los pepitos, lyric
plaything; Canción nacional para el 9 de Febrero de 1843; Canción
nacional para el 5 de Julio de 1845.
Bibl.: Boletín del Archivo General de la Nación, Caracas, 1970.
Sources: DMEH, EMV, GDM

Belloc, Enrique, Argentine composer and conductor; b.28 Jan 1936,

Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied piano with Oreste Castronuovo and
composition with Francisco Kröpfl. He also studied philosophy (1955-60)
at the Univ. Nacional of Buenos Aires. With a scholarship from the Ford
Foundation he went to Berlin, Germany, to study with Gilbert Amy and
Lorin Maazel. He also participated in the International Courses on New
Music in Darmstadt, Germany, and at the Centre de Recherche Pierre
Bourdan in France. He returned to Buenos Aires (1969), and created the
Cuarteto Contemporáneo, an instrumental ensemble dedicated to the
promotion of 20th century music. He was appointed dir. of the Cons.
Superior de Música Manuel de Falla of Buenos Aires (1970).
Works: Symphony, str orch (1959); La poudre d’intelligence, text by Khateb
Yacine, incidental music; 8,600,000 Litres d’eau par seconde, text by
Michel Butor, incidental music; Movimientos, fl, ob, cl, pn (1965);
Secuencias, orch (1967); Sinfonía concertante, digital orch, synth (1990).
Electroacoustic music.
Sources: DMEH, DMM, EMA

Bemberg, Hermann, Argentine composer who lived most of his life in

France; b.1861, Buenos Aires, Argentina; d.1931, Bern, Switzerland. He
studied in Paris, France, with Jules Massenet, Georges Bizet, Henri
Maréchal, Théodore Dubois, and Charles Gounod.
Works: Le baisier de Suzan, opera (1888); Elaine, opera (1892); La mort de
Jeanne d’Arc, cantata (1886); Les djinns, fantastic legend, soloists, ch, orch
(1881); La ballade du désesperé, voc, orch (1889); Heurs de camps, orch
(1879). Manolo, waltz; La florida, waltz. Voc, salon music.
Sources: DMEH, EMA

Benavente, Manuel José, Bolivian composer and pianist; b.1 Jan

1899/1901, Sucre, Bolivia; d.13 Apr 1987, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He
settled in Buenos Aires in 1921. He studied piano with his mother and with
Prudencio Bustillo, and also harmony and composition in his native town.
Later, he studied piano with Edouard Risler and music pedagogy with Faría
de Vasconcellos at the Cons. de Musique, Paris, France. He was interested
in Inca folklore.
Works: Suite No.1, pn (1923); Procesión, pn (1928); Noches en el altiplano,
pn (1930); La luna sobre las ruinas del Tiahuanaco, pn (1935); Pala-Pala,
ballet (1939). Voc, ch, fl, ob, pn music.
Sources: DM, DMEH, ISC

Benavente, Regina María, Argentine composer; b.21 Jan 1928/1932,

Buenos Aires, Argentina. She began music studies with her father, Manuel
José Benavente, and later, entered the Cons. Nacional de Música Carlos
López Buchardo of Buenos Aires, where she studied harmony,
counterpoint, fugue, piano, and music history with Abraham Jurafsky,
Roberto García Morillo, Pedro Sáenz, Gilardo Gilardi, and Rafael
González. She also studied composition with Alberto Ginastera and took
courses at the Centro Latinoamericano de Altos Estudios Musicales of the
Inst. Di Tella of Buenos Aires, in 1967 and 1968. Prof. of harmony and
counterpoint at the Cons. Nacional de Música Carlos López Buchardo and
the Inst. Santa Ana, both of Buenos Aires.
Works: Pastoral y danza, orch; Sinfonía de primavera, orch; Sinfonietta;
Kronos; Galaxias; Imágenes; Secuencias; Toccata, pn. Chamb, str orch, pn,
ch, electronic music.
Sources: DMEH, ISC

Benavides Cuéllar, Manuel José, Colombian teacher, composer, and

violinist; b.1930 Popayán Colombia. He studied at the Univ. del Cauca,
where he taught violin and viola (1953-63). He also taught at the Liceo
Nacional de Varones en Popayán (1965-66). The Univ. of Cauca sponsored
his studies in composition at the Cons. de Música de Madrid (1959-60). He
worked in Madrid until 1966. He studied at the Inst. Interamericano de
Etnomusicología y Folklore (1971). He received a Master of Composition
(1975) from the Cons. de la Univ. Nacional. He taught at the Cons. de la
Univ. Nacional de Colombia and the Inst. Técnico Central de Bogotá.
Works: Gloria in excelsis, ch (1957); Dos movimientos sinfónicos, orch
(1975); Lamento indigena, ch; Ritmoo negro, ch; No te vayas, voc; Yagé, str
orch. Pn, voc music.
Sources: DMEH

Benedetti Punceles, Josefina de, Venezuelan composer and choral

conductor; b.17 Sep 1953, New Haven, CT, USA. She studied piano with
Gerty Haas at the Escuela Juan Manuel Olivares of Caracas, and with
Albert Ferber in London, England. She obtained a Licentiate degree in
music from the Inst. Univer. de Estudios Musicales (1991) and graduated
with a degree in composition from the Cons. Nacional de Música Juan José
Landaeta (1992), both in Caracas, Venezuela. In 1988, she founded and
directed the Coro Infantil Pequeños Cantores de la Schola.
Works: Chamb, ch music.
Sources: DMEH, EMV
Benedictis, Savino de, Brazilian composer, musicologist, and teacher of
Italian origin; b.20 Jan 1883, Bari, Italy; d.15 Aug 1971, São Paulo, Brazil.
He studied in Italy with his father Francesco de Benedictis, and with
Gaetano Foschini, director of the Cons. of Turin. He settled in São Paulo,
and with Joâo Gomes de Araújo, Antônio Carlos, Giuseppe Wancolle, and
Giulio Bastiani, he formed the first teaching group of the Cons. Dramático e
Musical of São Paulo, where, from 1910 to 1927, he taught harmony,
counterpoint, fugue, and composition.
Works: Centenário da independência do Brasil (1922); Lenda brasileira,
symph poem (1923); Ouverture in Ré (1936); Curumiaçu, overture (1938);
Rapsódia brasileira (1940). Chamb, pn, voc music.
Bibl.: Curso de Harmonía, São Paulo, 1909; Tratado de Harmonía, São
Paulo, 1920; O Canto Coral nos Colégios, São Paulo, 1933; Terminología
Musical, São Paulo, 1941.
Sources: EMB2

Benzaquén Bencomo, Jorge Isaac, Venezuelan composer, guitarist, flutist,

and teacher; b.17 Mar 1949, Caracas, Venezuela. He studied theory and
solfeggio with Antonio Ochoa and Raimundo Pereyra, music history and
aesthetics with Rhazes Hernández López, guitar with Antonio Lauro, flute
with Simón Alvarez, harmony and composition with Yannis Ioannidis,
music appreciation with Abraham Abreu, and modern music and analysis
with Kryzstof Penderecki. Founding member of the Sociedad Venezolana
de Música Contemporánea, the Sociedad Orq. Típica Nacional, the
Sociedad Venezolana de Autores y Compositores, and the Sociedad
Cultural Leonardo da Vinci.
Works: Phases, str orch; Onomatopeya, mixed ch; Amanecer en moguer,
chamb orch; Un industrioso insecto y la dulzura de los otros, chamb orch;
Fonocromía, orch; Relieves, chamb ens. Chamb, gtr, ch, pn music.
Sources: EMV, ISC

Benzecry, Esteban, Argentine composer of Spanish birth; b.13 Apr 1970,

Lisbon, Spain. He moved to Argentina (1974) and studied painting at the
Inst. Univ. Nacional del Arte. He studied composition with Haydée Gerardi
and Sergio Hualpa and later with Jacques Charpentier at the Cons.
Nationale de Musique de Paris, where he also studied composition with
Paul Méfano and electroacoustic music with Luis Naón and Laurent Cuniot.
He was Composer in Residence at the International Music Acad. “Yehudi
Menuhin” in Switzerland (1995). He moved to Paris (1997) and received a
Guggenheim Award (2008).
Works: Colores de la Cruz del Sur, orch; Ehecatl (Azteca wind god), orch;
Chaac (Maya water god), orch; Ilapa (Inca thunderclap god); Scherzo
Aymara; Amazonas; Malambo (Homenaje a Ginastera); Evocation d’un
reve; Evocation d’un monde perdu; Inti Raymi; Alwa, harp; Rapsodia
Andina, vc, pn; Toccata Newén, pn; Toccata y Misterio, vc, pn; Rituales
Amerindios, orch.
Sources: CW

Berea, Adolfo, Mexican guitarist and composer; b.27 Mar 1960, Mexico
City, Mexico. He received a Licenciate degree in guitar from the Escuela
Nacional de Música of UNAM, Mexico City. Prof. at the same school and
at the Facultad de Música of the Univ. Veracruzana, Veracruz, Mexico.
Works: Gtr concerto (1988); Macuitépetl (Ascenso y descenso), gtr orch
(1993). Chamb, gtr music.
Sources: DCMMC

Beristáin, Joaquín, Mexican composer, pianist, cellist, and conductor; b.20

Aug 1817, Mexico City; d.3 Oct 1839, Mexico City. Later known as the
“Mexican Bellini,” Joaquín was a cellist in the Orch. of the Colegiata de
Guadalupe and then director of the opera at age 17. With Agustín Caballero
he founded the Acad. De Música (1838) – a precursor to the Cons. Nacional
de Música of Mexico. He composed most of his works (1837-39) and died
at the age of 22.
Works: A cual más feo; Obertura primavera; Raquel; Mass; orchestration
of Vincenzo Bellini’s opera, La sonnambula.
Sources: GP

Berlioz, Sergio, Mexican composer and musicologist; b.26 Jul 1963,

Mexico City, Mexico. He studied at the Cons. Nacional de Música of
INBA, Mexico City, under Kurt Redel. In 1981, he was awarded a
scholarship by INBA to study chamber music with the Manhattan String
Quartet. Member of the Taller de Composición of Julio Estrada at the
Escuela Nacional de Música of the UNAM, Mexico City. Founder and
director of the Ensamble Contemporáneo Independiente and member of the
Liga de Compositores de Música de Concierto, both in Mexico City.
Works: En tiempo del ave, opera (1995); Kulebuz de una percanta (Heraldo
de una hechicería), 2 nar, wind ens (1984); Elijah (Lamentaciones), vc, str
(1993); Violin concerto “El sueño de Yaacov,” orch. Chamb, pn, ch, voc
music.
Sources: DCMMC, GP

Bermudes (Bermúdez), Pedro, composer of Spanish origin, resided in

colonial Peru and Mexico; b.Granada, Spain, fl.1592-1606; d.? He settled in
Peru in 1597. Choirmaster at the Cathedral of Cuzco, Peru, and the
Cathedral of Puebla, Mexico. He later became choirmaster at the Cathedral
of Guatemala City.
Works: Misa de bomba; 3 antífonas; 2 invitatorios; Salmo; 20 himnos; 4
Salve Regina.
Bibl.: R. Stevenson, Renaissance and Baroque Musical Sources in the
Americas, Washington, DC, 1970.
Sources: GDM

Bermúdez Silva, Jesús, Colombian composer, teacher, researcher, and

conductor; b.24 Dec 1884, Bogotá, Colombia; d.25 Oct 1969, Bogotá. He
studied with Epifanio Garay, Luis Figueroa, José María Prado, and
Guillermo Uribe Holguín at the Cons. Nacional de Música of Colombia in
Bogotá. In 1929, he traveled to Madrid, Spain, where he studied at the Real
Cons. with Conrado del Campo. He became prof. of counterpoint and
composition at the Cons. of Bogotá (1935). From 1928-40, he was music
instructor at the Escuela Normal of Tunja, Dept. of Boyacá, Colombia.
From 1942, he was director of the Cons. of Tolima in Ibagué, Colombia.
Prof. of harmony and counterpoint at the Cons. de Música of the Univ.
Nacional of Colombia in Bogotá.
Works: Cuento de hadas, va, fl, orch (1930); Torbellino, symph poem
(1931); Symphony in C major (1933); Pn Concerto (1947); Orgía
campesina, symph poem (1959); Estampa criolla, symph impression
(1959); Leyenda de oro, 4 voc (1938); Canción arrullo de María Isabel, 3
voc (1938). Chamb, pn, voc music.
Sources: CMC, CTA8, DM, DMEH, GDM, LCRA, MLA, MMLA, ZCCC
Bernal Jiménez, Miguel, Mexican composer and organist; b.16 Feb 1910,
Morelia, State of Michoacán, Mexico; d.26 Jul 1956, León, State of
Guanajuato, Mexico. He studied with Felipe Aguilera Ruíz and Ignacio
Mier y Arriaga. In Italy he studied organ with Rafael Manari, counterpoint
and fugue with César Dobici, musicology and composition with Rafael
Casimiri, harmony and orchestration with Licinio Refice, and Gregorian
chant with the Benedictine abbot Paolo M. Ferretti at the Inst. Pontificio di
Música Sacra of Rome. Dir. of the Escuela Superior de Música Sagrada and
the Cons. Las Rosas, both of Morelia. Prof. at the Music Dept. of Loyola
Univ. of New Orleans, LA, USA.
Works: Tata Vasco, opera (1941); Timgambato, ballet (1943); Los tres
galanes de Juana, ballet (1952); Noche en Morelia, symph poem (1941);
Michoacán, orch; Cuarteto Virreinal, str qt (1951); 2 masses; Te Deum.
Sacred, org music.
Bibl.: O. Mayer-Serra, Tata Vasco, A Mexican Opera Based on the Life of a
Great Religious Hero, The Commonwealth, New York, 1941.
Sources: DCM, DMEH, DCMMC, DM, GDM, GMM, GP, MLA, MMLA

Bernasconi, Luis José, Argentine composer and pianist; b.1845, Buenos

Aires, Argentina; d.1885. Teacher at the Escuela Provincial de Música,
Prov. of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Music critic for the weekly La Lira,
Mefistófeles, and La Gaceta Musical.
Works: Music for the copofon (18th century instrument that consists of a
series of tuned crystal glasses containing different amounts of water,
introduced into Buenos Aires in 1865 by the Italian Cominjeo Gagliano).
Qt, glasses (1869); Llora, llora, Urutaú, orch (1875); Flores y mariposas, 4
hand-copofon (1879); La plata, orch (1882); Capricho de concierto, pn
(1882). Voc, pn music.
Sources: DMEH, EMA

Berón, Saturnino Filomeno, Argentine band conductor, performer on 16

different instruments, and composer; b.29 Nov 1847, Paraná, Prov. of Entre
Ríos, Argentina; d.15 Nov 1898, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied at the
traditional Colegio de Concepción del Uruguay, Prov. of Entre Ríos, entered
the military school and became a lieutenant colonel. Dir. of the Escuela de
Instrumentistas del Ejército and organized numerous military bands.
Works: Buenos Aires, orch (1878); La Pampa, symph poem (1878); Entre
Ríos, orch (1878); Himno a Rivadavia (1880). Band music.
Books: Tratado Completo de la Música Moderna, 1889.
Sources: DMEH, DMM, EMA

Berrini, José Francisco, Argentine composer, conductor, and teacher; b.30

Mar 1897, Rosario, Prov. of Santa Fe, Argentina; d.1963, Argentina. He
studied piano with Clemente Sismondo, and harmony and composition with
Constantino Gaito. Conductor of the orchestra of the Profesorado Orq. and
the Sociedad Cultural Alemana Argentina, both in Rosario. Artistic dir. of
the Asociación Sinfónica of Rosario, since its creation in 1932.
Works: Egogla con lluvia y sol, symph poem; Visiones del Paraná, symph
poem. Voc, ch, pn music.
Sources: CAMR, DM, MLA

Berroa, Catalina, Cuban pianist, guitarist, harpist, organist, violinist,

choral conductor, composer, and teacher; b.28 Feb 1849, Trinidad, Cuba;
d.23 Nov 1911, Trinidad. She organized and directed the choruses and was
also the organist at the San Francisco de Asís and the Santísima Trinidad
churches, both in Trinidad, where she also founded a music school.
Works: La trinitaria, mass; hymns; masses; Salve Regina.
Sources: DMC, DMEH, IEW, NGDWC

Berroa, Jorge, Cuban composer; b.13 Dec 1938, Havana, Cuba. He studied
music at the Cons. Amadeo Roldán of Havana. Music dir. of the Comisión
de Extensión Cultural of the Univ. of Havana, he also worked at the
Empresa de Grabaciones y Ediciones Musicales of Cuba.
Works: Un hombre ha pasado, sop, pn; Miguel Matamoros, In memoriam,
sop, orch, magnetic tape; Décimas contemporáneas, sop; Lamento, actor,
sop, orch; Lo antiguo y lo moderno, sop, magnetic tape; Pn Concerto;
Proposiciones para explicar la muerte de Ana, poem by Nicolás Guillén,
bar; El son de la discusión, children’s opera.
Sources: DMC, DMEH

Berti Soteldo, Alexander, Venezuelan composer and conductor; b.10 Apr

1962, Caracas, Venezuela. At age 5, he began music studies with his
maternal grandmother, Angela Fernández de Soteldo. Later, he studied at
the Escuela de Música José Angel Lamas and Escuela de Música Lino
Gallardo, both in Caracas. He also studied musical form with José Antonio
Abreu and conducting with Gonzalo Castellanos.
Works: Cl concerto (1992).
Sources: EMV

Bértola, Eduardo, Argentine composer; b.14 Jul 1939, Córdoba, Prov. of

Córdoba, Argentina. He studied at the Cons. Nacional de Música Carlos
López Buchardo of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and the Cons. National de
Musique of Paris, France.
Works: Dynamus; Pexoa; Penetraciones; Signals, 21 instr; Hertz, 14 instr.
Ch music.
Sources: DMEH, KTL

Berutti, Arturo, Argentine composer; b.27 Mar 1862 (1858, DMM), San
Juan, Prov. of San Juan, Argentina; d.3 Jan 1938, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Brother of Pablo María Berutti. He studied with his father, Antonio L.
Berutti, and Ignacio Alvarez, and later, in Buenos Aires, with Nicolás Bassi.
In 1884, with a fellowship, he entered the Cons. of Leipzig, Germany,
where he studied with Carl Reinecke and Salomon Jadassohn.
Works: Andes, overture (1886); Rivadavia, orch (1888); Colombiana, orch
(1888); Sinfonía argentina (1890); La vendetta, opera (1892); Evangelina,
opera (1893); Taras Bulba, opera (1895); Pampa, opera (1897); Yupanki,
opera (1899); Khrise, opera (1902); Horrida nox, opera (1908); Facundo
Quiroga, lyric drama (1909); Los héroes, opera (1919). Str orch, chamb,
voc, pn music.
Bibl.: E.M. Navarro, San Juan en la Historia de la Música, San Juan,
Argentina, 1964.
Sources: BB, DM, DMEH, DMM, EMA, GDM, MLA, MMLA

Berutti, Pablo María, Argentine composer; b.24 Sep 1866 (21 Sep 1863,
DMM), San Juan, Prov. of San Juan, Argentina; d.17 Jun 1914, Buenos
Aires, Argentina. Brother of Arturo Berutti. He started music studies in
Mendoza, Prov. of Mendoza, Argentina, and later, he continued them at the
Cons. of Leipzig, Germany, where he graduated with a DM degree. When
he returned to Argentina, he founded a cons. and worked there as a teacher.
Works: Cochabamba, opera (1890); Misa Solemne (1891); Gran sinfonía
(1891); Te Deum; Offertorio; Ave Maria; 60 pn works entitled Hojas
Caídas.
Sources: DM, DMEH, DMM, EMA, GDM, MLA

Bevilacqua, Francisco Alfredo, Brazilian composer and pianist; b.25 Aug

1846, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; d.26 Jan 1927, Rio de Janeiro. He started
music studies with his mother, and continued in Europe. He studied piano,
composition, and orchestration with Teodulo Mabellini in Florence, Italy,
piano with Georges Mathias in Paris, France, and with Theodor Leschetizky
in Vienna, Austria. He taught piano to the Brazilian imperial princesses.
The government of the Brazilian Republic requested him, together with
Leopoldo Miguéz and José Rodrigues Barboza, to reorganize the old cons.,
which later became the Inst. Nacional de Música of Brazil in Rio de
Janeiro. He was the first piano teacher at the new inst.
Works: Grande Missa, ch, orch; Nocturnes, pn; Romances, pn; Barcarolas,
pn.
Sources: EMB2, HMB, MMLA

Bianchi Alarcón, Vicente, Chilean composer, pianist, and conductor; b.27

Jan 1920, Providencia, Santiago, Chile. He began studying piano at age 6
with Daniel Julio Julio and Olga Aguila Fraga and attended the Liceo
Manuel de Salas. He entered the National Cons. of Music (1931) to study
piano with Alberto Spikin Howard, theory with Elcira Castrillón, and
harmony and counterpoint. He studied conducting with Teodoro Fuchs and
continued at the Inst. Secundario de Bellas Artes at the Univ. de Chile. He
worked as a pianist for many radio stations beginning in 1938, including La
Americana, Sociedad Nacional de Agricultura, Radio El Mundo de Buenos
Aires, Radio El Sol in Lima, Peru (1951-1955), and Radio Mineria with
Pablo Neruda in Santiago. He set texts by Neruda.
Works: Música para la historia de Chile; Abejorros, orch (1940); Momento
incaico, orch (1953); Trípticosinfónico, orch (1958); Misa a la Chilena, ch,
orch (1965); Oración por la paz de Chile, ch, orch (1978). Voc, sacred, film
music, marches.
Sources: CW, DMEH

Biase Bidart, Lycia de, Brazilian pianist, violinist, conductor, teacher, and
composer; b.18 Feb 1910, Vitoria, Espírito Santo, Brazil; d.1990. She
studied piano with Neusa França, and harmony, counterpoint, fugue, and
composition with Giovanni Gianetti in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and later,
piano with Magdalena Tagliaferro.
Works: Anchieta, symph poem (1934); Angelus, symph episodes (1934);
Andante e allegro cantabile, pn (1969); Concerto Rio 70, pn (1970);
Interludio, pn (1969); Adagio Improviso (1971); Som e cor, ballet (1971);
Simbolismo e vivéncia do Jardim Botánico do Rio de Janeiro, ballet (1976);
Symphonic Fantasy on Dance Rhythms (1976); Serie germánica, (1977); A
noiva do mar, opera. Chamb, pn, voc, sacred music.
Sources: EMB2, IEW, NGDWC

Bilbao, Beatriz, Venezuelan composer, pianist, and teacher; b.8 Dec 1951,
Caracas, Venezuela. She studied piano with Gerty Haas and Judith Jaimes at
the Escuela de Música Juan Manuel Olivares and also studied with Moisés
Moleiro, Robert Fountain, Gonzalo Castellanos, and Antonio Estévez at the
Escuela de Música José Angel Lamas, both in Caracas (1960-69). With a
scholarship from the Romanian government she studied at the Cons. George
Dhima in Bucharest, Romania, and with a scholarship from the Venezuelan
government, she studied composition and conducting at the Univ. of
Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, and at the Univ. of Indiana, Bloomington, IN,
both in USA. She also took courses in electronic music at the New England
Cons. of Music, Boston, MA, USA. Taught at cons. and music inst. in
Venezuela, Colombia, and Ecuador.
Works: Transmutación (1979); Inner spiral (1979); La pasionaria, symph
poem (1988). Ch, chamb, electronic, incidental theater, instr music.
Sources: DMEH, EMV

Billings, Leopoldo, Venezuelan composer; b.23 Jul 1932, El Callao,

Bolívar, Venezuela. He initially studied music with his father, Norman
Billings then entered the Escuela de Música José Angel Lamas of Caracas
(1947), where he studied with Evencio Castellanos, Juan Bautista Plaza,
and Vicente Emilio Sojo. He graduated with a composition degree (1959).
He also studied conducting with Victor Tevah and Enrique García Asensio
in the Dominican Republic, and composition with Bernardo Bernaola and
musicology with Miguel Querol in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Prof. at
the Escuela Juan Manuel Olivares and the Escuela José Angel Lamas.
Works: Obertura concertante, orch (1959). Sacred, chamb, voc, gtr, pn
music.
Sources: DMEH, EMV

Bimboni, Oreste, Argentine conductor and composer of Italian origin;

b.1840, Florence, Italy; d.1904, Argentina. He settled in Buenos Aires,
Argentina, in 1870.
Works: María Stuart, opera; Modella, opera; Plegaria, sop, ch, orch.
Sources: DMEH, EMA

Biondo, Juan Carlos, Argentine composer; b.14 Aug 1933, Buenos Aires,
Argentina.
Works: Poema, orch (1958); Symphony No.1 (1972); Pn Concerto No.1
(1964); Cl Concerto (1965); 2 pn concertos, left hand. Solo instr, pn, voc
music.
Sources: DMEH, CTA18, VMA

Biriotti, León, Uruguayan composer, conductor, and oboist; b.1 Dec 1929,
Montevideo, Uruguay. He studied violin with Antonio Maiques and Juan
Fabbri, and at the Escuela Municipal de Música of Montevideo, he studied
oboe with Cardoso, harmony with Vicente Ascone, and musicology with
Lauro Ayestarán. He continued oboe studies with Jean Louis Le Roux and
composition with Enrique Casal Chapí. He founded a string orchestra.
Cond. of the instrumental group Juventudes Musicales of Uruguay. Cultural
and press director for the Embassy of Israel in Montevideo.
Works: 6 symphonies (1964, 1965, 1968, 1969, 1982, 1991); Los éxtasis de
la montaña, voc, instr group (1952); Suite concertante, vn, orch (1953); El
paseo de Buster Keaton, cantata (1955); Concertino, tpt, str (1963);
Permutaciones, orch (1970); Hamlet, incidental music (1979); Sefarad,
symph concertante (1982); Concerto, ob, orch (1983); Concerto
brandenburlesque, pn, 13 instr (1985). Chamb, pn, solo instr, ch music.
Sources: BB, BHMCU, CTA13, DMEH, GDM, MU

Bisquertt Prado, Próspero, Chilean composer; b.8 Jun 1881, Santiago de

Chile, Chile; d.2 Aug 1959, Santiago de Chile. Self-taught musician.
Director of the Inst. de Extensión Musical of the Facultad de Bellas Artes of
Santiago de Chile.
Works: Sayeda, opera (1930); Taberna al amanecer, symph poem (1922);
Procesión del Cristo de mayo, symph poem (1930); Destino, symph poem
(1934); Nochebuena, symph triptych (1935); Misceláneas, suite (1936);
Dos emocionales, orch (1940); Metrópolis, symph poem (1940);
Juguetería, suite, orch (1943); 1945, symph poem (1945); Preludio lírico,
orch; Poema pastoril, orch. Chamb, voc, pn music.
Sources: DM, DMEH, GDM, HMC, MLA, MMLA

Blamey Lafone, Ricardo Q., Argentine composer, lawyer, diplomat, and

teacher; b.23 Feb 1878/1880, Andalgala, Prov. of Catamarca, Argentina; d.7
Sep 1946, near Bethurst, New South Wales, Australia, in an airplane
accident. A doctor of jurisprudence, he also taught at the Colegio Nacional
de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He entered diplomatic service
and worked at the Argentine Embassy in London.
Works: Andalgala, symph rhapsody (1932); Escenas catamarqueñas, 5
sketches for orch (1934); Juvenilia, symph series (1936); El ombú, symph
poem (1938). Ballet music.
Sources: DMEH, EMA

Blanck, Hubert de, Cuban pianist and composer of Dutch origin; b.11 Jun
1856, Utrecht, Netherlands; d.28 Nov 1932, Havana, Cuba. Father of Olga
de Blanck. He settled in Havana in 1883. He studied at the Cons. of Liege,
Belgium and concertized in Europe and South and North America. In 1885,
he founded a cons. bearing his name, which later became the Cons.
Municipal de Música of Havana.
Works: Actea, opera; Patria, opera; Icoana, opera; Hymn to Martí;
Habanera; Capricho cubano; Allegro de concierto; Marcha heróica;
Quintet, pn, str. Zarzuelas; pn, voc music.
Sources: DMC, DMEH, MMLA

Blanck, Olga de, Cuban composer and teacher; b.11 Mar 1916, Havana,
Cuba; d.28 Jul 1998, Havana. She studied with her father, Hubert de
Blanck, and with Amadeo Roldán and Pedro Sanjuán in Cuba, with Walter
Burle Marx in New York, NY, USA, and with Julián Carrillo and Carlos
Jiménez Mabarak in Mexico. Deputy dir. of the Cons. Nacional de Música
of Havana in 1945.
Works: Cuento de Navidad, opera (1950); Bohío, orch (1964); Cantata
guajira, soloists, ch, orch (1967). Theater, chamb, ch, voc music.
Sources: DMC, DMEH, IBCC, IEW
Blanco, Juan, Cuban composer; b.29 Jun 1920, BB (1919, DMC), Havana,
Cuba. He studied composition with José Ardévol at the Cons. Municipal de
Música of Havana.
Works: Texturas, orch, tape (1964); Four sets of Contrapunto espacial,
different groups distributed through the area of performance (1965-70);
Vietnam, soundlike composition (1968); Tríptico coral; Cantata de la paz;
Elegía; Quintet, woodwinds, vc; Divertimento; Música de danza; Ensemble
V; Estudios, magnetic tape; Episodio; Erotofonías. Film, ballet music.
Sources: BB, DCM, DMC, DMEH

Blarduni, Jorge, Argentine composer; b.1930, La Plata, Prov. of Buenos

Aires, Argentina. He studied with Luis Gianneo. Fellow at the Inst. Di Tella
of Buenos Aires, Argentina (1969-70).
Works: Toccata, pn (1960); Suite, pn (1960); Sonata, cl, pn (1962);
Nocturnos de la ventana, voc, instr ens (1963); Evocación, nar, voc, instr
ens (1965); Variaciones, orch (1965); Quintet (1967); Poemas de Sandra,
voc, instr ens (1968); Cantata de la guerra civil española, bar, ch,
Sources: DMEH, EMA

Blasco, Rubén, Argentine guitarist and composer; b.3 Dec 1956, Buenos
Aires, Argentina. He studied guitar at the Cons. Nacional de Música Carlos
López Buchardo (graduated 1983) before contining with Roberto Soriano
and Irma Costanzo. He also studied piano and composition with César
Grimoldi and Manuel Juárez while attending courses in contemporary
music. Taught at the Facultad de Bellas Artes de la Univer. Nacional de La
Plata (1984-85) and the Inst. Superior de Música del Collegium Musicum
de Buenos Aires (1986-89). Member of CUDA and served on its executive
committee (1989-1990). He won awards for compositions from
Promociones Musicales (1983) and Fondo Nacional de las Artes (1988).
Works: Dos piezas, fl, gtr (1978); Preludios, gtr (1978); Trío, fl, cl, pn
(1979); Variaciones, cl (1980); Cuatro piezas breves, str qt (1982);
Variaciones, pn (1983); Don Juan, el burlador de Sevilla, stage (1983);
Volaverunt, fl, cl, vn, vc, pn (1986); Segmentos, str orch (1987).
Sources: DMEH

Blauth, Brenno, Brazilian composer; b.28 Nov 1931, Pôrto Alegre, Brazil;
d.31 May 1993, São Paulo. He studied music in his native city with Enio de
Freitas e Castro and João Schwartz Filho at the Cons. Mozart, and in Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil, harmony with Paulo Silva, and counterpoint with Newton
Padua. In 1963, he moved to São Paulo, Brazil, where he studied with
Camargo Guarnieri. He did research in Brazilian folklore and utilized some
of it in his music. Prof. of acoustics and biology applied to music at the
Faculdade de Música da Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado of São
Paulo.
Works: 2 symphonic suites; 2 symphonies; Elegía, orch; No cimo das
copas, sop, wind qnt (1975). Chamb, pn, voc music.
Sources: EMB2, HMB

Blengio, Rafael, Mexican composer and violinist; b.20 Apr 1935,

Hecelchakan, Mexico. He studied at the Cons. Nacional de Música of
INBA in Mexico City, Mexico. Teacher at the Univ. Autónoma of
Querétaro, Mexico.
Works: Pn, voc music.
Sources: DMEH, DCMMC

Bocchino, Alceu Ariosto, Brazilian composer, conductor, pianist, and

teacher; b.30 Nov 1918, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil. He studied with Rosa
Lubrano, António Melilo, and João Poeck. He also studied law at the
Faculdade de Direito in Curitiba. In 1944, he settled in São Paulo, Brazil,
where he continued his music studies with Camargo Guarnieri and Dinorah
de Carvalho. Prof. at the Escola de Música e Belas Artes of Curitiba and the
Cons. of Santos, Brazil, he was also music director of radio Mayrink-Veiga
e Mundial, and conductor of the orchestra of radio stations São Paulo, Tupi,
Difusora e Record in São Paulo, and the Orq. Sinfónica Nacional of Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil. Prof. at the Acad. de Música Oscar Lorenzo Fernández of
Rio de Janeiro.
Works: Fantasía (1938); Hino do estudante paranaense (1934); Bailado do
trigo (1940); O cerco da lapa (1943-44). Chamb, voc, pn music.
Sources: EMB2, HMB

Boero, Felipe, Argentine composer; b.1 May 1884, Buenos Aires,

Argentina; d.9 Aug 1958, Buenos Aires. He studied with Pablo María
Berutti in Buenos Aires and with Paul Vidal and Gabriel Fauré at the Cons.
Nacional of Paris, France. Prof. of musical culture at the Escuela Normal de
Profesores, and of choral singing at the Inst. Nacional de Educación Física,
both in Buenos Aires. He founded the Sociedad Nacional de Música, which
became the Asociación de Compositores Argentinos. Inspector of schools at
the Consejo Nacional de Educación of Buenos Aires.
Works: Tucumán, opera (1914); Ariana y Dionisio, opera (1916); Raquela,
opera (1918); Misa solemne (1918); Madrugada en la Pampa, orch (1920-
30); Suite de danzas argentinas, orch (1920-30); El matrero, opera (1925);
Siripo, opera (1937); Suite argentina, orch (1940); Zincali, opera (1954).
Pn, voc music.
Sources: CA, CTA15, DM, DMEH, DMM, EMA, GDM, MLA, MMLA

Boettner, Juan Max, Paraguayan composer, musicologist, and physician;

b.1899, Asunción, Paraguay; d.3 Jul 1958. He studied medicine at the Univ.
of Jen, Hamburg, Germany.
Works: Suite Guaraní, orch; El sueño de Renée, ballet for soloists, ch, orch;
El alma del inca, orch; Sinfonía en Mi. Pn, voc, children’s music.
Sources: DMEH, MMPA

Bolaños, César, Peruvian composer and electronic technician; b.4 Jun

1931, Lima, Peru. He studied music theory and composition in Lima, and
later, studied at the RCA Inst. of Electronic Technology, in New York, NY,
USA. In 1963, he obtained a fellowship to study in Buenos Aires,
Argentina, at the Centro Latinoamericano de Altos Estudios Musicales of
the Inst. Di Tella, where he later was appointed prof.
Works: Cantata solar, voc, ch, orch, and tape (1963); Variaciones, alt,
chamb ens (1963); Intensidad y altura, tape (1964); Divertimento I, instr
ens (1966); Divertimento II, ch, fl, cl, pn, electric gtr (1966);
Interpolaciones, electric gtr, tape (1966); Divertimento III, instr ens (1967);
Alfa-Omega, 2 nar, ch, electric gtr, perc, cb, tape, 2 dancers, and lighting
(1967); 1-10-AIFG-Rbt-1, ens (1968); Flexum, orch, tape (1969);
Ñacahuasu, nar, 21 instr (1970).
Sources: CTA17, DMEH, GDM

Bolet, Alberto, Cuban composer; b.10 Sep 1905, Havana, Cuba; d.10 Nov
1999, Teaneck, NJ. He started music studies at the Cons. Mateu of
Guanabacoa, then continued violin with Casimiro Zertuche, 1917-21, and
Fermín Touche, 1923-25, and composition with Silvain Noack, 1930-33, at
the Cons. Falcón of Havana. Founder of the Trío de la Habana, the
Sociedad de Conciertos, and the Official Radio CMZ. Dir. of the Orq.
Sinfónica Nacional, 1939-43, and of the Banda de Policía, 1942-44, both of
Havana.
Works: 2 str qt (1937); Quartet with piano (1938); Trio (1938); Sonata, vn,
pn (1939); Solitude, symph poem (1941); El vendedor de sueños, symph
poem (1942); Sinfonía romántica (1943); Variaciones satíricas, str orch
(1944); Ballet cubano.
Sources: DMC2, DMEH, MMLA

Bologna, Nora, Argentine composer and teacher; b.5 Jul 1946, Rosario,
Prov. of Santa Fe, Argentina. She studied at the Facultad de Artes y
Ciencias Musicales of the Univ. Católica Argentina of Buenos Aires,
Argentina, from which she graduated in 1973. She studied composition with
Francisco Kröpfl, 1980-82, Paul Mefano, 1983, and Helmut Lachemann,
1984. She continued with Carmelo Saita and Erwin Leuchter. Prof. of
harmony, counterpoint, and musical form at the Cons. of Banfield and
Morón, both in the Prov. of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Member of Grupo de
Creación Musical and of Asociación Argentina de Compositores.
Works: Tres poemas, orch; Los vikingos, symph poem; Improviso II, orch;
Str Qt. Chamb, pn, voc music.
Sources: DMEH, ISC

Bonilla Chavarría, Jesús, Costa Rican flutist and composer; b.15 Nov
1912, Santa Cruz, Prov. of Guanacaste, Costa Rica; d.16 Nov 1999, ? Self-
taught in harmony, counterpoint, composition, and instrumentation. He was
first flutist at the Banda Militar of Alajuela, Costa Rica, in 1929. Dir. of the
Banda Militar of Liberia, Africa, in 1932. In 1933, he returned to Costa
Rica where he taught in several schools and organized an orchestra in San
José.
Works: Nocturno No.1; Elegía; Atardecer guanacasteco; Preludio No.1;
Nocturno No.2; Serenata, fl, pn.
Sources: DMEH, MMLA

Bonilla Chávez, Carlos Galo, Ecuadorian guitarist, composer, and double

bass player; b.2 Mar 1923, Quito, Ecuador. He studied at the Cons.
Nacional of Quito under Luis Salcedo. He graduated as a double bass player
in 1950. Prof. of guitar and double bass at the Cons. Nacional of Quito. In
1972, he moved to Bogotá, Colombia, where he was appointed first double
bassist at the Orq. Filarmónica of Bogotá. He returned to Quito, Ecuador
(1975) and taught at the Inst. de Música Sacra, Acad. de Música del
Profesor Clodoveo, and the Colegio Mejía.
Works: Suite andina (1958); Mil años de música, orch (1984); Raíces, gtr,
orch (1987); Minisuite popular, orch (1988); Rumiñahui, orch (1989).
Chamb, gtr music.
Bibl.: Francisco Alexander, Música y Músicos, Quito, 1970.
Sources: DMEH, MG

Bor, Modesta, Venezuelan composer, teacher, and choral conductor; b.15

Jun 1926, Juangriego, Margarita Island, Venezuela. In 1940, she began to
study in her native town, theory and solfeggio with Luis María Gutiérrez
and piano with Alicia Caraballo Reyes. She moved to Caracas, Venezuela
(1942) to study theory and solfeggio with María de Lourdes Rotundo, piano
with Elena C. Soriano de Arrarte, harmony, counterpoint, fugue, form,
instrumentation, and music history with Antonio Estévez, Vicente Emilio
Sojo, and Juan Bautista Plaza at the Escuela Nacional de Música José Angel
Lamas. She later studied at the Cons. Tchaicovsky in Moscow, Soviet
Union (today Russia) with Aram Khachaturian, Serguei Skripov, Dimitri
Rogal Lewitsky, and Natalia Fiodorova. In 1962, she returned to Venezuela
where she taught, conducted, and composed. Prof. at the Escuela de Música
José Lorenzo Llamozas, director of the Dept. de Música de la Dirección de
Cultura of the Univ. Central of Venezuela, both in Caracas.
Works: Concerto, ob, harpsichord (1958); Suite, chamb orch (1959);
Obertura sinfónica (1963); Genocidio, symph poem (1970); Piano concerto
(1983-85). Chamb, pn, incidental stage, voc, ch music.
Sources: DMEH, EMV

Borbolla Téllez, Carlo (Carlos), Cuban composer and teacher; b.1 Feb
1902, Manzanillo, Cuba; d.12 Apr 1990, Havana. He studied piano with
Pierre Lucas, and harmony and composition with Louis F. M. Aubert in
Paris, France, 19273-1. He also studied organ with Constant Permín. In
1930, he returned to Manzanillo and dedicated to the manufacture of
organs.
Works: 25 Cuban studies; 20 habaneras; 25 rumbas; 35 sones; 5 suites;
Variaciones sobre Ma-Teodora; Variaciones sobre La Bayamesa. Vn, pn,
voc music.
Sources: DMC2, DMEH, GDM

Borda Camacho, Germán, Colombian composer, writer, and teacher; b.25

Jan 1935, Santafé de Bogotá, Colombia. He studied piano and Gregorian
chant with Raphael Lattion and also philosophy at the Univ. de los Andes in
Santafé de Bogotá. He received a music degree from the Univ. of Vienna
(1968) and joined the faculty at the Univ. de los Andes. He did postgraduate
studies with Alfred Uhl until 1970. His other profs. included Karl Schieske,
Otto Siegl and Thomas David. He studied piano and conducting with Luis
García and Darius Lapinskas at the Mozarteum of Salzburg, and music
history and film music with Luis Bakaloff at the Univ. of Rome. He taught
at the Externado de Colombia and the Univ. Nacional.
Works: Las monjas muertas, opera; Concerto grosso; Espacios, str orch;
Homenaje a Klee, orch; Concertante, vc, orch; Concertante, vn, orch;
Concierto en tres movimientos, ob d’amore, str orch; Collage sonoro
renacentista, ch; 4 Microestructuras, cl, pn; 4 Microestructuras, bsn, pn;
Visiones mediterráneas, fl, perc. Fl, ob, perc, pn, vn, vc music.
Sources: DMEH

Bordas, Jaime, Mexican composer and organist; b.19th century. He wrote

music for religious celebrations and was an organist at Santa Inés in Mexico
City. Little is known about his youth. He transcribed and orchestrated a
large number of liturgical music by the Spanish composer, Miguel Hilarión
Eslava y Elizondo (1807-1878). Several of his compositions survive in the
archives of the church of Santa Inés.
Works: Réquiem a la muerte de mi padre, ch, orch; Salve dolorosa, ch, orch
(1886); Missa solemne, ch, orch (1887); Mass, double ch, org (1885); Ave
verum, bs, orch.
Sources: DMEH

Borges, Joaquín, Mexican composer, conductor, and pianist; b.1954. He

graduated from the Liceo Franco Mexicano in Mexico City (1972) then
studied composition and conducting at the Cons. de Paris (1972-82).
Musical dir. for Lyrical Zarzuela’s Company (1984-98). Founder and dir. of
the Festival of Villahermosa Symph. Orch. from 2005. Artistic dir. of the
Orch. Filarmónica Euroamericana.
Works: Cuarteto No.1; Serenade (1993); Sinfonia sacra (1993); Suite Sofia,
op. 30 (1993).
Sources: GP

Boríslova, Nadezhda “Nadia” Borislavovna, Mexican composer and

guitarist of Russian birth; b.17 Jan 1969, Moscow. She graduated from the
Moscow School of Music (1984) and studied guitar and conducting at the
Cons. Estatal Gnesinij in Moscow (1988). She began teaching at
Benemérita Univ. Autónoma de Puebla (1994) and became a Mexican
citizen the following year. Dir. of the Festival Nacional de Guitarra in
Puebla from 1999. She studied guitar at UNAM (2009). In 2013, she joined
the faculty at the Univ. de las Américas Puebla. She won prizes for guitar
performance.
Works: El tren oceánico (1997). Gtr methods, articles, chapters.
Sources: GP

Boruszko Formañuk, Samuel, Venezuelan composer, conductor, and

violist of Argentine origin; b.26 Feb 1956, Buenos Aires, Argentina. His
family moved to Venezuela (June, 1956). He studied violin with Gilberto
Negrini, and saxophone with Luis Rivero in the State of Lara, Venezuela.
Later, he moved to Caracas, Venezuela, where he studied viola with
Gianfranco Farinas, José Francisco del Castillo, Penèlope Knuth, and Joén
Vásquez, piano with Lisbeth Graterol and Eunice Lluis, harmony,
counterpoint, fugue, and composition with Antonio Mastrogiovanni and
Alfredo Rugeles, choral conducting with Michel Eustache and Alberto
Grau, and orchestral conducting with Gonzalo Castellanos Yumar. He also
studied in the USA, in Nice, France, and in Venice, Italy. He was a violist in
several Venezuelan chamber ensembles, and conductor and violist in
several Venezuelan orchestras.
Works: Salmo 150, soloists, mixed ch, computer, fl, ob, cl, bsn, tpt, trb, tb,
timpani, perc. Chamb, ch music.
Sources: EMV

Bosmans, Arthur, Brazilian conductor, composer, and teacher of Belgian

origin; b.13 Oct 1908, Brussels, Belgium; d.14 May 1991, Belo Horizonte,
Minas Gerais, Brazil. A self-taught musician he entered the Société de
Auteurs et Compositeurs of Paris, France (1932), where he graduated as
composer. He settled in Brazil (1940) and was appointed conductor of the
Orq. Sinfônica Brasileira and the Orq. Pró-Música, both in Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil. Later, he moved to Belo Horizonte where he became permanent
conductor of the Orq. Sinfônica Estadual. Prof. of music at the Escola de
Música da Univ. Federal of Minas Gerais. Member of international musical
institutions.
Works: Le jardin des hespérides, ballet; Ainsi parla Maeterlinck, symph
poem; Concerto, pn, 2 hn; Lírica, suite; Suite sudaméricaine; La vie en
bleu, suite. Chamb, pn, voc music.
Sources: EMB2

Botet Dubois, María Enma, Cuban teacher and composer; b.10 Aug 1903,
Matanzas, Cuba; d.24 Aug 1989, Miami. She taught at the Hubert de
Blanck and Amadeo Roldán cons. Many of her works are used in Cuban
schools, especially the Suite cubana para piano.
Works: Danza bolero, pn (1937); Suite cubana (1956); Cajita de música
que toca una cubana. Pn, voc music; arrangements of children’s songs, pn;
versions of dances by Ignacio Cervantes and Manuel Saumell, 2 pn.
Sources: DMC, DMEH, IEW

Bottiroli, José Antonio, Argentine composer, teacher, and poet; b.1 Jan
1920, Rosario, Prov. of Santa Fe, Argentina; d.15 Mar 1990, Rosario. He
studied in Barcelona, Spain, with the musicologist José M. Llorens. Dir, of
the female vocal sextet, Juan María Gutiérrez.
Works: 13 works, orch; 5 works, ch ens; 17 works, instr ens; 56 works, pn.
Sources: CAMR, DMEH

Botto Vallarino, Carlos, Chilean composer; b.4 Nov 1923, Viña del Mar,
Chile. He studied in Valparaiso, Chile, and then at the Cons. of Santiago de
Chile, with Domingo Santa Cruz and Juan Orrego Salas. He continued
composition studies with Luigi Dallapiccola in New York, NY, USA. He
was appointed to the faculty of the Cons. Nacional de Música of Chile
(1952) and became instructor of composition at the Univ. Católica of Chile
(1969), both in Santiago de Chile.
Works: Str qt (1954); Diez preludios, pn (1955); Caprichos, pn (1958);
Fantasía, va, pn (1962). Pn, voc music.
Sources: BB, CTA14, DCM, DMEH, HMC

Boudet, Pedro, Cuban organist and composer; b.early 19th century,

Santiago de Cuba, Cuba; d.1880, Santiago de Cuba. Uncle of Silvano
Boudet. Organist at the Cathedral of Santiago de Cuba. Since 1878, he was
choirmaster at the same Cathedral.
Works: Mass, voc, orch music.
Sources: DMC, DMEH

Boudet, Silvano, Cuban violinist, pianist, and composer; b.27 Nov 1828,
Santiago de Cuba, Cuba; d.9 Mar 1863, Santiago de Cuba. Nephew of
Pedro Boudet. Cond. of the orchestra at the Cathedral of Santiago de Cuba.
Works: El canto del canario, vn; Recuerdo a mi madre, vn; El ave entre las
flores, vn; Pensamientos melancólicos, pn; La retozona, pn. Masses.
Sources: DMC, DMEH

Bracesco, Renzo, Peruvian composer and teacher; b.22 Oct 1888, Lima,
Peru; d.? He studied piano with Claudio Rebagliati in Lima. In Italy, he
studied harmony and counterpoint with Simplicio Gualco and piano with
Alberto Bersani, and later, at the Cons. of Milan, he studied composition
with Vincenzo Ferroni and piano with Giuseppe Frugatta. Prof. of music
theory at the Cons. di Musica of Milan (1923-28) and director of the Scuola
di Musica Monteverdi, also in Milan (1928-33). He returned to Lima after
World War II and was appointed director of the Escuela Regional de Música
del Norte in Trujillo, Peru.
Works: Misa en Fa, voc, org (1918); De profundis e requiem, ch (1920); O
salutaris hostia, voc, org (1923); Ave Maria, ch (1942); Laudate dominum,
voc, org (1943); Canto incaico, ch (1953); La rosa y el clavel, ch (1955).
Chamb music.
Sources: CTA1, DMEH, GDM

Braga, Ernani Costa, Brazilian composer, pianist, teacher, and music

critic; b.10 Jan 1888, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; d.20 Sep 1948, São Paulo,
Brazil. He studied at the Inst. Nacional de Música of Rio de Janeiro, with
Alfredo Bevilacqua. He founded the Cons. of Pernambuco, Brazil (1930)
and was its first dir. He studied Brazilian folklore.
Works: Prenda minha, based on Gaucho folklore; Cantigas praianas;
Jacaré, str qt; Trio, pn, vn, pn; Homenagem a Carlos Gómes, symph poem,
orch, ch. Voc, pn music.
Sources: DM, EMB2, HMB, MMLA

Braga, Francisco Antônio, Brazilian composer and conductor; b.15 Apr

1868, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; d.14 Mar 1945, Rio de Janeiro. He studied
clarinet at the Cons. de Música of Rio de Janeiro with Luiz Antonio de
Moura, and harmony with Carlos de Mesquita. He studied harmony with
Antoine Taudou and counterpoint with Jules Massenet in Paris, France.
Works: Chant d’automne, orch (1892); Paysage, programmatic music
(1892); Cauchemar, tone poem (1895); Episodio sinfónico (1898); Marabá,
symph poem (1898); História, orch (1898); Insônia, orch (1898); Jupira,
opera (1899); Elegía a Giuseppe Verdi, orch (1905); Variaçôes sobre um
tema brasileiro, orch (1905); O pranto da bandeira, orch (1906);
Epitalamio, orch (1921); Anita Garibaldi, opera (1912-22); Trio in G
minor, pn, vn, vc; Tango caprichoso, vn, pn; Toada, vc, pn or orch. Hino á
Bandeira, official patriotic song of the Brazilian Republic. Pn, voc music.
Bibl.: T. Gómes, Biography of Francisco Braga, Rio de Janeiro, 1937.
Exposição Comemorativa do Centenario do Nascimento de Francisco
Braga, Rio de Janeiro, 1968.
Sources: BB, DM, EMB2, HMB, MLA, MMLA

Braga, Henrique, Brazilian composer; b.15 Aug 1845, Campos, Brazil;

d.10 Jun 1917, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He studied harmony and composition
with Francois E.J. Bazin and piano with Antoine François Marmontel in
Paris, France. Prof. of piano in Campos, and in Macaé, Brazil. Prof. of
music theory and solfeggio in the Inst. Nacional de Música of Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil.
Works: Minueto, str qt. Pn, voc music.
Sources: EMB2, MMLA

Brandt Totolero, Augusto Félix, Venezuelan violinist and composer; b.10

Dec 1892, Puerto Cabello, Venezuela; d.16 Mar 1942, Caracas, Venezuela.
He began studying violin and piano with Anita Jahn de Wittstein and by the
age of ten had composed religious music and waltzes. With funding from
the literary review El Cojo Ilustrado (1903) he went to Europe to study for
three years. He returned to Caracas to study with Luis de Lorena y Ferriera,
then with a scholarship from the Venezuelan government he attended the
Real Cons. of Brussels, Belgium, to study violin with Cesar Thompsom. In
New York (USA) he worked as a violinist and pianist in small orchestral
ensembles. Until 1920 he was the first violinist of the Mark Strand Orch.
and of the Orq. de Rialto also participating in activities of the Pan American
Society. In December 1935 he returned to Venezuela and became dir. of the
Orq. Ford and Radio Caracas. He became artistic dir. for the La Voz de la
Philco (1936) and later of the Orq. de Conciertos de Radio Continente. He
also was an inspector of military bands until his death.
Works: Marcha triunfal, orch (1909); Himno patriótico Bolívar, ch, orch
(1930); Pan American Hymn, ch, orch (1934). Band, voc, pn, music.
Sources: DMEH

Bravo Benard, Héctor, Mexican composer, performer, and digital artist;

b.1975. He studied philosophy and composition at the Univ. of Victoria in
Canada. He studied computer music at the Xenakis Centre in Paris, and
sonology at the Koninklijk Cons. in The Hague. He taught digital sound
synthesis at the Univ. of Washington. He pursued doctoral studies at
UNAM and at the Univ. of Washington, where he focused on digital arts at
the Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS).
Works: Acteal, orch (2001); Styrotron, bowed styrofoam, live audio
processing (2007); Abismo Interno, tape (2012); La Reproduction Interdite,
gtr, electronics (2013); Pink Noise, sop; Sculptuur, cb, fl, electronics.
Sources: GP

Bringuer, María Estela, Argentine conductor and composer; b.3 Jun

1918/1926, Jujuy, Argentina. She studied composition with Manuel de Falla
and Jaime Pahissa and conducting with Clemens Krauss. She conducted the
Orch. of Radio Belgrano, the Filarmónica de Buenos Aires, the Sinfónica
Municipal, and the Orq. del Sodre in Montevideo. She conducted orchestras
in the USA including the American Symph. Orch., the New York
Philharmonic, the orch. at the Berkshire Music Center of Boston, the
Philadelphia Orch. and at univ. She received awards from ASCAP, the Inst.
of Modern Art in Washington and Columbia Univ.
Works: Tierra adentro, voc, pn (1941); Symphony no.1 “Earth”; Pn
Concerto in D, pn, orch (1967); Carnival in Humahuaca, ballet; Cold
Spring, vc, pn; Candombe, orch Ch, voc, pn, chamb music.
Sources: DMEH

Brncic Isaza, Gabriel Oliverio, Chilean composer; b.16 Feb 1942,

Santiago de Chile, Chile. He studied viola with Zoltan Fisher, oboe with
Gaetano Girardello, and composition with Gustavo Becerra Schmidt at the
Cons. Nacional de Música in Santiago de Chile. He studied composition
with Alberto Ginastera, analysis with Gerardo Gandini, and electronic
music with Francisco Kröpfl at the Inst. Torcuato Di Tella of Buenos Aires,
Argentina (1965-66). From 1967, he assisted Kröpfl and taught electronic
music at that Inst. He also studied engineering at the Univ. of Chile, 1960-
64. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship for Composition (1976).
Works: Oda a la energía, orch (1963); Octet, brasses (1966); Dialexis, 9
perc (1966); Momento, mortus est! vn, cl, tape (1967); Viola Concerto
(1967); Puerto Montt, female voc, ch, chamb orch, pn, tape (1969). Chamb,
electronic music.
Sources: DCM, DMEH, GDM, HMC

Bronfman, Benjamín, Argentine composer; b.26 Nov 1932, Buenos Aires,

Argentina. He studied piano, composition, and electroacoustic music with
Eugenio Rudnic at the Cons. Municipal Manuel de Falla, where he also
taught. His music contains aleatoric elements.
Works: Incontro nar, orch (1971); Improviso librico I, vn (1972); Voz
interior, nar, str qt (1979); Viola Concerto (1980). Ch, solo instr, mixed
media music.
Sources: DMEH

Brooks, Alfredo, Cuban conductor and composer; b.13 Dec 1884, Santiago
de Cuba, Cuba; d.? His teachers included María Mitchell and then he
studied at the Acad. Victor Herbert in the USA.
Works: Ave Maria, voc, pn; Ángelus, voc, orch; 3 qt. Pn, voc music.
Sources: DMC

Broqua, Alfonso, Uruguayan composer; b.11 Sep 1876, Montevideo,

Uruguay; d.24 Nov 1946, Paris, France. He studied with Vincent d’Indy at
the Schola Cantorum in Paris.
Works: La cruz del sur, opera (1918); Telen y Nagéey, Inca ballet (1934);
Isabelle, romantic ballet (1936); Tabaré, poetic cycle for soloists, female
ch, pn or orch (1908); Poema de las lomas, pn (1912); Pn Quintet (1914);
Tres cantos del Uruguay, voc, fl, 2 gtr (1925); Cantos de Paraná, voc, gtr
(1929); Evocaciones criollas, 7 pieces, gtr (1929). Pn, gtr, voc music.
Sources: BB, BHMCU, CTA16, DM, DMEH, MLA, MU

Brouwer, Leo, Cuban composer, conductor, and guitarist; b.1 Mar 1939,
Havana, Cuba. He studied in the USA with Vincent Persichetti and Stefan
Wolpe at The Juilliard School of Music in New York, NY, and with Isadore
Freed at Hartt College in Hartford, CT. Administrator at Radio Havana.
Prof. of harmony and counterpoint (1961), and composition (1963) at the
Cons. Amadeo Roldán of Havana. Director of the Dept. Experimental del
Inst. Cubano de Arte e Industria Cinematográficos.
Works: Sonograma, prepared pn (1963); Dos conceptos del tiempo, 10
players (1965); Conmutaciones, prepared pn, 2 perc (1966); Tropos, orch
(1967); Hexahedron, 6 players (1969); Flute concerto (1972); Ludus
metallicus, saxophone qt (1972); Basso continuo I, bcl, magnetic tape
(1972); Per suonare a due, gtr, magnetic tape (1972); Concerto, gtr, chamb
orch (1972); El gran zoo, text by Nicolás Guillén, nar, soloists, ch, orch
(1972); Controversias, 2 orch, 2 conductors (1972); Esteban Salas ha
venido, 11 str instr (1973); Cantata de Chile, text by Patricio Manns, male
ch, orch (1974); Concerto, vn, orch (1976); La región más transparente,
orch (1976-77).
Sources: BB, DCM, DMEH, DMC

Bueno Arévalo, Julio Fernando, Ecuadorian composer, pianist, and

conductor; b.11 Nov 1958, Loja, Ecuador. He studied at the Cons. Salvador
Bustamante Celi of Loja. With a scholarship he studied composition and
conducting at the Cons. of Music Gheorghe Dima of Cluj Napoca, Romania
(1976-82). Prof. of harmony, form, piano, and conducting at the Cons.
Salvador Bustamante Celi of Loja. Founding member and coordinator of
Centro de Estudios Superiores de Música of Loja. Founder and director of
the Banda Sinfónica del Municipio and the Dept. de Desarrollo y Difusión
Musical del Distrito Metropolitano, both of Quito. He helped create the
Cons. del Sur of Quito.
Works: Andarele, orch; Cantata amerindia (1980); Tres piezas, orch (1982).
Chamb, ch, film music.
Sources: DMEH, MG
Buiani, Elena, Argentine composer and pianist; b.19 Jan 1956, Buenos
Aires, Argentina. She studied piano and composition at the Cons. Carlos
López Buchardo. Together with Sergio Bungs and Cecilia Fiorentino she
founded Agrupación de Compositores Argentinos Noveles (1985), later
known as the Agrupación Nueva Generación de Compositores Argentinos.
She combines arts including her photography, with her music.
Works: Cantata, ch, orch (1986); Caminando, mez sop, pn (1988); Alerta,
peligro … planeta azul, electronics. Voc, popular, film, theater, instr music.
Sources: DMEH

Builes Gómez, Monsignor Miguel Angel, Colombian composer; b.9 Sep

1888, Donmatías, Antioquia, Colombia; d.29 Sep 1971, Medellín,
Colombia. A self-taught musician, he was Catholic bishop at the diocese of
Santa Rosa de Osos.
Works: Sacred music.
Sources: DMEH, LCRA

Buitrago, Félix Pedro, Nicaraguan pianist and composer; b.1865, León,

Nicaragua; d. 1923, ? He organized recitals in Nicaragua.
Works: Misa de Gloria; Misa de requiem. Pn music.
Sources: DMEH

Buitrago Molina, Pablo, Nicaraguan composer and conductor; b.7 Apr

1954, Managua, Nicaragua. He studied composition and conducting. He
conducted and composed for the Orq. de Cámara Nacional and the
orchestra of the Escuela Nacional de Música from 1980. He arranged and
revised works by other Nicaraguan composers including Alejandro Vega
Matus, José de la Cruz Mena, Luis Abraham Delgadillo, Ramiro Vega, and
Alberto Gutiérrez Laguna. His music is atonal and dodecaphonic.
Works: Preludio y danza, orch; La Guerra, synth, wind, perc; Mazurca
nica, orch; Fijación, orch; Cinco piezas típicas nicaragüenses, str trio; Las
comadres, ten, pn; Memento, sop, gtr; Pn sonata; Estudio, gtr.
Sources: DMEH

Buligovich de Ventura, Rita, Argentine composer and pianist of Bulgarian

origin.
Works: El gráfico de la petenera, orch; Siete cancioncillas, sop, fl, pn, perc;
Variaciones, wind qnt.
Sources: VMA

Bungs, Sergio, Argentine composer; b.7 Jan 1963, Tres Arroyos, Prov. of
Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied at the Cons. Nacional de Música
Carlos López Buchardo of Buenos Aires, with Fermina Casanova, Virtú
Maragno, and Valdo Sciammarella. Founding member of Nueva
Generación de Compositores Argentinos.
Works: Preludios, pn (1985); El aguila que desaparece, (1985); Sonata, pn
(1986); Suite, 4-hands pn (1986); La matrona de Efeso, ballet (1988); El
mar, bar, orch (1989); Diálogos (1988); Diez brevísimos dúos de amor
(1989).
Sources: DMM

Burger, Carlos Reinaldo, Argentine conductor and composer of German

origin; b.20 Apr 1946, Nievenheim, Germany. He studied at the Staatliche
Musik Hochschule in Cologne, Germany, and at the Cons. Nacional de
Música Carlos López Buchardo and the Inst. of the Teatro Colón, both of
Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Works: Requiem breve, soloists, ch, orch, org; Str Qt; Suite, orch; Trio,
bandoneon, cl, vc; Nada te turbe, cantata. Voc, org music.
Sources: DMEH, VMA

Bustamante, Ignacio, Venezuelan pianist and composer; b.second half of

the 19th century, Caracas, Venezuela; d.2 Aug 1921, Caracas. He studied
music with Juan Bautista Abreu. Founding member of the Academia
Nacional de Bellas Artes of Caracas. Chapelmaster at the parochial church
Santa Ana and at the Cathedral, both in Caracas.
Works: Sacred, orch, symph band, ch music.
Sources: DMEH, EMV

Bustamante, José María, Mexican composer, bassist, and teacher; b.19

Mar 1777, Toluca, Mexico; d.4 Dec 1861, Mexico City, Mexico. Orphaned
as an adolescent, he became the ward of the Count of Santiago then the
administrator of the estate. He spent two years confined in the Convent of
Mercedarios de México for failed political activity (1810-12). He sought
asylum in the Temple of la Profesa and became a double bass player in the
orchestra there under José Ochoa. He composed for and conducted at the
Cathedral in Santa Clara, San Francisco, and the Church of la Concepción.
He taught at the Acad. Filarmónica, Mexico City, founded by José Mariano
Elízaga (1824). He was a member of the Supremo Congreso Constituyente
(1824).
Works: México libre, melodrama, text by Francisco Ortega (1921); Hymns
and religious music.
Sources: DMEH

Bustamante Celi, Salvadore, Ecuadorian composer, pianist and organist;

b.10 Mar 1876, Loja, Ecuador; d. 8 Mar 1935, Loja, Ecuador. He studied in
Loja with Miguel Cabrera at the Escuela de Hermanos Cristianos. With a
scholarship from the town council of Loja (1889) he traveled to Quito to
study leather making at the Escuela de Artes y Oficios and music with
Aparicio Córdova and Pablo Ramos. He traveled to Lima (1906) to study
harmony, orchestration, counterpoint, and fugue. He was organist in the
Cathedral of Lima and taught at institutions and in Peruvian homes. He
returned to Ecuador (1910) because of the frontier conflict with Peru then
enrolled in the military. He returned to Loja (1913) where he composed,
taught in the Bernardo Valdiviezo preparatory school, and organized
musical groups including the Septeto Lojano and the police bands of the
Sociedad de Obreros de Loja. He was organist in the Cathedral of Loja for
25 years.
Works: 2 requiem masses; Misa de la coronación; Misa solemne; Plegaria
a la Santísima Virgen María; Alaú, sop, fl, str orch; Lojanita, orch.
Marches, hymns.
Souce: DMEH

Bustillos, Freddy, Bolivian teacher and composer; b.1 Jun 1945, Tarija,
Bolivia. He studied at the Escuela Nacional de Maestros Mariscal Sucre of
Chuquisaca, Bolivia, from which he graduated in 1966. Music teacher at
public and private schools in La Paz, Bolivia. Conductor of the chorus San
Pedro of La Paz.
Works: 2 pn concertos; Violin Concerto; 4 sonatas, pn; Una cantata de la
pasión; Surinama, ch poem; La Pachamama; Nostalgias, pn. Marches;
hymns.
Sources: DMEH, CB
Busto, Ángel del, Puerto Rican bassoonist and composer; b.22 Feb 1896,
Ponce, Puerto Rico; d.17 Oct 1973. He started music studies in Santurce,
Puerto Rico. he moved to the USA (1915) and during WWI, was sent to
France where he studied at the Cons. National de Musique of Paris and at
the Ecole de Chaumont. He returned to the USA (1919) and continued
studying in the Governor’s Island Band Masters School in New York City,
NY. In 1922, he graduated as bassoonist from the New York Inst. for
Musical Art. He became instructor at the American Orch. Society in 1923,
and in 1924, was appointed prof. at the New York Inst. for Musical Art. He
received a DM degree at the Soellner Cons. of Hollywood, CA, USA. He
was principal bassoonist at the Symph. Orch., the Metropolitan Opera
Orch., both of New York City, USA, and the Detroit Symph. Orch., Detroit,
MI, USA. He taught at the Univ. of Wayne, Detroit.
Works: Homenaje a Bach, double fugue; Suite in D minor; Malagueña,
flamenco march; Doce danzas caribes, orch; Cuatro danzas, 2 pn.
Sources: DMEH, MMLA
 C
Caamaño, Roberto, Argentine composer and concert pianist; b.7 Jul 1923,
Buenos Aires, Argentina; d.8 Jun 1993, Buenos Aires. He studied
composition with Athos Palma at the Cons. Nacional de Música Carlos
López Buchardo of Buenos Aires, 1939-46. He also studied piano with
Amelia Cocq de Weingand and Fritz Masbach. Artistic dir. of the Teatro
Colón of Buenos Aires (1961-64). Prof. at the Univ. Nacional del Litoral,
Rosario, Prov.of Santa Fe, Argentina (1949-52). In 1964, he was appointed
prof. at the Univ. Católica Argentina of Buenos Aires, where he became
dean of the Facultad de Artes y Ciencias Musicales in 1966. In 1969, he
became a member of the Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes. President of
the Consejo Argentino de la Música (1969-73); dir. of the Complejo de
Música of the Secretaría de Cultura (1976-77), member of the Fondo
Nacional de las Artes (1980-83), all in Buenos Aires.
Works: Psalmus CXLIX, ch, orch (1948); Suite for strings (1949);
Variaciones Americanas, orch (1953); Magnificat, ch, orch (1954);
Bandoneon Concerto (1954); Preludio, adagio y fuga (1954); Música para
cuerdas (1957); 2 piano concertos (1957, 1971); Cantata para la paz
(1966); Harp Concerto (1973); Guitar Concerto (1974); Balada, sop, cl,
Yamaha WX7, tape (1991); 2 str qt; Quintet, pn, str. Ch, voc, pn music.
Bibl.: N. Cenal, Roberto Caamaño (1923), Historia del Teatro Colón,
Buenos Aires, 1969; Apuntes para la Formación del Pianista Profesional,
Buenos Aires, 1979; Revista del Inst. de Investigación Musicológica Carlos
Vega, No.7, Buenos Aires, 1986.
Sources: BB, CA, CTA8, DCM, DM, DMEH, DMM, EMA

Caba, Eduardo, Bolivian composer; b.12 or 13 Oct 1890, Potosí, Bolivia;

d.3 Mar 1953, La Paz, Bolivia. He studied first with his mother, Adelina
Balsalia, and later in Buenos Aires, Argentina, he studied harmony with
Eduardo Melgar and counterpoint with Felipe Boero. In Spain, he studied
with Joaquín Turina and Bartolomé Pérez Casas. In 1942, he was appointed
dir. of the Cons. Nacional de Música y Declamación of La Paz.
Works: Doce aires indios, pn; Once canciones de cámara; Kollana, ballet;
Potosí, pantomime; El poema de la quena, pn, ob, fl; El poema del
charango, pn, orch; Leyenda quechua, pn; Himno al sol. Sonatas, pn.
Sources: CB, DM, DMEH, EMA, MLA

Caballero Farfán, Policarpo, Peruvian composer and musicologist; b.26

Jan 1896, Pomacanchi, Prov. of Acomayo, Cuzco, Peru; d.14 Nov 1973,
Pomacanchi, Acomayo, Peru. He studied mandolin with Alvina Leandro
Miranda and attended the Cons. Nacional in Lima, where he studied with
Virgil Lagui and Enrique Fava. In Argentina, he studied composition in
Tucumán and Buenos Aires. He organized the Compañía Lírica Incaica
with native artists. While touring with this group throughout Peru, he
collected over 6000 traditional melodies. He organized and conducted the
Conjunto Acomayo (1928-35), comprising farmers and indigenous artists.
They performed at theaters in Cuzco and Lima and won a national first
prize and the Copa Presidente Benvides. He conducted ethnomusicological
studies in ancient music in Peru and northern Argentina with a scholarship
from the Nacional de Cultura de la República Argentina (1943-46).
Works: Pomacanchi; Suplico de Tupac Amaru, opera; Sumaq Llaki; Danza
Sagrada Inka; El Inka en Akllawasi, opera; Condemayta, Incaica poem;
Ayarachi, funeral march.
Bibl.: La Música Incaica; Los Instrumentos Musicales Peruanos.
Sources: DM, DMEH, MLA, MMLA

Cabero, Telésforo, Argentine composer and pianist: b. 1830/1831,

Mendoza, Prov. of Mendoza, Argentina; d.1871, Mendoza. He started his
musical studies in Mendoza and completed them in Chile with Fernando
Guzmán. Most of his compositions were lost.
Works: Recuerdos del Challao; El terremoto de Mendoza; Tempestad en el
Cabo de Hornos.
Sources: DM, DMEH, EMA

Cabezas Espinoza, Estela, Chilean pianist, composer, and teacher; b.28 Jul
1922, Temuco, Chile; d.7 Jan 2011, Viña del Mar. She began her musical
studies in Temuco. She studied piano with Rosita Renard (1940-44), piano
and composition with René Amengual Astaburuaga (1952-54). She also
studied composition with Pedro Humberto Allende (1945), Juan Orrego
Salas, Federico Heinlein, and Juan Pablo Izquierdo at the Pontificia Univ.
Católica (1962-64). She has spoken internationally on teaching methods she
espoused in her book, Música en colores (1960), in cities such as New
York, São Paulo, and Colonia.
Works: Estudios melódicos, vc, pn; Al salir de la prisión, voc, pn (1959);
Sonata, vn, pn; When We Are Men, ch (1960). Voc, ch, vc, pn music.
Sources: DMEH

Cabrer, Carlos, Puerto Rican composer; b.17 Sep 1950, San Juan, Puerto
Rico. He studied composition with Rafael Aponte Ledée at the Univ. of
Puerto Rico. In 1978, he received a MM from the Univ. of Michigan where
he studied composition with H. Owen Reed, Jere Hutchinson, and David
Liptack. He taught music at the Univ. of Puerto Rico, in Río Piedras. He
served as president of the Assoc. Nacional de Compositores Portorriqueños.
Works: Canción para un amigo, sop, va (1978); La rota voz del agua, sop,
fl, gtr, vc (1982); Ceremoniales, orch (1984); El lago de los sueños, orch
(1984-85); El libro de la memoria, gtr (1988).
Sources: DMEH

Cabrera, Ana Schneider de (pseud. Anastasio Leiva), Argentine

composer, guitarist, and folklorist; b.14 Dec 1890, Simoca, Prov. of
Tucumán, Argentina; d.15 May 1970, Argentina. She began her first music
lessons at the Simoca Church. Blind from age 14, she took up guitar and
studied in Buenos Aires with Leloup Hilarion. In Córdoba, Argentina, she
studied music and took guitar lessons from Andrés Segovia. She directed
the Teatro Odeón la Compañia Arte de América along with Alfredo Guido
and Manuel Gómez Carrillo from 1925. She studied northern Argentine
folklore and indigenous music and traveled on behalf of the Ministerio de
Educación giving lectures and recitals at the Sorbonne in Paris. Her
research on ancient Latin American culture is documented in her book,
Rutas de América (1941).
Works: Porqué me estás mirando, voc, gtr; Serie de cantos nativos and
Danzas y canciones argentinas, collection of northern Argentine folk
music.
Sources: DM, EMA
Cabrera, Fernando, Uruguayan composer, guitarist, and poet; b.8 Dec
1956, Montevideo, Uruguay. He studied harmony, theory, and guitar with
Noemí Porratti. In 1976 he began composition studies at the Cons. Univ. de
Uruguay with Pedro Ipuche Riva, Juan José Navarro, and Federico García
Vigil. He studied contemporary music, composition, and instrumentation
with Graciela Paeaskevaidis and Coriún Aharonián (1978-81). He lived in
Bolivia in the late 1980s and became interested in Bolivian composer
Sergio Prudencio ‘s Orch. Experimental de Instrumentos Nativos de la Paz.
Works: Durana, orch; Ventanía y Pugliese, str, maderas, perc, band; En el
cuerda floja, 2 gtr.
Sources: DMEH

Cabrera Berg, Silvia María Pires, Brazilian pianist, conductor, teacher,

and composer; b.4 Apr 1958, São Paulo, Brazil. She studied piano with
Amilcar Zanni, composition with Willy Correa de Oliveira, and conducting
with Ronaldo Bologna at the Univ. of São Paulo, where she would
ultimately teach. In 1984, she studied in Europe on a scholarship from the
CNPQ (National Scientific Research Center). She studied conducting at
Copenhagen Univ. in 1985 and led the Ens. Øresund of Contemporary
Music in Copenhagen (1998-2000). She conducted the AmaCantus from
1998.
Works: Pêndulo, pn (2005); Chamb, pn, solo instr, voc music.
Sources: IEW

Cáceres, Eduardo, Chilean composer; b.28 Feb 1955, Santiago de Chile,

Chile. He studied guitar, trumpet, and percussion at the Univ. of Chile and
graduated in 1980 then continued composition at the Facultad de Artes de la
Univ. de Chile with Cirilio Vila. With a scholarship from La Socidedad
Amigos del Arte (1987) he received a degree in composition. He is a
founding member of the Agrupación Musical Anacrusa de Santiago and
was part of the board of directors of the Asociación Nacional de
Compositores de Chile. In 1982 he received first prize in the 5th
composition competition at the Univ. Católica de Chile and in the J. W.
Goethe Competition. In 1983 he traveled to the Federal Republic of
Germany, where he was commissioned by the Goethe Inst. to compose and
conduct. In 1988 he was invited to conduct and compose for radio
programs, and lecture in Germany. After returning to Chile he regularly
participated in a variety of conferences in South America.
Works: Proceso … después de la muerte, perc, pn (1976); Sendas (o En
busca del origen), ch, ob, vc, 3 perc (1977); Variaciones Siete velos de un
prisma, str orch, pn (1982); Las preguntas, bar, orch (1985); Metalmambo
(1994); La venganza de Krimhilda, cl, vn, pn, processed pn (1992). Voc,
film, chamb music.
Sources: DMEH

Cáceres, Germán Gustavo, Salvadoran composer and conductor; b.9 Jul

1954, San Salvador, El Salvador. He studied harmony, counterpoint, and
music form with Ion Cubicec and Esteban Servellón in San Salvador. He
studied oboe and chamber music with Ronald Roseman and composition
with Stanley Wolfe at The Juilliard School of Music of New York, NY,
USA, 1977-78. While in New York, he also studied composition with Julián
Orbón and conducting with José Serebrier. He earned a DMA degree from
the Univ. of Cincinnati, OH, USA (1989), where he studied composition
with Jonathan Kramer. Dir. of the Dept. de Música of the Centro Nacional
de las Artes, San Salvador. Principal conductor of the Orq. de Cámara of El
Salvador (1979-84) and principal conductor and music dir. of the Orq.
Sinfónica of El Salvador, 1985.
Works: Yulcuicat, suite (1973); Harp Concerto (1977); Estancias, sop
(1979); Piano Concerto (1981); Symphony (1983); Diferencias (1988);
Violin Concerto (1989); En mi muerte conjurada, sop (1990). Chamb, pn,
voc, solo instr music.
Sources: DMEH, ISC

Caesar, Rodolfo, Brazilian composer and teacher; b.29 Jan 1950, Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil. He studied at the Inst. Villa-Lobos and at FEFIERJ, both in
Rio de Janeiro, with Marlene Fernandes, Bohumil Med, and Reginaldo de
Carvalho. He furthered his music studies at the Cons. of Paris, France, with
Pierre Schaeffer. He also studied philosophy at the Inst. de Filosofía e
Ciências Sociais of UFRJ. Founding member of the electroacoustic
laboratory Estúdio da Gloria. Prof. of music at the Cons. de Música and
Univ. Estácio de Sá, both in Rio de Janeiro. He received a Doctorate in
electroacoustic composition in England, 1992. Vice-president of the
Sociedade Brasileira de Música Electroacústica and prof. at the Escola de
Música y Tecnología of UFRJ.
Works: Introdução a Pedra (1989); Volta reionda (1992-93); Revoluçôes
industriais (1993); A noite em concha (1993-94); Nemietoia (1995);
Círculos ceifados (1997).
Sources: EMB2

Cajar Escala, José Luis, Panamanian composer and conductor; b.1914,

Panama; d.1982, Panama. He studied composition with Roque Cordero and
conducting with Sergiu Celibidache. He also studied with Máximo Arrate
and Pedro Rebolledo at the Cons. Nacional. He replaced Luis Antonio
García as first trumpet player with the Orq. Nacional and served in that role
for many years. He also traveled to and worked in Mexico. His orchestral
and chamber works employ folkloric elements. He directed the Banda
Republicana and taught trumpet at the Inst. Nacional de Música.
Works: Etampas panameñas; Tres miniaturas; Ensayo para orquesta;
Quinteto, sop, cl, vn, va, vc; Fuga para cuarteto viento; Siete Piezas, vn,
pn; Preludios para piano; Sonata para piano.
Sources: DMEH

Calabró, Domingo S., Argentine composer of Italian origin; b.19 Nov

1910, Messina, Sicily, Italy; d.? He settled in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and
in 1927, he entered the Cons. Nacional de Música Carlos López Buchardo
of Buenos Aires, where he studied under Edmundo Weingand, Constantino
Gaito, Ricardo Rodríguez, and José Gil. Dir. of the Escuela de Música of
the Penitenciaría Nacional. Cond. of the Banda Municipal of Buenos Aires.
Works: Bufón, overture; Misa de cámara; Cuarteto breve; Pequeña balada;
Huella. Pn, voc music.
Sources: DM, DMEH, EMA

Calandra, Matilde Tettamanti de, Argentine composer, guitarist, and

teacher; b.19 Jan 1909, La Plata, Argentina; d.7 Aug 1995. She studied
guitar and composition at the Cons. Carlos López Buchardo – where she
would later teach –then continued guitar with Maria Luisa Anido,
composition with Alberto Ginastera, and orchestration with Floro M.
Ugarte. After 1946 she gave concerts throughout Argentina. She founded a
quartet (1954), was a part of the Quienteto Argentino de Guitarras (1947-
51), and served on the board of the Academia Argentina de la Guitarra.
Works: Triste (1937); Aire de zamaba (1950); Guitar Concerto (1964);
Duerme mi niño. Accompanied voc music.
Sources: DMEH

Calandrelli, Jorge, Argentine composer, arranger, and conductor; b.31 Dec

1939, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied piano with Guillermo Iscla,
harmony, counterpoint, and composition with Jacobo Ficher, Roberto
García Morillo, and Carlos Guastavino, and contemporary composition
with Gerardo Gandini. He also studied composition and orchestration in
Hamburg, Germany (1959-62). He returned to Argentina, arranged works
for CBS records, and began a career performing jazz. He worked in Los
Angeles as an arranger and composer of film music and popular music. He
received many Grammy nominations, several wins, and was nominated for
the Academy Award.
Works: 5 Chorinhos vc, ens; Alma Brasileira; The Five Seasons, chamb
orch, jazz trio; Solfeggietto/Metamorphosis, orch, jazz trio; Concerto for
Jazz Clarinet and Orchestra; El Gato, pn; Ragtime Evocations, pn.
Sources: CW, DMEH

Calcagno, Elsa, Argentine composer and pianist; b.19 Oct 1905/1910,

Buenos Aires, Argentina; d.25 Mar 1978, Buenos Aires. She studied piano
with Eduardo Melgar at the Inst. Musical Fontova and then with Ricardo
Rodríguez and José André at the Cons. Nacional de Música Carlos López
Buchardo of Buenos Aires. Other instructors included Pascual de Rogatis,
Floro Ugarte, José Gil, and Constantino Gaito. She continued study in
orchestration with Roberto Kinsky and Ferrucio Calusio. From 1951, she
focused on folklore and indigenous music and began studying music in
Chile (1960). She founded the Organización Musical Premio Carlota M. P.
de Calcagno (1961) in memory of her mother. Prof. of music in the school
system of the Consejo Nacional de Educación of Buenos Aires.
Works: Piano Concerto (1935); El rosal de las ruinas (1935-36); Plenilunio
en un balneario del Río de la Plata, orch (1938); Postreras visiones,
symphchoreographic poem (1938-39); Boda en el jardín, children’s comedy
(1939); Siete bocetos sinfónicos de expression, orch (1940); Fantasía, pn
(1941); El arroyo de las tres hermanas, ballet (1942-43); Sinfonía
dramática a una mujer, ch (1953); Suite sinfónica (1954); Tema con
variaciones (1955); Sonatina para guitarra (1963). Chamb, pn, voc music.
Sources: CA, DM, DMEH, DMM, EMA

Calcano Arcila, Miguel Ángel, Venezuelan organist, composer, and

pianist; b.2 Jan 1904, Caracas Venezuela; d.1 Mar 1958, Caracas,
Venezuela. He was a civil engineer and had a doctorate in mathematics
from the Univ. Central de Venezuela. He worked as an engineer while
pursuing his musical activities. He studied composition and in the 1920s
was organist at the cathedral of Caracas. He formed several choral groups.
His music is predominantly contrapuntal.
Works: Misa de la Inmaculada, ch, orch; Lacrymosa, soloist, orch (1927);
O Salutaris, 3 voc (1939); Guitar Sonata, 3 gtr. Religious, ch, pn music,
creole waltzes.
Sources: DMEH

Calcaño Calcaño, José Antonio, Venezuelan composer, conductor,

teacher, and musicologist; b.23 Mar 1900, Caracas, Venezuela; d.11 Sep
1980, Caracas. He started his musical education with his father, Emilio
Calcaño Sanavria, and later, he studied piano, music theory, composition,
and music history with Ignacio Bustamante and Salvador Llamozas at the
Escuela Superior de Música in Caracas, 1911-19, and piano at the Bern
Cons., Switzerland, with Luc Balmer, 1936. He was appointed to the faculty
of the Univ. of Caracas. He organized an indigenous choir, Coro Creole,
and was conductor of the Orfeón Lamas (male singing society) and the
Coral Polifónica de Caracas. Dir. and prof. of the Escuela de Música Padre
Sojo, Caracas. Founder and dir. of the Cons. Teresa Carreño, and prof. at
the Univ. Central de Venezuela, both in Caracas.
Works: Mirando en Rusia, ballet; Symphony No. 1; 2 str qt. Voc, ch music.
Bibl.: La Ciudad y su Música: Crónica Musical de Caracas, Caracas, 1958;
Cuatrocientos Años de Música Caraqueña, Caracas, 1967.
Sources: BB, CTA14, DMEH, EMV, GDM, MLA

Calcaño Díaz, Luis, Venezuelan composer and engineer; b.23 Oct 1907,
Caracas, Venezuela; d.3 Dec 1978. He studied engineering at the Univ.
Central de Venezuela and music with Juan Bautista Plaza and Vicente
Emilio Sojo at the Escuela de Música y Declamación (today José Angel
Lamas) of Caracas. He was a founding member and vice-president of the
Symph. Orch. of Venezuela in 1930 in which he played violin and viola. He
also played viola in the radio station, Broadcasting Caracas.
Works: Andante sinfónico (1946); Nocturno en modo dórico (1947);
América, symph poem (1954); Fantasía sinfónica; Tamaré, symph poem.
Sources: DMEH, EMV

Calcaño y Paniza, Eduardo, Venezuelan composer, violinist, pianist,

writer, lawyer, and statesmen of Colombian birth; b.10 Dec 1831,
Cartagena, Bolivar, Colombia; d.27 Nov 1904, Caracas. He founded a cons.
in Caracas in 1868. Dir. of the Academia de Música of the Inst. de Bellas
Artes, founding member of the Academia Venezolana de la Lengua, and
president of the Unión Filarmónica.
Works: Vorrei Essere, voc, vc; Recitaciones al piano; Amor imposible; El
corazón y la flor; En el mar; Salva me, Domine; La via dolorosa. Religious,
pn music.
Sources: EMV

Calcavecchia, Benone, Uruguayan composer of Italian origin; b.27 Jun

1886, Messina, Sicily, Italy; d.15 Jan 1953, Montevideo, Uruguay. He
settled in Uruguay in 1907. He studied trumpet with Ignacio Colloriti in
Italy. In Montevideo, he studied harmony and counterpoint with José Tomás
Mujica. Dir. of the Banda Municipal of Montevideo. Founder of the Escuela
Municipal de Música of Montevideo. He promoted the creation of the Orq.
Sinfónica of the SODRE.
Works: Pastorale (1926); Hymn to the Uruguayan Soccer Game (1927);
Overture (1929); Visiones del Ganges (1930); Marcha del centenario
(1930); Suite Uruguay (1931); Impresiones nocturnas, overture. Marches;
waltzes; dances.
Sources: BHMCU, DM, DMEH, MLA, MMLA, MU

Calderón, Francisco A., Chilean composer and pianist; 11 Mar 1853,

Quillota, Chile; d.ca.1905. He studied under Ramón Galarce and Francisco
Oliva and received a number of lessons from Louis Moreau Gottschalk. A
skilled pianist, he performed, taught, and composed in Chile (Santiago,
Valparaíso, Quillota, La Serena, Copiapó, Antofagasta, and Talca), Bolivia
(Cochabamba, La Paz), and Peru (Tacna). He organized concerts, promoted
his music through various organizations he created, such as the Club
Musical, and collaborated with cultural institutions. He was a producer at
the theaters Victoria, Nacional y Odeón de Valparaíso and author of various
theoretical works on music and art. By 1895 he had published more than
100 works for the piano and was considered the most prolific Chilean writer
of operettas.
Works: La tristeza (El cisne), op.8, no.1, voc, pn (1887); La vida humana,
op.8, no.2, 2 voc, pn; Los ojos negros, op.11, voc, pn (1889); Las cadenas,
op.12, voc, gtr; La bombera, op.1 pn (1894); ¡Viva el Brasil!, op.29, pn
(1897).
Sources: DMEH

Calderón, Vidal, Venezuelan composer; b.16 Nov 1877, Egido, Mérida,

Venezuela; d.1936, Maracaibo, Venezuela. At 8, he went to Maracaibo,
where he studied piano with Juan C. Delgado, violin with Julio Añez Puchi,
and composition with Graciossi, Carbonelle, and Antonio Carmona. Asst.
conductor of the Banda of the State of Zulia, Venezuela, in 1916. Conductor
of the Banda Municipal of Maracaibo.
Works: Ensueño de amor, operetta (1915); Un viejo prudente, zarzuela
(1910); Las siete palabras (1917); Mass for 4 voices (1928); Requiem, 4
voc, ch (1930). Religious music; waltzes; patriotic marches.
Sources: EMV, MMLA

Calderón Ramón, Jesús Antonio, Venezuelan composer, pianist, teacher,

and priest; b.7 Jul 1921, San Juan de Colón, Táchira, Venezuela;d.20 Dec
1997, Los Teques, Miranda, Venezuela. He started music studies with
Father Ricardo Alterio. In 1948, he entered the Escuela de Música José
Angel Lamas of Caracas, Venezuela, and later, he studied composition with
Primo Casale and attended a course in contemporary techniques of
composition taught by Yannis Ioannidis in Caracas. He was a Salesian
priest and teacher. He won the 1962 Premio Nacional de Música.
Works: Sonata, str orch. Religious, chamb music.
Sources: EMV

Calderón Sáenz, Claudia, Colombian composer and pianist; b.12 May

1959, Palmira, Valle del Cauca, Colombia. At the Cons. Antonio María
Valencia in Cali, Colombia, she studied piano with Mary Fernández de
Bolduc and composition and counterpoint with Alvaro Ramírez Sierra, and
at the Dept. de Música of the Univ. del Valle, harmony and counterpoint
with León J. Simar. Later, she studied at the Cons. of the Univ. Nacional of
Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia, piano with Patricia Pérez and Pablo Arévalo.
In 1981, she studied piano with Diehter de la Motte at the Musikhochschule
in Hannover, Germany. Pianist with the Orq. Sinfónica Juvenil of
Colombia. In 1987, she settled in Venezuela where she taught chamber
music at the Cons. Simón Bolívar and the Inst. Superior de Estudios
Musicales, both in Caracas, Venezuela.
Works: Sueño de Agbadyá, orch (1997); Suite llanera, orch (2000); El
cruzao; Gabán, Chipola & Pajarillo; Revuelta Tuyera. Chamb, pn music.
Sources: DMEH, LCRA

Calligaris, Sergio, Argentine pianist, teacher, and composer; b.22 Jan

1941, Rosario, Prov. of Santa Fe, Argentina. He began to study piano with
Domingo Scarafia. Then, he studied with Arthur Loesser at the Cleveland
Inst. of Music, Cleveland, OH, USA, 1964-66, and later, with Guido Agosti
at the Accademia di Musica Santa Cecilia in Rome, Italy. He taught at the
Cleveland Inst. of Music, the California State Univ. at Los Angeles, CA,
USA, the Cons. Reale di Musica San Pietro a Majella in Naples, and the
Cons. Alfredo Casella in L’Aquila, the last two in Italy. In 1974, he settled
in Italy and became an Italian citizen. He concertized and recorded well into
his 70s.
Works: Tema e variazioni, op.5b, vn, vc, pn (1958, rev.1977); Concerto,
op.25, str orch (1989); Piano Concerto, op.29; Clarinet concerto, op.38, cl,
pn; Panis Angelicus, op.47, pn, mixed ch; Flute concerto, op.50. Chamb,
pn, ch music.
Sources: BB

Calvo, Luis Antonio, Colombian composer, pianist, violinist, and cellist;

b.28 Aug 1882, Gámbita, Santander, Colombia; 22 Apr 1945, Agua de
Dios, Colombia. He started to study music with the Salesian Fathers in his
native town, and then, continued in Tunja with the conductor of the local
band, Pedro José Gómez León. At age 14, he studied piano and violin with
Tomás Posada, and at age 25, he studied at the Academia Nacional with
Rafael Vásquez Flórez. In 1910, he entered the Cons. Nacional of Bogotá,
Colombia, where he studied with its dir., Guillermo Uribe Holguín. He
played the cello with several Colombian orchestras.
Works: Acallando el dolor, orch (1925); Una noche en París, operetta
(1926); Escenas pintorescas de Colombia, orch (1941); El dolor y la
inocencia, melodrama; El angel y la patria, melodrama; Fantasía de
Navidad, orch; Canto del último inca, orch. Sacred, voc, pn music.
Sources: DMEH, LCRA

Calzadilla, Santiago, Argentine music critic, writer, pianist, and composer;

b.1806, Buenos Aires, Argentina; d.10 Dec 1896, Buenos Aires. He studied
piano with Juan Pedro Esnaola. As an instrumentalist, he accompanied the
violinist Víctor Guzman and Louis Moreau Gottschalk in recitals in 1866
and 1867. He wrote regularly in El Mundo Artístico and was the music
critic for El Correo del Domingo (1864-1867).
Works: Salon music. He published a piano version of the Argentine
National Anthem and a compilation of works by Juan Pedro Esnaola.
Sources: DMEH, EMA

Calzón, Miguel Angel, Argentine composer; b.5 Jan 1956, Buenos Aires,
Argentina. He studied with Enrique Cipolla, Guillermo Pozzati, and
Francisco Kröpfl. He was self-taught in computer music. Composer in
residence at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics at
Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA, USA. Prof. at the Centro de Altos Estudios
de Música Contemporánea. He taught composition at the Fundación
Antorcha of Buenos Aires. Teacher at the Centro de Investigaciones y
Desarollos Comutacionales en Music “Francisco Kröpfl in the Dept. de
Artes Musicales Carlos López Buchardo.
Works: Cygnus X-1, fl, pn (1989); Textos, fl, cl, cb (1990); Three Winters,
cl, vc, computer-generated tape (1991); Caligari, pn (1991); Isis en Júpiter,
fl, cl, vn, vc (1992); La Vida perdurable, SY77 and TGT77 synth (1993).
Sources: DMM

Cámara, Juan Antonio, Cuban composer; b.28 Sep 1917, Havana, Cuba;
d.after 1994, New York? He studied with Benjamín Orbón. At the Cons.
Municipal de Música of Havana, he studied harmony with Amadeo Roldán,
1937-39, and counterpoint and composition with José Ardévol in 1939.
Secretary of the Grupo Renovación Musical. In 1940, he was appointed
asst. prof. of harmony and history of music at the Cons. Municipal de
Música of Havana. He lived in New York City in the 1980s and 1990s.
Works: Suite, 3 wind instr (1942); Sonata in Doric D, pn (1942). Pn, voc,
ch music.
Sources: DM, DMEH, MLA, MMLA

Cameu de Cordoville, Helza, Brazilian composer, pianist, musicologist,

and teacher; b.28 Mar 1903, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; d.27 Mar 1993, Rio de
Janeiro. She studied with Alberto Nepomuceno, Alfredo Richard, and João
Nunes at the Inst. Nacional de Música in Rio de Janeiro. Later, she studied
harmony with Agnelo Franca, counterpoint and fugue with Assis
Republicano and Francisco Braga, and composition with Oscar Lorenzo
Fernández. She studied choral singing with Heitor Villa-Lobos (1936). She
was a pioneer investigator of indigenous music in Brazil.
Works: Suite, str trio (1935); Suite, str qt (1934); Piano Concerto (1936);
String Quartet (1937); Modinha, voice, orch (1937); Quadro sinfónico
(1939); Líricas, voice, orch (1941); Seresta No.1 and No.2, chamb orch
(1942, 1942); Terra de solo, symph poem. Chamb, pn, voc music.
Bibl.: Introdução ao Estudo da Música Indígena Brasileira, Rio de Janeiro,
1977.
Sources: EMB, EMB2, ISC, MMLA, NGDWC

Caminha, Alda, Brazilian composer; b.1899, Brazil; d.1976, ? Little is

known about her except for a recording of her Preludio by Henryk Szeryng
and Claude Maillols, her credit as a piano teacher of Tomás Improta França,
and a New York passenger list that documents her arrival in New York in
Dec 1953.
Works: Preludio, op. 16, vn, pn (1969).
Sources: IEW

Camino, Xavier, Mexican composer; b.1964, Mexico. From childhood, he

studied guitar and composition. He also studied poetry, ballet, and
contemporary dance. He graduated from the Univ. Veracruzana with a
degree in horn and joined the faculty there (1986). He performed in a youth
orch. and in the Veracruz band. He earned a masters degree in composition
from the Univ. Laval à Québec (2002).
Works: Concierto para corno (1996-2011); Fantasia de Levante (1996-
2011); Mosaicos (2010); Obertura al amanecer (2002); Impromptu, gtr
(2012); Overture a l’aube, orch.
Sources: GP

Camirauga, Jorge, Uruguayan composer and percussionist; b.1 Sep 1959,

Montevideo, Uruguay. He began studying piano with Miguel Marozzi. He
graduated with a degree in percussion from the Escuela Univ. de Música de
Uruguay, where studied with Roberto Serrentino. He also studied with
Néstor Astuti in Argentina, with Jan Williams and Roland Kohloff in the
USA. He studied composition with Héctor Tosar in Uruguay and Carmelo
Saitta in Argentina. His first musical works were popular music of the Latin
jazz and candombe-jazz genres.
Works: Trío para flauta, oboe y clarinete (1983); Gambang, vibraphone
(1985); Cuarteto en Chico, perc (1988); Pararada, vibraphone (1989)’
Sources: DMEH

Campa, Gustavo E., Mexican composer and teacher; b.8 Sep 1863,
Mexico City, Mexico; d.29 Oct 1934, Mexico City. He studied with Julio
Ituarte and Felipe Larios. At the Cons. Nacional de Música of Mexico City,
he studied under Melesio Morales. Prof. of composition at the Cons.
Nacional de Música, and dir. (1907-13). Dir. of the journal Gaceta Musical.
With other composers he founded the Inst. Musical Campa-Hernández-
Acevedo (1886) to promote modern music education.
Works: El rey poeta, opera (1901); Misa solemne; Berceuse, Lamento, and
Marcha antigua, orch; En Mayo and Rêve, vn, orch; Himno sinfónico
(1884).
Bibl.: A. Herrera y Ogazón, El Arte Musical en México, Mexico City, 1917.
Sources: DM, DMEH, GMM, GP, MLA, MMLA

Campabadal Calvet, José, Costa Rican composer and conductor of

Spanish birth; b.18 Jul 1846, Balaguer, Spain; d.22 Jun 1905, Cartago,
Costa Rica. At 7 he began studies with Francisco Comas and at 15 began
organ and counterpoint lessons with Magín Puntí. He then moved to
Barcelona where he studied harmony and composition with Antonio Ríus.
He moved to Costa Rica (1876) where he became organist and choir
director at the basilica of Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles in Cartago. He
founded the Sociedad Instrumental y Coral Euterpe. He edited a collection
of school songs (1888).
Works: Benedictus, bs, org (1886); Gozos a San José, 3 voc, org; Gran
requiem dramático. Methods and educational pieces, pn music.
Sources: DMEH

Campabadal Garro, Roberto, Costa Rican composer and music director;

b.6 Sep 1881, Cartago, Costa Rica; d.1931, San José, Costa Rica. He
followed his father’s career, composed music for schools, and was music
dir. of the Cathedral of San José. He dedicated his requiem mass to Pilar
Jiménez.
Works: Misa de requiem
Sources: DMEH

Campadónico, Luis Ricardo, Uruguayan composer, musicologist, and

pianist; b.14 May 1931, Montevideo, Uruguay; d.17 Dec 1973. Paris,
France. At age 8 he began studying piano with Santiago Baranda Reyes. He
studied harmony, counterpoint, and composition with the Enrique Casal
Chapí, and harmony with Carlos Estrada. He began concertizing at age 21
and included his first work, a piano sonata, on programs. He published
articles and participated in colloquia. He received a degree in secondary
education (1955) then settled in Paris where he assisted Noël Gallon
teaching harmony classes in the National Cons. of France. Later he studied
in the Inst. de Musicology and was a teaching asst. for Jacques Chaillet. In
1961, the Univ. de Chile invited him to teach. He published an essay on
Manuel de Falla in Paris (1959).
Works: El misterio del hombre solo; Poema no.1, sop, vn, pn; Poema no.2,
sop, vn, pn; Poema no.3, sop, vn, pn; Poema no.4, nar, vn, pn; Poema no.5,
sop, fl, vn, pn; Cinco cuadros musicales; Fantasía; Impromptu para la
mano izquierda; Sonata en tres movimientos.
Sources: DMEH

Campana, José Luis, Argentine composer and psychologist; b.24 Aug

1949, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied composition with Jacobo Ficher
in Buenos Aires (1968-75). He moved to Paris with support from the
French government and studied composition with Ivo Malec, analysis with
Betsy Jolas and electronic techniques with Guy Reibel and Pierre Schaeffer.
In 1989, he was appointed prof. of music form at the Cons. National de
Musique of Paris. In 1993 he founded ARCEMA, a modern music
workshop, at the Univ. d’Orsay. He taught at Musikene in Spain and has
won myriad prizes and awards for his compositions.
Works: Piano solo (1981); Ely, magnetic tape (1983); Nexus, gtr (1983);
Timmin (1984); Splitting (1984); Circolo viziosi (1984); String quartet No.2
(1989); Feed-Back (1989); Involtura sonora (1989).
Sources: DMEH, DMM

Campbell Batista, Ramón, Chilean composer, music researcher, and

physician; b.9 Mar 1911, Quilpué, Chile; d.13 Nov 2000, Viña del Mar,
Chile. He studied medicine at the Univ. de Chile where he also studied
music theory and piano with Albina Lange. He studied with Humberto
Allende and Luis Esteban Giarda at the Cons. Nacional de Música of Chile
in Santiago de Chile.
Works: Nocturno sinfónico, orch (1948); Concerto grosso; Sinfonía Hotu-
Matua; Sonata romántica, vn, pn; Sonata clásica, vc, pn. Pn, voc music.
Bibl.: La Música de la Isla de Pascua.
Sources: DMEH, HMC

Campmany, Montserrat, Argentine composer and teacher of Spanish

origin; b.7 Mar 1901, Barcelona, Spain; d.31 May 1995, Buenos Aires,
Argentina. She settled in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1907. She studied
piano with Julián Aguirre, composition with Constantino Gaito, cello with
Alfredo Schiuma, and voice with G. Capocci in Buenos Aires. From 1929
to 1940, she taught music in Barcelona. In 1943, she graduated from the
Cons. Nacional de Música Carlos López Buchardo of Buenos Aires.
Works: La perí, symph poem (1923); Danza india, wind orch, pn, perc
(1927); Visión sinfónica, orch (1929); Carita de cielo (1954); Música para
trompeta solista, metals y timbal (1969). Chamb, ch, pn, voc music.
Sources: DM, DMEH, EMA

Campos, Carlos de, Brazilian composer and musicologist; b.6 Aug 1866,
Campinas, Brazil; d.27 Apr 1927, São Paulo, Brazil. He studied music with
Carlos Gomes and Luis Provesi. He also studied law at the Faculdade de
Direito of São Paulo. He worked as a lawyer and occupied several
government positions, becoming governor of São Paulo from 1924 to 1927.
Dir. of the newspaper Correio Paulistano.
Works: A bela adormecida, opera (1924); Um caso singular, opera (1926).
Sources: EMB2

Campos, Joaquina de Araújo, Brazilian pianist, teacher, and composer;

b.1 Nov 1906, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; d.? She studied piano with Francisco
A. Bevilacqua and Lois Amabile, and composition with Paulo Silva and
Francisco Braga at the Escola de Música of the Univ. of Brazil. Prof. at the
Univ. Federal and the Academia de Música Oscar Lorenzo Fernández, both
of Rio de Janeiro. In 1937 she published her first book on harmony,
Considerações a respite do curso de leitura à 1a vista, transporte e
acompanhamento ao piano.
Works: Chamb, pn, voc music.
Sources: IEW

Campos, José Carlos, Peruvian composer and pianist: b.1957, Lima. Peru.
He studied at the Cons. Nac. De Mús. with Edgar Valcárcal, Pedro Seiji
Asato, Aurelio Tello, Celso Garrido-Lecca, and Rosa América Silva. After
graduation, he received a scholarship from the French government to study
in Paris. He taught at the National Cons. in Peru and worked in production
with Radio Filarmonia (1990-98). He completed a master’s degree at the
Sorbonne and began a teaching career at at the Acad. of Versailles. His
work, Noctis, won honorary mention at the Concurso Internacional de
Composición de la Sociedad Filarmónica de Lima.
Works: Danza festiva, str orch; Alone, Conversations with Oneself, fl ;
Preludio, pn (1977); Profundidades, pn (1978); Soneto, ch (1979); Danza
súbita, 2 ob, eh, bsn (1980); Epígrafe, cl, pn (1980); Las niñas de luz,
female ch (1980); Encuentros, pn (1980); Poema colonial, mixed ch (1981);
Danza festiva, str qt (1982); Alone, fl (1982); Elegía, mixed ch (1982);
Romanza sin palabras, 2 gtr (1983); Elegía, str orch (1983); Danza rústica,
orch (1983); 2 miniaturas, pn (1983); Resplandores, pn, perc (1984);
Abismos, hn, pn (1985); Gestos, 5 perc (1986); Noctis, sextet, 2 jazz
improvisators (1991); Visiones oníricas, pn (1991); Capricho, cl (1993);
Cuadros Fantásticos Andinos (2002); Capricho peruano, vn, pn (2003);
Resurgencias, 2 cl, bsn, pn (2006).
Sources: DMEH
Campos, Lina Pires de, Brazilian pianist, composer, and teacher; b.18 Jun
1918, São Paulo, Brazil; d.18 Jun 1918, São Paulo. Her father, Angelo Del
Vecchio, was an Italian luthier, and she studied piano with Ema Lubrano
Franco and Leo Peracchi, and harmony, counterpoint, fugue, and
composition with Fúrio Franceschini, Caldeira Filho, and Osvaldo Lacerda.
She graduated from the Inst. Musical Benedetto Marcello and from the
Cons. Musical João Gomes de Araújo of São Paulo. In 1958, she studied
composition with Camargo Guarnieri. Member of the ComisSão Estadual
de Música do Conselho de Cultura of the State of São Paulo.
Works: Ponteio No.1, str (1959); Toada, str (1959); Improvisação I, fl;
Improvisação II, fl; Improvisação III, fl; Ponteio e Toccatina, gtr; Quatro
Prelúdios, va; Confession song, lyrics by Alice Guarnieri; Embolada. Pn,
voc music.
Sources: EMB2

Campos, Otávio Meneleu, Brazilian composer, conductor, and teacher;

b.22 Jul 1872, Pará, Brazil; d.20 Mar 1927, Niterói, Brazil. He studied
piano with his mother, Adelaide da Costa Campos, and violin with
Adelelmo Francisco do Nascimento. Later, he studied at the Cons. of Milan,
Italy, with Vincenzo Ferroni.
Works: Symphony in A (1898); Salvocondotto, opera (1899); Os heróis,
opera (1904-07); Pn Concerto; Violin Concerto; 2 str qt. Chamb, pn, voc
music.
Sources: EMB2, MMLA

Campos Caldas, Olavo de, Brazilian composer and teacher; b.6 Sep 1905,
Prados, Minas Gerais, Brazil; d.15 Dec 1991, Belo Horizonte, Minas
Gerais. He started music studies at age 6. He became a physician and also
graduated at the Cons. de Música of Belo Horizonte. He studied harmony,
counterpoint, fugue, and composition with Fernand Jouteux at São João Del
Rei of Minas Gerais. Prof. of acoustics and music physiology at the Escola
de Música of the Univ. Federal of Minas Gerais.
Works: Dinú, overture (1924); Heliodora, poem-overture (1945). Chamb
music.
Sources: EMB2
Campos Parsi, Héctor, Puerto Rican composer, poet, journalist, music
critic, educator, television commentator, and concert manager; b.10 Oct
1922, Ponce, Puerto Rico; d.30 Jan 1998, Puerto Rico. He studied with
Francis Judd Cooke and Carl McKinley at the New England Cons. of
Music, Boston, MA, USA. He also took classes at Berkshire Music Center
in Tanglewood, MA, with Irving Fine in 1948, Olivier Messiaen in 1949,
and Aaron Copland in 1950 and 1956. From 1950 to 1954, he studied
harmony, counterpoint, composition, and orchestration with Nadia
Boulanger in Paris, France. Prof. at the Cons. of Puerto Rico, 1960-73, and
assoc. prof. at the Dept. de Humanidades of the Colegio Univ. of Cayey,
Puerto Rico, since 1983. Member of the Academia de las Artes y Ciencias
of Puerto Rico.
Works: Incidente, ballet (1948); Música, 3 vn (1949); Psalm 121, voice,
orch (1949); String Quartet (1950); Versículos, va (1950); Melos, ballet
(1952); Divertimento del sur, fl, cl, str (1953); Sonatina, vn, pn (1953); Pn
Sonata (1953); Annunciation, cantata (1954); Juan Bobo, ballet (1957);
Urayoán, ballet (1958); Madrigales, alt, str (1959); Rapsodia elegíaca in
memoriam Villa-Lobos, str (1960); Dúo trágico, pn, orch (1965);
Petroglifos, pn trio (1966); Ubao Moín, nar, narrating ch, singing ch, orch
(1968); El casorio, incidental music for the theater (1970); La bella
durmiente, fl, harp, vc, 2 pn (1978); Fanfarria para un festival, 3 tpt, 3 trb,
perc (1982); Las troyanas, incidental music for indigenous ensemble and
tape (1984); Tureyareito, orch (1984); Variation V on a theme by Mozart,
orch (1991). Pn, solo instr, voc, ch music.
Bibl.: F. Caso, Héctor Campos Parsi in the History of 20th Century Music
in Puerto Rico, Indiana Univ., 1972.
Sources: BB, CPR, DMEH, ISC

Campoverde Quezada, Juan, Ecuadorian composer and musicologist;

b.13 Aug 1964, Cuenca, Ecuador. He studied at the Cons. Nacional de
Música in Ecuador and the Pontifical Univ. He attended the College-Cons.
of Music at the Univ. of Cincinnati on a Fulbright Scholarship and earned a
Ph.D. in composition at the Univ. of California-San Diego, where he
studied with Roger Reynolds. He taught at San Diego State Univ., Univ. of
California-San Diego, Univ. de Cuenca, Pontifical Catholic Univ. of
Ecuador-Quito, and DePaul Univ. He designed and taught graduate courses
in computer-assisted composition and sound design.
Works: Tientos, orch (1990); Crónicas, orch (1993); animas, fl (2001);
Altares, 16 instr (1999-2000); El Capariche, Música Incidental, orch
(2012); Cánticos Estudios en Negativo, orch (2013); LUX, fl (2014);
Nocturno, vc (2014). Chamb, electronic music.
Sources: PEFCM

Camps, Pompeyo, Argentine composer and music critic; b.27 Oct 1924,
Paraná, Prov. of Entre Ríos, Argentina; 3 Nov 1997, Buenos Aires. In 1947,
he settled in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he studied with Jaime Pahissa.
Staff member of the Univ. Católica Argentina and the Asociación de
Jóvenes Compositores de la Argentina. Music critic for the daily newspaper
Noticias Gráficas, 1957-62, and La Opinión, since 1971. He stands out as
one of the most prolific composers of opera in Argentina.
Works: Homenaje a Roberto Arlt, orch (1958); La pendiente, opera (1959);
Viñetas porteñas, orch (1960); Tres canciones, alt, va, pn (1960); Pieza
concertante, vn, pn (1960); Pas de quatre, 2 tpt, 2 trb (1961); Tríptico
arcáico, fl, va, vc, gtr (1961); Fantasía, str (1961); Romance de la ciudad
de San Juan de la Frontera, alt, ch (1962); Blues para una muchacha
muerta, voice and 4 instr (1963); Balada de la cárcel de Reading,
choreographic drama (1964); Después de la mañana, ballet (1966); Danzas,
perc (1966); Reflejos, 13 brasses and perc (1966); Sinfonía para un poeta,
baritone (1967); Concertante, bandoneon, orch (1971); 2 str qt (1957,
1974); Ciudad sin tregua, str qt (1974); La hacienda, opera (1986);
Marathon, opera (1990); La oscuridad de la razón, opera (1995). Pn, voc
music.
Sources: BB, DMEH, DMM, EMA

Campusano, Maria Francisca de los Dolores, Mexican composer and

nun; fl. 18th century. She directed the chapel and convent of Señoras
Religiosas de la Santísima Trinidad.
Works: Masses; songs.
Sources: IEW

Canales Pizarro, Marta, Chilean violinist, choral conductor, and

composer; b.17 Jul 1895, Santiago de Chile; d.6 Dec 1986, Santiago de
Chile. She began studying violin at age 5 with Luigi Esteban Giarda and
began performing publicly at 11. Her work led to the formation of the
Amalia Errázuriz chorus in 1933 – the first woman’s group dedicated to
sacred polyphony – and the Ana Magdalena Bach chorus in 1944.
Works: Marcha Fúnebre, pn (1918); Preludio, harp (1918); Misa
Eucarística, voc, ch, 3 harps, org, str (1922); Marta y María, oratorio
(1929); Misa de Navidad, mixed ch, chamb orch (1930); Misa eucarística,
soloists, mixed ch, chamb orch (1930); Madrigales teresianos, ch (1933);
Misa gregoriana, ch (1937); Elevación, org, harp, chamb orch (1946).
Chamb, sacred, voc music.
Sources: DMEH, HMC, IBCC, IEW, NGDWC

Cañar Cárdenas, Julio César, Ecuadorian composer and pianist; b.10

Sept 1898, Baños, Ecuador; d.14 Jan 1986, Quito, Ecuador. His father,
Avelino Cañar, was music dir. of the church of Rosario de Agua Santa de
Baños for a half century. He studied with Sixto María Durán, Francisco
Romero, and Francisco Salgado at the Cons. Nacional in Quito. He taught
at a home for the deaf and mute, the Hispano-Americano secondary school,
and the Colegio Bolívar de Ambato, among others, in Quito. He conducted
the Orch. Cañar, and worked at the radio stations La Voz de la Democracia
de Quito, Radio HCBJ and Radio Municipal.
Works: Canción patriótica de las Juventudes Ecuatorianas; Tú no sabes lo
que es llorar; Adoración incaica. Dances, voc music.
Sources: DMEH

Cancián, Germán Gabriel, Argentine composer; b.11 Jan 1965, Las

Palmas, Prov. El Chaco, Argentina. He studied with Alfredo Perduca in
Resistencia. In 1985, he moved to Rosario, Prov. of Santa Fe, Argentina,
where he studied at the Escuela de Música of the Univ. Nacional of Rosario,
with Jorge Molina. He also studied harmony and musical analysis with
Dante Grela and composition with Jorge Horst, and took courses with
Mariano Etkin, Gerardo Gandini, Francisco Kröpfl, Carmelo Saitta, Vieira,
Federico Monjeau, M.C. Aguilar, Jorge Rapp, and Guillermo Pozzati.
Works: Cíclope, female voice, vn, va; Hasta Ptolomeo, y después del tercer
viaje, bcl, hn, vc, cb, perc; Puzzle, fl, cl, bcl, vn, va, vc; Concerto for
Marimba and Orchestra (1994); Lo Que No Es Azul, marimba.
Sources: CAMR
Cancino de Cuevas, Sofía, Mexican pianist, and composer; b.29 Jul 1898,
Mexico City, Mexico d.16 Dec 1982, Mexico City. She studied piano with
Pedro Luis Ogazón and completed a degree at age 22. She studied singing
with Consuelo Escobar de Castro and David Silva and composition with
Rafael J. Tello, Manuel M. Pnoce, and Julian Carrillo at UNAM.
Works: Gil González de Avil, opera (1937); String Quartet, op.1 (1939);
Anette, opera (1945); Michoacana, opera (1950); Promessa d’artista e
parole di re, opera (1952). Symphony in G; Gallo en Patzcuaro, symph
poem. Chamb, pn, voc music.
Sources: IBCC, IEW, KTL

Candiani Herrera, Salvador, Chilean composer, conductor, and physician;

b.3 Jan 1917, Santiago de Chile, Chile; d.24 Jul 1969, Santiago de Chile.
He studied piano, harmony, and counterpoint with Helena Oehrens and
conducting with Javier Rengifo. He founded the Orq. Sinfónica de Santiago
in 1944. In 1947, he entered the Cons. Nacional where he studied
composition with Domingo Santa Cruz Wilson. Prof. at the Univ. Católica
and was a practicing psychiatrist.
Works: Nieve en la lejana montaña, orch; La pecadora, operetta, orch; Las
aguadoras, ch, orch (1937); Nuco y Tralana, opera; La noche de San Juan,
ballet (1952); 3 symphonies; 5 sonatas for pn; incidental music for films.
Sources: DMEH, HMC

Canelos Morales, José Ignacio, Ecuadorian composer and pianist; b.8 Mar
1898, Ibarra, Ecuador; d.29 Aug 1957, Cuenca, Ecuador. He started to study
music at an early age. He studied at the Cons. de Música of Quito, Ecuador,
graduating in piano in 1921. Prof. at the Cons. de Música and at several
schools of Quito. Conductor of the Banda de los Carabineros of Ibarra and
vice-dir. of the Cons. de Música of Cuenca.
Works: Suite, orch; Variaciones sobre la mapa señora, pn, orch; Suite, str
qt; Intermezzo inca; Escenas campestres, orch; Variaciones sobre una
melodía popular ecuatoriana, vn, orch; Siete palabras, sacred work for
three voices. Chamb music; motets.
Sources: DMEH, MG

Canónico, Benito, Venezuelan composer and instrumentalist; b.3 Jan 1894,

Guarenas, Venezuela; d.13 Oct 1971, Caracas, Venezuela. He first studied
music with his father, Agustín Canónico, an Italian-born musician. At the
age of 8 he played the violin and other band instruments, including the
quattro and harp. In Caracas he taught music in schools including the
Colegio Sucre, the Escuela Bolívar, and the normal schools Miguel Antonio
Caro and Gran Colombia. He founded a student music group and the Banda
Marcial de Caracas in which he played for 22 years and he was a member
of the Orq. Típica de Venezuela.
Works: Canto a la Virgen; Himno a la Sociedad Mixta. Dances, marches,
popular works.
Sources: DMEH

Cantillano Vindas, Roberto, Costa Rican composer, flutist, and band

conductor; b.2 Mar 1887, Santo Domingo de Heredia, Costa Rica; d.15 Nov
1955. He studied with Rubén Lizano, Moisés Salvatierra, Lucio de
Avendaño, and Juan Loots. Conductor of the military band of Costa Rica
and general dir. of bands of Costa Rica.
Works: Ausencia and Odilie, fl, pn; Idilio eterno and Hanya, waltzes;
Noche de luna, serenade for fl, pn; Amanecer guanacasteco, symph poem.
Sources: DM, MLA, MMLA

Cantù, Agostino (Agostinho), Brazilian composer and pianist of Italian

origin; b.24 Apr 1878, Milan, Italy; d.27 Dec 1943, São Paulo, Brazil He
studied at the Cons. Reale of Milan with Vincenzo Ferroni. Prof. of piano at
the Cons. He arrived in São Paulo in 1908 to become part of the faculty at
the Cons. Dramático e Musical. Founding member of the Sociedade de
Cultura Artística and of the Filarmónica, both of São Paulo.
Works: Il Poeta, opera (1904); Rapsódia brasileira No.1, orch; Rapsódia
brasileira No.2, orch. Pn, chamb music.
Sources: DM, EMB2, HMB, MLA

Caraballo, Rogerio, Venezuelan composer, violinist, flutist, and conductor;

b.mid-19th century, Venezuela. He taught strings at the Academia de
Música del Inst. Nacional de Bellas Artes. General Ramón de la Plaza
lauded him as a notable violinist (1872). The name Rogerio Antonio
Caraballo appears as the father in an 1888 Venezuelan birth registration
where he is identified as a professional artist. Manuel Landaeta Rosales
appointed him dir. of the student music group Estudiantina Venezolana in
New York in May, 1889. He directed the orch. of the Orphanage Shelter of
Caracas for their 10th anniversary.
Works: Un sueño de amores, pn; Elegía: Niño venturoso, voc, pn; Marcha
fúnebre, vn, fl, crn, pn.
Sources: DMEH

Carballeda González, Salvador, Mexican composer and conductor; b.13

Dec 1939, Mexico City; d.24 Jan 2012, Mexico City. Studied violin,
composition, and conducting with Salvador Contreras at the Escuela
Superior Nocturna de Música y Bellas Artes in Mexico City. He debuted as
a cond. before the Orch. of the Ópera de Bellas Artes. He also studied with
René Deffosez in Mexico and Belgium. He founded the Asociación
Mexicana de Orq. Sinfónicas in 1991. He founded the Cuarteto Barroco
Terpsícore and after joining the Sociedad Mexicana de Flauta Barroca
eventually became dir. Founding member of the Liga de Compositores de
Música de Concierto. Conductor of the Banda Sinfónica de la Delegación
Cuauhtémoc and of the Orq. Sinfónica del Inst. Politécnico Nacional. Dir.
of the Sociedad de Flauta Barroca.
Works: Obertura en Sol, baroque instr (1969); Tres canciones de amor con
un Interludio, sop, orch (1991); Himno de la Escuela Superior de
Ingeniería Mecánica y Eléctrica, ch, orch (1991). Solo instr, chamb, voc
music.
Sources: DCMMC

Cárcano Bernasconi, Inocente Bernardino, Argentine composer,

journalist, and Latin professor of Italian origin; b.18 May 1828, Maslionico,
Como, Lombardia, Italy; d.31 May 1904, Buenos Aires, Argentina. His
studies at the Cons. Reale of Milan, Italy, were interrupted by Carlos
Alberto’s uprising for Italian independence. He joined the army in the
Battle of Novara in 1849, received a bayonet wound, emmigrated to
Argentina, and settled in Córdoba. He taught music and language at the
Colegio of Monserrat of Córdoba. He wrote for El Fusionista, and
befriended President Nicolás Avellaneda. The Italian government appointed
him Honorary Consul in Argentina, and he served on the Management
Board for the Córdova-Tucumán Railway. He founded the Sociedad
Filharmónica de Córdoba in 1855.
Works: Aurelia, opera.
Bibl.: Música, Principios Teóricos.
Sources: DMM

Cárdenas, Gerardo, Mexican composer; b.1957, Uruapan, Michoacán,

Mexico. He studied composition with Bonifacio Rojas at the Cons. de las
Rosas, Mexico, and took post-graduate courses at L’Ecole Normale de
Musique Alfred Cortot and Cons. du Centre, in Paris, France, on a grant
from the French government. There he studied with Jacques Castèréde and
Katori Makino. He also studied cello, guitar, piano, and orch. conducting
with Roberto Herrera, Daniel Lavialle, Antonio Tornero, and Eva Osinska.
Prof. at the Cons. de las Rosas since 1985. Dir. of the Fundación Cultural
Interamericana, which he founded in 1994. Composer-in-Residence for
Vocal Essence, Minneapolis, Minnesota, in the 2012-13 season.
Works: Catharsis, pn; Esquisse, orch; Preludes, pn; Laureles, gtr, fl (1988);
Criptogramas, gtr, pn (1989); Dos preludios, gtr (1989); Morelia, ch, orch,
synthesizer (1990); Sinfonietta vallisoletana, orch (1994). Solo instr, ch,
voc music.
Sources: DCMMC

Cárdenas, Sergio, Mexican composer and conductor; b.17 Jun 1951,

Ciudad Victoria, State of Tamaulipas, Mexico. He studied choral
conducting at the Seminario Presbiteriano of Mexico. He obtained BM
(1972) and MM (1973) degrees at the Wesminster Choir College in
Princeton, NJ, USA, and earned a Diploma in Orch. Conducting (1975) at
the Superior School of Music Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria. He studied
Baroque performance practice with Nikolaus Harnoncourt, composition
with Malcolm Williamson and Gerhard Wimberger, and conducting with
Carl Melles, Herbert von Karajan, Witold Rowicki, and Sergiu Celibidache.
He conducted the orch. of the Superior School of Music Mozarteum (1975-
79), the Orq. Sinfónica Nacional of Mexico (1979-84), the Hof Symph.
Orch. (1985-89), and the Queretaro Phil. (1986-97).
Works: Polka Tamaulipas, orch; Salmo 23, sop, orch. Voc music.
Sources: DCMMC, GP

Cárdenas Ramírez, Gabriel, Colombian teacher, pianist, and composer;

b.1916, Tunja, Colombia; d.? He studied education at the Facultad de
Educación de la Univ. Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colmbia en Bogotá,
and piano at the Cons. Nacional with Demetrio Haralambis and Antonio
María Valencia. In 1940 he began teaching music at the Normal Superior de
Tunja, the Normal Femenina, the Univ. Tecnológica, and also became dir.
of artistic culture of Boyacá. He was a founding member of the opera and
operetta companies, Aires Boyacenses y Estampas Líricas, and founded and
directed the Orq. Departamental de Conciertos. He taught in secondary
schools (1960-73) and was dir. of the Academia Boyancense de Música
(1973-77). He also founded and directed the Sinfonienta Boyacá.
Works: In Memoriam, str orch. Waltzes, dances, pn.
Sources: DMEH

Cardona Ducas, Alejandro, Costa Rican composer and guitarist; b.26 Aug
1959, San José, Costa Rica. Grandson of Spanish-born Costa Rican
composer Alejandro Cardona Llorens and nephew of Ismael Cardona. He
studied composition with Luis Jorge González. He received a degree in
music at Harvard Univ. (1981) where he studied with Curt Cacioppo, León
Kirchner, and Iván Tcherepnin. He lived in Mexico (1982-85) and worked
with the Grupo de Experimentación Gestual, among others, and focused on
Afro-Caribbean music studies. He returned to Costa Rica (1985) to teach at
the Escuela de Música at the Univ. Nacional. He was a member of the
Centro de Música Contemporánea and the Asociación de Cooperación
Iberoamericana en la Música.
Works: Arena Americana o Son mestizo, orch; Son mestizo II, orch; Son de
los condenados, orch; Guerrilleros, gtr; Bajo sombras, pn; Xikiyena in
Xóchitl, pn.
Sources: DMEH, TV

Cardona García, Ramón, Colombian composer, teacher, conductor,

choirmaster, and organist; b.31 Aug 1922, Manzanares, Caldas, Colombia;
d.28 Jun 1959, assasinated, innocent victim of an attack in La Línea,
Calarcá, Colombia. He started his musical education as a choir boy,
becoming an organist at the local church. In 1943, he moved to Manizales,
Colombia, where he studied organ and Gregorian chant at the Academia
Diocesana de Música. In 1949, he traveled to Argentina and studied
harmony and composition with Gilardo Gilardi, organ with Hermes Forti,
choral conducting with Pedro Valenti Costa, and conducting with Mariano
Drago at the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes of the Univ. of La Plata,
Prov. of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Organist in several churches in
Argentina. In 1957, he returned to Colombia and was appointed dir. and
prof. at the Cons. of the Univ. of Caldas.
Works: El trapiche, str (1956); Nostalgia, voc (1957). Chamb, voc, ch
music.
Sources: DMEH, LCRA

Cardona Lloréns, Alejandro, Costa Rican composer and actor born in

Spanish territory; b.21 Jan 1827, Menorca, Balearic Islands; d.? On a trip to
Algeria (1851) a touring theater hired him as an actor and musician. He
became a dir. of choirs in the first visiting opera companies in Costa Rica
(1853). He participated at the rank of captain in the Capaña Nacional (1856-
57) then moved to San José to teach. He worked as a choirmaster in San
Antonio and in San Ramón. Founded an orch. and directed the Banda
Municipal de San Ramón (1880). He opened a studio and taught music in
various schools from 1887. Prof. at the Escuela Nacional de Música (1890).
Works: Patriotic hymn for the Constitucional Democrático de Rodríguez.
Sources: TV

Cardona Valverde, Ismael, Costa Rican violinist and composer; b.5 Dec
1877, San Ramón, Costa Rica; d.5 Nov 1965, San José, Costa Rica. He
studied in San José, and at the Cons. of New York (now Juilliard), NY,
USA. After returning to Costa Rica from New York, he continued studying
harmony and instrumentation with Alvise Castegnaro. Violinist at the Orq.
Sinfónica Nacional and prof. of music and violin at the Escuela Normal,
both in San José.
Works: Masses, voc, orch; Serenata, vn, pn (1909); Canción de cuna, vn,
pn (1910); String Quartet in A minor; Suite miniatura, orch (1928); Suite
ballet, orch; La novia de Tilarán, zarzuela. Stage music, children’s
comedies.
Sources: DM, DMEH, MLA, MMLA

Cardoso, Daniel Carlos, Argentine composer and teacher; b.15 Mar 1944,
Rosario, Prov. of Santa Fe, Argentina. He studied with Roberto Caamaño,
Licia B. de Parodi, and Juan Carlos Zorzi at the Escuela de Música de la
Facultad de Humanidades y Artes of the Univ. Nacional of Rosario. He
attended courses taught by Edgar Willems, Juan Carlos Paz, Ernesto
Epstein, Kurt Pahlen, Manuel Rego, Francisco Kröpfl, Mariano Etkin,
Carmelo Saitta, and Alcides Lanza. Prof. at various cultural institutions.
Founding dir. of the Escuela Nacional de Música of Rosario. Founder and
first president of the Inst. Nacional del Profesorado de Música of Rosario,
branch of the Ministerio Nacional de Educación y Justicia. Founding
member of the Asociación Santafesina de Compositores.
Works: Ensayos, soloist, orch; Espacios finitos, electronic sounds. Chamb,
voc music.
Sources: CAMR, DMEH

Cardoso, Lindembergue Rocha, Brazilian composer, teacher, and

conductor; b.30 Jun 1939, Livramento, Bahía, Brazil; d.23 May 1989,
Salvador, Bahía. He studied composition with Ernst Widmer, and bassoon
at the Univ. of Bahia. After graduating, he was appointed prof. at the Univ.
of Bahia and the Univ. Católica of Salvador. Conductor of the madrigal
group and the univ. choir. Founder and member of the Grupo de
Compositores de Bahia.
Works: A Festa da Canabrava, orch (1966); Minisuite, orch (1967);
Viasacra, orch (1968); Procissão das carpideiras, 8 sop, alt, orch (1969);
Captagóes, 4 voc, orch (1969); Aleluia, ch, perc (1970); Extréme, orch
(1970); Abertura, orch (1970); Serestachorofrevo, orch (1970); Influência,
str orch (1971); Kyrie Christe, sop, ch, trb, str qt (1971); Pleorama, orch
(1971); Oratório cênico, 3 voc, ch, orch (1972); A Lenda do Bicho Turuna,
opera (1974); Requiem in Memory of Milton Gomes (1974). Chamb music.
Bibl.: L. Biriotti, El Grupo de Compositores de Bahía, Montevideo, 1971.
Sources: DCM, EMB2, GDM, HMB

Cardoso, Miguel de Jesús, Brazilian composer and teacher; b.12 Apr

1850, Serro, Minas Gerais, Brazil; d.8 Nov 1912, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He
studied first in his native town, and later he went to Rio de Janeiro and then
to Italy, where he studied at the Cons. Reale of Milan, harmony with
Michele Saladino and counterpoint with Amintore Galli. He returned to
Brazil in 1880 and devoted his time to teaching in Rio de Janeiro.
Works: Hino da Escola Normal da Corte, orch (1886); O gato de botas
(1888), operetta; Ramo de ouro, operetta (1888); Soirées Brésiliennes, pn
(1891).
Sources: EMB2
Carlevaro, Abel, Uruguayan guitarist and composer; b.16 Dec 1918,
Montevideo, Uruguay; d.17 Jul 2001, Berlin, Germany. He studied guitar
with Andrés Segovia in Montevideo and gave his first public concert at age
24 with Segovia introducing him. He continued in Río de Janeiro with
Heitor Villa-Lobos and performed extensively in South America, North
America, Europe, and Asia. He composed a comprehensive 4-volume
method for guitar.
Works: Cuarteto, gtr, vn, va, vc (1972); Concierto del Plata, gtr, orch
(1973); Cronomías, gtr (1974); Fantasía concertante, gtr, str, perc (1984);
Cinco preludios americanos, gtr.
Sources: DMEH

Carneiro Pinto, João Paulo, Brazilian teacher, cellist, violinist, and

composer; b.26 Jun 1854, Goiana, Brazil; d.10 Sep 1923, Petrópolis, Brazil.
He started his music studies at the Escola de Música Santa Cecilia of
Goiana. Later, he studied in Rio de Janeiro at the Cons. de Música with
Giuseppe Martini. Founder of the Escola de Música Santa Cecilia of
Petrópolis.
Works: Hino da Escola Santa Cecilia; Hino do IV Centenário do Brasil.
Chamb, sacred music.
Sources: EMB2

Carnicer Fernández, Fernando, Cuban teacher and composer of Spanish

origin; b.1865, Madrid, Spain; d.1936, Havana, Cuba. He studied piano at
the Cons. de Madrid with José Tragó. He won second and first prizes,
respectively, at the cons. (1877, 1878). He studied harmony, counterpoint,
fugue, and composition, and won a prize to study at the Acad. of Spain in
Rome (1894). He toured Europe and taught harmony and composition at the
Acad. Beristein in Mexico. At the Cons. Nacional de Hubert de Blanck he
taught harmony and composition for 6 years. He also taught at the Cons.
Peyrellade, and upon the death of Carlos Peyrellade founded the Cons.
Santa Cecilia (later renamed Carnicer). In 1917, he taught harmony and
counterpoint at the Cons. Municipal de Música of Havana and became
subdirector there in 1921.
Works: Cristóbal Colón, oratorio; 3 symphonic compositions; 2 operas;
religious, pn music.
Sources: DMC, DMEH
Caro de Boesi, José Antonio, Venezuelan composer; b.14 Nov 1758,
Chacao, near Caracas, Venezuela; d.16 Oct 1814, Caracas. He was one of
the group of African descent composers influenced by Juan Manuel
Olivares at the Acad. de Musica, known as the Escuela de Chacao. Little
else is known about his life.
Works: Oficio de difuntos, 2 sop, alt/ten, 2 vn, basso continuo (1779);
Christus factus est (1783); 4 masses; 6 motets; oficio dos difuntos (1793).
Bibl.: J.B. Plaza, Music in Caracas during the Colonial Period (1770-
1811), MQ, Vol.29, 1943. J.A. Calcaño, La Ciudad y su Música, Caracas,
1958.
Sources: DMEH, EMV, GDM, MLA, MMLA

Carpio Valdés, Roberto, Peruvian composer; b.22 Mar 1900, Arequipa,

Peru; d.1986, Peru. He studied piano with his father and with Luis Duncker
Lavalle and Francisco Ibáñez. Self-taught in composition. Prof. of piano at
the Inst. Musical Bach of Lima, Peru.
Works: Nocturno y preludio, pn (1921); Tres estampas de Arequipa, pn
(1927); Hospital, suite (1928); Triste (1928); Dos piezas, pn (1930);
Tríptico, pn (1932); Payaso, pn (1933); Cuatro preludios, pn (1933); Tres
miniaturas, pn (1934); Preludio, pn (1937); Aire de vals, vn, pn (1938); Dos
preludios, pn (1939); Nocturno y pastoral, pn (1940); Music for the movie
Petróleo del sur, orch (1941). Voc music.
Sources: CTA13, DM, DMEH, MLA, MMLA

Carrasco Candil, Alfredo, Mexican organist and composer; b.4 May 1875,
Culiacán, State of Sinaloa, Mexico; d.31 Dec 1945, Mexico City, Mexico.
He studied music with the flutist Andrés Tenorio, and then, with organist
Francisco Godínez in Guadalajara, Mexico. Organist at the Cathedral of
Guadalajara, and later, conductor of the children’s choir at the same
Cathedral.
Works: El bufón, opera; Motete eucarístico, soloists, mixed ch, orch (1915);
Gran misa de requiem (1933); Preludio, scherzo sinfónico y leyendas; Dos
aires de ballet, orch; Marcha nacional de las reservas, military band
(1943); Adiós, dance-song, also known as El adiós de Carrasco. Religious,
pn, vn and pn, ch music.
Sources: DMEH, GMM, GP, MMLA
Carrasco González, José María, Mexican composer and organist; b.28
Feb 1781, Mexico City, Mexico; d.16 Sep 1845, Puebla, Mexico. Beginning
in 1790, he studied with Mariano Mora and then with Mariano Soto-
Carrillo. In 1795 he was named organist in the Cathedral of Morelia, then
called Valladolid. An autodidactic violinist, he also became the first organist
at the Cathedral of Puebla on May 10, 1799, and held this position until his
death. For 46 years he worked as a private tutor. His portrait was hung in
the Museum of Pueblo (1833), and he was named an honorary member of
the recently founded Academia Filarmónica de Puebla (1839). His works
are preserved in the Cathedral of Puebla and microfilms of them are in the
Inst. Nacional de Antropología e Historia.
Works: Dipersit dedit pauperibus, 4 voc, vn, va, ob, hn, bajo; Ego scio
quoniam, 4 voc, vn, va, ob, hn, bajo; Instans oration et ministerio verbi, 2
voc, vn, va, ob hn, bajo; Libera me Domine, 3 voc, vn, fl, hn, orch.
Sources: DMEH

Carrasco Narro, María Teresa, Mexican composer and conductor; b.22

Sep 1914, Mexico City, Mexico; d.? She taught piano at the Academia
Montes de Oca after studying with María del Carmen Sosa and Manuel
Rodríguez Vizcarra. She entered the Eucharist missionary order of Santísim
and Trinidad and studied Gregorian chant with Hermilo Camacho and organ
composition with Miguel Bernal Jiménez. On her return to Mexico City she
directed her community choir then the Inst. Francés de América Latina
awarded her a scholarship to study in France at the Inst. Gregoriano de
París. She also took classes at the César Franck School. She returned to
Mexico and continued her studies in the school of sacred music with
Delfino Madrigal.
Works: Misa de la Anunciación, 3 voc, org; Misa de Navidad Príncipe de
Paz, 3 voc, org; Misa Dios trino y uno, 3 voc, org; Visperas de la Santísima
Trinidad, 2 voc, org. Religious music.
Sources: DMEH

Carreño, Alejandro [Adrián], Venezuelan composer and organist; b.1725,

Caracas, Venezuela; d.1791, Caracas, Venezuela. Brother of Ambrosio,
singer, organist and music dir. of the Cathedral of Caracas. He composed
for the chapel at the cathedral but none of his works are extant. He spent
most of his time teaching and probably taught his son, the composer José
Cayetano Carreño.
Works: Works lost.
Sources: DMEH

Carreño, Ambrosio, Venezuelan composer and organist; b.1721, Caracas,

Venezuela; d.1801, Caracas, Venezuela. Brother of Alejandro, at the age of
18 he was named organist of the Cathedral of Caracas. He held the position
as music dir. (1750-78) and taught and composed music for the cathedral,
which was lost at the beginning of the 19th century.
Works: Works lost.
Sources: DMEH

Carreño, Francisco, Venezuelan composer and researcher; b.9 Mar 1910,

Nueva Esparta, Venezuela; d.25 Jul 1965, Caracas, Venezuela. He compiled
a major study of Venezuelan folklore music and dance, teaching, and the
creation of artistic groups. As a child he learned to play the quattro and then
under the guidance of his uncle Nicolás Carreño, joined the Banda Luisa
Cáceres de Arismendi of Nueva Esparta. He became interested in folk
music and dance and as a youth organized events during the Christmas
holiday and for street dramas that contained music. He moved to Caracas
(1932) and formed a duo with his brother, Inocente, to perform on the radio.
He studied singing with Fernando d’Angeli. In 1941 then founded the Trio
Cantaclaro. He worked as the dir. of Servicio de Investigaciones Folklóricas
in the ministry of education (1948-52).
Works: El carite; El robalo; La burriquita; El tigüitigüito; Los
chimichimitos.
Sources: DMEH

Carreño, Inocente, Venezuelan composer and choral conductor; b.28 Dec

1919, Porlamar, Margarita Island, Venezuela. Brother of musician,
Francisco Carreño, he studied French horn, clarinet, piano, and music
theory in Caracas, Venezuela, and composition with Vicente Sojo at the
Escuela Nacional de Música in Caracas, where he graduated with a degree
in composition in 1946. Choirmaster and French horn player in the Orq.
Sinfónica Venezolana. Prof. of music theory at the Escuela de Música José
Angel Lamas in Caracas.
Works: El pozo, symph poem (1946); Suite breve, str orch (1947);
Margariteña, suite (1954); Suite No.1 (1955); Overture No.1 (1956); Aguas
crecidas, tnr (1957); Concerto, hn, str (1958); Overture No.2 (1961); El
supernumerario incidental music (1963); Suite breve, str (1964); Sinfonieta
satírica, 11 instr (1965); Diálogo, fl, chamb orch (1965); Obertura popular
(1973); Obertura galleguiana (1979); Elegía, str (1980); Estudio sinfónico
(1983); Suite no.2, gtr (1986). Chamb, ch, voc music.
Sources: BB, CTA14, DMEH, EMV, GDM

Carreño, Juan Bautista, Venezuelan composer and organist; b.1 Jul 1802,
Venezuela; d.? Like his brothers, Manuel Antonio and Lorenzo, he had a
distinguished presence in the Cathedral of Caracas. He received a doctorate
in Civil Law (1833) but was later reinstalled as an organist in the Cathedral.
Many of his works are preserved in the archive of the Escuela José Ángel
Lamas.
Works: Motete a Jésus en Sol menor; Misa para voz y órgano; Primera
lamentación del Miércoles Santo; Los Dolores de María; Jaculatorias.
Sources: DMEH

Carreño, Manuel Antonio, Venezuelan teacher, composer, organist, and

politician; b.1812, Caracas, Venezuela; d.1874, Paris, France. He founded
the Colegio Rocío de Caracas, and was minister of the house and
administrator of the Bank of Venezuela (1860). At the age of 14 he played
the organ in the cathedral, almost always as a replacement for his brother
Juan Bautista. He became music dir. in the cathedral until 1841. In 1854 he
published a manual of good manners for youth of both sexes for which he
was known in Latin America. In 1862 he moved to Europe with his family.
He encouraged his daughter Teresa’s talent and educated her, wrote 50
piano exercises for her and led her in many concerts.
Works: Lamentación.
Sources: DMEH

Carreño García de Sena, María Teresa, Venezuelan pianist, singer,

conductor, and composer; b.22 Dec 1853, Caracas, Venezuela; d.12 Jun
1917, New York, NY, USA. She started music studies with her father,
Manuel Antonio Carreño. At the age of 8 she was taken to New York,
where she studied with Louis Moreau Gottschalk. Later, she studied with
Georges Mathias and Anton Rubinstein in Paris, France.
Works: Himno a Bolívar, ch, orch (1883); Himno a El Ilustre Americano,
ch, orch (1886); Serenata, str orch (1895); Petite danse tsigane, orch; String
quartet in B. Chamb, pn, voc music.
Bibl.: J.B. Plaza, Teresa Carreño, Caracas, 1938. I. Peña, Teresa Carreño,
Caracas, 1953.
Sources: BB, DMEH, GDM, IBCC, IEW, MLA, MMLA, NGDWC

Carreño Muñoz, José Cayetano, Venezuelan composer and organist; b.7

Aug 1774, Caracas, Venezuela; d.4 Mar 1836, Caracas. Son of Alejandro
Carreño, he probably studied with his father then at the Escuela de Música
Padre Sojo in Caracas. Choirmaster and organist at the Metropolitan Church
of Caracas. Father of composers Juan Bautista and Manuel Antonio
Carreño.
Works: 2 masses; 10 motets for ch, orch or organ; Pésame a la Virgen,
sacred piece. Patriotic voc music.
Bibl.: J.B. Plaza, Music in Caracas during the Colonial Period (1770-
1811), MQ, Vol.29, 1943.
Sources: DM, DMEH, EMV, GDM, MLA, MMLA

Carrillo, Gerardo, Mexican composer and guitarist; b.24 Sep 1954,

Mexico City, Mexico. He studied at the Escuela Superior de Música and at
the Cons. Nacional de Música, both of INBA, and at the Centro de Estudios
Musicales and the Inst. de Liturgia, Música, y Arte, all in Mexico City. His
teachers included Leo Brouwer, Abel Carlevaro, and Rodolfo Halffter.
Works: Obstinados (1980); Por la ciudad, sop, fl, gtr (1980); Homenaje a
pintores que desaparecieron por represión política, str qt, regional instr
(1983); Réquiem contra la represión (1988); Cantata ciudad casa
convertida en grito, sop, bs, fl, ob, cl, gtr, vc, harpsichord (1988);
Cementerio verano (homenaje a Revueltas), 5 instr (1989); Sensible, 2 gtr,
vn or fl, vc, audience (1992); Altazor, female voice, mixed ch, nar, 2 gtr, vc,
perc, electric gtr, metronome, rock singer (1993).
Sources: DCMMC

Carrillo Villareal, Gonzalo, Mexican composer; b.18 Apr 1933, Mexico

City, Mexico; d.2007, ? He started music studies with Elena Padilla,
Salvador Contreras, Pedro Michaca, and Igor Markevitch, and later, he
studied at the Escuela Superior de Música of INBA, Mexico City. Member
of Liga de Compositores de Música de Concierto.
Works: Paisajes II, str (1977); Paisaje sonoro, str (1981); Opinzanzimpa
con un canto simple (1982); Tierra de Dangú (1993); Tlamatinide (1995).
Chamb, pn, voc, ch music.
Sources: DCMMC, DMEH

Carrillo Trujillo, Julián Antonio, Mexican composer and teacher; b.28

Jan 1875, Ahualulco, State of San Luis de Potosí, Mexico; d.9 Sep 1965,
Mexico City, Mexico. He studied harmony with Melesio Morales and violin
with Pedro Manzano at the Cons. Nacional de Música of Mexico, Mexico
City, from which he graduated in 1899. He also studied composition with
Salomón Jadassohn and conducting with Hans Sitt at the Leipzig Cons.,
Germany. He created a new theoretical music system based on the division
of the sound into 16 equidistant intervals named Sonido 13 (Sound 13). In
1905, he returned to Mexico and was appointed general supervisor of music
and dir. of the Cons. Nacional de Música of Mexico, 1913-14 and 1920-24.
Works: String Sextet (1902); Ossian, opera (1903); Matilda, opera (1909);
Piano Quintet (1918); Triple Concerto, fl, vn, vc (1918); Zultil, opera
(1922); Guitar Sonata in quarter tones (1925); Preludio a Cristóbal Colón,
sop, 5 instr in fractional tones (1925); 3 symphonies for fractional tones
(1926); Concertino, vn, gtr, vc, pic, harp in fractional tones, with orch. in
normal tuning (1926); Horizontes, vn, vc, harp in fractional tones (1947); 3
symphonies (1901, 1905, 1948); Four atonal quartets (1928-48);
Concertino, Metamorfoseador Carrillo, pn in third tones (1950); Cello
Concerto (1954); Balbuceos, pn, chamb orch (1960); Mass for Pope John
XXIII, ch (1962); 2 concertos, vn in quarter tones (1963, 1964).
Bibl.: A. Pike, The Discoveries and Theories of Julián Carrillo, 1875-1965
Inter-American Music Bulletin, IV (1966). Sonatas for string instruments in
quarter-tones with piano.
Sources: BB, DCM, DM, DMEH, DMM, GDM, GP, MLA, MMLA

Carrión Zamarripa, Rafael, Mexican composer; b.2 Nov 1916, Cananea,

Sonora, Mexico; 9 Feb 2008, Mexico City. A descendent of Yaqui heritage,
he was largely self-taught. He played guitar for the famed singer Lucha
Reyes. He worked for mariachi artists Javier Solís and Vicente Fernández.
He composed for films including El Enmascarado de Plata (1954), El
Diablo Desaparece (1957), El jinete de la muerte (1980), and El macho
(1987).
Works: Cinco de mayo. Transcriptión (coro); Mensaje. Toccata para piano
y orquesta; Primavera, amaneder a la vida; Toccata para orquesta.
Sources: GP

Carrique, Ana, Argentine composer; b.19 Jun 1886, Buenos Aires,

Argentina; d.31 Oct 1979, Buenos Aires. She studied piano with Julián
Aguirre and harmony, counterpoint, fugue, and composition with Athos
Palma at the Cons. Nacional de Música Carlos López Buchardo of Buenos
Aires.
Works: Sonatina in E flat, pn; Preludio criollo, pn; Preludio pampeano, pn;
Suite campera, pn; Suite, pn; Gato, pn; Mazurca, pn; Impromptu, pn. Voc,
school voc, ch music.
Sources: DM, DMEH, DMM, EMA, MMLA

Carrizosa Navarro, Eduardo, Colombian composer and conductor; b.10

Mar 1953, Bogotá, Colombia. He started his musical education at the Cons.
de Música of the Univ. Nacional, from 1960 to 1964. In 1974, he graduated
with a Licentiate degree in musical pedagogy. He studied flute with Oscar
Alvarez and composition with Blas Emilio Atehortúa and Francisco
Zumaqué. He also studied conducting with Andrés Knap in Tunja,
Colombia, and with Dimitar Manolov, Agustín Cullel, and Everet Lee in
Bogotá. He graduated in conducting in the Univ. of Cuyo, Mendoza, Prov.
of Mendoza, Argentina. Prof. at the Cons. de Música of the Univ. Nacional,
at the Univ. Pedagógica, at the Univ. de los Andes, and at the Escuela
Superior de Música of Tunja. Conductor of several bands and orchestras in
Colombia.
Works: Incidental music for King Lear (1980); Incidental music for The
Witches of Salem (1981); Danzas tradicionales de Colombia (1981);
Incidental music for Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme. Kantule, orch (1978). Voc,
instr music.
Sources: DMEH, LCRA

Carvajal Gómez, Ailem, Cuban composer; b.22 Nov 1972, Guanabacoa,

Cuba. She studied at the Cons. de Música de la Isla de la Juventud and at
the Cons. Alejandro García Caturla de La Habana. In 1987 she enrolled in
the Escuela Nacional de Arte, where she studied piano with Andrés Alén.
She continued studies at the Inst. Superior de Arte where she studied
composition with Carlos Fariñas and Harold Gramatges and conducting
with Guido López de Gavilán. She received numerous awards for
composition and participated in the Festival de Música Contemporánea in
Havana, la Primera Muestra Iberoamericana de Jóvenes Compositores in
Venezuela, and the Tribuna de Música Latinoamericana y del Caribe in
Argentina.
Works: Capítulopara una inocencia, sop, fl, pn (1990); Identidad, cl, bsn
(1993); Trío, vn, vc, pn (1993); Pájaros perdidos, voc, pn, str orch (1996).
Pn, electroacoustic music.
Sources: DMEH

Carvajal Quirós, Armando, Chilean conductor, violinist, and composer;

b.7 Jun 1893, Santiago de Chile, Chile; d.29 Jul 1972, Santiago de Chile.
He studied piano, violin, and composition at the Cons. Nacional de Música
of Santiago de Chile, with Varalla, Luigi S. Giarda, and Enrique Soro
Barriga. Concertmaster at the Orq. del Teatro Municipal of Santiago de
Chile. Prof. at the Cons. Nacional de Música of Santiago de Chile. In 1921,
he was appointed conductor of the Orq. Sinfónica of Chile, Santiago de
Chile.
Works: Mainly compositions for children including Tres piezas para niños:
Canon a la 5a.; Canción de cuna; Tonada triste.
Sources: DM, DMEH, GDM, HMC, MLA

Carvalho Muricy, Dinorah Gontijo de, Brazilian composer and pianist;

b.1 Jun 1897, Uberaba, Minas Gerais, Brazil; d.28 Feb 1980, São Paulo,
Brazil. Dates for her birth range from 1895 to 1905, but family genealogic
documentation suggests 1897 is correct. She studied piano at the Cons.
Municipal of São Paulo, and then, in Paris, France, with Isidor Philipp. In
São Paulo, she finished her studies of harmony, counterpoint, and
composition with Lamberto Baldi and Martín Braunwieser, and conducting
with Ernst Mehlich. She founded and directed the Orq. Femenina of São
Paulo, the first all-women’s orchestra in South America. Member of the
Academia Brasileira de Música.
Works: Fantasia, pn, orch; Tres dansas brasileiras, str orch, perc; Jogos no
jardim, 5 pieces for piano; E Bambo-Bambue, voice, str orch, perc; Pau
Piá, voice, orch; Boi Tungao, 4 mixed voices; Festa na vila, orch; Serenata
da saudade, orch; ProcisSão do Senhor Morto, orch; 2 concertos, pn, orch
music.
Sources: DM, EMB2, GDM, HMB, MLA, MMLA, NGDWC

Carvalho, Eleazar de, Brazilian composer and conductor; b.28 Jul 1912,
Iguatú, Ceará, Brazil; d.12 Sep 1996, São Paulo, Brazil. He studied
composition at the Escola Nacional de Música of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,
with Paulo Silva. In 1941, he was asst. conductor of the Orq. Sinfónica
Brasileira of Rio de Janeiro. In 1946, he studied conducting with Serge
Koussevitzky at the Berkshire Music Center, Berkshire, MA, USA. Guest
conductor in USA and Europe. From 1963 to 1968, he was conductor of the
Saint Louis Symph. Orch., Saint Louis, MO, USA. From 1969 to 1973, he
was conductor of the Hofstra Univ. Orch., Hempstead, NY, USA.
Works: A descoberta do Brasil, opera (1939); Tiradentes, opera (1941); A
traiçao, symph poem (1941); Batalha naval de Riachuelo, symph poem
(1943); Guararapes, symph poem (1945); Sinfonía branca, orch (1943). 3
overtures; 2 trios; 2 str qt; Vn sonata. Voc music.
Sources: BB, DM, EMB2, HMB, MLA, MMLA

Carvalho, Joaquim Torres Delgado de, Brazilian composer; b.24 Aug

1872, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; d.28 Mar 1921, Rio de Janeiro. He studied
violin in Rio de Janeiro with José White and Rudolph Eichbaum. Prof. at
the Inst. Nacional de Música of Rio de Janeiro.
Works: Moema, opera (1890); Hostia, opera (1898); Laís, opera (1900); A
bela adormecida, opera (unfinished); Marche solennelle, orch; Suite
d’orchestre; Piano Sonata. Pn music.
Sources: EMB2 MMLA

Carvalho, Reginaldo de, Brazilian composer, violinist, organist,

conductor, and teacher; b.27 Aug 1932, Guarabira, Brazil. He studied in Rio
de Janeiro harmony, counterpoint, and fugue with Paulo Silva, and
composition with Heitor Villa-Lobos. He also took courses at the Cons.
Nacional de Canto Orfeónico (male singing ensemble). He went to Paris,
France (1952) where he studied with Paul Le Flem and Pierre Schaeffer.
Dir. of the Inst. Villa-Lobos in Rio de Janeiro, and general coordinator of
Centro de Pesquisas Culturais e Comunicação of Piauí, Brazil.
Works: Calabar, opera (1950); 6 symphonies; 3 symph poems. Chamb, pn,
sacred, electroacoustic music.
Sources: EMB2

Carvelero, Álvaro, Uruguayan composer; b.31 Jan 1957, Montevideo,

Uruguay. He studied guitar with Alfredo Escande (1977) and attended the
Cons. Univ. de Música, graduating (1979-85). He continued private guitar
lessons with Eduardo Fernandez and Abel Carlevaro, and studied
composition and analysis with Héctor Tosar. In 1984 he received a
scholarship from the Inst. Goethe de Montevideo, which enabled him to
study in Argentina with Helmut Kachenmann. He studied composition in
the Escuela Superior de Música de Stuttgart (1988-91), where he also
studied piano with Gunilde Cramer. He has received awards and recognition
internationally as a performer and composer.
Works: Suite astral, gtr (1981); Diágolo, fl, gtr, perc (1982-83); La Vía
Láctea, orch (1985); Intramuros, orch (1987); Un par de cartas, tape
(1989); Ocho piezas para conjunto (1990).
Sources: DMEH

Casabona, Francisco, Brazilian composer and teacher; b.16 Oct 1894, São
Paulo, Brazil; d.24 May 1979, São Paulo. Started music studies with
Norberto Pastore and Savino de Benedictis. Later, he studied piano with
Alessandro Longo, music theory with Camillo de Nardis, and composition
with Giovanni Barbieri at the Cons. Reale di Música San Pietro a Majella of
Naples, Italy. Dir. of the Cons. Dramático e Musical of São Paulo. Founding
member of the Academia Brasileira de Música.
Works: Nero, symph poem (1915); Godiamo la vita, comic opera (1917);
Principessa dell’ atelier, comic opera (1918); Crepúsculo sertanejo, symph
poem (1926); Noite de São João, symph poem (1934); 2 symphonies (1937,
1940); La fable d’Einstein, orch (1946); Maracatú, Afro-Brazilian dance
(1946); Vn sonata. Pn, ch, voc music.
Sources: BB, DM, EMB2, MLA, MMLA

Casal Chapí, Enrique, Dominican composer of Spanish origin; b.15 Jan

1909, Madrid, Spain; d.20 Oct 1977, Madrid. In 1940, he settled in the
Dominican Republic. He studied at the Cons. of Madrid with Conrado del
Campo. In 1941, he was appointed conductor of the Orq. Sinfónica
Nacional of Ciudad Trujillo, Dominican Republic.
Works: Preludio y rondó, orch; Overture, orch. Ballets; pn, voc music.
Sources: DM, DMEH, MLA, MMLA

Casale, Primo, Venezuelan composer, conductor, and teacher; b.6 Jan

1904, Verrua Po, Pavia, Prov. of Lombardy, Italy; d.6 Aug 1981, Caracas,
Venezuela. He studied at the Cons. Reale di Musica of Milan, violin with
Remy Principe and composition with Vincenzo Ferroni. He settled in
Venezuela in 1948 and was appointed violinist at the Orq. Sinfónica
Venezolana and prof. of composition at the Cons. de Música of the State of
Aragua, Venezuela. Founder of the Opera of Caracas, and in 1954, he
created the Escuela Nacional de Opera.
Works: Deja de llorar, sop, orch; Cuatro invenciones, orch. Chamb, pn,
voc, ch music.
Sources: DMEH, EMV

Casamitjana Alsina, Juan, Cuban flutist and composer of Spanish origin;

b. 10 Jul 1805, Barcelona; d.30 Mar 1882, Valencia, Spain. Between 1832
and 1850, he lived in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba. In 1850, he settled in Paris.
He studied flute at the Cons. de Musique of Paris. He founded a music
school in Santiago de Cuba, and later, he moved to Havana, Cuba, where he
taught and conducted orchestras and bands.
Works: Sinfonía (1866); El retorno a la patri, orch (1866); 5 danzas
americanas, pn; El centenar, pn (1870); Andante religioso, orch (1871).
Sources: DMC2, DMEH, MMLA

Casanova, Fermina, Argentine composer and pianist; b.5 Mar 1936,

Buenos Aires, Argentina. She studied at the Cons. Nacional de Música
Carlos López Buchardo, piano with Roberto Locatelli and composition with
Roberto García Morillo, and at the Univ. Católica Argentina with Alberto
Ginastera, Gerardo Gandini, and Luis Gianneo, both of Buenos Aires. Prof.
at the Cons. Nacional de Música Carlos López Buchardo and the Cons.
Superior de Música Manuel de Falla of Buenos Aires.
Works: Piano Concerto (1965); Flute Concerto (1970); Concerto Grosso,
str (1970); Presagios, voc (1977); Divertimento, symph band (1978); Triade
(1994). Chamb, pn, voc music.
Sources: DMEH, DMM

Casanova Vicuña, Juan, Chilean conductor and composer; b.27 Dec 1894,
Santiago de Chile, Chile; d.30 Jun 1976. He studied with Humberto Pedro
Allende and Enrique Soro Barriga.
Works: Cuatro bosquejos, orch (1931); El indio y el huaso, symph poem
(1934); Alegre la tristeza y triste el vino, symph poem.
Sources: DMEH, HMC, MLA

Casas Augé, Miguel, Venezuelan teacher, composer, and conductor of

Spanish origin; b.30 Sep 1918, Barcelona, Spain; 31 Jul 2001, Valencia. He
studied at the Escuela Municipal, Cons. del Liceo, and the Orfeón Catalán
(male singing society), all in Barcelona, piano with Blay Net y Román, and
harmony and composition with José Barbera and Jaime Pahissa. In 1951, he
settled in Valencia, Venezuela, where he played and taught.
Works: Trombone Concerto; Homenaje, pn; City, str (1971); Symphony, str
(1979); Llinars, str (1982); Historia de dos ciudades (1985); Scherzino et
rondo, cl (1987); Trumpet Concertino No.2 (1988). Chamb, voc music.
Sources: EMV

Casas Napán, Walter Bernardino, Peruvian composer; b.20 May 1938,

Cañete, Peru. He studied composition with Enrique Iturriaga and music
education at the Cons. Nacional de Música del Perú. He worked in the
Oficina de Música y Danza in the Inst. Nacional de Cultura (1973-75).
Works: Cinco pequeños movimientos, wind qt; Cuarteto, ob, cl, nh, bsn;
Homenaje a Johann Sebastian Bach, fl, cl, bsn; Fantasía, va, pn; Tres
piezas, cl (1970); Ranrahirca, voc solo (1971); La creación, pn (1971); Mis
poemas nacen, mez sop, male ch, pn (1973); Anta karana, org, str (1973);
El sueño de los pueblos olvidados, mez sop, ch, fl, perc (1975); Diez
estudios, pn (1975); Simón Bolívar, soloists, hn, orch (1982).
Sources: NMLA

Casas Romero, Luis, Cuban composer and conductor; b.22 May 1882,
Camagüey, Cuba; d.30 Oct 1950, Habana, Cuba. At the age of 9 he began
studying music and at 12 joined the orchestra of the Sociedad Popular de
Santa Cecilia. He suspended his musical studies to join the fight for Cuban
independence. Later he organized a children’s band in Camagüey, while
working in a dance orchestra. He moved to Havana in the early 20th
century where he won national awards for band and orchestral
compositions. He directed the orchestra of Teatro Martí and became the first
flutist in orchestras in Havana theaters and for visiting Italian opera
companies. He also directed an operetta company that traveled across Cuba
and Mexico. In 1909 he became a flute teacher at the Hubert de Blanck
Cons., where he also taught theory, harmony, and composition until he
joined the military. He was the founding dir. of the Banda del Estado Mayor
General del Ejercito. He was a pioneer in radio in Cuba. He is credited as
the father of Creole music.
Works: Martí, overture; La vida, symph poem. Hymns, marches,
arrangements of European symphonies and operas, overtures, operettas,
serenades, symph poems, voc, orch, band music.
Sources: DMEH, MMLA

Casella, Enrique Mario, Uruguayan composer and teacher; b.1 Aug 1891,
Montevideo, Uruguay; d.10 Dec 1948, Tucumán, Prov. of Tucumán,
Argentina. He studied in Buenos Aires, Argentina, with Ferruccio Cattelani
and Edmundo Pallemaerts. He continued his studies in Bologna, Italy, with
Enrico Bossi, and in Brussels, Belgium, with César Thomson and Maurice
Estaminet. He also studied with Paul Vidal and Foucher in Paris, France. In
1921, he settled in Tucumán, where he founded the Inst. Musical and the
Asociación Sinfónica. He devoted most of his time to teaching. Conductor
of the Banda de Música of Tucumán.
Works: Brujerías, symph poem; Corimayo, opera; Don Quijote, symph
poem; En la puna, symph poem; Faetón, symph poem; El maleficio de la
luna, opera; Nauhel Huapí, symph poem; El país del ensueño, opera;
Quintet, vn, va, vc, pn, hn; El Rey Midas, symph poem; La tapera, opera;
Tavantisuyo, symph suite; La vidala, opera; Las vírgenes del sol, opera; 2
str qt; Sonata, vn, pn.
Sources: CA, DM, DMEH, EMA, MLA, MMLA

Castañeda Garrido, Benjamin, Peruvian pianist and compositor; b.31 Mar

1846, Lima, Peru; d.26 Mar 1913 or 27 Aug 1913, Lima, Peru. He studied
music in Lima before moving to Europe with his family as a child to
continue piano lessons with Josef and Theodor Proksch in Nice, France, and
Charles Bovy Lisburg, a student of Chopin, in Geneva. He met Louis
Moreau Gottschalk in Peru in 1865. He taught, performed, and acculturated
Lima audiences to classical and romantic piano sonatas through his recitals.
Works: Marcha nupcial (1871); Ristori (1874); Las regatas (1874); Marcha
fúnebre (1875); La feria (1876); Corina (1878).
Sources: DMEH

Castañeda Medinilla, José, Guatemalan composer, conductor, and

theorist; b.24 May 1898, Guatemala City, Guatemala; d.1983, Guatemala
City. He studied music in Paris. He developed a notation system of twelve
chromatic tones eliminating the use of sharps and flats. Founder of the Orq.
Progresista and the Cons. Nacional de Música of Guatemala, Guatemala
City. Founded and conducted the Orquesta Ars Nova of Guatemala City. He
taught harmony and composition at the Cons. Nacional de Guatemala. He
directed the cons., the Inst. Indigenista Nacional, and the Dirección General
de Cultura y Bellas Artes.
Works: La chalana (1922); Imágenes de nacimiento, opera (1933); La
serpiente emplumada, ballet; La doncella ante el espejo concave, orch.
Sources: DM, DMEH, HMG, MLA

Castegnaro Catellani, Dolores “Lola,” Costa Rican conductor and

composer; b.17 May 1900, San José, Costa Rica; d.2 Mar 1979, Mexico
City. She studied with her father, Alvise Castegnaro. Later, she went to Italy
where she studied at the Cons. Verdi of Milan, and then at the Acad.
Filarmónica of Bologna. In 1940, she returned to Costa Rica. In 1945, she
settled in Mexico where she taught at the Academia de Canto de Fanny
Anitúa.
Works: Suite, orch; Mirka, operetta; Sueño de amor; La casita; Panis
angelicus; Ojos perversos; Lasciate amare. About 70 voc and religious
compositions.
Sources: MMLA

Castellanos, Pablo, Venezuelan organist and composer; b.1888, Petare,

Venezuela; d.24 Nov 1958, Caracas, Venezuela. Father of Evencio
Castellanos and Gonzalo Castellanos Yumar. He studied at the Inst.
Nacional de Bellas Artes (today Escuela de Música José Angel Lamas) of
Caracas, where he studied with Emilio Maury and Ignacio Bustamante.
Choirmaster at several churches in Caracas.
Works: Responsorio de difuntos, 2 vn, orch; Hodie Maria, vn, orch. Ch,
sacred music.
Sources: DMEH, EMV

Castellanos Yumar, Gonzalo, Venezuelan composer, teacher, and

conductor; b.3 Jun 1926, Canoabo, Carabobo, Venezuela. He started music
studies with his father, Pablo Castellanos, and later, studied with Vicente
Sojo at the Escuela Superior de Música of Caracas, Venezuela. He also
studied orchestration with Daniel Lessur and Pierre Wissmer at the Schola
Cantorum in Paris, France, and conducting with Sergiu Celibidache in
Siena, Italy. Choirmaster of the Church San José, and dir. of the Escuela de
Música Juan Manuel Olivares, the Orq. Sinfónica Venezolana, and the
Collegium Musicum, all in Caracas.
Works: Concerto, pn, orch (1944); El Río de las siete estrellas, orch (1946);
Suite sinfónica Caraqueña, orch (1947); Suite avileña, orch (1947);
Fantasía cromática, orch (1952); Mass Ave Maris Stella, ch (1953);
Antelación e imitación fugaz, pn, orch (1954); Fantasía sinfónica, pn, orch
(1954); Santa Cruz de Pacairigua, orch (1963); El tirano Aguirre, oratorio
for soloists, ch, orch (1967). Madrigals; chamb, voc music.
Sources: CTA14, DMEH, EMV, GDM

Castilla, Alberto, Colombian composer; b.9 Apr 1883, BB (Jul 1878,

CMC), Bogotá, Colombia; d.10 Jun 1938, Ibagué, Colombia. He studied at
the Academia Nacional de Música in Bogotá, with Julio Quevedo Arvelo.
He also studied engineering. In 1898, he settled in Tolima, Colombia, where
he founded the cons. (1906).
Works: Bunde tolimense; Guabina ibaguereña, orch; Arrurrú; Guabina.
Voc music.
Sources: BB, CMC, DMEH, ZCCC

Castillo, Fructos del, Mexican composer of Spanish origin from the 16th
century; b.Segovia?, Spain; fl. 1600. Active in Puebla, Mexico.
Works: Monstra te Esse Matrem, second strophe of the hymn Ave Maris
Stella, his only surviving composition found to date, preserved in an
appendix to Libro de Coro 2b at the archives of the Cathedral of Puebla.
Bibl.: R. Stevenson, Renaissance and Baroque Musical Sources in the
Americas, Washington, DC, 1970.
Sources: GDM

Castillo, Gabriel del, Dominican composer; b.18 Mar 1871, Higüey,

Dominican Republic; d.27 Sep 1950, San Pedro de Macorís, Dominican
Republic. He studied with José Galván in San Pedro de Macorís. Founder
of the Academia de Música Patria (1900). Conductor of the Banda
Municipal of San Pedro de Macorís, Dominican Republic, until 1946.
Works: Macorís, overture for band; La fiesta de San Pedro, lyric comedy;
Guachupino, aire campestre (rural look); Reminiscencia higüeyana,
fantasia; El día de los ayuntamientos, fantasia. Wind instr music; waltzes;
dances; mazurkas; polkas; marches; hymns.
Sources: DM, DMEH, MMLA

Castillo, Graciela, Argentine composer and pianist; b.21 May 1940,

Córdoba, Argentina. She studied piano in the Cons. Provincial of Música de
Córdoba. She studied composition with Nicolás Alessio and studied music
at the Univ. de Córdoba and the Univ. del Litoral. In the 1960s she
performed on piano as a soloist and as part of the piano duo, Castillo-
Castillo. Her concert repertoire focused largely on contemporaneous
Argentine works. She was a founding member of the Centro de Música
Experimental (1965). She studied electroacoustic media with César
Franchisena and Francisco Kröpfl. She participated in the Jornadas de
Música del Siglo XX (1981-88) and the Jornadas de Nueva Música in
Córdoba. She taught in the provincial cons. then taught analysis and
composition at the Escuela de Artes in the Univ. Nacional de Córdoba. She
was a founding member of the Asociación de Compositores de Córdoba,
the Federación Argentina de Compositores and was a delegate of the
Federación Argentina de Música Electroacústica.
Works: Concreción 65, tape (1965); Diálogos, 2 voc, typewriters, radios,
perc; Estudio sobre mi voz, tape (1967); Estudio sobre mi voz II, tape
(1967); Tres estudios concretos, tape (1967); Y así era, tape (1982);
Memorias, tape (1991); Tierra, tape (1994); Iris en los espejos, tape (1996);
Iris en los espejos II, pn, keyboards, processed sounds (1996); De objetos y
desvíos, tape (1998–99); Los 40 pianos de San Francisco, prepared pn,
processed sounds (1999); Alma mía, tape (2000); Ofrenda, fl, processed
sounds (2001); Ofrenda II, fl, processed sounds (2001); Retorno al fuego,
tape (2002); La vuelta (Tango), tape (2002).
Sources: DMEH

Castillo, Jesús, Guatemalan composer and folklorist; b.9 Sep 1877, San
Juan Ostuncalco, Dept. of Quetzaltenango, Guatemala; d.23 Apr 1946,
Quetzaltenango. He is half brother of Ricardo Castillo. He studied with
Alejandro and Miguel Espinosa, Fernando Soria, and Rafael Guzmán. He
devoted himself to researching the musical folklore of Guatemala.
Works: 5 indigenous overtures (1897-1910); 2 indigenous suites (1912-32);
3 indigenous potpourris (1922-26); Quiché Vinák, opera (1919-24); Tecúm
Umán, symph poem (1936); Nicté, opera (1936); Guatema, ballet (1938);
Vartizanic, symph poem (1941).
Bibl.: La Música Maya-Quiché Quetzaltenango, 1941.
Sources: DMEH, GDM, MLA, MMLA

Castillo, Jorge, Venezuelan conductor and composer; b.23 Apr 1966,

Valencia, Carabobo, Venezuela. He started music studies with Ramón
Depablos, and continued later at the Escuela Sebastián Echeverría Lozanoof
Valencia, with Rogelio Pereira, José Calabrese, Juan Vidal Pastor, and
Víctor Julio Castillo. At the Cons. Simón Bolívar of Caracas, he studied
music analysis with José Antonio Abreu and conducting with Gonzalo
Castellanos. In 1991, he received a Licentiate degree in composition at
IUDEM, where he studied with Blas Emilio Atehortúa. Dir. of the
Camerata Barroca of the Univ. of Carabobo.
Works: Organ Concerto (1977); La sinestesia en mineros, sop, pn, perc
(1985); Doce miniaturas, vn (1986); Duerman al Niño Jesús, 4-voice mixed
ch, pn (1987); Arabesco, 2 pn, perc (1988); Recintos, ch (1988); Cantata
breve, ch (1989); Preludio y rondo, pn, drum (1989); Obertura breve
(1989); Fantasia, pn (1989); Double-bass Concerto (1990); Suite
neoclásica (1990); Cuatro piezas, vn (1990); Miniaturas (1991); La
inconstancia de la luz, sop (1991). Chamb, children’s music.
Sources: DMEH, EMV

Castillo, Ricardo, Guatemalan composer; b.1 Oct 1891, Quetzaltenango,

Guatemala; d.27 May 1966. Half-brother of Jesús Castillo. He studied
violin with A. Lefort (1912-17) and harmony with Paul Vidal (1919-21) in
Paris, France. Prof. of music history, harmony, and counterpoint at the
Cons. of Guatemala, Guatemala City.
Works: Guatemala, symph movements (1934); La procesión (1935);
Primavera, acuarela sinfónica (1935); Homenaje a Ravel, symph minuet;
La doncella Ixquic, ballet (1942); Symphony (1943); Xibalba, symph poem
(1944); L‘eau qui court, pn; Barcarola, pn; Nocturno, pn; Poema pastoral,
pn; Scène pastorale, pn.
Sources: CTA1, DM, DMEH, MLA, MMLA

Castillo Olivari, Arcángel, Venezuelan composer and conductor; b.3 Oct

1959, Mérida, Venezuela. He studied at the IUDEM in Caracas, Venezuela.
Choral dir. at several educational inst. Dir. of the Archivo Audiovisual at
the Dept. de Música of the Bibioteca Nacional Venezolana, Caracas.
Conductor of the Banda Sinfónica of the State of Mérida and the Orq.
Juvenil Nacional of Mérida, since 1992.
Works: Trio, ob, cl, bsn (1985); String trio (1986); Elegía, str (1987);
Passacaglia y fuga Modal, str trio (1990); Aforismos, symph orch (1991);
Postludio, harp (1992). Voc music.
Sources: DMEH, EMV, ISC

Castillo Ponce, Gonzalo, Mexican composer; b.25 Apr 1955, Mexico City,
Mexico. He studied with Francisco Savín, Cristián Caballero, and E. Ruiz at
the Cons. Nacional de Música of INBA, Mexico City, and with Constantin
Botashiof at the Tschaicovsky Cons. of Moscow, Russia, and with Igor
Assiev at the Cons. of Odessa, Ukraine. Prof. at the Escuela Nacional de
Música of UNAM, Mexico City, and at the Univ. Regiomontana and the
Univ. Autónoma of Coahuila, both of Mexico.
Works: Violin Concerto (1987); Blanco, sop, tnr, perc, chamb orch (1992);
Poema, vc, str orch (1995). Chamb, pn, voc ch music.
Sources: DCMMC, GP

Castillo Restrepo, Néstor Javier, Panamanian composer and conductor;

b.6 Dec 1954, Santiago de Veraguas, Panama. He studied conducting at the
Univ. de Río de Janeiro, and earned a Masters degree in conducting from
Catholic Univ. of America. He studied with Enrique Morelenbaum, Murillo
T. Santos, Roberto Ricardo Duarte, and Robert Gerle, and was invited to
conduct in Panama, the USA, and Brazil. He began teaching composition in
1980 at the Inst. Nacional de Música. He managed the Asociación Orq. de
Cámara Filarmonía, and served as asst. dir. of the Orq. Sinfónica Nacional
de Panamá. He taught at the Univ. de Panamá, directed the dept. of music,
and formed the Orq. Filarmónica there in 1988.
Works: Advenimiento, nar, pn; Elegía metalúrgia, nar, perc qnt; Momento
de arte, fl, pn; Semitonalidad rural, fl, gtr; Suite concertante, str orch.
Sources: DMEH

Castro, Aloisio de, Brazilian writer, professor of medicine, and composer;

b.14 Jun 1881, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; d.7 Oct 1959, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Self-taught musician. Honorary member of the Cons. Brasileiro de Música.
Member and president of the Academia Brasileira de Letras.
Works: Pn music, songs on French poems including: Chant d’amour et de
la tristesse; Coeur battant; Enchantement.
Bibl.: Rimário, book of poems, Rio de Janeiro, 1926; A Sete Dores e as Sete
Alegrías da Virgem, Rio de Janeiro, 1929.
Sources: EMB2, MMLA

Castro, Crisanto, Ecuadorian composer and violinist; b.18th to 19th

century, Ecuador. He established a music school in Quito (1810). In 1816 he
was appointed music dir. of the cathedral. He is listed as music dir. and
singer of plainchant in a manuscript from 1817.
Works: Te Deum laudamus. Religious music.
Sources: DMEH

Castro, Herbert de, Panamanian composer, director, and violinist; b.18 Jan
1905, Panamá; d.23 Jul 1969. He studied cello with Van Den Burge and
Diram Alexanian, piano with Andrée Honnegger, and composition with
Albert Roussel in France starting in 1923. When he returned to Panama
(1930) he performed music of the French Impressionists. He founded the
Orq. Sinfónica Nacional (1941) and taught at the Cons. Nacional de
Panamá. In 1944 he moved to New York to study conducting with Jean
Morel.
Works: Film, str qt; Serenata, fl, str qt; Preludio y giga, 2 fl; Melodía, fl,
pn; Pastoral, chamb orch; Berceuse, vc, pn; Preludio, pn; Fuga, str trio;
Pastoral no.2, orch; Tres cantos de sinagoga, soloists, ch; Cuatro piezas.
Sources: DMEH

Castro, Indalecio, Guatemalan composer; b.1839, Mixco, Guatemala;

d.1911, Mixco, Guatemala. He studied with Máximo Andrino and Víctor
Rosales. He received a gold-medal for his symphony, La Exposición, at the
World’s Columbian Exposition in 1893. He worked as a conductor in
Guatemala.
Works: Gran Sinfonía La Exposición; Invitatorio de difuntos; Misa del
Sagrado Corazón de Jesús, 3 voc, orch; Dúo al Santísimo Sacramento;
Misa Solemne, 3 voc, orch; Magnificat, 4 voc; Dixit Dominus, ch, orch;
Laudate Dominus, ch; Regina Virginum, ch, orch; Salve Regina, ten, orch;
Dos villancicos al Santísimo Sacramento; Invitatorio al Niño Dios, 3 voc,
pn; Accepit Jesus; Ecce panis.
Sources: DMEH

Castro, José María, Argentine composer, conductor, and cellist; b.15 Dec
1892, Avellaneda, Prov. of Buenos Aires, Argentina; d.2 Aug 1964, Buenos
Aires. Brother of Juan José and Washington Castro. He studied cello with
Humberto Ferrari and José García, harmony with Constantino Gaito, and
composition with Eduardo Fornarini. He played in several chamber
ensembles. A founder of the Sociedad del Cuarteto and the Orq. de Cámara
Renacimiento, conductor of the Orq. de Cámara and the Orq. Filarmónica
of APO, and conductor of the Banda Municipal, all of Buenos Aires.
Founder, with other leading avant-garde composers, of the Grupo
Renovación (1929) and the Liga de Compositores de la Argentina (1947),
both of Buenos Aires.
Works: Concerto, vn, pn (1917); 2 sonatas for violin and piano (1918,
1957); Concerto Grosso (1932); Sonata, vc, pn (1933); 6 piano sonatas
(1919, 1924, 1927, 1931, 1939, 1934); Obertura para una ópera cómica
(1934); Georgia, ballets (1937); Sonata, 2 vc (1938); Piano Concerto
(1941-56); Concerto (1944); Tres pastorales (1945); Concerto, vc, 17 instr
(1945); El libro de los sonetos, voc (1947); El sueño de la botella, ballet
(1948); Preludio y toccata, str (1949); Falarka, ballet (1951); Tema coral
con variaciones (1952); Concerto, vn, 18 instr (1953); 3 str qt; (1932, 1944,
1956); Diez improvisaciones Breves (1957); Cinco líricas, voc (1958);
Preludio, tema con variaciones y final (1959); Sinfonía de Buenos Aires
(1963); Con la patria adentro, tnr (1964). Pn, voc music.
Sources: BB, CA, CTA11, DM, DMEH, DMM, EMA, GDM, MLA,
MMLA
Castro, Juan José, Argentine composer and conductor; b.7 Mar 1895,
Avellaneda, Prov. of Buenos Aires, Argentina; d.3 Sep 1968, Buenos Aires,
Argentina. Brother of José María and Washington Castro. He studied piano
and violin with Manuel Posadas, harmony with Constantino Gaito, and
counterpoint, fugue, and composition with Eduardo Fornarini. In Paris,
France, he studied with Vincent d’Indy at the Schola Cantorum, and piano
with Eduardo Risler. A founder of the Sociedad del Cuarteto and of the
Orq. de Cámara Renacimiento, where he started his career as a conductor.
He conducted the orchestra of the Teatro Colón, the Orq. Sinfónica of APO,
and the Asociación Filarmónica, all of Buenos Aires. He conducted in Cuba
and Uruguay (1947-51) and was principal conductor of the Victorian
Symph. Orch. of Melbourne, Australia (1952-53). He returned to Argentina
(1955) and conducted the Orq. Sinfónica Nacional of Buenos Aires (1956-
60). He was dir. of the Cons. de Música of San Juan, Puerto Rico (1959-64).
Works: Sonata, vn, pn (1914); Canción y danza, cl, pn (1914); Sonata, vc,
pn (1916); Serenata, vc, pn (1918); En el jardín de los muertos, orch
(1923); A una madre, orch (1925); La challah, orch (1927); Suite infantil
(1928); Suite breve (1929); Allegro, lento y vivace (1930); Sinfonía bíblica,
ch, orch (1932); Mekhano, ballet (1934); 2 piano sonatas (1917, 1939);
Offenbachiana, ballet (1940); String Quartet (1942); La zapatera
prodigiosa, opera (1943); Martín Fierro, bar, ch, orch (1944); Elegía a la
muerte de García Lorca, sop, ch, orch (1945); De tierra gallega, ch, orch
(1946); Intrata y danza rústica, vn, pn (1946); Música del bosque (1946);
El llanto de las sierras (1947); Corales criollos No.1 and No.2, pn (1947);
Proserpina y el extranjero, opera (1951); Bodas de sangre, opera (1952);
Corales criollos No.3 (1953); Fanfare for the Queen (1953); 4 symphonies
(1931, 1934, 1939, 1956); Cosecha negra, opera (1959-61); Epitafio en
ritmos y sonidos, ch, orch (1961); Adiós a Villa Lobos (1962). Pn, voc
music.
Bibl.: R. Arizaga, Juan José Castro, Buenos Aires, 1963.
Sources: BB, CA, CTA4, DCM, DM, DMEH, DMM, GDM, MLA, MMLA

Castro, Pedro de, Brazilian composer and teacher; b.24 May 1895,
Barbacena, Minas Gerais, Brazil; d.24 Apr 1978, Belo Horizonte, Minas
Gerais. He started music studies with his cousin, João Mendes de Castro,
and continued later at the Inst. Nacional de Música of Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil, where he studied piano with Henrique Oswald and harmony with
Hostílio Soares and Assis Republicano. He also took courses of harmony,
counterpoint, fugue, and composition with Paulo Silva. Prof. at the Escola
de Música of the Univ. Federal of Minas Gerais. First president of the
Ordem dos Músicos do Brasil.
Works: Hino à juventude brasileira, voc; Hino do Instituto de Educação,
voc; Rio enamorado, voc; Serenata. Pn music.
Sources: EMB2

Castro, Sergio de, Argentine composer and painter; b.15 Sep 1922, Buenos
Aires, Argentina; d.31 Dec 2012, Paris. He started his musical studies in
Lausanne, Switzerland, and studied harmony and counterpoint with Guido
Santórsola in Montevideo, Uruguay, and instrumentation at the SODRE.
Largely self-taught in composition, he worked as an assistant to Manuel de
Falla. After 1951 he devoted himself to painting, and he became a French
citizen in 1979.
Works: Títeres, choreographic suite for winds, pn, perc, str (1939-42);
Ballet, 2 pn, chamb orch (1942-45); Quintet, fl, cl, bsn, vn, vc (1943-48); 2
symphonies; Homenaje a Falla.
Sources: DM, DMEH, EMA, MLA

Castro, Washington, Argentine composer and cellist; b.13 Jul 1909,

Buenos Aires, Argentina; d.29 Oct 2004, Mar del Plata. Brother of José
María and Juan José Castro. He studied with Alberto Schiuma, José María
Castro, and Honorio Siccardi in Buenos Aires, and with Maurice Marechal
in Paris, France. Prof. at the Cons. Superior de Música Manuel de Falla of
Buenos Aires. Founder of the Cuarteto Haydn. Cond. of the Orq. de Cámara
of APO. Appointed asst. conductor and first cellist of the Orq. Sinfónica
Nacional of Buenos Aires in 1947. Member of the Grupo Renovación and
Liga de Compositores de la Argentina, both in Buenos Aires. Permanent
conductor of the Orq. Sinfónica of Santa Fe, Prov. of Santa Fe, Argentina,
and of the Orq. Sinfónica of Mar del Plata, Prov. of Buenos Aires,
Argentina.
Works: Obertura festiva (1941); Belén, orch (1943); Sonata, vc, pn (1943);
Divertimento, fl, ob, cl, bsn, str qt (1944); Obertura trágica (1946); El
concierto campestre, symph suite (1946); Variaciones y fuga (1947);
Concierto elegíaco, va (1950); Obertura para niños (1951); Música, chamb
orch (1951); Symphonic Suite (1952); 2 symphonies (1956, 1959); Piano
Concerto (1960); Salmo XXIII, ch, chamb orch (1962); Concerto, orch
(1963); Rapsodia, vc (1965); 3 str qt (1945, 1950, 1965); Symphonic Music
for Joan d’Arc (1968); 2 wind qnt (1952, 1969); 3 tangos, vc, pn (1969);
Three Pieces (1970); Variaciones sobre un tema de Händel (1970). Pn, voc
music.
Sources: CA, CTA4, DM, DMEH, DMM, EMA, GDM, MLA

Castro Herrera, Ricardo, Mexican pianist and composer; b.7 Feb 1864,
Durango, Mexico; d.28 Sep 1907, Mexico City, Mexico. He studied
harmony with Melesio Morales and piano with Juan Salvatierra at the Cons.
Nacional de Música of Mexico City. Dir. of the Cons. Nacional de Música
of Mexico City.
Works: 2 symphonies (1883, 1887); Atzimba, opera (1900); Piano Concerto
(1904); La leyenda de Rudel, opera (1906); Satán vencido; Rousalka. Pn
music.
Sources: BB, CM, DM, DMEH, GDM, GMM, GP, MMLA

Castro Mora, Carlos José, Costa Rican composer; b.25 Jan 1963, San
José, Costa Rica. He studied at the Cons. de Castella, at the Escuela de
Artes Musicales at the Univ. de Costa Rica, and at the Centro
Interamericano de Estudios Instrumentales. His instructors included Blas
Emilio Atehortúa, Leo Brouwer, Bernal Flores, Benjamín Gutiérrez, Rand
Steiger, and David Vayo. He won a 2008 Latin Grammy for Best Classical
Contemporary Composition. He taught music theory at the Inst. Nacional
de Música de Costa Rica and at the Univ. de Costa Rica.
Works: Gobierno de alcoba (1992); Concierto del sol (2002); Sinfonía
minima (2004)
Sources: TV

Castro Solano, Otto, Costa Rican composer; b.15 Mar 1972, San José,
Costa Rica. He studied music at the Escuela de Artes Musicales de la Univ.
de Costa Rica where he earned a BM with emphasis in composition. He
studied electroacoustic music at the Laboratorios Liem del Museo Reina
Sofía in Madrid and at the Centro Nacional de las Artes de México. Co-
director of the Red de Arte Sonoro Latinoamericano and founding dir. of
the Red de Arte Sonoro Costarricense. He taught in the Programa de
Identidad at the Univ. Nacional.
Works: Crep. sculo etéreo, tb (1992); Perfecto azul violeta, euphonium, pn
(1992); Queeldemonioestéconustedes (1992); Percusión para maderas, perc
(1999); Quinteto para maderas no.1 (1999); Sonata, va, pn (1999); VII, va,
pn (1999); Estudios para flauta traversa (1999); Luces de los bosques en
reflejos con el agua (1999); Pasillo (1999); Preludio no.1 (1999); Coral a
Jorge Debravo, sop, alt, ten, bs (1999); Suite orquestal en tres movimientos
(2001). Hymns; voc, incidental, electroacoustic music.
Sources: TV

Catán Porteny, Daniel, Mexican composer; b.3 Apr 1949, Mexico City,
Mexico; d.8 Apr 2011, Austin, TX, USA. He studied at the Univ. of
Southampton, Southampton, England, where he obtained a Licenciate
degree in music, and at Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ, USA, where he
graduated with a MM and a Ph.D. in music. Prof. of composition at
Princeton Univ. and at the Cons. Nacional de Música of INBA and the
Taller de Composición Carlos Chávez, both in Mexico City. Co-ordinator of
special projects for the Opera del Palacio de Bellas Artes, artistic dir. for
Radio XELA, both in Mexico, and researcher of Japanese traditional music
and composer in-residence at the Welsh National Opera Company of Wales,
Great Britain.
Works: Hetaera Esmeralda, orch (1975); Ocaso de medianoche, mez sop,
orch (1977); Encuentro en el ocaso, opera (1979); El arbol de la vida, orch
(1980); Cantata, sop, mixed ch, chamb orch (1981); En un doblez del
tiempo (1982); Ausencia de flores (1983); Mariposa de obsidiana, sop, ch
(1984); Tierra final, sop (1985); La Hija de Rappaccini, opera (1989);
Contristada (1991); Tu son tu risa tu sonrisa (1991). Chamb, solo instr
music.
Sources: DCMMC, DMEH, GP

Cataño, Manuel, Mexican composer; fl.19th century. He lived in Tepic,

Mexico. He entered and won, by unanimous decision, a contest for the
national hymn.
Works: Himno nacional; La mariposa, pn; Concurso (1854).
Sources: GP

Cataño Mendoza, Fernando, Mexican contrabassist and composer; b.16

Jun 1928, Mexico City, Mexico. He studied contrabass and composition at
the Cons. Nacional de Música of INBA, Mexico City. His teachers included
Luis Hernández, Juan León Mariscal, Blas Galindo, and Rodolfo Halffter.
Prof. at SEP, INBA, IMSS, and DDF.
Works: Sección de oro, chamb orch (1958); El mar, ch, chamb orch (1960);
Cancún, orch (1968); Oaxaca, ch (1970); Tema de Laura, orch (1971);
Sonora, symph poem (1972); Camarón que se duerme, chamb orch (1975);
Kukulcán, orch (1978); Homenaje a Agustín Lara, orch (1981); Tula, orch
(1982); Ciudad de México, orch (1982); Guanajato, orch (1985); Carbono
2000, orch (1987); Viola, va (1987); Mexiquense (1989); Tres milenios, ch
(1990); Llamadas de oriente, opera (1993); Raíces, gtr (1995). Chamb, voc,
pn, gtr music.
Sources: DCMMC, GP

Cattelani, Ferruccio, Argentine conductor, violinist, and composer of

Italian origin; b.28 Mar 1867, Parma, Italy; d.16 Apr 1932, Mailand, Italy.
He studied violin (1879-1885) with Lodovico Mantovani. After 1897 he
appears to have worked at various times as a choirmaster in Rio de Janeiro,
Montevideo, Santiago de Chile, and in Buenos Aires. He lived in South
America until 1927. He founded the Sociedad Orq. Bonaerense and the
Cuarteto Cattelani.
Works: Atahualpa, opera (1900); Hymn Commemorating the Centenary of
the May Revolution, orch. of 400 players (1910).
Sources: DMEH, EMA

Catunda (Katunda), Eunice do Monte Lima, Brazilian composer and

pianist; b.14 Mar 1915, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; d 3 Aug 1990, São Paulo,
Brazil. She studied piano with Branca Bilhar, Marieta Lion, and Oscar
Guanabarino, composition with Furio Franceschini, Camargo Guarnieri,
Hans Joachim Koellreutter, and Bruno Maderna, orchestration with César
Guerra Peixe, and conducting with Hermann Scherchen. In 1946, she joined
the modernistic group Música Viva, started by Hans Joachim Koellreutter
(1939). She became lecturer at the Univ. of Brasilia, Brazil (1948). In 1956,
she went to Salvador, Bahía, Brazil, to study the music of Afro-Brazilian
cults.
Works: O negrinho do pastoreio, cantata for female voices, fl, gtr, perc
(1946); Quatro cantos a morte, orch (1948); Homenagem a Schoenberg, cl,
bcl, va, vc, pn (1949); A negrinha e Iemanja, voice, orch (1955); Piano
Concerto (1955); Seresta, 4 sax (1956); A mota fantasma de Belo
Horizonte, ballet (1959); Ode a Brasilia, ch, orch (1960); Cantata dos
marinheiros, ch, soloists, orch (1975); Cinco líricas gregas, soloists, ch,
perc (1977); Cantata do soldado morto, soloists, ch, perc (1977). Chamb,
pn, voc music.
Sources: BB, EMB, HMB, NCM, NGDWC

Caturla, Alejandro García, Cuban composer and lawyer; b.7 Mar 1906,
Remedios, Prov. of Las Villas, Cuba; d.(assassinated) 12 Nov 1940,
Remedios. He studied in his native town with Fernando Estrems and María
Montalvan. When he moved to Havana, Cuba, he studied harmony,
counterpoint, and fugue with Pedro Sanjuán. In 1928, he went to Paris,
France, where he studied with Nadia Boulanger. Founder and first cond. of
the Orq. de Cámara of Caibarién, Cuba (1932). District judge in Remedios.
Bibl.: A. Salazar, La Obra Musical de Alejandro Caturla, Revista Cubana,
1938. N. Slonimsky, Caturla of Cuba, Modern Music, 1940. A. Carpenter,
La Música en Cuba, Havana, 1946. R. Nodal Consuegra, La Figura de A.
García Caturla en la Música Cubana, Exilo, 1971.
Works: Tres danzas cubanas, orch (1927); Bembé, 14 instr (1929); Dos
poemas afrocubanos, voc, pn (1929); Primera suite cubana, pn, 8 wind
instr (1930); Yamba-O, Afro-Cuban oratorio (1931); Rumba, orch (1931);
Manita en el suelo, Afro-Cuban comic mythology nar, marionettes, chamb
orch (1934); El caballo blanco y canto de los cafetales, mixed ch a cappella
(1937); Suite, orch (1938); Cuban Overture (1938); Sabas, vn, pn, 5 wind
instr. Pn, ch, chamb, band music.
Sources: BB, CTA3, DCM, DM, DMEH, DMC, GDM, MLA, MMLA

Cavalcanti, Nestor de Hollanda, Brazilian composer and guitarist; b.26

Nov. 1949, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He studied trumpet with José Miranda
Pinto, and music theory and appreciation with Elpídio Pereira. In 1967, he
studied harmony, counterpoint, music form, orchestration, and composition
with César Guerra Peixe at the Pro-Arte, at MIS, and at the Centro de
Estudos Musicais, all in Rio de Janeiro. In 1966, he took guitar lessons with
Pereira Filho and Jodacil Damasceno. Prof. of guitar at the Cons. de Música
Brasileira and at the Escola de Música Villa-Lobos, both in Rio de Janeiro.
Works: Os caboclinhos (1978); Microconcerto No.1 (1979); A Fênix
(1984). Chamb music.
Sources: EMB2

Cedeño, Rubén, Venezuelan teacher, composer, and painter; b.21 May

1953, Caracas, Venezuela. He graduated as a vocal teacher from the Escuela
de Música Juan Manuel Olivares in 1978. He studied with María
Carrasquero and Flor Roffé in Spain and specialized in the Kodaly method
in Hungary in 1980. He was a founder, choir dir. and music teacher at
children’s educational centers, such as the Cons. de Música de Maracay. He
studied metaphysics with Conny Méndez.
Works: Suite, voc, pn (1976); Diez canciones infantiles voc, pn (1977); La
misa de mi tierra, voc, pn (1979); Siete canciones japonesas, voc, pn
(1980); Canciones para casa cuna (1981); Tres canciones budhistas (1982);
Oratorio infantile de Navidad (1983); Tres canciones islámicas (1984);
Siete aguinaldos venezolanos (1985). Pedagogical works.
Sources: DMEH

Cedeño Laya, Roberto Antonio, Venezuelan composer and teacher; b.13

Oct 1965, Caracas, Venezuela. He began music study at the Fundación
Musical Musiyama with José Peñín. Later he studied at the Escuela de
Música José Angel Lamas and the Cons. Nacional de Música Juan José
Landaeta, both in Caracas, with Pablo Castellanos, José Peñin, Victor
Varela, and Juan Francisco Sans. Prof. at the Cons. Nacional de Música
Juan José Landaeta, the Univ. Simón Bolivar, and the Fundación Musical
Musiyama, all in Caracas.
Works: Meninas, cb (1991); Y al sexto día el hombre creó a Dios, cantata
(1991); Concertino, cb (1992); Gracias a Dios soy ateo (1992). Chamb, ch
music.
Sources: DMEH, EMV

Cerana, Carlos, Argentine composer; b.1958, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He

studied with Francisco Kröpfl. Prof. at the Cons. Superior de Música
Manuel de Falla, assoc. researcher at LIPM, and member of FARME, all of
Buenos Aires. In 1992, he was composer-researcher in residence at the
Center for Computer Research in Music Acoustics of Stanford Univ.,
Stanford, and at the Center for Research in Computing and Arts of the Univ.
of California in San Diego, both in CA, USA.
Works: Batimentos, electromagnetic tape (1990); Huellas digitales, cl,
electromagnetic tape (1991); Trio, vn, vc, pn (1992); Seducciones, fl, cl, vn,
vc, perc (1992); Mínimas (1992); Fall, electromagnetic tape (1993); Tres
piezas (1994).
Sources: DMM

Cerón, José Dolores, Dominican composer and physician; b.29 Jun 1897,
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; d.2 Mar 1969, Santo Domingo. He
graduated from the Escuela de Medicina of the Dominican Republic. He
studied music with José de Jesús Ravelo and Esteban Peña Morell. He
became conductor of the band of the Primer Regimiento in Santo Domingo
(1930).
Works: Enriquillo, symph poem; Las vírgenes de Galindo, symph poem;
Symphony; Tres preludios, orch.
Sources: DEW, DM, MLA, MMLA

Cerqueira, Fernando, Brazilian composer and singer; b.8 Sep 1941,

Ilhéus, Bahia, Brazil. He studied composition with Ernst Widmer, clarinet
with W. Endress and Wilfred Beck, and voice with Sonia Born. He
graduated in 1969 from the Escola de Música e Artes Cênicas of UFBA.
From 1965 to 1970, he was clarinetist at the Orq. Sinfônica of UFBA. Prof.
at the Univ. of Brasília, Brazil, 1970-75, and at the UFBA, 1975-94.
Founding member of the Sociedade Brasileira de Música Contemporânea.
Works: Transubstanciação (1968); Heterofonía do tempo ou Monólogo da
multino, soloists, ch, perc, magnetic tape (1969); Decantação (1970);
Paradigmas (1986); Cataclismas, sop, baritone, ch (1988); Híbrido
concerto (1993). Chamb, voc, ch music.
Sources: EMB2

Ceruti, Roque, Peruvian composer of Italian origin; b. ca. 1683, Milan,

Italy; d.6 Dec 1760, Lima, Peru. He settled in Peru in 1708. He studied
violin and composition in Milan. Composer and conductor at the Palacio
del Virrey de Peru in Lima, from 1708 to 1717. In 1720, he moved to
Trujillo, Peru, where he was appointed choirmaster at the Cathedral, 1721
to 1728. On August 1728, he returned to Lima to become choirmaster at the
Cathedral of Lima.
Works: El mejor escudo de Perseo, mythological opera; 24-line Latin
carmen panegyricum; 15 Spanish-text festival pieces, voc duet, trio, or qt
accompanied by vn, continuo.
Bibl.: R. Stevenson, The Music of Peru, Washington, DC, 1960. A. Sas, La
Música en la Catedral de Lima durante el Virreinato: Diccionario
Biográfico, Vol.1, Lima, 1972.
Sources: GDM

Cervantes, Daniel Sergio, Argentine composer; b.27 Feb 1963, Córdoba,

Prov. of Córdoba, Argentina. He obtained his title of Licenciate in
composition from the Escuela de Artes de la Univ. Nacional of Córdoba,
where he studied with César Franchisena, Graciela Castillo, and Oscar
Bazán. He also studied with Marta Ruíz, Oscar Moreschi, Enrique Belloc,
Diego Losa, Carmelo Saitta, and Daniel Teruggi. Member of the Asociación
de Compositores and Agrupación Nueva Música, both of Córdoba, and
Federación Argentina de Música Electroacústica. Together with José
Mataloni he founded the group Músicos Contemporáneos.
Works: Rhodesia (1989); Menesdium (1990); Orquesta-5J-2M (1999).
Chamb, pn, electroacoustic music.
Sources: ISC

Cervantes, María, Cuban pianist, singer, and composer; b.30 Nov 1885,
Havana, Cuba; d.8 Feb 1981, Havana. Daughter of Ignacio Cervantes
Kawanagh, with whom she started her music education. She continued her
studies with Gonzalo Nuñes and Enriqueta García de Pujol.
Works: Pn, voc music.
Sources: DMC, IEW

Cervantes Kawanag, Ignacio, Cuban composer; b.31 Jul 1847, Havana,

Cuba; d.29 Apr 1905, Havana. Father of María Cervantes. He studied with
Nicolás Ruiz Espadero and Louis Moreau Gottschalk. In 1865, he went to
Paris, France, and studied at the Cons. de Musique of Paris, with Antoine
François Marmontel and Charles Valentín Alkan. In 1879, he returned to
Cuba. He was one of the first to use native Cuban music in his
compositions.
Works: Symphony in C minor (1879); Scherzo caprichoso, orch (1886); El
submarino Peral, opera (1889); Maledetto, opera (1895); Los
saltimbanquis, opera (1899). Cuban dances, pn, voc music.
Bibl.: E. Sánchez de Fuentes, Ignacio Cervantes Kawanag, Havana, 1963.
A. Carpenter, La Música en Cuba, Mexico, 1946.
Sources: BB, DM, DMC, GDM, MLA, MMLA

Cervetti Guigou, Sergio, Uruguayan composer; b.9 Nov 1940, Dolores,

Uruguay. He studied piano with Hugo Balzo, José María Martino Rodas,
and Reynaldo Reyes, and composition with Carlos Estrada and Guido
Santórsola at the Cons. Nacional de Música of Montevideo, Uruguay. He
went to the USA (1963) and attended classes of Ernst Krenek and Stefan
Grové at the Peabody Cons. of Music, Baltimore, MD (1963-67). He
studied electronic music with Mario Davidovsky and Vladimir
Ussachevsky at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, and
conducting with Lázsló Halász in New York, NY, USA. He began teaching
at the New York Univ. School of the Arts (1970). Composer in residence at
the Deutscher Akademisher Kunstler Program, West Berlin, Germany
(1969-70). Assoc. prof. at McGill Univ., Montreal, Canada (1978).
Works: Orbitas, orch (1967); El Carro de heno, small ch, orch (1967); Dies
tenebrarum, electric org, 3 perc, male ch, str (1968); Pulsar, brass sextet
(1969); Prisons No.1, singers, dancers, pantomime, 2 trb, electric organ,
electric gtr, cb, perc (1969); Prisons No.2, ch, orch, tape (1970-71);
Peripetia, 20 to 100 singers and instr (1970); Cocktail Party (1970); Plexus,
small orch (1971); Cuatro fragmentos de Pablo Neruda, sop, ob, gtr, vc,
perc (1970); Raga I, ensemble, Raga II, trb, tape (both 1971); Graffiti,
speaking ch, orch, tape (1971); …from The Earth…, ensemble (1972);
Madrigal 3, 2 sop, chamb ens (1976); Inés de Castro, ballet (1988);
Concerto, harpsichord, 11 instr (1990); Leyenda, sop, orch (1991). Chamb,
pn, voc music.
Sources: BB, BHMCU, CTA17, DCM, DMEH, GDM

Cetta, Pablo Cristián, Argentine composer and engineer; b.21 Jan 1960,
Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied engineering at the Univ. Nacional de
Tecnología, and composition with Gerardo Gandini, graduating from the
Escuela de Música of the Univ. Católica Argentina. Prof. of music at the
Univ. of Buenos Aires, at the Cons. Nacional de Música Carlos López
Buchardo, and at the Univ. Católica Argentina, all in Buenos Aires. Assoc.
composer-researcher at the Laboratorio de Investigación y Producción
Musical and dir. of the Centro de Estudios Electroacústicos, both in Buenos
Aires.
Works: Continuo, orch (1988); Virutal-real (1986), Rondelus (1989); Todo
se vuelve presagio, MIDI composition (1996); …Que me hiciste mal…
(1992), …y sin embargo te quiero… (1996).
Sources: CDMC, DMEH

Chab, Gustavo, Argentine composer; b.1964, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He

attended the Cons. de Música Juan José Castro of La Lucila, Prov. of
Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he studied guitar with Dolores Costolla,
harmony and counterpoint with Daniel Montes, and composition and
musical analysis with Francisco Kröpfl. He attended Stockhausen Courses
in Kurten (2011, 2013).
Works: Mirada roja, synthesizer (1992); Leverkün, electronic music (1993);
La eternidad, fl (1993); Bachab, pn or instr ad libitum (1994); El artesano
triste, fl, va, gtr (1994); Ajedra, instr ad libitum (1994); Eterea, vn,
electronic sounds (2004-05).
Sources: DMEH, DMM

Chagas, Paulo César, Brazilian composer; b.31 Aug 1953, Salvador,

Bahia, Brazil. He studied composition at the Univ. de São Paulo (BM,
1979), composition, orchestration, and analysis at the Liège Cons. (1980-
82, Ph.D., 2003), and electronic composition at the Acad. of Music in
Cologne (1982-89). He was adviser and composer-in-residence at the
electronic music studio of WDR radio in Cologne (1990-99) and researcher
and composer-in-residence at the Research Centre of Computer Media in
Bonn (1992-97). In 2004 he was appointed Prof. of Composition at the
Univ. of California, Riverside.
Works: La Passion selon Guignol, voc qt, orch (1982); Eshu: la porte des
enfers, perc, orch, electronic sounds (1983); Peep Show, music theater
(1985-87); Oddort, chamb opera (1989); Sodoma, voc qnt, 16 str, 3 perc,
electronic sounds (1991); Rumores I, 2 perc (1992); Rumores II, 2 perc
(1993); Der Fluss, chamb opera (1994); Un invisible laberinto de tiempo,
chamb ens (1996); Migration, MIDI pn, large ens, electronics (1995-97);
Festa do Bonfim, 3 perc, electronic sounds (1997); RAW, techno opera
(1999); Elegba, perc solo, symph band (2001); Radiance, orch (2004);
Canções dos Olhos, sop, vc, pn (2005-09); Dreaming the Unknown, fl, cl,
vn, vc (2006); erosion! opera-installation (2006-07); Sinfonia de Câmara
Brasileira, wind orch (2009); Canção da Areia, sop, cl, pn (2009-11);
Awake, sop, perc (2013).
Sources: NMLA

Chaires Villanueava, Austreberto, Mexican composer and guitarist; b.21

Oct 1956, Guadalajara, State of Jalisco, Mexico. He studied at the Escuela
de Música of the Univ. of Guadalajara, with Hermilio Hernández, Enrique
Flores, and Fernando Corona. Also studied guitar and composition with Leo
Brouwer. Member of Agrupación Sonido XX.
Works: Nocheluz y sombra de la luna, str (1981); Fantasía y canción, mez
sop, fl, cl, gtr, vibraphone (1982); Adagio de concierto, gtr, orch (1990);
Guitar Concerto (1995). Gtr music.
Sources: DCMMC, DMEH, GP

Chapela, Enrico, Mexican composer and guitarist; b.29 Jan 1974, Mexico
City. He studied music at CIEM and at the Univ. of Paris Saint-Denis. He
taught composition at CIEM.
Works: Ínguesu, symph poem (2003); Encrypted Poetry (2007); Li Po
(2008); Noctámbulos (2008); Noctámbulos. Version (2008); Shadow moon
dance (2009); Private Alleles (2010); Genómica mestiza (2010); Magnetar
(2011).
Sources: GP

Charpentier de Castro, Eduardo, Panamanian composer and conductor;

b.12 May 1928, Panama City, Panama. He started music studies at the
Cons. of Music of Panama City. Later, he continued his education at
Roosevelt Univ. of Chicago, IL, USA, where he studied composition with
Karel B. Jirák, and at the Cons. de Musique of Paris, France, where he
studied conducting with Eugène Bigot. In 1957, he took advanced studies at
the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY, USA. Conductor of the
Orq. Sinfónica of Panama. Dir. and adviser of the Cons. Nacional de
Música of Panama.
Works: Fuga in A minor (1950); Ensayo típico (1950); Siesta y fiesta
(1961); Tres estampas (1968). Chamb, pn, voc, band music.
Sources: CTA17, DMEH
Chavarri, Norberto, Argentine teacher and composer; b.1940, Buenos
Aires, Argentina. Self-taught musician. He also studied at the Cons.
Superior de Música Manuel de Falla, and at the Inst. Di Tella, both in
Buenos Aires. Music critic for Tribuna Musical.
Works: Homenaje a Webern, pn (1963); Y emergieron músculos y huesos,
vc, pn (1964); Espacio 67, music with electronic and concrete means
(1967); Fablada escénica, str qt, perc, nar, six women, audience (1969);
Visiones, str qt and 2 videocameras (1969); Música para el Lobo Estepario,
alt sax, ch, instr ens (1970).
Sources: DMEH, EMA

Chaves, Paulino Lins de Vasconcelos, Brazilian pianist, teacher,

composer, and conductor; b.16 Jun 1883, Natal, Rio Grande de Norte,
Brazil; d.31 Jul 1948, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He started music studies in
Belém, Brazil, with his mother, Carolina Lins de Vasconcelos Chaves, and
with Idalina Franca. He went to Germany (1899) where he studied piano
with Robert Teichmüller, and harmony, counterpoint, and fugue with
Salomon Jadassohn at the Royal Cons. of Leipzig. He returned to Brazil
(1903) and was appointed prof. of piano at the Inst. Carlos Gomes of Belém
where he became dir. (1907). He was appointed prof. at the Escola Normal
do Amazonas in Manaus, Brazil (1910). Member of the Academia
Brasileira de Música.
Works: Offertorium symphonicum (1922); Symphony in E minor (1926-27);
Primeiro prelúdio e fuga (1937); Segundo prelúdio e fuga (1939). Chamb,
sacred music.
Sources: EMB2, MMLA

Chávez Aguilar, Pablo, Peruvian composer and priest; b.3 Mar 1898,
Lima, Peru; d.1950. He studied solfeggio, music theory, harmony,
Gregorian chant, piano, oboe, organ, and composition with the Reverend
José Coll. In Rome, Italy, he studied organ with Manari, composition and
Gregorian chant with Licinio Refice, and choir conducting with Raffaele
Casimiri at the Scuola Pontificale Superiore di Música. He continued
composition studies with Angelo de Santi in Rome. Organist and
choirmaster at the Cathedral of Lima and prof. of harmony at the Cons.
Nacional de Música of Lima.
Works: Preludios incaicos, pn; Variaciones sobre un tema incaico.
Religious music.
Sources: ADBM, DM, DMEH, GMP, MLA, MMLA

Chávez y Ramírez, Carlos Antonio de Pádua, Mexican composer,

conductor, and instructor; b.13 Jun 1899, Calzada de Catube, near Mexico
City, Mexico; d.2 Aug 1978, Mexico City. He started music studies with his
brother Manuel; later, he studied piano with Pedro Luis Ogazón and
harmony with Juan B. Fuentes and Manuel Ponce. Appointed as Dir. of the
Cons. Nacional de Música of Mexico (1928-34) to lead the nation in
classical music acculturation and develop a nationalist voice. General dir. of
the Inst. Nacional de Bellas Artes (1946-52). He founded the Orq. Sinfónica
of Mexico (1928) and conducted it until 1949. Chávez taught composition
in all styles and his students performed melodies on all instruments,
including indigenous instruments.
Works: Sinfonía (1915); 6 piano sonatas (1917, 1919, 1928, 1941, 1960,
1961); Piano and String Sextet (1919); El fuego Nuevo, ballet (1921); Siete
madrigals, pn (1921-22); 3 str qt (1921, 1932, 1944); Three Pieces, gtr
(1923); Polígonos, pn (1923); Sonatina, pn (1924); Violin Sonatina (1924);
Cello Sonatina (1924); Energía, 9 instr (1925); Los cuatro soles, ballet
(1925); Caballos de vapor, ballet (1926); Tierra mojada, ch, ob, eh (1932);
Cantos de México, orch (1933); Sinfonía No.1 “Sinfonía de Antígona”
(1933); El sol, ch, orch (1934); Sinfonía proletaria, ch, orch (1934); Tres
espirales, vn, pn (1934); Obertura republicana (1935); Sinfonía No.2
“India” (1935); Concerto, 4 hn (1937); Diez preludios, pn (1937); Piano
Concerto (1938-40); Cuatro nocturnos, sop, alt (1939); Antígona, ballet
(1940); La paloma azul, ch, orch (1940); Xochipilli Macuilxochitl, 4 wind
instr, 6 perc (1940); Fugas, pn (1942); Toccata, 6 perc (1942); La hija de
Colquide, ballet (1943); Toccata (1947); Violin Concerto (1948); Cuatro
estudios, pn (1949); Symphony No.3 (1951); Sinfonía No.4 “Romántica”
(1952); Symphony No.5, str (1953); Pánfilo y Lauretta, opera (1953) [rev as
El amor propiciado, retitled The Visitors] (1959); Prometheus Bound,
cantata (1956); Symphony No.6 (1961); Symphony No.7 (1960);
Resonancias, orch (1964); Inventions (1965, 1967); Elatio, orch (1967);
Pirámide, ballet (1968); Discovery, orch (1969); Variations, vn, pn (1969);
Clio, symph ode (1970); Initium, orch (1972); Mañanas mexicanas, orch
(1974); Sonante, str orch (1974); Cinco caprichos, pn (1975-76); Trombone
Concerto (1975-76). Voc music.
Bibl.: H. Weinstock, Carlos Chávez, Musical Quarterly (1936). R. García
Morillo, Carlos Chávez, Vida y Obra, Buenos Aires, 1960. R. Halffter,
compiler, Carlos Chávez, Catálogo Completo de sus Obras, Mexico City,
1971.
Sources: BB, CTA3, DCM, DM, DMEH, GDM, GP, MLA, MMLA

Chaviano Jiménez, Flores Melquíades, Cuban guitarist, composer, and

professor; b.10 Dec 1946, Caibarién, Cuba. He began his musical studies in
Caibarién with Pedro Julio del Valle, then continued with him at the Cons.
de Santa Clara. He studied guitar and conducting at the Escuela Nacional de
Música in Havana and composition with Sergio Barrosoat the Inst. Superior
de Arte. He taught at the Cons. Esteban Salas de Santiago de Cuba (1970-
72) and at the Cons. Municipal Amadeo Rold n (1972-78), the Escuela
Nacional de Música (1978-80), and Inst. Superior de Arte (1979-80). He
attended the Real Cons. de Madrid, Spain (1981-83), where he would later
teach. He also taught in Ponferrada (1989-91) and Segovia (1991), the
Univ. of Puerto Rico, the Univ. of Miami, and the cons. of Pekín, México
City, Hans Eisler of Berlin, and Rostock. As a guitarist he specialized in the
performance of 20th century Latin American and Spanish music with
special attention to solo guitar and tape recordings. He won the Premio
Nacional de Guitarra in Cuba (1974), and toured throughout Europe and
America.
Works: Encuentro, ballet (1978); Concierto para guitarra y orquesta
(1979); Texturas y recuerdos, orch (1982); Tríptico a John Lennon, 4 gtr
(1987); Marzo frágil de flores y ausencias, orch (1997). Ch, chamb, voc
music.
Sources: DMEH

Checchi, Eduardo Julio, Argentine composer; b.16 Sep 1952, Buenos

Aires, Argentina. He graduated from the Facultad de Artes y Ciencias
Musicales of the Univ. Católica Argentina in Buenos Aires in 1969. Prof. of
music at the Cons. Superior de Música Manuel de Falla and at the
Fundación Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Música Contemporánea, both
of Buenos Aires.
Works: Amanecer en Malvinas, orch (1978); Pasajes, orch (1981);
Cantemos al Tolima, mixed ch, soloists (1984); Sinfonía concertante, tpt
(1985); Moriana, opera (1997). Chamb, pn, electroacoustic music.
Sources: ISC

Chimenti, Armando, Argentine pianist and composer; b.1889, Buenos

Aires, Argentina; d.12 Jul 1927, Buenos Aires. Self-taught in music.
Works: Marcha Triunfal, orch; Aires montañeses, orch; Tres impromptus,
pn; Las rosas, pn; Serenata española, pn; Suite argentina, pn.
Sources: DM, DMEH, MMLA

Cicchelli Velloso, Rodrigo, Brazilian composer; b.1966, Rio de Janeiro. He

studied with César Guerra-Peixe and Hans-Joachim Koellreutter at the
Instituto Villa-Lobos de UNIRIO and at the Univ. of East Anglia, Norfolk,
UK (Ph.D., 1997) under Denis Smalley. He studied with Tristan Murail,
Jean-Claude Risset, and Brian Ferneyhough on a French scholarship at the
Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique. Prof. at UFRJ
from 1998.
Works: 15° Harmônico, pn, electronic sounds; Cymbals: Reminiscência,
electroacoustics; Latitudes Emaranhadas, vc, electronic sounds; Xibae e
Iari, 2 sop, instr ens, electronic sounds.
Sources: NMLA

Cifuentes Rodríguez, Santos, Colombian composer, writer, and teacher;

b.1 Nov 1870, Bogotá, Colombia; d.1 Sep 1932, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
He studied at the Academia Nacional de Música of Bogotá, with Julio
Quevedo Arvelo, Augusto Azzali, Jorge W. Price, and Diego Fallón, and
studied fugue and counterpoint with Honorio Alarcón. He founded the
Academia Beethoven in Bogotá (1910), and founded a similar academy in
Cartagena, Colombia (1911). In 1913, he settled in Buenos Aires where he
taught at the Cons. Fontova and the Cons. Nacional de Música Carlos
López Buchardo, both of Buenos Aires.
Works: Sinfonía sobre aires tropicales; Piano Concerto; Balada, fl, pn;
Sonata, vn, pn; Variations, gtr; Overture in two movements; Albores
musicales, orch; La soledad, orch; La balada del Zipa. Chamb, voc, ch,
sacred music.
Bibl.: Tratado de Armonía; Teoría de la Música; Tratado de Estética;
Tratado de Contrapunto Moderno; El Nacionalismo en el Arte; J.I.
Perdomo Escobar, Historia de la Música Colombiana, Bogotá, 1945.
Sources: CMC, CTA18, DM, DMEH, LCRA, ZCCC

Cimaglia Espinosa, Lía, Argentine pianist and composer; b.30 Aug 1906,
Buenos Aires, Argentina; d.1 Nov 1998, Buenos Aires. She studied at the
Cons. Nacional de Música Carlos López Buchardo of Buenos Aires, under
Alberto Williams and Celestino Piaggio. She completed her piano studies
with Jorge de Lalewicz. In Paris, France, she studied with Isidor Philipp,
Ives Nat, and Alfred Cortot. Prof. at the Cons. Nacional de Música Carlos
López Buchardo.
Works: Improvisación, pn (1911); Cajita de música, pn (1912); Leyendas,
vc, pn (1920-28); Serenata, vn, pn (1920-28); Egloga de nochebuena
(1934); Tres preludios en homenaje a Debussy, pn (1936); Suite argentina,
pn (1936-37); Recuerdos de mi tierra, suite (1939); Triste y danza, pn
(1939-40); Poema, vn, pn (1939-40); Nocturno, vn, pn (1939-40); El
carnaval del diablo (1943); El trigo es de Dios (1949).
Sources: CA, DCM, DM, DMEH, DMM, EMA, MMLA

Cintas, Ricardo, Mexican composer and pianist; b.7 Sep 1956, Mexico
City, Mexico. He graduated with a Licentiate degree in composition at the
Escuela Nacional de Música of UNAM, Mexico City, where he studied with
Juan Antonio Rosadi; he also studied piano with Ninfa Calvario, Pilar
Vidal, and Bertha Castro. Founding member of the group of composers
Círculo Disonus. Prof. at the Escuela Nacional de Música of UNAM.
Works: Oviernos, electroacoustic and computer music (1983). Chamb, pn,
voc music.
Sources: DCMMC

Cipriota, Adolfo, Argentinian composer; b.29 Nov 1879, Capilla del

Señor; d.14 Apr 1944, Buenos Aires. He studied with Alberto Williams and
Julián Aguirre at the Cons. de Buenos Aires. From 1903 to 1905 he edited
the magazine, Bibelot (1903-05), a weekly publication that covered
contemporaneous artistic activity and Argentine musicians.
Works: Bibelots, cinco piecitas líricas, orch; Canción nocturna, mez sop,
pn (1935); Pn, voc music.
Sources: DMEH

Cisneros, Armando Jaime, Venezuelan guitarist and composer; b.13 Mar

1955, Caracas, Venezuela. He completed his studies (1984) at the Cons.
Nacional de Música Juan José Landaeta and received a master’s degree in
composition (1988). He studied with Antonio Lauro, Oscar Olshen, José
Tomás, Manuel Barruecos, and Alirio Diáz. He formed the Nuevo Trío Raúl
Borges (1985).
Works: Reflexiones, orch (1988); Sortilegio, 3 gtr (1989); Suite, 3 gtr, synth,
pere (1989); Suite, gtr (1989).
Sources: DMEH

Cisneros de Toro, Margoth, Venezuelan composer and pianist; b.5 Mar

1912, Valencia, Carabobo, Venezuela; d.1997. She started to study piano at
5 years of age with Gundita García and continued with Sor Cecilia (María
Teresa Rodríguez Ceballos). In 1926, she entered the Escuela de Música y
Declamación of Caracas, Venezuela, where she studied with Rosa de
Basalo, María de Lourdes, Ramón Rotundo, and Miguel Angel Espinel. She
was not involved in any musical activity until 1962, when she studied
composition with Alberto José Castillo.
Works: 25 Estampas sinfónicas, inspired in the book El principito de Saint-
Exupery, pn; Piano Concerto No.1; Symphony. Ch, voc music; hymns.
Sources: DMEH, EMV

Claro Valdés, Samuel, Chilean composer and musicologist; b.31 Jul 1934,
Santiago de Chile, Chile; 10 Oct 1994. He studied at the Cons. Nacional de
Música of Santiago de Chile, and at Columbia Univ., New York, NY, USA.
After 1964 he devoted himself to research in Latin American music,
concentrating on music of Chile.
Works: Ch, chamb, electronic music.
Sources: DMEH, HMC

Claudio, Pablo, Dominican clarinetist and composer; b.1855, Azua,

Dominican Republic; d.1899, Dominican Republic.
Works: América; María de Cuellar. More than 700 other compositions.
Sources: DM, MLA, MMLA
Clemente, Joaquín, Argentine composer and conductor of Portuguese
origin; b.22 Oct 1901, Lisbon, Portugal; d.1950, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
He started music studies with his father, Luis Clemente, then he studied
piano with Joaquín Pedro López and harmony with Laurentino Serra e
Moura. In 1919, he entered the Cons. Nacional de Música of Lisbon, where
he studied composition with Rocha Pires. He settled in Argentina in 1928.
Dir. of the Cons. Municipal of San Francisco, Prov. of Córdoba, Argentina.
Dir. of the Banda Municipal in 1932, and of the Banda Sinfónica de Policía
in 1941, both of Buenos Aires. From 1934 to 1937, he was conductor of the
Orq. Sinfónica de Mujeres of Buenos Aires.
Works: Themis, symph poem (1937); Coimbra, Portuguese Symphonic
Suite (1937); Portuguese Eucharistic Hymn (1934). Transcriptions and
orchestrations, band, orch.
Bibl.: Método de Trompeta.
Sources: DMEH, EMA, MMLA

Clérice, Justino, Argentine composer; b.16 Oct 1863, Buenos Aires,

Argentina; d.9 Sep 1908, Toulouse, France. At age 18 he went to France to
continue music studies begun in Buenos Aires. In Paris, France, he studied
with Leo Delibes and Emile Pessard.
Works: Viperine, operetta (1881); Le meunier d’Alcalá, comic opera
(1887); Figarelle, comic opera (1889); Au pays noir, ballet (1891); Le
deuxième hussard, comic opera (1894); Colibrí, ballet (1896); Pavie, comic
opera (1897); Margarred, operetta (1900); La petite Vénus, operetta (1900);
Dame de Coeur, ballet (1900); Flagrant délit, comic opera (1901);
Vercingetorix, opera (1901); La fille Jackson, comic opera; La fiancée de
Salamanque, comic opera; L’ordre de l’empereur, operetta (1903); Au
temps jadis, ballet-opera (1905); Mimosa, ballet (1905); Timbre d’or, ballet
(1906). Pantomimes; lyric comedies; vaudevilles; pn, voc music.
Sources: DM, DMEH, DMM, EMA

Cleto, Marcelino, Brazilian composer, cellist, conductor, and teacher;

b.1842, Pernambuco, Brazil; d.1922, Recife, Brazil. Music critic for the
musical journal O Filartista of Recife. One of the founders of Ateneu
Musical of Recife.
Works: Aurora da rendenção, operetta; Evolução, orch; Porvir, orch;
Sacred dramas and pastorals: N.S. da Aparecida; São Benedito; Santa
Clotilde. Popular, dance, sacred music.
Sources: EMB2, MMLA

Cluzeau Mortet, Luis, Uruguayan composer, violist, and pianist; b.16 Nov
1889, Montevideo, Uruguay; d.28 Sep 1957, Montevideo. He studied piano
with his grandfather, Pierre Paul Faget, and violin with María Visca. He was
self-taught in composition. First violist in OSSODRE. Prof. of music
history at the Inst. Normal of Montevideo.
Works: Fantasía concierto, pn, chamb orch (1927-38); Poema native, orch
(1931); Llanuras, orch (1932); Soledad campestre, orch (1936); Rancherío,
orch (1940); La patria en armas, incidental music (1950); Cédulas de San
Juan, incidental music (1950); Artigas, orch (1951); Sinfonía del este, orch
(1951). Cuatro ritmos Criollos, str qt; Bagatelas criollas, 4 fl. Pn, voc
music.
Sources: BB, BHMCU, CTA14, DM, DMEH, GDM, MLA, MMLA, MU

Cobarrubias [Cobarruvias], José Loreto, Mexican composer; b.19th

century. He is listed in the Archivo Musical de México with two works; a
piano reduction with vocal parts of his Te Deum exists in the Cons.
Nacional de Música.
Works: Que est ista, tnr, orch (1851); Te ergo quesumus; Te Deum.
Sources: DMEH

Cocchetti, Daniel, Argentinian composer and oboist; b.13 Jun 1956,

Florida, Argentina. He studied oboe with Piero di Gregorio and Germán
Ehrenhaus in the Cons. Carlos Lopez Buchardo, graduating in 1982.
Horacio Lopez de la Rosa trained him in composition. In 1980-81 he had a
scholarship from the Fundación del Teatro Colón, founded the Cuarteto de
Derivados and in 1983 received first prize for chamber music from the
Asociación Estímulo Cultural. In 1985 he attended the international seminar
of English horn in Stockton, California. He joined the Orq. Juvenil de Radio
Nacional and worked as the first oboist of the Orq. Sinfónica de la Policía
Federal. He is prof. of oboe at the Colegio Ward in Buenos Aires,
Argentina.
Works: Homenaje a Charles Ives, op.1 (1976); Tango, pn (1979); Variantes
para un cumpleaños íntimo, op.3, str qt (1983); Invenciones, op.5, va, hn,
pn (1984); Anglais, op.6, eh (1986); Divertimento, op.7 (1987); Canciones,
op.8, voc, pn (1987); Indeterminaciones, op.10 (1988); Variaciones sobre
un tema López de la Rosa, op.11 (1989); Canciones de Buenos Aires, op.12,
voc, pn (1989); A Carlos Chaplin, op.13, nar, fl, pn (1989); Cuatro piezas
folklóricas, op.14, wind octet (1989); Variaciones sobre una vieja canción
infantile, op.15, fl, str (1990); Tres historias del Tuyú, op.16, orch (1990);
Improvisación serena, op.17 (1990).
Sources: DMEH

Codina, Genaro, Mexican composer; b.10 Sep 1852, Zacatecas, Mexico;

d.22 Nov 1901, Zacatecas. Little is known about the life of this composer,
except that he played the harp.
Works: Zacatecas, a march that became so popular it was considered the
second Mexican National Anthem.
Sources: GMM

Coelho de Souza, Rodolfo Nogueira, Brazilian composer and

musicologist; b.8 Aug 1952, São Paulo. He studied composition with
Olivier Toni, orchestration with Claudio Santoro, and electronic music with
Conrado Silva. He completed a degree in civil engineering at the Escola
Politécnica (1975) and earned a master’s degree from the Departmento de
Música in the Escola de Comunicaçoes e Artes, both at the Univ. de São
Paulo. He earned a doctorate in composition from the Univ. of Texas at
Austin (2000). He taught at the Univ. Federal do Paraná in Brazil (2000-
2005) and the Univ. de São Paulo.
Works: Durações (1976); Variaçoes sobre um Tema de Claudio Santoro
(1979); Galáxis, pn, orch (1986); Concerto para Computador e Orquesta
(2000); Invençoes sobre um Tema de Gilberto Mendes (2004); Cantigas del
Rey Dom Dynis, sop, orch (2005).
Sources: NMLA

Coelho Neto, Marcos, Brazilian composer, conductor, and hornist; b. ca.

1740, Vila Rica de Albuquerque (today Ouro Prêto), Brazil; d.22 Oct 1806,
Vila Rica de Albuquerque. His son, also Marcos Coelho Neto, was a hornist
and may have been also a composer. Both were members of the Irmandade
of São José dos Homens Pardos and of the Irmandade de Nossa Senhora das
Mercês de Cima, both of Vila Rica de Albuquerque.
Works: Antífona Domine Hyssopo e Tantum Ergo; Maria Mater Gratiae,
hymn for mixed ch, str, Hn (1787); Antífona Salve Regina (1796); Credo; 3
ladainhas (litanies); 3 masses.
Bibl.: F.C. Lange, La Música en Vila Rica, Minas Gerais, siglo XVIII,
Revista Musical Chilena, Vol.22, 1967. G. Béhague, Música
“Barroca”Mineira: Problemas de Fontes e Estilística, Universitas, Vol.2,
Salvador, Bahia, 1969.
Sources: GDM, EMB2

Colabella, Angel Victorino, Argentine composer; b.2 Oct 1911,

Pergamino, Prov. of Buenos Aires, Argentina; d.14 Nov 1985. He was
ordained a Catholic priest (1936). Organist at the Seminario Mayor San
José of La Plata, Prov. of Buenos Aires. He dedicated most of his time to
choral conducting in different schools in the Prov. of Buenos Aires.
Works: Capricho criollo, str qt; Tres danzas argentinas, pn. Motets, org,
voc music.
Sources: DMEH, EMA

Colón, Eric, Venezuelan guitarist and composer of Belgian origin; b.29 Oct
1938, Ghent, Belgium. He studied guitar with Andrés Segovia in Santiago
de Compostela, Spain, and graduated from a guitar course at the Accademia
Musicale Chigiana of Siena, Italy. Prof. of guitar (1956-64) and music critic
for La Derniere Heure in Brussels, Belgium. He settled in Venezuela and
graduated as a composer from the Escuela de Música José Angel Lamas of
Caracas, Venezuela, where he was dir. (1980-87). Dir. of the Escuela de
Música Antonio Estévez of San Fernando de Apure, and the Escuela de
Música Pablo Castellanos of La Guaira, both in Venezuela. Prof. at the
Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA.
Works: Preludio sinfónico (1974); Visión precolombiana, orch (1975); El
caballero de Ledesma, opera (1982). Chamb, pn music; hymns.
Bibl.: Método para Guitarra Clásica, Barquisimeto, 1971.
Sources: DMEH, EMV

Comellas, José, Cuban pianist and composer; b.21 Feb 1842, Matanzas,
Cuba; d.9 Feb 1888, Havana, Cuba. He studied music in Leipzig, Germany.
Prof. at the Peabody Cons. of Music in Baltimore, MD, USA.
Works: Sonata brillante, pn.
Sources: DMC, DMEH

Contreras, Alma Siria, Mexican composer and pianist; b.1 Sep 1960,
Morelia, State of Michoacán. Mexico. She studied music at the Cons. de las
Rosas in Morelia, where she graduated with a Licentiate degree in
composition in 1993. Her teachers included Guillermo Pinto, Jesús Carreño,
Gerardo Cárdenas, and Alfredo Ibarra. Co-founder of the Fundación
Cultural Interamericana in 1994. Prof. at the Centro de Educación Artística
Miguel Bernal Jiménez, Mexico City, and at the Cons. de las Rosas.
Works: Suite, electric gtr, bass (1990); Pequeña cantata, ch, chamb orch
(1990); Piano Concerto (1993). Chamb, pn music.
Sources: DCMMC

Contreras, Juan Pablo, Mexican composer; b.1987, Guadalajara, Mexico.

He earned degrees in composition from the California Inst. of the Arts and
the Manhattan School of Music. His teachers included Nils Vigeland,
Daniel Catán, and Richard Danielpour. He won the BMI William Schuman
Prize.
Works: Four nocturnes, voc, pn (2008); Sonatina, pn (2009); Three pieces
for solo piano (2009); Diálogos vn, vc (2010); Regina coeli, harp (2010); El
Laberinto De La Soledad, orch (2011); Palimpsesto, vn (2012);
Remembranzas, harp (2013); Ángel Mestizo, harp, chamb orch (2013);
Sources: GP, CW

Contreras Sánchez, Salvador, Mexican composer; b.10 Nov 1910/1912,

Cuerámaro, Mexico; d.7 Nov 1982, Mexico City, Mexico. He studied violin
and conducting with Silvestre Revueltas, harmony, counterpoint, and form
with Candelario Huízar, and composition with Carlos Chávez at the Cons.
Nacional de Música of INBA, Mexico City. Violinist at the Orq. Sinfónica
Nacional of Mexico. Together with Daniel Ayala Pérez, José Moncayo
García, and Blas Galindo Dimas, he formed the Grupo de Jóvenes
Compositores (1935), which later became the Grupo de los Cuatro. Prof. at
the New England Cons. of Music, Boston, and at Harvard Univ.,
Cambridge, both in MA, USA. Prof. of violin, harmony, and conducting at
the Cons. Nacional de Música and the Escuela Superior de Música, both of
INBA. Prof. at the Escuela Superior Nocturna de Música and the Academia
de Opera de Bellas Artes, Mexico City.
Works: Tríada en modos griegos, chamb orch (1935); Tres poemas, sop,
chamb orch (1936); Suite indígena primitiva, gtr, perc, chamb orch (1937);
Música para orquesta sinfónica (1940); Corridos, mixed ch (1941);
Obertura en tiempo de danza (1942); 4 symphonies (1944, 1945, 1957,
1967); Suite en tres movimientos (1944); Provincianas, ballet (1948); La
paloma, ballet (1949); Provincianas, chamb orch (1950); La paloma,
chamb orch (1951); Danza, chamb orch (1951); Titeresca, ballet (1951);
Suite sinfónica (1952); Tres movimientos sinfónicos (1956); Cuatro
canciones, voc, chamb orch (1959); Overture (1960); Introducción, andante
y final (1962); Danza negra (1966); Dos piezas dodecafónicas, chamb orch
(1966); Xochipilli, chamb orch (1967); Cantata a Juárez, nar, ch (1967);
Retratos (1975); Homenaje a Stravinsky, chamb orch (1976); Poema
elegiaco, Homenaje a Silvestre Revueltas (1976); Homenaje a Carlos
Chávez, chamb orch (1978); Símbolos (1979). Chamb, pn, voc music.
Sources: DM, DMEH, DCMMC, GDM, GMM, GP, MLA, MMLA

Coral, Leonardo, Mexican composer; b.6 Jun 1962, Mexico City, Mexico.
He studied at the Escuela Nacional de Música of UNAM, Mexico City, with
Juan Antonio Rosado, Radko Tichavsky, and Federico Ibarra. Member of
Indice 5 and Liga de Compositores de Música de Concierto of Mexico.
Works: Chamb, pn, ch, voc music.
Sources: DCMMC, GP

Cordero, Ernesto, Puerto Rican composer and guitarist; b.9 Aug 1946,
New York City, New York. In 1963, he started to study music at the Cons.
de Música of Puerto Rico with Alfredo Romero and Amaury Veray. In
1971, he graduated from the Cons. de Música of Madrid, Spain, and later,
he studied in Italy and in New York. Prof. at the Accademia Filarmonica of
Rome, Italy, and the New York Community College, New York, NY, USA.
Prof. of guitar and composition at the Univ. of Puerto Rico.
Works: Tres canciones, sop, orch (1973); Fantasía sobre Tres Cuadros de
José Campeche, gtr, orch (1974); Concierto evocativo, gtr, orch (1977);
Concierto antillano, gtr, orch (1983); Cállate silencio mío, sop, orch
(1986); Concierto criollo, cuatro, orch (1986); Dice la fuente, sop, orch
(1986); Era mi dolor tan alto, sop, orch (1986); La hija del viejo Pancho,
orch (1986). Chamb, solo instr, voc music.
Sources: CPR, DMEH
Cordero, Fernando Cruz, Uruguayan guitarist and composer; b.1822,
Montevideo, Uruguay; d.21 Aug 1863, Paris, France. His family moved to
Buenos Aires in 1830. He received a doctorate in law (1843) at the Univ. de
Buenos Aires. A prominent guitarist of his generation, he played for Queen
Victoria of England at a diplomatic meeting and was presented with a guitar
encrusted with mother-of-pearl. He composed works for the guitar.
Works: Six divertissements, gtr; Minuet, gtr (1837); Le lunatique; Vals en
Re mayor; Canto de los marineros; El deseo; Las olas del mar.
Sources: DMEH

Cordero, Roque, Panamanian composer, conductor, and teacher; b.16 Aug

1917, Panama City, Panama; d.27 Dec 2008, Dayton, Ohio. He first studied
in Panama then went to the USA (1943) and studied counterpoint and
composition with Ernest Krenek in Minneapolis, MN, and conducting with
Stanley Chapple at the Berkshire Music Center in Tanglewood, MA. Prof.
at the Inst. Nacional de Música in Panama (1950-66) and its dir. (1953-64).
He taught at Indiana Univ. in Bloomington, IN (1966-69) and at Illinois
State Univ., Chicago, IL (from 1972) both in USA. Conductor of the Orq.
Nacional of Panama, Panama City, 1964-66.
Works: Capriccio interiorano, band (1939); Obertura panameña No.2
(1944); Piano Concerto (1944); 3 symphonies (1947, 1956, 1965); Eight
Miniatures, orch (1948); Rapsodia campesina, orch (1949); Quintet, fl, cl,
vn, vc, pn (1949); Cinco mensajes breves, orch (1959); Cello Sonata
(1962); Violin Concerto (1962); Sonata breve, pn (1966); Circunvoluciones
y móviles, 57 players (1967); Permutaciones 7, 7 instr (1967); 2 str qt
(1968, 1969); Paz, Paix, Peace, 4 trios, harp (1969); Variations and Theme
for 5, woodwind qt, hn (1975); Music, 5 brass (1980); Petite mobiles, bsn,
trios (1983); Three Permutations 3, vn, vc, cb (1984); Serenatas, fl, cl, va,
harp (1987); Dodecaconcerto, 12 instr (1990); Setatule, ballet; Sensemaya,
ballet.
Bibl.: Curso de Solfeo, Panama City, 1956; Actualidad Musical en Panama,
Buenos Aires Musical, Vol.12, 1957; ¿Nacionalismo versus
Dodecafonismo?, Revista Musical Chilena, No.67, 1959; G. Chase,
Composed by Cordero, Americas, Vol.10, 1958.
Sources: BB, CTA8, DCM, DM, DMEH, GDM, MLA
Cordero Saldivia, Alvaro, Venezuelan composer, conductor, teacher, and
pianist; b.24 Aug 1954, Barquisimeto, Lara, Venezuela. He studied piano
with Cecilia Escalante and Harriet Serr, and harmony, composition, and jazz
improvisation with Gerry Weil in Caracas, Venezuela. He traveled to the
USA where he studied composition and jazz at Berklee College of Music,
Boston, MA, and at Johnson State College, Johnson, VT. He received a
Licentiate and Master’s degrees in composition from New England Cons. of
Music, Boston, MA, and a PhD in composition from Brandeis Univ. School
of Music, Waltham, MA, where he later taught. He returned to Venezuela
(1987) composed and taught at the Inst. Univ. de Estudios Musicales,
Caracas.
Works: In the Cathedral (1976); Kyrie del tiempo, ch (1976); Hijos del
futuro (1977); Circo nocturno, ob (1984); Réquiem silentium, soloists, ch,
instr ens. Chamb, electroacoustic, ch music.
Sources: DMEH, EMV

Cordero Simunovic, Cecilia, Chilean composer and guitarist; b.29 Sep

1945, Santiago de Chile, Chile. She studied music theory with Darwin
Vargas Wallis and guitar with Arturo Gonzáles Quintana. She studied
composition with Celso Garrido-Lecca, Alfonso Letelier, and Juan Lemann
at the Facultad de Ciencias y Artes Musicales (1971-80). She worked with
Cirilio Vila in the 1980s and gave private guitar and piano lessons until
1988. She has been active in the Encuentros de Música Contemporánea of
the Agrupación Musical Anacrusa.
Works: Diferencias, gtr (1972); Preludio no.1, orch (1974); Preludio no.2,
orch (1974); Coral (1975); Gacela de la raíz, cantata, ten (1977); Altazor,
ten, nar, fl, cl, vc (1978); Sonrisas, fl, vibraphone, perc, gtr, vn, vc (1979);
Zeto, str qt (1990-91); Trece, ch (1996). Pn music.
Sources: DMEH

Córdoba Valencia, Jorge, Mexican composer and conductor; b.15 Dec

1953, Mexico City, Mexico. He studied music in Mexico, Spain, Brazil,
Dominican Republic, Hungary, and USA. Conductor of the Orq. Mexicana
de la Juventud, the Coro of UNAM, and the Coro de Madrigalistas de
Bellas Artes, all in Mexico City.
Works: Sutilezas, perc (1981); Luciérnagas, str, perc (1983); Plegarias, str
(1987); Tres canciones, tnr, orch (1988). Electroacoustic, computer, ch, voc,
chamb, solo instr, pn music.
Sources: DCMMC, DMEH, GP

Cori Traverso, Rolando, Chilean composer; b.16 Jan 1954, Santiago de

Chile, Chile. He studied guitar with Oscar Olshenm, and harmony and
piano with Lucila Césped at the Inst. de Música de la Pontificia Univ.
Católica (1970-75). He received a degree in composition from the Univ. de
Chile (1984), where he studied counterpoint, harmony, analysis, and
composition with Cirilo Vila, experimental music with Juan Amenábar, and
instrumentation with Juan Lemann. With a scholarship he continued studies
in composition in Freiburg, Germany (1986-90). He also took courses in
electro acoustic music and conducting. He was an asst. teacher at the
Facultad de Artes de la Univ. de Chile where he taught harmony,
counterpoint, and history of Chilean music. He taught workshops in
orchestration in Freiburg and performed in Chile as a soloist and an
accompanist with guitar and lute.
Works: Dios de la Usinas, ch, 3 voc (1974); Cuatro momentos orquestales
(1981); Apocalipsis, ten, nar, ch, orch (1984); Peladaños al Padre, 2 nar,
sop ch, orch (1985); Dedicatorias, gtr (1979). Voc, chamb, incidental
music; mixed media.
Sources: DMEH

Cornejo, José María, Mexican composer, conductor, organ maker; b.1875,

Jalostitlán, Jalisco, Mexico; d.ca. 1960. He claimed to have learned to play
almost every instrument, but was primarily an organist. He became a priest
(1898) and taught theology for four years after he was ordained. He first
studied harmony and composition with José Guadalupe Velázquez and later
with Julián Carrillo. He constructed organs for the Chapel of Santísimo, the
Basilica de Guadalupe, the palace of Bellas Artes, and other locations in the
province of Guadalajara, states of Jalisco and Michoacán.
Works: Masses, a capella or with org accompaniment, hymns, motets,
misterios, chromatic waltzes, mazurkas, marches, pn music.
Sources: DMEH

Corona Rodíguez, Beatriz del Carmen, Cuban composer and conductor;

b.22 Jun 1962, Havana, Cuba. She studied piano and conducting at the
Cons. Alejandro García Caturla (1972-77), at the Nacional de Música with
Alina Orraca (1977-81) and the Cons. Amadeo Roldán (1981-82) with
Míriam Concepción, Andrés Alén, Alina Orraca, and Teresa Pentón. She
studied composition with Harold Gramatges, Alfredo Díez Nieto, E.
Bellver, and José María Vitier. In 1982 she started working as a dir. of the
Coro Profesional de Cienfuegos. A year later she returned to Havana to
organize and direct children’s choral groups. After 1986 she taught
conducting, piano, sight-reading, and ensemble practice in the Escuela
Nacional de Música and other area schools.
Works: Los zapaticos de rosa, opera (1984); Dos motivos, voc, orch (1984);
Tres canciones, cl, orch (1987). Pn, chamb, ch works with and without
accomp, religious music.
Sources: DMEH

Coronel, Marcelo, Argentine guitarist and composer; b.7 Apr 1962,

Buenos Aires, Argentina. He started to study guitar at a very young age, and
later, entered the Escuela de Música of the Univ. Nacional of Rosario, Prov.
of Santa Fe, Argentina, where he studied guitar with Víctor Hugo
Rodríguez and harmony and counterpoint with Dante Grela. He formed
Meridiano (1992) with flutist María Amalia Maritano, for which he
composed. In 1992 he joined the group Los Khorus, composed of guitar and
folk instruments dedicated to the performance of Latin American music,
mainly from the area bordering Argentina and Bolivia.
Works: Homenaje a un carrero patagónico, fl, gtr; Herencia, fl, gtr;
Llanura, fl, gtr. Gtr, gtr and different folk instruments, fl, perc music.
Sources: ISC

Correa Luna, María Celia, Uruguayan composer, pianist, and choral

conductor; b.28 Feb 1908, Montevideo, Uruguay; d.? She studied music in
Paris, France, with Clementina Montal and Paul Brand, and continued in
Montevideo, where she studied harmony, counterpoint, and composition
under José Tomás Mujica and Angel Turriziani. Taught music at high
schools.
Works: Siete momentos infantiles, ballet for children; Divertimento, pn,
orch; Artigas, choral-symph poem. Chamb, pn, voc music.
Sources: BHMCU, DMEH, MU
Corretjer, Leopoldo, Argentine composer and conductor of Spanish origin;
b.1862, Barcelona, Spain; d.1941, Argentina. He settled in Buenos Aires,
Argentina, in 1887. He studied at the Cons. Real Isabel II of Barcelona.
Works: El saludo a la bandera, patriotic song. Patriotic songs for student
ch.
Sources: EMA

Cortés, Edmundo Villani, Brazilian, composer, pianist, conductor, and

teacher; b.8 Nov 1930, Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brazil. He started to
study music at age 17 then studied piano at the Cons. Brasileiro de Música
of Rio de Janeiro. He continued his piano studies with José Kliass (1960-
63) and studied composition with Camargo Guarnieri.
Works: Chetê Jururê (1991); Lenda do Caipora (1994); Vibraphone
Concerto (1996); Cello Concerto (1996). Chamb, voc, electroacoustic
music.
Sources: EMB2

Cortés, Raúl, Mexican composer; b.21 Feb 1971, Mexico City, Mexico. He
studied with Miguel Reyes and Oscar Olea at the Cons. Nacional de Música
of INBA, Mexico City, and with Gerardo Cárdenas at the Cons. de las
Rosas, Morelia, State of Michoacán, Mexico, where he received a
Licenciate degree in composition and taught.
Works: San Juan de la Cruz, oratorio for soloists, ch, chamb orch (1989);
Serenata, str orch (1990). Electroacoustic, computer, chamb, pn music.
Sources: DCMMC

Cortés Álvarez, José Francisco, Mexican composer; b.1983. He studied

with Gabriel Ortiz at UNAM and earned a master’s degree at the Jacobs
School of Music at Indiana Univ., where he also embarked on doctoral
studies.
Works: Concerto Grosso, 4 cl, orch (2009); Guitar Fantasy (2007);
Laundry Revolution (2011); Lepidópteros (2006); No llores (2011);
Partículas en movimiento (2011); Las Cruces en el Muro, orch (2013).
Sources: GP, CW

Cortés Aráoz, Antonio, Mexican pianist, conductor, and composer; b.10

Oct 1943, Mexico City, Mexico. He studied harmony and counterpoint with
José Antonio Rosado, piano and chamber music with Néstor Catañeda, and
choral music with Jorge Medina at the Escuela Nacional de Música of
UNAM. He received the Pablo Casals award in Compositio. At the end of
the 1960s he concertized on piano and regularly included works by
Mexican composers. After 1975 he started composing for musicals and
worked at the Teatro Musical Univ. He was the backstage dir. of the of the
concert hall Nezahualcoyotl of the Univ. Cultural Center (1976-78).
Works: Por las estrellas altas, voc, pn (1969); Fantasía sonoro IV, ch, 4-
hand pn, perc (1970); Sonata para clarinete y piano (1971); Machadas, pn,
cl (1973); Cuentos (1978); Elegía a John Lennon (1982); Niños adultos, pn.
Sources: DMEH, GP

Cortés González, Francisco Pedro, Puerto Rican conductor and composer;

b.31 Jan 1873, Ponce, Puerto Rico; d.? He studied in Ponce with Oriol
Pasarell, Manuel Tavárez, and Font. In 1893, he went to Barcelona, Spain,
where he studied with Vicente Costa Noguera at the Cons. de Música. In the
same year, he entered the Cons. National de Musique of Paris, France,
where he was a student of Charles de Bériot until July 1896.
Works: L’echanson du Roy d’Yvetot, comic opera; Porto Rico, concert
waltz-capriccio; Plainte amoureuse, pn, orch; Bock-Marche, pn, orch; Une
féte à Cuba, orch; Sangre mora, operetta; Nuit de Noël, mimodrama.
Sources: MMLA

Cortés López, Joaquín, Argentine composer; b.10 Apr 1884, Buenos

Aires, Argentina; d.1948, Buenos Aires. He studied with Constantino Gaito
and Eduardo Fornarini.
Works: Trío; Sonata, vn, pn; Fantasia, vn, pn; Sonata, pn; Suite, pn. Ch
music.
Sources: DM, DMEH, EMA

Cortez Mendez, Luis Jaime, Mexican composer, musicologist, and

pianist; b.18 Jan 1962, Ziracuaretiro, Mexico. He studied piano with Rubén
Valencia, organ with Jose Carmen Saucedo, composition with Bonifacio
Rojas, and took classes with Gerhart Muench at the Cons. de las Rosas. He
studied piano with Laura Sosa and conducting with Fernando Lozano at the
Univ. Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo (1980). He completed his
studies in musicology (1980-83) and started a composition workshop
(1981) at CENIDIM. He was a member of the composition workshop of the
Cons. Nacional de Música directed by Mario Lavista (1985-88). In 1987 he
received a degree in history from the UNAM. He was dir. of the CENIDIM
(1987-94) and in 1994 he was named general dir. of the Cons. de las Rosas.
Works: La tentación de San Antonio, symph poem (1999); Sinfonía I,
“Lluvias” (1991); Sinfonía II, “En blanco y negro” (1995); Antonio en
Egipto, symph poem (1999). Chamb music.
Sources: DMEH, GP

Cortinas, César, Uruguayan composer; b.9 Aug 1890, San José, Uruguay;
d.23 Mar 1918, Córdoba, Argentina. He studied piano with Camilo Giucci.
In 1909, with a scholarship from the Uruguayan government, he went to
Berlin, Germany, to study at the Royal Academy of Music with Max Bruch,
Donnay, and Engelbert Humperdinck.
Works: La última gaviota, opera (1916). Incidental music: Idilio, tnr, orch
(1912); La Sulamita, nar, ch, orch (1917). Piano Concerto in D; Samson,
nar, orch. Ch, chamb, sacred, voc, pn music.
Sources: BHMCU, CTA16, DMEH, GDM, MU

Cosentino, Iván René, Argentine composer; b.10 Dec 1935 (1934, DMM),
Rosario, Prov. of Santa Fe, Argentina. He started to study music in Rosario
with Adriana Nicolás and Pedro Barbato. He later studied in Buenos Aires,
Argentina, piano with Roberto Locatelli, composition with Erwin Leuchter,
and Argentine folklore with Carlos Vega. He also studied new techniques in
phonoelectric recording. Music critic for the daily newspaper Clarín. Prof.
at the Cons. Nacional de Música Carlos López Buchardo of Buenos Aires
(1962-68). Prof. of musicology at the Escuela Nacional de Danzas in
Buenos Aires. Prof. at the Escuela de Música of SADAIC in Buenos Aires.
He was national dir. of music and artistic education (1983-89).
Works: Popular and classical music. Canción del centauro, song; Incidental
music for the movie La conquista de la Pampa; Cantata para una dinastía,
double ch, soloists, chamb orch.
Bibl.: Gran Manual de Folklore Argentino; Folklore Argentino; Música
Folklórica Argentina, published by Fondo Nacional de las Artes, Buenos
Aires.
Sources: CAMR, DMEH, DMM, EMA
Cosme, Luiz, Brazilian composer, violinist, and teacher; b.9 Mar 1908,
Porto Alegre, Brazil; d.17 Jul 1965, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He studied
violin with a family member and harmony at the Cons. of Pôrto Alegre with
Assuero Garritano. In 1927, he went to the USA where he studied violin
with Robert Perutz and composition with Wladimir Bakaleinikoff at the
Cincinnati Cons., Cincinnati, OH. He taught at the Inst. Musical and at the
Colegio Americano, both of Porto Alegre. Consultant in music librarianship
at the Biblioteca Nacional of Brazil. In Rio de Janeiro he worked in the
organization of the music section of the Enciclopédia Brasileira at the Inst.
Nacional do Livro. Member of the Academia Brasileira de Música.
Works: Salamanca do Jaráu, ballet (1935); O lambe lambe, ballet (1946);
O menino atrasado, puppet drama (1946); Antígona, ch, orch (1948); Nau
Catarineta, puppet drama (1948); Novena á Senhora da Graça, nar, female
dancer, pn, str qt (1950). Chamb, pn, voc music.
Bibl. L.H.C. de Azevedo, Luiz Cosme, Música Viva, 1940. G. Béhague,
Luiz Cosme (1908-65): Impulso Creador versus Conciencia Formal,
Yearbook Inter-American Institute for Musical Research, Vol.5, 1969. V.
Mariz, Figuras da Música Brasileira Contemporãnea, Brasilia, 1970.
Sources: CTA2, DM, GDM, HMB, EMB2, MLA, MMLA

Costa, Alberto, Brazilian composer; b.3 Feb 1886, Nova Friburgo, Brazil;
d.1934, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He flourished during the decades of the
1920’s and the 1930’s.
Works: Soror Madalena, opera. Pn, voc music.
Sources: EMB2, MMLA

Costa, Dalmiro, Argentine pianist, organist, and composer of Uruguayan

origin; b.7 May 1836, Montevideo, Uruguay; d.9 Aug 1901, Buenos Aires,
Argentina. He spent most of his life in Buenos Aires. He studied with
Remigio Navarro and Roque Rivero and briefly with Sigismund Thalberg in
Buenos Aires. Organist at the church San Ponciano of La Plata, Prov. of
Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Works: Fantasia, pn (1855); Polonia y México, polka (1863); Funeral
March (1861); El 10 de Noviembre, military polka (1860); Los diamantes
de la corona, orch (1863); Nubes que pasan, waltz (1880); Sobre el Río
Negro, mazurka (1881); Cielito (1882); La pecadora, pn (1872).
Sources: BHMCU, EMA
Costa Horts, Narciso, Mexican conductor and composer of Spanish origin;
b.15 Sep 1907, Gerona, Spain; d.31 Oct 1990, ? He studied violin and
solfeggio with his father, piano with José Cantó, and music theory and
composition with José Baró Güell in Spain. He settled in Mexico (1940)
where he reorganized the mixed choir Orfeó Catalá (Catalonian choral
singing society).
Works: String Quartet (1936); Symphony in D (1944). Voc, ch music.
Sources: DMEH, MMLA

Costa Lima, Paulo, Brazilian composer; b.1954, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.

He studied composition with Jamary Oliveira and Ernst Widmer in Brazil,
and with Ben Johnston and Herbert Brün at the Univ. of Illinois. He taught
at the Univ. Federal de Bahia, and served as Dir. of the music school (1988-
92) and Asst. Vice-President for Community Affairs (1996-2000). He was a
member of the Grupo de Compositores da Bahia.
Works: Prodeo, op.1, fl, cl, str (1976); Abertura Halley para Orquesta
Sinfónica, op.22 (1986); Ponteio, op.35, pn (1992); Yêlêlá Song, op.97, voc,
cl, pn (2012); A Bahia tá viva, op. 99, mixed ens (2012).
Sources: NMLA

Costanzo, Miguel Angel, Argentine composer and choral conductor; b.1

Jan 1937, Las Parejas, Prov. of Santa Fe, Argentina; d.2000, Rosario, Prov.
of Santa Fe. He studied at the Escuela de Música of the Facultad de
Humanidades y Artes of the Univ. Nacional of Rosario, Prov. of Santa Fe.
He organized and directed choral groups in the Prov. of Santa Fe and other
regions of Argentina. Founding dir. of the Cons. de Música of San Pedro,
Prov. of Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1985.
Works: Bienaventuranzas, ch, chamb orch (1965); Palmera, nar, ch, orch
(1968); Objetos I; Sustractos; La tijera del buzo; Los ojos del cielo;
Abstracción; Orbitas.
Sources: CAMR

Cotapos Baeza, Acario, Chilean composer; b.30 Apr 1889, Valdivia,

Chile; d.22 Nov 1969, Santiago de Chile, Chile. He studied piano and
composition in Santiago de Chile, and continued studying composition in
New York, NY, USA, under Ernest Bloch. He adopted an advanced quasi-
serial technique of mono-thematic mottoes of 8 or more notes. Founding
member of the International Composers’ Guild and the League of
Composers.
Works: La rebelión del hombre, ballet; Voces de gesta, music drama (1933);
El pájaro burlón, opera (1939); Four Symphonic Preludes (1923); Voces de
gesta, orch (1934); Imaginación de mi país (1950). Chamb, pn, voc music.
Bibl.: Revista Musical Chilena, No.76, 1961.
Sources: BB, DCM, DM, DMEH, HMC, GDM, MLA

Couper, Mildred, Argentine composer, b.10 Dec 1887, Buenos Aires,

Argentina; d.9 Aug 1974, Santa Barbara, CA, USA. She studied in
Karlsruhe, Paris, and Rome with teachers including Moritz Moszkowski,
Nadia Boulanger, and Alfred Cortot. With the outbreak of WWI, her family
moved to the USA and she taught in New York at the David Mannes Music
School (1915-27). In 1927 she moved to California and established a studio
in Santa Barbara. She experimented with two pianos tuned a quarter-tone
apart.
Works: Xanadu, 2 pn tuned a quarter-tone apart (1930); Suite for
harpsichord and piano (1932); Dirge, quarter-tone pn (1937).
Sources: NGDWC

Cozzella, Damiano, Brazilian composer; b.1930, São Paulo, Brazil. He was

self-taught in composition until 1950, when he began to study with Hans
Joachim Koellreutter. In 1961, he attended the Darmstadt, Germany,
summer courses. Member of the Grupo Música Nova of São Paulo. Prof. at
the Escola Livre de Música of São Paulo, and at the Univ. of Brasília,
Brazil.
Works: Musica I-IV, various instr ens (1954-62); Catálogo, pn (1962);
Discontinuo, pn (1963).
Sources: GDM

Cozzi, Daniel Alberto, Argentine composer; b.1949, Cañada de Gómez,

Prov. of Santa Fe, Argentina. He studied at the Escuela de Música of the
Facultad de Humanidades y Artes of the Univ. Nacional of Rosario, Prov. of
Santa Fe, with Virtú Maragno. He also studied with Dante Grela and
attended classes by Alcides Lanza, Carlos Rauch, Mariano Etkin, Luis
María Serra, Ruffo Herrera, Isabel Aretz Thiele, Luis Felipe Ramón y
Rivera, Francisco Kröpfl, Carmelo Saitta, and Enrique Gerardi. Prof. at the
Escuela de Música of the Facultad de Humanidades y Artes of the Univ.
Nacional of Rosario. Founding member and president of the Asociación
Santafesin de Compositores. Secretary of the Extensión Cultural de la
Escuela de Música of the Facultad de Humanidades y Artes and member of
the Board of Directors of the same Facultad.
Works: Dos miniaturas, str qnt; Trio, fl, cl, prepared pn; Etnográficas I, va,
cb, perc, magnetic tape; Introspección, orch; La cripta de Chopin, pn,
musical theater; Espacios, pn; A Olivero, voice, fl, ob, cl, perc, pn.
Sources: CAMR, DMEH

Cromberg, Teodoro Pedro, Argentine composer; b.23 Apr 1955, Buenos

Aires, Argentina. He graduated from the Facultad de Artes y Ciencias
Musicales de la Univ. Católica Argentina (1983) where he specialized in
composition. He studied with Roberto Caamaño, Gerardo Gandini, and
Marta Lambertini. He completed his training in composition with Manuel
Juárez and Guillermo Graetzer, and Gabriel Valverde and Ricardo Dal Farra
in electroacoustic media. He received scholarships from Alpargatas (1977),
Fundación Antorchas (1989-90), and Camping Musical Bariloche (1991).
He joined the Association Nueva Generación de Compositores Argentinos.
Works: Primer cuarteto de cuerdas, str qt (1983); Estudio, orch (1984);
Preludio urbana no.1, sax, pn (1985); Adherencias, pn (1986); Tríptico
no.1, cl, vc, pn (1987); Sueño y Clepsidra, dulce fl, pn (1989); Sinfonía
(1989-90); Gritos y gritarras, tape (1993).
Sources: DMEH

Cruz, Carlos Viana, Brazilian pianist, teacher, and composer; b.11 Sep
1936, Vitória, Espíritu Santo, Brazil. He started music studies with his
father, Clóvis Cruz, and later studied piano with Aurea Adnet. In 1957, he
moved to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where he studied piano with Hans Graff,
music theory with Ester Scliar, harmony and composition with Roberto
Schnorrenberg, and music aesthetics and form with Edino Krieger at the
Seminarios de Música Pró-Arte. Prof. of piano and canto orfeônico (male
singing ensemble), and musical supervisor for TV Excelsior of Rio de
Janeiro. Musical dir. for TV Manchete of Rio de Janeiro.
Works: Suite em três movimientos (1973); Intervalos (1974); Mestre
Vitalino (1983); Dona Beija, suite (1985); A república (1989). Chamb, instr,
pn music.
Sources: EMB2

Cruzalaegui [Cruzaley, Cruzealaegui, Cruzelagui], Martín Francisco

de, Mexican composer and organist; b.18th century, Mexico. He was an
organist at the Colegio de San Fernando (1773-75). He was a missionary
and friend of Friar Junípero Serra and music dir. at the Cathedral of Puebla
(1791).
Works: Beatus vir (1775); Maitines de la festividad de la Preciosísima
Sangre de Nuestro Señor Jesucristo (1775); Hymnus ad vesperas; Iste
Confesor; Laudete Dominum omnes gentes (1775); Magnificat (1775);
Stabat Mater dolorosa; Te deum; Terceto al nacimiento del Niño Dios;
Vísperas para la festividad de la Preciosísima Sangre de Nuestro Señor
Jesucristo (1775).
Sources: DMEH

Csekö, Luis Carlos, Brazilian composer, instrumentalist, and teacher; b.10

Feb 1945, Salvador, Bahía, Brazil. Studied trumpet with Horst Schwebel
and Carlos Veiga in Salvador. Later, he moved to Brasília, Brazil, where he
graduated from the Univ. of Brasília; he studied there with Fernando
Cerqueira, Nicolau Kokron-Yoo, and Rinaldo Rossi. From 1972-81, he
lived in the USA, where he studied at the Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO,
Columbia Univ., New York, NY, and the Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis,
MN. He worked at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Studio, New
York, NY. Professor at the Seminários de Música Pró-Arte, at the Cons.
Brasileiro de Música, and at the Inst. Nacional de Música da Funarte.
Works: Canções do alheamento, orch; Córtex-Secções Transversais, orch;
Fimbrias, strs, winds; Gradação, orch. Chamb, voc, electroacoustic music.
Sources: EMB2

Cubano, Miguel, Puerto Rican composer and guitarist; fl. second half of
the 20th century. He studied guitar at the Cons. de Music of Puerto Rico
and graduated from the Univ. of Puerto Rico. Later, he moved to France
where he studied with Alberto Ponce at the Cons. National de Musique of
Aubervilliers. In Paris, France, he received a degree in composition from
the Schola Cantorum where he studied with Alan Kremsky.
Works: Cantos del sol, sop, fl, ob, gtr, perc (1983); Trio, vn, va, vc (1984);
Suadanga, gtr. Gtr music.
Sources: CPR, DMEH

Cucinotta, Olga, Argentine composer; b.3 Jun 1945, Argentina. She

studied piano, harpsichord, and composition at Cons. Carlos López
Buchardo and organ and musicology at Cons. Provincial de La Plata. She
gave organ and harpsichord recitals, supervised and judged competitions
and created the program “Organistas y clavecinistas argentinos” (Argentine
organists and harpsichordists) transmitted by the Radio Nacional. She was a
director for the Asociación Argentina de Compositores.
Works: Juegos, str orch (1971); Stimmung, pn, chamb orch (1974); Eidos,
fl, choir (1976); Fantasía, fl, gtr (1981); Sonata breve, pn (1981-82);
Hiroshima, nunca más, organ (1985); Tríptico sacro, sop, org (1986).
Sources: DMEH

Cuéllar, Juan Antonio, Colombian composer; b.29 Oct 1966, Bogotá,

Colombia. He studied piano with Karol Bermúdez, harmony and
counterpoint with Luis Torres Zuleta, and theory with Álvaro Huertas. He
was director of the vocal group Quienes, accompanying pianist for Coro
Amici, teacher and director of the chorus of the Colegio Mayor de
Cundinamarca, and program manager of the Emisora Javeriana. He taught
at the Univ. Pedagógica Nacional de Bogotá (1985-87), then at Univ.
Javeriana, where he was also studied with Guillermo Gaviria and Andrés
Posada. He traveled to the USA to study composition (1992).
Works: Ficción, orch (1990); Sacris solemnis, ch (1988); Dos canciones
para voz y piano, voc, pn (1986-87); Fábula, cl, pn (1990); Trio, op. 8, strs
(1991).
Sources: DMEH

Cuen, Leticia, Mexican composer; b.20 Mar 1971, Mexico City, Mexico.
She studied at the Escuela Nacional de Música of UNAM, Mexico City,
with Salvador Rodríguez and Arturo Márquez. Founding member of the
Grupo Acihuatl and member of Sociedad Mexicana de Música Nueva.
Works: Sombras nocturnas, perc (1993); Cinco rituales en un movimiento,
cl, harp, cb, perc (1994); Chamb, solo instr, voc music.
Sources: DCMMC

Cueto Keenan, Daniel, Peruvian composer and flutist; b.16 Nov 1986,
Lima. He began musical studies at the workshops of the Asociación
Cultural “Arte para Crecer” en 1998 where he revealed an interest in the
recorder. He studied flute with César Peredo starting in 1999 and became a
member of the Conjunto Estable de Arte para Crecer, the Orq. Sinfónicas
Infantil y Juvenil, the group Los Flautistas de Lima, and the Orq. Sinfónica
del Cons. He moved to Germany in 2006 and continued studies at the Cons.
Robrt Schumann in Düsseldorf, Germany with André Sebald.
Works: Dúo, fl; Prisma, fl; Río, pn.
Sources: IMSLP

Cueva Negrete, Néstor Luis, Ecuadorian composer; b.27 Oct 1910,

Machachi, Ecuador; d.1981, Quito, Ecuador. He studied music at the Cons.
Nacional de Música of Quito. He developed a new musical notation,
Nescuevan, considered a new musical shorthand or tachygraphy. Conductor
of the Banda Municipal of Quito, and later, conductor of the Banda de la
Segunda Zona Militar of Guayaquil, Ecuador. Prof. at the Cons. Neumane
of Guayaquil, and at the Cons. Nacional de Música of Quito.
Works: Himno al civismo; Himno a Riobamba; Himno a la Federación
Deportiva de Chimborazo. 80 ch works; 6 funeral marches; 10 school
hymns; 8 suites for piano and violin; 20 popular works; 2 national fantasies.
Voc music.
Sources: DMEH, MG

Cuhna, Milton Antônio da, Brazilian cellist, conductor, teacher, and

composer; b.28 Feb 1922, Itinga, Minas Gerais, Brazil; d.12 Mar 1989,
Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. He graduated from the Cons. Mineiro de
Música (presently Escola de Música of the Univ. Federal de Minas Gerais),
Belo Horizonte in 1964, where he studied cello with R. Hardy, music theory
and solfeggio with I. Lodi, harmony with E. Bracher, harmony and
composition with N. Goeltz, music aesthetics and history with Flausino
Rodrigues do Vale, and counterpoint and instrumentation with Arthur
Bosmans. Prof. of canto orfeónico (male singing ch) at several schools of
Belo Horizonte. Founder and conductor of the Orq. de Cámara of the Cons.
of Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais. Prof. at the Cons. of Juiz de Fora and of São
João del Rei, Minas Gerais.
Works: Gotas d’Aguapar, symph poem; Gunga Zumbi, symph poem;
Préhistórico, symph poem; Transamazónica, symph poem. Instr, voc
music.
Sources: EMB2

Curiel Barba, Gonzalo, Mexican composer, pianist, and conductor; b.10

Jan 1904, Guadalajara, Mexico; d.4 Jul 1958, Mexico City, Mexico. He
studied music from age 6 and played piano, guitar, and violin. His father
compelled him to study medicine, but in 1927, he ended his studies to
record piano rolls in Mexico City. He enjoyed a successful career in popular
and film music. A member of SACEM, he served as Chairman of its board
twice.
Works: 3 piano concertos. Opera, voc music.
Sources: DMEH, GP, KTL

Curubeto Godoy, María Isabel, Argentine composer and pianist; b.1898,

San Juan, Argentina; d.25 Aug 1959, Buenos Aires. She studied piano in
Vienna, Austria, with Theodor Leschetizky and at the Cons. Reale di
Musica of Milan, Italy, and composition with Giovanni Sgambati at the
Cons. Reale di Musica of Rome, Italy. Prof. of piano at the Univ. of La
Plata, Prov. of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Works: Fedra incidental music for the Greek tragedy by Eurípides; Pablo y
Virginia, opera (1946); Oración fúnebre, str orch; Evocando a Beethoven,
orch. Chamb, pn, ch, voc music.
Sources: CA, DM, DMEH, DMM, EMA
 D
d’Agnillo, Corradino, Argentine composer and teacher of Italian origin;
b.1868, Agnone, Campobasso, Italy; d.1948, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He
settled in Buenos Aires in 1888. Founding member of the Asociación
Wagneriana of Buenos Aires.
Works: Il leone di Venezia, opera (1892); La zíngara, opera (1895).
Sources: DM, DMEH, EMA

Dájer, Jorge, Mexican composer; b.6 May 1926, Durango, Mexico. Self-
taught musician. Later, he took classes with José F. Vazquez, Juan D.
Tercero, José Smilovitz, Sally van Denberg, and Salvador Contreras. He
entered the Taller de Composición of the Cons. Nacional de Música of
INBA, Mexico City, Mexico, that was under the direction of Carlos Chávez.
Works: Xinachili, orch (1958); Himno oficial del Inst. Nacional de la
Juventud Mexicana, sop, ch (1958); Huapanguino, str (1961); Sinfonía
dispersa, mez sop (1968); Sinfonía Xinachili (1993); Zoorama, mixed ch
(1994). Chamb, pn, voc, ch music.
Sources: DMEH, DCMMC, GP

Dal Farra, Ricardo L., Argentine electroacoustic music performer and

composer; b.29 Nov 1957, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Professor of
electroacoustic composition at the Cons. Superior de Música Manuel de
Falla of Buenos Aires; codir. of the Laboratorio de Música Electrónica of
the Sociedad Argentina de Educación Musical; dir. of the radio program
Música Electroacústica y por Computadora of the Radio Municipal of
Buenos Aires, LS1.
Works: Estudio sobre ritmo y espacio, tape, (1982); Karma, tape (1986);
Ancestros, aerophones, electroacoustic processors (1986); Integrados, gtr,
electronics (1986); Double, gtr, electronics (1986); Clones, gtr, electronics
(1986); EGT, gtr, electronics (1989); Disolución IV, gtr, electronics (1991).
GI, Gravitacional, and GII inercial, MIDI, gtr, DX7 digital synth (1987);
Uhuru, 4 computers, resynthesized voc (1988); Xastock, tnr sax, live
electroacoustic processings (1989); Tramas, small orch, live electroacoustic
processings (1990); Ashram, Mukha Veena, tape (1991); Teragón,
computer, electronic musical instruments controlled in real time (1992);
Homotecia, bandonion, tape (1992); Memorias, computer-generated sounds
(1992).
Sources: BB, DMEH, DMM, ISC

Dallo y Lana, Miguel Mateo de, Mexican composer of Spanish origin;

b.ca. 1650, Spain; d.1 Sep 1705, Puebla, Mexico. He settled in Mexico in
1688. Choirmaster at the Cathedral of Puebla.
Works: 7 vesper psalms; 2 Magnificat; Beatus vir; Credidi propter; 3 Dixit
Dominus; 3 Lauda Jerusalem; 2 Laudate Dominum. Villancicos.
Bibl.: R. Stevenson, Renaissance and Baroque Musical Sources in the
Americas, Washington, DC, 1970.
Sources: DMEH, GDM

Daluisio, Rodolfo, Argentine composer, bandonionist, and teacher; b.31

Jan 1952, Chacabuco, Prov. of Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied theory,
solfeggio, and bandonion (1958). In 1968, he started to study piano,
harmony, and instrumentation. In 1971, he entered the Cons. Superior de
Música Manuel de Falla of Buenos Aires, then in 1977, he studied
composition and other musical topics with Juan Francisco Giacobbe. Prof.
of music theory, harmony and bandonion at the Cons. Superior de Música
Manuel de Falla. Prof. of organ at the Escuela Superior de Música of
Concepción del Uruguay, Prov. of Entre Ríos, Argentina.
Works: Máscaras, choreographic suite, orch; La guitarrita, choreographic
drama, bandonion, orch; Los misterios dolorosos, oratorium, sop, bar, ch,
orch; Concerto, bandonion, orch. Bandonion solo and with other instr.
Chamb, org, voc, ch music.
Sources: DMEH, ISC

Daniels Torres, Charles Philip, Mexican composer; b.1985, Mexico City.

He studied composition at the CIEM (2003-08). He furthered studies in
music theory, criticism, and literature at Trinity College in London.
Works: Ensis M42 (2010); Invocación (2006); Paisaje abstracto (2010);
Ceres, vc, pn (2011). Chamb music
Sources: GP
d’Astoli, Bruno, Argentine conductor and composer of Italian origin;
b.1934, Terni, Italy. He studied at the Accademia di Musica Santa Cecilia of
Rome, Italy. He settled in Argentina (1950). In 1956, he was appointed asst.
cond. at the Teatro Colón of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Works: Canto a la noche, orch (1965); Espectros, chamb ens (1966);
Rondas, chamb ens (1967); Imágenes, chamb ens (1967); Rituali, brass ens
(1968); Spiritu tuo, choreographic drama (1969).
Sources: DMEH, DMM, EMA

Dávalos, Guillermo, Mexican composer and guitarist; b.16 Jan 1953,

Guadalajara, State of Jalisco, Mexico. He studied at the Escuela de Música
of the Univ. of Guadalajara, with Hermilio Hernández, Enrique Flores,
Fernando Corona, and Miguel Villaseñor. He participated in the Décimo
Curso Latinoamericano de Música Contemporánea in the Dominican
Republic where he took courses at the Taller de Composición of Hans
Joachim Koellreutter, at the Taller de la Música y la Electrónica of Fernand
Vandembogaerde, at the Taller de Música Electrónica of Gordon Mumma,
and at the Taller de Técnicas Creativas of Jan Bark and Folke Rabe.
Member of the group Ars Antiqua and the Agrupación Sonido XX, dir. of
the group Música Aurea, musical dir. of the Acad. Musical Wagner of
Guadalajara, and member and advisor at Sociedad Midi of Guadalajara.
Works: Silencio, sop, pn, str, perc (1979); Geométrico, perc, brass, pn
(1984). Gtr, electroacousticmusic, computer music.
Sources: DCMMC, DMEH

Dávalos Chauca, Manuel [de Ávalos], Peruvian organist and composer;

b.? Lima, Peru; d.22 July 1811, Lima, Peru. Presbyterian, son of organist
Juan Cristóstomo Dávalos. He was named second organist in the Cathedral
of Lima (9 Nov 1757) by the petition of Archbishop Antonio de Barroeta.
At the death of José Orejón and Aparicio he became first organist 24 May
1765 and music dir. (1798-99).
Works: Sacred music.
Sources: DMEH

Davidovsky (Davidowsky), Mario, Argentine composer; b.4 Mar 1934,

Médanos, Prov. de Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied with Guillermo
Graetzer, Teodoro Fuchs, Erwin Leuchter, and Ernesto Epstein in Buenos
Aires, Argentina, and continued his studies in the USA with Milton Babbitt
at the Berkshire Music Center, Tanglewood, MA. With a fellowship from
the Guggenheim Foundation (1960), he worked in the USA with Edgar
Varese, Milton Babbitt, Vladimir Ussachevsky, Otto Luening, and Roger
Sessions, and then, at the Electronic Music Centers of Columbia Univ.,
New York, NY, and Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ. He taught at the Univ.
of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA (1964), the Di Tella Inst. of Buenos
Aires (1965), and in New York, NY, at the Manhattan School of Music
(1969-70), the City College (1968-80), and Columbia Univ., where he
became dir. of the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center (1981).
Works: Concertino, perc, str (1954); 4 str qt (1954, 1958, 1976, 1980); El
payaso, symph suite (1955); Qnt, cl, str (1955); Three Pieces, woodwind
qnt (1956); Noneto (1956); Serie sinfónica (1959); Contrastes No.1, str,
electronics (1960); Pianos, orch (1961); Three Studies, tape (1961, 1962,
1965); Trio, cl, tpt, va (1962); Synchronisms, 8 pieces for different instr
combinations (1963-74); Inflexions, chamb ens (1965); Junctures, fl, cl, vn
(1966); Music, vn (1968); Chacona, vn, vc, pn (1971); Transientes, orch
(1972); Shirha-Shirim, scenes, sop, 2 tnr, bar, chamb orch (1975);
Pennplay, 16 players (1978); Consorts, symph band (1980); Str trio (1982);
Romancero, sop, fl, cl, vn, vc (1983); Divertimento, vc, orch (1984);
Capriccio, 2 pn (1985).
Sources: BB, DMEH, EMA, GDM

De Angelis, Marcelo Juan Carlos, Argentine composer; b.17 Jul 1963,

Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied piano, theory at the Cons. Nacional de
Música Carlos López Buchardo, continued piano, analysis with Guillermo
Pozzatti, and participated in a composition workshop with Víctor Amícola.
He studied counterpoint and orchestration with Julio Martín Viera,
percussion with Carmelo Saittaa and composition and analysis with
Francisco Kröplf. He was a teaching asst. for courses taught by these
teachers and by Luis María Serra. He received scholarships in 1988-89 and
1989-90 from the Asociación Camping Musical de Bariloche to participate
in the composition workshop developed by Gerardo Gandini, Marta
Lambertini, and Mariano Etkin. He helped create the Centro de Producción
Musical (1988).
Works: Sexteto, fl, bcl, vibraphone, pn, vn, vc (1988); Tres piezas para
piano y vn, pn, vn (1989); Tres piezas para flauta, fl (1987); Invocación,
electroacoustic (1990); Psicocélulas, electroacoustic (1991).
Sources: DMEH

Debali, Francisco José, Uruguayan composer, conductor, and

instrumentalist (he played several wind instruments) of Hungarian origin;
b.26 Jul 1791, Hungary; d.1859, Montevideo, Uruguay. Choirmaster in
Ovada y Finale Marina, Italy. Músico Mayor of the regiments in Savona,
Casal, and Piamonte, Italy. First clarinetist and Segundo Músico Mayor of
the King’s guard in Sardinia, Italy. As soon as he settled in Uruguay in
1838, he was appointed Músico Mayor of the presidential escort of
President Rivera. He conducted the orch. of the Casa de Comedias (1841-
48), and in 1852, he was appointed Músico Mayor of the Batallón de
Cazadores.
Works: Uruguayan National Anthem. 143 compositions, mostly
divertimenti in Mozart’s style; 10 symphonies (overtures); several
concertos; Trio, vn, cl, gtr; La batalla de Cagancha, symph poem. Sacred,
salon music, dances.
Sources: DMEH, BHMCU

De Gandarias, David, Guatemalan composer, piano, and music engineer;

b.1951, Guatemala City, Guatemala. Brother of Igor De Gandarias, he
played in rock and popular groups as a teenager and learned guitar and
percussion. He studied piano at the Nat. Cons. of Guatemala and electronic
music at the Giocchino Rossini Cons. in Pesaro, Italy.
Works: Objetos Rituales, ballet (1981); Trans-Tres, fl, cl, cb, electronics
(1985); Percursos de Hormigo, marimba, electronics (1985); Microcerculus
(2006). Film music.
Sources: DL

De Gandarias, Igor, b.1953, Guatemala City, Guatemala. Brother of David

De Gandarias, he studied composition at the Nat. Cons. of Guatemala and
received a DMA from Catholic Univ. of America in Washington, DC,
majoring in electronic music and Latin American music. He teaches at the
Univ. of San Carlos in Guatamala. He uses indigenous elements and
integrated sound and images in multimedia productions.
Works: Circunstancial 1, ch, chirimía, perc, jazz trio, tape (1988);
Dialogante, pn, org (1979, rev.1995). Voc, chamb, symph music. Books on
Guatamalan music and composers.
Sources: DL

Delano, Jack, Puerto Rican composer of Ukrainian origin; b.1 Aug 1914,
Kiev, Ukraine; d.30 Jan 1998, San Juan, Puerto Rico. He settled in the USA
(1923), and moved to Puerto Rico in 1946. He started to study music with
his father in Kiev, and continued at the Settlement Music School in
Philadelphia, PA, USA. Between 1923 and 1937, he was granted a
scholarship to study art at the Pennsylvania Acad. of Fine Arts in
Philadelphia. When he moved to Puerto Rico in 1946, he founded and
directed the Sección Cinematográfica de la División de Educación a la
Comunidad of the Dept. de Instrucción Pública. Administrator of the radio
and television system of the Government of Puerto Rico.
Works: Ofrenda musical, va, hn, str orch (1959); Laura y Georgina, orch
(1960); La incógnita, orch (1960); Esta luna es mía, sop, female ch, pn
(1962); Le marche de Giboros, orch (1965); La reina Tembamdumba,
overture-fantasia (1966); La bruja de Loíza, ballet (1984); Los aguinaldos
del infante, nar, boys’ ch, orch (1984); Sinfonietta, strs (1984);
Burundanga, cantata, soloists, ch, orch (1988).
Sources: CPR, DMEH

Délano Thayer, Pablo, Chilean composer; b.1950, Santiago de Chile,

Chile. He began his musical studies in classical guitar at the age of 14,
continued with Arturo González and Liliana Pérez Corey at the Facultad de
Artes de la Univ. de Chile where he also prepared to teach theory. He then
studied with composer Darwin Vargas. He taught Chilean music of the 20th
century at the State Univ. of New York in Plattsburgh, NY (1991). In 1989
he was named president of the Asociación Nacional de Compsitores de
Chile.
Works: Dos canciones, voc, gtr (1967); Gloria a Dios, bar, ch, instr (1972);
Fansatía 25, fl, va gtr, bsn (1975); Ave Maria, ch (1976); Fantasía
concertante, fl, orch (1981); Sonata de verano, fl, gtr (1984); Cuatro
estudios fáciles, gtr (1987); Dúo para cuerdas, va, vc (1993); Misa, ch
(1997); Amén, ch (1997). Orch, chamb, pn, gtr, gtr and instr, ch.
Sources: DMEH
Del Cioppo, Crisanto, Argentine band conductor and composer of Italian
origin; b.1830, Italy; d.1915, Argentina. He settled in Argentina in 1882.
Works: 24 sonatas pn; several military marches.
Sources: DMEH, EMA

Delfín, Carmelina, Cuban composer and pianist; b.ca. 1900, Havana,

Cuba; d.after 1948, New York, USA. She began her musical studies in the
Cons. de Música y Declamación de La Habana. She moved to the USA
(1936) and toured in the USA and Canada (1936-37). She wrote music for a
weekly NBC program (1940) and her Himno de las Americas won a
national competition and was recorded by the US Marine band (1942). She
was soloist in an orchestral concert at Carnegie Hall (1943) and gave
recitals in Town Hall in New York City (1946, 1948) including her own
works. She included Hispanic and African elements of Cuban music in her
music.
Works: Sonata no.1, pn; Coral, pn; Bagatela, pn; Leyenda, pn; Impromptu
and Sherzo en Mi. Himno de las Américas, ch, orch (1942);
Sources: DMEH, NGDWC

Delgadillo, Luis Abraham, Nicaraguan composer and band conductor;

b.26 Aug 1887, Managua, Nicaragua; d.20 Dec 1961, Managua. He studied
with Manuel Silva Guerrero, María Teresa Muñoz de Campari, and Alberto
Selva. In Italy, he furthered his studies at the Cons. Reale di Musica of
Milan, under Pablo Delachi, Miguel Saladino, Héctor Pozzoli, and
Vincenzo Appiani, 1906-12. General dir. of Cultura Musical of Nicaragua.
Between 1921 and 1925, he lived in Mexico City, Mexico, where he was
prof. of music theory at the Cons. Nacional de Música and dir. of the
Orfeón Popular No.5 choral ensemble.
Works: El final de Norma, opera; Mavaltayan, opera; Sinfonía indígena
(1921); Sinfonía mexicana (1924); Teotihuacan (1925); Sinfonía incaica
(1926); Sinfonía serrana (1928); 12 short symphonies (1953); Obertura
Debussyana y Obertura Schoenbergiana (1955). La cabeza del Rawi,
ballet; 7 str qt. Sacred, pn music.
Sources: BB, CTA2, DM, DMEH, GDM, MLA, MMLA

Delgado, Eugenio, Mexican composer and pianist; b.6 Jun 1961, Valle de
Santiago, Mexico. He studied composition, piano, organ, and conducting at
the Cons. de las Rosas, Mexico, with Gerhart Müench, Bonifacio Rojas,
and José Carmen Saucedo. He also took courses with Samuel Rubio,
Rodolfo Halffter, Vladimir Kotonski, Leo Brouwer, and Mario Lavista.
Researcher at CENIDIM.
Works: La ninfa eco, orch (1981); Anagnórisis, orch (1983);
Tranfiguraciones, orch (1994). Diarhythmus, mez sop, pn, perc (1980).
Chamb, pn, ch music.
Sources: DCMMC, DMEH, GP

Delgado, Francisco Eusebio, Mexican violinist, composer, director, and

professor; b.1792, México; d.ca. 1858, México. He studied music with his
father, Manuel Delgado, then with José Manuel Aldana. At the age of 14 he
began playing in the orchestra of Coliseo Nuevo and in the chapel of the
Cathedral of Mexico. He gave classes in music reading, harmony,
counterpoint, and fugue and founded and directed his own orchestra. His
music is conserved in the archives of the Cathedral of Mexico.
Works: sacred music.
Sources: DMEH

Delgado Gómez, Domingo Crisanto, Puerto Rican composer; b.25 Oct

1806, Tenerife, Spain; d.1856, Puerto Rico. Composer, singer, and violinist
he studied with Jurado Bustamante and Carlos Guigou y Pujol. He moved
to Puerto Rico (1836) and after ordination as a priest became the asst. dir. of
singing in the Cathedral of San Juan and then organist until his death. He
also taught organ and composition.
Works: La tempestad, opera; sacred music.
Sources: DMEH

Delgado Pardo, Andrés, Venezuelan composer; b.14 Mar 1870, Caracas,

Venezuela; d.8 Apr 1940, Caracas. He started music studies with Luis
Velásquez and piano with Carlos A. Serrano. Honorary member of the
Unión Musical Venezolana. Dir. of the Escuela de Música of the State of
Lara, Venezuela.
Works: I due rivali, opera (1901); Simón Bolívar, lyric episode; Eureka,
orch (1919); Gloria al héroe, orch (1919). Chamb, sacred, pn, voc music.
Sources: DMEH, EMV
Delgado Parra, Gustavo, Mexican composer; b.1962. He studied organ at
the Cons. Nacional de Música, where he graduated with honors in 1988. He
completed post-graduate studies in organ and early music at the Amsterdam
Cons. and at the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten de Utrecht in the Netherlands
(1988-92). He completed a master’s degree in musicology (2005) and a
doctorate in music (2007) at the Univ. Politécnica de Valencia. He pursued
post-doctoral studies at Oxford Univ. and worked at Queens College and
the Dept. of Musicology in the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones
Científicas de Barcelona, Spain. From 2000, he taught at the Escuela
Nacional de Música. He published several important and groundbreaking
books on the history of organs. He was dir. and founder of the Festival
Internacional del Órgano Barroco and the Acad. Internacionales de
Interpretación Organística. President of the Acad. Mexicana de Música
Antigua para Órgano.
Works: Nova Cyclopeias (1997); Zothíque (1984).
Sources: GP

Del Giúdice, Rafael, Argentine conductor and composer; b.6 Jun 1911,
Rosario, Prov. of Santa Fe, Argentina; d.? He studied with Franco Alfano at
the Cons. of Turin, Italy, 1921-28. Conductor of the Banda Municipal of
Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1953-56.
Works: Orch music.
Sources: DMEH, EMA

Del Hoyo, Faustino, Argentine double-bass player and composer; b.1909,

Buenos Aires, Argentina. Principal double-bass at the orch. of the Teatro
Colón of Buenos Aires, 1928-1967. He taught bass at the Cons. Nacional de
Música Carlos López Buchardo of Buenos Aires.
Works: En los mares australes, symph poem; Concerto grosso, chamb orch;
Nocturno y burlesca, chamb orch; Qnt, 4 cb, pn. Chamb, pn, ch music.
Sources: DMEH, EMA

Deliz, Monserrate, 20th-century Puerto Rican pianist, teacher and

composer; she taught music and piano at the Boston Cons. and was active
in the research, collection, and compilation of folk music of Puerto Rico
while working at the Univ. of Puerto Rico.
Works: Renadio del cantar folklorico de Puerto Rico, voc (1951, 1952);
ABC de cantos infantiles; songs for children.
Sources: IEW

Della Costa, Héctor, Argentine composer; b.17 Jul 1932, Buenos Aires,
Argentina. Disciple of Jacobo Ficher, his works use atonality and
counterpoint. He helped direct the Asociación Argentina de Compositores
and create the Ars Contemporánea (Liga Argentina de Compositores) in
1975, of which he was the first president.
Works: Tres preludios, pn (1967); Cuarteto, fl, ob, cl, bsn (1970); Sinfonia
“C.M.C,” orch (1972); Elegía por la muerte de un señor, mez sop, band
(1982); Fantasía breve, ob, pn (1977); Adagio, cl, pn (1988); Concerto
concertante, pn, chamb orch (1990); Divertimento grotesca, chamb orch
(1992); A don Juan Sebastián, sobre las letras B-a-c-h, pn (1994). Orch,
chamb, voc, instr music
Sources: DMEH

Delli Quadri, Juan Carlos, Argentine composer, singer, and teacher; b.18
Feb 1931, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He started music studies with his father
and then continued at the Cons. Cedrato of Buenos Aires, where he studied
piano and theory with Angel Cedrato. He furthered his composition studies
with Angel E. Lasala. He also studied voice with Angel Matiello and
conducting with Juan Emilio Martini. Member of Compositores Unidos de
la Argentina (previously Jóvenes Compositores de Argentina) and
Asociación Argentina de Compositores.
Works: Suite, wind octet (1961); Qnt (1963); Trio (1963); Tres
movimientos, chamb orch (1964); Septet (1965); Cantos a mi tierra, symph-
ch suite (1970); Tres corales, mixed ch, 4 voc (1973); Salmo 127, ch-symph
suite, mixed ch, org (1976); Ofrenda elegíaca, ob, str orch (1977); Tema
con variaciones y moto perpetuo, vn (1979); Tres corales, str orch (1981);
Movimiento, str orch (1991); Gloria in Excelsis Deo, double mixed ch, str
orch (1995). Chamb, solo instr, voc, ch music.
Sources: DMEH, ISC, VMA

Del Mónaco, Alfredo, Venezuelan composer; b.29 Apr 1938, Caracas,

Venezuela. He studied pn, composition with Moisés Moleiro and Primo
Casale in Venezuela, and later at Columbia Univ., New York, NY, USA,
where he received a DMA (1974). He studied electronic and computer
music at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, New York, NY.
He also studied law at the Univ. Católica in Caracas. He pioneered
electronic music in Venezuela at the Estudio de Fonología Musical. In 1968,
he founded the Venezuelan branch of the ISCM.
Works: Dos fugas académicas, str orch (1964); Cromofonías I, electronic
music (1967); Cromofonías II, orch (1968); Tres ambientes coreográficos
para Sonia Sanoja, electroacoustic music (1970); Synus 17/251271,
electronic music for computers (1972); Tupac-Amarú, orch (1977);
Cuarteto II, conceptual music (1978); Tientos de la noche imaginada, gtr,
orch (1991). Chamb, electronic, pn, solo instr music.
Sources: CTA17, DMEH, EMV, ISC

Delorenzi, Jorge Ricardo, Argentine composer and choral conductor; b.24

Jul 1945, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied at the Cons. Superior de
Música Manuel de Falla of Buenos Aires, then, he continued studies of
harmony, counterpoint, and musical analysis with Juan Francisco Giacobbe,
Carlos Guastavino, and Emilio Dublanc. Dir. of the Coro Polifónico of the
Prov. of Corrientes, Argentina. Prof. at the Cons. Superior de Música
Manuel de Falla.
Works: Himnos a la noche, symph poem, pn, orch (1990); Paráfrasis, 5
songs, sop, orch (1992); Sinfonía del lago, symph poem, orch (1993).
Chamb, voc, pn music.
Sources: DMEH, ISC

Del Ponte, Clementino, Argentine pianist and composer of Italian origin;

b.16 Oct 1858, Turin, Italy; d.25 Dec 1914, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He
settled in Argentina sometime between 1878 and 1880.
Works: Poema de mayo, song cycle. Pn, voc music.
Sources: DM, DMEH, DMM, EMA

De Nito, Humberto, Argentine teacher, pianist, and composer; b.1 Jan

1891, Rosario, Prov. of Santa Fe, Argentina; d.1957, Rosario. Brother of
José De Nito. He studied piano with Alessandro Longo and composition
with Camillo De Nardis at the Cons. Reale di Musica San Pietro a Majella
of Naples, Italy. Together with his brother he founded the Cons. Beethoven
of Rosario.
Works: Pequeña suite, orch; Minué de la muñeca, pn; Berceuse; Cajita de
música; Baby Vals; Página de álbum; La ronde qui passe. Himno al
Presidente Avellaneda, on the 50th anniversary of his death.
Sources: CA, DM, DMEH, DMM, EMA, MMLA.

De Nito, José, Argentine composer, music critic, teacher, and pianist; b.12
Nov 1887, Rosario, Prov. of Santa Fe, Argentina; d.26 Aug 1945, Rosario.
Brother of Humberto De Nito. He studied first in Rosario with José Cayano,
and in 1901, he went to Italy where he studied piano, composition,
instrumentation, and conducting with Giuseppe Martucci, Paolo Serrao,
Camillo De Nardis, and Alessandro Longo at the Cons. Reale di Musica
San Pietro a Majella of Naples. He graduated in 1909, and returned to
Argentina. He founded the Cons. Beethoven in Rosario, which he directed
together with his brother Humberto.
Works: Str qt; Sonata, pn; Bocetos líricos, 10 pieces pn. Songs.
Sources: CA, DM, DMEH, EMA, MLA, MMLA

Dente, Domingo, Uruguayan choral conductor and composer; b.10 Jul

1896, Montevideo, Uruguay; d.? He studied music in Uruguay with
Stampanoni, then piano, voice, and composition at the Cons. Reale di
Musica San Pietro a Majella of Naples, Italy. In Uruguay, he founded the
Asociación Coral Palestrina. Choral conductor at SODRE.
Works: Poema del alba, symph poem; Sonata, vn, pn. Voc, pn music.
Sources: DM, DMEH, MMLA

De Pate, Elisabetta, Uruguayan pianist, writer, and composer; b.20th

century, Montevideo, Uruguay. She studied with Signor Giuffra and Felicite
and Joanna Baumgarten. A child prodigy she began composing at the age of
11. The first woman in South America to conduct an orchestra and the only
woman to have works included in the repertoire of the Pan-American Union
Band. Later she moved to New Orleans. She wrote articles on South
American folklore.
Works: Un sogno, str orch; Caprice Uruguay – Italy, pn; Claveles, pn; Don
Bosco, pn; The Flag, pn; The gypsy, pn; Viva el parvenir; pn.
Sources: IEW

De Pedro, Roque, Argentine teacher, music critic, musicologist, and

composer; b.26 Jan 1935, Comodoro Rivadavia, Prov. of Chubut,
Argentina. He studied at the Cons. Nacional de Música Carlos López
Buchardo and at the Inst. Di Tella, both of Buenos Aires. He also studied
drawing at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes Manuel Belgrano of
Buenos Aires. In Buenos Aires, he taught at the Cons. Nacional de Música
Carlos López Buchardo and the Cons. Superior de Música Manuel de Falla.
Music critic for the daily newspaper Clarín. Founder of the group Música
Más.
Works: Tres piezas mágicas, pn (1935); Órbitas, wind sextet (1966);
Aleaciones, 2 pn, dice, perc (1966); Concerto, pn, orch (1968); Apelaciones
I (1972); Incidental music for Los casos de Juan (1974); La máquina de
vivir (1976); Divertimento para el Sonido de un día 14.XII.1972 (1976);
Sueño (1980). Audiovisual works.
Sources: DMEH, DMM, EMA

De Pool, Adolfo, Venezuelan composer; b.11 Jan 1882, Maracaibo,

Venezuela; d.16 Apr 1971, Caracas, Venezuela. He studied first with his
brother, Arturo De Pool, and later, he studied trumpet, piano, and mandolin.
He also studied harmony and composition with Diego Carborell. Member
of the Banda Municipal of Maracaibo. Professor of music at the Escuela de
Música Rafael María Baralt and dir. of the Escuela de Música y
Declamación of the Atheneum, both of Maracaibo.
Works: Dance, voc, ch, religious music.
Sources: EMV, MMLA

Derbez Roque, Georgina, Mexican composer; b.1968, Mexico City. She

studied piano with Lea Levine and Marta García Renart in Mexico City.
She later studied piano with Ana María Tradatti and composition with
Arturo Márquez at the Escuela Superior de Música, where she would also
teach. She also studied composition with Ana Lara.
Works: Concierto para piano (2003); El llamado del Shofar (2001);
Cuarteto no.1.
Sources: GP

De Rogatis, Pascual, Argentine composer of Italian origin; b.17 May 1880,

Teora, Italy; d.2 Apr 1980, Buenos Aires, Argentina. At a very young age,
he settled in Argentina. He studied violin with Pietro Melani and Rafael
Díaz Albertini, and composition with Alberto Williams at the Cons. de
Música of Buenos Aires. Professor of chamber music at the Cons. Nacional
de Música Carlos López Buchardo of Buenos Aires. Member of the
Comisión Nacional de Bellas Artes.
Works: Anfión y Zeto, theater music (1915); Huemac, lyric drama (1916);
La novia del hereje, opera (1935). Oratorio laico (1928); Suite árabe
(1902); Danza de las driadas, orch (1902); Preludio (1903); Marcha
heróica, orch (1904); Paisaje otoñal, orch (1905); Marko y el hada (1905);
Belkiss en la selva (1906); Elegía, vc (1907); Zupay (1910); Estampas
argentinas (1923); Suite americana (1924); Atipac (1931); La fiesta de
Chiqui (1935); Evocaciones indígenas (1945). Pn, voc music.
Bibl.: C. Muñoz, Pascual De Rogatis (1880-1980), Revista del Inst. de
Investigación Musicológica Vega, No.7, Buenos Aires, 1986.
Sources: BB, CA, DM, DMEH, DMM, EMA

De Rubertis, Víctor (Vittorio), Argentine teacher, music critic, and

composer of Italian origin; b.1893, Lucito, Prov. of Campobasso, Italy;
d.1961, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He graduated from the Cons. Reale di
Musica San Pietro a Majella of Naples, Italy. In Buenos Aires he founded a
musical bulletin, La Silurante Musicale, in 1933.
Works: Pn, voc music.
Books: Pequeño Diccionario Musical Tecnológico y Biográfico.
Sources: DMEH, EMA

Desenne, Paul, Venezuelan composer and cellist; b.7 Dec 1959, Caracas.
He began studying composition at 14 with Iannis Ionnidis and in 1977
served as a founding member playing cello in the Simón Bolivar Youth
Orch. He moved to Paris to study cello with Michel Strauss and Philippe
Muller, composition with Marc-Olivier Dupin and Luc Ferrari, chamber
music with Gérard Caussé, Alain Meunier, Jean Mouillère, and Maurice
Bourgue; and music history with Marc Robert and William Christie. He
won first prizes in cello performance at the Cons. National de Région de
Boulogne Billancourt and at the Cons. National Supérieur de Paris. He
received many composition grants including a Guggenheim and a Meet the
Composer grant. Music columnist for El Nacional.
Works: Cello Concerto (2001-02); El Reto: Leyende de Florentino y el
Diablo, ten, bar, nar, chamb orch (2002-03); The Two Seasons (of the
Caribbean Tropics, vn, str, harpsichord (2003); Fiesta de Contrapunto, ch,
orch (2004); Sinfonía Burocratica ed’ Amazzonica (2004); Bass Concerto
(2006); Symphony for Brass and Percussion (2007); Palenkumbe, orch
(2007); Dragoncello, 6 vc, str orch (2008); Sinfonía, op. 68 (2010-2012);
Sinfonía Clasica “La Teresa, ”orch (2013); 3 Piezas para Orquesta Juvenil,
orch (2014); Hipnosis Mariposa, orch (2014). Instr music; voc music.
Sources: DMEH

D’Esposito, Arnaldo, Argentine composer, pianist, and conductor; b.30

Aug 1907, Buenos Aires, Argentina; d.1945, Buenos Aires. He studied at
the Cons. Nacional de Música Carlos López Buchardo of Buenos Aires,
with Jorge de Lalewicz, Athos Palma, and Floro Ugarte. Conductor at the
Teatro Colón of Buenos Aires. Professor at the Cons. Nacional de Música
Carlos López Buchardo.
Works: Lin Calel, opera; Cuento de abril, ballet (1940); Ajedrez, ballet;
Concerto, pn, orch; Rapsodia del tango, orch; Sonata, vn, pn; Quartet, strs,
pn; Qnt. Pn, voc music.
Sources: CA, DM, DMEH, DMM, EMA, MMLA

Devoto, Alberto, Argentine composer and recorder player; b.12 Dec 1945,
Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied at the Cons. Nacional de Música
Carlos López Buchardo of Buenos Aires. Prof. at the Cons. Nacional de
Música Carlos López Buchardo and at the Cons. Superior de Música
Manuel de Falla, both in Buenos Aires. Founder and dir. of the Escuela
Superior Municipal de Música of Concepción del Uruguay, Prov. of Entre
Rios, Argentina.
Works: Tres preludios, recorder, orch; Cuatro miniaturas, recorder, nar;
Suite infantil, chamb ens; Silencios, voc, pn; Soliloquio, solo fl;
Preludiando en amarillo, chamb ensemble.
Sources: ISC

Devoto, Daniel, Argentine composer; b.25 Dec 1916, Buenos Aires,

Argentina. He studied with Julio Perceval, Juan Carlos Paz, and Jacqueline
Ibels. He also studied with René Leibowitz and Jane Bathori. He graduated
with a Doctorate degree in literature from the Univ. Nacional of Buenos
Aires and La Sorbonne in Paris, France. Professor of music history and
aesthetics at the Cons. Nacional de Música Carlos López Buchardo of
Buenos Aires, and the Acad. de Bellas Artes of the Univ. Nacional of Cuyo,
Mendoza, Prov. of Mendoza, Argentina. Founding member of the
Agrupación Nueva Música. In 1954, he settled in France and devoted all his
time to literature.
Works: Diferencias del primer tono, solo fl (1946); Libro de cantos (1947).
Books: Dos Clases Públicas de Historia de la Música (1945); Las Marchas
Paralelas (1945); Bibliografía Razonada de Historia de la Música (1947);
Las Hojas (1950); Sobre Paremiología Musical Porteña (1950); La Fama
Europea de Josquin Des Prez y un Romance de Góngora (1954).
Bibl.: R. Chalupi, Un Poète Musicien d’Argentine, Ronsard, Vol.2, Paris,
1947. J.C. Paz, A Panorama of Argentine Music, Listen, Vol.9, New York,
1947.
Sources: DM, DMEH, EMA, GDM

Dianda, Hilda, Argentine composer; b.13 Apr 1925, Córdoba, Prov. of

Córdoba, Argentina. She studied in Buenos Aires with Honorio Siccardi
and, in Europe, with Gian Francesco Malipiero and Hermann Scherchen.
From 1958 to 1962, she worked at Radiodiffusion Française in Paris,
France. She also worked at the Inst. di Musica Elettronica of Milan, Italy,
and attended international courses in new music in Darmstadt, Germany.
From 1967 to 1971, she was professor at the Escuela de Artes of the Univ.
Nacional of Córdoba. Cond. of the chamb. orch. of the same Escuela de
Artes.
Works: Poemas de amor desesperado, voc, 6 instr (1942); 3 str qt (1947,
1960, 1962); Concertante, vc chamb orch (1952); Wind qnt, (1957);
Díptico, 16 instr (1962); Canciones, sop, gtr, vibraphone, 3 percussionists
(1962); Percusión 11, 11 percussionists (1963); Núcleos, str orch, 2 pn, perc
(1964); Resonancias 1, 5 hn (1964); Resonancias 3, vc, orch (1965); Ludus
1, orch (1966); a-7, vc, magnetic tape (1966); Resonancias 5, ch a cappella
(1967-68); Ludus 2, 11 instr (1969), Idá-ndá’s, 3 percussionists (1969);
Ludus 3, org (1969); Impromptu, str orch (1970); Canto, orch (1972);
Requiem, ba, ch, orch (1984); Concerto, va, orch (1988); Cántico, mixed
ch, str orch (1988); Juegos, solo perc, str orch (1993). Chamb, electronic
music.
Sources: BB, CTA9, DCM, DMEH, DMM, EMA, NGDWC

Díaz, Ramón, Dominican composer and bassonist; b.1901, Puerto Plata,

Dominican Republic. He studied in Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican
Republic, at the Acad. Municipal de Música with José Ovidio García. Cond.
of the Banda and dir. of the Acad. Municipal of Salcedo, and conductor of
the Banda of San Cristóbal, both of the Dominican Republic. Prof. of music
theory and history at the Escuela Normal of San Cristóbal. First bassoonist
at the Orq. Sinfónica Nacional of Ciudad Trujillo, Dominican Republic.
Works: Escenas bíblicas, soloists, ch, orch; Hispaniola, overture, band;
Evocación, symph poem; Elegía, marcha heróica y minué, orch.
Sources: DM, DMEH, MMLA

Díaz Gainza, José, Bolivian teacher and composer of Spanish origin;

b.1908, Trujillo, Spain; d.1966, Potosí, Bolivia. He studied music in Spain.
Dean of the Acad. de Bellas Artes of the Univ. of Potosí, Bolivia.
Works: Capricho sinfónico; Camino del inca; Himno a Potosí. Several
cuecas (Argentine dance) in which he used his own musical system based
on Inca tunes.
Books: Teoría Analitica, 3 volumes; Pedagogía Musical; Historia de la
Música en Bolivia.
Sources: CB, DMEH

Díaz Zelaya, Francisco R., Honduran composer; b.4 Oct 1900, Ojojona,
Honduras; d.? He studied solfeggio, music theory, harmony, counterpoint,
fugue, musical form, and music history with Carlos Haertling, Manuel de
Adalid y Gamero, and Wenceslao Lefrank at the Escuela de Músicos
Mayores, from 1918 to 1928. General conductor of the Banda de la
República of Honduras of the Banda de los Supremos Poderes, and of the
Orq. Sinfónica Nacional, all of Tegucigalpa, Honduras. He taught music
theory, harmony, and voice in several schools.
Works: 2 symphonies; 35 waltzes; 12 romances; 20 hymns; 6 nocturnes; 46
military marches; 12 religious works.
Sources: DM, DMEH, MLA, MMLA

Diazmuñoz, Eduardo, Mexican conductor and composer; 21 May 1953,

Mexico City, Mexico. He studied orch. conducting with Francisco Savín
and composition with Mario Lavista and Daniel Catán at the Cons.
Nacional de Música of INBA, Mexico City. He also studied with Gonzalo
Ruiz Esparza and Rafael Vizcaíno. Conducted various orch. in Mexico,
USA, Cuba, and Argentina. Taught at the Miami-Dade Community College,
Miami, FL, USA, at the Cons. Nacional de Música of INBA, and at the
Société Philarmonique of Paris, France.
Works: Los colores que perdió la tierra, women’s ch, chamb orch (1974);
Danza, orch (1993). Chamb, pn, ch music.
Sources: DCMMC, DMEH, GP

Diez Nieto, Alfredo, Cuban composer, teacher, director, and pianist; b.25
Oct 1918, Havana, Cuba. He began his musical studies in the Cons. Iranzo
de La Habana with Juana Prendes and Rosario Iranzo and later with Jaime
Prats, Amadeo Roldán, and Pedro Sanjuán. He traveled to New York (1947)
to study at the Juilliard School of Music with Edward Steuermann (piano),
Bernard Waagenar (composition), and Fritz Mahler (conducting). He
founded and directed the Cons. Alejandro García Caturla (1959), directed
the Escuela de Instructores de Arte, and organized an education program for
musicians at the Seminario de la Música Popular. He taught in this program,
the Musical Band of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Cuba, the Escuela
Nacional de Arte, and the Facultad de Música del Inst. Superior de Arte. He
founded the Orch. Popular de Concierto Gonzalo Roig (1965), made up of
students at the Seminario. He was also a guest conductor for the Orch.
Sinfónica de Camagüey and that of the Escuela Nacional de Arte.
Works: Estampa no.1, orch (1943); Sinfonía no.1, orch (1943); Tocata, pn
(1947); Elegia, orch (1962); In memoriam, orch (1967); Sudor y látigo, voc,
pn (1981); El paje, voc, pn (1986); Preludio, va, pn (1972); Fiesta, 2 tpt, pn
(1973); Cuarteto, sax (1975); Consolación, pn (1995); Preludio no.2, 2 pn
(1996).
Sources: DMEH

Dimas de Melo Pimenta, Emanuel, Brazilian composer and architect; b.3

Jun 1957, São Paulo, Brazil. He studied at the Univ. Braz Cubas in São
Paulo, from which he received a degree in architecture and urban studies in
1985. He studied music with Hans Joachim Koellreutter.
Works: Spheres, large ens (1981); Cantos, ens (1982); Spheres III, ens, tape
(1981-82); Frankenstern, minimal opera, 20 TV sets, videos, sop, 2 mez
sop, bar, pn, tape (1984); A Bao a Qu, ens, synth, video score, tape (1985);
Factory, 2 tnr, tape (1986-87). Chamb, magnetic tape, digital tape music.
Sources: BB
Dirié, Gerardo Enrique, Argentine composer, conductor, performer, and
arranger; b.20 Sep 1958, Córdoba, Prov. of Córdoba, Argentina. He studied
at the Univ. Nacional of Córdoba with Atilio Argüello, Oscar Bazán, and
César Franchisena. With a scholarship from the Fulbright Foundation
(1987) he studied composition at Indiana Univ., Bloomington, IN, USA,
with Eugene O’Brien and John Eaton, and then he entered a doctoral
program in composition at the same univ. Coordinator at the Latin
American Music Center of Indiana Univ.
Works: Story Board, sop sax, brass, perc (1983); Dirección del fuego, ch,
orch (1984); Los ocho puentes, 4 recorders, mandolin, perc (1985);
Preludio a Bernoulli, 6 recorders perc (1985); Romance para Lorca Solo,
nar, ob, bsn, bells (1986); Canto adverso, alt fl, hn, str (1987); Música para
una ventana, fl, bsn, perc (1988); Cinco canciones debajo del ladrillo, alt
recorder, vn, cl, perc (1988); Puerto de cántaros, orch (1989); El Sueño de
la mula negra, tape, variable number of performers (1990); Balada, sop, cl,
Yamaha WX7, tape (1991); Chuang Tzu or A Butterfly in New York, 4
recorders (1991); Terra, electric va, 2 pn, marimba (1991); Iquitos-Manaus,
sop, jazz-rock band, Brazilian perc, aerophones, live electronics (1991);
Orpheus Turns his Head, voc, va, Yamaha WX7, Norwegian fl (1992).
Chamb, voc, ch, solo instr music.
Sources: DMEH, ISC

Di Rito, Elvio Daniel, Argentine composer, violinist, and violist; b.26 Nov
1941, Santa Fe, Prov. of Santa Fe, Argentina. He studied music at the Liceo
Municipal and at the Inst. Superior de Música of the Univ. del Litoral, both
in Santa Fe. He later studied violin with the Humberto Carfi orch.
conducting with Olgerts Bistevins. In 1971, he was awarded a scholarship
from SADAIC to study composition with the Roberto Caamaño orch.
conducting with Jacques Bodmer in Buenos Aires. In 1972, he was awarded
a scholarship from the Fondo Nacional de las Artes of Buenos Aires,
Argentina, to continue his music studies. In 1975, he was appointed cond.
of the Orq. Sinfónica Municipal of General San Martín, Prov. of Buenos
Aires, Argentina. Professor of chamber music at the Cons. Julián Aguirre,
San Miguel, Prov. of Buenos Aires. He actively performed as violinist and
violist in several orch. in Argentina and other Latin American countries.
Works: Vn concerto, orch (1968); Ulises, cantata, ch, orch (1972); Vitrales,
orch (1974); Estructuras, cl (1974); Música para marionetas (1977);
Onnagata, opera (1988); Va concerto (1981); Himno coral, orch, band,
large ch (1990); Suite en estilo romántico (1994); Los calvos, opera (1997).
Chamb, ch music.
Sources: ISC

Domínguez, Alberto, Mexican composer; b.21 Apr 1913, Chiapas,

Mexico; d.2 Sep 1975, Mexico City, Mexico. He studied piano with Julián
Carrillo and Joaquín Amparón, solfeggio with José R. Vázquez,
composition with José Rolón and Blas Galindo Dimas, orch. conducting
with Silvestre Revueltas. Founding member of the Sociedad de Autores y
Compositores de Mexico.
Works: Sonatina, chamb orch; Concerto, pn, orch. Popular songs including:
Frenesí; Eternamente; Perfidia; Por la cruz; Di que no es verdad;
Bayadera; Al son de la marimba.
Bibl.: J. Alvarez Coral, Alberto Domínguez, Autor de Perfidia y Frenesí,
Mexico, 1977.
Sources: DMEH, NH

Donizetti, Alfredom, Argentine composer; b.1867, Esmirna, Italy; d.1921,

Rosario, Argentina. He studied composition and cond. in the Cons. in Milan
(1883-89). He was a visiting cond. in Vienna, Cuba, Mexico, Rio de
Janeiro, and finally in Buenos Aires. In 1906 he settled in Rosario,
Argentina, and in 1911 founded the Donizetti Cons.
Works: Stabat Mater, ch, organ, orch; Nana, opera (1889); Dopo l’Ave
Maria, opera (1896); La locandiera, opera (1910); La batalla de Sedán,
orch (1905); ballets.
Sources: DMEH

Drangosch, Ernesto, Argentine pianist, conductor, and composer; b.22 Jan

1882, Buenos Aires, Argentina; d.26 Jun 1925, Buenos Aires. He studied
with Homeyer and Collin, and later, with Julián Aguirre and Alberto
Williams. In Berlin, Germany, he continued his studies with Karl Heinrich
Barth, Max Bruch, and Joseph Joachim, and later, with Conrad Ansorge and
Engelbert Humperdinck. He returned to Argentina in 1905 and was one of
the first conductors of the Orq. Filarmónica of APO. Prof. at the Cons.
Williams of Buenos Aires, and in 1924, he was appointed prof. at the newly
organized Cons. Nacional de Música of Buenos Aires, today the Cons.
Nacional de Música Carlos López Buchardo.
Works: Carnaval, opera; La gruta de los milagros, operetta; El sátiro y la
ninfa, symph poem; Obertura criolla; Sueño de un baile, symph suite;
Concerto, pn, orch; Sinfonía argentina. Chamb, voc, pn music.
Sources: BB, CA, DM, DMEH, DMM, E MA, MLA, MMLA

Duarte, Carlos, Venezuelan pianist and composer; b.1 Jun 1957, Caracas,
Venezuela. He studied with Miranda Farías, later with Nelly Mele-Lara, and
then entered the Escuela de Música Juan Manuel Olivares where he studied
piano with Gerty Haas. He gave his first recital at 11 years old and at 16
traveled to Canada to study with Marek Jabloski, then with Van Rossun in
Belgium, Magda Tagliaferro in Paris, E. Westtherkampf in Buenos Aires,
Jorge Bolet and Alfonso Montesinos in the Univ. of Indiana, Malraus in
Paris, and María Curcio in London. He debuted with the Orch. Sinfónica
Venezuela (1974) under the direction of Yannis Ioannides, performing one
of his own piano concertos. He became part of the Duo Dvardoz with the
pianist Varda Shamban (1977), performing in the USA, Paris, and Munich.
In 1981 he toured the USA and Canada with the Orch. Sinfónica de
Maracaibo and was pianist of the orchestra (1982-84). He performs his own
compositions and has won performance and composition prizes.
Works: Misa, 3 voc (1972); Concierto no.2, pn, orch (1973); Sonata al
estilo de Mozart, pn (1973); Ludos, pn, orch (1983); La mar, sinfonietta,
orch (1987); Trio, vn, vc, pn.
Sources: DMEH

Dublanc, Emilio Antonio, Argentine composer; b.15 Jul 1911, La Plata,

Prov. of Buenos Aires, Argentina; d.1990, Rosario, Prov. of Santa Fe,
Argentina. He studied with Sister Leonor Maturana and Josefina Abella de
Rossi, and then piano with Esperanza Lothringer, harmony with
Constantino Gaito, counterpoint with José Gil, and composition with
Ricardo Rodríguez at the Cons. Nacional de Música Carlos López
Buchardo of Buenos Aires, Argentina. He also studied composition with
Athos Palma. Professor at the Cons. of Cuyo, Mendoza, Prov. of Mendoza,
and at the Escuela de Música of the Univ. del Litoral, Rosario, both of
Argentina.
Works: Sonata, va, pn (1946); Serenata, orch (1953); Sinfonía, orch (1956);
Acuarela porteña, orch (1980); Concertante para flauta y orquesta, op.24,
orch, fl; Homenaje a Alfonsina Storni, op.48, orch; Monoblock Sinfónico,
op.76, orch (1990); Tríptico, op.74, orch, ch.
Sources: CTA12, DM, DMEH, DMM, EMA, MLA

Dueño Colón, Braulio, Puerto Rican composer, conductor, musicologist,

and flutist; b.26 Mar 1854, San Juan, Puerto Rico; d.4 Apr 1934, Bayamon.
His early music lessons came from his father. He later studied with Rosario
Aruti. As a youth, he composed dance music inspired by indigenous
folklore. He often played flute for opera and zarzuela companies traveling
through Puerto Rico.
Works: Los Baños de Coamo, zarzuela; La Amistad, overture (1877);
Sinonía Dramática, orch; Noche de Otoño (1887); Estudio sobre la Danza
Puertorriqueña (1914). Pn, orch, sacred, voc music.
Sources: DMEH, MMLA

Duncker Lavalle, Luis, Peruvian violinist, pianist, composer,

mathematician, and astronomer; b.15 Jul 1874, Arequipa, Peru; d.29 Oct
1922, Arequipa. He studied with his father.
Works: Lágrimas, voc, pn; Marcha nupcial, orch; Leyenda apasionada, pn;
Minuetto in E minor, pn; Minuetto in A flat, pn; Picaflor, concert fantasy;
Quenas, Llanto y Risa, Mariposas, Margarita, Luz y Sombra, Cholita,
waltzes.
Sources: ADBM, DM, DMEH, MMLA

Duprat, Rogério, Brazilian composer; b.7 Feb 1932, Rio de Janeiro,

Brazil. He studied cello with Calisto Corazza at the Cons. Villa-Lobos in
São Paulo, Brazil, and later, studied music theory and composition with
Olivier Toni and Claudio Santoro. In 1962, he attended courses in
Darmstadt, Germany, and studied electronic music in Cologne and
Karlsruhe, Germany, and in Paris, France, with Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz
Stockhausen. When he returned to Brazil, he founded the Orq. Sinfónica
and the Orq. de Cámara, both of São Paulo. With other Brazilian composers
he organized the Grupo Música Nova of São Paulo in 1963.
Works: Noturno, fl, cl, str (1956); Suite para crianças, strs (1956);
Variaçôes sobre um copo d’agua, strs (1956); Concertino, ob, hn, str
(1958); Variaçôes, 12 instr (1959); Organismo, 5 solo voc, 11 instr, perc
(1960); Mbaepre I, 17 instr (1961); Antinomies I, chamb orch (1963);
Antinomies II, pn, str (1963). Incidental music for 40 Brazilian movies.
Sources: DCM, EMB2, GDM, Durán, Juan Fernando, Mexican
composer; b.1 Nov 1961, Córdoba, State of Veracruz, Mexico. Self-taught
musician. Later, he entered the Cons. Nacional de Música of INBA, Mexico
City, Mexico, and the Taller de Composición of Mario Lavista. He also
participated at the Taller de Música Electrónica of CENIDIM under Raúl
Pavón. Professor at the Cons. Nacional de Música of INBA.
Works: La imagen del silencio I, electroacoustic music (1986); La imagen
del silencio V, electroacoustic music (1987). Solo instr, chamb, voc, ch
music.
Sources: DCMMC, DMEH

Durán Cárdenas, Sixto María, Ecuadorian pianist and composer; b.6 Aug
1875, Quito, Ecuador; d.13 Jan 1947, Quito, Ecuador. She studied first with
her mother, an organist and harpist, then with a German priest before
continuing on her own. She published first in the Revista de la Sociedad
Fígaro (1997) and three years later she became professor of piano in the
Cons. Nacional de Música de Quito. She directed the cons., 1911-15, 1923-
33, and 1941-44. She wrote essays about indigenous music, theoretical texts
and articles about music, and approximately 200 works, many published in
journals at the beginning of the 20th century. After mutilating the fingers on
her right hand (1918) she could not perform but did continue to write
articles and compose. She published articles on aesthetics, harmony, and
scales (1930-33) and won awards in composition competitions in Colombia,
Peru, Argentina, Paris, and Ecuador.
Works: Overtura, orch; Ave Verum, ch; Voc music, dances.
Sources: DMEH

Durán Carrión, Corsino, Ecuadorian violinist and composer; b.30 Dec

1911, Santa Isabel, Ecuador; d.14 Jan 1975, Quito, Ecuador. He studied
violin as a child, then in 1932 moved to Quito and attended the Cons. Sixto
María Durán. He wrote nationalistic music, promoted the music of Ecuador,
and won first prize in composition competitions organized by the Casa de la
Cultura Ecuatoriana, the Sociedad Filarmónica, and other institutions. After
1943 he taught violin, organology, harmony, and choral conducting at the
Cons. Nacional de Música. In 1961 he became technical dir. of the Univ.
Central de Ecuador Cons. until the military coup closed it in September
1963.
Works: El ocaso del Tahuantinsuyo, orch; Fuga a 4 partes, voc; hymns,
dances, suites.
Sources: DMEH

Dussuel Díaz, Francisco, Chilean composer and organist; b. 1915, Puerto

Montt, Chile; d.1971, Concepción. He graduated with degrees in
philosophy and theory from the Univ. Pontificia de San Miguel de Buenos
Aires and studied organ and composition with Julio Perceval in Argentina.
He was organist in the Symph Orch. of Concepción and wrote works with
literary themes. In 1960 he taught Chilean literature at the Univ. Central and
in January 1963 he was named dir. of Radio Univ. de Concepción. He was
literary and cultural critic of El Mercurio, La Nación, and El Diario
Ilustrado, of Santiago.
Works: El Dios de Sabat, soloist, ch (1940); La patética, soloist, ch (1942);
Christus, soloist, ch (1947), Iquique, soloist, ch (1951); La araucana,
soloist, ch (1952); cantatas, ch, orch music.
Sources: DMEH
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Echevarría [Chavarría], Juan José, Mexican organist and composer;
b.ca. 1756-58, Morelia, Mexico; d.? He was educated as a musician in the
school at the cathedral of Valladolid, founded in 1765. An organist in the
Cathedral Michoacana (1781-83) he earned 14 pesos per month as a music
teacher in the Colegio de las Rosas in Valladolid. One of his masses is
conserved in the archive of Colegio de las Rosas; and two of his misereres
are in the archive in the Cathedral of Puebla where he may also have been
an organist.
Works: Misa a 4 voces con vns, obs, u trompas, voc, vns, obs, tpts; Miserere
a cuatro voces con vns, obses, trompas, flautas, fagot, y clave en algunas
versos, voc, vns, obs, tpts, fls, bsn, clave.
Sources: DMEH

Echevarría Lozano, Sebastián, Venezuelan composer and director; b.9

Dec 1880, Rincón de Valle, Venezuela; d.1941, Valencia, Venezuela. In
December 1899 he performed his first mass in the church of Rincón de
Valle, beginning extensive production of religious works. He directed the
Banda de Tinaco (1907-09) and in 1910 began teaching music in the Liceo
La Divina Pastora de Valencia. Later he moved to Caracas, where he taught
and was music director at the church of Santa Teresa. He returned to
Valencia (1925), became music director in the cathedral (9 Dec 1927),
director of the Escuela de Música Instrumental, Vocal y de Declamación del
Estado Carabobo (20 Dec 1937), and retired in 1938. Most of his works are
sacred.
Works: Agnus Dei; Marcha fúnebre; Ofertorio y Te Deum; masses, motets.
Sources: DMEH

Echevarrieta Carrera, José María [Pepe Carrera], Mexican pianist and

composer; b.1913, Mexico City, Mexico. In 1923 the family moved to
Bilbao and he began to study music with his father then continued with José
María Franco, Alejandro Valdés, and Julían Valdés. He was recognized as a
pianist and composer at a young age and gave his first concert at 16 in the
Ateneo de San Sebastián under the direction of César Figuerido. At the age
of 20 he performed at the Teatro Arriaga de Bilbao. In 1936, at the outbreak
of the Spanish Civil War he traveled to Madrid and Portugal, moved to
America, and visited Brazil, Argentina, and Chile. He created a musical
ensemble that specialized in jazz, boleros and Peruvian waltzes. In 1959 he
moved to Benidorm, Spain, and remained there as a concert hall musician
until his retirement.
Works: Kantak I-V, orch; Evocaciones sobre un tema de juventud, pn;
Preludio, pn.
Sources: DMEH

Eckstein, Sergio, Mexican violist and composer; b.18 Aug 1957, Mexico
City, Mexico. He started his music studies at the Escuela de Iniciación
Artística No.4 of INBA then entered the Escuela Nacional de Música of
UNAM, where he studied with Juan Antonio Rosado and Robert Durr, both
in Mexico City. Artistic dir. of the Orq. Filarmónica of CREA he was a
founding member of Camerata Ars Nova. He plays in the Orq. Sinfónica of
IPN, Mexico City.
Works: Adagio, str orch (1992); solo instr; chamb music.
Sources: DCMMC, GP

Edelstein, Oscar, Argentine composer; b.12 Jun 1953, La Paz, Argentina.

He studied piano in the Escuela Superior de Música de Paraná and
completed his training in Buenos Aires with Graciela Rasini. His
composition teachers were José Maranzano, Mariano Etkin, and Francisco
Kröpfl. He was awarded scholarships from Laboratorio de Investigación y
Producción Musical (1986-88), Univ. de Buenos Aires (UBA) and the
Fundación Antorchas (1989-91), and was founding member and president
(1986-88) of the group Otras Músicas. In 1986, with the help of Ariel
Martínez and José Maramzano, he created the Centro de Investigaciones
Musicales at UBA, where he was dir. and taught. He explored connections
between computer science and music and developed a personal electronic
technique.
Works: Dos cuadernos, voc, pn (1979); Prálàla, 2 tpts, hn, trb, tb (1976-
77); Pieza para cuatro metals y tres percusionistas, 2 tpts, trb, tb, perc
(1984); Viril Occidente I, electroacoustic (1986); Atila y las violetas, pn,
orch (1990); Carnaval para una Lulú mecánica, opera (1994); La
invitación, musical theater, electroacoustic (1997); Atila y las violetas,
electroacoustic (1998).
Sources: DMEH

Edesio Alejandro [Edesio Alejandro Rodríguez Salvá], Cuban composer,

guitarist, and singer; b.28 Mar 1958, Havana, Cuba. He completed his
studies in guitar in the cons. Alejandro García Caturla and Amadeo Roldán
with Clara Nicola then continued studies in composition, conducting, and
electroacoustic music in a workshop with Juan Blanco at the Inst. Superior
de Arte. He trained and joined ensembles and participated in competitions
and festivals, worked as an arranger, music consultant, and music director.
He experimented with compositional techniques and combines rock and
popular rhythms with elements of Cuban music that draw from African
roots with the use of batá drums.
Works: Cinco pequeñas piezas, pn (1976); Tres do dos, electronic music
(1978); Concierto, gtr, electric gtr, org, pn, perc (1980); La corte del
Faraón, rock band, orch (1982); Transparencias, electronic music (1990);
El gato manchado y golondrina, voc solo, ch, synth (1992); chamb, orch,
popular, dance, film music.
Sources: DMEH

Eggers, Roberto, Brazilian composer, conductor, and flutist; b.18 Dec

1899, Porto Alegre, Brazil; d.14 Jul 1984, Pôrto Alegre. He began piano
study at the age of 4 and later studied flute with his brother, Alberto Eggers.
He also studied piano with Eugênia Masson.
Works: Farrapos, opera (1936); A noite de Natal, symph poem; A mulher
que eu sonhei, musical comedy; Preço de un capricho, musical comedy;
Missôes, lyric drama.
Sources: EMB2, MMLA

Eisenstein, Silvia, Argentine pianist and composer; b.1917, Buenos Aires,

Argentina. She studied with Ernesto Drangosch, Esperanza Lothringer, and
Jorge de Lalewicz. In 1937, she entered the dept. of musicology at the
Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales in Buenos Aires, under the
direction of Carlos Vega, where she did research on folklore. She settled in
Caracas, Venezuela.
Works: Supay el diablo, ballet (1950). Ch, voc music.
Sources: DM, DMEH, EMA

Eitler, Esteban, Argentine composer and flutist of Italian origin; b.25 Jun
1913, Bolzano, Tirol, Italy; d.25 Jun 1960, São Paulo, Brazil. He studied
piano, cello, and flute at the Royal Univ. of Budapest, Hungary. In 1936, he
moved to Buenos Aires, Argentina, and in 1945, he settled in Santiago de
Chile, Chile. Flutist with the Symph. Orch. of Budapest. Flutist with the
Orq. Filarmónica of Buenos Aires and the Orq. Sinfónica de AGMA. He
was a member of the Agrupación Nueva Música of Buenos Aires. In Chile,
he founded the Asociación de Música Contemporánea Tonus.
Works: Serie boliviana,fl, str orch (1941); Microsinfonía politonal, orch
(1943); Concertino, pn, 11 instr (1947); Concertino, hn, 11 instr (1949);
Policromía, str orch (1950); Microsinfonía atonal, orch (1956); chamb
music.
Sources: BB, DM, DMEH, EMA

Elías, Alfonso de, Mexican pianist, teacher, and composer; b.30 Aug 1902,
Cuernavaca, Mexico; d.19 Aug 1984, Mexico City, Mexico. Father of
Manuel de Elías. He studied orchestration and composition with Gustavo E.
Campa and Rafael J. Tello at the Cons. Nacional de Música of INBA,
Mexico City, 1915-27, and piano with José F. Velázquez. Prof. at the
Escuela Nacional de Música of UNAM. Mexico City, from 1958, and the
Cons. Nacional de Música of INBA, from 1963.
Works: Las binigüendas de plata, ballet (1933); El jardín encantado,
symph triptych (1924); 3 symphonies (1926, 1934, 1968); Variaciones
sobre un tema mexicano, orch (1927); Leyenda mística del callejón del Ave
María, symph poem (1930); Nupcias, religious suite, tnr, org, str orch
(1935); Tlalmanalco, suite, cl, bsn, tpt, pn, str (1936); Cacahuamilpa,
symph poem (1940); Rúbrica, orch (1944). Concertino, vn, chamb orch
(1967). Chamb music, religious, org, voc, ch music.
Sources: BB, CTA18, DMEH, DCMMC, DM, GP, MLA

Elías, Graciela Morales de, Mexican composer and violinist; b.28 Oct
1944, Mexico City, Mexico. She studied with her father then violin with H.
Novelo, L. Samuel Saloma, and J.R. Vasca, and at the Escuela Nacional de
Música of UNAM, Mexico City with Carlos Chavez, Blas Galindo, and
Carlos Jiménez Mabarak. She also took classes with Jean-Etienne Marie
and Karlheinz Stockhausen. Founding member of the Univ. Group of
Composition X-1. Member of Liga de Compositores de Música de
Concierto, Mexico City. Prof. at the Inst. Mexicano de Música.
Works: Tangente, 3 soloists, orch (1973); Fantasía, cl, orch (1985); chamb,
ch voc music.
Sources: DCCMMC, DMEH, IBCC, IEW

Elías, Manuel Jorge de, Mexican composer, conductor, pianist, and

teacher; b.5 Jun 1939, Mexico City, Mexico. He studied with his father,
Alfonso de Elias. He entered the UNAM and the Cons. Nacional de Música,
both in Mexico City, where he studied piano, organ, flute, violin, and cello,
1959-62. He also attended courses in Mexico City on musique concrète
with Jean-Etienne Marie (1967), on new music with Karlheinz Stockhausen
(1968), and in conducting with Luis Herrera de la Fuente (1968-72). He
attended a class on electronic music at Columbia Univ. (New York, NY,
USA) 1974, and enrolled in a workshop in opera and ballet conducting with
Edgar Doneux in Brussels, Belgium (1974-75). In 1975, he created and
organized the Inst. de Música of the Univ. of Veracruz, Mexico, and in
1980, he founded and conducted the Orch. Sinfónica of Veracruz. He was
appointed conductor of the Orch. Sinfónica of Guadalajara in 1987, and in
1988, he founded the Orch. Sinfónica of Jalisco, both of Mexico. He
became director of music of the Inst. Nacional de Bellas Artes and was
appointed permanent member of the Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes, in
1991.
Works: Pequeños corales, ch a cappella (1954-57); Estampas infantiles,
suite, str (1959); Sinfonietta (1958-61); Vitral No.1, chamb orch (1962),
No.2, chamb orch, tape (1967), No.3, orch (1969); Jahel, ballet, 2 pns
(1964); Aforismo No.1, Pájaros perdidos, ch a capella (1963); Aforismo
No.2, fl, tape (1968); Guanajuato, overture-divertimento, orch (1964);
Impresiones sobre una estampa colonial, divertimento, orch (1965); Elegía
heróica, symph poem (1967); Memento, recorder, ch, str, nar (1967);
Música nupcial, alt, brass or str (1967); Tres kaleidoscopios, org (1969,
1973, 1974); Sonante No.1, pn (1971), No.2, solo cl (1970), No.3, tpt, trb,
hn (1970), No.4, orch (1971), No.5, orch (1972), No.6, Homenaje a Neruda,
str orch (1973), No.7, orch (1974); Parámetros I, synth (1971); Ludus, ches
(1972-73); Concertante No.1, vn and orch (1973); Música doméstica,
recorder, perc (1973); Sine nomine, str qt, pn (1975); Concertante, pn, orch
(1975); Jeux, hn, tpt, bsn (1975); Oberturapoema, soloists, chorus, org,
wind orch (1975); Adagio para cuerdas, str orch (1983); A voces, mixed ch
a cappella (1983); Sonante No.10, mixed ch, orch (1984); Mictlan
Tlatelolco, str orch (1985-86); Cartas de primavera, str orch (1986);
Poema, str orch (1988); Canciones del ocaso, mez sop, orch (1988); Conc.
vc, orch (1990); Sonante No.11, Bosquejos para una ofrenda, orch (1995).
Chamb, solo instr, pn, voc, ch, electroacoustic, computer music.
Sources: BB, CTA15, DCMMC, DMEH, GP, ISC

Elie, Justin, Haitian composer; b.1 Sep 1883, Cap Haïtien, Haiti; d.3 Dec
1931, New York, NY, USA. He studied in Haiti and at the Cons. de
Musique, of Paris, France. When he returned to Haiti, he became interested
in the music of the voodoo cult. In 1922, he settled in New York.
Works: Suite aborigen, pn, later orchestrated; pn, vn, voc music.
Sources: DM, MLA, MMLA

Elisio, Flavio (Alfredo d’Escragnolle-Taunay, Viscount of Taunay),

Brazilian writer, music critic and composer; b.22 Feb 1843, Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil; d.25 Jan 1894, Brazil. He studied physics, mathematics,
geographical engineering, and was Prof. of history, languages, mineralogy,
geology, and botany. Music critic for the Revista Brasileira and the Jornal
do Comércio.
Works: Chopinianas, pn; Sonata in E flat, pn; Dois caprichos, vn, pn; pn
music; songs.
Books: Uma Grande Glória Brasileira: José Mauricio Nunes García, São
Paulo, 1930; Dois Artistas Máximos: José Mauricio e Carlos Gomes, São
Paulo, 1930.
Sources: EMB2, MMLA

Elízaga Prado, José Mariano, Mexican organist, choirmaster, and

composer; b.27 Sep 1786, Valladolid (today Morelia), State of Michoacán,
Mexico; d.2 Oct 1842, Morelia. He studied with José María Carrasco,
organist of the Cathedral of Valladolid, and later, with Soto Carrillo. He
founded the first Orq. Sinfónica of Mexico, the first Sociedad Filarmónica
Mexicana, the first Cons. de Música Mexicano y Americano, and the first
Mexican music publishing company.
Works: Miserere for the Holy Wednesday; lamentaciones; responsorio;
maitines de la transfiguración; oficios y misas for the Cathedrals of
Guadalajara and Morelia.
Books: Elementos de Música, Ordenados por Don Mariano Elízaga,
Mexico, 1823, first Mexican book on music didactics; Principios de la
Harmonía y de la Melodía, Mexico, 1835.
Bibl.: R. Stevenson, Music in Mexico, New York, 1952. J.C. Romero, José
Mariano Elízaga, Mexico City, 1934.
Sources: DM, DMEH, GMM, GP

Elizondo, Rafael, Mexican composer; b.1930, Coahuila, Mexico; d.1984,

Mexico City, Mexico. He studied at the Cons. Nacional de Música with
Candelario Huizar and Blas Galindo then he studied composition at the
Cons. Tchaikovsky of Moscow.
Works: Landrú, operetta; Cuarteto de cuerdas, str qt; Poema para vc, vc;
Juego de pelota, ballet, orch.
Sources: DMEH

Ellmerich, Luis, Brazilian composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher of

Austrian origin; b.8 Apr 1913, Vienna, Austria; d.28 Jun 1988, São Paulo,
Brazil. He initially studied piano in Vienna, and later graduated as Prof. of
piano and music education from the Inst. Musical of São Paulo. Prof. of
piano at the Cons. Dramático e Musical Dr. Carlos de Campos in Tatui,
Brazil, and artistic inspector of the State of São Paulo. Musical editor for
Diário de Suo Paulo.
Works: Ritmos musicais, pn (1960); Cançáo das aguas, pn (1970);
Tristesse, pn (1970); Valsa capricho, pn (1971). Songs.
Books: Pequeno Guía Musical, São Paulo, 1959; História da Dança, São
Paulo, 1962; História da Música, São Paulo, 1973.
Sources: EMB2

Elorduy Medina, Ernesto, Mexican pianist and composer; b.11 Dec 1855,
Zacatecas, State of Zacatecas, Mexico; d.6 Jan 1913, San Angel (today
Villa Obregón), Mexico. He studied harmony with Husprug and piano with
Clara Schumann at the Cons. of Hamburg, Germany, and took some lessons
with Anton Rubinstein. After several years, he continued his studies in
Paris, France, with Georges Mathias, director of the Cons. de Musique of
Paris. Prof. at the Cons. Nacional de Música of Mexico City.
Works: Zulema, operetta; pn music.
Sources: DMEH, GMM

Engelbrecht, Richard, Argentine conductor and composer of German

origin; b.1907, Munich, Germany. He settled in Rosario, Prov. of Santa Fe,
Argentina. He studied at the Music Acad. of Munich. Dir. of the Cons.
Argentino of Rosario. Conductor of the Orq. Filarmónica, of Rosario.
Works: Symphony; Canonic Variations, orch; Wind qnt; ch, vn music.
Sources: DMEH, MMLA

Enríquez, Gina, Mexican composer and conductor; b.1954, Mexico City.

She studied in Boston, Paris, and London and would work in children’s
orch. and choruses in Mexico City. She was the founding dir. of the Orq.
Sinfónica de Mujeres del Nuevo Milenio and the Orq. Sinfónica Juvenil
José Pablo Moncayo. She would also conduct the Orq. Sinfónica del IPN
and the Orq. Filarmónica de Acapulco.
Works: Clara de luna (2009); Concertino para vc y orquesta de cámara
(1990); El espejo y la lámpara. Ciclo de tres canciones infantiles (1997);
Fantasía en Jazz (2009); Marfil. Poema sinfónica (2011); Oye amiguito
(1992); Tango (2001); Villancico por la paz (2001).
Sources: GP

Enríquez Salazar, Manuel, Mexican composer and violinist; b.17 Jun

1926, Ocotlán, Jalisco, Mexico; d.26 Apr 1994, Mexico. He studied violin
with Ignacio Camarena and composition with Miguel Bernal Jiménez at the
Cons. of Guadalajara, Mexico (1942-50). In New York, NY, USA, he
studied composition with Peter Mennin and violin with Ivan Galamian at
the Juilliard School of Music (1955-57). He also studied theory with Stefan
Wolpe and attended the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, New
York (1971). Concertmaster of the Orq. Sinfónica of Guadalajara. He
supervised music courses at the Inst. de Bellas Artes, in Mexico City. He
was one the founders of the group Nueva Música de México. Member of
the Academia de Bellas Artes, dir. of the Cons. Nacional de Música (1972-
74), dir. of CENIDIM (1977-88), all in Mexico City, Mexico.
Works: 2 vn concs (1955, 1966); Symphony No.1 (1957); Preámbulo, orch
(1961); Obertura lírica, orch (1963); Transición, orch (1965); Poema, vc,
str orch (1966); Ego, female voc, fl, vc, pn, perc (1966); Trayectorias, orch
(1967); Si libet, orch (1968); Five Plus Two, fl, va, trb, pn, perc, with
actress and director (1969); Concierto para 8 (1969); Ixamatl, orch (1969);
Pn conc (1971); El y ellos, vn, orch (1973); Ritual, orch (1973); Corriente
alterna, orch (1977); Raíces, orch (1977); Fases, orch (1978); Sonatina,
orch (1980); Cantata, bar, ch, orch (1983); Vivencias líricas, orch (1986);
Rapsodia latinoamericana, orch (1987); Obertura sobre temas de Juventino
Rosas, orch (1989); Un mundo mejor, children’s ch and orch (1990); Vc
conc (1985). Chamb, pn, voc, theater, film music.
Sources: BB, CTA15, DCM, DCMMC, DMEH, GDM, GP, ISC

Errázuriz Rodríguez, Sebastián, Chilean composer; b.1975, Santiago,

Chile. He studied guitar and harmony and sang in choirs as a teenager then
studied composition at the Inst. Profesional Escuela Moderna. He received
a MA from the Univ. de Chile and studied with Juan Orrego-Salas,
Guillermo Rifo, Jorge Martínez, José Luis Recart, Alyosha Solovera, and
Toly Ramirez. Later he studied conducting with Edward Browne. Musical
Dir. of San Sebastián Univ. since 2012, founder and dir. of Colectivo Los
Musicantes at Projazz (2001-11) and Ensemble Musical Actual at the Univ.
San Sebastián.
Works: Egocentric, gtr (2006); Seeking a New Breed, sop, str orch (2006);
La Tirana, 3 women’s voc (2008); Concerto, cl, str orch (2009); Log of a
Dream, 4 perc, harpsichord, str (2011); Glory, opera (2013). Orch, instr,
voc, ch, chamb, film, theater music.
Sources: CW

Esaa Tablante, Prudencio, Venezuelan composer and pianist; b.6 Jun

1891, El Sombrero, Venezuela; d.4 Apr 1971, Caracas, Venezuela. He
studied with A. Maggiulli in Naples, Italy (1905), lived in the USA (1913-
33) then returned to Venezuela where he studied piano and taught before
moving to Colombia to join the opera company of Marina Uguetti. He
returned to Venezuela after the death of President Juan Vicente Gómez. His
music was played at the inauguration of the Teatro Coliseo (1936). In 1937
he was named national inspector of music for primary education, and he
became national education supervisor, from 1946 until his retirement.
Works: Elegia del Libertador, voc, pn (1940); Llanera, voc (1947);
Estampa venezolana, pn (1969).
Sources: DMEH

Esbrí, Alejandro, Mexican composer and pianist; b.8 Feb 1959, Mexico
City, Mexico. He studied piano and composition with Juan C. Herrejón at
the Escuela Superior de Música of INBA, Mexico City. He also studied
communication and electronic engineering at the Inst. Politécnico Nacional.
He participated in the Taller de Composición under the Japanese composer
Joji Yuasa. Co-ordinator and Prof. of acoustics and electroacoustics at the
Escuela Electroacústica de la Escuela Superior de Música of INBA.
Founding member of the Sociedad Mexicana de Acústica and member of
the American Acoustical Society, USA.
Works: Fugue in b minor, pn (1979); Tema y variaciones, vc (1982);
Influencia, sop, fl, vc, pn (1985); Elegía, tape (1993).
Sources: DCMMC

Escabí Agostini, Pedro Carlos, Puerto Rican composer, researcher, and

Prof.; b.23 Sep 1924, Hato del Rey, Puerto Rico. He studied music at
Dakota Wesleyan Univ. (USA) and graduated with a degree in science from
the school of agriculture and mechanical arts. He directed the department of
Ethnographic Study of Popular Culture of Puerto Rico in the Center for
Social Research at the Univ. of Puerto Rico where he organized conferences
on folklore.
Works: Misa en La menor (Misa criolla); Ciclo de Navidad y Exequias.
Sacred music.
Sources: DMEH

Escalante, Eduardo Alberto, Brazilian composer and conductor of

Argentine origin; b.14 Feb 1937, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He settled in
Brazil (1949) and studied composition and conducting at the Escola
Superior de Música Santa Marcelina of São Paulo. He received a degree in
piano performance in 1960. He studied conducting with Emmerich
Csammer and Diogo Pacheco, harmony, analysis, and counterpoint with
Osvaldo Lacerda, composition with Camargo Guarnieri. Founder of
Associaçêo de Músicos e Compositores do Estodo de São Paulo and
president of Sociedade Pró-Música Brasileira.
Works: Ponteio, str (1987); Symphony No.1 (1989. Chamb, pn; ch music.
Sources: EMB2

Escobar, Luis Antonio, Colombian composer; b.14 Jul 1925, Villapinzón,

near Bogotá, Colombia; d.11 Sep 1993, Miami, FL, USA. He studied music
at the Cons. of Bogotá, and then took courses with Nicolás Nabokov at the
Peabody Cons. of Music in Baltimore, MD, USA, and with Boris Blacher in
Berlin, Germany. Prof. at the Cons. of Bogotá, 1953-62.
Works: Avirama, ballet (1955); La Princesa y la arveja, children’s opera
(1957); Los hampones, opera (1961); Concertino, fl, orch (1951); Scherzo
(1952); Sinfonía cero (1955); Sinfonía X (1955); Harpsichord concertino
(1958); Pn concerto (1959); Pequeña sinfonía (1960); Epitafio a la
memoria de Jorge Gaitán Durán (1962); Juramento a Bolívar, symph poem
(1964). Chamb, ch, pn music; songs.
Sources: BB, CTA8, DMEH, GDM, MLA, ZCCC

Escobar, María Luisa, Venezuelan pianist and composer; b.5 Dec 1903
(1911, EMV), Valencia, Venezuela; d.15 May 1987, Caracas, Venezuela.
She started her music studies at the Colegio de Welgenlen Habay in
Curaçao, Lesser Antilles then continued them in Paris, France, with Roger
Ducasse. Founder of the Atheneum of Caracas, Venezuela (1931) and the
Asociación Venezolana de Autores y Compositores (1947). Founder and
President of the Asociación Venezolana de Compositores.
Works: Blanca Nieves, opera; Cuento musical, opera; El rey Cuaicaipuro,
opera; Las cinco aguilas blancas, ballet; Kanaime, ballet; Murachi, ballet;
Orinoco, ballet; Ruptura de relaciones, ballet; Orquídeas azules,
symphony-ballet. Vals sentimental, pn, orch. Voc, sacred, pn music.
Sources: DM, DMEH, EMV, IBCC, IEW, MLA, MMLA

Escobar Budge, Roberto, Chilean composer and music critic; b.11 May
1926, Santiago de Chile, Chile. He studied composition with René
Amengual and Alfonso Letelier. He taught at the Univ. Católica of Chile in
Santiago de Chile.
Works: Wind qnt (1957); Diferencias sinfónicas, orch (1962); Los bisontes,
symph suite (1964); Nonet (1965); Cuarteto estructural, str (1965);
Sinfonía Valparaíso (1967); Incógnita, harpsichord, tpt, bsn, vc, perc
(1967). Ch, pn music.
Books: Música Compuesta en Chile 1900-1968, Santiago de Chile; Música
sin Pasado, Santiago de Chile, 1971.
Sources: BB, CTA14, DMEH, HMC

Escobar Larrazábal, Gustavo, Colombian composer; b.1890, Santafé de

Bogata, Colombia; d.20 Apr 1968, Santafé de Bogata, Colombia. Dir. of the
Cons. Nacional de Música and the Academia de Música that bears his
name, both in Colombia.
Works: Bambuco en rondo, pn; Bambuco característico, pn; Estudios de
pasillo, pn; Escena popular.
Sources: DMEH, MMLA

Escobar Silva, Ailton, Brazilian composer, pianist, and conductor; b.14

Oct 1943, São Paulo, Brazil. He studied piano with Marilia Martins and
Adelaide Pereira da Silva, composition with Osvaldo Lacerda, and
harmony, counterpoint, fugue, and composition with Camargo Guarnieri at
the Acad. Paulista de Música, São Paulo. In 1962, he went to Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil, where he studied vocal techniques with Eliane Sampaio and
music analysis with Ester Scliar. He also studied electronic music with
Vladimir Ussachevsky at Columbia Univ., New York, NY, USA. Dir. of the
Inst. Villa-Lobos of Rio de Janeiro. Member of the Acad. Brasileira de
Música.
Works: Poemas do cárcere, mixed ch, orch (1968); Libera me, sop (1971).
Electroacoustic, chamb music.
Sources: EMB2

Escobedo, Manuel F., Peruvian pianist and composer; b.19th century,

Lima, Peru. In 1876 he performed his own compositions at the literary and
musical soirées of Juana Manuela Gorriti.
Works: Imposibles, Peruvian yaraví; La promesa, mazurka; Tristezas,
fantasy; Vals de concierto; Variaciones sobre El Trovador de Verdi;
Variaciones sobre la plegario del Moisés de Rossini.
Sources: DMEH

Escobedo de Santiago, Julio, Mexican violinist and composer; b.20 Dec

1884, Morelos, Mexico; d.c.1950, Mexico City. He began his studies with
organist Zenaido Muñoz then moved to Zacatecas (1891) to study violin
and harmony with Aurelio Díaz and play in the Teatro Calderón orch. At
the Cons. Nacional de Música he studied with Luis G. Saloma, Gustavo
Campa, and Julián Carrillo. He organized a string orchestra in Mexico City
(1906), which he directed until 1909. He played in the Orch. Sinfónica
Nacional (1915-24) and the Orch. Sinfónica de México (1928-43). He
taught violin at the Escuela Libre de Música y Declamación and was a
violinist in the Cuarteto Clásico Nacional de la Secretario de Educación
founded in 1920. Interested in the labor rights of musicians, he was active
in the Unión Filarmónica de México.
Works: Tema variado para tres vns y orquesta (1924). Str, vn music.
Sources: DMEH

Escola, Héctor Jorge, Argentine composer; b.1928, Buenos Aires,

Argentina. He studied at the Cons. Nacional de Música of Music Carlos
López Buchardo of Buenos Aires, graduating in 1941. He also studied law
at the Facultad de Derecho of the Univ. Nacional of Buenos Aires,
graduating in 1950.
Works: Seis pequeñas piezas, orch (1944); Canciones del peregrino, voc
and pn (1945); Dos piezas folklóricas, str orch (1945); Str trio (1944);
Sonata, vc, pn (1945); El rey burgués, symph poem (1953).
Sources: DMEH, EMA

Escuer, Alejandro, Mexican flutist and composer; b.12 May 1963, Mexico
City, Mexico. Self-taught in composition. He studied flute at the Cons.
Nacional de Música of INBA, Mexico City. He also studied at the
Sweelinck Cons. of Amsterdam, Netherlands, at the Accademia Musicale
Chiggiana of Siena, Italy, and at the New York Univ., New York, NY, USA.
Works: Templos, fl (1993); El péndulo de cinta, fl, cl, cb, perc (1993);
Paracelso, alquimia, fl, pn (1994); Luciérnaga, sop, fl, cb (1994).
Sources: DCMMC

Esnaola, Juan Pedro, Argentine composer and pianist; b.18 Aug 1808,
Buenos Aires, Argentina; d.8 Jul 1878, Buenos Aires. He first studied
music with his uncle, Father José Antonio Picasarri then continued in Paris,
France, in Madrid, Spain, in Vienna, Austria, and Naples, Italy. When he
returned to Buenos Aires (1822), he became active at the Escuela de Música
y Canto founded by his uncle. Founder of the Acad. de Música and
president of the Sociedad del Cuarteto.
Works: Revised Argentine National Anthem, composed by Blas Parera.
Gran sinfonía (1824); Misa, 3 voc (1824); Requiem, orch (1825); Misa, 4
voc (1825); Misa sinfónica (1825); Marcha fúnebre (1827); Cánticos para
Semana Santa (1832); Vals, orch (1837); Pasodoble, band (1837); Rondó a
la española (1840). Pn, voc, sacred music.
Sources: DM, DMEH, DMM, EMA, MLA, MMLA

Espel, Guillo [Guillermo], Argentine composer and guitarist; b.31 Jul

1959, Olivos, Argentina. He studied composition with Manolo Juárez and
Lito Valle and in 1980 began teaching guitar. He was part of the association
Nueva Generación de Compositores Argentinos and vice-president (1989-
92). He cofounded Troche y Moche. He wrote both classical and popular
music and included folk elements of Argentina in his compositions. As a
composer, arranger, and performer he participated in the Argentine folklore
group, La Posta.
Works: Glustertopos, fl, cl, tpt (1988); Marea coya, orch (1992); Sin caja,
pn (1994); Tríptico argentine, fl, orch (1996).
Sources: DMEH

Espín Yépez, Enrique, Ecuadorian composer and violinist; b.19 Nov 1926,
Quito, Ecuador; d.1997, Mexico City, Mexico. He studied with his father
and later in the Cons. de Quito with Jorge Paz until 1945, when he traveled
to Mexico to study with Henryk Szeryng, Manuel Ponce, and Rodolfo
Halffter. He studied with R. Petzold in Bonn, Germany (1954). On his
return to Ecuador he taught violin at the Cons. de Quito and directed the
Quartet of Quito. He helped make music study obligatory in schools
throughout the country. He was founder of the National Symph Orch. of
Ecuador and taught violin at the Cons. de México.
Works: Preludio y tema con variaciones para pn y orquesta, pn, orch; Tres
danzas, vn; Cuarteto, str qt.
Sources: DMEH

Espino, Rómulo, Venezuelan pianist, organist, and composer; b.19th

century, Caracas, Venezuela; d.20th century. He studied with organist Juan
Bautista Abreu and became temporary organist of the Cathedral of Caracas
(1878-81, 1885-1904).
Works: Himno a San José, voc, pn; Ave María, voc, pn.
Sources: DMEH

Espinosa, Federico, Argentine pianist and composer; b.6 Oct 1820, Buenos
Aires, Argentina; d.31 Mar 1872, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Part of a
musical dynasty of the 19th century, he studied with his uncle Tiburcio
Silbarrios and performed as a pianist and organist in the Salón de Recreo, el
Salón de las Delicias, el Museo Diorámcio, and other concert halls in
Buenos Aires. His repertoire included parts of Italian operas and pieces for
dance halls. He also gave piano and singing lessons and composed concert
hall pieces published during his lifetime.
Works: waltzes, mazurkas, polkas.
Sources: DMEH

Espinosa Fernández, Luis Carlos, Colombian composer, instrumentalist,

and teacher; b.13 Jan 1918, Belalcázar, Colombia; d.10 Mar 1990, Popayán,
Colombia. He entered the Cons. de Cali (1931), and studied with Antonio
María Valencia, Wolfgang Schneider, and Andrés Pardo Tovar, receiving a
graduate degree in 1941. He taught at the cons. of Cali and Nacional de
Bogotá, Cons. de Música de la Univ. de Cauca, Popayán (1949-56), where
he was director of the cons. and the univ. chorus. He studied at the Schola
Cantorum, the Escuela Normal de Música, and the Escuela Martenot in
Paris (1959-61). He taught in Bogotá and directed the Cons. de Música de
la Univ. Cauca (1966). He was interested in folklore and ethnic musicology.
Works: Himno a Silvia, ch, pn; Ave María, ch, 4 voc; Tres melodias, mezzo
sop, pn; Cuarteto de cuerdas, str qt.
Sources: DMEH

Espinosa Garay, Leandro, Mexican composer and cellist; b.2 Jan 1955,
Monterrey, Mexico. He studied composition with Nicandro E. Tamez at the
Escuela Formativa por las Artes, Mexico, with Pawlu Grech and Melanie
Daiken at the Morley College, England, with Manuel Enríquez at
CENIDIM, Mexico, and with Alfred Nieman at the Guidhallschool of
Music and Drama, England.
Works: Homenaje a W. Killmayer, orch (1981, 1983); Prelude to the
Calling, orch (1981, 1984); 3 Masses, soloists (1982, 1982, 1982); The
Calling, soloists, mixed ch, children’s ch (1985); Páramo (1983); Andante,
str (1986); Pequeño concierto, bsn or hn, str (1988); Ifigenia cruel, opera
(1992); Obertura, orch (1992). Chamb, org, pn, ch, electroacoustic,
computer music.
Sources: DCMMC, DMEH, GP

Espinoza Gallardo, Felipe, Mexican percussionist, composer, and teacher;

b.15 Apr 1949, Mazarlán, Sinaloa, Mexico. He studied with his father,
Rafael Espinoza, a drummer, and then continued in Guadalajara where he
joined the Orch. Sinfónica de Guadalajara at the age of 13, becoming first
chair two years later. He studied percussion with Carlos Luyando in Mexico
City, Helmut Geller and Gubala in Guadalajara, and instrumentation and
harmony with Manuel Cerda. He accompanied sitarist Ravi Shankar (1975),
performed as a soloist, and taught in the Escuela de Música de la
Universidad de Guadalajara.
Works: Rapsodia para percusiones (1975); Concierto para 6 percusionistas
y orquesta (1984).
Sources: DMEH

Espoile, Raúl H., Argentine composer; b.25 Jan 1888, Mercedes, Prov. of
Buenos Aires, Argentina; d.1958, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied with
Adolfo Rinaldi, Corradino D’Agnillo, Pavanelli, Josefina Avella, and
Edmundo Pallemaerts. He also studied with Vincent D’Indy at the Schola
Cantorum of Paris, France. Prof. of medieval and modern history at the
Escuela Normal de Profesores of La Plata, Prov. of Buenos Aires, and of
Argentine history at the Colegio Nacional Bernardino Rivadavia of Buenos
Aires. Supervisor of music at the schools of the Consejo Nacional de
Educación. Dir. of the Cons. Superior de Música Manuel de Falla of Buenos
Aires.
Works: Frenos, opera (1928); La ciudad roja, opera (1936); En la cuesta
del totoral, orch; El centinela de los Andes, orch; En la paz de los campos,
orch; Kuntur, orch.
Sources: CA, DM, DMEH, DMM, EMA, MLA

Esteva Loyola, Carlos, Mexican violinist, director, and teacher; b.28 Feb
1939, Mexico City, Mexico. He studied piano with Antonio Gomezanda
then entered the Cons. Nacional de Música (1951) to study with Luis G.
Saloma and later with Herbert Frölich. He graduated in 1964 and took
additional classes with Joseph Smilovits, Imre Hartman, Henryk Szeryng,
León Spierer, and Ruggiero Ricci. He also studied conducting with Ígor
Markevich, Eduard Fendler, and León Barjin. He founded the Orch. Clásica
de México (1973) and judged at the Tchaikovsky competition in Moscow
(1974). He was chair of the Escuela Superior de Música del Inst. Nacional
de Bellas Artes.
Works: Sonata, op.1, pn (1959-85); Evocación, op.6, voc, pn; Sonata, op.2,
vn, pn (1963); Cantemos todos juntos, op.9, voc, pn (1995).
Sources: DMEH

Estévez, Milton, Ecuadorian composer, architect, and socioeconomist;

b.1947, Quito, Ecuador. He studied at the Cons. Nacional de Música of
Quito, Ecuador, with Carlos Bonilla and Hilda Olgiesser. He studied
composition, electroacoustic composition, and musical information through
computers in France, with Max Deutsch, Yoshihisa Taira, Michel Reverdy,
Mesías Maiguashca, and Francois Pinot (1980-85), at the Ecole Normale de
Musique of Paris, and at the Centre Européen pour la Recherche Musical of
Metz. Dir. of the Dept. de Investigación, Creación y Difusión Musical at the
Cons. Nacional de Música of Quito.
Works: Introducción, wind instr, perc (1983-84); Cinco desencuentros con
episodio cualquiera, orch, magnetic tape (1986); Patch 13, magnetic tape,
perc (1984); Gtrra…gtrra, electric gtr (1984); El bricolage de Gyor, 2 fls, 2
cls, pn, str (1984); Apuntes con refrán, orch, electroacoustic sounds;
Paramera, orch.
Sources: DMEH, ISC, MG, PEFCM

Estévez Aponte, Antonio, Venezuelan composer, oboist, and clarinetist;

b.3 Jan 1916, Calabozo, Guárico, Venezuela; d.26 Nov 1988, Caracas,
Venezuela. He studied composition with Vicente Emilio Sojo in Caracas.
He played oboe in the Orq. Sinfónica of Caracas. At the age of 50 he
became interested in electronic music and obtained a fellowship from the
Inst. Nacional Venezolano de Cultura y Bellas Artes to study electronic
techniques in Paris, France. Prof. of harmony at the Escuela Nacional de
Música of Caracas. Dir. of the choirs at the Liceo Andrés Bello and of the
Orfeón Univ. choral ens.
Works: Suite llanera, orch (1942); Conc, orch (1949-50); Cantata criolla,
voc, orch (1954); Cosmovibrafonía, electronic (1968); Cromofonía,
electronic (1968). Ch, pn music.
Sources: BB, CTA14, DMEH, GDM, MMLA

Estrada, Carlos, Uruguayan composer; b.15 Sep 1909, Montevideo,

Uruguay; d.7 May 1970, Montevideo. He studied in Montevideo with
Manuel Estrada Espiro, and later, composition with Roger Ducasse and
Henri Busser, counterpoint and fugue with Noel Gallo, and conducting with
Philippe Gaubert at the Cons. de Musique of Paris, France. Founder and
cond. of the Orq. de Cámara of Montevideo. Associated with the State
Radio, 1940-54. Dir. of the Cons. Nacional de Música of Montevideo,
1954-68.
Works: Preludio, minué y final, orch (1936); 2 suites (1937, 1942); Tema
con variaciones, orch (1938); Daniel, oratorium (1942); L’annonce faite à
Marie (1943); Scene pastorale, ballet (1947); Les uns et les autres (1950);
L’illiade, ballet (1957); Artigas (1958); Danza elegíaca, orch (1944);
Concertino, pn (1944); Robaiyat, sop (1955); 2 symphonies (1951, 1967).
Chamb, pn, voc, ch music.
Sources: BB, BHMCU, CTA16, DM, DMEH, GDM, MLA, MMLA

Estrada, José Jesús, Mexican composer, organist, and pianist; b.1 Dec
1898, Teocaltiche, Mexico; d.? He studied music in Guadalajara, Mexico, in
Rome, Italy, in Paris, France, and in Vienna, Austria. Prof. at the Cons.
Nacional de Música and at the Univ. of Mexico, both in Mexico City.
Works: Oratorios, masses, motets, org, voc music.
Sources: DMEH, KTL

Estrada, Julio, Mexican musicologist, music historian, teacher, and

composer; b.10 Apr 1943, Mexico City, Mexico. He studied with del
Castillo, Alfonso de Elías, Juan D. Tercero, and Julián Orbón in Mexico
(1955-63), with Gerhard Muench in Germany (1963-65), and with Nadia
Boulanger, Esla Barraine, Raffi Ourgandjian, Olivier Messiaen, Jean-
Etienne Marie, Henri Pousseur, and Iannis Xenakis in Paris, France. Later,
he studied with Karlheinz Stockhausen and György Ligeti in Germany. He
returned to Mexico (1970) and worked at the Radio Univ. Prof. at the
Escuela Nacional de Música of the UNAM, Mexico City, since 1973.
Researcher at the Inst. de Investigaciones Estéticas from 1976 and the
Ministerio de Educación, Mexico City (1984-90).
Works: Pedro Páramo, opera (1991). Persona, opera (1969); Solo, opera
(1970); Memorias, pn (1971); Melódica (1973); Canto mnémico, fugue in 4
dimensions (1973); Canto tejido, pn (1974); Canto naciente, 3 tpts, 2
cornets, 2 trbs, tb (1975-78); Canto oculto, vn (1977); Canto alterno, vc
(1978); Diario, 15 str instr (1980); eua’on I, tape (1981); eolo’oolin, 6 perc
(1981-82); eoa’on II, orch (1983); yuunohui’yei, vc (1983); ishini’ioni, str
qt (1984-90); yuunohui’nahui, cb (1985); yuunohui’ce, vn (1990);
yuunohui’ome, va (1990). Chamb, pn, ch, electronic, computer music.
Books: General editor of La Música de Mexico, 10 volumes, Mexico, 1984.
Sources: BB, DCMMC, DMEH, GP

Estrada Abadía, Lucas José, Colombian composer; b.8 May 1938, La

Unión, Valle del Cauca, Colombia; d.24 Aug 1981, New York, NY, USA.
He started music studies at an early age at the Cons. Antonio María
Valencia of Cali, Colombia. He studied piano with Lucía Pérez, art history
and musical form with Andrés Pardo Tovar, counterpoint with Fabio
González Zuleta and composition with Roberto Pineda Duque at the Cons.
Nacional de Música of Bogotá, Colombia (1956-63). He traveled to the
USA (1964) to study with Carlos Suriñach and Julián Borbón in New York.
He also studied at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana of Siena, Italy, with
Franco Donatoni and Luigi Dallapicola.
Works: La consagración de la nada, ballet (1962); El gran viaje, opera
(1968); La muerte no es un cuento de hadas, opera (1968); Esteban, opera;
Balada de los dos abuelos, ballet; Homenaje a García Lorca. Incidental,
chamb, pn, org, voc, ch, electroacoustic music.
Bibl.: Heriberto Zapata Cuéncar, Lucas José Estrada A., Medellín, 1968;
Luis Carlos RodrígueAlvarez, Lucas Estrada: Tres Piezas para Pn,
Medellín, 1997.
Sources: DMEH, LCRA

Estrella de Mescoli, Blanca, Venezuelan composer, pianist, and teacher;

b.5 Sep 1915, San Felipe, Venezuela; d.1986, Venezuela. She studied piano
with Elena Arrarte and Moisés Moleiro, and composition with Vicente
Emilio Sojo at the Escuela Nacional de Música y Declamación in Caracas,
Venezuela. Later, she continued her studies with Primo Casale and Yannis
Ioannidis. She founded the Escuela Experimental de Música Blanca Estrella
(1962).
Works: María Leonza, symph poem (1950); Ballet miniatura (1965);
Imagen del barquisimeto romántico, ballet (1967); Cuadro sobre una
imagen popular, ballet; Mundo de juguetes, ballet; Ballet de la hormiguita y
el ratón Pérez; Imagen de barquisimeto romántico, orch; Symph Ballet
(1968). Chamb, pn, voc music.
Sources: DMEH, IBCC, IEW

Etkin, Mariano, Argentine composer and teacher; b.5 Nov 1943, Buenos
Aires, Argentina. He studied piano, theory, solfeggio, and harmony at the
Cons. Nacional de Música of Music Carlos López Buchardo in Buenos
Aires (1955-58). He also studied piano and analysis with Ernesto Epstein,
composition with Guillermo Graetzer, and later continued composition
studies at the Centro Latinoamericano de Altos Estudios Musicales of the
Inst. Torcuato Di Tella of Buenos Aires, with Alberto Ginastera, Earle
Brown, Mario Davidovsky, Gerardo Gandini, Maurice Le Roux, Roger
Sessions, and Iannis Xenakis. From 1968-70 he studied electronic music
with Gottfried M. Koenig and conducting with Paul Hupperts at the Univ.
of Utrecht, Netherlands, conducting with Pierre Boulez in Basil,
Switzerland, and with Franco Ferrara in Siena, Italy, and composition with
Luciano Berio at the Juilliard School of Music in New York, NY, USA.
Prof. at the Univ. Nacional of Tucumán, Prov. of Tucumán the Univ.
Nacional of Litoral, Rosario, Prov. of Santa Fe, the Facultad de Bellas Artes
of the Univ. Nacional of La Plata, Prov. of Buenos Aires, and the Univ.
Nacional of Buenos Aires, all in Argentina, and from 1982 to 1985, at the
Music Dept. of Wilfried Laurier Univ. in Ontario, Canada.
Works: Tres parábolas, chamb ens (1963-64); Elipses, str orch (1964);
Música ritual, orch (1971-74); Otros tiempos, qnt or str orch (1978-81);
Paisaje, str orch (1979-80); Caminos de cornisa, fl, cl, pn, perc (1985);
Resplandores sombras, orch (1986); Recondita armonia, va, vc, cb (1987);
Trio, r tpt, trb, tb (1991); Taltal, 4 perc (1993). Chamb, pn, solo instr music.
Sources: DMEH, DMM, ISC

Euroza Sifri, Leticia, Mexican composer; b.6 Dec 1888, Querétaro,

Mexico; d.? She studied piano with Carlos J. Menesesm, harmony with R.
J. Tello, and composition with J. Carrillo, and received a degree in piano
and composition from the Cons. Nacional de Música. She taught piano at
the Acad. of Music in New York and performed in the USA and Mexico.
She founded an academy of music called Leticia Euroza in Mexico and
wrote music to accompany gymnastic exercises (1914).
Works: Poema 1867, op.41, orch (1917); Salmos, op.5, op.16, op.42, op.36,
ch; Ante el altar, op.34, vn, pn; Marcha solemne, op.24, pn, org.
Sources: DMEH
 F
Fabini, Eduardo Félix, Uruguayan violinist, teacher, and composer; b.18
May 1882, Solís de Mataojo, Uruguay; d.17 May 1950, Montevideo,
Uruguay. He studied violin with his older brother, Santiago Fabini then with
Romeo Massi, ítalo Casella, Virgilio Scarabelli, and Miguel Ferroni at the
Cons. La Lira of Montevideo. In 1900, he entered the Cons. of Brussels,
Belgium, where he studied violin with Deloc and César Thompson, and
harmony and composition with Augusto de Boeck. Founder of the Cons. de
Música of Montevideo and the Sociedad Uruguaya de Música de Cámara.
Works: Campo, symph poem (1922); La isla de los ceibos, overture (1926);
Fantasía, vn (1929); Melga sinfónica, symph movement (1931); Patria
vieja, symph overture, soloists, ch (1931); Mburucuyá, ballet (1933);
Mañana de Reyes, ballet (1937). Chamb, ch, voc, pn music.
Bibl.: R. Lagarmilla, Eduardo Fabini, Montevideo, 1954.
Sources: BB, BHMCU, CTA2, DCM, DM, DMEH, GDM, MLA, MMLA,
MU

Fabre, Cristina, Argentine composer; b.22 Jul 1954, Buenos Aires,

Argentina. She graduated with a degree in music from the Facultad de Artes
y Ciencias Musicales de la Univ. Católica Argentina (1979), where she
studied composition with Roberto Caamaño and Gerardo Gandini. She
continued studies with Gandini (1979-83) and with Francisco Kröpfl (1984-
85). She cofounded the Grupo de Creación Musical (1979).
Works: Tres canciones y un interludio, sop, fl, pn (1979); Evocaciones, cl,
pn (1981); Obra para orquesta, orch (1984); Pieza para pn no.2, pns
(1985).
Sources: DMEH

Falabella Correa, Roberto, Chilean composer; b.13 Feb 1926, Santiago de

Chile, Chile; d.15 Dec 1958, Santiago de Chile. Paralized by polio since
childhood, Falabella was educated privately at home by Lucila Césped,
1945-46, Alfonso Letelier, 1949-50, Gustavo Becerra, 1952, Miguel
Aguilar, and Esteban Eitler, 1956-57.
Works: Epitafios fúnebres, chamb opera (1952); Del diario morir, miniature
opera (1954); El peine de oro, ballet (1954); Palimpsestos, alt, bsn, hn, perc
(1954); Symphony No.1 (1955); 2 Divertimenti, str (1955); Andacollo,
ballet, voc, pn, perc (1957); La lámpara en la tierra, cantata bar, orch
(1958). Chamb music.
Sources: BB, DMEH, HMC

Faleni, Arturo, Argentine composer and teacher of Italian origin; b.15 Nov
1877, Chieti, Italy; d.24 Sep 1942, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He moved to
Buenos Aires in 1880. He studied with Jenusky in Genoa, Italy, and with
Juan Panizza, Aromatori, and Juan Gutiérrez in Argentina. In 1901, he
founded the Inst. Verdi in Buenos Aires, later renamed Cons. Faleni.
Works: Many unknown works.
Books: Teoría de la Música, 4 volumes (1904); Compendio de Historia de
la Música (1910); Tratado de Armonía, 2 volumes.
Sources: DM, DMEH, EMA, MMLA

Fariñas Cantero, Carlos, Cuban composer; b.28 Nov 1934, Cienfuegos,

Cuba. He studied at the Cons. de Música of Havana, Cuba, with José
Ardévol, Enrique González Mantici, and Harold Gramatges. In 1956, he
went to the USA to take courses at the Berkshire Music Center in
Tanglewood, MA, where he studied composition with Aaron Copland and
conducting with Eleazar de Carvalho. He studied at the Moscow Cons.,
Russia (1961-63), with Alexander Pirumov. He returned to Cuba (1963) and
was active as a composer for television. Dir. of the Cons. Alejandro García
Caturla, the Consejo de la Cultura Nacional, in the Dept. de Educación
Musical, and the Dept. de Música of the Biblioteca Nacional José Martí, all
in Havana.
Works: Pregón y variaciones, fl, str qt (1955); Despertar, ballet (1960);
Tiento I, cl, gtr, pn, perc (1966); Oda a Camila, orch (1966); Tiento II, 2 pns
and perc (1969); Relieves, 5 instr. Groups, audience participation (1969);
Muros, rejas y vitrales, orch, various objects (1972); Conc, vn, perc (1975);
El bosque ha echado a andar, orch (1976).
Sources: BB, DMC2, DMEH, GDM
Fasetti, Gustavo Enrique, Argentine composer and Prof. of music; b.18
Dec 1953, La Plata, Prov. of Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied at the
Facultad de Bellas Artes of the Univ. Nacional of La Plata. Prof. of
harmony, counterpoint, orchestration, and form at the Facultad de Bellas
Artes of the Univ. Nacional of La Plata.
Works: …No matarás!, orch (1977); El Filo del Pasado; Hombre
Millonario (1989).
Sources: VMA

Faulhaber, Manuel Porto Alegre, Brazilian composer and pianist; b.25

May 1867, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; d.7 Feb 1922, Rio de Janeiro. He started
music studies with his father, Paul Faulhaber, continuing later with Alfredo
Bevilacqua. Librarian and honorary member of the Inst. Nacional de
Música of Rio de Janeiro.
Works: Ballade, pn; Caprice, pn; Valse, pn; Diálogo, pn; Noturno, pn;
Preludio, pn; Romance, pn; Scherzo, pn; Trois morceaux.
Sources: EMB, EMB2

Fava Ninci, Enrique, Peruvian composer of Italian origin; b.4 Oct 1883,
Spezia, Italy; d.5 Dec 1948, Lima, Peru. He started music studies in his
native town and then in Pesaro, Italy, he studied violin with Fenucci, flute
with Filiberti Peri, piano with Alejandro Ferrari, composition with Pietro
Mascagni and Amilcare Zanella, and music history with L. A. Villanis. Dir.
of the Acad. de Música Alcedo of Lima.
Works: La cadena de Huáscar, ballet; La visión de Viracocha, ballet;
Navidad, lyric scene, soloists, ch, orch; Visiones, suite, orch; Ayacucho,
hymn, orch. Chamb, pn music.
Sources: ADBM, DM, DMEH

Febo Ortíz, Félix, Puerto Rican composer; b.31 Mar 1950, Río Piedras,
Puerto Rico. He studied at the Univ. of Puerto Rico and at the Cons. of
Music of Puerto Rico. He also attended the State Univ. of Michigan, East
Lansing, MI, USA, where he studied bassoon. Prof. of harmony and
solfeggio at the Univ. of Puerto Rico. Dir. of the Collegium Musicum of
that univ.
Works: Isabel viendo llover en Macondo, fl, cl, bsn (1972);
Prolongaciones, cl, bsn, pn (1974); Sextet, fl, ob, cl, bsn, vn, va (1976);
Naika, fl, ob, cl, bsn, pn, vn (1978); Improvisaciones, 10 vns, perc (1980).
Solo instr, pn music.
Sources: CPR, DMEH

Feldman, Bernardo, Mexican composer; b.28 Sep 1955, Mexico City,

Mexico. He studied piano and composition at the Cons. Nacional de Música
of Mexico. He received a bachelor’s degree and a MM from the California
Inst. of the Arts, and a DM in composition from the Univ. of California at
Los Angeles, CA, USA. His teachers included Joaquín Amparán, Louis
Andriessen, Daniel Catán, Manuel Enríquez, Vinko Globokar, Ian Krouse,
Mario Lavista, Stephen L. Mosko, Mell Powell, Bernardo Rands, and
Morton Subotnick. Faculty member, Dept. of Composition and Music
Theory, California Inst. of the Arts; president of the Society for
Electroacoustic Music of USA at Los Angeles; member of the American
Music Center; administrative dir. of NACUSA.
Works: Cuadros de otra exposición, 2 tpts, 2 hns, 2 trbs (1983); En rojo y
negro, orch (1984); Creatures of Habit, ens (1994). Electroacoustic,
computer, chamb, pn music.
Sources: DCMMC, DMEH

Fernandes (Fernández), Gaspar, Mexican composer and organist of

Portuguese origin; b.ca.1570, Portugal; d.before 18 Sep 1629, Puebla,
Mexico. Singer and organist at the Cathedral of Evora, Portugal. He moved
to Central America 1599 and became organist and chapelmaster at the
Cathedral of Guatemala. In 1606, he was appointed chapelmaster at the
Cathedral of Puebla, Mexico.
Works: 2 masses, 3 and 5 voc; Magnificat, 4 voc; 8 Benedicamus Domino,
4 voc; hymns; festal chansonnettes; villancicos; org tientos; Elegit eum
Dominus, Latin secular work, 5 voc.
Bibl.: R. Stevenson, Renaissance and Baroque Musical Sources in the
Americas, Washington, DC, 1970.
Sources: DMEH, GDM

Fernandes, Maria Helena Rosas, Brazilian composer, pianist,

musicologist, and conductor; b.1933, Brazópolis, Minas Gerais, Brazil. She
studied piano at the Cons. Jardim Guanabara and composition at the
Faculdade Santa Marcelina. She has published research on indigenous
Brazilian music and won composition prizes in Brazil (1978, 1979) for
classical piano music. In 2006, she won the Nancy Van de Vate
International Composition Prize for Opera.
Works: Cycle, pn; Prelúdio; Valsa; Cantilena; Canto de Maricatu; Marília
de Dirceu, opera.
Sources: IEW

Fernández, Frank, Cuban pianist, composer and teacher; b.16 Mar 1944,
Mayarí, Cuba. As a child he studied in his mother’s music school, then with
Esteban Forés before entering the Cons. Amadeo Roldán (1962) where he
studied with Margot Rojas and Manuel Ochoa. He won first prize in the
performance competition of the Writers and Artists Union of Cuba (1966)
and received a scholarship to study in Moscow with Victor Merzhanov. He
was the first Cuban pianist to perform in the Great Hall of the Cons.
Tchaikovsky. He returned to Cuba (1971), performed and taught at the
Escuela Nacional de Arte and the Cons. Amadeo Roldán. An award
winning pianist he recorded on the Fonomusic label in Madrid. His music
was influenced by traditional folk and band music.
Works: Hacia nuevas victorias, pn, orch (1980); Canto del silencio, pn, ob,
str orch (1989); Fantasía, pn (1990).
Sources: DMEH

Fernández, Guillermo Juan, Argentine composer and choral conductor;

b.23 Jun 1953, Rosario, Prov. of Santa Fe, Argentina. He studied piano with
Antonio de Raco, Ricardo Vidal, and Aldo Antognazzi, conducting with
Cristián H. Larguía and Carlos Gantus, and composition with Virtú
Maragno at the Univ. Nacional of Rosario. Cond. of choirs in the Prov. of
Santa Fe and the Prov. of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Works: Cuatro piezas, fl; Antigua, fl, gtr; Algama, fl, cl, perc; Gestatio-
Omnis, cl, hn; Superposiciones, gtr qt. Solo instr, pn music.
Sources: CAMR, DMEH, VMA

Fernandez, Helen Lorenzo, Brazilian lecturer and composer; b. 1915,

Arcaju, Brazil. She was dir. of the Acad. de Música Lorenzo Fernandez, Rio
de Janeiro, a member of the Vienna Music Acad. and the Santa Cecelia
Acad., Rome.
Sources: IEW
Fernández, Juan de Jesús, Guatemalan violinist, singer, and composer;
b.3 Nov 1846, Guatemala; d.? Most of his music is conserved in manuscript
form.
Works: Misa de Nuestra Señora de los Dolores. Secular, sacred music.
Sources: DMEH, MMLA

Fernández, Oscar Lorenzo, Brazilian composer and conductor; b.4 Nov

1897, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; d.26 Aug 1948, Rio de Janeiro. He started
piano and theory lessons with João Otaviano, then studied piano, harmony,
counterpoint, and fugue at the Inst. Nacional de Música of Rio de Janeiro,
with Francisco Braga, Federico Nascimento, and Henrique Oswald. Prof. of
harmony at the Inst. Nacional de Música. He founded the journal Ilustração
Musical (1929) and the choir of the Inst. Nacional de Música. In 1935, he
was appointed Prof. at the Inst. de Arte del Distrito Federal, and in 1936,
dir. of the Cons. Nacional de Música of Rio de Janeiro.
Works: Piano concerto (1924); Suite sinfónica sôbre 3 temas populares
brasileiros (1925); Imbapara, symph suite (1929); Reisado do pastoreio,
suite (1930); Amaya, ballet (1930); Malasarte, opera (1931-33);
Malasartiana, orch (1941); Vn conc (1942); 2 symphonies (1945, 1947);
Variaíôes sinfónicas, pn (1948). Chamb, pn, voc music.
Sources: BB, CTA15, DCM, DM, EMB2, GDM, HMB MLA, MMLA

Fernandez, Terresita, Cuban guitarist, singer, composer, teacher; b.20 Dec

1930, Santa Clara, Cuba; d.14 Nov 2013. She sang her own compositions,
accompanying herself on the guitar in concerts in Havana and gave radio
and television performances.
Works: Bola de nieve, voc; Canta pajarito, voc; La gaviota, voc; Ismaelillo,
voc; Pinares de Mayari, voc; Rondas, voc; Tia jutia, voc.
Sources: DMEH

Fernández Barroso, Sergio, Cuban composer; b.4 Mar 1946, Havana,

Cuba. He studied piano with César Pérez Sentenat in Havana, and
composition with Václav Dobiás and Karel Janecek at the Superior Acad.
of Music in Prague, Czechoslovakia (today Czech Republic). Prof. of
counterpoint, fugue, and musical form at ENA and the Cons. Amadeo
Roldán, both in Havana. Dir. of the Dept. de Música of the Biblioteca
Nacional José Martí and the Univ. of Havana.
Works: Oda a los soldados muertos, ballet; La casa de Bernarda Alba,
ballet (1969); Plásmasis, ballet (1970); Dinámica, ballet (1971); Oboe
Concerto, ob, pn, perc with audience (1968); Concerto, electric gtr. Chamb,
pn, voc music.
Sources: HMC, KTL

Fernández Esperón, Ignacio, Mexican composer; b.14 Feb 1894, Mexico

City, Mexico; d.? He studied solfeggio with his mother, Piedad Esperón,
and Macedonia Alcalá, and piano with Salvador Ordoñez Ochoa. He
studied harmony and composition with Edgar Varàse in New York, NY,
USA (1923-24), and with Paul de Flem and Varese in Paris, France (1931-
36). Dir. of several popular orchestras in various Mexican radio stations.
Works: Diez romanzas en estilo clasicista; Str qt (1934); 3 trios (1935-37);
El zihuateco, fantasia, pn, orch (1939). Stage music.
Sources: MMLA

Fernández Goes, Custodio, Brazilian composer and teacher; b.1886,

Brazil; d.? Prof. of piano at the Escola Nacional de Música of Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil.
Works: Pn, vn, vc, voc music.
Sources: MMLA

Fernández Hidalgo, Gutierre, Peruvian composer and chapelmaster of

Spanish origin; b.1553, Andalusia, Spain; d.after 1620, Cuzco? Peru. He
came to Bogotá, Colombia (1584), to conduct music at the Cathedral and
teach at the Seminario Conciliar of San Luis. He was appointed rector of
the Seminario (1585). In 1588 he was appointed choirmaster at the
Cathedral of Quito, Ecuador, in 1591 at the Cathedral of Cuzco, Peru, and
from 1597 to 1620 at the Cathedral of La Plata (today Sucre), Bolivia.
Works: Masses; Magnificat, 4 to 6 voc; Magnificat quarti toni; psalms, 4
voc; hymns; Music of the Office for Holy Week; motets; Salve Regina, 4 or
5 voc.
Bibl.: R. Stevenson, The Music of Peru, Washington, DC, 1950. R.
Stevenson, Renaissance and Baroque Musical Sources in the Americas,
Washington, DC, 1970.
Sources: DMEH, GDM
Fernández Naranjo, Nicolás, Bolivian composer; b.6 Dec 1905, Sud
Yungas, Dept. of La Paz, Bolivia; d.1972, Bolivia. He dedicated his life to
music after abandoning studies for the priesthood. Taught in public schools,
choir conductor at the Seminario of Sucre, Sucre, Bolivia, and Prof. of
solfeggio and harmony at the Inst. de Bellas Artes in La Paz.
Works: Tantum ergo, sacred music, 8 mixed voc; Te Deum, orch, mixed ch.
Sources: CB, DMEH

Fernández Ros, Antonio, Mexican composer; b.15 Jan 1961, Mexico City,
Mexico. He started music studies at the Cons. Nacional de Música of INBA
and at the Escuela Nacional de Música of UNAM, both in Mexico City. He
also studied in the USA at the Mannes College of Music and the City Univ.
of New York, both in New York, NY, and in Paris, France, at the Inst. de
Recherche et de Coordination Acoustique Musical under Pierre Boulez, and
composition with Iannis Xenakis at the Univ. de la Sorbonne.
Works: Canción, sop, orch (1987); Bagatela, pn, str orch (1989).
Electroacoustic, computer, chamb music.
Sources: DCMMC, GP

Fernández Sánchez, Agustín, Bolivian composer; b.1958, Cochabamba,

Bolivia. He studied with Franklin Anaya at the Inst. Eduardo Laredo, then
with Alberto Villalpando, and in 1973 continued in composition with Carlos
Rosso at the Univ. Católica Boliviana. He spent three years studying in
Japan, moved to England (1984) where he obtained a doctorate from the
Univ. of Liverpool, and completed his research at the Univ. of London. He
founded and directed the chamber ensemble, City Lights, and performed in
Europe and the USA.
Works: Rapsodia en estiloantigua (1975); Misa de Corpus Cristi (1978);
Meditación no 1, chamb orch (1985); Fuego, orch conc. (1987).
Sources: DMEH

Ferrari, Claudio A., Argentine composer; b.19 Dec 1962, Rosario, Prov.
of Santa Fe, Argentina. He studied analysis and composition with Dante
Grela, and then continued with Mariano Etkin, Luis M. Serra, Alcides
Lanza, Carmelo Saitta, Francisco Kröpfl, Marta Lambertini, and Federico
Monjeau.
Works: Misceláneas I, cl, clarone (1986); Cinco miniaturas, fl, pn (1986);
Dos piezas, cl, vn, pn (1987); Quantum, fl, cl, vn, va (1987); Octeto, instr
ens (1989); Inflexiones I-IV, fl, vn, pn (1989); Con ruido secreto, fl,
clarone, va, cb, pn, perc.
Sources: CAMR

Ferrari, Jorge Luis, Argentine composer, singer, and choral conductor;

b.26 Jun 1954, Rosario, Prov. of Santa Fe, Argentina. He studied
composition with Virtú Maragno, voice with Julio Somaschini, Angel
Matiello, and Noemí Souza, and conducting with Néstor Andrenacci at the
Escuela de Música of the Facultad de Humanidades y Artes of the Univ.
Nacional of Rosario.
Works: Sueño, mixed ch; La ciudad de Urk, children’s opera. Voc, ch
music.
Sources: CAMR

Ferreira, Domingos José, Brazilian flutist, organist, and composer; b.1837,

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; d.2 Apr 1916, Niterói, Brazil. He studied harmony
and counterpoint with Gioacchino Giannini, and composition with
Francisco Manuel da Silva at the Cons. de Música of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Works: Corte de Mónaco, opera (1862), Colombo or O descobrimento de
América, opera (1864); América, opera (1864). Religious music.
Sources: EMB2, MMLA

Ferrer Otero, Monsita Monserrate, Puerto Rican pianist and composer;

b.1882, San Juan, Puerto Rico; d.1966, San Juan. She started piano studies
with Rosa Sicardo and Ana Otero, and harmony with Julio Carlos de
Arteaga and Arístides Chavier Arévalo. She continued her piano studies
with Gonzalo Nuñes in New York, NY, USA, and with Jesús María
Sanromá at the Cons. de Música of Puerto Rico.
Works: Chamb, sacred, pn, voc music.
Sources: DMEH, IBCC, IEW

Ferrer Soria, Ramón, Peruvian pianist and composer; b.14 Mar 1892,
Lima, Peru; d.4 Mar 1919, Paris, France. He began piano studies as a child
in Lima then traveled to Europe (1909) to continue his training. He
performed in England, France, Belgium, Switzerland, and lived in Florence,
Italy.
Works: Misa de requiem; Pensiero elegiac no.1. Voc music.
Sources: DMEH

Ferrero, Stelvio Santiago, Argentine composer and pianist; b.3 Jul 1932,
Río Cuarto, Argentina. He entered the Univ. Nacional de Córdoba (1951) to
study composition, graduating with a degree in harmony, form, and fugue.
He performed, accompanied, and taught at El Bachillerato Artístico
Domingo Zipoli, the Cons. Provincial Félix Garzón, and the Escuela de
Artes de la Univ. Nacional de Cordoba (1976). He was piano coach and
teacher for operas performed in the Teatro del Libertador General San
Martín de Córdoba (1984). He formed, directed, and accompanied the
Microópera de Córdoba (1969) as a result of his interest in 19th century
Italian opera.
Works: 3 Coros religiosos, op.3, chapel ch (1952); 2 Sonatinas, op.10
(1957-63); Tocata y tema variado, op.5, chamb orch, pn (1963); Sonata
para gtrra, gtr (1971); Partita Beta, str orch, vn (1978); La primavera, tnr,
sop, fl, pn, str orch (1978); Tema con variaciones, rondo, fuga, str qt
(1979); Minisinfonietas, orch (1982); 3 Canciones, sop or tnr, pn (1987-91);
Tres momentos emotivos, vn, pn (1988); Vals distorsionado, pn (1990).
Sources: DMEH

Ferretti Martinez, Ulises Dardo, Uruguayan composer and teacher; b.20

Dec 1953, Florida, Uruguay. He studied with Lyda Martínez in the Liceo
Musical Cotelo Freire, then at Cons. Univ. de Música, with Manuel
Fernández Espiro, Yolanda Rizzardinim Pedro Ipuche Riva, Héctor Tosar,
and Antonio Mastrogiovanni. He taught at the Univ. de Música and the
Música del Inst. de Profesores Artigas.
Works: Tres piezas para clarinet solo, cl (1975); Música para cuarteto de
cuerdas, str qt (1978); Pequeña pieza, pn (1984); Cantar, ch (1984); stage
music.
Sources: DMEH

Ferreyra, Beatriz, Argentine composer, pianist, violinist, and electronic

instrumentalist; b.21 Jun 1937, Córdoba, Prov. of Córdoba, Argentina. She
started her music education in Córdoba, studying piano and violin, then she
studied piano in Buenos Aires, Argentina, with Celia Bronstein. She also
studied harmony and analysis with Nadia Boulanger in Paris, France (1962-
63), and electroacoustic and electronic music in Paris and Milan, Italy, with
Edgardo Cantón. She joined the Groupe de Recherches Musicales of Radio
Français (1963), under the direction of Pierre Schaeffer, and in 1968, she
attended a composition course in Darmstadt, Germany, taught by György
Ligeti, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Earl Brown.
Works: Tape: Médisances (1968); L’Orvietan (1970); Siesta blanca (1972);
Canto del loco (1974); Tierra quebrada, for vn (1976); Echo (1978);
Bruissements, for ob (1982); The UFO Forest (1985); Mirage contemplatif
(1992). Electronic, television incidental music.
Sources: DMEH, IEW, NGDWC

Ficarelli, Mário, Brazilian composer, pianist, and teacher; b.4 Jul 1937,
São Paulo, Brazil. He started to study music at the age of 17 with María
Freitas Morais. Later, he studied piano with Alice Philips and composition
with Olivier Toni. Prof. of music history and analysis at the Cons. Dr.
Carlos de Campos of Tatuí, Brazil. General co-ordinator at the Escola Livre
de Música e Artes das Faculdades Integradas Alcântara Machado of São
Paulo. Member of the Acad. de Música Brasileira.
Works: Cinco retratos de um tema, str (1970); Transfigurationis (1981);
Ricordanza, str (1986); Va conc (1986); Conc, vn, vc, pn (1988); Symphony
No.1, winds (1990); Symphony No.2 (1991); Symphony No.3 (1993); Conc,
wind instr (1997). Chamb, solo instr, ch, voc music.
Sources: EMB2

Ficher, Jacobo L., Argentine composer, conductor, violinist, and teacher of

Russian origin; b.15 Jan 1896, Odessa, Ukraine, formerly part of Russia;
d.9 Sep 1978, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied violin in Odessa with
Piotr Stoliarsky and M. Hait. He entered the Imperial Cons. of Saint
Petersburg, Russia (1912), where he studied violin with S. Korguieff and
Leopold Auer, and harmony, counterpoint, fugue, composition, and
orchestration with Vasili Kalafati, Maximilian Steinberg, Nikolai
Tcherepnin, and Nicolai Socoloff. He graduated in 1917. Concertmaster at
the State Opera of Leningrad, USSR. He settled in Buenos Aires in 1923.
Cond. of the Orq. Sinfónica of ADEMA. Prof. of composition at the
Escuela Superior de Música of the Univ. of La Plata, Prov. of Buenos Aires,
Argentina. Prof. at the Cons. Nacional de Música Carlos López Buchardo,
the Cons. Superior de Música Manuel de Falla, and the Inst. Superior de
Arte of the Teatro Colón, all of Buenos Aires. Founding member of the
Grupo Renovación (1929) and of the Liga de Compositores de la Argentina
(1947), both of Buenos Aires. Full member of the Acad. Nacional de Bellas
Artes.
Works: Colombina de hoy, ballet (1933); Los invitados, ballet (1933);
Melchor, ballet (1939); Golondrina, ballet (1942); Salmo de alegría,
cantata, soloists, ch, orch (1949); El oso, chamb opera (1952); Pedido de
mano, opera (1956); Mi aldea, sop, alt, tnr, chamb orch (1958); Kadish,
cantata, soloists, ch, orch (1969); 10 symphonies (1932, 1933, 1938-40,
1946, 1947, 1956, 1958-59, 1965, 1973, 1976-77); 2 symph suites (1924-
66, 1926-62); Poema heróico, symph poem (1928); Sulamita, symph poem
(1927-60); Obertura patética Exodus (1928-60); Tres bocetos inspirados en
el Talmud (1930); Vn conc (1942); 3 pn concs (1945, 1954, 1964); Hamlet,
4 symph movements (1948); Don Segundo Sombra, overture (1954); Harp
conc (1955); Oda a la libertad, nar, orch (1957); Variaciones y fuga sobre
un tema de Mozart (1961); Obertura festiva (1962); Fl conc (1968);
Capricho argentino (1972); Vc conc (1974): Obertura dramática (1975);
Dos poemas from The Gardener by R. Tagore (1926); Gaucho, suite (1944);
Preludio, coral, y fuga (1945); Seis fábulas, second series (1951); Serenata,
str orch. (1947); Suite (1953); 4 str qts (1927-47, 1936, 1943, 1952); Suite
en estilo antiguo, woodwind qt, hn, tpt (1930); Trio, pn, vn, vc (1935); Pn
qnt (1961); Wind qnt (1969); Tres piezas, brass, perc (1971); Introducción y
allegro, pn, vn, va, fl, ob, bsn (1971); Sonatas for 2, 3, and 4 woodwind
instr (1949, 1949, 1959); Sax qt (1957); sonatas: str, winds, pn; pn, solo
instr, voc ch music.
Bibl.: B. Zipman, Jacobo Ficher, Buenos Aires, 1966.
Sources: BB, CA, CTA2, DCM, DM, DMEH, EMA, GDM, MLA, MMLA

Fidemraizer, Sergio Oscar, Argentine composer and teacher; b.11 Nov

1958, Rosario, Prov. of Santa Fe, Argentina. He studied composition with
Dante Grela and Francisco Kröpfl and conducting with Mario Benzecry.
Founding member of music institutions in Rosario, including Agrupación
Nueva Música, Agrupación de Jóvenes Compositores Rosarinos, and Grupo
Klank. He worked at the Laboratorio PHONOS, Fundación Miró of
Barcelona, Spain.
Works: Pieza, fl (1980); Aulofonías, fl qt (1980); Tres preludios, vn, pn
(1981); Sonata, fl, gtr (1981); Basod, female voc, cl, clarone, pn, vc, perc
(1981); Cinco bagatelas, gtr (1982); Trio, vn, cl, pn (1982); Cadencias,
chamb ens (1983); Música para un encuentro imaginario (1987); Cantos
del alba, electronic sounds (1988).
Sources: CAMR

Figueredo, Carlos, Venezuelan composer; b.15 Aug 1910, Valencia,

Venezuela; d.Nov 1986, Caracas, Venezuela. He started his music studies at
the age of 5 with Muken Hill, and later studied piano with Salvador Narciso
Llamozas, and composition with Vicente Emilio Sojo at the Escuela de
Música of Caracas. Dir. of the Escuela Preparatoria de Música (today
Escuela Juan Manuel Olivares) of Caracas. He became cultural attaché at
the Venezuelan Embassy in Paris, France (1948), and consul in
Copenhagen, Denmark, and Madrid, Spain.
Works: 5 symphonies; chamb, ch music.
Sources: BB, CTA14, DMEH, EMV

Figueredo Cisneros, Pedro, Cuban composer, lawyer, and farmer; b.29 Jul.
1819, Bayamo, Cuba; d.17 Aug 1870, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba. On October
18, 1868, he entered the Ejército Cubano de Liberación and became
general. He was imprisoned and executed by Spanish troops.
Works: Lyrics and music of the Cuban National Anthem, originally titled
Himno Bayamés or La Bayamesa.
Sources: DM, DMC2, MMLA

Figueroa, Víctor Manuel, Guatemalan oboist and composer; b.1870,

Guatemala City, Guatemala; d.1929, Guatemala City. He studied at the
Cons. de Música of Guatemala City. He taught oboe in Guatemala. He
resided in Naples, Italy, where he studied composition.
Works: Masses; marches; dance music.
Sources: DMEH, MMLA

Figueroa Iriarte, Jesús, Puerto Rican clarinetist, composer, and conductor;

b.1878, Aguadilla, Puerto Rico; d.1971, Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. Father and
grandfather of many musicians, he began studying music with his father,
Carmelo, and later with his uncle, José Lequerica. He played in bands in
Aguadilla then met Juan Morel Campos, who inspired him to continue his
formal studies in music. Married Carmen Sanabia (1903) and 8 of their 11
children became professional musicians. He conducted the bands of San
Sebastían, the Policía Insular, the Municipal de Aguadilla, the Orquesta del
Club Armónico, and the first Symph Orch. of Puerto Rico.
Works: nine operettas, voc, pn, orch, vn, dance, march music.
Sources: DMEH

Figueroa Mañas, Adriana Isabel, Argentine composer and flutist of

Uruguayan origin; b.19 Oct 1966, Montevideo. In 1977 she graduated from
the school of music at the National Univ. of Cuyo, where she earned a
degree in music, flute, and earned a masters degree in Latin American
music. She moved to Argentina and became a citizen in 1999. She played
flutes and saxophone in various types of music, often her own. She taught
flute, saxophone, and composition in the artistic public school, W. A.
Mozart, and wrote for the journal of the International Alliance of Women in
Music. She was a member of the the Argentine Foundation of Women
Composers (FADEC).
Works: Toys (1998); Suite Infantil (1998); Five Miniatures (1998); Fantasy
for Tb and Orch (1999); Argentia: Suite for fl and orch (2000); Aire de
Tango: Fantasia para vc y orquestra sinfónica (2000); Three Argentinian
Pieces, vc, vn (2003); Angels’ Carillons, tb, marimba (2005);
Latinoamérica (2011); Alucitango, fl, 2 vns, va, vc; Transparencias, va,
harp, fl, voc (2012); Tres Piezas Modernas para Fagot y Orquesta (2012);
Rhapsodia Ciudadana, symph band. Acoustic, computer music.
Sources: CW

Figueroa Morales, Antonio, Cuban violinist and composer; b.11 Jun 1852,
Santiago de Cuba, Cuba; d.14 Sep 1892, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba. He began
music studies in Santiago de Cuba then entered the Cons. of Paris where he
studied with Jean D. Alard and José White. On his return to Cuba, he
became a violinist in the chapel of music in the Cathedral of Santiago de
Cuba, performed in concert halls and theaters, and taught music in the
seminary of San Basilio.
Works: transcriptions: qts, small orch; dances.
Sources: DMEH

Figueroa Morales, Ramón, Cuban violinist and composer; b.1862,

Santiago de Cuba, Cuba; d.4 Mar 1928, Santiago de Cuba. Co-founder and
vice-dir. of the Acad. Municipal de Bellas Artes of Oriente, Cuba.
Works: Capricho cubano; patriotic hymns; Masonic hymn; songs; waltzes.
Sources: DMEH, MMLA

Figueroa Sanabia, Guillermo, Puerto Rican violinist, teacher, and

composer; b.1916, Río Piedras, Puerto Rico. Son of Jesús and Carmen, he
graduated from the École Normale de Musique de Paris (1936). With a Carl
Flesch scholarship he studied with Jacques Thibaud, Marcel Chaillet,
Geroge Eresco, and Nadia Boulanger. He studied conducting with Igor
Markevitch then conducted the Symph Orch. of Puerto Rico and the
Chamber Orch. of the Inst. de Cultura Puertoriqueña. He won composition
prizes, taught viola in the Cons. de Música de Puerto Rico, played first
chair in the Symph. Orch. of Puerto Rico and the Festival Casals. He also
taught at the Escuela Libre de Música de San Juan for 30 years and played
with the Quinteto Figueroa.
Works: Dance music.
Sources: DMEH

Figueroa Sanabia, Narciso, Puerto Rican pianist, teacher, and composer;

b.1906, Aguadilla, Puerto Rico; d.4 Dec 2004, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico.
Son of Jesús and Carmen, he began studying music with his parents. He
graduated from the Real Cons. de Madrid (1928). He toured Spain as
artistic asst. of Antonio Fernández Bordas, a violinist and dir. at the Real
Cons. de Madrid. He performed in Africa, Portugal, and for King Alfonso
XIII and Queen Victoria Eugenia of Spain. Later he studied at the École
Normale de Musique de Paris with Alfred Cartot, Nadia Boulanger, Diran
Alexanian, and Ricardo Viñes. He collaborated with Pablo Casals, Nathan
Milstein, Pierre Fournier, Ginette Neveau, Guillermina Suggia, Carl Flesch,
Victoria de los Ángeles, and taught piano at the Cons. de Música of Puerto
Rico. He was a member of the Quinteto Figueroa, which performed
internationally.
Works: Dances, Christmas, pn chamb music.
Sources: DMEH

Figueroa Sanabia von Ellinger, Carmen, Puerto Rican pianist and

teacher; b.1881, Aguadilla, Puerto Rico; d.3 May 1954, San Juan, Puerto
Rico. She began studying piano at the age of six with her mother Inocencia
then continued with Ana Otero. After her father died she provided for her
family by concertizing and teaching. She married Jesús Iriarte Figueroa
(1903) and had 11 children, eight of whom studied in Europe. She taught
and performed with an orchestra Jesús conducted in Puerto Rico.
Works: dances, pn.
Sources: DMEH

Figueroa Sierra, Luis Carlos, Colombian composer and pianist; b.12 Oct
1923, Santiago de Cali, Valle de Cauca, Colombia. He studied piano with
Angélica Sierra, Trini de Socasas, and Renée Buitrago. With a scholarship
he entered the Cons. de Música de Cali (1933) and studied piano with
Camilo Correa Pineda, music history, harmony, counterpoint, advanced
piano with Antonio María Valencia, chamber music with Wolfgang
Schneider, theory with Alfonso Borrero Sinisterra, and harmony with
Antonio María Benavides. He graduated (1946) then taught at the Univ.
Industrial (later Univ. del Valle) and the Normal de Varones de Cali. The
departmental government of Valle granted him a scholarship (1950) to
study in France at the national conservatory and the César Franck school.
He returned to Colombia (1960) and became dir. of the Cons. de Música
Antonio María Valencia until 1975. He taught piano at the Cons. de Música
de la Univ. de Cauca, Popayán (1975-80) then he returned to the Valencia
Cons.
Works: Berceuse, mez sop, pn (1945); Canción de cuna, ch (1945); Allegro
assai y canción, vn, pn (1949); Melodia, vn, str orch (1957); Suite breve, pn
(1975); Salve Regina, women’s ch, sop, alt, org (1981); Sonatina, vc, pn
(1981); Suite, gtr (1980); Policromía, pn (1982); Concierto, pn, str orch
(1986).
Sources: DMEH

Filippi, Lionel, Argentine composer; b.10 Jan 1943, Buenos Aires,

Argentina. He graduated from the Cons. Municipal Manuel de Falla (1964)
and received a degree from the Facultad de Artes and Ciencias Musicales
de la Univ. Católica Argentina (1968). He attended the Laboratory of
Acoustic Music of the Univ. of Paris (1972-74) then helped organize an
electroacoustic music course for the Groupe de Recherches Musicales and
the Cons. Superior de Paris. He also worked in the Inst. Psicoacústica y
Música Electronica (IPEM) in Belgium. He studied with Luis Gianneo,
Gerardo Gandini, Roberto Caamaño, and Guy Reibel. In 1971, along with
Susana Espinosa and Luis María Serra, he founded ARTE 11 (Atelier de
Realizaciones Técnico Electroacústicas) in Buenos Aires.
Works: Tres preludios, pn (1965); Cuarteto, str (1966); Tres piezas, orch
(1967); Tres canciones, voc, pn (1967); Canto Americano, electroacoustic
(1972); Poemas, ch (1975); Ceremonias, electroacoustic (1977).
Sources: DMEH

Filomeno Cueva, Bartolomé [Bartolo], Peruvian composer, violinist, and

chapelmaster; b.Aug 1784, Lima, Peru; d.? He resided in Chile from 1822 –
43 where he was a violinist in the Cathedral of Santiago de Chile. When he
returned to Peru he was Prof. of solfeggio, voice, piano, violin, and guitar
and played violin in the music chapel of the Cathedral of Lima. In 1846, he
was appointed Prof. of music at the Colegio de la Señora María Estevanes
de Cot in Peru.
Works: Misa a dúo; Copla a nuestro amo; Misa a 3 voces; villancicos.
Sources: ADBM, DMEH, MMLA

Filomeno Cueva, José María, Peruvian composer and violinist; b.Sep

1791, Lima, Peru; d.? Like his brother, Bartolomé, he was known in Peru
by his last name, Cueva. After a trip to Chile he returned to Lima, Peru,
with the last name Filomeno. He studied at the Acad. del Convento de San
Agustín with Brother Cipriano Aguilar. He was a singer in the chorus at the
Cathedral of Lima (1808-22) then went to Santiago, Chile. In Chile he was
a violinist in the Cathedral of Santiago and taught piano in La Serena and
Valparaiso. He returned to Peru with his brother Bartolomé and his sons
(1843) and taught violin, piano, guitar, and sang.
Works: masses; sacred works; marches.
Sources: DMEH

Fleites, Virginia, Cuban composer; b.10 Jul 1916, Melena del Sur, Havana,
Cuba. She studied piano with Fernando Carnicer, and harmony,
composition, music history, and aesthetics with Amadeo Roldán and José
Ardévol. Prof. at the Cons. Municipal de Música and the Cons. Nacional de
Música, both of Havana. Secretary in charge of public concerts and radio
programs of Grupo Renovación Musical of Havana.
Works: Soneto de Dante, sop, tnr (1940); Soneto de Petrarca, sop, alt, tnr,
bs (1941); Sonatina, pn (1941); Invención, pn (1941); Sonata in D, pn
(1942); Tres pequeñas piezas, pn (1942); Preludio y fuga, pn (1942); Sonata
de cámara in D, 2 vns, vc (1942); Ricercare, str qt (1943); Suite, fl, ob, bsn
(1943).
Sources: DM, DMC2, DMEH, MLA, MMLA

Florence, Paulo, Brazilian composer and conductor; b.19 Jun 1864,

Campinas, Brazil; d.23 Sep 1949, São Paulo, Brazil. He started piano
studies (1873) then went to Kassel, Germany (1878) where he studied
harmony, counterpoint, and composition with Hans Weltner. He entered the
Univ. of Leipzig, Germany (1885), where he studied with Salomon
Jadassohn and Carl Reinecke. He returned to Brazil (1891) and taught piano
for several years. Later, he went to Florence, Italy, where he studied piano
with Giuseppe Buonamici and composition with Antonio Scontrino; he also
took classes with Giuseppe Martucci in Bologna, Italy. He returned to
Brazil (1899) and taught at the Inst. Musical of São Paulo. Founding
member of the Acad. Brasileira de Música.
Works: Chamb, pn, voc music.
Sources: EMB2

Flores, Francisco José, Brazilian conductor and composer; b.7 Sep 1860,
Mar de Espanha, Minas Gerais, Brazil; d.21 Aug 1926, Belo Horizonte,
Minas Gerais. He started music studies in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with João
Batista Pedro de Alcántara. He entered the Cons. de Música of Rio de
Janeiro (1882) where he studied clarinet with Antônio Luis de Moura and
theory with Archangelo Fiorito. In 1885, he studied composition,
instrumentation, and conducting with Cavalier Darbilly at the Cons.
Universitário Fluminense of Rio de Janeiro. Founder of the Orq. Sinfônica
of Belo Horizonte which later became the Sociedade de Concs Sinfônicos.
Works: Volitiva, fantasy (1885); Hino à República (1890); Hino à
Tiradentes (1892); Pátria livre (1894); Hino à humanidade (1896);
Tormenta, fantasy (1900); Hino do bicentenario de Ouro Preto (1911). In
1919, he arranged the oficial anthem of Brazil, Hino da Independúncia,
originally written by the Emperor Pedro I and Evaristo da Veiga. Chamb,
voc, pn, sacred music.
Sources: EMB2
Flores, José Asunción, Paraguayan composer; b.27 Aug 1904, Asunción,
Paraguay; d.16 May 1972, Buenos Aires. He studied at the Escuela de
Música de la Policía, in Asunción, and then furthered his studies in Buenos
Aires, Argentina, where he settled in 1934. Interested in Paraguayan
folklore, he created the guarania, a song in 6/8 rhythm.
Works: India, Kerasy, Panambí-Verá, Nde Rendapeayú, Jejui, pn, vn, or pn,
vn, vc (1929); Mburica’o, symph poem (1932); Buenos Aires, Salud!, ch,
orch (1932); Pyjharé-Pyté, symph poem, soloist, double ch, orch;
Ñanderuvusu, ballet.
Sources: DM, EMA, MLA, MMLA

Flores Barrientos, Víctor, Bolivian composer; b.1915, Oruro, Bolivia; d.?

He was self-taught in music. Legal counsel of the Sociedad Boliviana de
Autores y Compositores de Música of Oruro. President of the committee on
Bolivian ethnography and folklore.
Works: Lamento de mi tarka; Fantasía incaica; Romance chuquisaqueño;
Orurenita gentil; En mi soledad; Eres mi delirio.
Sources: CB, DMEH

Flores Jiménez, Carlos, Mexican flutist and composer; b.20th century,

Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. He studied flute with Andrzej Bozek and
Christianne Nazzi in the Escuela Nacional de Música de la Univ. in
Guadalajara and taught in an elementary school.
Works: Chamb, fl, pn music.
Sources: DMEH

Flores Méndez, Guillermo, Mexican guitarist and composer; b.19 Oct

1920, Zaclatán, State of Puebla, Mexico. He studied with Mercedes Jaime,
Juan León Mariscal, Candelario Huízar, and Manuel M. Ponce at the Cons.
Nacional de Música of INBA, Mexico City. Prof. at the Cons. Nacional de
Música and Escuela Nacional de Música, both of INBA, at the Escuela
Nacional de Música of UNAM, Mexico City.
Works: Gtr, orch, voc music.
Sources: DCMMC, DMEH, GP

Flores Zeller, Bernal, Costa Rican composer and researcher in

ethnomusicology and music history of Costa Rica; b.28 Jul 1937, San José,
Costa Rica. He studied in Costa Rica, and then went to the USA where he
studied at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY, with Bernard
Rogers, Wayne Barlow, and Howard Hanson; received a Master’s degree
(1962) and a Ph.D. (1964). Prof. at the Cons. of San José.
Works: The Land of Heart’s Desire, opera (1964); Symphony No.1, str
(1965); Symphony No.2 (1966); conc, pn, perc, orch (1963); cl conc (1968).
Chamb, pn, voc music.
Sources: BB, CTA15, DMEH, NP

Floriani, Carlos, Argentine composer and physician; b.29 Feb 1911

(DM)/1901 (EMA), Buenos Aires, Argentina; d.1958, Buenos Aires. He
studied piano with his father, Juan Bautista Floriani, harmony with Ernesto
Suner, and counterpoint with Pascual Grisolía. He was self-taught in
composition. He graduated from the Facultad de Medicina of the Univ.
Nacional of Buenos Aires. Founder and cond. of the Orq. de Médicos of
Buenos Aires. President of the Asociación Artística of Buenos Aires.
Works: Tríptico, vc, pn (1943).
Books: La Soprano del Colón, novel; Ráfagas, dramatic comedy.
Sources: DM, DMEH, EMA

Fonseca, Euclides Aquino da, Brazilian composer, pianist, teacher,

conductor, and music critic; b.6 Jan 1854, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil; d.31
Dec 1929, Olinda, Pernambuco. He studied in Recife with Inocêncio
Smolz. Prof. at the Escola Normal Oficial of Recife, music critic in several
Brazilian and Portuguese journals, founder of the Centro Musical
Pernambucano and Orfeao da Escola Normal Oficial, both in Recife.
Works: Leonor, opera; As damas d ‘honor, opera; Il maledett, opera; A
princeza do Catete, opera; Sinfonía republicana, orch; Ave libertas!, orch; A
descoberta do Brasil, orch; Em pleno carnaval, orch; Fantasia, pn; Marcha
festival, pn; Overture in C minor; Saudação a Pernambuco; Te Deum; pn,
voc music.
Sources: EMB2, MMLA

Fonseca Gutiérrez, Julio, Costa Rican teacher, church organist, and

composer; b.22 May 1885, San José, Costa Rica; d.22 Jun 1950, San José.
He started his studies at the Escuela Nacional de Música of San José, and
later studied with Alvise Castegnaro. He continued at the Cons. Reale di
Musica of Milan, Italy, and then in Brussels, Belgium, with Edgar Tinel and
Louis Van Dam. In 1927, he was appointed Prof. of music at the Colegio
Superior de Señoritas, and in 1942, taught music theory and harmony at the
Escuela Nacional de Música. He played in the bands of the Republic, was
choirmaster at the Church of La Merced and founder and dir. of the Acad.
de Música Euterpe.
Works: Money Is Not All, operetta; Caperucita roja, children’s opera; Leda,
waltz intermezzo (1914); Ecce Homo, funeral march (1920); Suite tropical
sobre Temas costarricenses, orch (1934); Himno del centenario de la
aparición de la Virgen de los Angeles, ch (1934); Himno-Cantata a la
música, ch (1935); Marcha festiva de la Orden Mercedaria, ch (1937);
Gran fantasía sinfónica sobre motivos folklóricos (1937); Las ruinas de
Ujarras, overture (1938). Chamb, pn, religious music.
Sources: BB, DCM, DM, DMEH, GDM, MLA

Fontenla, Jorge, Argentine composer, pianist, and composer; b.7 Dec

1927, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied piano with Raúl Spivak,
harmony with Alberto Ginastera, and harmony and counterpoint with José
Torre Bertucci at the Cons. Nacional de Música Carlos López Buchardo of
Buenos Aires. He furthered his studies with Suzanne Bauthian and Jorge
Fanelli in piano, and with Carlos Suffern in composition. He was appointed
permanent conductor of the Orq. Sinfónica of the Univ. of Cuyo, Mendoza,
Prov. of Mendoza, Argentina (1968). Prof. at the Cons. Nacional de Música
Carlos López Buchardo, the Cons. Superior de Música Manuel de Falla, the
Inst. de Arte del Teatro Colón, the Univ. Católica Argentina, all in Buenos
Aires, as well as at the Inst. Superior de Música of the Univ. Nacional of
Litoral, Rosario, Prov. of Santa Fe, Argentina. Dir. of the Liceo Municipal
of Santa Fe, Prov. of Santa Fe, and the Cons. Superior de Música Manuel de
Falla.
Works: Tres piezas, orch (1950); Suite sinfónica de Cui-Ping-Sing, orch
(1952); Concerto, bsn, orch (1955); Ofrenda, variations, cl on a theme by
Fauré (1965); Ofrenda, cl (1966); Cantata de la danza y la muerte, nar,
mixed ch (1972); Cántico de Santa Teresa, ch (1979); Cantata jubilar, nar,
double ch, org (1981); Lamento, vc, chamb orch (1980); Adagio (1980);
Mass Spiritus Domini, sop, mixed ch, org (1981); La orquesta, series of
symph microforms in 4 movements (1981-83); Mass Signum Magnum, sop,
female ch (1983). Dos canciones, female ch a cappella (1962);
Divertimento, fl, ob, cl, bsn, harp, vn, vc (1954); Str qt (1960);
Resonancias, variations on a Gregorian theme, pn, wind qnt (1969). Voc, pn
music.
Sources: CA, DMEH, DMM, EMA, VMA

Forte, Vicente, Argentine composer and musicologist; b.1888, Buenos

Aires, Argentina; d.1966, Buenos Aires. He studied in Paris, France, and in
the USA. He researched Spanish music and its influence on Argentine
songs. Consultant in the Sección de Folklore of the Inst. de Literatura
Argentina, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras of the Univ. of Buenos Aires.
Prof. of Hispanic-American Literature, at the Univ. of Leipzig, Germany.
Works: Cantos montañeses vascos; pn, voc music.
Sources: DM, DMEH, EMA

Forti, Hermes, Argentine composer of Italian origin; b.21 Sep 1906,

Trieste, Italy; d.1972, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied at the
Accademia di Musica Santa Cecilia of Rome, Italy, with Alfredo Casella,
Renzi, Fernando Germani, and Ottorino Respighi. Prof. of piano at the Casa
de España and asst. cond. at the Scuola di Canto of the Teatro Reale di
Opera, both in Rome. Prof. of organ and composition at the Cons. Reale
Arrigo Boito of Parma, Italy. He settled in Buenos Aires and was appointed
asst. cond. at the Teatro Colón of Buenos Aires, for the 1940 season. Prof.
of organ and organist at the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires.
Works: Assetta, opera. Incidental, voc music.
Sources: DM, EMA

Fossati, Florencio D., Argentine pianist and composer; b.8 Jun 1907,
Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied with Elmérico Fracassi, Gabriel
Monteaux, Alberto Zanardini, and Felipe Montigny. In 1942, he founded
the Cons. Fossati.
Works: Elena, opera; El Indio, opera; Zenzontle, symph poem; Recuerdo de
viaje, suite; Alla antica, suite. Voc music.
Sources: DM, EMA

Fracassi, Américo Romeo, Argentine composer of Italian origin; b.29 Feb

1880, Lucito, Campobasso, Italy; d.15 Aug 1936, Goya, Prov. of
Corrientes, Argentina. Brother of Elmérico Fracassi.
Works: Pn, voc music.
Sources: BB, DMEH, EMA
Fracassi, Elmérico, Argentine composer and teacher of Italian origin; b.19
Dec 1874, BB (1878, EMA), Lucito, Campobasso, Italy; d.12 Oct 1930,
Buenos Aires, Argentina. Brother of Américo Fracassi. Early in life he was
brought to Buenos Aires then he returned to Italy (1890) where he studied
music at the Cons. Reale di Musica San Pietro a Majella of Naples, Italy,
with Florestano Rossomandi and Nicola D’Arienzo. He settled in Buenos
Aires (1903) and was appointed dir. of the Cons. Almagro of Buenos Aires.
He founded the Cons. Fracassi of Buenos Aires with Genaro D’Andrea.
Works: Finlandia, opera (1914); Merletti di Burano, opera; pn conc; vn
sonata; pn studies; songs; 4 Argentine anthems, (Himno al centenario won a
prize from the Argentine government).
Sources: BB, DMEH, DMM, EMA

Fracassi, Salvador, Argentine composer, conductor, violinist; b.1837,

Italy; d.1922, Argentina. Settled in Argentina (1860) where he conducted
bands and became a captain in the army. He was the father of Américo
Romeo and Elmérico Fracassi.
Works: Band, vn, pn, instr music.
Sources: DMEH

Fragoso, Guillermo, Cuban composer and guitarist; b.2 Apr 1953, Havana,
Cuba. He studied at the Cons. Amadeo Roldán and the Inst. Superior de
Arte, both in Havana. Prof. at the Escuela Nacional de Arte of Havana.
Works: Variaciones sobre Lube-Lube (1976); Octógono, brass instr (1978);
Conc, gtr, orch (1980).
Sources: DMC2, DMEH

França, Agnelo, Brazilian teacher, pianist, conductor, and composer; b.14

Dec 1875, Valença, Brazil; d.12 Jul 1964, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Initially
self-taught in music he later studied harmony with Frederico Nascimento,
composition and organ with Alberto Nepomuceno, and counterpoint and
fugue with Francisco Braga at the Inst. Nacional de Música of Rio de
Janeiro. Prof. of harmony at the Escuela Nacional de Música of Rio de
Janeiro.
Works: As parasitas, opera; Kismé, operetta. Cupido no convento, overture,
orch. Pn, voc, religious music.
Books: Arte Modular. A Polifonía na Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, 1940.
Sources: EMB2, MMLA

Franceschini, Furio, Brazilian composer, conductor, and organist of Italian

origin; b.4 Apr 1880, Rome, Italy; d.15 Apr 1976, São Paulo, Brazil. He
studied at the Accademia di Musica Santa Cecilia of Rome, Italy, with
Filippo Capocci, then in Paris, France, with Charles-Marie Widor and
Vincent d’Indy. Choirmaster and organist at the Catedral Metropolitana of
São Paulo for 60 years. A founder of the Acad. Brasileira de Música.
Works: over 600 compositions, mainly org, religious music.
Sources: EMB2, HMB

Francese, Miguel, Argentine composer; b.1913, Buenos Aires, Argentina;

d.17 Aug 1970, Mendoza, Argentina. He received a degree in piano from
the Cons. Nacional de Música (1936) and in composition (1937). He moved
to Mendoza (1948) where he composed and taught at the Escuela de Música
de la Univ. Nacional de Cuayo.
Works: Bocetos sinfónicos, orch; Motete, ch; Aria de Orfeo,voc,
accompaniment; Melodía, vn, pn; Variaciones, pn.
Sources: DMEH

Franchisena, César Mario, Argentine composer; b.1923, General Pinedo,

Prov. of Chaco, Argentina; d.1 Jan 1992, Córdoba, Prov. of Córdoba,
Argentina. Prof. at the Escuela de Bellas Artes of the Univ. Nacional of
Córdoba. He experimented with 20th century techniques, including
electroacoustics and the dodecaphonic system, and also studied the
relationship between mathematics and music.
Works: Conc, pn, orch (1954); Variaciones tímbricas, orch (1963); Suite, fl,
pn (1948); Str qt (1953); Treno, qnt (1953); Variaciones, vn, pn (1957);
Trio, vn, bsn, pn (1957); Rhythmus, str qt (1965); Psalmus fidel, 9 instr
(1967); Cinco piezas, pn, cl (1975); Meditaciones sobre el camino, soloists,
mixed ch, orch (1975); Tríptico, 2 gtrs (1981); Universos topológicos, pn,
perc (1987); Dúo, computer, fl (1987); Canticum, computer (1988);
Fulguraciones, computer (1989). Ch, pn, perc, voc music.
Books: Relaciones Musicales en el Espectro del Atomo de Hidrógeno;
Investigación del Espacio Vectorial y la Forma Sonora.
Sources: DMEH, DMM, EMA
Francia, Fioravante, Argentine composer and guitarist; b.20 Mar 1926,
Mendoza, Argentina. He studied with Higinio Otero, José Plá, Enrique
Trensal and Pedro Alcaraz in the Cons. Gutiérrez del Barrio de Mendoza
and in the Cons. Nacional de Buenos Aires and later in the USA with
Leonio Bollatine. He performed internationally as a soloist and in
ensembles.
Works: Primer concierto para gtrra y orquesta, orch, gtr (1954); Romanza
no.1, gtr (1977); Ballet de los cantillitas, chamb orch (1984); Concierto
para vn y orquesta, vn, orch (1986); Sonata para pn, pn (1989); Segunda
sinfonía, orch (1991).
Sources: DMEH

Francia, Francisco de Paula, Peruvian pianist and composer; b.8 Jan

1834, Naples, Italy; d.22 Dec 1904, Lima, Peru. Studied piano and voice at
the Cons. in Naples, then lived in Washington, DC, where she taught voice
and piano. She arrived in Lima (1861), taught voice and piano, and
organized concerts including presentations with Louis Moreau Gottschalk
for 2 pianos (1865).
Works: Gran sinfonia, 1963; Estudiantina Figaro, pn.
Sources: DMEH

Franco, Hernando, Mexican composer and choir director of Spanish

origin; b.1532, Galizuela (Badajoz); d.28 Nov 1585, Ciudad de México.
There are indications that he was in New Spain (Mexico) in 1554. His name
with salary records appears in documents at the cathedral of Guatemala
from 1573. He was employed at the cathedral in Mexico (1574) and he
became a teacher of counterpoint for children (1584). His sacred vocal
music was inspired by Gregorian chant.
Works: Memento mei Deus, 4 voc; Lamentaciones, 4 voc; Benedicamus
Domino, 5 voc; Magnificat, 6 voc.
Sources: DMEH, HDM, NG

Franze, Juan Pedro, Argentine musicologist, music critic, and composer;

b.10 Jul 1922, Buenos Aires, Argentina; d.8 Mar 1997, Buenos Aires. He
studied with Ivi Herczegh, Emma Jaenicke, William von Sadler, Georg
Runschke, Dimitri Macridimas, and musicology with his father, Johannes
Franze. At the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras of the Univ. Nacional of
Buenos Aires, he studied music history. He was a founding member of the
Univ. Católica Argentina, consultant at the Teatro Municipal (1945-47),
organizer and administrative dir. of the Orq. Filarmónica, administrator of
the Mozarteum Argentino (1952-56), secretary of the Inst. de Musicología,
(1953-56), Prof. at the Cons. Nacional de Música Carlos López Buchardo
(1966-69), and the Univ. of El Salvador, all in Buenos Aires. He was also
Prof. at the Univ. Nacional of Cuyo, Mendoza, Prov. of Mendoza (1947-52)
and dir. of the Inst. Superior de Música de Santa Fe, Prov. of Santa Fe
(1956-64), both of Argentina.
Works: Miniaturas y variaciones (1941); Pequeña suite de cámara, orch
(1940-43); Kio Fong, stage music (1942-43); La danza de la muerte,
choreographic poem (1951); Lamento quechua, orch (1952); Berceuse
trágica, sop, orch (1954-64); Juana, cordura y locura de amor, stage music
(1972); pn, voc music.
Sources: DMEH, DMM, EMA, VMA

Franzetti, Carlos, Argentine composer, conductor, and pianist; b.3 Jun

1948, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied at the Cons. Nacional de Música
Carlos López Buchardo of Buenos Aires, and later, privately with
Guillermo Iscla and Lucía Maranca, piano. He studied composition with
Humberto Hernández in Mexico, and conducting with Vicent La Seva at the
Juilliard School of Music, New York, NY, USA. He settled in the USA
(1971) where he composes, conducts, and is a pianist.
Works: Corpus Evita, opera; Tango fatal, ballet (1998); Gravitational
Forces, orch (1977); Voyager, orch (1979); Images before Dawn, orch
(1980); Aubade, orch (1986); El aleph, orch (1988); Summer Solstice, tpt
(1988); Suite, fl (1988); Something from the South, jazz trio (1979);
Serenata, fl, str (1989); Tango for Astor, pn, str (1989); Little village
(1990); hn conc (1990); ob conc (1991); pn conc (1992); Symphony No. 1
(1995); gtr conc (1995); Millenium conc, fl (1999). Wind ens, chamb, pn
music.
Sources: DMEH, ISC

Fraser, Norman, Chilean composer; b.26 Nov 1904, Valparaiso, Chile; d.?
He studied at the Cons. of Valparaiso, at the Cons. of Lausanne,
Switzerland, and at the Royal Acad. of Music in London, England, with
Carlo Albanesi. He also studied with Isidor Philipp in Paris, France, Tobias
Matthay in London, and Leonie Gombrich in Vienna, Austria. He took
some piano lessons with Ignacy Paderewski and studied composition with
Maurice Ravel. Dir. of music at Charta Theatre (1932) and of George
Pharlane Concert Management (1933), both in London. Prof. and librarian
at the Cons. Nacional de Música of the Univ. of Santiago de Chile, Chile
(1934-35), dir. of the Technical Section of the Dept. of Music of the BBC of
London (1936-39), dir. of music of the Latin American Dept. of BBC
(1939-43). Appointed dir. of music for Latin America at the British Council
in Buenos Aires, Argentina (1943). He settled in England (1973).
Works: Four Chilean Dances, chamb orch (1937); Cueca, 2 vns, pn (1926);
En el tiempo de la chicha, vc pn (1932); pn, voc, ch music.
Sources: BB, DMEH, MMLA

Frega, Ana Lucía, Argentine composer and teacher; b.25 Nov 1935,
Buenos Aires, Argentina. She studied at the Cons. Nacional de Música
Carlos López Buchardo of Buenos Aires. Dir. of the Inst. de Altos Estudios
of the Teatro Colón of Buenos Aires, and Prof. at the Cons. Nacional de
Música Carlos López Buchardo.
Works: Voc music.
Books: music education.
Sources: DMEH, IEW

Freire, Sérgio, Brazilian composer; b.27 Oct 1962, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
He graduated in composition from the Univ. Federal of Minas Gerais,
Brazil, where he studied with César Guerra Peixe and Eduardo Bértola. He
obtained a Master’s degree in sonology (electronic music) at the Inst. of
Sonology of the Royal Cons. of The Hague, Netherlands, with
concentration in algorithmic composition. Since 1995, Prof. of composition
at the Escola de Música of the Univ. Federal of Minas Gerais.
Works: Duo, 2 trbs (1987); Baurembi, electromagnetic tape (1988); Grande
angular, wind ens, pn, perc (1989); Shama, 2 gtrs (1989); Soprando esse
bambu só tiro o Que ihe deu o vento, electromagnetic tape (1991); Cacos
para um vitral, 2 cls (1993); Sextet, vn, fl, cl, tnr sax, bsn, trb (1993);
Monologue, gtr, life electronics (1993); Short Stories, trb (1994); Delirium
tremens, small gtr, electromagnetic tape (1997).
Sources: ISC
Freire Camacho, Jacinto, Ecuadorian guitarist and composer; b.1950,
Guayaquil, Ecuador. He studied at the Cons. Nacional de Música of Quito,
Ecuador, graduating in guitar (1975). Prof. of guitar, music history, and
form at the Cons. Nacional de Música of Quito.
Works: Mi génesis, orch (1987); Suite, gtr; Suite, fl, pn; El camino de la
libertad, overture, orch; Ecuador, symph suite, orch; Atahualpa, concerto,
fl, orch.
Sources: MG

Freire Camacho, Pablo, Ecuadorian composer; b.1961, Quito, Ecuador.

He studied composition with Luis Gerardo Guevara Viteri, Julio Bueno, and
Arturo Rodas. He received degrees in music education at the Cons.
Nacional de Música of Quito, and the Inst. Interamericano de Educación
Musical of OAS. Prof. at the Cons. Nacional de Música of Quito.
Works: Danza mítica, orch, mixed ch; Amazonas, suite, orch; La semilla;
Las vendas, solo vn; El hombre que sueña; Cinco reflexiones sobre una
muerte prematura, ens.
Sources: MG

Freitas Castro, Enio de, Brazilian composer, pianist, conductor, and

musicologist; b.27 Jun 1911, Montenegro, Brazil; d.21 Jun 1975, Pôrto
Alegre, Brazil. He studied piano with Antonina Maineri, and theory and
harmony with Assuero Garritano at the Inst. de Belas Artes of Pôrto Alegre.
He continued piano with Guilherme Fontainha, counterpoint and fugue with
Paulo Silva, composition and orchestration with Francisco Braga,
conducting with Francisco Mignone, and music history with Otávio
Bevilacqua at the Inst. Nacional Música in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Prof. at
the Inst. de Belas Artes of Pôrto Alegre. Founding member of the Acad.
Brasileira de Música.
Works: Sonata, vn; Pequeña suite, str instr; Trio, pn, vn, vc; Str qt;
Symphony; pn, voc music.
Sources: EMB2, HMB, MMLA

Frick, Guillermo, Chilean lawyer, engineer, teacher of physics and

chemistry, and composer of German origin; b.15 Jul 1813, Berlin,
Germany; d.12 Aug 1905, HMC (1896, MMLA), Chile. He settled in
Valdivia, Chile (1840) where he founded a musical club and organized the
musical activities of the city.
Works: La gran polonesa; Himno a los vencedores de Maipú; Las cosechas
alemanas en Valdivia; La esperanza de los polacos, written for Ignacio
Domeyko, performed by Ignacy Paderewski in Poland, 1919, for the
establishment of the Polish Republic.
Bibl.: E. Pereira Salas, Los Orígenes del Arte Musical en Chile, Santiago de
Chile, 1941.
Sources: DMEH, HMC, MMLA

Frisch Guajardo, Uwe, Mexican composer and journalist; b.1 Dec 1935,
Mexico City, Mexico; d.30 Nov 1985, Cancún, Quintana Roo, Mexico. He
entered the Cons. Nacional (1949) where he studied music with Rodolfor
Halffter and Blas Galindo, graduating in 1963 with degrees in law,
economics, and geography. He worked in Mexico and the USA as a civil
servant, at universities and banks. He published 9 books and 130 articles
about music in Mexico and the USA (1964-80).
Works: Preludio, op.7, pn (1970).
Sources: DMEH

Fróis, Sylvio Deolindo, Brazilian composer, pianist, organist, teacher, and

music critic; b.28 Oct 1865, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil; d.3 Dec 1948,
Salvador. He studied music with his mother and later harmony with Miguel
Cardoso. In 1888, he studied composition and organ with Charles-Marie
Widor in Paris, France, and with E.Welt and Felix Mottl in Leipzig and
Karlsruhe, Germany. When he returned to Brazil he settled in Salvador and
taught piano, organ, music theory, harmony, and composition. Dir. of the
Cons. de Música and Inst. de Música, both in Salvador; member of the
Acad. Brasileira de Música.
Works: Evangelina, unfinished opera (1899); Queda da Babilônia,
unfinished opera (1902); Souvenirs des vieilles gens, orch (1900);
Symphony in B flat (1909). Chamb, pn, voc, sacred music.
Sources: EMB, EMB2, MMLA

Fuchs, Arno, Mexican composer, writer, and music critic of German

origin; b.1 Aug 1909, Dresden, Germany; d.? He studied music in Dresden,
Erlangen, and Leipzig, all in Germany. He received a degree in music in
Erlangen. Music critic in Leipzig and Stuttgart. He lived in Mexico City,
Mexico (1936-56), in 1957 went back to Germany.
Works: Sonata in B minor, pn; Moderne Bilder Tonmalereien, 2 vols; pn,
ch, org music; arrangements of Mexican folksongs.
Books: The ABC of Music, Mexico, 1947.
Sources: NH

Fuentes, Fabio Miguel, Colombian composer; b.18 Oct 1957, Bogotá,

Colombia. He studied classical guitar with Antonio Iriarte until 1975. He
studied with Solón Garcés (1974-77) and studied harmony, counterpoint,
fugue, and instrumentation with Jesús Pinzón Urrea (1977-84). He took a
course in classical guitar at the Cons. Nacional de Montpellier (1979),
studied violin with Ernesto Díaz at the school Orch. Sinfónica Juvenil de
Colombia (1980-84) and with Valentín Stefanov (1984). He became a
violinist in the Phil. Orch. of Bogotá (1986) and participated in the
composition workshop run by Leo Edwards. His works have been
performed by the Phil. Orch. of Bogotá and the Choral Society of Bogotá.
He moved to Argentina (1992) where attended the Univ. Católica de
Buenos Aires.
Works: Fugas I y II, str orch (1982); Ritual, orch (1986); Trópico, str qt
(1988); Lied I, sop, pn (198?).
Sources: DMEH

Fuentes, Juan Bautista, Mexican teacher and composer; b.15 Mar 1869,
Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico; d.11 Feb, 1955, León, Guanajuato, Mexico.
He studied in Mexico City, Mexico, and taught music.
Books: Teoría de la Música (1899); Tratado de Intervalos y Trasposición
(1909); Método de Armonía (1920).
Works: Sinfonía mexicana, orch; pn pieces.
Sources: BB, DMEH

Fuentes Matons, Laureano, Cuban composer and violinist; b.3 Jul 1825,
Santiago de Cuba, Cuba; d.30 Sep 1898, Santiago de Cuba. Father of
Laureano Fuentes Pérez. He studied with his sister Baldomera then with
Carlos Miyares Hierrezuelo, Juan París, and Juan Casamitjana. First violin
at the Cathedral of Santiago de Cuba, founder of the musical journal La
Lira Cubana and Prof. at the Colegio of Santiago de Cuba.
Works: Seila, opera; Recuerdos de Sívori, El rocío, and El arpa del poeta,
romantic fantasias, orch; Misa de difuntos, 3 voc, orch (1856); Stabat
Mater; América, symph poem; Galatea, overture (1868); 2 Requiems; 6
sonatas, 2 vns, va, vc; Colón, marche; Marcha solemne. Zarzuelas, chamb,
pn, voc, religious music.
Books: Las Artes en Santiago de Cuba, Santiago de Cuba, 1893.
Bibl.: O. Martínez, Programa de la Orquesta Filarmónica de Habana, Nov
18, 1946.
Sources: DM, DMC, DMEH, MMLA

Fuentes Pérez, Laureano, Cuban pianist and composer; b. 14 Sep 1854,

Santiago de Cuba, Cuba; d.27 Dec 1927, Havana, Cuba. Son of Laureano
Fuentes Matons.
Works: Rapsodia cubana; Elegía; Marcha triunfal; Idilio; Oriente and
Brulé, fantasias; La mocita and Galimatías, capriccios; Alina, waltz;
dances.
Sources: DMC, MMLA

Furtado, Murilo, Brazilian composer and conductor; b.16 Feb 1873, Pôrto
Alegre, Brazil; d.2 May 1958, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He studied in Pôrto
Alegre then attended the Cons. Verdi in Milan, Italy, where he studied
harmony, counterpoint, fugue, and violin. When he returned to Brazil he
taught solfeggio and choral singing at the Cons. of Pôrto Alegre.
Works: Sandro, opera (1902); Seliska, operetta (1897); over 150 works: vn,
vc, pn, fl, voc.
Sources: EMB2, MMLA
 G
Gabela, Efrán, Ecuadorian composer; b.ca.1960, Quito, Ecuador. He
studied in Quito with Gerardo Guevara. In 1980 he won a scholarship from
the French government then lived in France for 10 years where he took
classes in harmony, counterpoint, orchestration, and musical analysis. He
also studied electroacoustic music with Mesías Mayguashca in the CERM
Modern Music of Paris. One of his works was awarded in the Segundo
Concurso Nacional de Jóvenes Compositores de Ecuador.
Works: Música de cámara, sextet. Chamb music.
Sources: DMEH

Gaete, Marcelo, Mexican composer; b.1974, Mexico City. He attended the

Cons. Nacional de Música (1989-1998). He studied electroacoustic music at
McGill Univ. in Montreal, Canada, and at the Laboratorio de Informática y
Electrónica – Santa Isabel in Madrid. He attended Mario Lavista’s
composition workshops (1995-99). He was founder and dir. of the
contemporary music group, Kalispherion. He worked as a researcher in
charge of the Taller de Audio en el Centro Multimedia del CENART.
Works: Lacandonia, djembe, orch (2000); Los inescalables, orch (2001).
Sources: GP

Gaito, Constantino, Argentine composer; b.3 Aug 1878, Buenos Aires,

Argentina; d.14 Dec 1945, Buenos Aires. He studied with his father,
Cayetano Gaito, then at the Cons. Reale di Musica San Pietro a Majella of
Naples, Italy, with Pietro Platania, Beniamino Cesi, and Ferruccio Busoni.
He conducted the orch. of the Cons. Reale di Musica of Milan, Italy. When
he returned to Buenos Aires in 1900, he conducted several seasons of opera
at the Teatro Argentino of La Plata, Prov. of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Board member of the Teatro Colón of Buenos Aires, he taught harmony,
counterpoint, orchestration, and choir and opera repertoire at the Cons.
Nacional de Música Carlos López Buchardo of Buenos Aires.
Works: Shafras, opera (1907); I Doria, opera (1915); I paggi di Sua
Maestà, opera (1918); Caio Petronio, opera (1919); Flor de nieve, opera
(1922); Ollantay, opera (1926); Lázaro, opera (1929); La sangre de las gtr,
opera (1932); La flor del irupé, ballet (1929); La ciudad de puertas, ballet
(1947). Obertura de concierto, orch (1895); El ombú, symph poem (1924);
Antígona, music for the stage (1930); San Francisco Solano, oratorio
(1940). Orch, pn, voc music.
Sources: BB, CA, CTA12, DCM, DM, DMEH, DMM, EMA, MLA,
MMLA

Galán, Natalio, Cuban composer, researcher, and critic; b.8 Aug 1917,
Camagüey, Cuba; d.30 Dec 1985, New Orleans, Louisiana. He studied in
Camagüey with Luis Aguirre, then moved to Nevada, where he took classes
with José Ardevól and Virginia Fleits in the Cons. Municipal. In New York
he took courses in orchestration with Henry Brandt. In 1959 he returned to
Cuba and became a critic for the periodical Revolución. In the 1960s he
traveled and resided in Paris, Madrid, San Juan, and the USA. He was a
columnist and music critic in Latin America and wrote the book Cuba y sus
sones.
Works: Dos canciones, mez sop, orch; Concierto, gtr, str orch; Suite, gtr.
Sources: DMEH

Galimany, Alberto, Panamanian composer of Spanish origin; b.31 Dec

1889, Villafranca, Catalonia, Spain; d.? He studied solfeggio with Juan
Lamothe de Grignon, harmony with Antonio Nicolau, piano with Juan
Pellicer, and cello with José Soler at the Cons. Superior de Música in
Barcelona, Spain. Dir. of the Banda de la República of Panama. Prof. at the
Cons. Nacional de Música, the Inst. Nacional, and the Colegio de Señoritas,
all of Panama City, Panama.
Works: Marcha Panama, (second Panamanian National Anthem);
Capricho típico panameño (1928); Vasco Nuñez de Balboa, symph suite
(1941).
Sources: DMEH, MLA, MMLA

Galindo Dimas, Blas, Mexican composer; b.3 Feb 1910, San Gabriel, State
of Jalisco, Mexico; d.19 Apr 1993, Mexico City, Mexico. He studied
harmony, counterpoint, and fugue with José Rolón, music analysis with
Candelario Huízar, composition with Carlos Chávez, and piano with
Manuel Rodríguez Vizcarra at the Cons. Nacional de Música of Mexico,
Mexico City, from 1931-42. He had composition lessons with Aaron
Copland at the Berkshire Music Center in Tanglewood, MA, USA, 1941-
42. In 1935, with Daniel Ayala Pérez, Salvador Contreras Sánchez, and José
Pablo Moncayo García, he founded and organized the Grupo de los Cuatro
for the promotion of modern music. Prof. of music and dir. of the Cons.
Nacional de Música of Mexico, from 1942 to 1961, in 1955, he became
cond. of the orch. of the Inst. Mexicano de Seguridad Social, Mexico City.
Member of the Acad. Nacional de Bellas Artes.
Works: Jicarita, voc (1939); Sones de mariachi, orch (1940); Entre
sombras anda el fuego, ballet (1940); Danza de las fuerzas nuevas, ballet
(1940); 2 pn concertos (1942, 1961); Madre mía, cuando muera (1943);
Primavera, cantata (1944); Arrullo, voc, small orch or pn (1945); La
montaña, ch a cappella (1945); Nocturno, orch (1945); A la patria, cantata
(1946); Canto al maestro Justo Sierra (1947); Don Quijote, orch (1947); El
Zanate, ballet (1947); Homenaje a Cervantes, suite (1947); Astucia, orch
(1948); Poema de Neruda, str orch (1948); Paloma de Neruda (1948);
Pequeñas variaciones, orch (1951); La Manda, ballet (1951); El sueño y la
presencia, ballet (1951); Los signos del zodiac, orch (1951); 3 symphonies
(1952, 1957, 1961); La hija del Yori, ballet (1952); Obertura mexicana,
orch (1953); Tres canciones de la Revolución, ch, orch (1953); Sinfonía
breve, orch (1953); El maleficio, ballet (1954); Homenaje a Juárez, cantata
(1957); A la independencia, cantata (1960); Flute concerto (1960); Four
Pieces, orch (1961); Edipo Rey, orch (1961); Violin Concerto (1962); Tres
piezas, cl (1962); Overture, org, str (1963); Tres piezas, hn, orch (1963);
Quetzalcoatl, orch, nar (1963); Tríptico Teotihuacán (1964); Letanía erótica
para la paz (1963-65); La ciudad de los dioses (1965); Homenaje a Rubén
Darío (1966); Titocotico, indigenous perc (1971); Concertino, electric gtr,
orch (1973); En busca de un muro, orch (1973); Tríptico, orch (1974);
Concertino, En homenaje a Carlos Chávez (1978); Homenaje a Juan Rulfo
(1980); Tres piezas para percusiones (1980); Oberturas mexicanas Nos.2 y
3 (1981, 1982); Vc Concerto (1984); Suite (1985); Homenaje a Rufino
Tamayo (1987); Gtr Concerto (1988); Homenaje a Rodolfo Halffter (1989);
Popocatépetl, sop, tnr (1990). Chamb, ch, voc, solo instr, org, pn music.
Bibl.: C. Chávez, Blas Galindo, Nuestra Música, Vol.1, 1946. F. Agea, Blas
Galindo, Mexico en el Arte 1948, 1948.
Sources: BB, CTA11, DCM, DCMMC, DM, DMEH, GDM, GMM, GP,
ISC, MLA, MMLA

Gallac, Héctor I., Argentine musicologist, composer, and physician; b.3

Jun 1896, Rosario, Prov. of Santa Fe, Argentina; d.? He studied with
Patricio Legarra and Gaspar Chiaffredo.
Works: Impresiones camperas, suite, pn (1934); Humahuaqueña, fl, ob, bsn
(1939); Pastoral calchaquí, fl, pn (1945). Voc music.
Books: Ensayos Musicológicos, Buenos Aires, 1939.
Sources: DM, DMEH, MLA

Gallardo, José León, Argentine theologian, linguist, and composer;

b.1871, Buenos Aires, Argentina; d.1924. He graduated as a lawyer in 1894
then studied music with Vincent D’Indy at the Schola Cantorum of Paris,
France. He was ordained a priest in 1908 and devoted his life to religion in
a town close to Rome, Italy.
Works: Sonata Pascual, org; Suite argentina, pn. Religious, pn, voc music.
Sources: DMEH, EMA

Gallet, Luciano, Brazilian composer, teacher, pianist, conductor, and

ethnomu-sicologist; b.28 Jun 1893, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; d.29 Oct 1931,
Rio de Janeiro. He studied with Henrique Oswald, Agnelo França, and
Glauco Velásquez at the Inst. Nacional de Música in Rio de Janeiro, where
he later became dir. In 1916, he finished a course of piano study with
Abdon Milanez, and in 1917, he took a course in harmony with Darius
Milhaud. Founder of the choral society Pró Art in 1924, and the Associação
Brasileira de Música in 1930, which became the Associacao dos Artistas
Brasileiros in 1937. Important promoter of Brazilian folklore.
Works: Alanguissement (1918); Tango-Batuque (1919); Suite bucólica
(1920); Moderato e allegro (1920); Elegía (1921); Tango-Batuque, pn
(1922); Caxinguelé, tango for pn; Dois cadernos de melodias populares, pn
(1924); Dois dangas brasileiras (1923, 1925); Toca-Zumba (1926); O
destino das fadas (1927); Morena, Morena (1927); Doze exercicios
brasileiros, four-hand pn; Suite, fl, ob, cl, and bsn; Nho Chico, triptych;
Turuna, vn, va, cl, and perc (1926); Suite sobre temas negro-brasileiros, pn,
fl, ob, cl, and bsn (1929); Pai do mato (1929); Suite popular (1929). Voc,
sacred music.
Books: Monographs on Brazilian folkloric music: O Indio na Música
Brasileira; O Negro na Música Brasileira; Estudos de Folclore, Rio de
Janeiro, 1934.
Bibl.: L.H. Correa de Azevedo, 150 Anos de Música no Brasil (1800-1950),
Rio de Janeiro, 1956.
Sources: DM, EMB2, GDM, MLA, MMLA

Galuzo, Alfonso, Argentine composer, guitarist, and teacher; b.17 Apr

1901, ?; d.3 Jul 1955, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied guitar with
Gaspar Cronford and Carmelo Rizzutim, and harmony and composition
with Luis Hernández Torres. He trained along with Ramón Genén, Silvano
Cucci, and Antonio Romero, the Cuarteto Argentino de Guitarras. He
taught in private institutions, including the Acad. Rizzuto and the cons.
Vitale de la Capital Federal and Olsson de Adrogué.
Works: Coral. 2 gtr (1946); Canción de cuna (1951); Momentos musicales,
pn (1955). Sonatas, capriccios, gtr, dances, str qt, pn, instr music.
Sources: DMEH

Gamboa, Eduardo, Mexican composer; b.1960. He began taking piano

lessons at 9 with Carlos Barajas and learned popular Mexican and Latin
American music under Héctor Sánchez and José Ávila in La Peña de los
Folkloristas. In his adolescence he performed with Pilcuicatl and La Peña
Móvil. He attended the Escuela Nacional de Arte in Havana briefly before
entering CIEM. He studied guitar at Trinity College in London. Privately,
he studied guitar with Magdalena Gimeno and composition with Joaquín
Gutiérrez Heras. He is a composer of film music.
Works: Cañambú; Concierto para cl; Concierto para flauta; Culiacán; El
grito; Fanfarria; Jarabe; Mercado Garmendia; Paso doble Tenexac;
Reminiscencias.
Sources: GP

Gamboa Gamboa, Gilberto Francisco, Mexican pianist, composer, and

conductor; b.4 Feb 1919, Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, Mexico. With a grant
from the government of Chiapas (1935) he entered the Cons. Nacional de
Música de México (CNM), where he studied piano with Manuel Ponce,
composition and instrumentation with Rafael J. Tello. He was a pianist,
played in chamber groups, and became part of a group dedicated to the
performance of music by Manuel Ponce at the Inst. Politécnico Nacional
(1977). He taught for 25 years at CNM and conducted choirs in Mexico
City.
Works: Tres preludios, pn; Evocación y Adelante, pn. str qts.
Sources: DMEH

Gandarias, David de, Guatemalan composer; b.1952, Guatemala, brother

of Igor. He studied in the Cons. Nacional and graduated as a pianist. He was
involved with the experimental musical activities of composer Joaquín
Orellana beginning in 1973 and experimented with electroacoustic music
and exploration of new sounds. In the 1980s he worked in Pesaro, Italy,
developing new technologic musical sources.
Works: Fantasía, pn (1975); Ecos ancestrales, electroacoustic music (1978-
79). Chamb, pn music.
Sources: DMEH

Gandarias, Igor de, Guatemalan composer; b.1953, Guatemala, brother of

David. He studied at the Cons. Nacional and the Univ. de San Carlos de
Guatemala receiving a degree in 1985. He participated in the experimental
musical group of composer Joaquín Orellana, and developed new musical
sources through the construction of instruments based on the wood of folk
instruments. Chair of the harmony and folklore departments at the Univ. de
San Carlos and the Cons. Nacional, he also worked in the ministry of
culture. He won awards and national competitions, and in 1991 obtained a
scholarship to continue studying in Washington, USA.
Works: Mayastral, perc (1972); Abstracción, sonata, pn (1984). Symph,
incidental music.
Sources: DMEH

Gandelman, Henrique, Brazilian composer and violinist; b.22 Dec 1929,

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He studied violin with Max Kraiter and continued at
the ENMUB, Rio de Janeiro, with João Lambert Ribeiro and Paulina
d’Ambrosio. He later studied harmony, counterpoint, fugue, and
composition with Paulo Silva. With a scholarship awarded by the Orq.
Sinfônica Brasileira he attended the Berkshire Musical Center, MA, USA,
where he studied composition and orchestration with Aaron Copland and
composition with Jacques Ibert.
Works: A feira de Caruaru, unfinished opera (1952-57); Poema matinal,
orch (1950); Cantilena do norte, orch (1953); Modinha, eh, str (1953);
concerto, sax (1960); concerto, va (1965). Instr music.
Sources: EMB2

Gandini, Gerardo, Argentine composer; b.16 Oct 1936, Buenos Aires,

Argentina. He studied in Buenos Aires with Pía Sebastiani, Roberto
Caamaño, and Alberto Ginastera, 1956-59, and in Rome, Italy, at the
Accademia Musicale Santa Cecilia with Goffredo Petrassi, 1966-67. Prof. at
the Univ. Católica Argentina and the Centro Latinoamericano de Altos
Estudios Musicales of the Inst. Di Tella, both in Buenos Aires. In 1970, he
was appointed to the faculty of the American Opera Center at the Juilliard
School of Music in New York City, NY, USA. He founded the Grupo de
Experimentación Musical in Buenos Aires for the promotion of avant-garde
music.
Works: La pasión de Buster Keaton, opera (1970-78); Espejismos II: La
muerte y la doncella, opera (1987); La casa sin sosiego, opera (1991); La
ciudad ausente, opera (1995). Pn concerto (1960); Variations, orch (1962);
Concertino I, cl, str trio, perc; II, fl; III, harpsichord (1962-63); Por
Mauricio Rinaldi, chamb orch (1963); Música nocturna I, fl, pn, str trio
(1964); Música nocturna II, chamb orch (1965); Hecha sombra y altura,
chamb ens (1965); Mutantes I, chamb orch (1966); Cadencias I, vn, chamb
orch (1966); Cadencias II, chamb orch (1967); Fuggevole, chamb orch
(1967); A Cow in a Mondrian Painting, fl, instr (1967); Soria Moria, instr
ens (1968); Contrastes, 2 pn, orch (1968); Fases, cl, orch (1969); Fantasie-
Impromptu, An Imaginary Portrait of Chopin, pn, orch (1970); Gtr concerto
(1975); Oneiron, va, pn (1978); Sol Oneiron, cl (1980; Trionerion, cl, vn,
pn (1980).
Sources: BB, CDMC, DCM, DMEH, DMM, EMA, GDM

Gaos, Andrés, Argentine composer and violinist of Spanish origin; b.21

Mar 1874, Galicia, Spain; d.15 Mar 1959, Mar del Plata, Prov. of Buenos
Aires, Argentina. He studied in Madrid, Spain, and Brussels, Belgium. In
1895, he came to Buenos Aires, Argentina, to perform and after several
trips back and forth to Europe, settled in Argentina, where he performed
and taught.
Works: Aires gallegos; En las montañas de Galicia; Himno al Centenario;
Galicia, symphony; Granada, symph poem; Sinfonía campera.
Sources: DMEH, DMM

Garay, Narciso, Panamanian composer and diplomat; b.12 Jun 1876,

Panama City, Panama; d.27 Mar 1953, Panama City. He began music
studies at the Inst. Musical of Cartagena, Colombia. He studied at the Royal
Cons. of Brussels, Belgium; in Paris, France at the Cons. de Musique with
Martin Marsick; at the Schola Cantorum with Gabriel Fauré. Minister of
Foreign Affairs and Ambassador of Panama in Costa Rica; Dir. of the
Escuela Nacional de Música of Panama, Panama City (1904-18).
Books: Tradiciones y Cantares de Panamá, treatise on Panamanian folk
music (1930).
Works: Sonata, vn, pn; Fugue, str qt. Songs.
Sources: BB, DM, DMEH, GDM, MLA

García, Juan Francisco, Dominican composer; b.16 Jun 1892, Santiago de

los Caballeros, Dominican Republic; d.1974, Dominican Republic. He
studied with José Ovidio García at the Acad. Municipal de Música in his
native city. Conductor of the bands of Santiago de los Caballeros and Puerto
Plata, Dominican Republic; Dir. of the Cons. Nacional de Música y
Declamación of Ciudad Trujillo, Dominican Republic.
Works: 5 symphonies, (No.1 Sinfonía quisqueyana); Scherzo clásico, orch;
Sambumbia, Dominican rhapsody. Pn music, dances.
Sources: CTA2, DM, DMEH, MLA, MMLA

García, Miguel, Cuban choral conductor and composer; b.8 Sep 1927,
Havana, Cuba. He studied at the Cons. Municipal of Havana. In Santiago de
Cuba, Cuba, with Pablo Hernández Balaguer, he founded the Facultad de
Música of the Univ. of Oriente. Conductor of the Coro de Madrigalistas,
Prof. and Dir. of the Cons. Esteban Salas and dir. of music of the Consejo
Nacional de Cultura, both of Havana.
Works: Orch, ch, incidental music.
Sources: DMC

García, Orlando Jacinto, Cuban composer and teacher; b.13 Feb 1954,
Havana, Cuba. He moved to the USA in 1961. He studied music theory and
composition with Joseph Rohm and jazz guitar and arranging with Cal
Wilson at the Florida International Univ. of Miami, FL, USA, where he
received a BM degree in 1980. He studied composition with Dennis Kam
and electronic music with Don Wilson at the Univ. of Miami, where he
received a MM in 1982, and a DMA in 1984. He took additional
composition studies with John Corigliano, David Del Tredici, Donald Erb,
Earle Brown, Morton Feldman, Bernard Rands, and Harvey Sollberger.
Asst. Prof. and dir. of music theory and composition at the Florida
International Univ. of Miami. Adjunct lecturer at the Univ. of Miami.
Works: Spheres, chamb ens (1987); Sonic Islands in a Sea of Solitude, wind
qt (1987); Music for Chamb Ens, chamb (1988); Treno para las Americas,
sop, orch (1988); In Deference to the King, perc, chamb ens (1990);
Possession, solo tape, dancers (1990); Improvisations with Metallic
Materials, WX7 synth (1990); Sitio sin nombre, voc, tape (1991); Music for
the Opus and Collage, tape (1990); Metallic Images, tape, perc (1991);
Momentos congelados, va pn (1992).
Sources: DMEH, ISC

García Acevedo, Mario, Argentine teacher, musicologist, and composer;

b.28 Apr 1926, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied with José Román
Erquicia, Vicente Scaramuzza, Juan Agustín García Estrada, Alexander
Szenkar, Carlos Vega, Isabel Aretz, and Lauro Ayestarán. Graduated from
the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras of the Univ. Nacional of Buenos Aires,
and taught at the Cons. Nacional de Música Carlos López Buchardo, the
Cons. Superior de Música Manuel de Falla (Buenos Aires), the Facultad de
Filosofía y Letras of the Univ. Nacional of Buenos Aires. A founding
member and president of the Asociación de Jóvenes Compositores and
member of the Asociación Argentina de Compositores.
Works: Suite argentina (1950); Adagio, str orch (1951); Preludio, fuga y
toccata (1952-53); Poema coral en Re (1955); Exedra (1986); Wayra-Jirka
(1986); Poema himno (1987); Reflexión lisztiana (1987); Transmutación
bruckneriana (1987); Symposion (1987); Saga (1988); Poema concertante
(1987) and Rapsodia (1988) for bandonion, str orch Chamb, org, solo instr,
ch; voc music.
Books: La Música Argentina durante el Período de la Organización
Nacional, 1961; La Música Argentina Contemporánea, 1963.
Sources: DMEH, EMA, ISC
García Arancibia, Fernando, Chilean composer, teacher, and trombonist;
b.4 Jul 1930, Santiago de Chile, Chile. He studied trombone at the Cons.
Nacional de Música of Santiago de Chile and composition privately with
Juan Orrego Salas, Carlos Botto, and Gustavo Becerra Schmidt. Taught at
the Cons. Ñuñoa, Cons. Independencia, the Escuela Moderna de Música,
and the Univ. of Chile, all in Santiago de Chile.
Works: Estáticas (1963); Urania (1965); La Tierra combatiente, 3 nar
(1965); Sebastián Vásquez, 2 nar, sop (1966); La arena traicionada (1967);
Firmamento sumergido (1968); Los héroes caídos hablan, 3 nar, speaking
ch (1968). Chamb, voc music.
Sources: DCM, DMEH, HMC

García Cánepa, Julio César, Argentine composer and teacher; b.14 Aug
1940, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied piano with Perla Brúgola and
Jorge Fontenla, composition with Roberto García Morillo, Virtú Maragno,
and Valdo Sciammarella, and conducting with Roberto Castro at the Cons.
Nacional de Música Carlos López Buchardo of Buenos Aires. Prof. at the
Cons. Superior de Música Manuel de Falla of Buenos Aires, and the Cons.
Nacional de Música Carlos López Buchardo.
Works: Tres miniaturas, solo fl; In Memoriam ASdT, pn; Momentos, pn;
Canto de alabanza, mixed ch; Movimiento sinfónico; Tres piezas, str qt;
Nexo, vn, pn; Microtemas, pn.
Sources: ISC

García Castells, Federico, Mexican composer; b.8 Jan 1968, Mexico City.
He studied music composition at UNAM (BM, 2003) and at the Univ. of
MissouriKansas City (MM, 2007; DMA, 2010). He taught briefly at the
Brevard Music Center and at Avila Univ.
Works: Universos paralelos (2002); Diario del Medio Oeste (2005);
Concierto para pn y orch no.1 (2006); Plasma frío (2008); La gran carpa
(2010).
Sources: GP

García Caturla, Alejandro, Cuban composer and lawyer; b.7 Mar 1906,
Remedios, Prov. of Las Villas, Cuba; d. (assassinated) 12 Nov 1940,
Remedios. He studied in his native town with Fernando Estrems and María
Montalvan. When he moved to Havana, Cuba, he studied harmony,
counterpoint, and fugue with Pedro Sanjuán. In 1928, he went to Paris,
France, where he studied with Nadia Boulanger. Founder and first
conductor of the Orq. de Cámara of Caibari-én, Cuba (1932). District judge
in Remedios.
Works: Tres danzas cubanas, orch. (1927); Bembé, 14 instruments (1929);
Dos poemas afrocubanos, voc, pn (1929); Primera suite cubana, pn, 8 wind
instr (1930); Yamba-O, Afro-Cuban oratorio (1931); Rumba, orch. (1931);
Manita en el suelo, Afro-Cuban comic mythology, nar, marionettes, chamb
orch (1934); El caballo blanco y canto de los cafetales, mixed ch a cappella
(1937); Suite, orch. (1938); Cuban Overture (1938); Sabas, vn, pn, 5 wind
instr. Pn, ch, chamb, band music.
Bibl.: A. Salazar, La Obra Musical de Alejandro Caturla, Revista Cubana,
1938. N.Slonimsky, Caturla of Cuba, Modern Music, 1940. A. Carpenter,
La Música en Cuba, Havana, 1946. R. Nodal Consuegra, La Figura de A.
García Caturla en la Música Cubana, Exilo, 1971.
Sources: BB, CTA3, DCM, DM, DMEH, DMC, GDM, MLA, MMLA

García de León, Ernesto, Mexican composer and guitarist; b.10 Jun 1952,
Jáltipan, State of Veracruz, Mexico. He started his music studies at the
Escuela Nacional de Música of UNAM, Mexico City, and continued
studying guitar with Alberto Salas and composition with Juan Antonio
Rosado and María Antonieta Lozano. Prof. at the Escuela Nacional de
Música of UNAM and the Escuela Superior de Música of INBA, Mexico
City.
Works: Fantasía No.1, orch (1982); Gtr concerto (1995). Electronic,
computer, chamb, gtr music.
Sources: DCMMC, DMEH

García Estrada, Juan Agustín, Argentine composer and lawyer; b.8 Nov
1895, Buenos Aires, Argentina; d.27 Sep 1961, Buenos Aires. He studied
with José Gil in Buenos Aires then took composition lessons with Jacques
Ibert in Paris, France.
Works: Tres aires argentinos, orch (1929); La cuarterona, opera (1951);
Ruralia argentina, symph suite, orch. Chamb, voc music.
Sources: BB, DM, DMEH, EMA
García Guerrero, Alberto, Chilean pianist and composer; b.6 Feb 1886,
La Serena, Chile; d.Nov 1959, Toronto, Canada. Son of Nicolasa Guerrero,
the family moved to Santiago at the beginning of the 20th century. The
García Guerrero brothers, Alberto and Daniel, and colleagues founded the
Acad. Musical Ortiz de Zárate. He wrote a treatise on harmony and another
on the study of piano. In 1918 he became a prof. of piano in Toronto,
Canada, and pianist in the Trío Hambourg.
Works: Chants oubliés, voc, pn; Vals triste, pn (1917); songs.
Sources: DMEH

García Guzman, Óscar, Bolivian composer and poet; 15 Feb 1960, La

Paz, Bolivia. He studied architecture and later composition at the Univ.
Mayor de San Andrés. He embarked on graduate studies at the Inst.
Torcuato Di-Tella in Buenos Aires with Maurice Le Roux. In 1984, he co-
founded the Taller Boliviano de Música Popular Arawi with Jesús Durán. In
1988 he began directing the Contemporary Orch. of Native Instr. He taught
at the Cons. Nacional in La Paz. His compositions feature indigenous instr.
and he has written several articles on native instr. He has been widely
lauded as a composer of music for film.
Works: Las bellas durmientes; Cuestión de fé, soundtrack (1995); Escrito
en el Agua, soundtrack (1998).
Sources: DCB

García Mansilla, Eduardo, Argentine composer and diplomat; b.7 Mar

1870, Argentine Embassy, Washington, DC, USA; d.9 May 1930, Paris,
France. He studied in Paris with Jules Massenet, Camille Saint-Saëns,
André Gédalge, and Vincent d’Indy, and at the Imperial Cons. of Vienna,
Austria. He also studied with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Spasky in
Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Works: Ivan, opera (1905); La angelical Manuelita, opera (1917). Sacred,
ch, chamb, pn music.
Bibl.: J.M. Veniard: Los García, los Mansilla, y la Música, Buenos Aires,
1986.
Sources: BB, DM, DMEH, EMA, MMLA

García Morillo, Roberto, Argentine composer and music critic; b.22 Jan
1911, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied piano with Julián Aguirre,
Rafael González and Juan José Castro, and solfeggio with Ricardo
Rodríguez at the Escuela Argentina de Música, and harmony with Floro
Ugarte, counterpoint with José Gil, composition with José André, and
orchestration with Constantino Gaito at the Cons. Nacional de Música
Carlos López Buchardo of Buenos Aires. Music critic for the newspaper, La
Nación, of Buenos Aires (1938). Prof. at the Cons. Nacional de Música
Carlos López Buchardo and the Cons. Superior de Música Manuel de Falla,
both of Buenos Aires. Vice-president of SADAIC and Asociación
Argentina de Compositores
Works: Poema (1932); Berseker, symph movement (1933); Pn concerto
(1937-39); Usher, mimodrama (1940-41); Harrild, ballet (1941); Tres
pinturas de Paul Klee (1944); Symph movement (1946); 3 symphonies
(1946-48, 1954-55, 1961); Marín, cantata, tnr, ch, orch (1948-50); El
Tamarit, cantata, sop, bar, orch (1953); Overture for a Romantic Drama
(1954); Moriana, choreographic cantata, soloists, ch, orch (1957-58);
Variaciones olímpicas (1958); Romances del amor y la muerte, bs, orch
(1959); Tres pinturas de Piet Mondrian (1960); La máscara y el rostro,
choreographic concerto, pn, orch (1963); Tungasuka, incidental music
(1963); Cantata de los caballeros, sop, orch (1965); Música, vn, str (1967);
Divertimento sobre Temas de Paul Klee (1967-70); Ciclo de Dante Alighieri
(1970); Dionysos (1971); El caso Maillard, opera (1972-75); Sexta cantata
(1976); Arkady, el mexicano, opera (1980-81); Séptima cantata (1981).
Chamb, pn, voc, ch music.
Books: Mussorgsky, Buenos Aires, 1943; Rimsky-Korsakov, Buenos Aires,
1945; Estudios sobre Danza, Buenos Aires, 1948; Siete Músicos Europeos,
Buenos Aires, 1949; Carlos Chávez, Buenos Aires, 1960.
Sources: BB, CA, CTA8, DM, DMEH, EMA, GDM, MLA, MMLA

García Muñoz, Carmen, Argentine pianist and composer; b.3 Mar 1929,
Buenos Aires, Argentina; d.8 Dec 1998, Buenos Aires. She began piano
lessons at 8 with Cecilia B. de Más, continuing with Rafael González. She
graduated from the Cons. Nacional de Música Carlos López Buchardo of
Buenos Aires (1949) where she studied harmony with Abraham Jurafsky
and Lita Spena, counterpoint with Héctor Iglesias Villoud, fugue with
Gilardo Gilardi, and composition and orchestration with Floro Ugarte and
Juan F. Giacobbe. She also studied organ with Julio Perceval. Prof. at the
Cons. Nacional de Música Carlos López Buchardo.
Works: El ruiseñor, symph poem; Concerto in A minor, pn, orch; La noche
encantada, ballet; Sinfonietta poemática, 29 instr; Catedral, 2 sops, chamb
orch; Danza criolla, orch; Serie argentina, orch; Suite, str orch; Un sueño
en el camino, ballet; Elegía porteña, cl, pn. Pn, voc music.
Sources: CA, DMEH, EMA

García Oliva, Miguel, Cuban conductor and composer; b.8 Sep 1926,
Havana, Cuba; d.17 Jan 1981, Havana, Cuba. He studied piano and
harmony at the Cons. Municipal de Havana then in the USA. He began
teaching harmony and composition (1954), was the choral dir. at the
Escuela de Música de la Univ. de Oriente and dir. of the inst. (1960-65). He
formed, directed and sang baritone in the Cuarteto Vocal Masculino
Madrigalista (1955) and in 1956 he founded the Coro Madrigalista. He
founded the Coro de la Central de Trabajadores de Cuba (1962) and was dir.
of the Cons. Esteban Salas in the city of Santiago (1965-68). He returned to
Havana (1971) where he worked in the Dirección Nacional de Música and
in the Unión de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba.
Works: Improvisaciones, str orch (1955); Cantata 28 de octubre (1963);
Tres cantos comunistas (1980).
Sources: DMEH

García Piedrahita, Roberto, Colombian composer; b.1958, Bogota. He

studied piano and music education at the Univ. Pedagógica Nacional de
Colombia. He then studied electroacoustic music at the Funació Phonos
with Gabriel Brncic. In 1986 he formed Sol Sonoro, a group dedicated to
electroacoustic improvisation, with Ricardo Arias and Luis Boyra. He
began teaching at the Cons. Nacional de Colombia in 1993, where he
coordinated the musical computing and electroacoustics lab. He worked
with the Ministerio de Cultura in Colombia (1998-99).
Works: La distancia más recta entre dos puntos es una línea corta,
electroacoustic (1995). Theater, film, music.
Sources: UNESCO

García Renart, Marta, Mexican composer and pianist; b.23 Nov 1942,
Mexico City, Mexico. She started to study music with Baltasar Samper and
Pedro Michaca Valenzuela then received a scholarship to the Curtis Inst. of
Music, Philadelphia, PA, USA, where she studied with Rudolph Serkin. In
1964, she was awarded another scholarship to study at Mannes College of
Music, New York, NY, USA.
Works: Marzo, 2 voc, chamb orch (1983). Chamb, pn, voc, ch, music.
Sources: DCMMC, DMEH, GP

García Robson, Magdalena, Argentine composer and pianist; b.28 Jan

1916, Buenos Aires, Argentina. She studied with Ricardo Palma, José Gil,
Arturo Luzzatti, and Constantino Gaito at the Cons. Nacional de Música
Carlos López Buchardo of Buenos Aires. She studied piano with Corina H.
de Lima and Guillermo Kolischer. Prof. at the Cons. Nacional de Música
Carlos López Buchardo.
Works: La Cenicienta, symph suite (1939); Coplas de soledad, mez sop, ob,
bsn, perc, celesta, str qnt (1948); Variaciones breves, fl, ob, cl, bsn, hn, pn
(1948); Tres bocetos sinfónicos, orch (1951). Chamb, voc music.
Sources: CA, DM, DMEH, EMA

García Ruda, Julio, Cuban composer and flutist; b.18 Jul 1965, Havana,
Cuba. He studied composition at the Inst. Superior de Arte with Carlos
Fariñas where he taught orchestration and electroacoustic music. He was
also a member of the Estudio de Música Electroacústica y por
computadores (EMEC) until 1991. His music uses acoustic and
electroacoustic media and has won awards from the Unión de Escritores y
Artistas de Cuba. He has lived in Spain since 1991 and taught in inst.
including the Cons. Superior de Música de Malaga.
Works: Concertino, bsn, str orch (1987); Días felices, electroacoustic
(1995); Variaciones sobre un tema de Manuel de Falla, str orch (1998);
Abdala, opera, text by José Martí. Chamb, voc music.
Sources: DMEH

García Vigil, Federico, Uruguayan dir. and composer; b.5 Jan 1941,
Montevideo, Uruguay. He studied piano at the Cons. Guillermo Kolischer,
harmony, composition and orchestration with F. Landa, J. Bortlichek, and
C. Schwarz, and bass with R. Planas, O. Urfé, and A. Nenov. With a
scholarship from the Ministerio de Educación and Cultura de Uruguay
(1971) he moved to Buenos Aires, where he studied conducting with Simón
Blech. In the same year, the French Embassy in Uruguay invited him to
study at the Cons. of Strasbourg with J. S. Bereau. Later he studied
conducting at the Univ. of Paris with Pierre Stoll. In 1974 he was invited by
the governments of Germany and Great Britain to tour schools of orchestral
conducting in both countries. He conducted orchs. in Argentina, Brazil, and
Venezuela and performed his first symphony (1977). A member of the Phil.
Orch. of Montevideo, the Orch. Sinfónica del Servicio Oficial de Difusión
Radio Eléctrica (SODRE), he taught at the Cons. Nacional de Música de la
Univ. de la República Oriental del Uruguay and the Cons. Hugo Balzo. Dir.
of the Orch. de Colombia (1991-94) he returned to Uruguay and became
dir. of the Orch. Filarmónica de Montevideo and chair of the conducting
department at the Cons. de la Univ. de la República Oriental del Uruguay.
Works: Sinfonía concertante, orch, bandonion.
Sources: DMEH

García Vila, José Ovidio, Dominican pianist and composer; b.1888,

Santiago, Dominican Republic; d.22 Jan 1919, Santiago, Dominican
Republic. He studied with his father, then with Cuban pianist Tomás Planes
Ferrer in Santiago. He performed in the Caribbean, Cuba, and Venezuela.
He taught piano, was organist of the Cathedral and pianist of Teatro Colón
of Santiago. Most of his music has been lost.
Works: Salve a la Virgen (1903); Misa de requiem (1907); pn, chamb, band,
sacred, voc, ch music.
Sources: DMEH

Garciaporruá, Jorge, Cuban Prof. of music and composer; b.9 Jun 1938,
Havana, Cuba. He studied at the Cons. Castillo, the Cons. Amadeo Roldán,
and the Escuela Nacional de las Artes (ENA), all in Havana.
Works: Requiem, orch; Viet Nam, orch; Tres preludios, pn; Tema con
variaciones y fuga, pn; Str qt, voc, ch, chamb music.
Sources: DMC, DMEH

Garrido Lecca Seminario, Celso, Peruvian composer; b.9 Mar 1926,

Piura, Peru. He studied music theory with Andrés Sas and Rodolfo
Holzmann in Lima, Peru and then went to Santiago de Chile, Chile, to study
composition with Domingo Santa Cruz and Free Focke at the Univ. of
Chile. In 1964, he received a Guggenheim fellowship. In 1967, he was
appointed to the faculty of the Univ. of Chile.
Works: Sinfonía (1961); Laudes, orch (1963); Elegía a Machu Picchu
(1965); Música, 6 instr, perc (1957); Divertimento, wind qnt (1965); Str qt
(1963); Antaras, str nonet (1969); Apu Inca Atahualpaman, nar, 3 ch, orch
(1971); El movimiento y el sueño, 2 nar, ch, chamb orch, tape (1972). Ch,
pn, voc music.
Sources: BB, DCM, DMEH, GDM

Garrido Vargas, Pablo, Chilean composer and folklorist; b.26 Mar 1905,
Valparaiso, Chile; d.14 Sep 1982, Santiago de Chile, Chile. Initially self-
taught in music he studied composition with Giuseppe Quintano and
Eduardo Van Dooren. President of the Unión Orquestal of Santiago de
Chile, founder of the journals Vida Musical and Nueva Música, founder and
dir. of the Orq. Sinfónica of Antofagasta, Chile, music critic for the
newspapers La Nación and El Mercurio, both in Santiago de Chile.
Works: Cowboys, ballet (1926); Fantasía militar, orch (1932); Ballet
mecánico, orch (1934); Fantasía submarina, pn, orch (1934); Rapsodia
chilena, pn, orch (1938); Pn concerto (1950); Fantasía antillana, vc, orch
(1950); Adán y Eva, ballet (1952); La sugestión, opera (1961); El
guerrillero, ballet (1963). Chamb, pn, voc music based on Chilean folklore.
Sources: BB, CTA9, DM, DMEH, GDM, HMC, MLA, MMLA

Garritano, Assuero José, Brazilian teacher, conductor, clarinetist,

composer, and music critic; b.18 Jul 1889, São Paulo, Brazil; d.16 Mar
1955, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He studied music theory and clarinet with João
Zeferino da Silva in 1906, then studied harmony with Caetano Biffoni and
composition with João Gomes de Araújo. He also studied at the Inst.
Nacional de Música of Rio de Janeiro, piano with Henrique Oswald, organ
with Alberto Nepomuceno, harmony with Agnelo França, and counterpoint,
fugue, instrumentation, and composition with Francisco Braga. Prof. at the
Inst. de Belas Artes of Pôrto Alegre, Brazil, and at the Inst. Nacional de
Música and the ENMUB of Rio de Janeiro. Music critic of Revista Musical
Brasileira of Rio de Janeiro.
Books: Pontos de Teoría Musical, Pôrto Alegre.
Works: Primavera (1919); Entrada, coral, y fuga (1925); Salmo XLVI, ch
(1926); Cántico del sol, ch (1928); Poemas das horas, ch (1928); Episódio
sinfônico (1929); Prelúdio, coral, y fuga, ch (1931); Fantasía fugata
(1932); Symphony in F minor (1935); Danga sinfônica brasileira (1936);
Prelúdio, fuga, e hino (1944); Palhacinho quebrado (1952). Chamb, pn, ch,
sacred music.
Sources: EMB2

Garzón, Eleazar, Argentine composer; b.4 Jul 1948, Pozo del Molle,
Argentina. At 7 he began studying piano. He took composition classes at
the school of arts at the Univ. Nacional de Córdoba, graduating with a
degree in harmony and counterpoint (1971). In 1974 he joined the faculty of
this institution where he taught counterpoint and introduction to
composition. He was a founding member of the Asociación Nueva Música
de Córdoba.
Works: Trío, fl, vn, va (1982); Logos II, fl, cl, vn, vc, pn (1988); Tao, synth
(1989); Puertas, synth (1990). Chamb, solo, electronic, incidental music.
Sources: DMEH

Gavino Leal, José [Joseph Gabriel Gavino Díaz y Leal], Mexican

composer, choir dir., organist; b.ca.1700, Valladolid, Mexico; d.ca.1780,
Michoacán, Mexico. The oldest reference to him precedes the founding of
the cathedral of Oaxaca, where he became choir master on 22 May 1719, a
position he held for only four months before leaving for Mexico City. Later
he became choir master at the Cathedral of Valladolid (later Morelia),
where most of his works are conserved. Other works are in cathedrals in
Durango and Guatemala. Some of his compositions in Valladolid are dated
1767-68. He also taught at the Colegio de Santa Rosa de Santa María de
Valladolid (known as Colegio de las Rosas), a school for orphaned children
founded in 1743. Psalms that exist in the Cathedral of Durango indicate that
he was an organist of there in 1748.
Works: Missa, 8 voc, vn (1768). Voc, sacred music.
Sources: DMEH

Gaviola, Nahuel Gastón, Argentine guitarist and composer; b.7 Oct 1974,
Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied guitar at the Cons. Prov. de Música of
General San Martín, Prov. of Buenos Aires, Argentina, with Carlos
Groisman, composition and conducting at the Cons. Superior de Música
Manuel de Falla and Cons. Nacional de Música Carlos López Buchardo,
both of Buenos Aires, with Roberto García Morillo, Mario Benzecry, Roque
de Pedro, and Miguel Angel Gilardi. Prof. at the Cons. Superior de Música
Manuel de Falla, Cons. Prov. General San Martín, and the Cons. Prov. Juan
José Castro of La Lucila, Prov. of Buenos Aires. Member of the Asociación
Argentina de Compositores.
Works: Concierto de medianoche, gtr, small orch (1995); Los crímenes de
Atrapay, orch (1997-98); Ricercare “Ad Majorem Sanctus Conus
Gloriam,” str orch (1999). Gtr, chamb, pn, ch music.
Sources: ISC

Gavira Rondón, Joaquín, Cuban violinist, prof., and composer; b.1780,

Havana, Cuba; d.1880, Havana. In 1802, he played violin and cello at the
Chapel of the Cathedral of Havana. He was involved in the development of
the art of music in Cuba. In 1852, he was appointed choirmaster of the
Cathedral of Havana.
Works: Religious music.
Sources: DMC, DMEH

Gaviria, Guillermo, Colombian composer and teacher; b. 1951, Bogotá,

Colombia. He began his training at the Univ. Nacional in Bogotá and in
1976 studied composition with Fabio Gonzalez Zuleta. From 1979-81 he
directed the choir at the Univ. Javeriana then studied at the Juilliard School
of Music in New York with Jeffery Langley. He was a member of the trio
Aires Colombianos which performed traditional music of Colombia at
univ., folklore festivals, and concert halls in the USA. He returned to
Colombia in 1985, where he worked as a teacher and dir. of the Univ.
Javeriana. He became musical dir. of the Compania Colombiana de Ballet
(1987) and was a member of the Consejo Nacional de Música de Colombia
(1992-97).
Works: Siete, str orch (1977); Diez piezas cortas, pn (1978); Cinco, fl, Eh,
vc (1985); Gaceta XV, electroacoustic (1992).
Sources: DMEH

Gennero, Segundo, Argentine contemporary composer; b.first half of the

20th century, La Banda, Prov. of Santiago del Estero, Argentina. He studied
in Santiago del Estero with Alfredo Grandi, and then in Buenos Aires,
Argentina, with Floro Ugarte and Jorge de Lalewicz. He was self-taught in
composition. Prof. of harmony at the Cons. Provincial de Música, Prov. of
Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Works: El Pala Pala, ballet; Al alba florecen los ceibos, orch; Concerto, pn,
orch; Yaraví, harp, str qt; Preludio y fuga a 3 voces en el estilo de J.S. Bach.
Sources: DM, DMEH

Gerardi, Enrique, Argentine composer; b.15 Aug 1926, Buenos Aires,

Argentina. He studied with Luis Gianneo, Alberto Ginastera, and Gilardo
Gilardi at the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes of La Plata, Prov. of Buenos
Aires, Argentina. He also studied engineering and land surveying at the
Univ. Nacional of La Plata. Prof. at the Facultad de Artes y Ciencias
Musicales of the Univ. Católica Argentina of Buenos Aires.
Works: Cinco piezas (1956); Movimiento sinfónico, orch (1960); Tres
canciones, sop, vn, cl, vibraphone, perc (1962); Sobre texturas y gestos
(1970); Combinatorias I, orch (1984); Tres piezas, org (1985); En secreto,
electronic music (1989); Escenas para un film I-II (1994).
Sources: DMEH, DMM, EMA

Gerdes, Federico, Peruvian composer; b.19 May 1873, Tacna, Peru; d.18
Oct 1953, Lima, Peru. He studied at the Cons. of Heinrich Spangenberg in
Wiesbaden then at the Royal Cons. of Leipzig, Germany, with Carl
Reinecke (piano) and Salomon Jadassohn (harmony, counterpoint). He also
studied conducting with Carl Panzner. He played in Europe as a soloist and
accompanist. Dir. of the Schola Cantorum at the Imperial Opera of Berlin,
Germany, deputy dir. of choirs, musical assistant, and choral conductor at
the Wagner festivals in Bayreuth, Germany, under Hugo Rüdel. In 1908, he
returned to Peru and was dir. of the Sociedad Filarmónica and founder of
the Acad. Nacional de Música y Declamación, both in Lima.
Works: El rotario, marche, pn; Danza del siglo XVIII, pn; Gavota homenaje
a Watteau, pn (1917); Berceuse homenaje a Becquer, pn (1919); Habanera,
pn (1942); Marcha festiva, orch; Impresiones de la tarde, vn, pn. Voc, ch,
str qt music.
Bibl.: R. Barbacci, Revista Musical Peruana, Lima, July 1939.
Sources: DM, DMEH, GDM, GMP, MLA

Giacobbe, Juan Francisco, Argentine composer; b.27 Mar 1907, Buenos

Aires, Argentina; d.31 Jan 1990, Buenos Aires. He graduated from the
Cons. Nacional de Música Carlos López Buchardo of Buenos Aires in
1929, where he studied with Floro Ugarte. He also studied religious
polyphony with Licinio Refice at the Capilla Liberiana of the Church Santa
María Maggiore and Gregorian chant and Byzantine hymnography at the
Monasterio Santa María del Monte of Cesenain, both in Italy. Dir. of the
Asociación Polifónica Argentina and musical consultant at the Teatro
Nacional de Comedia. Dir. of the Cons. Nacional de Música Carlos López
Buchardo, chief of Extensión Univ. of the Univ. Nacional, Prof. at the Cons.
Superior de Música Manuel de Falla, all in Buenos Aires. Prof. at the Univ.
Nacional of Córdoba and dir. of their Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes,
Prov. of Córdoba, Argentina. Music critic for the journal, Histonium of
Buenos Aires.
Works: Martín Fierro, opera (1929); Missa brevis, ballet (1931); Nuestra
Señora de Luján, soloists, ch, orch (1931-34); Natividad, opera (1934-36);
Juventas, opera (1935-41); Ella y el angel, 4 choreographic poems (1943-
45); Chaqueña, ballet (1948); El angel y yo, ballet (1953-54); El diálogo
secreto, nar, orch (1959); Tema perpetuo, choreographic symphony (1960);
Il Re Nascosto, opera (1959-70); Pampa, choreographic sinfonietta; 2 Te
Deum, ch, orch (1976, 1976-77); Concerti da chiesa, orch (1977). Chamb,
voc, ch, solo instr, pn, religious music.
Books: Julián Aguirre; Gioachino Rossini; Frederic Chopin.
Sources: CA, DM, DMEH, EMA, GDM, MMLA

Gianneo, Luis, Argentine composer, conductor, pianist, and teacher; b.9

Jan 1897, Buenos Aires, Argentina; d.15 Aug 1968, Buenos Aires. He
studied piano with Luis Romaniello and Ernesto Drangosch, harmony with
Constantino Gaito, and counterpoint with Eduardo Fornarini. Conducted the
orch. of the Cons. Reale di Musica of Turin, Italy, (1938) the orch. of the
APO of Buenos Aires, and the Orq. Filarmónica of Rosario, Prov. of Santa
Fe, Argentina. He taught at the Inst. Musical of Tucumán Prov. of Tucumán
Argentina (1923-43). Member of the Grupo Renovación of Buenos Aires,
taught at schools in Buenos Aires. He organized and conducted the Orch.
Sinfónica Juvenil (1945), dir. of the Cons. Nacional de Música Carlos
López Buchardo of Buenos Aires (1955-60). Prof. at the Cons. Provincial
of La Plata, Prov. of Buenos Aires, and at Univ. Católica Argentina of
Buenos Aires. Member of the Acad. Nacional de Bellas Artes.
Works: Two Minuets, str orch (1917); Tres piezas criollas, str qt (1923);
Cuatro cantos incáicos, str qt (1924); 2 pn trios (1925, 1943); Divertimento,
fl, cl, bsn (1934); Sonata, vc pn (1934); Sonata, vn, pn (1935-52); 4 str qt
(1936, 1944, 1952, 1958); Trio, vn, va, vc (1938-39); Concertino serenata,
wind, str qnt (1938-40); Blanca Nieves, ballet (1939); Turay-Turay, symph
poem (1930); Canción y danza (1932); 3 symphonies (1938, 1945, 1963);
Obertura para una comedia infantil (1939); Sinfonietta (1940); Concerto,
pn (1941); Concierto Aymará, vn (1942); Divertimento, fl, ob, cl (1943);
Transfiguración, bar (1946); Preludio y fuga (1946); Sonatina, harp (1946);
Pericón (1948); Preludio, nocturno y danza orgiástica (1949); Cantica
Dianae, soloists, ch (1949); Pastoral (1950); Variaciones sobre un tema de
tango (1953); Preámbulo, fuga, y epílogo, 2 pns (1953); Angor Dei, cantata,
sop (1962); Tres piezas, vn (1963); Obertura del sesquicentenario (1965);
Poema de la saeta, sop (1966). Pn, voc, ch music.
Sources: BB, CA, CTA4, DM, DMEH, EMA, MLA, MMLA

Giarda, Luigi Stephano, Chilean composer, cellist, and teacher of Italian

origin; b.19 Mar 1868, Cassolnovo, Italy; d.3 Jan 1952, Viña del Mar,
Chile. A child prodigy, he studied with his father, then cello with his brother
Francisco at the Liceo Musical Benedetto Marcello de Venencia and later
with Guiseppe Magrini at the Real Cons. Musical de Milan. He moved to
Chile (1905) where he taught at the national Cons. in Santiago. He also
performed and taught many Chilean composers including Carlos Alarcón
Isamitt, Alfonso Haygus Leng, and Enrique Barriga Soro.
Works: La vida, symph poem (1916); Loreley, symph poem (1918); Más
allá de la muerte (1923). 2 operas; chamb, solo instr, voc music.
Sources: DMEH, HMC

Gil, José, Argentine composer, teacher, and music critic of Spanish origin;
b.29 May 1886, Haro, La Rioja, Spain; d.12 May 1947, Buenos Aires,
Argentina. He settled in Argentina in 1889. He studied violin with Augusto
Maurage and harmony and counterpoint with Alberto Williams. He devoted
most of his time to teaching in Buenos Aires: in the school system of the
Consejo Nacional de Educación (1919-35), the Cons. Nacional de Música
Carlos López Buchardo, the Cons. Superior de Música Manuel de Falla,
and the High School Mariano Moreno. Music critic for the newspaper, El
Mundo, and the journal, Nosotros, both of Buenos Aires.
Works: Obertura, orch; Trio in A major, pn, vn, vc; Qt in B flat major, pn,
vn, vc, pn; Sonata in A major, r vc, pn; Sonata in D minor, vn, pn;
Introducción y allegro, vc, pn; Danzas argentinas, pn, str qt; Madrigales,
bar, pn or str orch, harp; Sonatina, pn; Tres piezas, pn; anthem for the
International Eucharistie Congress held in Buenos Aires (1934).
Sources: CA, DM, DMEH, DMM, EMA, MLA, MMLA

Gil Marchex, Henri, Argentine composer of French origin; b.16 Dec 1894,
St. Georges d’Espérance, France; d.1971, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He
settled in Argentina in 1940. He studied with Ferruccio Busoni, Alfred
Cortot, Xavier Leroux, Paul Vidal, Maurice Ravel, and Albert Roussel at
the Cons. National de Musique of Paris, France. Prof. of piano at the Ecole
Normale de Musique of Paris. Prof. of music aesthetics at the Cons.
Nacional de Música Carlos López Buchardo of Buenos Aires.
Works: Balada porteña, pn (1937); Suite francesa en Re mayor, vn and pn
(1939); Dos imágines del viejo Japón, pn (1943); Himno a los muertos de
la Francia desdichada, orch.
Books: Tres Músicos Franceses, Buenos Aires, 1945.
Sources: DM, EMA

Gilardi, Gilardo, Argentine composer; b.25 May 1889, San Fernando,

Prov. of Buenos Aires, Argentina; d.16 Jan 1963, Buenos Aires. He studied
with his father and then with Pablo M. Berutti. Charter member of the
Grupo Renovación of Buenos Aires. Cond. of the chamb orch. of the APO
of Buenos Aires. Prof. of counterpoint and composition at the Escuela de
Bellas Artes of the Univ. Nacional of La Plata, Prov. of Buenos Aires,
Argentina.
Works: Misa de Requiem, soloists, ch, orch (1914-18); Ilse, opera (1923);
Serie argentina (1928-29); La leyenda del Urutaú, opera (1932); Te Deum
Laudamus, ch, org, orch (1936); Misa de Gloria, ch, org, orch (1936);
Ollantay (1936); El gaucho con botas nuevas (1936); Piruca y yo (1936);
Triste estaba mi alma hasta la muerte (1942); Poema fluvial (1943); El
Libertador, cantata, tnr, nar, ch, orch (1948); Stabat Mater, soloists, ch,
orch (1952); Obertura tritemática (1952); Sinfonía cíclica (1961). Chamb,
pn, voc, ch music.
Sources: CA, CTA12, DM, DMEH, EMA, MLA, MMLA

Gilardoni, Eduardo, Uruguayan composer and pianist; b.9 Nov 1935,

Conchillas, Dept. of Colonia, Uruguay. He studied piano with Esther
Giucci, and harmony and composition with Carlos Giucci and Héctor Tosar,
then later, studied with Hugo Balzo and Armando Bascans. In 1964, with a
scholarship from the Inst. de Cultura Hispánica, he traveled to Europe,
visiting Italy, France, and Spain. In Barcelona, Spain, he studied piano with
Alicia de Larrocha and voice with Conchita Badía. He also took some
lessons in composition with Joaquín Nin Culmell.
Works: 2 sonatinas, pn (1958, 1961); Dos nocturnos, pn (1963); Tres
nocturnos, pn (1965); Suite Muntaner 401, pn (1965); Historia del señor
Don Gato, pn (1967). Voc music.
Sources: BHMCU, DMEH, MU

Giménez, Florentín, Paraguayan composer; b.14 Mar 1925, Ybycuí,

Paraguay. Until 1945 he was a percussionist in a police band in Asunción
then he studied with Otakar Piatil, a cellist and composer who was a student
of Dvorak. He organized orchestras and played popular music (1946-55)
then he moved to Buenos Aires and studied harmony, counterpoint, fugue,
composition, orchestration, and conducting with Cayetano Marcolli. In
1970 he returned to Paraguay where he composed and conducted.
Works: Concerto for vn and orch (1983); Concerto for vn and vc (1986);
symph poems, symphonies, orch music.
Sources: DMEH

Giménez, Herminio, Paraguayan composer; b.20 Feb 1905, Caballeros,

Paraguay; d.6 Jul 1991, Asunción, Paraguay. He started his music education
at the Banda Musical of the 2nd. Military Zone under conductor Emil
Laskozky. He continued his studies at the Inst. de Música of Asunción,
Paraguay, the Cons. Williams of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and with Oscar
Lorenzo Fernández in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. President of the Agrupación
Tradicional Guaraní and the Asociación de Artistas Paraguayos in Buenos
Aires.
Works: El canto de mi selva, Paraguayan air no.1 (1937); Che Trompo
Arazá, str (1938); Rabelero, symph poem, vn (1943); Neny, Paraguayan air
no.2 (1953); La epopeya, overture (1954); El pájaro, suite no.1 (1956);
Viejo tala, symph ballet (1958); Juan José, suite no.33 (1962); Yasi Yatere,
ballet, str (1963). Ch-symph compositions.
Sources: CTA15
Giménez, Remberto, Paraguayan composer; b.4 Feb 1889, Coronel
Oviedo, Paraguay; d.1977, ? He studied in Buenos Aires, Argentina, with
Alberto Williams and in Paris, France, at the Schola Cantorum. Dir. of the
Escuela Normal de Música and cond. of the Orq. Sinfónica, both in
Asunción, Paraguay.
Works: Official version of the Paraguayan National Anthem. Rapsodia
paraguaya, orch.
Sources: DM, MLA, MMLA, MMPA

Giménez Noble, Javier, Argentine composer and teacher; b.25 Aug 1953,
Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied at the Cons. Superior de Música
Manuel de Falla in Buenos Aires with Roberto García Morillo. In 1985, he
traveled to Italy with a scholarship from the Fondo Nacional de las Artes of
Buenos Aires, where he studied with Giacomo Manzoni in Milan, and
Franco Donatoni in Siena. From 1988 to 1991, he studied in Boston, MA,
USA, and graduated with a MM degree in composition from the New
England Cons. of Music, Boston. Prof. at the Cons. Superior de Música
Manuel de Falla and the Univ. Católica Argentina, both in Buenos Aires,
and at the Cons. Provincial Julián Aguirre and the Escuela de Bellas Artes
of the Univ. Nacional of La Plata, both in the Prov. of Buenos Aires,
Argentina.
Works: El Monte análogo, orch (1980); Música para pequeña orch (1980);
Tríptico coral, mixed ch a cappella (1983); Variaciones sobre un número
pitagórico, orch (1984). Chamb, pn, voc, solo instr music.
Sources: DMEH, ISC

Ginastera, Alberto Evaristo, Argentine composer; b.11 Apr 1916, Buenos

Aires, Argentina; d.25 Jun 1983, Geneva, Switzerland. He began music
studies with T. Rodríguez, C. Argenziani, and C. Piaggio, and later, entered
the Cons. Nacional de Música Carlos López Buchardo of Buenos Aires,
where he studied with Athos Palma, José Gil, and José André. Prof. of
solfeggio, music theory, and harmony at the Cons. Nacional de Música
Carlos López Buchardo and the Liceo Militar de la Nación of Buenos Aires.
He helped to create the Cons. of the Prov. of Buenos Aires in 1948, and was
Prof. at the Univ. of La Plata, Prov. of Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 1958, he
founded the Escuela de Ciencias y Artes Musicales at the Univ. Católica
Argentina of Buenos Aires. In 1963, he created the Centro Latinoamericano
de Altos Estudios Musicales of the Inst. Di Tella in Buenos Aires. Full
member of the Acad. Nacional de Bellas Artes.
Works: Panambí, ballet (1935); Suite from the ballet Panambí, orch (1937);
Salmo CL, mixed ch, boys’ ch (1938); Primer concierto argentino, pn
(1941, withdrawn); Estancia, ballet (1941); Primera sinfonía porteña
(1942, withdrawn); Impresiones de la Puna, fl, str qt (1942); Dances from
the ballet Estancia (1943); Obertura para el Fausto Criollo (1943);
Sinfonía elegiac (1944, withdrawn); Duo, fl, ob (1945); Hieremiae
Prophetae Lamentationes, a cappella (1946); Ollantay, symph triptych
(1947); Pampeana No. 1, vn, pn (1947); 3 str qt (1948, 1958, 1973);
Variaciones concertantes (1953); Pampena No.3 (1954); Concerto, harp
(1956); Pampeana No.2, vc, pn (1950); Cantata para América Mágica, sop,
perc orch (1960); 2 concertos for pn (1961, 1972); Concerto, vn (1963); Pn
qnt (1963); Sinfonía Don Rodrigo, sop (1964); Bomarzo, cantata, nar, male
voc, chamb orch (1964); Don Rodrigo, opera (1964); Concerto, str (1965);
Suite from Bomarzo (1967); Estudios sinfónicos (1967); Bomarzo, opera
(1967); 2 concertos for vc (1968, 1981); Beatrix Cenci (1971); Milena,
cantata, sop (1973); Serenata, vc, bar, chamb ens (1973); Turbae ad
Passionem Gregorianam, tnr, bar, bs, boys’ ch, mixed ch (1974); 4th st qt
(unfinished), bar (1974); Popul Vuh (1975-83, unfinished); Glosses sobre
temes de Pau Casals, str orch, str qnt (1976); Puneña No.2, vc (1976); Gtr
sonata (1976); Vc sonata (1979); Iubilum (1979-80); Fanfare, 4 tpts (1980);
Serenata, vc, fl, ob, cl, bsn, hn, cb, harp, perc (1980). Pn, org, voc music.
Bibl.: P. Suárez Uturbey, Alberto Ginastera, Buenos Aires, 1967. D. Ewen,
Composers since 1900, New York, 1969.
Sources: BB, CA, CTA1, DCM, DM, DMEH, EMA, GDM, MLA, MMLA

Gines, Teodora (Ma Teodora), 16th-century Dominican minstrel;

b.Santiago de los Cabelleros, Dominican Republic; d.? The first recognized
woman composer in the Americas, she and her sister (Micaela) lived in
Santiago de Cuba and formed part of a small orch. with two shawm players
and a Sevillan violist, Pascual de Ochoa.
Works: Son de la Ma Teodora, voc, bandona.
Sources: IEW

Giovannetti, Egisto, Colombian composer; b.20th century, Colombia. A

priest of Italian origin, he was music dir. at the cathedral in Bogotá (1930-
40) and taught organ and composition at the Cons. Nacional de Música. His
students include Fabio González Zuleta and Antonio Varela Pérez.
Works: El mártir del Gólgota; Te Deum; symph, ch music. Historical study
of religious music (published, 1937).
Sources: DMEH

Giribaldi, Tomás, Uruguayan composer; b.18 Oct 1847, Montevideo,

Uruguay; d.11 Apr 1930, Montevideo. He studied with José Strigelli,
Rodolfo Battesini, Carmelo Calvo, and José Giuffra. Supervisor of
municipal theaters. In 1907, he organized the first Banda Municipal then
with his nephew Luis Sambucetti, he organized the first Orq. Sinfónica
Nacional in Montevideo.
Works: La parisina, opera (1878), first opera written by an Uruguayan
composer; Manfredi di Svevia, opera (1882); Inés de Castro, opera (1884);
Magda (1905); Fantasía sobre aires criollos, orch; Scenes Militaires, suite;
Scherzando, symphony; Pequeña melodía religiosa. Band, pn music.
Sources: BHMCU, DMEH, MU

Giucci, Carlos, Uruguayan composer; b.4 Nov 1906, Montevideo,

Uruguay; d.7 May 1958, Montevideo. He studied with his mother, pianist
Luisa Gallo de Giucci, then with Manuel García de la Lera and Ignacio
Friedmann. Prof. of musical culture at high schools and at the Inst. Normal
de Señoritas. Staff member of the Sección de Musicología of the Museo
Histórico Nacional of Montevideo.
Works: Yuka-Tatu, ballet (1926); Fiesta de la selva, ballet; Madrugada,
orch (1930); Dos visiones criollas, orch (1933); Pequeña suite, orch (1933);
Noches, symph impressions; Poema de los ranchos, prelude Yuka-Tatu
(1936); Toccata in A minor, pn; Tierra adentro, pn (1938). Chamb, pn, voc
music.
Sources: BHMCU, CTA16, DMEH, MU

Giudice, Alberto Oscar Toscano, Argentine orch. and choral conductor,

and composer; b.1906, Buenos Aires, Argentina; d.1974? A priest, after
ordination he studied composition with Gilardo Gilardi and Gregorian chant
with the Benedictines. Choral cond. and organist at the Church El Salvador
and at the Metropolitan Cathedral of Buenos Aires. Prof. at the Seminario
Pontificio (1926-46). Eventually he left the priesthood and was Dir. of
studies and conductor of the orch. of the Teatro Argentino of La Plata, Prov.
of Buenos Aires, and Prof. at the Univ. Nacional of Litoral, Rosario, Prov.
of Santa Fe, both of Argentina. In 1954, he was appointed cond. of the Orq.
Sinfónica of Paraná, Prov. of Entre Rios, Argentina.
Works: Oremos Pro Pontífice, hymn, 3-voc ch a cappella. Sacred music.
Sources: DMEH, EMA

Giuliani, Juan José, Argentine composer, conductor, and teacher; b.2 Jul
1927, Corrientes, Argentina. He studied composition and music education
at the Facultad de Artes y Ciencias Musicales de la Univ. Católica
Argentina. He conducted military bands and became a colonel (1984) and
was head of military bands of the Estado Mayor General del Ejército until
the end of 1988. He taught and was chair of the chamber music dept. at the
Cons. Provincial de Bahia Blanca, Buenos Aires Province.
Works: Seis piezas, orch, ch (1970); Reflejos, ch (1992); chamb, ch, symph,
band music.
Sources: DMEH

Gnattali, Radamés, Brazilian composer, pianist, conductor, and violinist;

b.27 Jan 1906, Pôrto Alegre, Brazil; d.3 Feb 1988, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
He started his music education with his mother then studied piano, violin,
composition, and conducting at the Cons. of Pôrto Alegre and at the
Escuela Nacional de Música in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with Guilherme
Fontainha and Agnelo França. Viola player in the Cuarteto Henrique
Oswald. Conductor of the Orq. de la Radio Nacional of Rio de Janeiro.
Member of the Acad. Brasileira de Música and of the Acad. de Música
Popular.
Works: Poema, vn (1934); 4 pn concertos (1934, 1936, 1960, 1967); Vc
concerto (1941); Brasilianas Nos.1-3 (1945, 1948, 1948); No.6, pn (1960);
Nos.9-10 (1962); No. 12, 2 pns, str orch (1968); 3 vn concertos (1947, 1962,
1969); 2 Concêrtos romãnticos, pn (1949, 1964); 3 Concêrtos cariocas,
various instr soloists (1950-70); 4 gtr concertinos (1952, 1953, 1955, 1968);
3 Sinfonías Populares (1955, 1962, 1969); Harp concerto (1958); 2
harmonica concertos (1958, 1968). Chamb, solo instr, voc, sacred music.
Bibl.: L.H. Corrêa de Azevedo, 150 Anos de Música no Brasil (1800-1950),
Rio de Janeiro, 1956. V. Mariz, Figuras da Música Brasileira
Contemporãnea, Brasilia, 1970.
Sources: BB, CTA16, DM, GDM, MLA, MMLA

Godoy Aguirre, Mario Gonzalo, Ecuadorian composer and musical

researcher; b.11 Dec 1954, Riobamba, Ecuador. Founding dir. Chimborazo
Provincia Musica magazine, founder of the Sociedad De Autores y
Compositores Ecuatorianos of Chimborazo, recipient of composition
awards, he organized musical festivals in Chimborazo (1986-91).
Works: Misa afroecuatoriana; Homenaje a César Dávila Andrade (1991);
2 masses, voc music.
Sources: DMEH

Goldberg, Lucio, Argentine composer; b.23 Jun 1907, Buenos Aires,

Argentina; d.1965. He studied harmony, counterpoint, fugue, and
instrumentation with Constantino Gaito in Buenos Aires.
Works: El rosal de las ruinas, opera; Zara, ballet; Quinteto criollo (1937);
Str qt (1946); Sonata, vn, pn. Pn, vn, voc music.
Sources: DM, DMEH, EMA

Golijov, Osvaldo, Argentine composer; b.5 Dec 1960, La Plata, Prov. of

Buenos Aires, Argentina. He settled in the USA in 1986. He studied piano
with his mother and composition with Gerardo Gandini, at the Rubin
Academy of Jerusalem, Israel, and with Franco Donatoni at the Accademia
Chigiana in Siena, Italy. He also participated for two years in Luciano
Berio’s masterclasses at the Jerusalem Music Center, and Pierre Boulez’s
conducting seminar at Carnegie Hall in New York City, NY, USA. In the
USA, he studied with George Crumb at the Univ. of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, PA, where he received his Ph.D., and with Lukas Foss and
Oliver Knussen in Tanglewood, MA.
Works: Mournes, ballet, 8 voc, cl, 2 hns, 3 vcs; The Distance to the Moon,
chamb opera; Hypertango, pantomime, dancers, puppets, instr; Crónicas,
str orch; Botteghe Oscure, chamb orch; Deaths of the Angel, chamb orch;
Yiddish Rwakh, cl, 2 hns, 3 str ens; Amor que mueve el sol, str; Amor
americano, 2 str ens, poet. Chamb, solo instr, voc. ch music.
Sources: DMEH, ISC

Gomes, André da Silva, Brazilian composer of Portuguese origin; b.15

Dec 1752, Lisbon, Portugal; d.17 Jun 1844, São Paulo, Brazil. He studied
music in Lisbon, probably at the Seminário Patriarcal with José Joaquim
dos Santos. He came to São Paulo in 1774, with the bishop of the Cathedral
of São Paulo, and was appointed chapelmaster of the Cathedral.
Works: Mass, double ch, orch. Sacred music.
Bibl.: C. de Oliveira, André da Silva Gomes (1752-1844), São Paulo, 1954.
Sources: EMB2, GDM

Gomes, Carlos Antônio, Brazilian composer and conductor; b.11 Jul 1836,
Campinas, Brazil; d.16 Sep 1896, Belém, Pará, Brazil. He began music
studies with his father, Manuel José Gomes, and then entered the Cons.
Imperial de Música of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where he studied with
Gioacchino Giannini. Emperor Don Pedro II granted him an official
scholarship and he went to Milan, Italy, where he studied with Lauro Rossi.
In 1895, he was appointed dir. of the newly founded Cons. of Pará.
Works: A noite no castelo, opera (1861); Joana de Flandres, opera (1863);
Se sa minga (1867); Nella luna (1868); Il saluto del Brasile, centenary
hymn for American independence (1876); Il guarany (O guarany), opera
(1870); Fosca, opera (1873); Salvator Rosa, opera (1874); María Tudor,
opera (1879); Lo schiavo (O escravo), opera (1889); Cóndor, opera (1891);
Colombo, opera (1892); Colombo, oratorio for Columbus festival (1892).
Orch, sacred, voc, ch, pn music.
Bibl.: S. Boccanera Jr., Um Artista Brasileiro: In Memoriam, Bahia, 1904.
H.P. Vieira, Carlos Gomes, Sua Arte e sua Obra, São Paulo, 1934. R. Seidl,
Carlos Gomes, Brasileiro e Patriota, Rio de Janeiro, 1935. L.F. Vieira
Souto, Antônio Carlos Gomes, Rio de Janeiro, 1935. Centenary issue of
Revista Brasileira de Música, 1936. J. Brito, Carlos Gomes, São Paulo,
1936. R. Almeida, Carlos Gomes, Rio de Janiero, 1937. I. Gomes Vaz de
Carvalho, A Vida de Carlos Gomes, Rio de Janeiro, 1937. M. de Andrade,
Carlos Gomes, Rio de Janeiro, 1939. P. Cerquera, Carlos Gomes, São
Paulo, 1944.
Sources: BB, DM, EMB2, GDM, HMB, MLA, MMLA

Gomes, José Pedro de Santana, Brazilian composer and violinist; b.1 Aug
1834, Vila de São Carlos (today Campinas), Brazil; d.4 Apr 1908, Vila de
São Carlos. Son of Manuel José Gomes, with whom he studied music and
brother of Carlos Antônio Gomes. A violinist and violist, he specialized in
viola d’amore.
Works: Alda, opera (1904); Semira, unfinished opera. Orch, chamb, voc,
instr, sacred music.
Sources: EMB2, MMLA

Gomes, Manuel José, Brazilian composer; b.29 Sep 1792, Parnaíba (today
Santana de Parnaíba), Brazil; d.11 Feb 1868, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil.
Father of Carlos Antônio Gomes and José Pedro de Santana Gomes. He
started his musical education with Father José Pedroso de Morais Lara,
chapelmaster in Parnaí-ba, and continued with André da Silva Gomes. In
1815, he settled in Vila de São Carlos (today Campinas) where he became
chapelmaster.
Works: Vc concerto (1841); Marcha em Lá bemol (1844); Dobrado em Si
bemol (1847). Chamb, sacred music.
Sources: EMB2

Gomes da Rocha, Francisco, Brazilian composer, conductor, and singer;

b.1746?, Vila Rica de Albuquerque (today Ouro Preto), Minas Gerais,
Brazil.; d.9 Feb 1808, Vila Rica de Albuquerque. Active in Minas Gerais
during colonial times. He entered the Irmandade de São José dos Homens
Pardos in 1768. In 1800, he succeeded José Emérico Lôbo de Mesquita as
conductor for the Irmandade Ordem Terceira do Carmo.
Works: Novena de Nossa Senhora do Pilar a 4 (1789); Spiritus Domini a 8
(1795); Popule Meus a Quatro Vozes; Cum Descendentibus in Lacum para
Sexta Feira da Paixão.
Bibl.: F.C. Lange, La Música en Vila Rica, Minas Gerais, siglo XVIII,
Revista Musical Chilena, No.102, 1967, No.103, 1968. G. Behague, Música
“Barrôca” Mineira; Problemas de Fontes e Estilística, Universitas, Revista
de Cultura da Univ. Federal da Bahia, Vol.2, 1969.
Sources: EMB2, GDM

Gomes, João, Jr., Brazilian composer and teacher; b.23 Oct 1868,
Pindamonhangaba, São Paulo, Brazil; d.19 Jul 1963, São Paulo. Son of
João Gomes de Araújo. He studied composition with Cesare Dominiceti
and piano with Giuseppe Mascardi at the Cons. Reale of Milan, Italy. Prof.
at the Escola Modelo de Carmo, at the Escola Prudente de Morais, and at
the Escola Normal Caetano de Campos, all in São Paulo. He is considered a
pioneer of choral singing in Brazil. A founder of the Inst. Musical of São
Paulo. Inspector general of music education for the State of São Paulo.
Works: Foscarina, opera (1906); La boscaiuola, opera (1910); Dom
Casmurro, opera (1922); Yugomar, opera (1911); Severo Torelli, opera
(1914); Anita Garibaldi, opera (1981). Sacred music.
Books: Curso Teórico-Prático de Música Elementar, São Paulo, 1903; O
Ensino da Música pelo Método Analítico, São Paulo; Aulas de Música, São
Paulo, 1925; Aulas de Manossolfa, São Paulo.
Sources: EMB2, HMB, MMLA

Gomes de Araújo, João, Brazilian composer; b.5 Aug 1846,

Pindamonhangaba, São Paulo, Brazil; d.8 Sep 1943, São Paulo. Father of
João Gomes Junior. He started music studies in São Paulo then continued at
the Cons. de Música of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with Francisco Manuel da
Silva and Demétrio Rivera. In 1884, with financial help from the emperor
Pedro II, he went to Milan, Italy, where he studied composition with Cesare
Dominiceti at the Cons. Reale. In 1905, he became a teacher at the Cons. of
São Paulo, and remained there almost to the end of his life.
Works: Edméia, opera (1884); Carmosina, opera (1888); María Petrovna,
opera (1904); Helena, opera (1910). Orch, religious, voc, instr music.
Sources: BB, EMB2, HMB, MLA, MMLA

Gómez, José Antonio, Mexican organist, conductor, and composer; b.21

April 1805, Mexico City, Mexico; d.between 1868 and 1870, Tulancingo,
State of Hidalgo, Mexico. He started music studies with his father, José
Santos Gómez. Later, he studied composition with Manuel Izquierdo,
Magín Ginesta, and Manuel Corral. Chapelmaster at the Cathedral of
Mexico. Conductor of the orch. of the Colegio San Gregorio. Founder of
the Gran Sociedad Filarmónica.
Works: Cantata a la consumación de la independencia; La independencia,
pn, fl, vc; Masses, orch; Miserere, 8 voc, orch; Salmos para Vísperas;
Responsorios para Maitines. Pn music.
Sources: DMEH, GMM, MMLA

Gómez Barrera, Carlos, Mexican composer; b.19 May 1918, Payo Obispo
(Chetumal), Quintana Roo, Mexico; d.17 Mar 1996, Mexico City. He
studied in his home town before moving to Mexico City to study briefly at
the Escuela Nacional de Agricultura de Chapingo. In 1958 he became
Secretario General of the female composer section of the Sindicato
Nacional de Trabajadores de la Producción Cinematográfica de la
República Mexicana.
Works: Fantasía para pn y orch.
Sources: GP

Gómez Cardiel, José María, Venezuelan conductor, teacher, and

composer; b.1797, Cumaná, Sucre, Venezuela; d.1872, Trinidad Island,
West Indies. He taught in Cumaná and Margarita Island, Venezuela, in
Barcelona, Spain, and Trinidad Island.
Works: Misa solemne; Misa fúnebre; Miserere, 4 voc; Las trenodias. Ch,
voc music.
Sources: DMEH, EMV, MMLA

Gómez Carrillo, Manuel, Argentine composer; b.8 Mar 1883, Santiago del
Estero, Argentina; d.17 Mar 1968, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Father of
María Inés Gómez Carrillo. Educated at the Seminarios of Salta, Prov. of
Salta, and Catamarca, Prov. of Catamarca, both in Argentina, his parents
wanted him to become a priest. He later studied at the Cons. de Música
Thibaud-Piazzini of Buenos Aires, Argentina, then with Alfredo Grandi in
Santiago del Estero and with José Rodoreda in Buenos Aires. Beginning in
1908, he taught full-time in Santiago del Estero and other Argentine cities.
In 1916, he was invited by the Univ. Nacional of Tucumán, Prov. of
Tucumán, Argentina, to conduct research on northern folklore and he
collected more than 400 Inca-Calchaquí themes. In 1944, he settled in
Buenos Aires where he continued teaching and choral conducting.
Works: Rapsodia santiagueña, orch (1922); La Telesita, choreographic-
lyric piece; La Salamanca, ballet; Danza de la Huaca, symph poem; Fiesta
criolla, symph suite. Pn, voc music.
Sources: CA, DM, DMEH, EMA, MMLA

Gómez Carrillo, María Inés, Argentine pianist and composer; b.1918,

Santiago del Estero, Argentina. Daughter of Manuel Gómez Carrillo. She
studied piano with Rafael González and composition with Athos Palma at
the Cons. Nacional de Música Carlos López Buchardo of Buenos Aires,
Argentina. She also studied piano with Edward Steurmann and composition
with Jerzy Fitelberg in the USA.
Works: Str qt, pn, voc music.
Sources: DMEH, IEW

Gómez Pinzón, Ulises, Mexican composer and violist; b.15 Nov 1954,
Mexico City, Mexico. He studied at the Escuela Superior de Música of
INBA, Mexico City with Luis Guzmán Velasco, César Quirarte, and
Manuel Enríquez, then entered the Cons. Nacional de Música of INBA,
studying under Alfonso de Elias, Rafael Viscaíno, and José de Jesús Cortés.
He also studied with Salvador Contreras and Coriún Aharonian. Prof. at the
Escuela Nacional de Música of UNAM, Mexico City, and member of the
Orq. Filarmónica of IPN.
Works: Escenas, str (1979); Bicronos, orch (1981); Paisajes (Ritos), str
(1981); Pequeña meditación, 2 va, soloists, str orch (1982); Homenaje a
Salvador Contreras, str, fl, ob, cl, bsn, tpt, hn, perc (1982); Tlatelolco, orch
(1985); Obertura para orch de cuerdas (2009); Son y canción para orch de
cuerda (2010). Bsn, ob, tpt, orch, chamb, pn, voc music.
Sources: DCMMC, GP

Gómez-Vignes, Mario, Chilean composer and musicologist, b.13 Mar

1934, Santiago, Chile. He began his training in 1943, studied piano with
Ana Gómez, continued at the Cons. de la Univ. de Chile then received a
music degree from the Univ. del Valle, Colombia. He was dir. of the Cons.
de Cartago (1961-62); dir. of the chamb orch. and taught harmony, music
history, and analysis at the Cons. de la Univ. de Cauca, Popayán. He taught
music appreciation at the Facultad de Arte de la Univ. Pontificia
Bolivariana de Medellín, and was dir. of the Cons. Antonio María Valencia
de Cali (1981-85). His compositions have been performed in international
festivals, concert halls, and theaters in Latin America.
Works: Pequeña suite, orch (1960); Concerto grosso (1965); Cuarteto
(1963); Ave Maria, ch (1972); Pasillo, pn 4 hands (1978); mixed media, voc
music.
Sources: DMEH

Gómez Villagómez, Alejandro, Mexican composer; b.1965. He began

studying music with Ramiro Luis Guerra, Leo Brouwer, and Manuel de
Flor at the Escuela Superior de Música y Danza de Monterrey in 1979. He
also studied at the Inst. Michoacano de Cultura and later with Emmanuel
Nunes, Ivo Malec, Philippe Leroux, Brian Ferneyhough, Helmut
Lachenmann, Jonathan Harvey, Gerard Grisey, Philippe Manoury, Tristan
Murail, Roger Reynolds, and Marc-André Dalbavie in France between 1989
and 1998. There he also attended Pierre Poulez’s seminars at the Inst. de
Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique. He taught at the Facultad
de Música of UANL.
Works: Una puerta abierta en el cielo (2008).
Sources: GP

Gome/anda, Antonio, Mexican composer; b.3 Sep 1894, Lagos, Jalisco,

Mexico; d.26 Mar 1961, Mexico City, Mexico. He studied piano with
Manuel Ponce then went to Berlin, Germany where he studied composition
and conducting. He taught in Mexico City at the Cons. Nacional de Música,
1921-29, and the Univ. of Mexico, 1929-32.
Works: Xiuhzitzquilo, Aztec ballet (1928); Fantasía mexicana, pn, orch
(1923); Cinco danzas mexicanas (1947); Seis danzas mexicanas (1947);
Lagos, symph poem (1956). Pn, voc music.
Sources: BB, DMEH, GP

Gonçalves, João Octaviano, Brazilian pianist and composer; b.22 Apr

1892, Porto Alegre, Brazil; d.19 Feb 1962, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He
studied at the Escola Nacional de Música of Rio de Janeiro with Francisco
Braga.
Works: Iracema, opera; Poema da vida, opera; Sonho de una noite de luar,
opera; Fernao Dias. Symphonies, ballets; chamb, pn, ch, voc music.
Sources: KTL, MMLA

Gonzaga, Francisca Edwiges Neves (“Chiquinha”), Brazilian composer,

conductor, and pianist; b.17 Oct 1847, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; d.28 Feb
1935, Rio de Janeiro. She studied piano with José de Sousa Lobo and Artur
Napoleão dos Santos in Rio de Janeiro. She began composing at age 11 and
became one of Brazil’s most popular and prolific composers with over 2000
works in her oeuvre. The first woman to conduct a theater orch. in her
country (1885), from 1885-1933 she wrote scores for 77 plays. She taught
piano and also conducted the Banda de la Policía Militar of Rio de Janeiro.
She was active in the slave freedom movement and bought freedom for the
slave musician, Jose Flauta. She was a founder and member of the
Sociedade Brazileira de Autores Teatrais.
Works: Ary, orch; Cananeia, pn, orch; Dança No.2, orch; A memória do
General Osorio, band; Palaciana, pn, band; Manha de amor, chamb ens;
Musiciana, chamb ens; Tim tim, chamb ens; Serenata, vn, pn; Maria, pn;
Harmonias do coração, pn; A morena, sop, chamb ens; Canção dos
pastores, voc (1858); Ave Maria; Prece a Virgem; A corte na roca, operetta
(1885); Forrobodo, operetta (1912); O gaúcho, tango (1897); O Abre-Alas,
march (1899). Over 310 works: waltzes; polkas; tangos; maxixes; lundus;
mazurkas; quadrilles; gavottes; habaneras; barcarolles; serenatas; fados;
modinhas; marchas; choros; incidental music for plays including A bota do
Diabo, As tres graças, and María. Bibl.: M. Lira, Chiquinha Gonzaga:
Grande Compositora Brasileira, Rio de Janeiro, 1939. V. Mariz, A Cançao
Brasileira, 3rd ed., Rio de Janeiro, 1977. E. Diniz, Chiquinha Gonzaga,
uma História de Vida, (1984).
Sources: EMB, EMB2, IEW, NGDWC, NWC

González, Agustín, Mexican composer, organist, and teacher; b.1864,

Santa Cruz de Galeana, Guanajuato, Mexico; d.1927, Querétaro, Mexico.
He studied music with his uncle, Friar Agustín González, then went to
Europe (1889) to study chemistry before attending the music school in
Ratisbona, Germany, from which he received a degree in composition and
organ. He returned to Querétaro, Mexico, where he was organist of the
cathedral and dir. and teacher at the Escuela de Música Sacra.
Works: Panegírico a la Virgen María (1908) for the coronation ceremony
of the Immaculate Conception of the city of Celaya in Guanajuato; Himno a
la Cruz; Humno a Santa Cecilia.
Sources: DMEH

González, Arturo Xavier, Mexican cellist, conductor, and teacher; b.13

Nov 1923, Tequila, Jalisco, Mexico; d.7 Jul 1981, Guadalajara, Jalisco,
Mexico. He began cello studies at the age of 11 in the Escuela Normal de
Música de Guadalajara under Ignacio Camarena. In 1941 he joined the cello
section in the Symph Orch. of Guadalajara, founded in 1941 by the
Australian conductor Leslie Hodge. In 1942 he performed as a soloist with
the symph. orch. of Guadalajara, directed by Antal Dorati. In 1943 he
studied with Russian pianist George Chavchadze, touring with him for the
next several years and from 1946-47 he was first cellist in the Symph Orch.
of Xalapa. He toured as a soloist in Mexico, the USA and Canada then
became a cond. in 1952, when he directed the Symph. Orch. of Guadalajara.
A year later he was named the dir. of the Banda de Música del Estado del
Jalisco.
Works: Andante, orch; Cuando un vn Gitano llora, qt (1970).
Sources: DMEH

González, Bernadino, Peruvian composer, b.Perú, 1887; d.Perú, 1916.

Apostolic missionary of the order of Merced.
Works: Hymns, sacred songs, masses, motets. Collection of 163 sacred
songs, 2nd ed. published 1906; method book, voc.
Sources: DMEH

González, Gerónimo, Peruvian composer; b.18th century?, Cuzco?, Peru.

His Chrismas carol is conserved in the archive of the seminary San Antonio
Abad de Cuzco.
Works: Yo señores soy un ciego (Christmas carol).
Sources: DMEH

González, José Antonio, Chilean chapelmaster and composer; b.?, fl. first
third of the 19th century; d.1840? Chapelmaster at the Cathedral of
Santiago de Chile, Chile, from 1802-40.
Works: Tres Villancicos de Navidad; Himno a la Victoria de Yerbas
Buenas; Himno del Inst. Nacional. Works in the Archive of the Cathedral
remain uncatalogued.
Sources: HMC, MMLA

González, José Luis, Mexican pianist and composer; b.21 May 1937,
Guadalajara, Mexico. He studied music at the Escuela de Música of
Guadalajara. Member of the Asociación Mexicana de Música Nueva.
Works: Orch, chamb, pn, electronic music.
Sources: DMEH, KTL

González, Julián, Guatemalan composer; b.1870, Guatemala; d.1898,

Guatemala. He studied piano and composition at the Cons. of Guatemala in
Guatemala City then with a scholarship went to study in Naples, Italy. He
returned to Guatemala in 1891, taught piano, and was appointed dir. of the
Cons. of Guatemala.
Works: Dance music.
Sources: DMEH, MMLA

González, Luis Jorge, Argentine composer; b.22 Jan 1936, San Juan,
Argentina. He graduated from the Univ. Nacional de Cuyo with a degree in
piano and studied composition with Erwin Leuchter in Buenos Aires. In
1971 he moved to Baltimore where he obtained a MM and a DMA from the
Peabody Cons. (1977), studying with Earl Brown and Robert Hall Lewis.
He received a Guggenheim award (1978) then taught theory at Peabody
Cons. and composition at the Univ. Nacional de San Juan. Since 1982 he
has been on the faculty of the Univ. of Colorado in Boulder.
Works: Visiones de la Pampa, orch (1986); Symphony #2, Heartbreak
Tangos (1995); Erkencho, concerto, tpt, orch (1997); Sonata elegíaca, va,
pn (2002-04).
Sources: DMEH

González, Manuel B., Puerto Rican composer and pianist; b.3 Jan 1930,
Arecibo, Puerto Rico. He studied piano with Juanita Iguina Dávila and Luis
Varona, Jr.
Works: Nela, opera (1972); El jíbaro, opera (1980); Los jíbaros
progresistas, opera (1981); Una jíbara, opera (1983). El juramento,
zarzuela (1976); Cantata a Puerto Rico, bar, ch, orch (1979); Misa en Do
mayor, soloists, ch, orch (1986). Chamb, pn music.
Sources: CPR, DMEH

González Ávila, Jorge, Mexican composer; b.10 Dec 1925, Mérida,

Yucatán, Mexico. In 1949, he moved to Mexico City, Mexico, where he
studied composition with Rodolfo Halffter, harmony with Blas Galindo,
piano with Francisco Agea Hermosa, and music theory with Eduardo
Hernández Moncada at the Cons. Nacional de Música of Mexico, Mexico
City, 1949-53. He took courses in composition with Jesús Bal y Gay in
1952, and with Carlos Chávez in 1953, at the Colegio Nacional of Mexico
City. In 1972, he was appointed dir. of the División de Autotranscripción at
CENIDIM of the Inst. Nacional de Bellas Artes in Mexico City.
Works: Invention, sop, pn, orch (1964); Invention concertante No.1, pn,
orch (1973); Invention interpolar, pn, orch (1974); Invention, Eh, pn, orch
(1975); Prelude and invention, str orch. (1976). Chamb, pn, solo instr
music.
Sources: BB, DMEH, GP

González Bravo, Antonio, Bolivian composer and teacher; b.2 Sep 1885,
La Paz, Bolivia; d.1961, La Paz. He studied at the Cons. Nacional de
Música of La Paz. He introduced the Dalcroze method into Bolivian
schools and conducted research on indigenous music. Dir. of the Cons.
Nacional de Música of La Paz (3 times).
Works: Trova a la Virgen de Copacabana, female ch, orch; Preludio, pn;
Preludio, ch, orch; Fiesta en los Andes.
Sources: CB, DM, DMEH, MLA

González Casellas, Fernando, Argentine composer; b.15 Oct 1925,

Buenos Aires, Argentina; d.12 Oct 1998, Buenos Aires. He studied music
with Jaime Pahissa and also classic languages at the Facultad de Filosofía y
Letras of the Univ. Nacional of Buenos Aires.
Works: 3 str qt; Tres piezas, org; Sonata, vc, pn; Siete invenciones, orch
(1966); Tres evocaciones; Salmo 21; Réquiem para Nélida Marcela; Stabat
Mater; Magnificat; Lamentaciones del Profeta Jeremías; Fantasía, pn,
orch; Rapsodia, vc, orch; Música, vn, orch.
Sources: DMEH, DMM, EMA

González Castro, J. Francisco, Costa Rican Prof. of music and composer;

b.29 Jul 1897, Heredia, Costa Rica; d.? He studied music in Heredia (1907-
10) and with Vicente Stea in Lima, Peru (1924-29). From 1923-29 he taught
at the Liceo of Costa Rica, the Cons. Stea, conducted the salon orch. of the
Sala San Martín in Lima, was dir. of the Orfeón (male singing ch) and
choirmaster at the Church San Pedro de Montes de Oca.
Works: Misa de Requiem (1927). Voc music for Orfeón.
Books: Resumen de la Historia de la Música.
Sources: DMEH, MMLA

González Christen, Francisco, Mexican composer; b.22 May 1952,

Hermosillo, Mexico. He studied at the Taller de Composición of INBA,
Mexico City, Mexico, with Mario Lavista and Joaquín Gutiérrez. He also
studied composition with Eugenio Slezyak at the Facultad de Música of the
Univ. Veracruzana, Veracruz, Mexico, where he later taught. He also took
courses with Leo Brouwer.
Works: Reencuentro, str (1981); La arbolaria (1981); Curriculum mortae
(1983); Chacona sobre una serie de Anton Webern (1986); Fantasía sobre
un villancico mexicano, mez sop (1990); Yanga, primer libertador de
América, vc (1990); Homenaje a Silvestre Revueltas, str (1992); Imágenes
de Veracruz (1992); Los motivos de Handel (1995). Chamb, gtr, pn, voc,
electronic, computer music.
Sources: DCMMC, GP

González Compeán, Francisco, Mexican composer; b.19 Aug 1978, León,

Guanajuato, Mexico. He studied piano with Lourdes Ruzsa and
composition with Héctor Quintanar at the Univ. de Guanajuato. He also
studied organ and Baroque music with Donald Joyce, piano with Alla von
Buch, Elena Camarena, and Octavio Gastón Marques, and composition
with José Luis Castillo. Music theory teacher at Univ. de Guanajuato
Works: Sinfonietta (2005); Coral – Había en esa tarde un viento de arena
(2007); Suite para pn y orch. Mi tierra (2008); Máquina 501 (2011).
Sources: GP

González del Valle y González Carvajal, Anselmo, Cuban composer and

pianist; b.Oct 1852, Havana, Cuba; d.15 Sep 1911, Oviedo, Spain. He
received a bachelor of arts degree (1869) and in 1872 began a degree in
civil and canonic law. He studied piano, harmony, and composition during a
stay in Paris and met Rimski-Korsakov there. He became the spokesperson
for the Provincial Commission of Monuments (1879) and also a
correspondent of the Acad. de Bellas Artes de San Fernando of Oviedo. In
1892 he became president of the Acad. where he founded a department for
violin then in 1907 he was elected president of the Phil. Society of Oviedo.
Works: 20 Melodías asturianas; Capricho españo; Cinco mazurkas
elegiacas, op.2; Staccato; Zapateado; transcriptions, pn music.
Sources: DMEH

González Fernández, Alejandro, Venezuelan composer; b.19th century.

He was active in the second half of the 19th century in Caracas. In 1887 he
formed part of the Estudiantina Fígaro, composed mainly of youth from the
Canary Islands and directed by the Spaniard Manuel M. Marrero.
Works: Oh Virgen pura; Madre ventuarosa. Popular, Christmas songs.
Sources: DMEH

González Flores, Alberto Antonio, Mexican conductor, teacher, and

composer; b.17 Jan 1904, Pasaje, Durango, Mexico; d.11 Sep 1983. He
began his musical studies at 6, and as a youth played the trombone in the
Brigada Juárez de Cuencamé. In 1919 he returned to Pasaje and became a
farmer, but continued his music activities playing for festivals and on other
special occasions. He later moved to Durango and joined the State Musical
Band. In 1923 he moved to Kansas City in the USA where he was dir. of a
Mexican band and studied jazz and music theory. He returned to Durango
(1929) then moved to Mexico City (1931) where he studied composition
with Manuel Ponce at the Escuela Nacional de Música (ENM) de la Univ.
Nacional Autónoma de México. He joined the National Symph. Orch. as a
trombonist (1935) and taught at ENM.
Works: Primera sinfonia (1936); Obertura Analco (1962); ch music.
Sources: DMEH

González Gamarra, Francisco, Peruvian composer and painter; b.4 Jun

1890, Cuzco, Peru; d.? He studied piano and violin.
Works: Noche de luna en el Cuzco, pn; Homenaje a Garcilaso de la Vega,
pn; Dos canciones, pn; Suite chopiniana, pn; Suite cuzqueña, pn.
Sources: MLA, MMLA

González Gómez, José Luis, Mexican composer; b.1937, Capilla de

Guadelupe, Jalisco; d.23 Nov 2013, Mexico City. He studied piano and
organ at the Escuela de M. sica Sacra de Guadalajara (1953-61). He joined
the Orquesta Sinfónica de Guadalajara as pianist in 1963 became a prof. at
the Escuela de Música de la Univ. de Guadalajara. He studied composition
with Héctor Quintanar at the Cons. Nacional (1967-71) and musique
concrete with Jean Etienne Marie (1968). In 1968 he was named subchief of
the Secretaría Técnica del Departamento de Música of INBA. He taught at
UNAM and the Cons. Nacional de Música, and was a member of the
Concertistas de Bellas Artes.
Works: Iridiscencias (1970).
Sources: GP

González Iñíguez, Hilario, Cuban pianist, researcher, teacher, and

composer; b.24 Jan 1920, Havana, Cuba; d.3 Oct 1999, Havana. He studied
with Jascha Fischermann (piano), José Ardévol (harmony, in Cuba), Vicente
Emilio Sojo (harmony, in Venezuela), Anthony de Blois Carreño (harmony,
counterpoint, fugue, in Venezuela). He also took conducting lessons with
Sergiu Celibidache and Angel Sauce. From 1947-60 he taught piano at the
Escuela Preparatoria de Música of Caracas, Venezuela. In 1960, he returned
to Cuba where he was appointed Prof. at the Cons. Amadeo Roldán and the
Seminario de Música Popular, both in Havana. Founding member of the
Grupo de Renovación Musical. Researcher at the Museo Nacional de la
Música of Havana. Music critic for the newspapers Hoy, El Mundo, and
Acción, and the journal, Ahora.
Works: Tres preludios en conga (1933); Dos danzas (1938); Sonata in A
minor (1942); Suite de canciones cubanas, voc, orch (1943); Concerto in D,
pn, orch (1946); Symphony; Antes del alba, ballet (1947); Las puertas
abiertas, opera (1964); Los zapaticos de rosa, miniopera a cappella; songs.
Sources: DM, DMC, DMEH, MLA, MMLA

González Mantici, Enrique, Cuban conductor, violinist, and composer; b.4

Nov 1912, Sagua La Grande, Las Villas, Cuba; d.29 Dec 1974, Havana,
Cuba. He started music studies with his mother, and later, studied violin
with José Valls. He studied composition with Rafael Pastor and Emilio
Grenet, and conducting with Erich Kleiber. At the Tchaikovsky Cons. of
Moscow, Russia, he took classes with Nikolai Anosov, Alexander Gauk,
and G. Lev Ginsburg. First violin of the Cuarteto de Cuerdas Havana and
of the Orq. Sinfónica of Havana. Founder of the Inst. Nacional de Música
of Havana. Music dir. of Pro Arte and the orq. of the Ballet Nacional of
Cuba.
Works: 2 vn concertos (1953, 1957); Pregón y danza, orch (1954); Tres
piezas, pn; Cimarrón, ballet; Tríptico vocal, sop, pn; Sinfonía concertante,
vc, orch; Tríptico, str orch; Trio, ob, cl, bsn; El circo, ballet (1966); Mestiza,
ballet (1966); Cuba, overture.
Sources: DMC, DMC2, DMEH
González Medina, Enrique, Mexican composer; b.31 Aug 1954, Tijuana.
He attended the Inst. Cuauhtlatohuac, Tijuana, studied composition at
UNAM, and graduated from Mannes College of Music (BM, 1987) and
California State Univ. – LA (MM). He taught at the Pasadena Cons. of
Music and the Escuela Superior de Música in Mexico City.
Works: Siete poemínimos, op.9 (1995); Baja California y Altar, op.12
(1999); Concertino luminoso, op.36 (2002); Concierto de Medellín, op.19,
gtr, orch (2002); Las primas del general Calles (2011); Serafina y
Arcángela, opera.
Sources: GP

González Meléndez, Gabriel, Mexican physician, composer, and novelist;

b.1960, Monterrey. He was a Fellow at the Centro de Escritores de Nuevo
León. He founded and directed Artes/Coro, the Ópera de Bolsillo, the Coro
Nación, and the Coro Univ.
Works: El marciano, opera (1991); Las ciudades invisibles (1992); Himno
para las Olimpiadas Especiales Monterrey (1994). Film, commercial
music.
Sources: GP

González Morales, Sergio, Chilean percussionist and composer; b.9 Oct

1952, Quilpué, Chile. He began studying music in 1963 at the Cons. de
Viña del Mae and in 1972 began performing as a percussionist. In 1973 he
continued to study in Santiago with Guillermo Rifo at the Pontificia Univ.
Católica de Chile. He taught in the percussion department at the Univ. de
Valparaíso and played in the group Congreso, created in 1969 by the
Gonzales brothers and Francisco Sazo.
Works: Los fuegos del hielo, ballet (1992); Sur, orch (1982). Voc, chamb,
film, theater music.
Sources: DMEH

González Orduña, Federico, Mexican composer; b.1969, Puebla, Mexico.

He began studying music in 1982 with Lourdes Ortega and studied
composition at with Gonzalo Macías and Veronica Tapia at the Benemérita
Univ. Autónoma de Puebla, where he would also teach.
Works: Cerro de Obsidiana (1997); Allá por la madrugada, orch (1999);
Dodeperpetuum (2005); Concierto para pn (2012).
Sources: GP

González Pichardo, Xavier, Mexican pianist, teacher and composer; b.10

Aug 1929, Mexico City, Mexico. He began studying music as a child and
gave a recital in the Palacio de Bellas Artes at the age of seven. He won a
competition (1940) with a song written for his mother. He graduated as a
performer from the Acad. of Antonio Gomezanda (1946), then studied
harmony and composition with Juan León Mariscal and José F. Vásquez.
He performed with the Symph Orch. of the Univ. Nacional Autónoma de
México, the Symph. Orch. of the Inst. Pedagógico Nacional, the Symph.
Orch. of Durango, and was asst. dir. of the National Opera at the Inst.
Nacional de Bellas Artes. He began teaching (1954) and participated in
radio and television programs.
Works: Concierto estival (in memory of Antonio Gomezanda), pn, orch
(1969); 5 Piezes, pn, orch (1993); pn: Sonatina (1943); 4 Piezas (1985);
Hojá de álbum (1994); film music.
Sources: DMEH

González Piña, Luis Jaime, Chilean composer and Prof.; b.7 Mar 1956,
Quillota, Chile. He completed basic studies in piano and harmony at the
Cons. Nacional de Música, received a degree in composition from the
Facultad de Artes de la Univ. de Chile (1974-81), and in 1980 studied with
Carmelo Bernaola in Santiago de Compostela. He taught at several colleges
and universities wrote articles and organized the Congresos Nacionales de
Educación Musical.
Works: Intermezzo, orch (1984); Concierto para gtr y orch (1984); Tres
cánticos de antevíspera, sop, gtr, pn (1985); Ens (1986). Ch, pn, chamb
music.
Sources: DMEH

González Prieto, Jorge Isaac, Mexican composer; b.26 Oct 1968,

Aguascalientes, Mexico. He studied at the Centro de Estudios Musicales
Manuel M. Ponce under Marta García Renart. Dir. of Octeto Vocal
Aguascalientes and Grupo de Percusiones.
Works: Irresistible llamado, ballet (1994); Redondillas de amor y
discreción, alt, org, timpani, chamb orch (1995). Pn, ch music.
Sources: DCMMC
González Quiñones, Jaime, Mexican composer, conductor, musicologist,
teacher, and performer; b.2 Apr 1943, Mexico City, Mexico. He studied
composition and conducting at the Cons. Nacional de Música of INBA,
Mexico City, then received a Ph.D. in music from The City Univ. of New
York, New York, NY, USA. Dir. of the Dept de Música of INBA in 1975,
and of the Facultad de Música of the Univ. Veracruzana, Veracruz, Mexico,
in 1976. Cond. of the Orq. Sinfónica of Puebla, Mexico, in 1978. President
of the Comité Mexicano of RILM and of the Liga de Compositores de
Música de Conciertos, 1995-97.
Works: Concertino, fl, 2 ob, pn, str orch (1964); Symphony No.1, orch
(1966); Allegro, str (1979); Tres estudios orquestales, orch (1980).
Electronic, computer, chamb music.
Sources: DCMMC, DMEH

González Tescucano, Javier, Mexican composer, musicologist, organist,

teacher, and dir.; b.5 Feb 1935, Mexico City, Mexico. He sang in a chorus
directed by Luis G. Moncada then entered a seminary in Mexico where he
studied piano, violin, composition, Gregorian chant, and polyphony with
Jose Zárate, D. Madrigal and H. Camacho. In 1958 he moved to Europe to
study piano, organ, Gregorian chant, musicology, and composition. He
returned to Mexico, performed his ecclesiastic activities, composed, and
conducted choirs that sang sacred music.
Works: Sacred music.
Sources: DMEH

González Torre, Salvador, Mexican composer and flutist; b.26 Jun 1956,
San Luis Potosí, Mexico. At the Cons. Nacional de Música he studied with
Gildardo Mojica, Judith Johanson, Mario Lavista, Daniel Catán and
Alfonso de Elías. In 1984 the French government awarded him a
scholarship to continue his studies in Paris where he worked with Pierre-
Yves Artaud, Alain Louvier, Michael Zbar, Sergio Ortega, Betsy Jolas, and
Yosihisa Taira. He won first prize in composition and received his diploma
in electroacoustic composition and musical pedagogy.
Works: Azares de la tarde, winds, str, xylophone; Sin tígtulo, 17 fl; Nube de
alas, tape.
Sources: DMEH
González Zuleta, Fabio, Colombian composer; b.2 Nov 1920, Bogotá,
Colombia. He studied organ and composition at the Cons. of Bogotá with
Egisto Giovanetti and Demetrio Haralambis. Prof. at the Cons. of Bogotá,
and from 1957-72, its dir.
Works: 8 symphonies (1956-1971); Suite, orch (1953); Estampa heróica,
orch (1955); Concerto, vn, orch (1958); Bíptico, str orch (1960); Dos
poemas del niño y del amor, str orch, perc (1960); Concerto grosso,
harpsichord, str orch (1968); Introducción y bambuco sobre un tema de
Campoverde, orch (1971); Música de ballet (1972). Ch, religious, chamb,
pn, voc music.
Sources: BB, GDM, DMEH, ZCCC

Gornés, Cristóbal [Cristóbal Gerardo Colón García], Venezuelan

composer and teacher; b.3 Dec 1926, San Blas, Venezuela. Adopted by the
Gornés Ravelo family, he began his musical training at the age of 9 with
Ricardo Alterio Loponte. At the age of 14 he began composing and directed
the chorus and band of Colegio Domingo Savio where he began teaching in
1943. He continued at San Francisco de Sales in Caracas and conducted the
chorus of Fermín Toro (1946-47). He moved to Italy (1947) where he
studied arts and sciences and theology in Padua, and later in Turin. He
returned to Venezuela (1950), taught organ and composition, was music dir.
of the Cathedral of Valencia (1950-64), and worked as a master of song and
music in the Colegio Nuestra Señora del Socorro (1950-56). He founded
and directed the choir of the Univ. de Carabobo and taught music at the
Escuela Normal Simón Rodríguez (1952-56).
Works: Poema coralen tres moviementos (1968); Misa épica (1987). Ch,
pn, voc music.
Sources: DMEH

Goyarrola, Aitor, Venezuelan composer, pianist, and organist; b.29 Sep

1972, Caracas, Venezuela. He started music studies in London, England,
with Winston Ingram in piano and organ, then he moved to the USA, where
he studied piano with Robert Chumbley. At the age of seven, he entered the
Miami School of Musical Arts, Miami, FL, USA, where he studied
solfeggio, theory, and composition with William Banchs. He returned to
Venezuela (1983) to begin studies at the Cons. de la Filarmónica of Caracas
with Aldemaro Romero, Harriet Serr, Miguel Angel Noya, and Eduardo
Marturet then continued in Cambridge, England. In 1990, he entered the
Univ. of Miami, FL, where he studied composition with John van der Slice,
music aesthetics and orchestration with Dennis Kam and Steven Smith,
piano with Rosalina Sacktein, percussion with Steve Bagby, and conducting
with Robert Gower, and where he received a BM in theory and
composition. Later, he attended the Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA,
where he studied composition with Martin Jenni and David Gomper.
Teacher at the Miami School of Musical Arts and lecturer at the Univ. of
Miami. Member of SACVEN and of South Alliance of Composers of
Florida.
Works: Creación del mundo (1985); Port de la selva (1986); Collage
mundo actual (1988); Ocaso del mundo, pn (1989) Shadows of my Nature,
cb (1990); Zigma, str orch (1990); The Holy Word of God, ch (1991);
Enigma, 2 orch (1991); I’m Old and Putrefying, ch (1991); Mozartiana, pn
(1992); Vivendi, cb (1992). Chamb, pn, incidental, film music.
Sources: DMEH, EMV, ISC

Graetzer, Carlos, Argentine composer; b.29 Sep 1956, Buenos Aires,

Argentina. Began studies in composition with his father then continued in
France with Ivo Malec at the Cons. Nacional de Paris. He won the Trinac
Award of the Argentine Society of authors and composers and awards in
composition from the Univ. de La Plata and the Premio Municipal de
Buenos Aires. His works have been performed in Buenos Aires, Mexico,
Pompidou center of Paris, the auditorium of Radio France, musical festivals
of Salzburg, Essonne, Bourges (France), and Romania.
Works: Alquimia, voc, pn (1983); Nio Aeln, electroaccoustic music (1989);
Wind qnt.
Sources: DMEH

Graetzer, Guillermo, Argentine composer of Austrian origin; b.5 Sep

1914, Vienna, Austria; d.22 Jan 1993, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He settled
in Buenos Aires in 1939. He studied in Berlin, Germany, with Ernst von
Knorr and Paul Hindemith, and in Vienna, with Paul Pisk. In 1946, he
founded the Collegium Musicum of Buenos Aires, and was its dir. and
taught there. He taught composition, instrumentation, and conducting at the
Escuela Superior de Música of the Univ. Nacional of La Plata, Prov. of
Buenos Aires, Argentina. Member of the Liga de Compositores de la
Argentina.
Works: Divertimento, wind qnt (1934-35); Sonatina, recorder, pn (1937);
Juana la Loca, ballet (1938); Concerto (1939); Siete princesas muy
desdichadas, ballet (1940); Jacobo en la fuente, ballet (1940); Pequeña
leyenda de danza, ballet (1941); Str qt (1941); Rapsodia, vn (1941-43);
Variaciones sobre un tema de Salomone Rossi (1941-51); Danza de la
muerte y la niña (1942); Jerusalem eterna, incidental music (1942); Bar
Cojbah, incidental music (1944); Grave, solo vn (1945); La parábola
(1946-47); Sinfonietta, str (1947); Sinfonía brevis (1951); Concerto, bsn
(1952); Chamb concerto (1953); Los burgueses de Calais, male ch (1954-
55); Vc concerto (1955-57); Duo, fl, cl (1956). Ch, pn, voc music.
Sources: BB, CTA4, DM, DMEH, DMM, EMA, MLA, MMLA

Gramatges, Harold, Cuban composer; b.26 Sep 1918, Santiago de Cuba,

Cuba. He started his musical education with Dulce María Serret at the
Cons. Provincial of Oriente, Cuba, in 1928. Later, he entered the Cons.
Granados in Havana, Cuba, where he studied with Flora Mora in 1937. He
studied harmony, music history, music aesthetics, and composition with
José Ardévol and Amadeo Roldan at the Cons. Municipal of Havana. He
went to the USA (1942) and studied composition with Aaron Copland at the
Berkshire Music Center in Tanglewood, MA. With other Cuban composers,
he founded the Grupo de Renovación Musical (1943). He organized the
Dept. de Música of the Casa de las Américas in Havana. President of the
Sociedad Cultural Nuestro Tiempo. He founded and directed the orch. of
the Cons. Municipal of Havana (1945), where he also taught (1961-64). He
was a member of the Cuban Embassy in Paris, France.
Works: Soneto, mixed ch (1940); Canción, mixed ch (1940); Invenciones,
chamb orch (1941); Icaro, ballet (1943); Mensaje al futuro, wind orch
(1944); Symphony (1945); Concertino, pn, wind instr (1945); Sinfonietta,
orch (1955); Wind qnt (1957); Móvil, 7 instr (1969); La muerte del
guerrillero, nar, orch (1969); Móvil II, fl, Hn, pncelesta, vibraphone,
xylophone, perc (1970); Cantata para Abel (1973); Concerto, gtr, orch
(1974); Diseños (1976). Chamb music.
Sources: BB, DM, DMC, DMC2, DMEH, MLA, MMLA
Granda, Juan Manuel, Argentine composer and recorder player; b.16 Dec
1964, Rosario, Prov. of Santa Fe, Argentina. He studied piano, recorder,
percussion, and composition with Gustavo Puccini, Jorge Horst, Mariano
Etkin, Gerardo Gandini, and Francisco Kröpfl. He also took courses in
music history, aesthetics, analysis, orchestration, and electroacoustic music.
Works: Solo, fl, pn (1989); La espuma de los días, fl, ob, cb cl, pn (1990);
Dieciseis cuerdas, vn, va, vc, cb (1990).
Sources: CAMR, DMEH

Granda Larco, María Isabel “Chabuca,” Peruvian composer; b.3 Sep

1920, Cotabambas, Apurímac, Peru; d.8 Mar 1983, Miami, FL, USA. She
began singing in the school choir at Colegio Sophianum in San Isidro, and
she attained fame primarily as a unique interpretor of songs, particularly
waltzes.
Works: La Flor de la Canela. Songs.
Sources: DMEH

Grande Castelli, Santiago, Argentine composer and teacher; b.Rosario,

Prov. of Santa Fe, Argentina. He studied harmony, counterpoint,
composition, and orchestration with Teodoro Fuchs. Prof. at the Escuela
Municipal de Música Juan Bautista Massa of Rosario.
Works: El angel negro, ballet; Lil, ballet; El sueño de Polichinela.
Concerto, gtr, chamb orch; Symphony in E flat major; Tres preludios, gtr,
wind qnt. Pn pieces.
Sources: CAMR, DMEH

Granillo González, María, Mexican composer; b.30 Jan 1962, Torreón,

Coahuila, Mexico. She received a Licenciate degree in composition from
the Escuela Nacional de Música of UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico. She
participated in the Taller de Composición of CENIDIM, directed by Julio
Estrada, Mario Lavista, Federico Ibarra, and Daniel Catán. She studied
electroacoustic music at the Univ. of York, England. Member of the
Sociedad Mexicana de Educación Musical and of Sociedad Mexicana de
Música Nueva. Prof. of composition at the Escuela Nacional de Música of
UNAM.
Works: Preludio, orch (1988); El tigre azul, nar, orch (1995); Concierto
(2002); El tigre azul (1994-98); Conjuro o Cantar de los Cantares (1996,
rev. 1999); Trance (1999); Contratiempos (2001); Glimpse (2003);
Breathing Music (2005-2006); Salmos primerios (2010). Electroacoustic,
computer, chamb, voc, ch music.
Sources: DMEH, DCMMC, GP

Granja, Eduardo, Ecuadorian composer; b.ca.1950, Quito, Ecuador. He

studied at the Cons. Nacional de Música de Quito and with Carlos
Malcolm, Gerardo Guevara, and Milton Estévez. In 1986 he became dir. of
the musical group Albanta and the Cons. Nacional de Musica. He won a
composition prize from the Nacional de Jóvenes Compositores.
Works: Chusa Cahanacuna, qnt.
Sources: DMEH

Grasso, Gerardo, Uruguayan composer, band conductor, flutist, and

teacher of Italian origin; b.1864, Capocele, near Naples, Italy; d.18 Jun
1937, Montevideo, Uruguay. Cond. of the band of the Escuela de Artes y
Oficios of Montevideo.
Works: Pericón Nacional (1887); Auras criollas, fantasia, pn, later
orchestrated for band; military marches. In 1934, by an ordinance of the
Uruguayan National Government, he arranged the Uruguayan National
Anthem. Voc, pn music.
Sources: BHMCU, DMEH, MU

Grau, Alberto, Venezuelan composer, conductor, and teacher of Spanish

origin; b.7 Nov 1937, Barcelona, Spain. He studied theory and solfeggio
with Angel Sauce, piano with Cristina Vidal de Pereira, composition with
Vicente E. Sojo, music history and aesthetics with Juan Bautista Plaza,
conducting with Gonzalo Castellanos, ethnomusicology with Luis F. Ramón
y Rivera, and voice with Carmen T. de Hurtado at the Escuela de Música
José Angel Lamas and the Escuela de Música Juan Manuel Olivares, both
of Caracas, Venezuela. He continued his music studies at the Music Cons.
of Geneva, Switzerland, with Edgar Willems, and in Bologna, Italy, with
Sergiu Celibidache. Prof. of artistic education at municipal schools in
Caracas. Prof. of piano at the Escuela de Música Juan Manuel Olivares, dir.
of the Escuela de Música José Lorenzo Llamozas, Prof. of conducting at the
Inst. Venezolano de Música Simón Bolívar, all in Caracas. Founder, dir.,
and Prof. of choral conducting of the Schola Cantorum of Caracas.
Works: Ballet La doncella, mixed ch, chamb orch (1978); Tríptico, mez
sop, orch (1984); Epílogo, magnetic tape (1981). Ch, voc, pn music.
Sources: DMEH, EMV, ISC

Gregori, Nininha, Brazilian composer; b.20 Jan 1925, São Paulo, Brazil.
She studied music with Hans Joachim Koellreutter.
Works: Chamb, voc music.
Sources: IBCC, IEW

Grela Herrera, Dante Gerardo, Argentine composer, pianist, and teacher;

b.13 Aug 1941, Rosario, Prov. of Santa Fe, Argentina. He studied with
Efraín Paesky, Luis Angel Machado, Virtú Maragno, Francisco Kröpfl, and
Washington Castro at the Inst. Superior de Música of the Univ. Nacional of
Litoral of Rosario, from which he graduated in 1964. Dir. of the Dept. de
Creatividad and Prof. of composition at the Escuela de Música of the Univ.
Nacional of Rosario. Prof. and researcher at the Inst. Superior de Música of
the Univ. Nacional of Litoral. Prof. at the Dept de Arte of the Univ.
Nacional of Tucumán, Prov. of Tucumán, Argentina.
Works: Trio, pn, vn, vc (1963); Música para ocho instr (1966); Música
concreta para una Exposición de Pop-Art (1966); Música para teatro
(1966); Cuatro Piezas, solo fl (1966); Composición, mez sop, ch, instr
(1967); Espacios, septet (1968); Combinaciones, ch, perc, magnetic tape
(1968); Ejercicio I, electronic sounds (1969); Superficies, orch (1969);
Estatismos, orch (1970); Nueve estudios, orch (1973); Interpretaciones,
chamb ens (1976); Paisaje imaginario, chamb ens (1980); Oráculo, alt,
chamb ens (1982); Colores, orch (1983); Crepuscular, orch (1986);
Encantamientos, chamb ens (1987); De los mundos paralelos, chamb ens
(1989); Senderos imaginarios, chamb ens (1992); Sonoridades, electronic
music (1993); Música para danza, str orch, electronic sounds (1993).
Chamb, pn, voc music.
Sources: DMEH, DMM, EMA, ISC

Greppi, Clemente, Argentine composer of Italian origin; b.1858, Lucca,

Italy; d.1938, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He settled in Buenos Aires in 1893.
Conducted children’s choruses at the Teatro Colón and Teatro de la Opera,
both of Buenos Aires. He devoted his life to music teaching and worked at
the Consejo Nacional de Educación of Buenos Aires, 1907-32.
Works: A mi bandera, voc; school songs.
Sources: EMA

Grever, María, Mexican composer; b.14 Sep 1885, León, Guanajato,

Mexico; d.15 Dec 1951, New York, NY, USA. She studied music with
Claude Debussy in Paris, France.
Works: The Gypsy, one-act song drama (1928); El cantarito, opera (1939).
Pn music, 850 songs.
Sources: DMEH, IBCC, IEW, NGDWC

Grimal Olmos, Rafael, Cuban clarinetist and composer; b.19 Sep 1945,
Havana, Cuba. He began his musical studies in piano, clarinet and harmony
in the Cons. of Havana and at 14 played in the Municipal Band of Havana.
He moved to Barcelona and continued at the Cons. Superior de Música del
Liceo and the Cons. Superior de Música de Barcelona with Manuel Oltra,
Xavier, and Antoni Ros Marbá. He received a gold medal in clarinet,
honorable mention in saxophone, and honors in chamb music (1963-64). In
1977 he played clarinet in the Municipal Band of Music of Barcelona, and
in 1987 he became chair of the clarinet department at the Cons. Superior de
Música del Liceo.
Works: Sonata for fl and pn (1980); Suite en Fa mayor, cl qt (1988);
Sonata, tpt, pn (1990).
Sources: DMEH

Grippa, Jorge, Argentine composer; b.28 Mar 1900, Buenos Aires,

Argentina; d.? He studied with Antonio Eduardo D’Agostino and Athos
Palma.
Works: Dos danzas argentinas, orch (1945); 2 fugues, pn; Los gnomos,
symph suite. Chamb, pn, voc music.
Sources: DM, EMA

Grisolía, Pascual, Argentine composer and band conductor; b.4 Feb 1904,
Chivilcoy, Prov. of Buenos Aires, Argentina; d.19 Aug 1983, Buenos Aires,
Argentina. He studied harmony with Athos Palma, counterpoint with José
Gil, composition with José André, and piano with Vicente Scaramuzza at
the Cons. Nacional de Música Carlos López Buchardo of Buenos Aires,
Argentina. For more than 20 years, he was associate conductor of the Banda
Sinfónica Municipal of Buenos Aires. He founded and conducted the Banda
Sinfónica of the Patronato Nacional de Ciegos (National Association for the
Blind).
Works: Preludio sinfónico, orch (1930); Boceto sinfónico, orch (1931); La
tarde, symph poem (1938); Recuerdos de la infancia, suite, pn (1940);
Alamo bajo el Rocío, voc, orch (1948); Obertura clásica, orch (1954);
Wind qt (1955); Trio, ob, cl, bsn (1961); Ricercare, str orch (1971). Chamb,
pn, voc music.
Sources: CA, DM, DMEH, DMM, EMA, MLA, MMLA, VMA

Grüb Geschwindt, Laura, Mexican composer; b.29 Jan 1958, Mexico

City, Mexico. At age eight, she entered the Escuela Nacional de Música of
the UNAM, Mexico City, where she studied composition with Juan Antonio
Rosado. In 1980, she received a scholarship to study composition and music
theory at the Tchaikovsky Cons. in Moscow, Russia, with Mikhail Chulaki
and Mikhail Leman. In 1984, she entered the Berklee College of Music in
Boston, MA, USA, where she graduated in composition, film scoring,
music synthesis, music production, and engineering. Lecturer at the
Massachusetts Inst. of Technology, Cambridge, MA.
Works: Symph Poem, orch, ch, synth; Introduction, orch synth; On the
Mountains, marimba, Aztec caracol, specific designed sounds; Variation on
a Poulenc’s Theme, Tx-816 synth with specific designed sounds, harp, ob,
cl, fl. Chamb, electronic, film, ballet, music.
Sources: ISC

Guadalajara, Manuel, Venezuelan flutist and composer; b.ca.1870,

Caracas, Venezuela; d.4 Jul 1917, Caracas, Venezuela. He began studying
music with his older brother Julio. He performed at private events and at the
opera of the Municipal Theater of Caracas.
Works: Fantasía, fl, pn (1894); Bienvenida, fl, pn (1905); pn, voc music.
Sources: DMEH

Guarello Finlay, Alejandro, Chilean composer; b.21 Aug 1951, Viña del
Mar, Chile. He began playing rock music at the age of 16, played the
electric guitar and formed his own groups. He began his formal music
training at the Escuela de Música of the Univ. Católica de Valparaíso
(1971). He took classes with Lucila Césped in harmony, counterpoint, and
piano, and with Oscar Olhsen in classical guitar, both located in Santiago
(1972-74). He joined the ensemble Ars Antiqua of the Univ. de Chile de
Valparaíso (1974) and played lute, guitar, viola, flute and percussion. He
began studying composition with Cirilo Vila (1975) and moved to Santiago
to study composition at the Facultad de Artes de la Univ. de Chile (1977).
He taught privately and at the Univ. Católica de Valparaíso (1973-74, 1980-
83), Univ. de Chile de Valparaíso (1974-76) and Pontificia Univ. Católica
de Chile (since 1981). In 1982 he received a degree in composition and
worked with Franco Donatoni in Rome and Sienna, and with Giacomo
Manzoni in Milan, Italy (1984-85). In August 1985 he formed a
composition and contemporary musical performance workshop in Chile and
taught composition at the Univ. Católica (1986-87). After 1988 he helped
establish annual concerts dedicated to Chilean composers of the 20th
century. He also created Música Abierta, an academic program supporting
the study and performance diffusion of contemporary music. He won
composition awards and commissions including from the Corporación
Cultural de Santiago, the Pontificia Univ. Católica de Chile, the
Corporación Orch. Sinfónica Regional de Viña del Mar, Corporación
Cultural de las Condes, Santiago, Les Amis de Voix de L’Ain, Bourgen-
Braesse (France), the Dominican community of the convent Le Corbussier
in Lyon, the Trío Arte, the Quinteto Pro-Arte, the cornet player Edward
Brown, and the guitarist Oscar Olhsen.
Works: Invención, ob, vn (1976); Variaciones, orch (1978); Caín y Abel,
cantata (1979); Un golpe de dado, symphony, solo vocalists, large orch,
based on a poem by Stephan Mallarmé (1982); Expresiones, sop, str orch
(1983); Imóbuse, orch (1990); Domuns, pn (1992). Orch, voc, pn, ch music.
Sources: DMEH

Guarín, José Joaquín, Colombian composer and pianist; b.1825, Bogotá,

Colombia; d.4 Dec 1854, Bogotá. Prof. at several schools in Bogotá. In
1848, he founded the Sociedad Lírica, an organization whose main goal was
the study of religious music and its performance in churches.
Works: Canción Nacional, 4 voc, orch; Oficio de difuntos. Sacred, dance
music.
Bibl.: J.I. Perdomo Escobar, Esbozo Histórico sobre la Música
Colombiana.
Sources: DMEH, MLA, MMLA
Guaritano, Assuero, Brazilian composer and teacher; b.1889, São Paulo,
Brazil; d.? He began music study in São Paulo and continued at the Escola
Nacional de Música in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Prof. at the Inst. de Belas
Artes in Pôrto Alegre, Brazil, and at the Escola Nacional de Música in Rio
de Janeiro.
Works: Symphony in F sharp minor; Cántico del sole, soloists, ch, orch;
Qnt, pn, str instr. Pn music, songs.
Sources: MMLA

Guarnieri, Camargo Mozart, Brazilian composer; b.1 Feb 1907, Tieté,

State of São Paulo, Brazil; d.13 Jan 1993, São Paulo, Brazil. He studied
with his parents then piano with Antonio de Sá Pereira and Ernani Braga,
and composition with Lamberto Baldi and Mário de Andrade. In 1938, he
went to Paris, France, where he studied counterpoint, fugue, composition,
and music aesthetics with Charles Koechlin and conducting with Franz
Rühlmann. Prof. at the Cons. Dramático e Musical of São Paulo. Cond. of
the choir of the Dept. Municipal de Cultura of São Paulo and the Orq.
Sinfónica of the Univ. of São Paulo.
Works: Pedro Malasarte, opera (1931); 5 pn concertos (1936, 1946, 1964,
1967, 1970); 2 vn concertos (1940, 1953); Dansa brasileira, orch (1941);
Overture concertante, orch (1943); 4 symphonies (1944, 1946, 1952, 1963);
Dansa negra, orch (1947); Chôro, vn (1951); Variations on a Northeast
Brazilian Theme, pn (1953); Suite IV Centenario (1954); Chôro, cl (1956);
Chôro, pn (1957); Sêca, cantata (1957); Suite Vila Rica (1958); Um homem
só, opera (1960); Chêro, vc (1961); Pn concertino (1961); Seresta, pn,
chamb orch (1965); Guaná Bará, cantata (1965); Homage to Villa-Lobos,
wind orch (1966); Seqüência, coral e ricercare, chamb orch (1966). 3 str qt
(1932, 1944, 1962). Chamb, pn, voc music.
Sources: BB, CTA4, EMB2, DCM, DM, GDM, MLA

Guastavino, Carlos, Argentine composer; b.4 Apr 1914, Santa Fe, Prov. of
Santa Fe, Argentina; d.29 Oct 2000, Rosario, Prov. of Santa Fe. He studied
piano with Esperanza Lothringer and Dominga Iaffei Guastavino in Santa
Fe. At the Cons. Nacional de Música Carlos López Buchardo of Buenos
Aires, Argentina, he studied harmony and composition with Athos Palma,
and continued piano studies with Rafael González. Prof. at the Cons.
Superior de Música Manuel de Falla of Buenos Aires.
Works: Fue una vez, ballet (1942); Sonetos del ruiseñor, sop, fl, cl, vc, pn
(1951); Romance de Santa Fe, pn, orch (1952); Sonata, vn, pn (1952). Ch,
pn, voc music.
Sources: BB, CA, CTA1, DM, DMEH, EMA, MLA, MMLA

Guerra, Ramiro Luis, Mexican composer; b.26 Nov 1933, Monterrey,

Mexico. He started to study music at age 6 with Antonio Ortiz, continued at
the Cons. Nacional de Música of INBA, Mexico City, Mexico, and
privately with Alfonso de Elías and Carlos Chávez. He studied composition
at the Accademia di Musica Santa Cecilia in Rome, with Goffredo Petrassi,
Boris Porena, Franco Evangelisti, Bruno Maderna, Luigi Dallapiccola, and
Luigi Nono and took courses with Karlheinz Stockhausen and Pierre
Boulez. After returning to Monterrey he became blind and stopped
composing. He founded the Escuela Superior de Música y Danza of
Monterrey (1977), taught and did research, and began composing again
with the aid of a computer (1992).
Works: Pn concerto (1951); 2 symphonies (1952, 1954); Suite bucólica
(1958); Concierto breve, vc (1959); El Exodo (1966); Oratorio, 8 soloists,
str orch, piccolo, fl, ob, cl, hn, harp (1966); Missa Maria Inmaculata, mixed
ch (1995). Chamb, pn, ch, voc music.
Sources: DCMMC

Guerra Peixe, César, Brazilian composer, violinist, teacher, and

conductor; b.18 Mar 1914, Petrópolis, Brazil; d.23 Nov 1993, Rio de
Janeiro. He studied violin with Gáo Omacht at the Escola de Música Santa
Cecilia in Petrópolis. He entered the Escola Nacional de Música of Rio de
Janeiro (1931) to study violin and piano with Paulina d’Ambrosio, harmony
with Arnaud Gouveia, and chamber music with Orlando Frederico. He
entered the Cons. Brasileiro de Música of Rio de Janeiro (1938) where he
studied harmony, counterpoint, fugue, and composition with Newton Pádua.
In 1944, he studied composition with Hans Joachim Koellreutter. He played
violin in theater orch. and arranged music for radio. Member of the group
Música Viva.
Works: 2 symphonies (1946, 1960); Nonet (1945); 2 str qt (1947, 1958); Vn
sonata (1950); Pn trio (1960); Gtr sonata (1969); Dúo, cl, bsn (1970); Roda
de amigos, chamb orch; Sumidouro, cantata, voc, pn, vc, pn (1980). Chamb,
pn, voc, ch music.
Sources: BB, CTA16, DCM, DM, EMB2, GDM, HMB

Guerra Sardá, Cratilio, Cuban composer, organist, pianist, and teacher;

b.2 Jul 1834, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba; d.5 Mar 1896, Santiago de Cuba. He
studied piano and organ, was a church organist and served as choirmaster of
the cathedral of Santiago de Cuba. Pedro Boudet replaced him as
choirmaster (1848). He lived in Havana for a number of years before
returning to Santiago de Cuba. His manuscripts are in the archives of el
Museo Eclesiástico Nacional, the Catedral de Nuestra Señora de la
Ascunción, and the Biblioteca Elvira Cape.
Works: Masses; hymns; litanies. Andante religioso, orch; March religioso,
orch; Cachita es la mar, pn; Mi dulce tormento, pn. Sacred music, voc, orch
music.
Sources: DMC2, DMEH,

Guerrero Díaz, Félix, Cuban conductor and composer; b.13 Jan 1916,
Havana, Cuba; d.2001. He studied music with his father, and later, studied
piano, harmony, and composition with Isidoro Vasco Laguna, César Pérez
Sentenat, Pedro Sanjuán, and Amadeo Roldán. He went to the USA (1947)
to study at The Juilliard School of Music, New York, NY, then to Paris,
France (1952) where he studied with Eugène Bigot, Marcel Dupré, Georges
Enescu, and Nadia Boulanger. Founder of the radio station Mil Diez and the
Televisión Cubana Orch. Prof. at the Cons. García Caturla of Havana,
conductor of the orch. of the Teatro Nacional Cubano de Ballet y Opera,
and the Orq. Sinfónica Nacional, both in Havana.
Works: Concerto, cl, orch; Tríptico campesino, voc, orch; Cuadros sonoros,
hn, orch; Suite cubana; Homenaje al Sóngoro Cosongo, orch; Cinco
canciones para voz y pn; El rumbero maravilloso, ballet; Cecilia Valdés,
ballet.
Sources: DMC, DMEH, DMC2, GDM

Guerrero Toro, Juan Agustín, Ecuadorian pianist, composer, and teacher;

b.1818, Quito, Ecuador; d.1886, Quito, Ecuador. He studied with Manuel
Zaporta and in 1870 was appointed asst. dir. of the first Cons. of Quito
where he taught theory and piano. Most of his works have been lost.
Works: 9 de octubre; zarzuelas.
Books: La música ecuatoriana desde su origen hasta 1875; Catecismo
musical, theory; Curso elemental de Música, theory.
Sources: DMEH

Guevara Ochoa, Armando, Peruvian composer and violinist; b.17 Feb

1926. He began music studies with his mother, Elvira Ochoa Becerra, and
violin with Roberto Ojeca. A child prodigy of Andean lineage, he
concertized at age 4 and performed at the Teatro Municipal de Lima (1935).
He continued studies in Lima then attended the New England Cons. of
Music in Boston, MA, Columbia Univ. NY. At the Fountainbleu Acad. in
Paris he studied violin with Georges Enesco and composition with Nadia
Boulanger, Yvan Galamián, Louis and William Kroll. As a conductor he
promoted and conducted the works of Peruvian composers internationally.
He was dir. of the Inst. Superior de Música Leandro Alvina in Cusco, and
taught in the Escuela Nacional de Música de Lima. First violinist and an
invited conductor for the Orch. Sinfónica Nacional, he also conducted the
Sinfónica Municipal de Lima, the bands of the Guardia Civil and Marina de
Guerra de Perú. He uses indigenous intruments in his music.
Works: Sacsayhuaman y el ultimo de los incas, ballet; A la Gloria de Grau;
A Ricardo Palma; A Tupac Amaru; Centenario, overture; Hn concerto; Fl
concerto; El Altiplano, overture; Junín y Ayacucho; Kukuli; Las Américas;
Los Andes; Morro de Arica; Rapsodia peruana, ch, orch; Tarpuy;
Colección de huaynos cusqueños; María Angola; Recuerdos del Cusco; El
espantapájaros; Colección folkórica, voc, pn; chamb works.
Sources: DMEH

Guevara Viteri, Luis Gerardo, Ecuadorian composer, conductor, writer,

and pianist; b.23 Sep 1930, Quito, Ecuador. He studied harmony,
counterpoint, fugue, composition, piano, violin, and oboe at the Cons. of
Quito with Corsino Durán, Belisario Peña, Luis Humberto Salgado, Angel
Honorio Jiménez, and Ricardo Becerra Lara. In 1950, he went to
Guayaquil, Ecuador, where he studied at the Cons. Antonio Neumane with
Jorge Raiky. With a scholarship from UNESCO, he studied in Paris, France,
with Nadia Boulanger (1959). Dir. of the chorus of the Univ. Central of
Quito. Founding member of the Sociedad de Autores y Compositores
Ecuatorianos and its first president. In 1972, he reorganized and directed the
Orq. Sinfónica Nacional of Quito. Rector of the Cons. Nacional of Quito
(1980-88).
Works: La Tunda, ballet (1954); Yaguar Shungo, ballet, nar, ch, orch
(1958); Cantata de la paz (1963-64); Str qt (1964); Cuadernos de la tierra,
nar, ch, orch (1971); Suite Ecuador (1972); Et in terra pax hominibus, bar,
orch (1986); Historia, orch, magnetic tape (1990); De mestizo a mestizo,
orch (1990). Chamb, voc, pn music.
Sources: DMEH, ISC, MG

Guidi, Francisco G., Argentine composer; active 19th century. He taught

in the Escuela superior de varones.
Works: Una noche en Loreto, opera (1885).
Sources: DMEH

Guidi Drei, Claudio, Argentine composer; b.17 Aug 1927, Buenos Aires,
Argentina. He studied at the Cons. Nacional de Música Carlos López
Buchardo of Buenos Aires, and at the Cons. Rossini of Pessaro, Italy. He
also studied composition in Italy with Guido Turchi and Goffredo Petrassi,
and conducting with Paul van Kempen. Dir. of studies at the Teatro
Argentino of La Plata, Prov. of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and assistant cond.
and dir. of studies at the Teatro Colón of Buenos Aires. Taught theory,
solfeggio, and harmony at Cons. Nacional de Música Carlos López
Buchardo.
Works: Nocturno y scherzo, str orch (1953); Str qt (1961); Miniaturas, orch
(1966); Lupapag, chamb ballet (1969); Medea, opera; Ottonata, orch
(1978); Requiem sin palabras (1978); Alfo, perc (1983); Aforismos (1985);
El Trappa, ballet (1987); Ottocelli, 8 vc, perc (1993); Il Beato Sante, chamb
cantata (1994).
Sources: DMM, EMA, VMA

Guiliani, Juan José, Argentine composer and teacher; b.2 Jul 1927,
Corrientes, Prov. of Corrientes, Argentina. He studied with Luis Gianneo,
Pedro Sáenz, Carlos Suffern, Valdo Sciamarella, Jorge Fontenla, Gerardo
Gandini, and Roberto Caamaño at the Facultad de Artes y Ciencias
Musicales of the Univ. Católica Argentina of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Taught at the Cons. Provincial de Música of Bahía Blanca, Prov. of Buenos
Aires, Argentina, the Escuela del Cuerpo Profesional del Ejército.
Works: Seis Piezas on Tankas (Jorge L. Borges); Juicio por no pago de
expensas, opera (1988); Contrastes y similitudes (1989); Opus unum
(1991); Retrospección, fl, cl, pn, str orch; Impulsos, str orch; Propuestas,
str, perc (1993); Ec Dono II, str, perc (1994); El mundo y la parca, nar,
soloists, children’s ch (1994). Chamb, band, ch music.
Sources: ISC

Guillem, Basilio, Peruvian composer; fl.ca. 1890. Published music in Lima

in the late 19th century.
Works: Húsares en campaña, pn 4 hands; El congreso de 1892, 2 pns, 4
hands.
Sources: DMEH

Guillén Barrios-Gómez, Virginia, Mexican writer and composer; b.24 Jul

1918, D. F., México. Raised in a musical household, she began her career in
journalism. She completed a Ph.D. at the Univ. of Vermont in 1957 and was
known for her literary work.
Works: Todo por buscar petróleo, musical comedy; Don Quixote caballero
de las causas nobles, play, incidental music.
Sources: DMEH

Guillén Martínez, Jaime, Colombian composer, violinist, and conductor;

b.13 Dec 1926. He entered the national Cons. of music at age 10 and
studied with Guillaume Uribe Holguín, G. Escobar Larrazábal, and F.
González Zuleta. He studied conducting at Inst. José Ángel Lamas in
Caracas, played violin and was asst. conductor in the Orch. Sinfónica de
Colombia (1942-63). He was a member of the Bogota String Quartet (1949-
62), violinist in the Orch. Colombiana de Arcos (1956-63), and founding
member of the Trio Guillén. He performed in the Orch. Sinfónica de
Venezuela, played violin in and conducted the chamb orch. of the Univ.
Central de Venezuela, and in 1976 was a member of the Orch. Nacional and
the Orch. de Cámara de Vivaldi in Quito. He founded and conducted the
Orch. Proarte de Bogotá (1960-62) and led the Orch. Filharmónica de
Bogotá. He was the dir., worked with choral groups, and taught violin at the
Cons. de Bucaramanga and the Escuela Superior de Música de Tunja.
Works: Benposta, nación de muchachos, canon; La cosecha, canon; Mi
llano; Nana a Gabriel Hernando; Sanjuanero; Somos los muchachos; Yo te
quiero; ch music.
Sources: DMEH

Guraieb Kuri, Rosa, Mexican composer, pianist, and teacher; b.20 May
1931, Matías Romero, Mexico. She studied piano, music theory, and
harmony with Michel Chesnikoff at the Cons. Nacional de Música of
Beirut, Lebanon. In Mexico, harmony with José Pablo Moncayo, piano with
Salvador Ordoñes Ochoa, composition workshops with Carlos Chávez, and
piano and composition with Gerhart Muench, Alfonso de Elías, Mario
Lavista, and Daniel Catán at the Cons. Nacional de Música of Mexico City.
She studied with Bruce Simonds at Yale Univ., USA.
Works: Preludio para orch de cámara (2004); Pn concerto; 2 str qt; Trio,
ob, bsn, pn. Arias olvidadas; La tarde; Lyrica; Tus ojos; Vida; Canto a a
paz; Cuarteto II; Reminiscencias; Espacios; Pieza cíclica; Preludium;
Scribiniana; Impresiones, gtr; Reflejos, fl. Pn, voc music.
Sources: DMEH, GP, IEW, NGDWC,

Gurjão, Henrique Eulálio, Brazilian composer, teacher, and pianist; b.15

Nov 1834, Belém, Pará, Brazil; d.27 Jul 1885, Belém. He studied with
Carlos Antonio Gomes then received a scholarship from the Brazilian
government to study in Rome, Italy, with Giovanni Pacini, and later, at the
Inst. di Musica of Genoa, Italy.
Works: Idália, lyric drama; Uma experiência, musical comedy. Chamb,
theater, marches, romances, sacred music.
Sources: EMB2, MMLA

Gutiérrez, Julio, Cuban composer; b.1918; d.1990.

Works: Me voy asi.
Sources:

Gutiérrez, Hipólito Felipe, Argentine composer; b.4 Feb 1931, Buenos

Aires, Argentina. He studied at the Cons. Superior de Música Manuel de
Falla of Buenos Aires. He studied harmony, counterpoint, fugue,
instrumentation, and composition with Jacobo Ficher, and piano with Elsa
Piaggio de Tarelli. President of the Asociación de Jóvenes Compositores de
la Argentina. Board member of the Compositores Unidos de la Argentina
and of the Consejo Argentino de la Música.
Works: Unamuniana, overture (1966); Música para arcos, str orch (1975);
Tres eternidades, mez sop, orch (1977); Oda II, mez sop, fl, cl, vc;
Nocturno y scherzoso, orch (1991). Chamb, pn, voc music.
Sources: DMEH, DMM, ISC

Gutiérrez, Juan, Argentine composer; b.1840? Buenos Aires, Argentina;

d.1906?, Buenos Aires. He studied music in Spain with Hilarión Eslava. In
1877 when he returned to Buenos Aires he presented a dramatic work at the
old Teatro Colón of Buenos Aires and was then awarded a scholarship to
study in Europe.When he returned to Argentina he helped found the Cons.
Nacional de Música in Buenos Aires.
Works: La sombra de los muertos, dramatic scene, bar, ch, orch (1877); La
vuelta al hogar, cantata, tnr, ch, orch (1877).
Books: Arte del Solfeo, 1891-92, written for the Cons. Nacional de Música.
Sources: DMEH, EMA

Gutiérrez, Manuel María, Costa Rican composer; b.1 Sep 1829, Heredia,
Costa Rica; d.25 Dec 1887, Costa Rica. General dir. of bands of Costa Rica.
Works: Costa Rican National Anthem. El palacio, waltz (1855); Santa Fe,
march (1856); Regina, mazurka; Memorias de un amigo, march.
Bibl.: C. Jinesta, Manuel María Gutiérrez, Cartago, Costa Rica, 1929.
Sources: DM, DMEH, MMLA

Gutiérrez, Pedro Elías, Venezuelan composer and conductor; b.14 Mar

1870, Guayra, Venezuela; d.31 May 1954, Macuto, Venezuela. He began
studying music with Trino Gil and continued at the Acad. de Música del
Inst. Nacional de Bellas Artes de Caracas. In 1901 he joined the Banda
Marcial de Caracas as a double bass player and later became asst. conductor
of the band. He became cond. (1911) and held this job until his retirement
(1949).
Works: Ave María, tnr, vn, va, vc, cb (1899); Algas marinas, pn, orch;
Canción del obrero, vn, pn, orch (1958); Misa de requiem, orch, ch (1970);
Marcha fúnebre 1, winds, vc; Alma llanera, operetta, lyrics by Rafael
Bolívar Coronado (1914). Band, band and soloist, voc, pn music.
Sources: DMEH

Gutiérrez Cortinas, Héctor, Uruguayan composer, conductor, clarinetist

and teacher; b.30 Apr 1931, Canelones, Uruguay. He studied sightreading
and theory in the Cons. Victoria Schenini de Montevideo, graduating as a
clarinetist from the Cons. Fálleri-Balzo. He also studied piano with Pilar P.
de Tejera, clarinet and saxophone with his brother Bolívar Gutiérrez
Cortinas, harmony and composition with Guido Santórsola, song with
Osvaldo Tourn and percussion with Rubén Gamba. He studied harmony,
composition, conducting, counterpoint, orchestration, and clarinet at the
Cons. Nacional de Música de la Univ. de la República (Uruguay). He was a
student of Carlos Estrada, Manuel Fernández Espiro, Héctor Tosar, Pedro
Ipuche Riva and Gerardo Forino. Chair of various departments in the
Conservatoro Nacional de Música de la Univ. de la República (1970-74), in
1975 he immigrated to Venezuela and taught clarinet and voice in the
Barquisimeto. He is author of various didactic works, including a system
called “Nuevo concept” (New concept), used in orchestras of young people
for evaluation of the musicians.
Works: Cimática, orch (1972); Sililoquio para trompeta solo (1973); La
cuarta palabra de Jesucristo en la Cruz, ch, orch (1989).
Sources: DMEH

Gutiérrez del Barrio, Alejandro, Spanish composer; b.2 Feb 1895, León,
Spain; d.15 Sep 1964, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He began studying music
in Madrid, continuing in Buenos Aires with Athos Palma and Edmundo
Weingand.
Works: Cuarteto en La mayor, str (c. 1935); Canción de la carabela, ch,
orch (1945); orch, arrangements, tango orch (1930s); chamb, pn, ch, film
music.
Sources: DMEH

Gutiérrez del Barrio, Ramón, Argentine composer of Spanish origin; b.31

Aug 1903, Jaén, Spain; d.7 Nov 1983, Mendoza, Argentina. He came to
Argentina in 1914 and studied piano with Vicente Scaramuzza and harmony
with Athos Palma. He moved to Mendoza in 1942 and worked as a teacher
of composition and conductor and composer for the film company Film
Andes.
Works: El Dorado ballet, orch (1950); Misa en Re menor, ch, orch (1955);
Qnto, str qt, pn (1963); 12 film scores.
Sources: DMEH 151
Gutiérrez Espinosa, Felipe, Puerto Rican composer and conductor; b.26
May 1825, San Juan, Puerto Rico; d.27 Nov 1899, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
He began studying music with his father Julian, a Spanish musician, and
also studied plainchant which influenced his music. Felipe became
bandmaster of his battalion at the age of 20. After leaving this battalion, he
gave private lessons and played in orchs. He became choir master of the
cathedral of San Juan (1858). He conducted the orch. in the Teatro Tapia
and founded a music acad., most active after 1870.
Works: Magnificat 3 voc; Sonata de vn; masses, lamentations psalms,
symph music.
Sources: DMEH

Gutiérrez Galindo, Alberto, Colombian composer, pianist, violoncellist,

and teacher; b.28 Feb 1897, Anapoima, Cundinamarca, Colombia; d.1970?,
Bogotá, Colombia. After settling in Bogotá, he began studying piano with
Luis Esguerra Salamanca (1912) and continued his musical education at the
Cons. Nacional with Andrés Martínez Montoya. He studied cello with José
Villá and Gregorio Silva and harmony, counterpoint, and composition with
G. Uribe Holguín. In the early 1920s he was a cellist in the Orch. Sociedad
de Conciertos Sinfónicos del Cons. and he also worked as a pianist. He
traveled to Cali (1931) and collaborated with Antonio María Valencia in
founding the Cons. of Cali (1932-33) where he taught cello.
Works: Romanza, vc, pn; Sonatinas, pn; Fuga, vn, va, vc; Estudio, pn, str
qt.
Sources: DMEH

Gutiérrez Gamboa, Carlos, Costa Rican composer; b.22 Mar 1908,

Alajuela, Costa Rica; d.5 Sep 1988, Alajuela. The grandson of José María
Gutiérrez and son of Carlos María Gutiérrez Rodríguez, he taught at the
Inst. de Alajuela.
Works: Añoranza, song.
Sources: DMEH

Gutiérrez Heras, Joaquín, Mexican composer; b.28 Sep 1927, Tehuacán,

Mexico; d.2012. He studied architecture at the Univ. Nacional of Mexico,
Mexico City, Mexico and from 1950-52 he studied composition with Blas
Galindo and Rodolfo Halffter at the Cons. Nacional de Música of Mexico,
Mexico City. In Paris, France, he studied with Olivier Messiaen, Jean
Rivier, and Georges Dandelot at the Cons. National de Musique of Paris
(1952-53). He also studied composition with William Bergsma and Vincent
Persichetti at The Juilliard School of Music in New York, NY, USA (1960-
61). Founding member of the Agrupación Nueva Música of Mexico, and
dir. of the Dept. de Música y Difusión Cultural of UNAM.
Works: Divertimento, pn, orch (1949); El Deportista, satirical ballet (1957);
Chamb Cantata on Poems by Emilio Prado, sop, 2 fl, harp, 4 str (1961);
Los cazadores, symph scene (1962); Night and Day Music, wind orch
(1973); De profundis, a cappella ch (1977); Suite sinfónica (1981);
Postludio, str. (1986); Ludus autumni (1991); Sinfonía breve (1992); Una
melodía Mexicana y ocho disfraces de época 1997); Fantasía concertante
para violonchelo y orch (2005). Chamb, pn, film, theater music.
Sources: BB, DCM, DCMMC, DMEH, GP

Gutiérrez Illanes, Emilio, Bolivian teacher and composer; b.20 Jul 1925,
Cochabamba, Bolivia. As a child he sang in the choir of the convent of
Franciscans of Tarata. He received his first keyboard lessons from the choir
master Corsino Ferrufino and studied popular traditional music and rhythms
independently. He studied at the Acad. Man Césped of Cochabamba then at
the Cons. Nacional de Música of La Paz, Bolivia. He taught at the Escuela
Nacional de Maestros in Sucre and succeeded Teófilo Vargas at the Cons.
de Música de Cochabamba. Founder and dir. of the Centro Coral
Melodramático Boliviano. Dir. of the Dirección Nacional de Educación
Musical of La Paz, from 1966 to 1969.
Works: Ch music and songs: Quejas; Evocación a mi tierra; Brisas del
lago; Orgullo de Cochala; Lily; Cariñito mío; Viva La Paz; Linda
Capinota. Taquiraris: Helahí Benianinga; Cochalita gprimorosa; Olvídate
de mi. Pn music.
Sources: CB, DMEH

Gutiérrez Jiménez, Benjamin, Costa Rican composer, pianist, and

conductor; b.3 Jan 1937, Guadalupe, Costa Rica. Grandson of Enrique and
great grandson of Pilar, he began studying music with his grandmother
Rosa Jiménez Núñez, daughter of the composer Pilar Jiménez Solís. He
studied piano with Miguel Ángel Quesada at the Cons. Nacional (1953-56)
then moved to the Cons. of Guatemala and studied with Augusto Ardenois.
With a scholarship from the International Inst. of Education he studied at
the New England Cons. of Boston, Massachusetts (1959-60) and earned a
Masters in composition. He studied with Darius Milhaud (1961), with Ross
Lee Finney in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and with Alberto Ginastera at the Inst.
Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires (1965-66). He also taught at various
schools (1954-72) including the Escuela República de Nicaragua (1957),
Escuela Pilar Jiménez (1958), Liveo de Heredia (1958), Facultad de
Educación de la Univ. de Costa Rica (1962), Cons. de Castella (1965), and
Cons. Nacional de Música/Escuela de Artes Musicales de la Univ. de Costa
Rica (since 1962, Dir. 1972-75, emeritus 1986). He became assistant Dir. of
the National Symph Orch. in 1970.
Works: Marianela, opera, novel by Benito Pérez Galdós (1957); Trío, fl, cl,
bsn (1959); Ofrenda musical, va, hn, str orch (1959); Dos danzas de Juan
Morel Campos, orch (1960); Concierto, cl, orch (1960); Música para siete
instr, wind ens (1965); Concertino clásico, tpt in C, small orch (1965); La
Reina Tembandumba, overture-fantasia for orch (1966); Tramas, str orch
(1966); Preludio sinfónico, orch (1970); Suite para Orch (1975); Concierto,
fl, orch (1981); El pájaro del crepúsculo, opera (1982); Douze minutes à
Neuchatel, perc, str (1989).
Sources: DMEH, ISC

Gutiérrez Rico, Nicasio, Bolivian conductor and composer; b.14 Dec

1876, Villa Rivero, Cochabamba, Bolivia; d.9 Mar 1952. Little is known
about his life or music education. He traveled to Tarata, Peru (1908) to
organize a band school for children in which brass instruments and music
theory were taught. Many graduates enlisted in the bands of military
garrisons. He was honored for his work in 1939.
Works: Dance, band music.
Sources: DMEH

Gutiérrez Rodríguez, Carlos María, Costa Rican composer; b.1865,

Alajuela, Costa Rica; d.1934, Alajuela. He began music studies with his
father, José María Gutiérrez. He also studied with Eladio Osma and Pilar
Jiménez in San José. He followed his father as choirmaster at the cathedral
of Alajuela and served as the dir. of the Alajuela band.
Works: Himno del Congreso Eucarístco; El Mártir del Gólgota; Misa de
requiem; Marcha grandiose, org.
Sources: DMEH

Gutiérrez y Espinosa, Felipe, Puerto Rican composer; b.26 May 1825, San
Juan, Puerto Rico; d.27 Nov 1899, San Juan. He started music lessons with
his father, Julián Gutiérrez. He became music librarian for the Iberia
battalion (1845) and was appointed chapel master at the Cathedral of San
Juan (1855). Conductor of the orch. of the Teatro Tapia, San Juan, during
opera season.
Works: Guarionex, opera; El bearnés, opera; Macías, opera; El amor de un
pescador, opera; 5 masses; 2 Requiem masses; 8 Salve Regina; Passions;
Letanias.
Bibl.: R. Stevenson, A Guide to Caribbean Music History, Lima 1975. B.
Dueño Colón, Felipe Gutiérrez y Espinosa, Revista del Café, Suplemento,
Vol.31, Ponce, 1976.
Sources: GDM

Guzmán Arredondo, Édgar, Mexican composer; b.1981. He served as a

jury member for fellowships from the Centro de Compositores de Nuevo
León.
Works: Anacreón (2003); Anagrama (2006); Dali-Ha (2008); Versus
(2007); Estudios espectrales III (2010).
Sources: GP

Guzmán Bravo, José Antonio, Mexican harpsichord performer and

composer; b.13 Jan 1946, Mexico City, Mexico. He studied the harpsichord
at the Escuela Nacional de Música de la Univ. Nacional Autónoma de
México (UNAM), Mexico City, and did graduate work at the Royal College
of Music of London where he studied Renaissance and Baroque music with
Colin Tilney, in orchestral ensembles with Francis Baines, and orchestration
with Gordon Jacob. He studied film music at the Univ. of Leiden,
Netherlands, and ethnomusicology at the Univ. of Amsterdam where he
received a doctorate under the guidance of Jaap Kunst. He chaired the
ethnography and ethnomusicology dept. at the Inst. Nacional Indigenista
(INBA) in Mexico and was coordinator of expositions and musical
instruments at the Inst. Nacional de Antropología e Historia. He taught at
the Escuela Vida y Movimiento, at Centro Univ. de Teatro, at Cons.
Nacional de Música of INBA, at Escuela de Teatro of INBA, at Escuela
Nacional de Antropología e Historia, and since 1972, at the Escuela
Nacional de Música of UNAM, all in Mexico City. He published many
works focusing on pre-Hispanic music and instruments.
Works: El monje, opera (1984); Harpsichord Concerto (1984); Suite, gtr,
bsn, clave (1989); Ballet para un solo cuerpo, orch (1990-92); Sonata, pn
(1992); Tres deploraciones, ballet (1992). Pn pieces.
Sources: DCMMC, DMEH

Guzmán Frías, Eustaquio [Segundo], Chilean composer and pianist; b.20

Sep 1841, Santiago, Chile; d.1920, Santiago, Chile. The youngest child of
Eustaquio Gusmán and Josefa Frías in contrast to his brothers Fernando and
Federico he only worked in Chile as a composer, performer, teacher, and
manager. He began his musical training with his father and older brothers.
From1860 until the early 20th century he taught piano and violin. As a
pianist he joined his brother Fernando in the first public concert that was
offered by Federico on his return from Europe on 8 May 1869 in the Teatro
Municipal. He joined the Sociedad Orfeón with his father and uncle (1870)
and became general secretary (1871). In 1876 he played in concerts
organized by José Ducci Buonarroti, and in concerts organized by the
Sociedad de Música Clásica (1879-80). From 1906-18 he participated in
music gatherings with Luis Arriera Cañas and José Miguel Besoaín. He
supported initiatives to stimulate the creation of Chilean music.
Works: Himno heroic, voc, pn (1880); Trio, op.61, 2 vn, pn; Misa nueva
(1874). Voc music.
Sources: DMEH

Guzmán Frías, Federico, Chilean pianist and composer; b.1837, EMA

(1827, HMC), Santiago de Chile, Chile; d.18 Aug 1885, Paris, France. He
studied piano with Louis Moreau Gottschalk in Costa Rica, and later, in
Europe with Alexandre Biffet and Adolphe de Groot. He penned over 200
pieces for piano.
Works: Marcha en Sol menor, orch (1869); Menuet, op.89, pn, vn (1889).
Pn music.
Bibl.: E. Pereira Salas, Los Orígenes del Arte Musical en Chile, Santiago de
Chile, 1941.
Sources: DMEH, EMA, MMLA
Guzmán González, Adolfo, Cuban composer, pianist, and conductor; b.13
May 1920, Savannah, Cuba; d.30 Jul 1976, Havana, Cuba. He started
studying piano with Alberto Falcón and harmony with Bernardo Moncada.
He composed his first piece at the age of 14. He formed the Dúo Ideal with
singer Floro Acosta (1936) and also worked as a piano accompanist in the
Compañía de Variedades Infantiles de Roberto Rodríguez in the Teatro
Martí. From 1937-43 he played with Los Románticos Gauchos, performers
of South American music, especially tangos. He formed the group Guzmán
y sus Porteños, which performed Argentine tango music and accompanied
many musicians who visited Cuba. In the 1940s he conducted the Orch. del
Cabaret Zombie Club and the Orch. Habana-Casino, worked in the Orch.
del Teatro Campoamor, inaugurated the Teatro Warner and toured Santo
Domingo.
Works: Marina, waltz, pn (1934); Danza no. 1, pn (1945); Preludio en Mi
bemol (1958); Concierto en Re y Tristeza, pn, orch (1961); Playa Girón
ballet (1964). Popular, concert, film, theater, ballets, television music.
Sources: DMEH

Guzmán Naranjo, Alberto, Colombian composer, conductor, and teacher;

b.14 Apr 1953, Santa Rosa de Cabal, Colombia. He started to study music
in his native town, and then continued in Cali with León J. Simar at the
Univ. del Valle. He traveled to Paris, France (1978), to study at the Ecole
Normale de Musique, the Schola Cantorum, the Centre d’Etudes
Poliphoniques, the College de France, the Cons. de Genevilliers, and the
Univ. Paris VIII. His teachers included Dominique Rouits, Max Deutch,
Henri Claude Fantapé, Philippe Caillard, Pierre Boulez, Dominique
Jameux, Philippe Manoury, Pierre Doury, and Daniel Charles, with whom
he studied conducting, composition, and music analysis. Prof. at Colombian
Music Inst. and Univ.
Works: Calicanto (1987); Movimiento sinfónico (1988); Estudio (1989);
Sueño Calima (1992). Chamb, band, pn, voc, ch music.
Sources: DMEH, LCRA
 H
Haertling, Carlos Guillermo, Honduran composer of German origin; b.2
Sep 1869, Schlotheim, Germany; d.1920, El Salvador. Husband of
Guadalupe Haertling. He studied at the cons. in Vienna and Leipzig and at
the Royal Academy of Munich, Germany. When he moved to Honduras in
June 1896, he was appointed conductor of the Banda Nacional and dir. of
the Escuela de Música, both of Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
Works: Honduran National Anthem.
Sources: DM, DMEH

Haertling, Guadalupe, Honduran teacher and composer; b.1 Feb 1871,

Tegucigalpa, Honduras; d.? She studied with Laureano Campos and other
teachers in Honduras. Associate dir. of the Cons. Mariana Ugarte. Prof. of
music at various private and public schools in Tegucigalpa. Dir. of her own
school for piano in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. Collaborator with her
husband, composer Carlos Haertling.
Works: Elena, polka, pn; General Francisco Morazán, march, pn. Pn
music.
Sources: MMLA

Hahn Echenagucia, Reynaldo, Venezuelan composer, pianist, conductor,

and critic; b.9 Aug 1874, Caracas, Venezuela; d.28 Jan 1947, Paris, France.
He began his musical training with his mother, Elena Echenagucia de Hahn
and he began composing at age 14. He then studied at the Cons. of Paris
with Lucien Grandjeany, Theodore Dubois, Decombes, Charles Gounod,
Albert Lavignac, Francis Thomé, and Jules Massenet. He lived in France
for 70 years and was friends with Marcel Proust.
Works: Fin d’amour, ballet (1892); El Dios azul, ballet (1912); L’Île du
rêve, opera (1898); El mercador de Venecia, opera (1935); Si mes vers
avaient des ailes, poem of Victor Hugo, voc (1888); Mélodies, 2 vols.
(1895). Operatic, dance, theater, chamb, symph music.
Sources: DMEH
Halac, José Eduardo, Argentine composer; b.18 Feb 1962, Córdoba, Prov.
of Córdoba, Argentina. He studied with César Franchisena at the Univ.
Nacional of Córdoba, Córdoba, and with Charles Dodge at the Brooklyn
College Cons. of Music, City Univ. of New York, New York, NY, USA. He
also took classes with Francisco Kröpfl in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Taught
at the British School and the Univ. Nacional, both in Córdoba. In 1990 he
settled in New York.
Works: Cachalote, orch (1986); La caída del angel, orch (1987). Chamb,
magnetic tape, theater, film music.
Sources: DMEH, ISC

Halffter Escriche, Rodolfo, Mexican composer of Spanish origin; b.30 Oct

1900, Madrid, Spain; d.14 Oct 1987, Mexico City, Mexico. A self-taught
musician, he learned composition by studying classical works. In 1929, he
received some instruction from Manuel de Falla in Granada, Spain. He was
a member of the Grupo de los Ocho, devoted to the promotion of Spanish
modern music. From 1934-1936, he was a music critic for La Voz. He was
chief of the Sección Musical of the Ministerio de Propaganda in 1936, and
member of the Consejo Central de Música of the Spanish Republic in 1937.
After the Loyalist defeat, he fled to France and then to Mexico, where he
settled in 1939. In 1940, he founded the first Mexican contemporary ballet
company, La Paloma Azul. Prof. at the Cons. Nacional de Música of
Mexico in Mexico City, founder-editor of the journal, Nuestra Música, and
in 1946 he founded Ediciones Mexicanas de Música. In 1959 he was
appointed secretary at the Dept. de Música of the Inst. Nacional de Bellas
Artes of Mexico City and in 1961, he became a board member of the Orq.
Sinfónica Nacional of Mexico, Mexico City.
Works: Suite, op.1 (1924-28); Obertura concertante, op.5, pn (1932);
Divertimento, 9 instr (1935); Clavileño, opera (1936); Don Lindo de
Almería, op.7b, ballet (1935); Vn concerto, op.11 (1939-40); La madrugada
del panadero, op.12, ballet (1940); Tres piezas breves, solo harp (1944);
Elena la traicionera, ballet (1945); Tres sonatas de Antonio Soler (1951);
Obertura festiva, op.21 (1952); Tres piezas, str orch, op.23 (1954); Str qt
(1957-58); Tripartita (1959); Vc sonata (1960); Tres movimientos, str qt
(1962); Diferencias, op.33 (1970); Ocho tientos (Fantasías), str qt (1973);
Alborada (1976); Dos ambientes sonorous, op.37 (1975-78); Elegía, in
memoriam Carlos Chávez, op.41 (1978); Paquilitzli, perc. (1983). Pn, voc,
ch music.
Sources: BB, CTA2, DCM, DMEH, DCMMC, DM, GDM, GP, MLA,
MMLA

Hargreaves, Francisco A., Argentine pianist and composer; b.31 Dec

1849, Buenos Aires, Argentina; d.30 Dec 1900, Buenos Aires. A prominent
Argentine composer of the 19th century, he was the first to compose operas
and was also a pioneer of Argentine musical nationalism. He studied with
Giovacchino Maglione at the Istituto Reale di Musica in Florence, Italy.
Works: La gatta Bianca, opera (1875); El vampire, opera (1876); La danza
de las culebras, waltz (1877); Idilio, orch (1878); La danza de los Alfes,
Scandinavian capriccio (1879); Gran marcha, orch (1880); Tutto muore,
romance, tnr (1880); Fantasía y capricho sobre el Gato y el Cielito, orch
(1880); Marcha nupcial (1882); L’assedio di Livorno, opera; Salve Maria,
sop, harp, vc, org (1882); Lanceros porteños, pn (1887); Elena y Clota,
waltz (1888); Una noche de Loreto, opera (1890); Los estudiantes de
Bolonia, opera (1897); Psyché, opera. Pn, voc music.
Sources: DM, DMEH, DMM, EMA

Haro López, Wilson Orlando, Colombian arranger, composer, and bassist;

b.3 Jul 1963, Bogotá, Colombia. Ecuadorian national. He is the eighth
generation of a family of musicians in Cotacachi, Ecuador. He studied
music in the Inst. Luis Ulpiano de la Torre de Imbabura and in the Inst.
Interamericano de Música de Chile and was a student of Julio Bueno,
Guillermo Rifo, and Vicent Gómez. He was a part of the sextet of the
Centro Cultural Cotacachi, and of popular music groups such as Illiniza,
Los Aravicos or the Conjunto de Margarita Laso, and the Banda Municipal
de Quito.
Works: Sinfonía de la Revolución; Sinfonía en Do. Pn, instr, voc, dance
music.
Sources: DMEH

Haro y Tamariz, Jesús, Mexican composer; b.25 Feb 1892, Mexico City,
Mexico; d.? He studied at the Cons. Nacional de Música and at the Escuela
Superior de Música of the UNAM, both in Mexico City. Among his
teahcers were Ignacio del Castillo, Carlos J. Meneses, Estanislao Mejía,
Juan B. Fuentes, Manuel Ponce, Julián Carrillo, and José Rocabruna.
Works: Sonata, pn; Seis sonatinas mexicanas, pn; Canción mexicana, 4
voc; Suite coral; Symphony in C (1934).
Sources: DMEH, MMLA

Hartmann, Federico Guillermo, Argentine musical editor, pianist, and

composer of German birth; b.ca.1840, Bonn, Germany; d.ca.1910, Buenos
Aires, Argentina. He moved to Argentina in 1870 where he opened a music
store, Hartmann and Villaduarts. Around 1872 he began editing music with
the signature Ediciones Hartmann, known for the quality and quantity of its
prints until it closed in 1896. In 1875 he joined the Sociedad del Cuarteto as
a singer and became the conductor in 1886. In 1881 he began to edit and
direct the weekly newspaper, El Mundo Artístico, for which he wrote
criticism on musical and theatrical themes. He founded Almanaque
catálogo musical editions.
Works: Pn music.
Sources: DMEH

Hasler, Johann Friedrich Wolfgang Alexander, Colombian composer;

b.25 Jul 1972, Medellín, Colombia. He started music studies at a very early
age and began composing at 14. He spent 1991 as a volunteer in the Gulf
War and collected Egyptian and Israeli traditional and folk melodies. After
returning to Colombia, he continued his music studies at the Dept. de
Música of the Univ. del Valle, Cali, Colombia, and at the Cons. Nacional de
Música of Bogotá, Colombia. He studied composition and orchestration
with Blas Emilio Atehortúa, Guillermo Gaviria, and Catalina Peralta, music
history with Egberto Bermúdez, Susana Friedman, and Ellie Anne Duque,
electronic music with Roberto García and Horacio Lapidus, and 20th
century harmony with Ileana Pérez. He also studied piano and organ.
Works: Immolatio mundi, opera; Interrupted Drafts for a Symphony in D,
orch (1987); Adagio no.1, orch (1990); Adagio no.2, orch (1992);
Evocation, str (1994); Orchesterstück I (1996); Orch Events (1997);
Guatavita’s Fate, symph poem; Symph Offering no.1; Symph Offering no.2;
Tryptich, str. Chamb, electronic, perc, pn, voc music.
Sources: ISC
Heinlein, Federico, German composer and critic; b.25 Jan 1912, Berlin,
Germany; d.23 Mar 1999, Santiago, Chile. After WW I his parents returned
to Buenos Aires where he studied piano, theory, harmony, and
orchestration. He studied composition with Wilheim Klatte and Paul
Graener and musicology with Arnold Schering and Friedrich Blume at the
Friedrich Wilhelms Universität at the Sternsches Konservatorium of Berlin
(1929-34). He worked in Buenos Aires (1935-40) as an assistant to Fritz
Busch and Erich Kleiber in the Teatro Colón, completing his musical
training there. In 1940 he settled in Viña del Mar, Chile, where he taught
musical interpretation. He traveled to England (1949) where he studied with
Nadia Boulanger, Thurston Dart, and Anthony Hopkins. He settled in
Santiago (1952), performed, joined chamber groups, accompanied, and
taught at the Escuela Moderna de Música. He taught at the Univ. of Chile
(1954-89) and at the Univ. Católica de Santiago (1960-62). As a critic he
wrote for the magazine, Pro Arte, and the newspaper, El Mercurio, in
Santiago. He won composition awards, became a member of the Asociación
Nacional de Compositores (1952) and represented his country as the
chairman of the Univ. de Chile in international events including Tribuna
Internacional de Compositores de la Unesco, Congreso Internacional on
Teatro Contemporáneo, Asamblea General de la Sociedad Internacional de
Música Contemporánea, SIMC. He spoke at North American universities.
Works: Cuarteto, str (1936); Cinco canciones, ch (1946); Sinfonietta, orch
(1954); Salve Regina, ch, accompaniment (1981); Villancicos para voces
iguales, ch (1985); Danzas, cl, bsn, pn (1988); Tres, vn, vc, pn (1991).
Sources: DMEH

Heitz, Santiago, Jr., Chilean pianist and composer; b.middle of 19th

century, Chile. Son of a Swiss manufacturer, Santiago Heitz, founder of a
fabric factory in Santiago. He began to be known as a composer after a trip
to California in 1848 on a concert tour.
Works: Las arpas chilenas, op 5, fantasy, pn; El alba, song.
Sources: DMEH

Helguera Villa, Juan, Mexican guitarist and composer; b.14 Feb 1932,
Mérida, State of Yucatán, Mexico. He studied with Víctor Madera, Juárez
García, José María Mendoza, Adelina González, Leonel Canto, and José F.
Vázquez. He wrote the music section of several journals and the
newspapers Novedades and El Día. He founded and directed the journal,
Guitarra de México. Founding member of the Liga de Compositores de
Música de Concierto of Mexico.
Works: gtr music.
Sources: DMEH, DCMMC

Henrique da Costa Pereira, Valdemar, Brazilian composer and pianist;

b.15 Feb 1905, Belém, Pará, Brazil; d.28 Mar 1995, Belém. In 1930 he
entered the Cons. of Belém, where he studied piano and solfeggio with
Nicota de Andrade. Later he entered the Cons. Carlos Gomes where he
studied harmony and composition with Filomena Brandão Baars and Ettore
Bosio and piano with Beatriz Simões. In 1933, he went to Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil, where he studied with Joaquím Barroso Neto, Oscar Lorenzo
Fernández, Newton Pádua, and Artur Bosnians. Member of the Acad.
Brasileira de Música
Works: Valsinha de Marajó, pn; Muiraquitã, overture, orch. Songs: Foi
Boto; Sinhá; Cobra Grande; Tambatajá; Matimtaperêra; Uirapuru;
Curupira; Mãnha Ningãra; Boi Bumbá; Coco Peneruê; Farinhada;
Senhora Dona Sancha; Rolinha; Violeiro da Estrada; Trem de Alagoas;
Essa Negra Fulô. Pn, voc music.
Sources: EMB2, HMB

Heredia, Juan, Argentine composer and conductor; b.17 Feb 1898,

General Villegas, Prov. of Buenos Aires, Argentina; d.? He studied with
Arturo Berutti, Floro Ugarte, Ernesto de la Guardia, Jorge Cabral, José Gil,
and José André. Assistant conductor at the Teatro Colón of Buenos Aires,
Argentina. Prof. at the Cons. Nacional de Música Carlos López Buchardo of
Buenos Aires, and at the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes of the Univ.
Nacional of La Plata, Prov. of Buenos Aires.
Works: El uturunco, opera; Preludio sinfónico, orch; Overture, orch; voc,
pn music.
Books: Teoría Musical, Buenos Aires, 1935.
Sources: DM, EMA

Hermann, Juan Ignacio, Colombian composer; b.1965, Bogotá,

Colombia. A classical guitarist, he won the composition competition of the
Sinfonía Musical de la Radiodifusora Nacional de Colombia in February
1990. He studied at the Univ. Pedagógica Nacional for two and a half years
and studied piano with K. Bermúdez and G. Gaviria at the Univ. Javeriana.
Works: Gtr music.
Sources: DMEH

Hernández, Hermilio, Mexican organist and composer; b.2 Feb 1931,

Autlán, State of Jalisco, Mexico. He studied with José S. Valadez, Manuel
de Jesús Aré-chica, and Domingo Lobato at the Escuela Superior Diocesana
de Música Sagrada in Guadalajara, Mexico, and graduated in 1956. He
continued studying in Italy at the Istituto Pontificio di Musica Sacra of
Rome with Vignanelli, Bertolucci, and Baratta, and in Paris, France, at the
Inst. Grégorien with Edouard Souberville. Dir. of the Escuela de Música of
the Univ. of Guadalajara, from 1974-77, where he teaches and is researcher.
Organist at the Cathedral of Guadalajara
Works: Cantata de adviento (1953); Cinco piezas, orch (1955); Sonata,
chamb orch (1964); Str qt (1954); Pn trio (1955); Wind qnt (1965); Pn
concerto (1981); Vn concerto (1987); Concierto Modal, orch (1991); Cl
concerto (1992). Chamb, solo instr, voc, ch music.
Sources: BB, DMEH, DCMMC

Hernández, Julio Alberto, Dominican composer; b.27 Sep 1900, Santiago

de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic; d.? He studied with Ramón E.
Peralta, José O. García Vila, Juan Francisco García, and Pedro Sanjuán in
Havana, Cuba. Conductor of the orch. of the Sociedad Sinfónica of Ciudad
Trujillo, the Banda Municipal of Bani, and the Banda Municipal of
Santiago de los Caballeros, all in the Dominican Republic. Dir. of the Inst.
Musical Juan Francisco García.
Works: Suite romantic, orch; Danza oriental, orch; Vals triste, orch;
Romanza sin palabras, orch; El sí que las pierde, zarzuela; La ilusión que
pasa, zarzuela; La bruja de la luna, zarzuela. Pn, band, voc music.
Sources: DM, DMEH, MLA, MMLA

Hernández, Manuel E., Venezuelan flutist, violinist, and composer; b.19th

century, Caracas, Venezuela. He worked in the second half of the 19th
century. In 1877 after creating the Inst. de Bellas Artes de Caracas he was
named chair of the woodwind department.
Works: Misa de dos voces, 2 voc, org; Misa La Preciosa; Ave María, 2 voc,
orch; Reina Sagrada, voc, pn (1880); Liberame Domine, 4 voc, org, orch;
Salve Reina de los Cielos, 2 voc, org.
Sources: DMEH

Hernández, Marcelo, Mexican teacher, organist, pianist, and composer;

b.ca. 1830, Querétaro, Mexico; d.ca.1895. He played religious and popular
music and taught various instruments and composition at the Seminario de
Querétaro.
Works: sacred music.
Sources: DMEH

Hernández, Rafael María, Venezuelan composer, conductor and

instrumentalist; b.15 Sep 1905, Boconó, Venezuela; d.5 Dec 1973, Caracas,
Venezuela. He began his musical studies in Boconó with Camilo Antonio
Esteves y Galves, José del Carmen Benítez, and Baldomero Ferández. Later
in Caracas he studied composition and instrumentation. He was a virtuoso
trumpet player and violinist and also played the organ, piano, clarinet,
saxophone, and mandolin. He founded and conducted the Banda
Filarmónica Bolívar (8 Mar 1925), played the trumpet in the Banda Sagrado
Corazón (1931) which he later conducted and founded and conducted the
Estudiantina Ideal (20 Nov 1933). He conducted the Banda Unión (1938-
45) then with members of the band and his students, founded and conducted
the Banda El Porvenir (1945). He moved to Guárico, state of Lara, where
he conducted the Banda Simón Castejón (1954). Later he returned to
Boconó, taught at the Escuela Municipal de Música, the Escuela Cruz
Carrillo, composed, conducted, and was organist of the chorus of the Iglesia
Matriz de San Alejo until retiring (1972).
Works: Sinfonía del Alba, orch; Misa a Nuestra Señora de Coromoto;
Réquiem. Voc, dance music.
Sources: DMEH

Hernández, Rodolfo, Cuban composer, organist, and teacher; b.30 Sep

1856, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba; d.21 Mar 1937, Santiago de Cuba. He
studied flute, piano, and violin with Laureano Fuentes Matons, and
harmony, composition, and organ with Juan Cardona. At 16, he became
organist and choirmaster of the Capilla del Asilo San José, and later, of the
Cathedral of Santiago de Cuba. Conductor of the orch. of the Sociedad
Haydn.
Works: El as alto, zarzuela; Geografía física, zarzuela; Intermezzo, orch;
Gavota, orch; Caprichosa, orch; Mass in C major. Pn music.
Books: music theory and harmony.
Sources: DMC

Hernández Acevedo, Juan, Mexican composer and flutist: b.23 Jun 1859
or 1862, Mexico City, Mexico; d.6 Apr 1894, Mexico City. He studied
harmony and composition with Melesio Morales, and flute with Mariano
Jiménez in Mexico. In 1881, he went to Paris, France, where he continued
his flute studies with Joseph Henri Altès. In 1889, he returned to Mexico
and, together with Ricardo Castro, Felipe Villanueva, and Gustavo E.
Campa, founded a music instititution. He also organized a symphony orch.
in Mexico City, and later, one in San Luis de Potosí, Mexico, where he
settled and devoted most of his time to teaching.
Works: 2 symphonies; Misa de Requiem; Misa solemne; Wedding March.
Fl music.
Sources: DMEH, MMLA

Hernández Balaguer, Pablo, Cuban musicologist, cellist, and composer;

b.13 Jul 1928, Havana, Cuba; d.31 Jan 1966, Havana. He studied cello with
Ernesto Xancó then continued in Barcelona, Spain. He studied musicology
in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in Budapest, Hungary, and in Moscow, Russia.
He researched the history of Cuban music. Prof. at the Univ. of Santiago de
Cuba, at the Univ. of Oriente, and the Cons. Esteban Salas, all of Cuba.
Founder of the Archivo Provincial de Música of the Univ. of Oriente.
Works: Orch, voc music.
Books: Breve Historia de la Música Cubana; Catálogo de Música de los
Archivos de la Catedral de Santiago y del Museo Bacardí; Obras de
Esteban Salas; Los Villancicos, Cantadas, y Pastorelas de Esteban Salas.
Sources: DMC2, KTL

Hernández Gama, José, Mexican composer; b.2 Feb 1925, Lagos de

Moreno, State of Jalisco, Mexico. He studied at the Escuela Diocesana de
Música of Guadalajara, and at the Escuela Superior de Música of Morelia,
State of Michoacán, both in Mexico. His teachers included Miguel Bernal
Jiménez and Ignacio Mier Arriaga. Prof. at the Facultad de Música of the
UANL and at the Escuela Superior de Música y Danza, Mexico City,
Mexico.
Works: Estampa mexicana, orch; Concertino infantil, orch; Cantata a
Lagos, ch, orch; Canto sinfónico a Monterrey, soloists, ch, orch. Sacred, ch,
voc, pn music.
Sources: DCMMC, DMEH

Hernández Gonzalo, Gisela, Cuban composer and choral conductor; b.15

Sep 1912, Cárdenas, Matanzas, Cuba; d.23 Aug 1971, Havana, Cuba. She
studied harmony, music history, and music aesthetics with María Muñoz de
Quevedo at the Cons. Bach (1930-35) and composition with José Ardévol
at the Cons. Municipal (1940-44), both of Havana. She also studied with
Gustav Strube and Theodore Chandler at the Peabody Inst. of Music,
Baltimore, MD, USA (1944-47). Dir. of the Dept. of Music of Ariel
College. Member of the Grupo Renovación Musical. Dir. of the Coral
Havana. Prof. at the Cons. Hubert de Blanck in Havana.
Works: Sonata, pn (1942); Suite coral (1942); Romance (1942); Tres
canciones (1943); Soneto (1943); Prelude and Gigue, pn (1943); Dos
villancicos (1944); Aleluya (1944); Zapateo cubano, pn (1954); Cuatro
cubanas, pn (1957); Seis preludios, pn (1961-69); La muchacha de Quang-
Nam (1969). Chamb, theater, voc music.
Sources: DCM, DM, DMC, DMEH, GDM, MLA, MMLA, NGDWC

Hernández López, Rhazés, Venezuelan composer, music critic, teacher,

and musicologist; b.30 Jun 1918, Petare, Miranda, Venezuela; d.13 Jan
1991, Caracas, Venezuela. He studied flute with Agustín García and Simón
Alvarez in Caracas, and with Georges Barrère in New York, NY, USA. He
later took classes with Vicente Emilio Sojo and Juan Bautista Plaza in
Caracas. Music critic of the newspapers El Universal and El Nacional, both
of Caracas. Prof. of music in several music schools. Dir. of the Dept. de
Investigaciones del Inst. Latinoamericano de Investigaciones y Estudios
Musicales Vicente Emilio Sojo.
Works: Cuadros, fl, vn, va, vc, harp (1950); Las torres desprevenidas,
symph poem (1951); Sonorritmo, orch (1953); Mérida, geografía celeste,
symph suite (1958); Expansión tres, orch (1965); Horizontal, fl, str (1966);
Tres dimensiones, str (1967). Chamb, pn, voc music.
Sources: BB, DMEH

Hernández Medrano, Humberto, Mexican composer; b.2 Jul 1941,

Chihuahua, Mexico. He studied composition at the Taller de Creación
Musical de Carlos Chávez, Mexico City. He took courses with Aaron
Copland, Dmitri Kabalevsky, Dmitri Shostakovich, and Rodolfo Halffter.
Prof. at the Cons. Nacional de Música of INBA, Mexico City. Founded the
Escuela de Música of the Univ. Autónoma of Sinaloa and the Taller de
Estudios Polifónicos, both in Mexico.
Works: 3 symphonies, Académica, Dramática, and Profética (1962, 1963,
1995); Allegro sinfónico (1961); Fuga sinfónica serial (1975); Vuelo
interior, symph. poem (1985); Tercera sinonía “Profética” (1995);
Plegaria y profecía, cantata in one movement (2008); Homenaje a Copland
(2007, rev.2010). Chamb, pn, voc music.
Sources: DMEH, DCMMC, GP

Hernández Moncada, Eduardo, Mexican composer, pianist, and

conductor; b.24 Sep 1899, Jalapa, Veracruz, Mexico; d.31 Dec 1995 He
studied solfeggio with Joaquín Beristain and Rafael Tello and piano and
composition with Aurelio Barrios y Morales at the Cons. Nacional de
Música of Mexico City, Mexico. Assistant conductor of the Orq. Sinfónica
of Mexico, Mexico City, in 1936. He taught at various official inst. of
Mexico. Dir. of the choir of the Opera Nacional of Mexico, Mexico City.
Secretary of the Cons. Nacional de Música.
Works: Elena, opera; Procesional, ballet (1940); Ixtepec, ballet (1945);
Viaje sin fin (1949); Ermesinda (1952). Seis poemas del Rubayat, voc,
chamb orch (1931); El trompo, children’s ch, orch (1933); Poemontaje,
cantata (1933); Tres coros escolares (1937); Bajío (1939); Canto filial
(1939); Himno a la raza, children’s ch, orch (1939); 2 symphonies (1942,
1943); Guelatao, symph. suite (1957); El niño perdido (1960); Tres sonetos
de Sor Juana (1981); Trece villancicos, mixed ch, orch (1987); Album del
corazón, pn.
Sources: BB, DM, DMEH, GDM, GP, MMLA

Hernández Zurbarán, José, Cuban Prof. of music and composer; b.1860,

Trinidad Island; d.1918, Cienfuegos, Cuba. He settled in Cienfuegos at a
very young age and developed an active musical life.
Works: Eureka, zarzuela (1897). Danzones (Cuban slow dance), waltzes.
Sources: DMC, MMLA

Herra, Rodríguez Luis Diego, Costa Rican composer; b.23 Feb 1952, San
José de Costa Rica, Costa Rica. He studied composition with Benjamín
Gutiérrez and conducting with Agustín Cullell in Costa Rica. He also
studied composition with Ivo Malec and Betsy Jolas, and conducting with
J.S. Bereau, León Barzin, and Pierre Derveaux at the Cons. of Strasbourg,
France.
Works: Canción, cl, orch (1974); Preludio, orch (1976); Adagio, str (1976);
Cuadros, orch (1978); De la piedra, ballet (1981); Triforme, symph band
(1987); Sinfonía No.1 (1990); Morazán vive, overture, orch (1992); Llegas
a mis sueños, love songs, voc qt, ch, orch (1993). Chamb, ch, voc, pn, solo
instr, incidental music.
Sources: DMEH, NP

Herrarte, Manuel, Guatemalan pianist and composer; b.Guatemala; fl.first

half of the 20th century. He studied in Guatemala with Georgette Contoux
de Castillo and Ricardo Castillo. With a scholarship from the US
government he studied composition with Howard Hanson and conducting
with Paul White at the Eastman School of Music of the Univ. of Rochester,
NY, USA. He studied briefly with Igor Stravinsky and took piano lessons
from Robert Casadesus.
Works: Sinfonietta, pn, orch; Seis bocetos, pn; Suite, pn; Scherzo, pn.
Sources: DMEH, HMG, MMLA

Herrejón, Juan Cuauhtémoc, Mexican composer, teacher, and music

critic; b.30 Oct 1943, Mexico City, Mexico; d.27 Apr 1993, Mexico City.
He studied at the Cons. Nacional de Música of INBA, Mexico City, with
Carlos Jiménez Mabarak, Rodolfo Halffter, Gerhart Muench, and Manuel
Enríquez. He studied orch. conducting with Armando Zayas, Francisco
Savín, Luis Herrera de la Fuente, and Edward Fendler, and electronic music
with Héctor Quintanar and Raúl Pavón. He continued at the Accademia
Musicale Chiggiana of Siena, Italy, with Piero Beluggi and Franco
Donatoni. Founding member of the group Quanta. Assistant conductor at
the Orq. Sinfónica of the Cons. Nacional de Música of INBA and the Orq.
Sinfónica Juvenil Vida y Movimiento, Mexico City.
Works: Tractus II, str orch (1973-83); El nombre, sop (1981); Pasacalle,
timpani (1991); Canto III, timpani. Chamb, solo instr, electroacoustic,
computer, voc music.
Sources: DCMMC, DMEH

Herrera, Emilio, Chilean composer and pianist; b.19th century, Talca,

Chile. He was a student of Guillermo Deichert and until 1875 taught piano
privately in Santiago. Some of his music is in the Univ. de Chile.
Works: pn music: La Dicha, op. 10, polka; Lágrimas en el océano, op. 12,
waltz; ¡A las armas! Nueva canción nacional, op 22, hymn; Dispair; El
dart, polka; Rafaela.
Sources: DMEH

Herrera, Florentino, Cuban flutist and composer; b.6 Feb 1895, Havana,
Cuba; d.3 Dec 1929, Switzerland. He studied in Havana then in New York,
NY, USA, and in Paris, France, where he took composition lessons from
Vincent d’Indy at the Schola Cantorum.
Works: Capricho cubano, orch; Danzas cubanas, pn. Pn, voc music.
Sources: DMC, DMEH

Herrera, Hilda Nora, Argentine pianist, composer, and researcher; b.20

Oct 1933, Capilla del Monte, Argentina. She began studying piano at the
age of 4 in her native city and later with Ferruccio Canale. She studied folk
music of Argentina, performed, composed, and gave recitals in Argentina
sponsored by the Fondo Nacional del las Artes (1987-89) with the support
of the Secretaría de Cultura de la Municipalidad de Buenos Aires. She was
the dir. of the Argentine and Latin American music department of the Inst.
Superior de Música de la Univ. Nacional del Litoral (1974-75) and taught
Argentine music in the Sociedad Argentina de Autores y Compositores
(1975-79). In 1985 she coordinated programs for the Cons. Municipal
Manuel de Falla in Buenos Aires. She directed radio shows in the city of
Rosario and performed Argentine folk music in Paris (1992).
Works: Introducción y Chaya, gtr qt; Vidala y huella, pn, vn, cl. Chamb,
popular, collaborative (with poets, artists) music.
Sources: DMEH

Herrera, José María, Mexican composer, organist, and teacher; b.18th

century, Querétaro, Mexico. He was choirmaster, organist, and taught music
at La Congregación, a church in Querétaro founded in 1680.
Works: Non fecit taliter, 4 voc, vn, tpt, small drums, cb, org.
Sources: DMEH

Herrera, Mariano, Costa Rican organist, band musician, and composer;

b.22 Nov 1902, Guadalupe de Goicoechea, Prov. of San José, Costa Rica.
He began music studies in his native town then moved to San José, Costa
Rica, where he studied harmony with Alvise Castegnaro, composition with
Julio Fonseca, orchestration with Juan Loots, and piano with César Nieto.
Member of the band of San José.
Works: Marcha solemne, band (1931); Marcha festiva, band (1932); Suite
en cinco números, band (1935); Melodías pintorescas, band (1941); Suite
sinfónica e intermezzo, band (1942); Misa de Requiem (1929); Misa de
Gloria (1943). Voc music.
Sources: DMEH, MMLA

Herrera, Tomás de, Peruvian composer and organist; fl. 1611-20, Cuzco,
Peru; d.before 25 Feb 1682, Cuzco. In 1611, he became organist at the
Cathedral of Cuzco.
Works: Hijos de Eva Tributarios, 3-part chansonnette.
Bibl.: R. Stevenson, The Music of Peru, Washington, DC, 1960. R.
Stevenson, Renaissance and Baroque Musical Sources in the Americas,
Washington, DC, 1970.
Sources: DMEH, GDM

Herrera Álvarez, Manuel, Mexican organist, composer, conductor, and

Prof.; b.29 Jan 1849, Durango, Mexico; d.5 Jul 1906, Durango, Mexico. He
was choirmaster of the Cathedral of Durango, founded the music academy
and an orchestra in Durango. He performed in northern Mexico.
Works: Religious music.
Sources: DMEH

Herrera de la Fuente, Luis, Mexican composer and conductor; b.26 Apr

1916, Mexico City, Mexico; He studied piano and violin, and took
composition lessons with José Francisco Vázquez Cano and Rodolfo
Halffter. He studied conducting with Sergiu Celibidache and Hermann
Scherchen. Principal conductor of the Orq. Sinfónica Nacional of Mexico,
Mexico City, from 1954 to 1972. Conductor of the Orq. Sinfónica Nacional
of Peru, Lima (1965-71). He was appointed music dir. of the Oklahoma
Symph. Orch., Oklahoma City, OK, USA. Prof. of orch. conducting at the
Escuela Nacional de Música of UNAM, Mexico City.
Works: Dos movimientos, orch (1948); Capricho para cuerdas (1951); La
estrella y la sirena, ballet (1951); Divertimento No.1, orch (1952);
Fronteras, ballet (1954); Cuauhtemoc, opera (1960); Sonata para cuerdas
(1963); Sinfonía en un movimiento (2008); Concertante para vc y orch
(2009); Concierto para ob y orch de cuerdas (2009); Concierto para pn y
orch (2011). Chamb, orch, pn music.
Sources: BB, DCMMC, DMEH, GP

Herrera y Chumacero, Juan de, Colombian composer; b.ca.1665-70,

Bogotá, Colombia; d.before 18 Mar 1738, Bogotá. He studied music at the
Seminario Conciliar of San Luis, and pursued his clerical studies at the
Colegio Jesuita San Bartolomé, both in Colombia. Choirmaster at the
Convento Dominicano Santa Inés and at the Cathedral of Bogotá.
Works: Lecciones y salmos de exequias (1694); Misa de Requiem (1704);
Toquen los clarines y suenen las cajas, villancico (1707); Que sacra, eterna
palabra, villancico (1712); Lamentaciones de las tinieblas, 4 voc (1719);
Misa Ferial; Misa de Befagni y Misa en Cordis; Salmos de Vísperas, 5 voc;
Officium Defunctorium, 8 voc.
Bibl.: J.I. Perdomo Escobar, Esbozo Histórico sobre la Música
Colombiana, Boletín Latinoamericano de Música, Vol. 4, 1938. J.I.
Perdomo Escobar, Historia de la Música en Colombia, Bogotá, 1963. R.
Stevenson, Renaissance and Baroque Musical Sources in the Americas,
Washington, DC, 1970.
Sources: DM, DMEH, GDM, MMLA

Herrera y Ogazon, Alba, Mexican performer, music critic, teacher, and

composer; b.2 Feb 1885, Mexico City; d.1931. She began piano lessons in
childhood and revealed herself to be virtuosic by age 8. She studied with
Carlos Meneses, Pedro Luis Ogazón, and Ricardo Castro at the Cons.
Nacional. She taught at UNAM, the Cons. Nacional, and contributed to
several journals.
Works: Pn music.
Sources: IEW
Herrerías Guerra, Claudia, Mexican composer; b.1962. She studied
music at UNAM (1982-88), Meistersinger-Konservatorium in Nürnberg
(1990-96), and the Univ. of Glasgow (2003-04). In 2010, she entered the
Univ. of York to pursue her Ph.D.
Works: El barco (2004, rev. 2008); Las chimeneas que observe a través de
mi ventana, fl; aeternae vires, voc, ch, orch (2012-13).
Sources: GP

Herzfeld, Conrado, Argentine pianist and composer of German origin;

b.1845, Berlin, Germany; d.1914, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He settled in
Buenos Aires in 1868. Dir. of the choral society Germania. He founded the
Cons. La Capital in Buenos Aires.
Works: Gran fantasía, orch (1870); Requiem, soloists, ch, orch (1877); Te
Deum, soloists, ch, orch (1886); Gran fantasía, orch (1870). Pn, voc music.
Sources: DMEH, EMA

Hierrezuelo, Francisco José, Cuban composer; b.18th century, Santiago de

Cuba, Cuba. He was chaplain for the choir and played in the Orch. at the
Cathedral of Santiago de Cuba. In 1785 he left the Cathedral and went to
Santo Domingo to complete a doctorate in law.
Works: None of his works appear to have survived.
Sources: DMEH

Hinestrosa de Rosero, Maruja, Colombian pianist and composer; b.16

Nov 1916, San Juan de Pasto, Colombia. She began her musical studies in
sight reading, piano, and song in San Juan de Pasto with her mother
Bautista. She performed piano recitals in Colombia.
Works: Concierto en Si menor, pn, orch; Saudade, pn; studies, sonatas, pn.
Ch, voc, popular music.
Sources: DMEH

Hobert, Egon, Argentine composer; b.21 Jun 1905, Buenos Aires,

Argentina. He studied with Ernesto Drangosch, Athos Palma, and Héctor
Belucci. In 1926, he was appointed assistant conductor and assistant to the
dir. of studies of the Teatro Colón of Buenos Aires. In 1927, he was
appointed Prof. at the Cons. Nacional de Música Carlos López Buchardo of
Buenos Aires.
Works: Africa, symph poem; Dos danzas españolas, trio; Dos canciones
eslavas, bar, orch. Voc music.
Sources: DM, EMA

Hochmann, Emilio, Austrian composer, conductor, and teacher; b.30 Mar

1897, Vienna, Austria; d.10 Feb 1971, Sucre, Bolivia. He earned a Ph.D.
from the Academy of Vienna and the Musicology Inst. of the Univ. of
Austria. He began conducting and composing (1918) and won a prize for a
lullaby he composed for the Queen of Holland. He taught in Tokyo then
moved to Cochabamba, Bolivia, organized the city’s orchestra, and
cofounded the Acad. de Música Man Césped. After 1945 he conducted the
choir at the Escuela Nacional de Maestros de Sucre, directed the Acad. de
Música, was assistant in the Filármonica Sucre, founded and conducted the
Orch. Sinfónica Eduardo Berdecio in Sucre while teaching in the music
department of the Escuela Normal. He became a Bolivian citizen (1948)
and worked in the Bolivian educational system for 31 years. The Bolivian,
government awarded him the Cóndor de los Andes con la Gran Orden
Boliviana de la Educación and he received the Gran Premio Loyola award
for his musical activity (1963).
Works: El indio Huallpa, orch (1950); Bolivia, orch (1960); Primavera,
accompanied ch. Ch, voc, film music.
Sources: DMEH

Hollanda, Cirlei Moreira de, Brazilian composer; b.1 Mar 1948, Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil. She started her music studies with Nayl Lucas then entered
the EMUFRJ, where she studied with Neyda Montarroyos, Rafael Batista,
Judith Cocarelli, and Benevides Soares, graduating in piano in 1970. She
took a course in composition with Henrique Morelenbaum.
Works: Isto é Aquilo-Palavra, cantata (1977); Topología do medo, soloists,
nar, mixed ch (1979); Vitória, mez sop (1983); Judas em sábado de Aleluia,
opera (1988). Solo instr, voc music.
Sources: EMB2

Holzmann, Rodolfo, Peruvian composer and ethnomusicologist; b.27 Nov

1910, Breslau, Germany; d.4 Apr 1992, Lima, Peru. He settled in Peru in
1944. He studied piano with Winfried Wolf, composition with Vladimir
Vogel, and conducting with Robert Robitschek at the Klindworth-
Scharwenka Cons. of Berlin, Germany. In 1933, he studied with Nadia
Boulanger in Paris, France. Taught composition at the Acad. Nacional de
Música Alzedo of Lima and the Cons. Nacional de Música of Lima, where
he was also the dir. of the Biblioteca y Archivos.
Works: Suite radiofónica, orch (1932); Divertimento concertante, orch
(1941); Dos movimientos obstinados, orch (1945); Suite Arequipeña, orch
(1946); First symphony (1946); Pequeña suite peruana (1948); Pn concerto
(1949); Partita, str orch (1951); Suite sinfónica (1954); La pasión del que
mora en la tierra, cantata, ch (1959); Dodedicata (1966). Ch, chamb, pn,
voc music.
Books: Panorama de la Música Tradicional del Perú, Lima, 1966.
Sources: DM, DMEH, GDM, MLA, MMLA

Horst, Jorge, Argentine composer and teacher; b.26 Apr 1963, Rosario,
Prov. of Santa Fe, Argentina. He studied composition with Dante Grela,
Francisco Kröpfl, Jorge Molina, Mariano Etkin, Carmelo Saitta, and
Gerardo Gandini. Founding member of Grupo Klank for contemporary
music and the Asociación Santafesina de Compositores. Prof. at the Centro
Cultural y Educacional of San Lorenzo, at the Escuela Nacional de Música
of Rosario, and at the Inst. Nacional del Profesorado of Rosario, all in Prov.
of Santa Fe, and at the Facultad de Bellas Artes of the Univ. Nacional of La
Plata, Prov. of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Works: Páramos humanos, male voc, cl, va, pn, perc (1984); Canciones al
tiempo, female voc, fl, cl, cb, perc (1985); Axos (A y B), cl (1986);
Madrigale a Gesualdo, str qnt (1988-90); Corales, cb, cl, bsn, tnr sax, trb, 2
cb (1988); Fresco, orch (1989); Piante, 2 bandonions, 2 cb (1989); …Sobre
la nieve negra, cb, cl, cb, pn (1990); Van Gogh, fl, ob, va, pn, perc (1990).
Sources: CAMR, DMEH

Hoyo, Faustino del, Argentine composer and double bass player; b.18 Mar
1909, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied double bass with Amílcar
Salvini and composition with Marcoli. He joined the Orch. of the
Asociación del Profeserado of Buenos Aires (1927), the Orch. of Teatro
Colón (1928-67), and the Chamb Orch. of Argentina (1947). He taught
double bass at the Inst. Superior de Arte del Teatro Colón and after 1958
conducted other Argentine orchestras. He received a composition award in
1946 from the Musical Courier magazine.
Works: Preludio y doble fuga, pn (1944); Burlesca, vc, pn (1951); Concerto
grosso, vn, va, vc, fl, pn, orch (ca.1953); Canciones argentinas, voc, pn (c.
1974).
Sources: DMEH

Hoz Ariza, Manuel Ezequiel de la, Colombian composer, teacher, pianist;

b.24 Jul 1885, Barranquilla, Colombia; d.19 Jun 1976, Barranquilla,
Colombia. He began studying music in Barranquilla at 9 years of age then
continued in Bogotá at the Acad. Nacional de Música, where he studied
piano with Andrés Martínez Montoya and Santos Cifuentes. He became
vice consul for Germany (1905) and for four years studied at the Real Cons.
of Music in Leipzig. His teachers included Robert Teichmuller, piano; and
Paul Quasdorf, theory, harmony and counterpoint. He returned to Colombia
(1909) and studied at the Acad. Nacional de Música, then returned to
Germany to study piano (1913). He returned to Barranquilla, Colombia
(1914), and founded the Acad. de Música del Atlántico (later renamed the
Cons. de Música Pedro Biava de la Univ. del Atlántico) which he directed
for 18 years.
Works: Pn music.
Sources: DMEH

Hualpa, Sergio, Argentine composer and teacher; b.3 Jan 1941, Godoy
Cruz, Mendoza, Argentina; d.10 Jul 1990, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He
studied piano and composition in the Escuela Superior de Música de la
Univ. Nacional de Cuyo (1965) and in Buenos Aires took courses with
Erwin Leuchter. He studied at the Univ. of Indiana, USA (1967-68) then in
Paris (1972-73). As a performer he won the Premio de la Sociedad
Filarmónica de Mendoza (1964). He taught at the Cons. Provincial Gilardo
Gilari in the Facultad de Bellas Artes de la Univ. Nacional de La Plata
where he developed his “Proyecto de investigación sobre aspectos
semánticos del discurso armónico” (Research project on semantic aspects of
harmonic discourse). With Santiago Santero he founded the Grupo Estudio
Contemporáneo dedicated to the analysis and promotion of 20th century
Argentine music and directed it from1986-90.
Works: Sonata para flauta y pn (1980-81); Tríptico para gtr (1986-87);
Expansiones, vn, pn (1990).
Sources: DMEH
Huízar García de la Cadena, Candelario, Mexican composer; b.2 Feb
1888, DM (1883, BB), Jérez, State of Zacatecas, Mexico; d.3 May 1970,
Mexico City, Mexico. He studied violin and composition. In 1917, he
settled in Mexico City where he continued his studies with Gustavo Campa
at the Cons. Nacional de Música of Mexico. Music copyist (1920-25),
librarian, and Prof. of music analysis and composition at the Cons. Nacional
de Música of Mexico. Horn player with the Orq. Sinfónica of Mexico,
Mexico City, 1929-37.
Works: 5 symphonies (1930, 1936, 1938, 1942, 1960); Imágenes, symph.
poem (1927); Pueblerinas, symph poem (1931); Sonata, cl, bsn (1931);
Surco, symph. poem (1935); Str qt (1938). Ch, voc music.
Bibl.: O. Mayer-Serra, Panorama de la Música Mexicana, Mexico 1941.
J.C. Romero, Candelario Huízar, Nuestra Música, January 1951.
Sources: BB, DM, DMEH, GDM, GP, MLA, MMLA

Humana, Alfonso [Alonso], Spanish composer and organist, b.Jan 1756,

Azanón, Guadalajara, Spain; d.11 Jul 1804, Cuenca, Ecuador. He sang in a
youth choir at the college of San José de la Cathedral de Cuenca (1767-72).
He became second organist at the Cathedral of Cuenca (1782) and first
organist (1795).
Works: Dixit Dominus, 5 voc, org; Lamentación segunda del Miércoles
Santo, 2 voc,vn, fl, cl, cb, clave; Magnificat, 5 voc, org (1784); Panis
Angelicus, motet, ten, vn, ob, org, cb (1794-96).
Sources: DMEH

Hurtado Aguilar, Ángel, Chilean professor and composer; b.20 Feb 1900,
Copiapó, Chile; d.1984, Santiago de Chile, Chile. He studied with Armando
Carvajal and Domingo Santa Cruz. He taught and in 1976 became an
honorary member of the Asociación Nacional de Compositores.
Works: Tríptico sinfónico, orch (1945); Toccata en gris, orch (1963);
Quinteto mixto con percusión, vn, va, vc, fl ob, perc (1969).
Sources: DMEH

Hurtado Ruelas, José-Luis, Mexican composer; b.1975. Hurtado earned a

BM (1999) in piano performance and composition at the Cons. de las Rosas
in Morelia and a MA (2002) in Composition from the Univ. Veracruzana in
Xalapa. He performed piano in the Nueva Música Dúo and was a founding
member of álta-Voz and the Cycle of Concerts Morelia Nueva M. sica. He
studied with Mario Davidovsky, Chaya Czernowin, Magnus Lindberg,
Brian Ferneyhough and Helmut Lachenmann at Harvard Univ. (Ph.D.,
2009), where he served as director of the Harvard Group for New Music.
Asst. Prof. of Theory and Composition at the Univ. of New Mexico
Works: Autorretrato, orch (1996); Letargo e instante (2006-09).
Sources: CW, GP
 I
Ibañez Rodríguez, Antonio, Bolivian composer and violinist; b.1925,
Cochabamba, Bolivia; d.1970, Cuzco, Peru. He studied at the Acad. Man
Césped de Cochabamba with Carlos Flamini and Aquiles García. He was
dir. of the Sociedad Franz Schubert and the Chamb Orch. of the Univ.
Mayor de San Andrés de La Paz (1949), taught at the Cons. Nacional de
Música and performed with the National Symph. Orch. He moved to Cusco,
Peru (1961) where he conducted the Asociación Orquestal Cuzco and
choruses. He won a composition award from the Concurso Inti de Oro.
Works: Suite boliviana; Poema sinfónico; Capricho.
Sources: DMEH

Ibarra Cárdenas, Víctor, Mexican composer; b.1978, Guadalajara. He

studied flute with Rubén Islas at UNAM. He also pursued composition with
Herbert Vázquez and José Luis Castillo. He also studied composition with
Edith Lejet in Paris and with Michael Jarrell at the Cons. of Geneva. He
received a scholarship from the French government to study composition
with Robert Pascal at the Cons. National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse
in Lyon, France. In 2011, he won first prize from Concurso Internacional de
Composición Auditorio Nacional de Música-Fundación BBVA in Spain.
Works: Anagké (2009); Silensis (2010); Estudio sobre el gris y el verde, fl,
sax, perc, vc, cb, pn (2011).
Sources: GP

Ibarra Groth, Federico, Mexican composer and pianist; b.25 Jul 1946,
Mexico City, Mexico. He studied composition at the Escuela Nacional de
Música of the UNAM in Mexico City. In 1971 he went to France to
continue his studies with a scholarship granted by the Radio Université and
Radio Télévisión Français, and in 1975, with another scholarship, he
attended a course in composition in Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
Works: Cantata I Paseo sin pie, nar, soloists, mixed ch, pn, harmonium,
celesta, perc (1967); Cantata II Nocturno sueño, tnr, male ch, fl, pn (1969);
Cantata III Nocturno de la estatua, nar, 2 mixed ch, 2 tpt, trb, 4-hand pn,
perc, electric generator (1969); El proceso de la metamorfosis, nar, orch
(1970); Tres preludios monocromáticos (1972); Cantata VII Nocturno
muerto (1973); Rito del reencuentro, nar, 2 pns, str (1974); Cinco misterios
eléusicos, orch (1979); Imágenes del quinto sol, ballet (1980); Concerto,
amplified pn, orch (1979-80); Leoncio y Lena, opera (1980-81); Orestes
parte, opera (1981); La chute des anges (1983); Las caminos que existen,
song cycle (1986); Madre Juana, opera (1986); El pequeño príncipe, opera
(1988); Alicia, opera (1989-90); Despertar de un sueño, opera (1994); Vc
concerto (1988-89); Tres piezas para orch (1991); Obertura para un cuento
fantástico, orch (1993); Obertura para un Nuevo milenio (1993); Balada,
str (1995); Vn concerto (1997); Orfeo encantando a los animals (1997);
Margarita, está linda la mar (1998); Los ojos del sueño, symph song cycle
(2007); Interludio y Obertura (2009); Cuatro imagines coreográficos
(2009); Duelo de siglos (2010); 4 symphonies (1991, 1993, 2000, 2009-10).
Chamb, pn, ch, voc music.
Sources: DCMMM, DMEH, GP, ISC

Ibarra Zambrano, Daniel, Mexican composer, double bass player, and

conductor; b.11 Jul 1921, Lagos de Moreno, Jalisco, Mexico; d.2 Dec 1995.
A graduate of the Escuela Nacional de Música de la Univ. Nacional
Autónoma de México (UNAM), he studied conducting with Luis G. Saloma
then with Jean Giardino, Igor Markevich, Joseph Krips, René Defosse, and
Sergiu Celibidache. He played in the National Symph. Orch. (1951-81),
supervised a series of concerts with the Orch. de la Opera del Inst. Nacional
de Arte (1957), and became asst. cond. of the National Symph. Orch.
(1960). He was a guest cond. for orchs. in Guatemala, Ecuador, and
Venezuela, founded the Coro Profesional del Estado de Jalisco (1981), and
participated in activities of the Sindicato Único de Trabajadores de la
Música. He became music coordinator of the Casa de la Cultura in Lagos de
Moreno (1994).
Works: Sexteto para instrumentos de viento; Sonata para violin y piano.
Sources: DMEH

Iberè de Lemos, Artur, Brazilian composer, pianist, teacher, and music

critic; b.9 Jun 1901, Belém, Pará, Brazil; d.13 Feb 1967, Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil. He began piano study with his mother then in Rio de Janeiro with
Silvia Faletti. He entered the Royal Academy of Music of London, England
(1913), to study piano with David Cooper and Tobias Matthay, cello with
John Barbirolli, and theory and harmony with Frederick Corder. He also
studied harmony, counterpoint, and orchestration with W. Forek and Paul
Juon in Berlin, Germany, and composition with Vincenzo Ferroni in Milan,
Italy. He returned to Brazil (1918) and continued piano studies with
Henrique Oswald and J. Otaviano, theory with Frederico Nascimento, and
cello with Heitor Villa-Lobos and Newton Pádua. He founded the
Sociedade de Cultura Musical in Rio de Janeiro (1921). A founder of the
Cons. Nacional de Canto Orfeónico (male choral singing), he also
participated in the founding and organization of the Acad. Brasileira de
Música.
Works: Devaneio, orch (1924); A ceia dos Cardeais, opera (1925-31);
Caritas, cantata (1930); Noite de encantos, orch (1938); Idílio, orch (1938);
Epigrama, orch (1956); Momentos líricos, orch; Canção árabe, orch; Ave,
symph poem; Patria, symph poem. Pn, solo inst, voc music.
Sources: DM, EMB2, HMB

Igarza, Leopoldo, Venezuelan guitarist, composer, and teacher; b.19 Apr

1940, San Fernando de Apure, Venezuela. He moved to Caracas where he
studied guitar with Manuel Enrique Pérez Díaz at the Escuela de Música
José Ángel Lamas, graduating in 1970. He studied guitar with Alirio Díaz
at the Univ. Central de Venezuela (1967-70). With a scholarship from the
Fundación Creole he continued with Regino Sainz de la Maza (1971-73),
then studied composition with Antonio Lauro in Caracas (1983). He taught
guitar at the Escuela de Música J.A. Lamas, conducted at the Escuela de
Música Pablo Castellanos (1975-90), and performed with orchs. in
Venezuela.
Works: Concierto para gtr y orch (1982); Concierto para flauta y orch
(1989); Sinfonía para 14 instr.
Sources: DMEH

Iglesias Alfonso, Raúl, Cuban pianist and composer; b.18 May 1933,
Havana, Cuba. He began studying music at 12 at the Cons. Municipal de La
Habana with Esther Ferrer, Margot Rojas, Aida Teseiro, Serafín Pro, Harold
Gramatges, and Argeliers León, graduationg in 1958. He attended summer
courses at the Univ. de la Habana in composition and conducting. (1957-
58). In 1959 he began accompanying singers visiting Cuba and substituting
for Rafael Morales as National Symph. Orch. pianist while playing
harpsichordist in the Chamb Orch. of Havana. He lived in Hungary (1963-
68) and studied with Jozsef Gát amd Katalin Nemes while performing.
After returning to Cuba (1969) he continued performing, recorded programs
for Cuban radio and television, accompanying and playing the harpsichord.
He wrote biographies of Isolina Carrillo, Orlando de la Rosa, and Adolfo
Guzmán.
Works: Cuarteto de cuerdas no.1 (1979); Letanía, pn (1980); Siete
miniaturas sinfónicas, orch (1982); Tres canciones (1991); Misa a
capricho, vn, ch, org (1992).
Sources: DMEH

Iglesias Rossi, Alejandro, Argentine composer and musicologist; b.27 Jul

1960, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He started his music studies in Argentina
then continued at the Boston Cons., Boston, MA, USA, with John Adams,
C. Rosé, and S. Ortega. He also studied composition at the Centre National
de Danse de Pantin and electronic music at the Cons. de Paris. He created
the Orq. de Instr. Autóctonos y Nuevas Tecnologías at the Univ. Nacional
de Tres de Febrero and is founding member of the Red de Investigación y
Creación Musical de América.
Works: Ritos ancestrales de una cultura olvidada (1984); Baladas, Danzas,
y Ecos, sop, ens (1985); Qöllasuyu (Herida del Sur), electronic music
(1986); Manchay Puitu, pere, fl, sop (1987); Llorando Silencios (Seis
Canciones Quechuas), vc (1988); Canto Viejo, fl, cl, pn, vn, vc (1988);
Legüeras Soledades, sax, sampler (1989); El Alarido de Mil Gargantas,
sop, cb, mixed ch, oreh (1990); Bagual Oscuro, djembe, processor (1991);
Acerados Cielos, pere (1992); Angelus, electroaeoustie (1996); Ritual (Una
Plegaria), sop, chamb orch (1997); Cóndor Rojo, pn (2003); Quipus,
amplified str qt (2004); De las Fases de la Inmovilidad en el Vuelo (del
Viaje de la Sangre en el Orden del Aire), orch of Native American instr
(2004).
Sources: DMEH, DMM

Iglesias Villoud, Héctor, Argentine composer; b.31 Jan 1913, San Nicolás,
Prov.of Buenos Aires, Argentina; d.31 Aug 1988, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
He studied in Buenos Aires, Argentina at the Cons. Fracassi and Thibaud-
Piazzini then entered the Cons. Gaito where he studied harmony,
counterpoint, fugue, composition, and instrumentation with Constantino
Gaito (1926-33). Taught at the Cons. Nacional de Música Carlos López
Buehardo of Buenos Aires, the Eseuela Superior de Bellas Artes of the
Univ. of La Plata, Prov. of Buenos Aires, and the Univ. Nacional of Litoral,
Rosario, Prov. of Santa Fe, Argentina. Dir. of the Teatro Argentino of La
Plata.
Works: Amancay, ballet (1937); Dos danzas argentinas, oreh (1937); El
malón, ballet (1943); Escenas indoamericanas, oreh (1949); Embrujo
pampeano, pn (1952); El oro del inca, opera (1953); Redención, opera
(1955); Sinfonía Independencia (1967). Pn, ch musie.
Books: Solfeo Folklórico.
Sources: CA, DM, DMEH, DMM, EMA, GDM, MLA

Ignacio, Rafael, Dominican composer; b.15 Jun 1897, San Franciseo de

Macorís, Dominican Republic; d.1984, Santo Domingo, Dominican
Republic. He studied with Father Andrés Requena and Oguís Negrette. He
played trumpet, flute, and double bass in military bands, and later
conducted the dance oreh. Amores y Amoríos. He became assistant
conductor of the military band in Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican
Republie (1941).
Works: Quisqueya lírica, suite; Symphony in C minor; Suite folklórica.
Sources: DM, DMEH, MLA

Illario, Bernardo E., Argentine musicologist and composer; b.13 Feb

1963, Córdoba, Argentina. He studied composition at the Univ. Nacional de
Córdoba with César Franchisena and John Eaton. He worked as a
musicologist with Héetor Rubio and Leonardo Waisman. He did
postgraduate studies at Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y
Técnicas (CONICET) then continued at the Univ. of Chicago with a
Century scholarship (1992-96). In 1995 he was awarded the Howard Mayer
Brown grant by the American Musicologieal Soeiety (AMS) for academic
excellence, and in 1996 one of the AMS 50 scholarships. In Córdoba he
taught music history at the Univ. Nacional (1987-92) and in the Collegium
(1982-91). He was a music critic for the newspaper, La voz del interior
(1987-92), and conducted the old world instrumental ensemble at the Inst.
Goethe. He was musical advisor for recordings, “Les Chemins du
Baroque,” Metz (France), and for concerts of colonial American music. His
musicological interests are of colonial Latin American (especially
Argentina, Bolivia and Peru), music of the Renaissance and Baroque
periods in Spain, the history of Argentine music, and the works of Claude
Debussy. His musicological writings are extensive.
Works: San Ignaciode Loyola, opera.
Sources: DMEH

Imbroisi, Juan, Argentine composer of Italian origin; b.1866, Paola, Italy;

d.1942, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He settled in Argentina at the end of the
19th century.
Works: A mi Bandera, school song (1906); marches, voc music.
Sources: DMEH, EMA

Inzaurraga, Alejandro, Argentine composer and lawyer; b.16 Apr 1882,

Buenos Aires, Argentina; d.1956, Buenos Aires. He studied in Buenos
Aires with Alberto Williams. As a lawyer he worked at the Dept. Argentino
de Justicia. He taught music and was a music critic.
Works: Sonata in F, pn; Trio in F, pn, vn, vc; Str qt; Por sierras de
Córdoba; Serie sentimental; Matinal, voc, pn. Ch, pn, voc music.
Sources: DM, DMEH, EMA

Iporre Salinas, Humberto, Bolivian pianist, teacher, and composer; b.28

Dec 1915, Potosí, Bolivia; d.7 Nov 1985, Potosí. He was self-taught in
music. Taught piano at the Acad. de Bellas Artes of the Univ. Tomás Frías
of Potosí, conducted the Orq. Sinfónica of the Univ. of Potosí.
Works: Suites indias, 1 and 2; La oración del Mitayo; Koya Raimi; Sueño
de la Nusta; Fantasía india; El pututo; Tu orgullo; Potosino soy.
Sources: CB, DMEH

Ippisch, Franz, Guatemalan composer of Austrian origin; b.18 Jul 1883,

Vienna, Austria; d.20 Feb 1958, Guatemala City, Guatemala. He settled in
Guatemala (1938) and was appointed general dir. of Músicas Marciales in
Guatemala City (1939). Teacher and conductor of the ensemble class at the
Cons. Nacional de Música of Guatemala City.
Works: Sinfonía guatemalteca; 2 symphonies; Pastorale, vc, chamb orch;
Vn concerto, vn, orch; Overture; Suite, str orch. Chamb music.
Sources: DM, DMEH, MLA
Ipuche Riva, Pedro L, Uruguayan composer, music critic, lecturer, teacher,
and radio commentator; b.26 Oct 1924, Montevideo, Uruguay. He studied
at the Cons. of Montevideo with Carlos Estrada, and later, with a
scholarship from the French government, studied in Paris, France, with Jean
Rivier and Noel Gallon. Artistic dir. of SODRE and dir. of the Revista del
SODRE of Montevideo. Prof. at the Cons. Nacional de Música and the Inst.
de Profesores Artigas, both in Montevideo.
Works: El arbol solo, symph poem (1961); La prueba de Abraham,
oratorio, soloists, ch, orch (1961); Homenaje a Tchaikovsky, ballet (1961-
64); La discreta enamorada, overture (1961); 3 symphonies (1962, 1965,
1968); Vc concerto (1962); Fantasía concertante, tpt, str orch (1963);
Cantata a Artigas, bar, ch, orch (1964); Concerto, small orch (1966);
Sinfonietta-Concertino, pn, orch (1967); Animales ilustres, suite, wind qnt
(1967). Chamb, pn, ch, voc music.
Sources: BB, BHMCU, CTA12, DMEH, MU

Iriarte, Salvador, Guatemalan composer and educator; b.19th century,

Guatemala.
Works: El colegio a los quince años; operetta for children; El traje blanco;
Este; La enseñanza; Las vacaciones; Pompeyo Centellas; sacred music,
Guatemalan genres.
Sources: DL, DMEH

Isamitt Alarcón, Carlos, Chilean composer and painter; b.13 Mar 1887,
Rengo, Colchagua, Chile; d.2 Jul 1974, Santiago de Chile, Chile. He
studied violin with Sante Lo Priore and composition with Domingo Brescia
and Humberto P. Allende at the Cons. Nacional de Música of Chile in
Santiago de Chile. He studied painting and drawing at the Escuela de Bellas
Artes of Santiago de Chile. He also studied in Spain, Italy, France, and the
Netherlands. He became interested in the folk music of the Araucanian
Indians. In 1927, he was appointed dir. of the Escuela de Bellas Artes, the
Escuela de Artes Aplicadas, and the Museo de Bellas Artes, all in Santiago
de Chile. In 1928, he was appointed general dir. of art education of the
Ministerio de Educación Pública of Chile. President of the Asociación de
Compositores de Chile. Prof. of musical pedagogy at the Cons. Nacional de
Música. Permanent member of the Acad. Chilena de Bellas Artes.
Works: Friso araucano, sop, tnr, orch (1931); Suite sinfónica (1932); Mito
araucano, orch (1935); Gato con botas, children’s play (1941); El pozo de
oro, ballet (1942); Suite, vc, chamb orch (1950); Cuatro movimientos
sinfónicos (1960); Concerto, harp, chamb orch (1962); Concerto, vn, orch
(1966); Evocaciones Huiliches, sop, bar, orch (1966); Grito de la sangre,
ballet (1968-69); Lautaro, symph poem (1970). Chamb, pn, voc music.
Sources: BB, CTA13, DCM, DM, DMEH, GDM, HMC, MLA, MMLA

Isaza, José Maria, Venezuelan composer, performer and conductor; b.18th-

19th century, brother of Rafael and Román. His name appears in El
agricultor venezolano as a musician who escaped killings in the east of the
country (1814). In 1821 he founded the chapel de la Fraternidad with
Atanasio Bello Montero and in 1831 the Sociedad Filarmónica in which he
performed and conducted. His manuscripts appear with the names Isaza,
Izaza, Izasa.
Works: Aquí está la clara Estrella; Miserere; Salves.
Sources: DMEH

Isaza, Rafael, Venezuelan composer and singer; b.18th-19th century,

brother of Rafael and Román. His manuscripts appear with the names Isaza,
Izaza, Izasa.
Works: Gozos a la Santísima Virgen, orch; Cantemos alegres, voc, pn;
Canto a la Virgen, voc, pn;La pereza, pn; Qué Victoria, pn.
Sources: DMEH

Isaza, Román, Venezuelan pianist and conductor; b.18th-19th century,

Caracas, Venezuela, brother of Rafael and Román. He performed
throughout Venezuela, the Antilles, and other South American countries.
His manuscripts appear with the names Isaza, Izaza or Izasa.
Works: Fabio y Estela, operetta; Oficio de difuntos; Amor y esperanza, pn;
La regeneración, pn; Luis Napoleón; Ofertorio de la Resurrección.
Sources: DMEH

Isturriaga, Francisco, Venezuelan organist and composer; b.13 Oct 1782,

Caracas, Venezuela; d.18 Nov 1839, Caracas, Venezuela. Organist of the
church Santísima Trinidad (1804) and a member of the Pacific Battalion of
Caracas (1827). The Sociedad Filarmónica de Caracas performed his
Himno conserved in the archive of the Escuela Superior de Música Jose
Ángel Lamas in Caracas (1832).
Works: Himno en la tragedia del Edipo, 4 voc, 2 tpt, str; Trisagio de la
Santísima Trinidad, voc, celesta.
Sources: DMEH

Itiberé, Brasílio da Cunha Luz, Brazilian composer; b.17 May 1896,

Curitiba, State of Paraná, Brazil; d.10 Dec 1967, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Nephew of Brasílio Iteberê da Cunha and of João Iteberê da Cunha. He
studied civil engineering but influenced by Ernesto Nazareth, studied piano
with Adolfo Corradi and composition and conducting with Leonhard
Kessler. Founder and music critic of the journal Festa. He was appointed by
Heitor Villa-Lobos to teach folk music at the Cons. Nacional de Música of
Canto Orfeónico (male choral singing) (1942) and was appointed to the
same position at the Univ. do Distrito Federal, Rio de Janeiro (1938).
Founding member of the Acad. Brasileira de Música.
Works: A infinita vigilia, sop, ch (1941); Contemplação, female ch, chamb
orch (1942); Oração da noite, mez sop, ch (1945); O Canto absoluto,
cantata, mixed ch, orch (1947); Estancias, ch poem, mez sop, ch (1947);
Epigrama, ch a cappella (1948); Preludio vivaz, orch (1951); Momento
eufórico, orch (1951); O Salmo 150, ch, orch (1954). Chamb, pn ch, voc
music.
Sources: CTA16, DM, GDM, HMB, HMB2, MLA, MMLA

Itiberê da Cunha, Brasílio, Brazilian composer, pianist, and diplomat; b.1

Aug 1846, Paranaguá, Brazil; d.11 Aug 1913, Berlin, Germany. Brother of
João Itiberê da Cunha. Mostly self-taught in music, he started piano studies
with his sister, María Lourença. He began to study law at the Faculdade de
Direito of São Paulo, Brazil (1866) and in 1870 was invited by the Brazilian
government to enter the diplomatic service and spent years of his life in
Europe.
Works: A Sertaneja, Brazilian rhapsody, pn; Poème d’Amour, pn; Nuits
orientales, pn; Sous les tropiques, pn; Sérénade, pn; Gavotte, pn; Etude de
concert, pn; Soirées à Venise, pn; Rhapsodies brésiliennes, pn.
Sources: GDM, HMB, HMB2, MMLA
Itiberê da Cunha, João, Brazilian composer, poet, music and art critic, and
diplomat; b.8 Aug 1869, Curitiba, State of Paraná, Brazil; d.25 Feb 1953,
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Brother of Brasílio Itiberê da Cunha. He studied
music and law in Brussels, Belgium. He used the pen name: Iwan d’Hunac.
Music critic for the Rio de Janeiro newspaper, Correio da Manhã, for more
than 40 years.
Works: Série brasileira: Despertar de Matuto, Acalanto ingenuo, Cançao
ritual de Macumba, orch; Etude (Printemps que Chante), pn; Prelúdio e
fuga, pn; Preludio e fugato, pn; Marcha humorística, pn; Danse plaisante et
sentimentale, pn; Fête villageoise, pn; Quatre Portraits du vieux carnival,
pn.
Sources: DM, GDM, HMB2, MMLA

Ituarte, Julio, Mexican pianist and composer; b.15 May 1845, Mexico
City, Mexico; d.15 May 1905, Mexico City. He started music studies with
José M. Oviedo and Agustín Balderas then continued piano with Tomás
León and harmony and counterpoint with Melesio Morales. Prof. at the
Cons. Nacional de Música y Declamación of Mexico City.
Works: Zarzuelas: Sustos y gustos; Gato por liebre. Fantasia Dramatica on
Themes from Carmen, pn; Pensamientos musicales; Minuetto; En los
bosques, mazurka; El último pensamiento de Weber, lyric-dramatic
composition. Transcriptions of operas and operettas, pn; pn music.
Bibl.: O. Mayer-Serra, Panorama de la Música Mexicana, Mexico, 1941.
L. Castillo Ledón, Los Mexicanos Autores de Opera, 1910.
Sources: DMEH, MMLA

Iturralde, Carlos A., Mexican composer; b.1976, Mexico City. Initially

self-taught, he studied guitar and composition privately and attended CIEM
to study composition with Alejandro Velasco and Víctor Rasgado. He
studied further in Queretaro, México, with Ignacio Baca Lobera. With a
FONCA scholarship he then completed a master’s degree in composition
with Richard Ayres, Clarence Barlow, Paul Berg, and Gilius van Bergeijk at
the Royal Cons. of The Hague, Holland.
Works: Cupid’s deeds (2005).
Sources: CW, GP
Iturri Gonzáles, Wálter, Bolivian conductor and composer; b.21 Sep
1934, La Paz, Bolivia. He studied at the Escuela Militar de Música of La
Paz, at the Cons. Nacional de Música of La Paz (1965), then with a
scholarship, conducting in Zagreb, Yugoslavia (1966). He conducted the
Orq. Sinfónica Nacional of Bolivia (La Paz) and the Banda of the Escuela
Militar de Ingeniería (La Paz) in 1970.
Works: Campanas de triunfo, overture, orch.
Sources: CB

Iturriaga, Enrique, Peruvian composer and teacher; b.3 Apr 1918, Lima,
Peru. He studied piano, music theory, and harmony at the Acad. Sas-Rosay
of Lima then studied theory and composition with Rodolfo Holzmann at the
Cons. Nacional de Música of Lima. He went to Paris, France (1950) where
he studied with Arthur Honegger. Prof. of music theory and composition at
the Cons. Nacional de Música and the Univ. Nacional Mayor of San
Marcos. Dir. of the Escuela Nacional de Música, previously the Cons.
Nacional de Música of Lima. Music critic for the newspaper, El Comercio,
of Lima.
Works: Canción y muerte de Rolando, sop (1947); Preludio y Danza, orch
(1954); Tres canciones, 4 vn (1957); Suite, orch (1957); Obertura para una
comedia, orch (1964); Vivencias, orch (1965); Homenaje a Stravinsky, orch
(1971). Chamb, voc music.
Sources: DMEH, GDM

Iturribery Fraga, Juan José, Uruguayan composer; b.24 Oct 1936, Pando,
Prov. of Canelones, Uruguay. He studied piano with Genoveva F. de Parga
and Numen Vilariño, and composition with Carlos Estrada, Héctor Tossar,
and Angel Turriziani. He also took classes in electroacoustical techniques
with Mauricio Maidanik at the Facultad de Humanidades of Montevideo,
Uruguay.
Works: Dúo Sacro, 2 fl; Elegía, vc, pn; Variations, pn; Meditation in F
(1975).
Sources: BB, BHMCU, DMEH

Izarra, Adina Margarita, Venezuelan composer and teacher; b.27 Aug

1959, Caracas, Venezuela. She studied piano with Guiomar Narvaez in
Caracas, and with Marta Clare and Dorothea Law in London and York,
England, and composition with Alfredo del Mónaco in Caracas. She
received a Ph.D. in composition from the Univ. of York, where she studied
electroacoustic music with Richard Orton and composition with Vic
Hoyland. Prof. at the Univ. Simón Bolívar of Caracas.
Works: Oshunmare, vn concerto (1982); Mujer con telar, orch (1986);
Tejedora de arpilleras mágicas, orch (1986); Pitangus Sulphuratus,
concerto, fl, str orch (1987); Luna de aves, chamb orch (1988); Homenaje
(1991). Chamb, solo inst, voc music.
Sources: DMEH, EMV, ISC

Izcovich, Ezequiel, Argentine composer; b.11 Jun 1959, Buenos Aires. He

graduated from the Facultad de Artes y Ciencias Musicales de la Univ.
Católica Argentina (1982) where he studied with R. Caamaño, G. Gandini,
P.I. Calderón, and J. Fainguersch and was chair of the music appreciation
and contemporary techniques departments (1984-85). With a scholarship
from the French government he studied at the Inst. de Recherche et de
Coordination Acoustique/Musique de Paris (1986-87). He lived in Paris
until 1991, teaching at the École Nationale de Musique de Pantin (1990-91).
He won an award at the Concurso de Composición Musical de la Sociedad
Argentina de Autores y Compistores de Música (1982) and first prize in
composition from the École Nationale de Musique de Pantin (1991). His
ballet was performed by the Teatro Municipal General San Martín (1985)
and adapted for television by the choreographer Ana Itelman. He arranged
two shows, Cabaret Voltaire and Le Bal des Hughenots, presented by the
Grupo Acción Instrumental in Germany, Italy, Switzerland, and France.
Working for the Centro de Experimentación en Opera y Ballet del Teatro
Colón, he organized a chamber opera for children, with lyrics by Fernando
Wocen, inspired by the text Popol Vuh.
Works: Ricercare, orch (1981-82); Oda a la claridad, voc, pn (1983); El
capote, ballet (1985); Música para cinco instr, fl, cl, vn, vc, timpani (1985);
Pièges, orch (1988); Dúo para un clista y un percusionista (1991).
Sources: DMEH
 J
Jabor Maia de Carvalho, Najla, Brazilian conductor and composer; b.25
Sep 1915, IEW (1914, IBCC), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; d.9 Mar 2001. She
studied piano with Henrique Oswald, and fugue, composition, and
orchestration with Francisco Braga, João Otaviano, Agnelo França, Arnaud
Gouveia, Assis Republicano, and Adelina Sá de Brito Bastos at the Escola
Nacional de Música of the Univ. of Rio de Janeiro. Member of the Coselho
da Ordem dos Músicos do Brasil. She was the first Brazilian female
composer to write a piano concerto.
Works: Pn Concerto (1953); Prelúdio sinfónico (1957); Y Juca Pirama,
orch (1957); Américas, symph triptych (1958); A dança do Pajé, sym.
poem; Tango brasileiro, sym. poem (1960); Batuquinho clássico (1966).
Pn, voc music.
Sources: EMB2, IBCC, IEW, NGDWC

Jackson, Eleazar, Argentine organist and composer; b.12 Aug 1914, Las
Flores, Argentina; d.25 Aug 1991, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied at
the Cons. Nacional with Constantino Gaito and Gilardo Gilardi and founded
and directed the chorus at the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. In Buenos
Aires he played the organ in the Florida movie theater and at radio stations.
He toured in Argentina, other Latin American countries, and in Europe
(1961-62) and befriended organist, Marcel Dupré. On his return to Buenos
Aires he installed an organ in the parish of Santísimo Redentor, where he
performed his work El cántico del hermano Sol (29 June, 1990). He was
founding Dir. of the Escuela de Canto and the Ciclos de Conciertos of the
Univ. del Museo Social Argentino.
Works: Improvisación, org (ca.1930-36); Danza grotesca, pn (1937); Ave
María, ch (1939); Entrada triunfal de la primavera, pn (1944); Canciones
de cuna de Macita, organ (1975); El cántico del hermano Sol, text by St.
Francis of Asissi, 2 sop, instr (1990).
Sources: DMEH
Jaén Arosemena, Agustín, Panamanian composer and organist; b.7 May
1880, Penonomé, Panama; d.22 Sep 1967, Panama City. Son of Laurencio
and father of Néstor Darío, a lawyer and historian, he wrote about traditions
of Penonomé. He was also magistrate of the Third Tribunal of Justice of
Panama, located in Penonomé. He followed his father directing the chorus
of the church, arranging Latin masses that he accompanied on the organ
until the 1950s. He was a founding member of the Sociedad Bolivariana de
Penonomé. His children’s songs center on the geography, customs, flora,
and fauna of the region.
Works: Canto a la Virgen, song; Carnestolendica, song, dedicated to the
maid of honor of the carnival of 1920. Voc music for children.
Sources: DMEH

Jaén Fernández, Néstor Darío, Panamanian composer; b.29 Oct 1935,

Penonomé, Panama. Son of Agustín and grandson of Laurencio. A Jesuit
priest, he followed the family tradition and became a composer. He also
played the accordion in a Panamanian Univ. student ensemble.
Works: Dios nuestra alegría; Misa de los 500 años; Misa tipica (1969).
Sources: DMEH

Jaén Guardia, Laurencio, Panamanian composer and guitarist; b.6 Jun

1838, Penonomé, Panama; d.3 Feb 1920. Father of Agustín and grandfather
of Néstor Darío, he wrote and directed sacred music at the church of
Penonomé where he played the guitar and taught singing. He established a
tradition in his city where his Serenata a la Virgen would be played at
sunrise on 8 Dec through the streets of this city.
Works: Serenata a la Virgen; Despertad, ¿Qué dire Dios mío?
Sources: DMEH

Jara, José Manuel, Peruvian composer. Active in Lima.

Works: Himno de los pueblos, text by C.J. Monsalve (1866).
Sources: DMEH

Jaramillo, Silvino, Mexican composer and chorus conductor; b.12 Sep

1924, Valle de Bravo, State of Mexico, Mexico. He studied music with
Miguel Bernal Jiménez, Romano Picutti, and Ignacio Mier Arriaga at the
Cons. de las Rosas, Morelia, State of Michoacán, Mexico. Cond. of the
Coro Orfeón Infantil Mexicano, Coral Infantil Voces of Mexico, Coro
Universitario, and adjunt cond. of the Niños Cantores of Monterrey,
Mexico.
Works: Tres preludios a la ausente, orch (1950); Sinfonietta, orch (1951);
Elogio a las Américas, orch (1952); Trilogía Orch (1954); Trilogía de los
pájaros, sop (1985). Ch, voc music.
Sources: DMEH, DCMMC

Jaramillo Jurado, Ramón, Colombian composer; b.4 Mar 1906, Rionegro,

Colombia; d.18 Aug 1961, Bogotá, Colombia. He studied with his father
and played in the local band, then traveled to Medellín to study at the Inst.
de Bellas Artes and with the Spaniards Pedro Begué and Jesús Arriola. He
directed the church band after returning to Rionegro then he moved to
Bogata (1935) and entered the Cons. Nacional de Música directed by
Antonio María Valencia. After completing his studies he taught at this
institution for 10 years. In 1949 he stopped teaching and studied Colombian
vernacular music. He traveled to Spain and studied with Conrado del
Campo at the Real Cons. in Madrid, then returned to Bogata, Colombia
(1953), and taught music again. He directed the Escuela de Música de la
Univ. de Nariño (1956-59) then joined the faculty of the Cons. de
Manizales.
Works: 22 Intermezzos, orch; Sinfonía no.1; Sinfonía no.2; Sinfonía no.3;
Trio no. 1, en Re menor; Misa de requiem.
Sources: DMEH

Jaso López, Enrique, Mexican organist, pianist, composer, and educator;

b.12 Aug, 1897, Léon, Guanajuato, Mexico; d.11 Jan 1989, Mexico City,
Mexico. He studied first with his father then with his sister María del
Carmen and then entered the Escuela de Música Sacra de Léon (1908). In
Mexico City he studied with Estanislao Mejía (theory), José Barrios and
Morales (organ), Manuel M. Ponce (piano), and Gustavo E. Campa
(composition) at the Cons. Nacional de Música (CNM). He taught at the
CNM until his death.
Works: Sacred music.
Sources: DMEH

Jatobá, Pedro Irineu, Brazilian music teacher, pianist, conductor, music

critic, composer, and organist; b.15 Dec 1895, Salvador, Brazil; d.10 Oct
1948, Salvador. He started music studies with his father, Pedro Orlando
Jatobá, then studied organ with Father Mouton, from the Cons. of Brussels,
Belgium, and piano with Carlos Werbeck and Alberto Muylaert. He
traveled to Germany to study harmony, composition, and aesthetics with
Basilio Ettel at the Univ. Marl Laach. Prof. at the Inst. de Música of Bahía.
Founder of the Escola Normal de Música of Bahía.
Works: Impressões de Bahía; Meditação, Ofertorio y canto, org.
Books: Fraseología Musical.
Sources: EMB2, MMLA

Jeanty, Occide, Haitian composer and band conductor; b.1860, Port-au-

Prince, Haiti; d.1936, Port-au-Prince. The Haitian government sent him to
study music in Paris, France. He returned to Haiti in 1886, and was
appointed musical Dir. of the Republic of Haiti.
Works: Marches.
Sources: MLA

Jebe, Halfdan, Mexican composer, violinist, and conductor of Norwegian

birth; b.ca.1868, Trondheim, Norway; d.17 Dec 1937, Mexico City,
Mexico. He studied with Joachim in Berlin, Massenet in Paris, and played
in the Colonne Orch. (1894-97). He was a member of a group of Norwegian
artists that lived in Paris including Munch Strindberg. He became friends
with Frederic Delius and they traveled to Florida together (1897) then to
Ireland, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Serbia, Romania, Italy, Egypt, China,
Japan, India, and Sri Lanka (1901-04). He played in theater orchestras in
New York then traveled to Australia and South America (ca.1920) when he
moved to Mexico. Here Felipe Carrillo Puerto, Governor of Yucatán,
offered him a post as Prof. of violin, piano, and composition hoping to
found a Cons. in Mérida. Jebe remained in Mérida and inspired by the
jungle composed works based on the art and readings of the ancient
civilizations of Mexico. His music was published in London, Copenhagen,
Milan, and Christiania. He helped to begin the symph orch. of Mérida with
Rendón Muñoz.
Works: 4 Sangkompositioner, voc, pn (1898); Premier album, pn (1905);
Capriccio, orch (1920); Carnaval de Mérida, orch (ca.1926);
Sources: DMEH
Jerusalem, Ignacio, Mexican composer and violinist of Italian origin; b.3
Jun 1707, Lecce, Italy; d.15 Dec 1769, Mexico. He settled in Mexico
(1742). In 1746, he was appointed interim chapelmaster at the Cathedral of
Mexico, permanent in 1750, held until his death.
Works: 6 masses; 5 magnificats; 2 Te Deums; 15 Misereres; 4
Lamentations; 18 vesper psalms; 25 motets and psalms; 12 hymns; 9
invitatories; 89 responsories; Christmas pastoral; villancicos.
Bibl.: R. Stevenson, Renaissance and Baroque Musical Sources in the
Americas, Washington, DC, 1970. R. Stevenson, Christmas Music from
Baroque Mexico, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1974.
Sources: DMEH, GDM, NG

Jijón Rojas de Fernández Salvador, Inés, Ecuadorian composer and

pianist; b.23 Dec 1909, Quito, Ecuador; d.? She studied music at the Cons.
Nacional of Quito with Gustavo Bueno, Sixto María Durán, and Belisario
Peña and taught piano there beginning in 1948. Dir. of the Sección de Artes
Musicales of the Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana in Quito. She won multiple
prizes for her work, including the Primer Premio del Ministerio de
Educación (1942), Primer Premio de la UNP (1956), Medalla de oro por el
Consejo Provincial del Guayas (1964), and the Primer Premio del Patronato
de Arte Lírico de Guayaquil (1964).
Works: Alegria de las cumbres (1957); Suite de la Serranía, pn; Poema de
los Andes; Despertar de la montaña; Nieve en el Chimborazo; Fantasía
ecuatoriana; Tríptico ecuatoriano. Children’s music; music textbooks.
Sources: DMEH, IEW, MG

Jiménez, Arturo, Mexican composer; b.15 Dec 1951, Mexico City,

Mexico. He studied composition with Armando Lavalle at the Facultad de
Música of the Univ. Veracruzana, Veracruz, Mexico. He also studied
acoustics, piano tuning, conducting, and music education.
Works: Chamb, gtr, electroacoustic, computer music.
Sources: DCMMC, DMEH

Jiménez Berroa, José Manuel, Cuban pianist and composer; b.7 Dec
1851, Trinidad; d.1917, Hamburg, Germany. He studied with his father,
José Julián Jiménez, and then went to Europe where he studied with Carl
Reinecke and Ignaz Moscheles at the Cons. of Leipzig, Germany, and with
Antoine Francois Marmontel in Paris, France. In 1879, he returned to Cuba
and settled in Cienfuegos where he taught piano. In 1890, he was appointed
Prof. at the Cons. of Hamburg, Germany.
Works: Estudio sinfónico; Elegía; Solitude; Murmullo del céfiro; Rapsodia
cubana; Vals capricho. Pn, voc music.
Sources: DMC, DMEH

Jiménez García, Víctor, Bolivian composer and conductor; b.26 Jul 1910,
Cochabamba, Bolivia; d.30 Oct 1999, Cochabamba. He began his musical
training with the choirmaster in Toco then with his uncles who were
musicians in the chapel. At 10 he entered the Acad. de Música Teofilo
Vargas. Later he enrolled in the Cons. Musical Cochabamba where he
studied harmony and piano. He joined the army and fought in the war of
Chaco (1932-35) between Bolivia and Paraguay then lived in Oruro for 26
years. He studied harmony and music of German composers, taught at the
Cons. María L. Edner and was a musical education inspector. He returned to
Cochabamba (1960) where he was Dir. of the Estudiantina Municipal for
more than a decade. He won prizes for Uru, a school song and Quejas del
alma.
Works: Hijos del Sol; Uru, suite; Letanía a la Virgen, inst; Quejas del alma,
cueca; dances, voc, traditional music.
Sources: DMEH

Jiménez Mabarak, Carlos, Mexican composer; b.31 Jun 1916, Tacuba,

Mexico; d.21 Jun 1994, Cuautla, Mexico. He studied piano with Jesús
Castillo in Guatemala, attended classes in humanities in Santiago de Chile,
Chile (1930-33), and studied musicology and music history with Charles
Van den Borren and harmony and analysis with Marguerite Wouters at the
Royal Cons. in Brussels, Belgium (1933-36). In Paris, France, he studied
dodecaphonic techniques with René Leibowitz then in 1937 he returned to
Mexico and studied conducting with Silvestre Revueltas at the Cons.
Nacional de Música of INBA, Mexico City, Mexico, where he later taught
theory and harmony (1942-65). Prof. at the Escuela de Artes in
Villahermosa, Mexico (1965-68), and at the Escuela Nacional de Música of
UNAM, Mexico City. Cultural attaché at the Mexican Embassy in Austria
(1972-74). Member emeritus of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores.
Works: Concierto del abuelo, pn, str qt (1938); El sastrecillo y el duende,
children’s theater (1939); Perifonema, ballet (1940); 2 pn concertos (1945,
1961); Balada del pájaro y las doncellas, orch (1947); Los niños héroes,
cantata, ch (1947); 3 symphonies (1945, rev. 1961, 1962, 1968); Calígula,
incidental music (1947); Balada del venado y la luna, ballet (1948); El
amor del agua, ballet (1950); Recuerdo a Emiliano Zapata, ballet-cantata
(1950); Balada mágica, orch (1951); Balada de los Quetzales, orch (1953);
El ratón Pérez, ballet (1955); Concerto, timpani, bells, xylophone, perc
(1961); Misa de seis, opera (1962); Overture, str (1963); Pitágoras Dijo…,
small ens (1966); Sinfonía concertante, pn (1968); La Güera, opera (1980);
Simón Bolívar (1983); Balada de los ríos Tabasco (1988); Homenaje a
Juárez, cantata (1958). Chamb, pn, voc music.
Sources: BB, CTA8, DCMMC, DMEH, GP, MLA

Jiménez Núñez, Enrique, Costa Rican composer; b.1863, San José, Costa
Rica; d.1932, Guadalupe, Costa Rica. Grandfather of Benjamín Gutiérrez,
son of Pilar, he studied music with his father and in Cartago with José
Campabadal and Father Gamero. He studied agronomy in Europe. He was a
music director in Guadalupe and Cartago and conductor of the Filarmonía
Municipal de Guadalupe. In 1926 his operetta was performed at the Teatro
Nacional.
Works: Ensueños de Noche Buena, operetta, lyrics Carmen Lyra (1926);
sacred, salon, band music.
Sources: DMEH

Jiménez Ruanova, Alex, Mexican composer; b.1979, Mexico City. He

attended the Inst. Cardenal Miranda and Escuela Superior de Musica in
Mexico City, as well as the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. His
instructors have included Georgina Derbez, Xavier Gonzalez, Gustavo
Morales, Jorge Torres, Horacio Uribe, Jose Suarez, and Mario Lavista. He
also studied analysis and composition with Luca Cori, Victor Rasgado, and
attended master classes and workshops with Paul Barker, Alfredo Del
Monaco, Stefano Scodanibbio, Steve Reich, Brian Ferneyhough, and Juan
Trigos. He completed a master’s degree Rotterdam Conservatoire
(CODARTS) in the Netherlands under the guidance of Klaas de Vries, Rene
Uijlenhoet, and Peter Jan Wagemans. A scholarship from FONCA-
CONACYT allowed him to pursue a Ph.D. in composition at the Akademia
Muzyczna w Krakowie (2011-14), in Poland with Wojciech Widlak and
Krzysztof Penderecki.
Works: Pieza para Orch (2006, rev. 2008); Concierto para trb (2009);
Sinfonía de Cámara no. 1 “Lord Ruthven” (2009).
Sources: CW, GP

Jiménez Solís, Pilar, Costa Rican composer; b.27 Mar 1835, Guadalupe,
Costa Rica; d.2 Jul 1922, Guadalupe, Costa Rica. Father of Enrique and
great grandfather of Benjamín Gutiérrez, he studied music in Tres Ríos
(1850-53) with Jesús Rodríguez and later piano in San José with Panraleón
Zamacois. He played violin and cello and taught at the Liceo of Costa Rica,
the Escuela Nacional de Música, and the Escuela de Música Santa Cecilia.
He was a choir director and a member of the Orch. of Teatro Mora (later
Teatro Municipal), traveled through Europe and the USA.
Works: Amor y trabajo, operetta, lyrics Adolfo Romero; Gracias a Dios
que está puesta la mesa, operetta, lyrics Adolfo Romero; Cartilla de música
(music notebook) in 20 lessons.
Sources: DMEH

Jiménez Zambrano, Leonardo Segundo, Ecuadorian pianist, accordion

player and composer; b.ca.1930, Province of Cotopaxi, Ecuador. He had 11
brothers, most of whom were musicians. He studied in the Cons. Nacional
and later, funded by the Organization of American states, at the Cons. de
Música de Santiago. He taught secondary schools and played in ensembles
including Plugiese, Los Embajadores del Tango, Los Rioplatenses, Los
Nativos Andinos, Los Barrieros, and in the orchestras of Luis Aníbal
Granja, Salgado Jr., Casino y Mariano de la Torre. He toured and conducted
in the USA and other countries.
Works: Los saragueros, ballet; Los Aruchicos y Cotopaxi, ballet; hymns,
dances.
Sources: DMEH

Jolles, Henry (Heinz), Brazilian composer and pianist of German origin;

b.28 Nov 1902, Berlin, Germany; d.16 Jul 1965, São Paulo, Brazil. He
studied at the Univ. of Berlin, Germany, and was a student of Edwin
Fischer, Artur Schnabel, and Kurt Weill. Prof. at the Klindworth-
Scharwenka Cons. in Berlin, and the Musikschule of Cologne, Germany.
He emigrated to Brazil (1940) and was appointed Prof. at the Escola de
Música of São Paulo.
Works: Ballets; chamb, pn, voc music.
Sources: KTL

Jones, Clydwyn Ap Aeron, Argentine composer, conductor, and pianist;

b.27 Jun 1913, Dolavon, Chubut, Argentina; d.12 Jan 2008, Trelew,
Chubut, Argentina. He studied at the Cons. de Música de Buenos Aires and
the Cons. Nacional (1933-41), with Gilardo Gilardi, Alberto Williams, and
Floro Ugarte. With a British scholarship (1948) he studied at Trinity
College, London. He conducted choruses at the Inst. de Estudios Superiores
de Cultura Inglesa, San David, Escuela Municipal de Bellas Artes Carlos
Morel de Quilmes, Polifónico de Santa Fe, Escuela Municipal de Música de
Avellaneda y Provincial del Chubut. He founded the Escuela Provincial de
Música de Trelew.
Works: Cuatro corales, choir (1945); El Puente, cantata, written in homage
to the centenary of colonization, 4 voc, ch, organ (1965); Cuarteto de
cuerdas en Fa, vn, va, vc, cb (1970); Suite patagónica, orch (1973);
Tehuelche, song (1989); Canta el poeta, song (1993).
Sources: DMEH

Jordá Rossell, Luis Gonzaga, Mexican composer of Spanish birth; b.16

Jun 1869, Masías de Roda, Spain; d.20 Sep 1951, Barcelona. He studied
music with Melitón Baucells in Roda de Ter, with Jaime Pujadas in the
Catedral de San Pedro de Vic, and later with Manuel Obiols and José
Rodoreda at the Cons. de Barcelona. He studied organ in the Basílica de la
Merced in Barcelona. He served as a teacher and the director of the Escuela
de Música de Vic and the conductor of the city band. In 1898, he moved to
Mexico and enjoyed fame for his zarzuela, Chin-Chun-Chan. He returned
to Barcelona in 1915 and established the Casa Beethoven.
Works: Chin-Chun-Chan (1904), zarzuela; Independencia, symph. poem,
ch (1910).
Sources: GP

Jorge Amatriain, Santos, Panamanian composer of Spanish origin; b.1

Nov 1870, Peralta, Navarra, Spain; d.22 Dec 1941, Panama City, Panama.
He studied at the Cons. of Madrid, Spain. Conductor of the Banda del
Batallón Colombia and the Banda de la República, both in Panama City.
Voc teacher and inspector of music in the schools of Panama City.
Works: Himno istmeño (1897), proclaimed the Panamanian National
Anthem when Panama became independent from Colombia (1903); Himno
al trabajo; Himno al maestro.
Sources: DM, MLA, MMLA

José, Alejandro, Dominican composer and performer; b.3 Mar 1955, San
Francisco de Macorís, Dominican Republic. At a young age he moved to
Santo Domingo to study oboe and composition at the National Cons. He
moved to Puerto Rico (1978) to continue at the Cons. and the Laboratorio
de Música Electrónica of the Univ. in San Juan. He also studied at the
Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics of Stanford Univ.
He helped create the electroacoustic music program in the Department of
Education of Puerto Rico (1985), which he directed until 1991. He played
oboe in chamber ensembles, was a member of the board of directors of
Sociedad Puertorriqueña de Música Contemporánea and president of the
Asociación Nacional de Compositores.
Works: Oberatura, orch (1981); Cuarteto para cuerdas, str qt (1981);
Introspección I, II, electronic (1979); Tres estudios para wind controller,
electronic (1989).
Sources: DMEH

Juanas, Antonio, Mexican composer of Spanish origin; b. 1762/3, Narros,

Soria, Spain; d.after 1819, Spain. He was educated at the Colegio de
Infantes de San Felipe Neri in the Catedral de Sigüenza in Guadalajara,
Spain, possibly with Acacio Garcilópez. He moved to Alcalá de Henares at
17 to take the post of chapelmaster at the Iglesia Magistral de los Santos
Justo y Pastor. He served as chapelmaster at the Cathedral of Mexico City
(1791-1816). In 1819, he returned to Spain.
Works: Christus Factus Est. 18 masses, voc, inst; 10 masses a cappella; 11
Te Deum; 45 vesper psalms; 100 responsories; 22 Salve; 3 Lamentations.
Motets; hymns; villancicos.
Bibl.: G. Saldívar, Historia de la Música en México (Epocas Precortesiana
y Colonial), Mexico City, 1943. R. Stevenson, Renaissance and Baroque
Musical Sources in the Americas, Washington, DC, 1970.
Sources: GDM
Juárez, Manuel [Manolo], Argentine composer; b.22 Apr 1937, Córdoba,
Prov. of Córdoba, Argentina. He studied music theory, solfeggio, and
harmony with Jacobo Ficher, composition with Honorio Siccardi and
Guillermo Graetzer, piano with Ruwin Erlich in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Founder and president of the Asociación Argentina de Compositores.
Founder of the Dept. de Música Sinfónica y de Cámara of SADAIC of
Buenos Aires. Prof. at the Univ. Nacional of Buenos Aires. Member of the
Fondo Nacional de las Artes in Buenos Aires, and Dir. of the Escuela de
Música Popular of Avellaneda, Prov. of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Works: Condensaciones, bandonion, perc, str trio (1973); Maremagnum,
orch (1975). Ballet, chamb, pn, ch, voc music.
Sources: DMEH, DMM, ISC, KTL

Juárez Castellanos, Rafael, Guatemalan composer and conductor; b.1913,

Antigua, Guatemala; d.2000, Guatemala City. He studied composition with
Oscar Castellanos Degert, J. Lafuente, and M. Vasconcelos. He was a
member of the Marshall Band.
Works: Sinfonía típica “Memorias de Tikal”; Popol Vuh, Añoranzas;
Obertura del recuerdo, orch; overtures, marches, band music.
Sources: DMEH

Juárez Frías, Ernesto, Mexican composer, instrumentalist, and actor; b.4

Aug 1931, Nochistlán, Zacatecas, Mexico. At 6, he began playing drum and
would soon begin studying music theory, piano, and violin. He entered the
Seminario Conciliar de Guadalajara, where he directed the choir, but left by
age 13. He then enrolled in the Acad. de Bellas Artes in Aguascalientes to
study violin and piano and joined the local orch. as a violinist. He later
studied violin at the Cons. Nacional de Música and law at UNAM. He was
a member of the Orq. de Ingeniería, in which he sang and played violin and
saxophone.
Works: Hacia La Bufa (1997). Songs.
Sources: GP

Julifio, João Batista, Brazilian composer and teacher; b.19 Sep 1886,
Silveiras, Brazil; d.20 May 1961, São Paulo, Brazil. He began to study
music at the Cons. Dramático e Musical of São Paulo (1912) under Savino
de Benedictis and Antonio Carlos Ribeiro de Andrada e Silva Junior. He
founded the Inst. Musical de Mogi das Cruzes, Brazil (1915), and became
choirmaster of the church of that town (1918). Later, he went to Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil, to study male choral singing and became a Prof. in this
specialty. Inspector of music in the school system of São Paulo. Prof. of
music at the Escola Normal Padre Anchieta and founding member of the
Inst. Musical, both in São Paulo. Founding member of the Acad. Brasileira
de Música.
Works: Ch, sacred, pn, educational music music.
Books: Chave para os Cadernos de Exercicios Caligráficos e Análise
Musical, São Paulo, 1922.
Sources: EMB2, MLA

Junchaya, Rafael Leonardo, Peruvian composer and conductor; b.19 Sep

1965. He took piano lessons with Ivonne Schiaffino before entering the
Cons. Nacional de Música de Peru to study violin. He briefly studied
architecture before returning to the Cons. to study composition with
Enrique Iturriaga, Celso Garrido-Lecca, José Roberto Sosaya, Pedro Seiji
Asato, Walter Casas, Marina Pavlovna, and Katia Palacios. He studied
conducting with Miguel Harth-Bedoya and Eduardo García Barrios, and
attended The Juilliard School (NYC). He served as assistant then principal
conductor of the Orch. of the Cons. Nacional de Música de Lima. Prof. of
composition and music history at the Cons. and at the Inst. de Arte of the
Univ. San Martin de Porres. Founding member of Círculo de Composición
del Perú. He studied at the Univ. of Helsinki.
Works: Momentos, chamb orch (1993); Dos Estudios large orch (1994);
Movimiento sinfónico op.2 (1995); Esquisse, op.5 (2004, rev. 2007);
Sincronismos II, op.10, chamb orch (2005); Varidanzas op.12 (2006);
Concertino Silvestre op.14, bcl, perc, str orch (2007); Concerto Silvestre
op.14, bcl, orch (2008); Michiqkuna op.16a, concerto, fl, str rch. (2011).
Chamb, voc, electronic music.
Sources: CW

Junchaya Gómez, Rafael, Peruvian composer and physician; b.7 Dec

1939, Lima. He studied music with Enrique Ituriaga at the Cons. Nacional
de Música of Peru. He studied psychiatric medicine at the Univ. Nacional
Mayor de San Marcos de Lima. Father of Leonardo Rafael Junchaya.
Works: fl, orch, chamb, pn music.
Sources: CW (Rafael Leonardo Junchaya)

Junge Eskuche, Wilfred, Chilean conductor and composer; b.17 Aug

1928, Viña del Mar, Chile; d.22 Jun 2001, Concepción, Chile. He lived in
Concepción, studied piano and theory with Helmut Voerckel then joined the
Coro Polifónico de Concepción, where he became asst. Dir. He created the
Univ. chorus chamber orch. of Concepción (1951). With funding from the
chorus and the Austrian government he studied conducting at the
Mozarteum of Salzburg (1952) with Paumgartner, Wimberger, F. Neumann,
C. Orff and C. Bresgen and attended conducting seminars of Igor
Markevitch. He returned to Chile (1956), directed the chamber orchestra
and chorale of the Univ. and became the Dir. of the Orch. (1957). With a
Fulbright scholarship he studied the organization of orchestras in the USA.
Works: Concierto para clavecín y Orch (1977); Cantata del pan u de la
sangre (1980); Cantata viva la música (1982); Canciones nerudianas, mez
sop, orch; Misa brevis, ch; Televisión, opera; lieder, pn, chamb music.
Sources: DMEH

Jurado, Inés, Argentine composer; b.1867, Tandil, Argentina; d.1910,

Buenos Aires, Argentina. She began studying piano in Tandil, continuing
her studies in Buenos Aires (1874) with Amoretti. After 1891 she
improvised a series of works, which José Strigelli and later her cousin
María Elisa Trelles de Jurado notated. Her brother Enrique Jurado edited
her works in 1940 in two volumes, with a preface.
Works: Pn: nocturnes, barcaroles, mazurkas, waltzes.
Sources: DMEH

Jurado, Nicasio, Mexican violinist and composer; b.1888, Hidalgo,

Mexico d.; 1976, Mexico City, Mexico. He studied violin first in Mexico,
traveled to Europe, and in Spain received lessons from Sarasate. He fought
in the battles of Celaya and Trinidad and after the revolution occupied
political positions allowing him to travel to Europe and South America,
where he performed. He was deputy and secretary of the legation of Mexico
in Paris.
Works: Fantasía cósmica.
Sources: DMEH
Jurado, Novelli, Mexican composer; b.1981. He studied music at the
Escuela Nacional de Música and composition and sound engineering at
UNAM. He participated in the 2008 NYU/ASCAP Foundation Film
Scoring Workshop at the Steinhardt School of Music, New York University.
Works: Accepted (2009); Momentos épicos (2010); Fantasía para pn y
Orch (2012).
Sources: DMEH, GP

Jurafsky, Abraham, Argentine composer; b.26 Aug 1906, Buenos Aires,

Argentina; d.18 Jun 1993, Buenos Aires. He studied at the Cons. Nacional
de Música Carlos López Buchardo of Buenos Aires, where later, he was
appointed Prof. of harmony. Prof. of counterpoint at the Escuela Superior
de Bellas Artes of the Univ. of La Plata, La Plata, Prov. of Buenos Aires,
Argentina. Artistic Dir. of the Asociación Wagneriana of Buenos Aires.
Works: Cuatro líricas, sop, orch; Preludio sinfónico, orch; 2 sonatas, vn,
pn. Pn music; songs.
Sources: CA, DM, DMEH, DMM, EMA

Jure, Luis, Uruguayan composer; b.21 Jul 1960, Montevideo, Uruguay. He

studied guitar and beginning in 1982 composition with Héctor Tosar. He
completed a degree in composition at the Cons. de Música (1979-86) then
began writing digital electroacoustic music and became a member of the
Núcleo Música Nueva de Montevideo. He participated in seminars and
workshops at the college of music in Freiburg, Germany (1987), and began
teaching harmony in the Escuela Universitaria de Música (1988).
Works: Atración Fatal, chamb group of varying members (1991);
Takanimba (Una noche en Soweto), digital electroacoustic (1988).
Sources: DMEH

Justel, Elsa, Argentine composer; b.19 Feb 1944, Mar del Plata, Argentina.
In 1969 she began teaching music education and conducting at the Cons.
Provincial Luis Gianneo in Mar del Plata and specialized in primary and
secondary teaching at the Univ. Nacional de Rosario (1973). She studied
electroacoustic composition in Buenos Aires (1973-78) with Virtú
Maragno, Sergio Hualpa, and Eduardo Tejeda then continued in Granada,
Spain, in Darmstadt, Germany, and in France with François Barriere,
Christian Clozier, and Roger Cochini at the Groupe de Musique
Experimentale de Bourges (GMEB) (1988-90). She attended the Institute de
Recherche et de Coordination Acoustique/Musique de Paris (IRCAM)
(1989-91) and received a masters in electroacoustic music from Univ. of
Paris (1991), studying with Jean Caude Risset, Pierre Boulez, Marco
Stroppa, Marc Battier, and Horatio Vaggione.
Works: Reminiscencias de mi tierra, orch (ca.1983); Desde la cathedral,
vn, pn (1983); Fantasisa, op. 4, pn (1984); Galimatías I, orch (1985-86);
Ichihualasto, la vallée de la lune, electroacoustic (1989), Sikxo, sax,
magnetic tape (1989); Latido estival, voc, computer (1992).
Sources: DMEH
 K
Kagel, Mauricio Raúl, Argentine composer; b.24 Dec 1931, Buenos Aires,
Argentina; d.18 Sep 2008, Cologne, Germany. He studied in Buenos Aires
with Juan Carlos Paz and Alfredo Schiuma, and also attended courses in
philosophy and literature at the Univ. Nacional of Buenos Aires, Buenos
Aires. He became associated with the Agrupación Nueva Música of Buenos
Aires (1949) then was choral director at the Teatro Colón of Buenos Aires
and music advisor to the Univ. Nacional of Buenos Aires (1949-56). He
settled in Cologne, Germany (1957), where he worked at the laboratories of
the Westdeutscher Rundfunk. Guest lecturer at the International Festspiele
für Neu Musik at Darmstadt, Germany (1960-66), he was prof. of
composition at the State Univ. of New York in Buffalo, NY, USA (1965). In
1969, he was dir. of the Inst. für Neu Musik at the Rheinische Musikschule
of Cologne and in 1974 was appointed prof. at the Cologne Hochschule für
Musik.
Works: Palimsestos, ch a cappella (1950); Str sextet (1953); Traummusik,
instr, musique concrète (1954); Anagrama, speaking ch, 4 voc, chamb ens
(1958); Transición I, electronic sounds (1958); Transición II, pn, perc, 2
magnetic tapes (1959); Pandora’s box, magnetic tape (1961); Sonant,
electric gtr, harp, cb, 20 instr (1961); Sur scène, 6 participants in mixed
media (1959-60); Heterophonie, 42 solo instr (1959-61); Phonophonie, instr
theater (1963-64); Composition and Decomposition, reading piece (1963);
Diaphonie I, ch, orch, slide projections (1962); Diaphonie II, orch, slide
projectors (1962-64); Diaphonie III, ch, slide projectors (1962-64); Music
for Renaissance Instruments, 23 performers (1966); Str qt (1967); Montage,
different sound sources (1967); Ornithologica Multiplicata, exotic birds
(1968); Ludwig van, pn, fl, tpt, trb, balalaika, harmonium, cb, 2 perc (1970);
Staatstheater, scenic composition (1971); Variations ohne Fuge, orch
(1972); Con Voce, 3 mute actors (1972); Mare Nostrum, scenic play (1975);
Country Music, voc, instr (1975); Variété, concert-spectacle, artists and
musicians (1977); Die Erschöpfung der Welt, opera (1980). Chamb, voc
music.
Bibl.: D. Schnebel, Mauricio Kagel: Musik, Theater, Film, Cologne, 1970.
K.H. Zrius, Staatstheater von Mauricio Kagel, Vienna, 1977.
Sources: BB, DCM, DMEH, DMM, EMA, GDM

Keller, Damián, Argentine composer; b.23 Dec 1966, Buenos Aires,

Argentina. He started to study music at the Escuela Nacional de Música
Juan Pedro Esnaola of Buenos Aires. He received a Licentiate degree in
composition from the Univ. of Brasilia, Brazil, a Master’s degree in
computational music from the Simon Fraser Univ., Burnaby, Canada, and is
presently working for a DMA at the Center for Computer Research in
Music and Acoustics of Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA, USA. He has lived in
Israel, Brazil, Canada, and USA. His compositional work is based on the
development of environmental sound models.
Works: La patente, theater production (1997); Arrow of Time, trb,
electronics (1997); Lo femenino en la pena, theater production (1998);
touch’n’go, CD (1999); Metrophonie, 4-channel tape (2000); La conquista,
video (2000); The Trade, CD (2000). Most of his last works are for digital
tape or CD.
Sources: ISC

Kellner, Hiltrud I., Uruguayan composer of Romanian origin; b.1913,

Transylvania, Romania; d.? She lived for many years in Uruguay where she
studied with her husband, Mexican composer Carlos Zozaya, and with
Enrique Casal Chapí and Héctor Tosar.
Works: Tres movimientos, str orch (1950); Cuatro movimientos, orch
(1952); Concerto, orch, pn; Estampa rumana, pn.
Sources: UEW

Kersenbaum, Sylvia Haydée, Argentine pianist and composer; b.27 Dec

1941, Buenos Aires, Argentina. She studied piano with Esperanza
Lothringer and Vicente Scaramuzza, and composition with Gilardo Gilardi,
Julián Bautista, and Roberto García Morillo. She also studied at the
Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, Italy, at the Accademia Musicale
Santa Cecilia in Rome, Italy, and in Geneva, Switzerland, with Nikita
Magaloff and Hans Graff.
Works: La máscara de la muerte roja, ballet; songs.
Sources: DMEH, IEW
Kiefer, Bruno, Brazilian composer, teacher, and music critic of German
origin; b.9 Apr 1923, Baden-Baden, Germany; d.27 Mar 1987, Pôrto
Alegre, Brazil. He settled in Pôrto Alegre in 1934. He studied with Enio de
Freitas e Castro and Hans Joachim Koellreutter. Director of the División de
Música of the Secretaría de Educación of the State of Rio Grande do Sul,
Brazil.
Works: Electra, suite, str (1959); Diálogo, pn (1966); Convertimento, str, cb
(1970); Poema telúrico (1979). Linhas contorcidas, fl, cl, bsn, 2 vn, vc, cb.
Piano, chamb, voc, ch music.
Books: Música Alemã, Dois Estudos, Pôrto Alegre, 1958; Historia e
Significado das Formas Musicais, São Paulo, 1968; Elementos de
Linguagem Musical, Pôrto Alegre, 1969; Histôria da Música Brasileira,
1976.
Sources: EMB2, HMB

Kinsman, Benjamín Roberto Jope, Brazilian violinist, conductor, music

critic, teacher, and composer; b.3 Sep 1853, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; d.31
Mar 1927, Rio de Janeiro. At a very young age he went to Europe to study
music and literature. He studied violin, harmony, and composition in
London, England, then continued his music studies in Cologne, Germany.
In 1876, he returned to Brazil and was appointed director of the Sociedade
Filarmónica of Rio de Janeiro. Music critic in several Brazilian newspapers.
In 1882, he founded the Clube Beethoven.
Works: Marcha dos cruzados, orch (1878); Hino do Centenário do
Marqués de Pombal, orch (1882); Ouverture festival, orch (1886); Hino
Republicano do Brasil, ch, band.
Books: Esboços Musicais: Guía para o Teatro Lírico, Rio de Janeiro, 1884.
Sources: EMB2, MMLA

Koc, Marcelo, Argentine composer of Russian origin; b.4 Jun 1918,

Vitebsk, U.S.S.R. (today Belarus); d.26 Oct 2006, Buenos Aires. He settled
in Argentina (1938) and studied harmony, counterpoint, fugue, and
composition with Jacobo Ficher, and piano with Elene Larrieu and Oreste
Castronuovo. He also studied composition with Guillermo Graetzer and
Juan Carlos Paz. Founding member of the Asociación de Jóvenes
Compositores de la Argentina and of the Unión de Compositores
Argentinos.
Works: Invención, str (1948); Preludio, intermezzo, y fuga, str (1951); Tres
piezas (1958); Divertimento, str (1957); Estructuras líricas (1964); Núcleos
(1968); Vn concerto (1974); Amor y amar, mez sop (1978); Canto a San
Martín, nar, mez sop, ch (1979); Va concerto (1983); Pn concerto (1988);
Vc concerto (1989); Sonoridades (1989); Poemas americanos, voc (1990);
Harpsichord concerto (1991); Recorder concerto (1991). Chamb, solo instr,
pn, voc ch music.
Sources: CA, CTA14, DMEH, EMA, ISC

Koellreutter, Hans Joachim, Brazilian composer, teacher, and

musicologist of German origin; b.2 Sep 1915, Freiburg, Germany; d.13 Sep
2005, São Paulo, Brazil. He studied composition and conducting with Kurt
Thomas and piano with C. A. Martienssen in Berlin, Germany (1935-36).
Later, he entered the Music Cons. of Geneva, Switzerland, where he studied
flute with Gustav Scheck and Marcel Moyse, and conducting with Hermann
Scherchen. He founded the Circle of Contemporary Music in Berlin (1935).
After graduating he settled in Brazil (1937), was appointed professor at the
Cons. Brasileiro de Música of Rio de Janeiro (1938) and founded the group,
Música Viva (1939). Prof. of composition at the Inst. Musical of São Paulo,
Brazil. Founder of the Quinteto Instrumental São Paulo (1942). Founder of
the Escola Livre de Música of São Paulo, and its director (1952-58). He
also founded the Escola de Música of Bahía, Brazil, where he was
appointed dir. in 1962. Dir. of the Inst. Cultural Brasil-Alemanha in Rio de
Janeiro.
Works: Mutaçóes, orch (1943); Música, orch (1947); Sinfonía de cámara,
11 instr (1948); Concretion, perc (1960); Construction ad Synesin (1962);
Advaita, sitar (1968); Sunyata, fl, chamb orch of Western and Indian
instruments, tape (1968). 8 Haikais de Pedro Xisto, bar, 8 instr (1963);
Cantos de Kulka, sop, pn or orch (1964); Mu-Dai, any voc without
accompaniment; Isei, voc, inst; Cidadezinha Qualquer, ch a cappella.
Electroacoustic, pn, voc music.
Sources: BB, DM, EMB2, HMB, MLA, MMLA

Kohan de Scher, Celina, Argentine composer and pianist; b.31 Jan 1931,
Buenos Aires, Argentina. She studied piano with Ana Litovsky de
Grünwald and Aldo Romaniello, and harmony, counterpoint, fugue,
composition, and orchestration with Abraham Jurafsky, Pedro Sáenz, Juan
Francisco Giacobbe, Héctor Iglesias Villoud, Floro Ugarte, and Alberto
Ginastera at the Cons. Nacional de Música Carlos López Buchardo of
Buenos Aires. She continued piano studies with Raúl Spivak and
composition with Gilardo Gilardi. Teacher at elementary schools of the
Consejo Nacional de Educación in Buenos Aires (1950-83). Board member
of the Asociación Argentina de Compositores.
Works: Mariquita Sánchez, opera (1985-86); Fantasía y fuga, str orch
(1954); Concertino, va (1955); 2 symphonies (1955, 1983); Rondo, str orch
(1960); Suite sinfónica (1967); Tríptico porteño, sop, chamb orch (1978);
Adiós a Mahatma Gandhi, cantata, mixed ch, sop, bar nar (1978); Había
una vez…, suite, children’s ch (1982); Concerto, alto recorder or ob (1987);
Concerto, vc, str orch (1990); Doce de octubre, tnr, mixed ch (1992);
Fábulas, children’s ch (1993). Chamb, pn, voc, gtr music.
Sources: DMEH, DMM, EMA, ISC

Korenchendler, Henrique Davi, Brazilian composer, pianist, conductor,

and teacher; b.6 Feb 1948, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He studied piano with
Arnaldo Estrela and Lucía Branco, and music theory, harmony,
counterpoint, fugue, instrumentation, form, and composition with Henrique
Morelenbaum. In 1966, he entered the EMUFRJ where he graduated in
piano, and studied composition with José Siqueira. Founded and directed
the Grupo de Estudos Musicais in that school. Supervisor for musical
education in Rio de Janeiro. Prof. at the Escola Calouste Gulbenkian and at
the Inst. Villa-Lobos da UniRio, both in Rio de Janeiro.
Works: Symphony No.1, In Memoriam (1971); Symphony No.2, Sinfonía
breve (1975); Psalmi Tehilim, mixed ch (1997). Chamb, instr, voc, pn
music.
Sources: EMB2

Kostakowsky, Jacobo, Mexican composer and violinist of Russian origin;

b.5 Feb 1893, Odessa, Ukraine, formerly part of Russia; d.17 Aug 1953,
Mexico City, Mexico. Settled in Mexico in 1925. He studied violin with
Max Fiedelman in Odessa, Otakar Sevcik in Vienna, Austria, Kilian in
Munich, Germany, and with Hans Sitt and Hans Becker in Leipzig,
Germany. Studied harmony with Arnold Schoenberg in Vienna,
composition with Vincent d’Indy at the Schola Cantorum in Paris, France,
and conducting with Max Reger in Leipzig.
Works: Nueva España, ballet (1929-30); Barricada, symph poem/ballet
(1935); Clarín, (1935); Creación del hombre, Mayan legend (1937);
Estampas callejeras, choreographic symph (1950); Les ménétriers de
voyager (1951); Retablo de vida y muerte (1952); Fantasie rosse, vn, orch,
op.2 (1926); Dos poemas de Amado Nervo (1929, rev.1949); Tres poemas
de Amado Nervo (1929-30); Oh montes cua gigantes (1927); El desertor
(1929); Estampas callejeras, chamber piece no.5 (1936); Pequeña suite
(1936); Taxco, sym. poem (1936); La espiga de oro (1936-37); Pn concerto
(1937); El romancero gitano, suite in memory of Federico García Lorca
(1937); Triángulo, suite (1937); Escenas callejeras, chamb orch (1937);
Juventud (1937); Capricho Marimba (1938); Concertino, vn, orch (1938);
Divertimento (1938); Niños de América, children’s ch, sop, alto, orch
(1938); Suite lírica (1938); Immpronto y obertura primaveral (1939);
Lascas, symph poem (1939); Sinfonía (1939); Marimba, capriccio, pn
(1940); Sinfonietta tropical no.1 (1940); Serenata Mexicana, op.27
(ca.1940); La serenata (1941); Sinfonietta no.2 (1941); 3 violin concertos
(1941-42, 1942, 1945, rev.1950); Alborada del Diablo (1947-48);
Impromptu (1949); Palma de Mallorca (1949); Oda a la paz, mixed ch,
children’s ch, sop, alto, bar, orch (1951). Chamb, voc music.
Sources: DM, DMEH, GP, MLA, MMLA

Kotzarew, Oleg, Argentine composer of Russian origin; b.22 Jun 1931,

Piatigorsk, Russia; d.13 Oct 2002. He studied cello with his father, Teodoro,
and with Wilhelm Kurt, in Berlin. He attended school in Rome briefly
before his family settled in Argentina in 1948, and until 1964, he lived in
Tucumán Prov. of Tucumán, Argentina, where he was active as a chamber
musician and at the Orq. Sinfónica of the Univ. of Tucumán. He also taught
at the local cons. In 1964, he joined the Orq. Filarmónica of Buenos Aires,
and in 1965, the Camerata Bariloche, both in Argentina.
Works: Pujillay, ballet (1965); Heterodoxia, str orch (1964); Ocasional
música para un concierto, orch; 3 str qt ; Sonata, vc, pn. Chamb, pn music.
Sources: DMEH, EMA

Krieger, Armando, Argentine composer and conductor; b.7 May 1940,

Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied piano with John Montés, composition
with Alberto Ginastera, and conducting with Roberto Kinsky. He is one of
the first graduates from the Centro Latino Americano de Altos Estudios
Musicales of the Inst. Di Tella of Buenos Aires. Asst. cond. at the Teatro
Colón of Buenos Aires. Professor at the Univ. Católica Argentina and the
Univ. Nacional, both of Buenos Aires.
Works: Cantata II, sop, female ch, orch (1963); Concerto, 2 pn and orch
(1963); Metamorfosis d’après une lecture de Kafka, pn, orch (1968); Elegía
I, cl, pn (1960); Elegía II, voc, instr ens (1962); Sonatina 2, vn, pn (1961);
Cinco nocturnales, chamb ens (1964); Tensiones III, voc ens (1967); De
muertes y resurrecciones, voc, 5 instr (1969). Pn pieces; songs.
Sources: EMA

Krieger, Edino, Brazilian composer; b.17 Mar 1928, Brusque, Santa

Catarina, Brazil. He studied music with his father, Aldo Krieger, director of
the local cons., and later with Hans Joachim Koellreutter at the Cons.
Brasileiro de Música of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In 1948, he studied in the
USA, with Aaron Copland at the Berkshire Music Center in Tanglewood,
MA, then with Peter Mennin at The Juilliard School of Music in New York
City, NY. He also studied with Ernest Krenek in Brazil, in 1952, and with
Lennox Berkeley in London, England. In 1947, he became a member of the
Grupo Música Viva organized by Hans Joachim Koellreutter. Dir. of the
Dept. de Arte y Música of the Rádio Jornal do Brasil in Rio de Janeiro,
1963-73. President of the Sociedade Brasileira de Música Contemporánea.
Member of the Acad. Brasileira de Música.
Works: Convergencias, ballet, ch; Movimiento misto, orch (1947); Chôro,
fl, str (1955); Abertura sinfónica (1955); Concertante, pn (1955);
Divertimento, str (1959); Brasiliana, va or alto sax (1960); Variaçôes
elementares, chamb orch (1964); Ludus symphonicus (1966); Canticum
naturale, sop (1972); Estro armónico, (1975); Trés imagens de Nova
Friburgo, harpsichord (1988); Double concerto, 2 vn, str (1994). Ch,
chamb, pn, voc music.
Sources: BB, CTA13, DM, EMB2, HMB

Kröpfl, Francisco, Argentine composer of Hungarian origin; b.26 Feb

1931, Szeged, Hungary. He settled in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1932.
Studied with Juan Carlos Paz. In 1950, he joined the Agrupación Nueva
Música. In 1959, he organized the Dept. de Fonología Musical at the Univ.
Nacional of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires. Dir. of the Laboratorio
Electrónico of the Inst. Di Tella of Buenos Aires, where he also taught. In
1962, he was appointed musical consultant at the Museo Nacional de Bellas
Artes of Buenos Aires.
Works: Tres piezas, pn (1948); Música, fl, cl (1951); Cuatro canciones de
Aldo, sop, fl, cl (1952); Variaciones, pn (1953); Dos estudios, pn (1953);
Tres canciones de Mario Porro, sop, instr (1954-56); Música 1958, pn;
Música, 25 instr (1959); Ejercicio de texturas, electronic music (1960);
Ejercicio con impulsos, electronic (1961); Música, 3 perc, electronic sounds
(1962); Móvil II, pn (1962); Ejercicio en movimientos, electronic music
(1962); Acciones, pn (1962-66); Diálogos I, II and III, electronic music
(1964-65, 1965, 1968); Música 1966, pn; Orillas, electronic music (1988);
Relta, synth, magnetic tape (1991).
Sources: DMEH, DMM, EMA, GDM

Kuapil [Kwapil] Urbane, José, Peruvian conductor and composer; b.13

May 1843, Olomouc, Moravia, Peru; d.22 Mar 1911, Chiclayo, Peru.
Graduated from the Conservatory of Vienna (1865) and moved to Lima
(1870). He conducted military bands, chamber, symphonic, and choral
groups.
Works: Gran marcha military, (1879); El mensajero de la paz, waltz; La
Unión, polka; dances.
Sources: DMEH

Kubik, Rodolfo Francisco, Argentine composer of Italian origin; b.24 Jan

1901, Pola, Istria, Italy; d.10 Apr 1985, Buenos Aires. He studied at the
Reale Cons. Tartini in Trieste, Italy, with Illersberg. He settled in Argentina
(1927) where he organized the chorus of the Univ. Nacional of La Plata,
Prov. of Buenos Aires, and other choral groups.
Works: La Beffa, opera (1925); Tupac, symphch poem; Temas
mesopotámicos, suite, orch, ch; Fuga, qt; Nocturno, vn, pn. Pn, voc music.
Sources: DM, DMEH, EMA

Kühn, Víctor, Belgian composer, teacher, and pianist; b.1863, Liege,

Belgium; d.6 Aug 1913, Córdoba, Argentina. He studied piano, harmony,
and composition at the conservatory in Liege, accompanied in the Royal
Theater of the Mint in Brussels, then accompanied Eugeene Ysaÿe on a tour
through Russia. In 1893 he began classes in piano at the Acad. Santa
Cecilia de Córdoba and in 1897 co-founded the Cons. Provincial de Música.
A founder of the Centro Musical, an organization that promoted music,
especially chamber music.
Works: Concierto pour saxophone alto en Fa, sax, orch; Nuit d’insomnie,
op.26, ch, orch (ca.1895); Ràverie, vn, pn; Polonaise, pn; Preludio y fuga,
pn.
Sources: DMEH

Kumok, Jorge, Argentine composer, pianist, and teacher; b.21 May 1931,
Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied at the Univ. Nacional of La Plata,
Prov. of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Works: Triptychon, orch; Música, pn, orch. Orch, pn, voc music.
Sources: DMEH, KTL

Kuri Aldana, Mario, Mexican composer and teacher; b.15 Aug 1931,
Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico; d.15 Jan 2013, Mexico City. He studied
piano with Carlos del Castillo at the Academia Juan Sebastián Bach in
Mexico City, Mexico (1948-51), and theory with Juan Tercero at the
Escuela Nacional de Música of the UNAM in Mexico City (1952-60). He
also studied conducting with Igor Markevitch and Jean Giardino at the Inst.
Nacional de Bellas Artes in Mexico City (1957-58), and advanced
techniques of composition with Rodolfo Halffter and Luis Herrera de la
Fuente (1961-62). He took lessons with Alberto Ginastera at the Centro
Latinoamericano de Altos Estudios Musicales of the Inst. Di Tella in
Buenos Aires, Argentina. He also took classes with Olivier Messiaen,
Aaron Copland, and Luigi Dallapicola. Prof. of composition at the Acad.
Juan Sebastián Bach, and of music theory, harmony, and counterpoint at the
UNAM. Prof. of music at the Acad. de la Danza of the INBA of Mexico,
Mexico City.
Works: Sueño de un domingo por la tarde en la la Alameda, ballet (1986); 3
symphonies (1959, 1966, 1976); Los cuatro Bacabs, suite, double wind
orch, optional nar (1960); Máscaras, concerto, marimba, wind orch (1962);
Pasos, pn, orch (1963); Bacab de las plegarias, 2 fl, 2 cl, tpt, harp, str
(1966); Sinfonía de cuerdas no.1 (1967); Villa de Reyes (1968); Formas de
otros tiempos, str orch, harp (1971); Concierto de Santiago, fl, str orch,2
perc (1973); Concertino mexicano, vn, str orch (1974); Noche de verano,
nar, sop, chamb orch (1976); Puentes, str. (1977); Adiós a un maestro
(1978); Real del Oro (1979); Canto de cinco flor, vc, orch (1980); Canto
latinoamericano (1980); Tres piezas para orquesta de cuerdas y oboe
obligado (1980); Concierto tarahumara, vc, str orch (1981); A Carlos
Chávez, In Memoriam, tpt, tb, str orch (1984); Hermano sol (1986); Sueño
de un domingo por la Tarde, orch (1986); Hermano sol, tnr, mez sop, str
orch (1987); Noche tibia y callada, Homenaje a Agustín Lara, orch (1989);
Tocotín de Atempan, orch (1990); Tranfiguracionnes, soloists, str orch
(1990); La canción del Pegaso (1991); Sinfonía del norte (1992); Obertura
caribeña (1993); Sinfonía poética (1993); Danzón, orch (1994); Glorias de
ayer (1994); Sinfonía bolero (1994); Viaje a Aztlán (1994); Ecos de una
América nuestra, orch (1995); Ilusión fantasma, mez sop, str orch (1996),
Sinfonía de cuerdas no.2 (1997); Mariposa en la noche (1999); Tango
(2003). Chamb, pn, voc music.
Bibl.: S. Kahan, El Compositor Kuri Aldana, Carnet Musical de X.E.L.A.,
Mexico City, 1963.
Sources: BB, DCM, DMEH, DCMMC, GDM, GP

Kusnir, Eduardo, Argentine composer, conductor, and teacher; b.11 Jul

1939, Buenos Aires, Argentina. With a scholarship awarded by the
Bulgarian government, he studied at the Bulgarian State Cons., (1956-61).
In 1969, he received a scholarship from the Inst. Torcuato Di Tella of
Buenos Aires to study at the Centro Latinoamericano de Altos Estudios
Musicales under Alberto Ginastera. In 1972, he received a scholarship from
the French government to continue postgraduate studies at the Univ. of
Paris, France. Prof. at the Cons. Superior de Música Manuel de Falla of
Buenos Aires, and at the Dept. de Música of the Facultad de Humanidades
of the Univ. of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, PR. In 1978, he settled in Caracas,
Venezuela, where he was involved in electroacoustics. He created and was
prof. of the Dept. de Música Electroacústica at the Cons. Nacional de
Música Juan José Landaeta in 1981. He taught at the Escuela de Arte of the
Univ. Central de Venezuela in 1988, and at the Facultad de Humanidades y
Educación in 1994, both in Caracas, and was visiting prof. at the Dept. de
Música of the Univ. of Puerto Rico. President of the Sociedad Venezolana
de Música Electroacústica.
Works: La panadería, electroacoustic (1970); Ofrenda, electroacoustic
(1970); Orquídeas primaverales, electroacoustic (1975); Como un suspiro
caído del cielo, electroacoustic (1975); El encanto del cisne, electroacoustic
(1978); Abajo el terror, electroacoustic (1978); Como es Lily,
electroacoustic (1985); Todavía sin nombre, mez sop (1987); Miranda en
Francia (1989); Simple, nar, cb, magnetic tape (1990); Buenos días, fue un
buen día (1992); El retorno (1994). Chamb, pn, synth music.
Sources: DMEH, EMV
 L
Lacerda, Osvaldo Costa de, Brazilian composer and teacher; b.23 Mar
1927, São Paulo, Brazil; d.18 Jul 2011, São Paulo. He started to study piano
at nine years of age with Ana Veloso de Resende, and continued with María
dos Anjos Oliveira Rocha and José Kliass. He studied harmony and
composition with Ernesto Kierski and Camargo Guarnieri. With a
scholarship from the Guggenheim Foundation (1963), the first awarded to a
Brazilian composer, he went to the USA and studied composition with
Vittorio Giannini in New York, NY, and Aaron Copland in Tanglewood,
MA. He founded the Coral da Sociedade Paulista de Arte and the Sociedade
Pro-Música Brasileira. Prof. at the Escola Municipal de Música of São
Paulo. President of the Comissão Estadual de Música of São Paulo (1967)
and of the Sociedade Pró-Música Brasileira (1961-66). Member of the
Acad. Brasileira de Música.
Works: Suite piratininga, orch (1962); Concerto, str orch (1964); Abertura
No.1 (1972); Quatro peças modais, str (1975); Quatro movimentos, str
(1976). Missa a duas vozes, ch, org (1966); Missa ferial, mixed ch a
cappella (1966); Missa Santa Cruz, mixed ch, org (1967); Missa a tres
vozes iguais, ch, org (1971). Chamb, wind ens, brass ens, perc pn, voc
music.
Sources: CTA15, DCM, EMB2, GDM, HMB

Lado, Norma, Argentine composer and pianist; b.8 Oct 1934, Lanús, Prov.
of Buenos Aires, Argentina. She studied piano with Haydée Loustaunau and
harmony, counterpoint, fugue, and composition with Jacobo Ficher.
President of the Asociación de Jóvenes Compositores de la Argentina.
Works: Tres preludios, pn (1957); Preludio y fuga, pn (1959); Variaciones
sobre un tema de Mozart, pn (1960); Sonata, pn (1961); Cuatro imágenes
infantiles (1963); Dos piezas, str orch (1968); Tres piezas, pn (1981);
Adagio (1982); Dos danzas, fl, ob, cl, bsn (1986); Interiores I, II, III,
various ens (1986-88); Deshielos, cl, vn, pn (1992); Azul profundo,
marimba (1993). Chamb, voc music.
Sources: DMEH, DMM, ISC, VMA

Ladrón de Guevara Cuevas, Raúl, Mexican composer and pianist; b.20

Oct 1935, Naolinco, State of Veracruz, Mexico; d. 12 Mar 2006, Xalapa. He
studied at the Escuela de Música of the Facultad de Bellas Artes of the
Univ. Veracruzana, Veracruz, Mexico, at the Cons. Nacional de Música of
INBA, Mexico City, Mexico, and at the Accademia Chigiana di Musica in
Siena, Italy. Dir. of the Facultad de Música and of the Extensión Univ. y
Difusión Cultural, both of the Univ. Veracruzana. Chairman of the Dept. of
Music of the Univ. of California at Santa Barbara, CA, USA (1994).
Works: Tres preludios sinfónicos, orch (1968); Gtr concerto (1975);
Nocturno (1983); Gtr concerto (1985); Obertura veracruzana (1987).
Chamb, pn, ch, voc music.
Sources: DCMMC, DMEH, GP

Lafinur, Juan Crisóstomo, Argentine composer; b.27 Jan 1797, Prov. of

San Luis, Argentina; d.13 Aug 1824, Chile. He studied at the Colegio
Monserrat of Córdoba, Prov. of Córdoba, Argentina. Dir. of the chorus at
the Cathedral of Córdoba. Prof. of philosophy at the Univ. Nacional of
Buenos Aires; he resigned because of his extremely liberal ideas then
moved to the Prov. of Mendoza, where he taught at the Colegio de la
Santísima Trinidad.
Works: Clarisa y Betsy, musical melodrama (1821); Himno patriótico,
homage to San Martin’s South American campaign of liberation and
independence.
Sources: DMEH, EMA, MMLA

Lafuente, Valentín, Guatemalan composer; fl..first half of the 20th century.

Works: 2 masses, orch; La danza negra, overture; Miserere, 4 voc orch;
Tota Pulcra, 3 voc orch; Miserere, orch; Gradual de Viernes de Dolores,
orch; Gloria Patri, orch; Regina, 3 voc, orch.
Sources: DL, DMEH, MMLA

Lagarmilla, Roberto Eugenio, Uruguayan music critic and composer; b.25

May 1913, Montevideo, Uruguay; d.13 Mar 1992, Montevideo. He attended
the Inst. Musical Falleri then studied harmony, counterpoint, and
composition with Benone Calcavecchia in Montevideo. Music critic for the
newspapers La Mañana, El Plata, Mundo Uruguayo, and El Día.
Works: Queguay, ballet (1935); Impresiones bravías, pn (1936); Dos
preludios, gtr (1942); Concertino in A, pn, orch (1936); Concerto, pn, orch
(1943); Variaciones tangueadas, orch (1950-52). Pn, voc music.
Books: Eduardo Fabini, Montevideo, 1954; Músicos Uruguayos,
Montevideo, 1970.
Sources: BHMCU, DMEH, MMLA

Lagos, Adolfo, Mexican composer; b.1948, Mexico City, Mexico. He

studied with Alicia Urreta, Joaquín Gutiérrez Heras, and Manuel Enríquez.
Works: Consecuencias, fl, ob, vc, pn; Cuarteto de cuerdas I, str qt; Dúo, 2
gtrs; Fantasía, pn.
Sources: DMEH

Lamarque Pons, Jaurés, Uruguayan composer and pianist; b.6 May 1917,
Salto, Uruguay; d.11 Jun 1982, Montevideo. He studied piano with María
Victoria Varela as a youth. He moved to Montevideo, Uruguay (1935), to
study piano with Guillermo Kolischer and harmony, counterpoint, and
instrumentation with José Tomás Mujica, Guido Santórsola, and Enrique
Casal Chapí.
Works: Marta Gruni, opera (1965); Sortilegio, ballet (1951); Suite de Ballet
según Figari (1952); Suite rioplatense, ballet (1954); El encargado, ballet
(1956); Un tal sombrero, ballet (1963); Contrarritmo, ballet (1965); Tres
danzas pintorescas, orch (1947); Tríptico montevideano, orch (1956);
Concerto, pn, str, perc. Chamb, pn, incidental music.
Sources: BHMCU, CTA16, DMEH, MU

Lamas, José Angel, Venezuelan composer; b.2 Aug 1775, Caracas,

Venezuela; d 9 Dec 1814, Caracas. He studied with Juan Manuel Olivares at
the Escuela de Música del Padre Sojo in Caracas. Bassoonist at the
Cathedral of Caracas until his death.
Works: Popule Meus, 3 voc, 2 vn, 2 ob, 2 hn, va, cb (1801); Mass in D
(1810); Miserere; Ave Maris Stella (1808); 30 motets.
Bibl.: R. de la Plaza, Ensayos sobre el Arte en Venezuela, Caracas, 1883.
J.B. Plaza, Music in Caracas during the Colonial Period (1770-1811), The
Musical Quarterly, New York, April 1943.
Sources: DMEH, EMV, MMLA, GDM
Lambertini, Marta Beatriz, Argentine composer; b.13 Nov 1937, San
Isidro, Prov. of Buenos Aires, Argentina. She studied with Luis Gianneo,
Roberto Caamaño, and Gerardo Gandini at the Facultad de Artes y Ciencias
Musicales of the Univ. Católica Argentina of Buenos Aires (1965-72). She
studied new trends in music with Francisco Kröpfl, Gerardo Gandini,
Gabriel Brncic, and José Maranzano with a scholarship granted by
CICMAT (1973-74). Member of the Asociación Argentina de Musicología
and board member of the Agrupación Nueva Música. Prof. at the Facultad
de Artes y Ciencias Musicales of the Univ. Católica Argentina of Buenos
Aires. Prof. at the Cons. Nacional de Música Carlos López Buchardo of
Buenos Aires, and the Facultad de Bellas Artes of the Univ. Nacional of La
Plata, Prov. of Buenos Aires.
Works: Alice in Wonderland, opera (1989); Odas, ch, orch (1972);
Proverbios, ch, orch (1972); Concertino-Serenata, fl, cl, harp, pn, perc, st
orch (1981); Misa de pájaros (1983); Galileo descubre las cuatro lunas de
Júpiter (1985). 2 str qt (1971, 1978); Enroque a 7, fl, cl, pn, st qt (1970);
Serenata, fl, cl, vc, pn, perc (1973); La espada de Orión, wind qnt, str qt,
harp, pn (1981); Ewigkeitt..! (homage to J.S. Bach), bar, str qt, pn, perc
(1985); Lo stivale, cycle of popular Italian songs, bar, pic, fl, fl in G, cl, bcl,
vn, vc, cb, pn, perc (1986); Antígona, solo va, cl, bcl, mandolin, gtr, pn
(1987). Ch, pn, voc music.
Sources: DMEH, DMM, ISC, NGDWC

Lambuley Alférez, Nestor, Colombian performer and composer; b.19 Oct

1956, Bogotá, Colombia. He graduated from the Univ. Pedagógica Nacional
(1988) then continued at the Univ. Nacional de Colombia (1972) with
Tomás Molano, R. Pedro Peña, Ramón Ropaín, Carlos Rojas, Samuel
Bedoya, Guillermo Gaviria, Peter Crowdrey, and Kenneth Singleton. He
researched musical traditions of Colombia and published essays in the
magazine, A Contratiempo. He arranged instrumental pieces for children,
for television programs and radio, orchestrated, conducted, performed,
composed, and taught at the Acad. Superior de Artes de Bogotá.
Works: Maximina, str, perc; Arpa mixta, harp.
Sources: DMEH

Lamego, Carlinda Jouvin, Brazilian pianist, teacher, and composer; b.20

May 1910, Brazil; d.? She studied piano with de Vasconcellos, music theory
with Oscar Lorenzo Fernández, and harmony, counterpoint, and fugue with
Paulo Silva in Brazil.
Works: Chamb, sacred, pn, voc music.
Sources: LEW

Lamothe, Ludovic, Haitian composer; b.12 May 1882, Port-au-Prince,

Haiti; d.4 Apr 1953, ? He studied in Haiti and the Cons. de Musique of
Paris, France. Chief of music of the Republic of Haiti, he was nicknamed
“the black Chopin.”
Works: Nibo (Meringue de Carnaval), pn; La dangereuse (Meringue
Haitienne), pn; Fleur d’Haiti, pn. Songs.
Sources: DM, MLA

Lamuraglia, Nicolás J., Argentine composer and music critic; b.19 Feb
1896, Buenos Aires, Argentina; d.23 Jan 1973, Buenos Aires. He studied
harmony, counterpoint, and composition with Athos Palma. President of
SADAIC in Buenos Aires. Taught at the Univ. of Cuyo, Mendoza, Prov. of
Mendoza, Argentina.
Works: Poema sinfónico, tnr, orch (1938); Cuatro impresiones sinfónicas,
orch; Obertura para una farsa trágica, orch; Suite, pn, st orch; Figuras, vn,
chamb orch; Sinfonietta, chamb orch; Str qt; Sonatina, pn. Pn, ch, voc
music.
Sources: CA, DM, DMEH, DMM, EMA, MLA, MMLA

Landa Calvet, Fabio, Cuban composer, cellist, guitarist, conductor, and

educator; b.23 Mar 1924, Villa Clara, Cuba; d.7 Feb 2003, ? He studied
piano with Adolfo Odnopodoff and cello with Ernesto Xancó at the Cons.
Municipal de La Habana. He played first chair cello with the Orch. de la
Radio y la Television Cubanas (1953-59) and was a member of the quartet
José White and of the Chamber Quartet of Havana. After 1959 he taught
cello and created a school that extended from Havana to Camagüey and
taught theory at the Univ. de Oriente de Santiago de Cuba (1959-61). He
returned to Havana, played cello in the National Symph. Orch. (1961) then
became cond. of the orch. of the Teatro Lírico Nacional and of the Conjunto
de Danza Moderna (1962).
Works: Pequeña suite cubano, orch, str (1950); Tema y fugado, orch, str
(1958); Preludio para gtr (1960); Bachiana, sop, vc, pn (1975); Tocata, pn
(1960); Preludio no.2, pn (1982).
Sources: DMEH

Landaeta, Juan José, Venezuelan composer; b.10 Mar 1780, Caracas,

Venezuela; d.16 Oct 1814 (26 Mar 1812, EMV), Cumaná (Caracas, EMV),
Venezuela. He studied at the Escuela de Música of Padre Sojo in Caracas,
with Juan Manuel Olivares. Musician at Venezuelan churches. Dir. of the
first French opera company in Caracas.
Works: Venezuelan National Anthem, adapted from his Gloria al Bravo
Pueblo; Sincamisa, song written with his uncle, violinist José Luis
Landaeta. Pésame a la Virgen, cantata voc, orch; Salve Regina, 4 voc, orch;
Ave Maria Stella, 3 voc. 5 motets.
Bibl: R. de la Plaza, Ensayos sobre el Arte en Venezuela, Caracas 1883. J.B.
Plaza, “Music in Caracas during the Colonial Period (1770-1811),” The
Musical Quarterly, New York, April 1943.
Sources: DM, DMEH, EMV, GDM, MLA, MMLA

Landazábal Garagalza, Germán, Spanish pianist and composer; b.11 Oct

1884, Araia, Álava, Spain; d.20 May 1953, Gualeguay, Argentina. He
studied in Vitoria, Spain, with Juan Aramburu and Francisco P. de Viñaspre
and played piano in the Vitorian Phil. Society. At the Cons. of Madrid he
studied piano with José Tragó and composition with Valentín Arín then
immigrated to South America (1923).
Works: Allegro en Fa sostenico menor, orch; Mostalgia y Colombina, pn;
chamb, voc, ch music.
Sources: DMEH

Lanza, Alcides, Argentine composer; b.2 Jun 1929, Rosario, Prov. of Santa
Fe, Argentina. He studied with Julián Bautista, Alberto Ginastera, Ruwin
Erlich, and Roberto Kinsky in Buenos Aires, Argentina, then took courses
with Olivier Messiaen, Riccardo Malipiero, Aaron Copland, Bruno
Maderna, and Vladimir Ussachevsky at the Inst. Di Tella of Buenos Aires.
Asst. cond. and artistic coordinator at the Teatro Colón of Buenos Aires
(1959-65). With scholarship from the Guggenheim Foundation (1965) he
moved to the USA and taught and composed at the Columbia-Princeton
Center for Electronic Music, New York, NY. He moved to Canada (1971)
and became Prof. of composition at McGill Univ. in Montreal. He was
composer-in-residence at the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst in
Berlin, Germany (1972-73). He became a naturalized Canadian citizen in
1976.
Works: Plectros I, 1 or 2 pn (1962); Eidesis sinfónica, orch (1963);
Concerto, pn, orch (1964); Exercise I, electronic music (1965); Plectros II,
pn, magnetic tape (1966); Interferencias I, 2 wind ens, pn, electronic sounds
(1966); Plectros II, pn, tape (1966); Acúfenos, trb and 4 percussionists
(1966); Eidesis II, 13 instr (1967); Interferencias II, perc and electronic
sounds (1967); Ekphonesis, pn, winds, str, magnetic tape (1968);
Espontaneidad, audiovisual spectacle (1970); Penetrations V, mixed media
(1971); Acúfenos II, 4 instr, tape (1971); Eidesis III, 1/2 orch, tape (1971);
Mantis I (1972); Hip’nes I (1973); Kron’ikelz 75 (1975). Electronic, chamb,
pn, voc.
Sources: CAMR, CTA17, DCM, DMM, EMA, GDM

Lapeiretta de Brouwer, Ninón, Dominican pianist and composer; b.4 Jan

1907, Ciudad Trujillo, Dominican Republic; d.1989, Ciudad Trujillo. She
started music lessons, solfeggio, theory, and piano at the Liceo Musical of
Ciudad Trujillo then studied piano with Blanca Mieses and Manuel
Polanco, and composition with Enrique Casal Chapí. Founder and president
of the Círculo de Bellas Artes Ciudad Trujillo. General secretary of the
Asociación de Autores y Compositores Dominicanos.
Works: El nacimiento de Venus, ballet; Abominación de la espera, voc, orch
(1943); Preludio pastoral, small orch; Obertura jocosa, orch; Suite arcaica,
str qt; Dos caprichos, wind instr (1942). Chamb, pn music.
Sources: DEW, DMEH, MMLA

Lara, Felipe, Brazilian composer and guitarist; b.23 Feb 1979, São Paolo,
Brazil. He earned a diploma in performance from the Guitar Institute in
London (1998). He studied with Vuk Kulenovic and John Bavichi at
Berklee College of Music (BM, 2002), John McDonald at Tufts Univ. (MM,
2005), Tristan Murail at Columbia Univ., and Louis Karchin, Mario
Davidovsky, and Elizabeth Hoffman at NewYork Univ. (PhD, 2010). He
also studied electronic music with Cort Lippe at New York Univ. and with
George Lewis at Columbia Univ. He has also studied with Brian
Ferneyhough, Chaya Czernowin, Helmut Lachenmann, Marco Stroppa,
Michael Jarrell, Wolfgang Rihm, and Yan Maresz. He taught at New York
Univ.
Works: Três Contos De Baião, gtr (2000); Lacrimosa, sonata, org (2002); À
Deus, str qt (2001); Credo, Cantata no.1, double ch, soloists, 3 trb, tb, perc,
org (2002); Chiaroscuro, double concerto, va, cb, orch (2002); Notturno, str
orch (2003); Tran(slate), 2nd str qt, with or without live-electronics (2008);
Postcard, cl, vn (2008); Parábolas na Montanha, amplified fl (2013); Voz
dos Ventos, fl (bass fl), bcl (cl), bsn (2014); Archi Elastici, 2 vn, 2 va, vc
(2014).
Sources: CW

Lara, Nelly Mele, Venezuelan composer; b.1922, Caracas; d.1993,

Caracas. She studied piano with Elena de Arrarte. She also studied
composition with Vicente Emilio Sojo at the Escuela Superior de Música.
She served as dir. of the Escuela de Música in El Bosque, the Department of
Music of the Inst. Nacional de Cultura y de Bellas Artes, and the Cons. of
Araguari. President of the Asociación Venezolana de Autores y
Compositores.
Works: Sonata, vn, pn; Misa Bolivariana, ch, folk instr; Cuentos de páginas
para imaginar; Misa criolla con ritmo de Aguinaldo; Provincianas;
Cantagallo; Fantasía, vn, pn; Minima suite infantile, pn (1957); 10 Valses
Venezolanos, pn (1953).
Sources: IEW

Lara Bareiro, Carlos, Paraguayan composer, violinist, and conductor; b.6

Mar 1914, Capiatá, Paraguay; d.20/21 Sep 1987, Buenos Aires. He began
violin studies in Asunción, Paraguay, and continued composition and
conducting with Newton Pádua, Virginia Fiuzza, José Paulo Silva, João
Otaviano, and Francisco Mignone at the Escuela Nacional de Música of the
Univ. of Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He returned to Paraguay (1951) and
organized the Orq. Sinfónica of the Asociación de Músicos de Paraguay, in
Asunción before settling in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Works: Suite paraguaya, orch; Concerto in D minor, pn, orch; Co-é Yú-
Mba’é Apojhara Rapa-Ne, sym. poem. Guaranias: Lustrabotas; Ñasaindy
Yavé.
Sources: BB, CTA15, DMEH, MMPA
Lara Paz, Gustavo Adolfo, Colombian composer, arranger, guitarist,
producer, and researcher; b.14 Dec 1955, Bogotá, Colombia. He played
guitar in a rock group (1969) then studied theory with Martha Rodríquez
and piano with Eduardo de Heredia before attending the Univ. Pedagógica
Nacional concurrently studying counterpoint, fugue, and harmony with José
J. Dueñas. He joined the Estudiantina Bochina as a guitarist and arranger
(1974) and taught at Univ. Pedagógica Nacional (1979-81). He studied
instrumentation, orchestration, and composition with Jesús Pinzon Urrea
(1984-88). Chair of the harmony and sight reading dept. at the Facultad de
Humanidades de la Univ. de los Andes (1986), he also taught at the Escuela
de Música de la Orq. Sinfónica Juvenil de Colombia (1987) and founded
the Asociación Colombiana de Compositores along with A. Posada, G.
Gaviria, and J. Torres (1988). He reconstructed the music for José María
Ponce de Leon’s opera Florinda (1990).
Works: Suite maíz, orch (1981); Ciclo de canciones, alt, pn (1984); Suá,
orch (1987); Cáchu, 2 tpt, magnetic tape (1994); Gaita, fl, magnetic tape
(1994).
Sources: DMEH

Lara Zavala, Ana, Mexican composer; b.30 Nov 1959, Mexico City,
Mexico. She studied composition at the Taller de Estudios Polifónicos with
Humberto Hernández Medrano, at the Cons. Nacional de Música of INBA,
with Daniel Catán and Mario Lavista, and at the Taller de Composición
Carlos Chávez of CENIDIM, with Federico Ibarra, all in Mexico City. She
took postgraduate courses with Zbigniew Rudzinski at the Music Acad. of
Warsaw, Poland, and also with Franco Donatoni, Brian Ferneyhough,
Rodolfo Halffter, and Istvan Lang. Producer of Hacia una Nueva Música
for radio UNAM. Founding member and president of Sociedad Mezicana
de Música Nueva. Member of Sistema Nacional de Creadores.
Works: La víspera, orch (1989); Desasosiego, mez sop, chamb orch (1993);
Ángeles de llama y cielo, orch (1993-94); Concierto para flautas dulces,
orch de cuerdas, arpa, y percusiones (1998); Canticum Sacrum, str. (2000);
Dos visions (2004); Concierto para corno di bassetto (2006); Cuatro
habitantes (2007); Altre Lontananze, org concerto (2008-09); Atanor (2009-
10). Chamb, solo instr music.
Sources: DCMMC, DMEH, GP
Lares (Lárez), Violeta, Venezuelan educator and composer; b.9 Jun 1940,
Carúpano, Venezuela. She studied music in Caracas with Ángel Sauce and
Alberto Grau (1950-60) then in 1965 and 1970 theory and composition in
Lodz, Poland. After returning to Venezuela, she studied composition with
Modesta Bor and Federico Ruiz (1970-72) and with William Banchs
(1976). She coordinated the Mozart Assoc., an orchestral organization, and
youth chorus in Caracas (1964) where the first Orch. Juvenil de Venezuela
was developed. Beginning in 1972 she taught theory, sight reading, and
harmony in Caracas. She was named Dir. of the Escuela Pedagógica
Musical, and asst. dir. of the Consejo Nacional de la Cultura (1990).
Works: Septeto para cuerdas y viento, str, winds (1970); Dueto para pn y
flauta, pn, fl (1977); Infantiles para pn, pn (1979).
Sources: DMEH

Larios, Felipe, Mexican composer and teacher; b.1817, Mexico City,

Mexico; d.8/9 Aug 1886, Mexico City. He started music studies with
Eduardo Campuzano, Mariano Malpica, and Mateo Velasco, and continued
studying harmony, counterpoint, and orchestration with José Antonio
Gómez. A founder and Prof. of harmony of the Cons. Nacional de Música
of Mexico, Mexico City. His death is often erroneously reported as 1875;
however, he was elected to the Junta Directiva de la Sociedad Filarmónica
Mexicana in 1876 and remained active in performances and writings, and
taught at the cons. until 1883.
Works: Overtures; pn, religious music.
Books: Método de Armonía Teórico-Práctico.
Sources: DMEH, GMM, MMLA

La Rosa, Leopoldo, Peruvian composer, conductor, organist; b.1931, Lima,

Peru; d.28 Mar 2012, Lima, Peru. Began music study with his parents at the
Inst. Musical Bach then attended the national Cons. He studied composition
and organ with Marcel Dupre, and conducting at the Mozarteum in Salzberg
with Eric Leinsdorf and Igor Markevitch. He served as choirmaster in the
cathedral in Lima (1950) and conducted the national symph. orch. (1965-
79, 1983-84, 1989-90). He also conducted chamb. orch., choirs, bands, and
played the piano.
Works: Rimak, 13 instr (1958); Música 1960 no.1, orch (1960); Andes, orch
(1969); Música para 3, chamb; Misa de difuntos, 2 voc, org: Salve Regina,
voc, str qt; Pange lingua, 3 voc.
Sources: DMEH

Larrazábal, Felipe, Venezuelan lawyer, historian, composer, and violinist;

b.31 Jul 1816, Caracas, Venezuela; d.23 Nov 1873, on the ship Ville du
Havre from New York, NY, USA, to Paris, France. Brother of Manuel
María Larrazábal. He studied music at the Colegio de Independencia in
Caracas, with José María Montero, Juan José Tovar, and Juan Francisco
Meserón. He received a Doctorate in law from the Univ. of Caracas (1842).
First Dir. of the Cons. de Bellas Artes of Caracas (1870). Prof. of law at the
Univ. of Caracas.
Works: Gran trío in A, pn, vn, vc; Nocturno sentimental; Gran fantasía
dramática. Songs.
Books: Vida del Libertador Simón Bolívar; Vida del Libertador desde 1824
a 1830; Vida del General Miranda; Historia del Perú; Diccionario de
Música.
Sources: DMEH, EMV, MLA, MMLA

Larrazábal, Manuel María, Venezuelan organist and composer; b.1813,

Caracas, Venezuela; d.1881, Caracas. Brother of Felipe Larrazábal.
Secretary of the Sociedad Filarmónica of Caracas. Choirmaster at the
Cathedral of Caracas.
Works: Lamentación Tercera del Viernes Santo, 4 voc, orch; Misa en Fa, 4
voc, org; Ofertorio del Corpus, 4 voc, org; Misa, 3 voc, org. Religious
music; dances.
Books: Método o Estudio Completo de Solfeo para Enseñar el Canto según
el Gusto Moderno, 1834.
Sources: DMEH, EMV

Larrea Dávalos, Fernando de Jesús, Ecuadorian composer; b.ca.1699,

Riobamba, Ecuador; d.3 Nov1773, Cali, Colombia. Became a Franciscan
(1719), studied in the Colegio San Fernando de Quito and received a
doctorate in theology from the Univ. de Santo Tomás de Aquino (1723)
where he also taught. A missionary in the Ecuadorian Amazon, he founded
the Colegio San Joaquín de Misioneros de Cali and the Colegio de Nuestra
Señora se las Gracias de Popayán.
Works: Dulce Jesús mío, Christmas carol; Novena para el Aguinaldo.
Sources: DMEH

Lasala, Angel E., Argentine pianist and composer; b.9 May 1914, Buenos
Aires, Argentina; d.1 May 2000, Buenos Aires. He studied with Athos
Palma, José Gil, and Ernesto de la Guardia at the Cons. Nacional de Música
Carlos López Buchardo of Buenos Aires. Vice provost and Prof. of
harmony at the Cons. Nacional de Música Carlos López Buchardo. Dir. and
Prof. of chamb music at the Cons. Superior de Música Manuel de Falla of
Buenos Aires. Member and president of the Asociación Argentina de
Compositores.
Works: Chasca Ñahuí, ballet (1944); Amancay, ballet (1955); Cuatro
impresiones corales (1938); Movimientos Orch, pn, orch; Cantata a San
Martín de Porres, soloists, nar, mixed ch, orch; Quebrada, sym. poem;
Santa María de los Buenos Aires, cantata, nar, mixed ch, orch; Concerto, 2
gtr, orch; Suite en compás ternario, orch; 3 str qt. Chamb, solo instr, pn, voc
music.
Sources: CA, DM, DMEH, DMM, EMA, VMA

La Salvia, Antonio Santos, Argentine composer and teacher; b.1877,

Buenos Aires, Argentina; d.1933, Buenos Aires. He studied in Buenos
Aires with Santo Discépolo then at the Cons. of Milan, Italy. Prof. at the
Cons. Nacional de Música of Buenos Aires, founded by Juan Gutiérrez.
Works: Rapsodia criolla, orch; A los Andes, march.
Books: Teoría de la Música.
Sources: DMEH, EMA

Lauro, Antonio, Venezuelan guitarist, singer, teacher, chorus conductor,

percussionist, and composer; b.3 Aug 1917, Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela;
d.18 Apr 1986, Caracas, Venezuela. He studied piano with Salvador
Narciso Llamozas, and solfeggio and music theory with Angela Luisa Ortiz
at the Escuela de Música y Declamación (today Escuela de Música José
Angel Lamas) in Caracas. He studied guitar with Raúl Borges (1934) then
entered the Escuela Nacional de Música (1942) where he studied
composition with Vicente Emilio Sojo. Prof. of guitar at the Escuela de
Iniciación Musical of San Martín, Venezuela and of composition at the
Cons. Nacional de Música Juan José Landaeta of Caracas.
Works: Cantaclaro, sym. poem (1948); Misterio de Navidad (1952); Giros
negroides, suite (1955); Concerto, gtr (1956). Symph, ch, gtr, voc music.
Sources: BB, CTA14, DMEH, EMV

Lavalle García, Armando, Mexican composer and violinist; b.23 Nov

1924, Ocotlán, Jalisco, Mexico; d.12 Feb 1994, Mexico City, Mexico. He
studied violin at the Cons. Nacional de Música of INBA, Mexico City, and
took courses in composition with Miguel Bernal Jiménez, Silvestre
Revueltas, and Rodolfo Halffter. He played viola in the Orq. Sinfónica
Nacional of Mexico City and conducted the Orq. Sinfónica of Xalapa,
Mexico. Founder of Trío Italiano. Prof. at Escuela Superior de Música of
INBA and Dir. of Taller de Composición of the Univ. Veracruzana,
Veracruz, Mexico. Member of Liga de Compositores de Música de
Concierto.
Works: La canción de los buenos principios, ballet (1957); Tres tiempos de
amor, ballet (1958); Corrido, ballet (1959). Mi viaje, symph poem (1950);
Obertura colonial, orch (1954); Adagio para cuerdas “Espacial,” str.
(1956); Estructuras geométricas, str orch, perc (1960); Movimiento
perpetuo (19621967); Concerto, va, st orch (1965); Concerto, vn, str orch,
perc (1966, rev.1983); Concerto, va, st orch (1966); Ipalnemohuani, ch,
orch (1966); Concerto, ob, st orch (1967); Divertimento, cl orch (1976);
Tolloacan, pn concerto (1978); Homenaje a Silvestre Revueltas, orch
(1979); Suite popular latinoamericana (1979); Tuba Concerto (1981); Vn
Concerto (1981); Gtr Concerto (1982); Cantata a la Interiores (1989);
Univ. Veracruzana (1984); Pn concerto no.2 (1986); Spanish gtr concerto
(1987); Double Concerto, vn, vc (1991). Chamb, gtr, pn, ch, voc, ballet
music.
Sources: BB, CTA15, DCMMC, DMEH, GP

Lavín Acevedo, Carlos, Chilean composer and ethnomusicologist; b.10

Aug 1883, Santiago de Chile, Chile; d.27 Aug 1962, Barcelona, Spain. He
studied in Paris, France, with André Caplet and Roger Pénau (1923) with
M. Mauss at the Inst. of Ethnology of La Sorbonne and with Erich M. von
Hornbostel at the Univ. of Berlin, Germany (1931). Did folklore research
and comparative musicology and collaborated in the Musical Dictionary by
Hugo Riemann. He returned to Chile (1943). Member of the research staff
of the Inst. of Folklore at the Univ. of Chile, 1945-48, and Dir. of the
Archivo de Música Folklórica of the Inst. de Investigación Musical (1948-
60), both in Santiago de Chile.
Works: La encantada, ballet (1925); Automnales, ballet (1928); Quiray,
ballet (1930); Danza blanca, ballet (1936); Fiesta araucana, orch (1926);
Lamentaciones Huiliches, orch (1928). Chamb, pn, film music.
Bibl.: J. Urrutia Blondel, Carlos Lavín Compositor, Revista Musical
Chilena, 1967.
Sources: CTA4, DM, DMEH, GDM, MLA

Lavista Camacho, Mario, Mexican composer; b.3 Apr 1943, Mexico City,
Mexico. He studied piano with Francisco Gyves, and harmony,
counterpoint, and composition with Rodolfo Halffter and Héctor Quintanar.
With a scholarship from the French government, he also studied with Jean-
Etienne Marie in the Schola Cantorum of Paris, France. He attended classes
and seminars of Karlheinz Stockhausen, Henri Pousseur, Gyorgy Ligeti,
and Iannis Xenakis in Darmstadt and Cologne, Germany. He returned to
Mexico (1970) and founded Quanta, an improvisational music group. He
taught music appreciation, music introduction, and music of the 20th
century at the UNAM in Mexico City (1964-67). He joined the Laboratorio
de Música Electrónica of Mexico, Mexico City (1971) and taught at the
Cons. Nacional de Música of INBA, Mexico City. Dir. of the journal,
Pauta. Member of the Acad. de Artes since 1987.
Works: Aura, opera (1988); Sinfonía modal, orch (1965); Ondina, orch
(1966); Six Pieces, str orch (1967); Contínuo, brass, perc, 2 prepared pn, str
(1971); Lyhannh (1976); Ficciones (1980); Hacia el comienzo, mez sop
(1984); Tres nocturnos, mez sop (1985-86); Reflejos de la noche (1986);
Aura (1989); Clepsidra (1990-91); Lacrymosa a la Memoria de Gerhart
Muench (1992); Tropo para Sor Juana (1995); Gargantua, children’s ch,
nar (2002). Monologue, bar, fl, vibraphone, cb (1966); Five Pieces, str qt
(1967); Divertimento, wind qnt, 5 woodblocks, 3 shortwave radios (1968);
Homage to Samuel Beckett, 3 amplified ch (1968); Jaula, any number of
prepared pn (1976). Chamb, ch, pn, tape, electroacoustic, computer.
Sources: BB, CTA15, DCMMC, DMEH, GP

Lavista Peimbert, Raúl, Mexican composer and conductor; b.31 Oct 1913,
Mexico City, Mexico; d.19 Oct 1980, Mexico City. He studied, first with
María Vázquez, Pedro Luis Ogazón, and Manuel Barajas then entered the
Escuela de Música of the Univ. Nacional of Mexico, Mexico City, where he
studied with José Rolón, Manuel M. Ponce, and Silvestre Revueltas.
Works: Estampas (1933); Tríptico pianístico; Concerto, 2 pn, orch; Tuna
muerta; Veracruzana. Music for almost 500 films.
Sources: DMEH, ISC

Laya Morales, José Clemente, Venezuelan composer, teacher, researcher,

and violist; b.20 Oct 1913, Caracas, Venezuela; d.21 Jun 1981, Maracay,
Aragua, Venezuela. He studied violin with Pedro Antonio Silva then with
Miguel Angel Espinel. He studied harmony with Andrés Delgado Pardo and
composition with Vicente Emilio Sojo at the Escuela Superior de Música
José Angel Lamas of Caracas. Violist in the Orq. Sinfónica Venezuela, he
taught at the Escuela Preparatoria de Música Juan Manuel Olivares, both in
Caracas. Dir. of the Escuela de Música of San Cristóbal, and Escuela de
Música of the State of Aragua, both in Venezuela.
Works: Sinfonietta sobre temas taurepanes, orch (1948); Bolera, orch
(1953); Obertura infantil sobre temas de canciones Escolares, orch (1954);
Suite venezolana, orch (1956); Rapsodia, orch (1957). Chamb, pn, voc, ch
music.
Sources: CTA14, DMEH, EMV

Lazzeri del Sordo, Jorge, Mexican composer; b.31 Oct 1956, Mexico City,
Mexico. He studied composition at the Escuela Nacional de Música of
UNAM, Mexico City, and took conducting courses with Gabor Friss. Co-
founder of Círculo Disonus, group of composers of UNAM. He founded
and conducted the chamb orch. Arteus in Guadalajara, Mexico (1990) and
organized the group Coral Mexiquense (1992).
Works: Quetzacóatl, sym. poem (1981); Concerto, bsn, perc, str orch
(1981); Fantasia, pn (1981); Resurrección, sym poem (1985); Diapsalmata
(1990); Villancico, mixed ch (1992). Chamb, pn, ch, voc music.
Sources: DCMMC, DMEH

Lébano, Félix, Argentine harpist and composer of Italian origin; b.1856,

Palermo, Sicily, Italy; d.1915, Argentina. Chamb harpist for Queen
Elizabeth II of Spain, and King Edward VII of England.
Works: Triumphal March, orch, dedicated to President Juárez Celman of
Argentina; sainete (one-act farce) Los consejos de Don Javier, by Manuel
Argerich, incidental music. Salon music.
Sources: DMEH, EMA

Le Bellot, Luis, Argentine composer; b.1888, La Rioja, Argentina. d.1948,

Argentina. He studied with Alberto Williams and Edmundo Pallemaerts.
Entered the diplomatic service of Argentina (1924).
Works: Catequil, ballet, ch, orch; Dafne y Like, ballet; La máscara de la
muerte, mimodrama; La Salamanca, tone poem; Recuerdos de provincia,
suite, pn (1919-23).
Sources: DMEH, EMA

Lecuna Lander, Juan Vicente, Venezuelan composer, pianist, and

diplomat; b.20 Nov 1891, DM (1891, BB; 1899, MMLA), Valencia,
Venezuela; d.15 Apr 1954, Rome, Italy. He graduated from the Escuela
Normal of Valencia (1906), where he studied with María Teresa Pérez
Mujica and Isabel Celis. He moved to Caracas, Venezuela, to study music
theory with Juan Vicente, piano, harmony, and composition with Salvador
Llamozas, Ignacio Bustamante, and Andrés Delgado Pardo at the Escuela
de Música José Angel Lamas of Caracas. He also studied orchestration with
Gustav Strube in Baltimore, MD, USA, and composition with Alexander
Savine and Elisabeth Kuyper in New York, NY, USA. He went to Buenos
Aires, Argentina (1937) where he studied composition with Jaime Pahissa.
He then returned to Caracas to enter the diplomatic service. He was sent to
study music education in Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, and Chile by the
Dept. de Educación of Venezuela (1943). Secretary of the Embassy of
Venezuela in Rome, Italy, and Washington, DC, USA, and member of the
Embassy of Venezuela at the Vatican City, Italy. Dir. of the Escuela de
Música Sebastián Echeverría Lozano of Caracas.
Works: 2 pn concertos; Suite venezolana, 4 gtr; Str qt; Suite of 4 Venezuelan
Dances, pn; Dos danzas venezolanas, pn; Dos preludios, pn; Cuatro
canciones sin palabras, pn; Quatre pièces pour pn; Sonata, harp; El canto
de la sangre, suite, orch.
Bibl.: W. Guido, Ficha Biográfica y Catálogo de la Obra Musical de Juan
Vicente Lecuna, Revista Musical de Venezuela, Caracas, Jan-Apr, 1981.
Sources: BB, CTA14, DM, DMEH, EMV, MLA, MMLA
Lecuona, Ernesto, Cuban composer and pianist; b.6 Aug 1895,
Guanabacoa, Cuba; d.29 Nov 1963, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands,
Spain. Brother of Ernestina Lecuona Casado. Studied at the Cons. Nacional
de Música in Havana, Cuba (1913), and then took courses with Joaquín
Nin, Carlos Alfredo Peyrellade, Hubert de Blanck. Leader, Lecuona’s
Cuban Boys, dance band.
Works: El cafetal, zarzuela; Lola Cruz, zarzuela; El sombrero de Yarey;
Rosa la china; María la O; El Batey; La tierra de Venus; Niña Rita.
Rapsodia negra, pn, orch (1943); Suite, orch; La comparsa, song; Danza
negra, song; Palomita blanca; Siboney; Malagueña; Mariposa. 70 dances,
pn.
Sources: BB, DMEH, GDM, MLA, MMLA

Lecuona Casado, Ernestina, Cuban composer, pianist, and teacher; b.16

Jan 1882, Matanzas, Cuba; d.3 Sep 1951, Havana, Cuba. Sister of Ernesto
Lecuona and grandmother of Leo Brouwer. She studied at the Acad. del
Centro Asturiano and the Escuela de Música Amadeo Roldán, both in
Havana. She continued studies at the Cons. de Musique of Paris, France.
Founder of the Orch. Femenina de Concierto.
Works: Anhelo besarte, Ya que te vas, ¿Me odias?, Jardín azul, Ahora que
eres mía, Cierra los ojos, Junto al río. Latin American dances; hymns;
waltzes.
Sources: DMC2, DMEH, NGDWC

Ledesma Aragón, Rodolfo, Colombian composer and educator; b.14 Aug

1954, Santiago de Cali, Colombia. He studied piano with Rosalía Cruz of
Buenaventura and at the Cons. Antonio María Valencia in Santiago de Cali
(196172). With a scholarship for a postgraduate degree he attended the
Univ. of Illinois (1984) where he studied with Roque Cordero
(composition) and Charles Stokes (theory). After 1989 with another
scholarship he continued composition and conducting at the Univ. of Miami
with John Van der Slice and David Grey. He taught at the Univ. de Los
Andes, the Escuela de Música de la Orch. Sinfónica Juvenil de Colombia in
Bogotá, the Univ. del Valle and the Cons. Antonio María de Cali. During
his time in Miami he was an Asst. Prof. of theory, orchestration, piano, and
conducting.
Works: Hiperclásica no.1, orch (1985); Hiperclásica no.2, orch (1989);
Cuarteto de cuerdas, str (1982); Pieza dedecafónica para 10 instr, chamb
music (1990); Estudios, op.2, pn (1985).
Sources: DMEH

Lefever Chatterton, Tomás, Chilean composer; b.25 Feb 1926,

Valparaíso, Chile; d.2003, Santiago de Chile. He studied harmony,
counterpoint, analysis, composition, and orchestration (1948-52). He was a
researcher and music transcriber at the Inst. de Investigaciones Musicales
(1965-68), Dir. of theory and art criticism at the Inst. de Estética de la Univ.
Católica de Chile (1973-74), taught at the Compañia Nacional de Danza de
Ministerio de Educación and Cultura in Quito (1976-78). He also taught at
the Facultad de Artes de la Univ. de Chile, la Facultad de Filosofía y
Educación de la Univ. Cátolica de Chile, the Cons. de Música de Loja,
Ecuador, the Inst. Cidec, and the Inst. de Pacífico, both in Santiago, Chile.
His specialized in analysis, aesthetics, Chilean music history, rhythmic-
auditory education, and art history. He transcribed works for Violeta Parra,
Silvio Rodríguez, Pablo Milanés, Víctor Jara, and Astor Piazzola and wrote
for the Revista Musical Chilena and the magazine, Aysthesis, of the Inst. de
Estética de la Univ. Católica.
Works: Sinfonía no.1, orch (1964); Gente nadie, ballet (1968); Sinfonía
no.2, orch (1967); Bairahva, str orch, perc (1972); Concierto, fl, str orch
(1980); 3 Madrigales sobre temas de V. Parra, 3 voc (1988); Magnificat
sobre “Gloriosa Virginum, ch (1996); 3 Presencias, orch (1997). Film,
television, ballet music.
Sources: DMEH

Legrand, Diego, Uruguayan composer; b.20 Sep 1928, Montevideo,

Uruguay. He studied piano with Adela Taborda and Sarah Bourdillón,
harmony with Nydia Pereyra, and counterpoint, fugue, instrumentation, and
composition with Guido Santórsola.
Works: Danza criolla; Tema y variaciones, fl, ob, bsn; Wind qnt; Música,
str; Sinfonietta; Cuadros sinfónicocorales, nar, ch, orch; Halos, orch;
Equivalencias, orch; Espacios, orch.
Sources: BHMCU, DMEH, MU
Lehnhoff, Dieter, Guatemalan musicologist, composer and conductor; b.27
May 1955, Guatemala. He studied violin with José Santos Paniagua,
composition with Harold Blanchard and José Castañeda, electroacoustic
music with Klaus Ager, history and theory with Friedrich Heller in the
Mozarteum of Salzburg, and conducting with Felipe de Jesús Ortega at the
Univ. Francisco Marroquín. He founded the group Ensamble Da
Camera/Capella Antiqua in Guatemala (1980) dedicated to Iberian and
Hispanic music of antiquity. He published an anthology of works of the
colonial period (1984), received a Masters degree (1987) and a doctorate
(1990) (musicology) from the Catholic Univ. of America, Washington, DC
where he studied with Robert Stevenson, Ruth Steiner, Helmuth Braunlich,
Cyrilla Barr, and Emma Garmendia (musicology), Conrad Bernier
(composition) and Donald Thulean (conducting). In Guatemala he founded
a musicology institute, reorganized and cataloged the documents in the
archives of the Cathedral of Guatemala, and wrote about Guatemalan music
in publications including Historia general de Guatemala and The Universe
of Music: A History. He taught at the Univ. Rafael Landívar and the Univ.
del Valle de Guatemala. He founded the group Millennium (1992),
dedicated to historical Hispanic and Guatemalan music and began
publication of recordings “Música histórica de Guatemala” (1992), edited
under his direction and supported by the Fundación para la Cultura y
Desarrollo.
Works: Sones de antaño, chamb orch, ob (1969); Réquiem, electroacoustic
(1975); Tientos para vn, cl, vc (1988); Santelmo, vn (1992); Preámbulum,
orch (1996).
Books: Espada y pentagrama. La música polifónica en la Guatemala del
siglo XVI (1985). Creación musical en Guatemala (2005).
Sources: DMEH

Leite, Vãnia Dantas, Brazilian composer, pianist, and composer; b.13 Aug
1945, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She studied piano with Zilá de Moura Brito,
music education with Naide de Sá Pereira, harmony, counterpoint, and
fugue with Henrique Morelenbaum, conducting with Rafael Batista,
composition with Frederico Egger, double-bass with Sandrino Santoro, at
the Escola Nacional de Música of the Univ. of Rio de Janeiro. Later she
studied electronic music with Per Hartmann in London, England (1974),
and composition with Esther Scliar in Brazil. Prof. at the Cons. Brasileiro
de Música in Rio de Janeiro.
Works: Symph No.1 (1971); Abertura 1822, orch (1972); Entre vidas, orch
(1974); Réquiem para um poeta, ch, orch. Chamb, electronic music.
Sources: EMB2, NGDWC

Leite Dias Batista, Clarisse, Brazilian pianist, teacher, and composer; b.11
Jan 1917, São Paulo, Brazil; d.16 May 2003, São Paulo. She studied piano
with Zilda Leite Rizzo and José Kliass, harmony with João Sepe,
composition with J. Wancolle and Teodoro Nogueira, and orchestration
with Orestes Farinello at the Cons. Dramático e Musical of São Paulo. She
also studied in France (1930). Prof. at the Acad. Internacional de Música of
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and the Cons. Musical Dr. Carlos de Campos in
Tatuí, Brazil.
Works: 2 pn concertos (1972, 1975); Impressôes de Vienna, pn; Ciclo do
jazz, pn; Quilombo dos palmares. Songs.
Sources: IBCC, IEW

Lemann Cazabón, Juan, French composer and pianist; b.7 Aug 1928,
Vendome, France; d.16 May 1998, Santiago, Chile. He moved to Chile
(1932) and studied piano (1942) at the Cons. Nacional de Música de la
Univ. de Chile with René Amengual and Rosita Renard, graduating in 1954.
He then studied with Pedro Humberto Allende, Domingo Santa Cruz,
Germán Berner and Alberto Spikin (advanced piano), Juan Orrego-Salas
and Gustavo Becerra (composition). With a Fulbright he attended the
Juilliard School of music in New York (1970-71). As a pianist he received
the Orrego Carvallo award (1950) and the Rosita Renard award (1951) from
the national Cons. of the Univ. of Chile. He performed throughout Chile
with the Orch. Sinfónica de Chile and conducted the chorus of the Escuela
Experimental de Educación Artística del Ministerio de Educación (1957-
61). He stopped performing in order to teach and compose (1960). He
joined the Acad. Chilena de Bellas Artes del Inst. de Chile (1983), was
president of the Asociación Nacional de Compositores and vice chairman of
the Facultad de Artes de la Univ. de Chile.
Works: Invenciones cromáticas para pn (1954); Ojitos de pena, ch (1958);
Sonata para vn solo (1961); Cuarteto para tres flautas y clavecin (1962);
Misa Veni Domine, ch, org (1967); Fantasía concertante, pn, orch (1987);
Maestranza de noche, (Neruda poetry), ch, cl, vn, vc, pn (1987); Cuatro
mimpiezas para pn (1990); theater, ballet, film music.
Sources: DMEH

Leng Haygus, Alfonso, Chilean composer and dentist; b.11 Feb 1884,
Santiago de Chile, Chile; d.7 Nov 1974, Santiago de Chile. He studied
dentistry in Santiago de Chile, and music with Enrique Soro at the Cons.
Nacional de Música of Santiago de Chile. With other composers he formed
the Grupo Los Diez (Group of the Ten).
Works: Cinco dolores, orch (1920); La muerte de Alsino, sym. poem
(1920); Canto de invierno, orch (1932); Fantasia, pn, orch (1936); Psalm
77, soloists, ch, orch (1941). Chamb, pn, voc music.
Bibl.: A special issue of the Revista Musical Chilena (Aug/Sept 1957) was
published in his honor.
Sources: BB, CTA15, DCM, DM, DMEH, GDM, HMC, MLA, MMLA

Lens Viera, Enrique, Spanish educator, composer, and pianist; b.17 Nov
1854, A Coruña, Spain; d.Jan 1945, Lincoln, Argentina. Studied
pharmacology in Santiago de Compostela, moved to Argentina (1908),
performed, and taught at the Escuela Normal de Lincoln.
Works: En la playa, operetta (1880); Himno a Colón, orch (1881); Himno a
Abraham Lincoln, orch (ca.1909); Dos mazurkas, pn; Serantellos, pn; voc
music.
Sources: DMEH

León, Argeliers, Cuban composer, teacher, and ethnomusicologist; b.7

May 1918, Havana (Pinar del Río, GDM), Cuba.; d.23 Feb 1991, Havana.
He studied music pedagogy at the Univ. of Havana (1943) then attended the
Cons. Municipal of Havana (1945) where he studied with Mompó, Luaces,
and César Pérez Sentenat. He studied composition with José Ardévol in
Havana, then with Nadia Boulanger in Paris, France. With a scholarship he
studied folklore and music pedagogy at the Univ. of Chile, Santiago de
Chile, Chile (1951). Taught at the Cons. Municipal and musicology at the
Inst. Superior de Arte, and Dir. of the Dept de Música of the Casa de las
Américas, all in Havana. Dir. of the Inst. de Etnología y Folklore of the
Acad. de Ciencias (1961-1970), of the Dept. de Folklore of the Teatro
Nacional, and of the Dept. de Música of the Biblioteca Nacional José Martí,
all in Cuba. Editor of the journal Conservatorio.
Works: Symph No.1, str orch (1946); Suite cubana, str orch (1946);
Concertino, fl, pn, str orch (1948); Cánticos de homenaje, orch (1958);
Symph No.2 (1962); Sonatas para la Virgen de Cobre, pn, str orch; Creador
del hombre nuevo, cantata, nar, voc, ch, woodwind instr, perc. Chamb, ch,
pn, voc music.
Books: Influencias Africanas en la Música de Cuba, 1959; Música
Folklórica Cubana, 1964; Del Canto y del Tiempo, 1974.
Sources: DM, DMC, DMC2, GDM, MMLA

León, Francisco, Venezuelan composer and guitarist; b.15 Feb 1954,

Caracas, Venezuela. He studied guitar with Leovigildo Díaz at the Escuela
de Música de la Univ. de los Andes (Mérida) while also pursuing studies in
medicine, abandoned to farm in the Venezuelan Andes. Most of his works
were for the guitar. In 1992 he began giving concerts throughout Venezuela
with other Venezuelan composers.
Works: Suite orquestral, orch (1991); Juliana, gtr (1989); Variaciones para
pn, pn (1991); Preludio, vn (1989); documentary, television music.
Sources: DMEH

León, Tania Justina, Cuban composer and conductor; b.14 May 1943,
Havana, Cuba. She began to study piano at 4, then received a BA in music
(1963), and a MA in music education (1964), from the Cons. Peyrellade de
Música in Havana. She settled in New York, NY, USA (1967) and studied
composition with Ursula Mamlok at the Univ. of New York. Music Dir. of
the Brooklyn College Orch., New York, NY (1991). Board member of the
New York Foundation for the Arts and the American Composers Orch.
Composer-in-residence at Yale Univ., New Haven, CT, USA (1993).
Works: The Beloved, ballet (1972); Tones, ballet (1972); Dougla, ballet
(1974); La ramera de la cuena, musical (1974); Belé, ballet (1981);
Scourge of Hyacinths, opera (1994). Concerto Criollo, timpani, orch
(1980); Ascend, brass, perc (1983); Bata, orch (1985); Kabiosile, pn, orch
(1988); Indígena, chamb orch (1991); Ritual, pn (1991); Parajota delate,
mixed qnt (1992); Carabalí, orch (1992); Inura voc (SATB), str, 5 perc
(2009); À Tres Voces, str trio (2012); del Caribe, Soy! fl, pn (2014).
Sources: CW, DMEH, ISC, NGDWC
León, Tomás, Mexican pianist and composer; b.21 Dec 1828, Mexico City,
Mexico; d.28 Mar 1893, Mexico City. He studied with Felipe Larios. With
other musicians he founded and organized the Sociedad Filarmónica
Mexicana (1866) from which emerged the Cons. de Música six months
later. It became the Cons. Nacional de Música of Mexico, Mexico City,
where León was appointed Prof. of piano.
Works: Jarabe nacional, pn; Cuatro danzas habaneras; Sara, mazurka;
Una flor para ti, mazurka; Pensamiento poético, melodic capriccio.
Nocturnes; songs.
Sources: DMEH, GMM

León Ferro, Jaime, Colombian conductor, pianist, and composer; b.18 Dec
1921, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia. He studied with his father, Luis
Enrique León, a violinist in the Orch. de la Acad. Nacional de Música and
his mother, Alicia Ferro, a pianist. He lived in New York as a child then
studied piano at the Cons. Nacional de Música in Colombia. He studied
conducting at the Juilliard School then conducted the Orch. Sinfónica
Nacional de Colombia (1948). He returned to New York and conducted the
orchestra of the American ballet theater then conducted the Orch.
Fimarmónica de Bogotá (1968). He was music Dir. of the opera company of
Colombia, sponsored by the Ministerio de Cultura de Colombia.
Works: Tema y variaciones, pn (1946); Variaciones sobre un tema de Bizet,
orch; Aves y ensueños, song (1951); Cancioncilla, song (1976); Misa breve,
ch, orch (1979).
Sources: DMEH

Leonardo, Luisa, Brazilian pianist, actress, writer, teacher, and composer;

b.22 Oct 1859, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; d.12 Jun 1926, Salvador, Brazil. She
started to study piano with Isidoro Bevilacqua, then with Antoine François
Marmontel, and harmony and composition with Albert Lavignac and Anton
Rubinstein at the Cons. de Musique of Paris, France.
Works: Marcha fúnebre (1892); Hino a Carlos Gómez, orch (1903).
Chamb, pn, voc music.
Sources: IEW, NGDWC

León-Mariscal Canseco, Juan, Mexican composer and educator; b.10 Aug

1899, Oaxaca, Mexico; d.21 Sep 1972, Mexico City, Mexico. Brother of
Manuel León-Mariscal Canseco, with seven siblings he lived under the care
of his uncle Father Ausencio Canseco. He studied several instruments and
harmony then traveled with his uncle as his secretary. He moved to Mexico
City (1919) and studied cello with José F. Vásquez at the Cons. Libre de
Rafael J. Tello then studied at the Cons. Nacional de Música (CNM) with
Julían Carrillo and Luis G. Saloma. He played the cello in theaters,
restaurants, and churches; won a competition for a symph. piece (1923)
from the Consejo Consultivo de la Ciudad de México and then the federal
government funded him to continue studying at the Stern Cons. of Berlin
with Alexander von Fielitz. He founded the literary journal Arte (1926) and
became Prof. of harmony and counterpoint at CNM (1933). His family has
conserved more than 100 of his poems.
Works: Allegro sinfónico, orch (1923); Fantasía Mexicana, orch (1935);
Guelaguetza, ch, orch (1936); Himno a Zaragoza, choir (1962); Ave Maria,
voc, org, (c. 1936); Preludio y fuga, str (1924); Cuarteto en Re mayor, str
(c. 1928); Marcha, pn (c. 1926); 10 symphonies; 60 works of other genres.
Sources: DMEH

León-Mariscal Canseco, Manuel, Mexican composer and pianist; b.12

Dec 1891, Oaxaca, Mexico; d.10 Mar 1982, Mexico City, Mexico. Brother
of Juan León-Mariscal Canseco, with seven siblings he lived under the care
of his uncle Father Ausencio Canseco. He studied music at the Escuela del
Carmen de Oaxaca then moved to Juquila where taught himself the
harmonica. He joined bands then moved to Mexico City (c. 1920) where he
entered the Cons. Libre de Música and then the Cons. Nacional de México.
His teachers included José F. Vasquez, Rafael J. Tello, Julián Carrillo, Luz
Meneses, Carlos del Castillo, José Rolón, Candelario Huízar, Gustavo E.
Campa, and Silvestre Revueltas.
Works: Preludio, interludio, y postludio, orch; Misa Sanctus fortis, ch, orch;
A la escuela voy contento, voc, pn; Zamaní, voc, pn, gtr music.
Sources: DMEH

Letelier Valués, Miguel Francisco, Chilean composer and organist; b.29

Sep 1939, Santiago de Chile, Chile. He studied harmony, counterpoint, and
organ with Julio Perceval at the Cons. Nacional of the Univ. of Chile,
Santiago de Chile, and composition with Alberto Ginastera at the Centro
Latinoamericano de Altos Estudios Musicales of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
He also studied with Maurice Le Roux and Iannis Xenakis in Buenos Aires,
with Max Deutsch in Paris, France, and with Diether de la Motte in
Hamburg, Germany.
Works: Instantes, 5 pieces orch (1966); Concerto, 2 pn, perc, str orch
(1970). Solo instr, chamb, ch. music.
Sources: DCM, DMEH

Levy, Alexandre, Brazilian composer, pianist, conductor, and music critic;

b.10 Nov 1864, São Paulo, Brazil; d.17 Jan 1892, São Paulo. Brother of
Luis Henrique Levy, he studied with Luis Maurice and Gabriel Giraudon
then took classes in harmony with Georg von Mandeweiss and Gustavo
Wertheimer. In France, he studied with Emil Durand and Vicenzo Ferroni.
Founder of the Clube Haydn in São Paulo in 1883.
Works: Symph in E minor (1886-89); Hymne au 14 Juillet (1889); Comala,
sym. poem (1890); Suite brasileira (1890); Variaçôes sobre un tema
brasileiro. Fantasía sôbre motivos do Guaraní, pn; Schumannianas, pn;
Tango brasileiro, pn; Samba, pn. Chamb, pn, voc music.
Bibl.: G. Pimenta, Alexandre Levy, São Paulo, 1911. R. Almeida,
Compendio de História da Música Brasileira, Rio de Janeiro, 1947. G.
Béhague, The Beginning of Musical Nationalism in Brazil, Detroit, 1971.
Sources: BB, DM, EMB2, GDM, HMB, MLA, MMLA

Levy, Luis Henrique, Brazilian composer and pianist; b.8 Aug 1861, São
Paulo, Brazil; d.8 Aug 1935, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Brother of Alexandre
Levy. He studied piano with Gabriel Giraudon. Founding member of the
Clube Haydn in São Paulo, in 1883.
Works: Pn music.
Sources: EMB

Ley, Salvador, Guatemalan composer and pianist; b.2 Jan 1907, Guatemala
City, Guatemala. He studied in Guatemala with Herculano Alvarado and
Louis Roche. At fifteen he moved to Berlin, Germany, to study piano with
Georg Bertram and theory and other disciplines with Hugo Leichentritt,
Wilhelm Klatte, and Oscar Guttmann at the Hochschule für Musik. In
Poland, he continued piano studies with Egon Petri. He returned to
Guatemala (1934) and was appointed Dir. of the Cons. Nacional de Música
of Guatemala, Guatemala City, a position he occupied until 1937. He taught
piano at the school (1938), was Dir. again (1944). He settled in the USA
(1953) and taught at the Westchester Cons. in New York, NY.
Works: Lera, opera (1959); Serenade, str (1949); Obertura jocosa, orch
(1950); Concertante, va str orch (1962); Concerto, pn, chamb orch Pn, voc
music.
Sources: BB, CTA12, DCM, DM, DMEH, GDM, MLA, MMLA

Lichius, Father Santiago, Argentine composer and lecturer of German

origin; b.4 Feb 1877, Eitorf, Prov. of the Rhine, Germany; d.? in 1900. He
studied music in Vienna, Austria, where he also was ordained a priest
(1900), the year he settled in Argentina. He occupied many ecclesiastic
positions in religious schools and seminaries.
Works: 24 masses, org; 19 Eucharistic motets; 22 Ave Marias; 2
Magnificat; 8 Stabat Mater; 9 Te Deum; 10 Requiem masses; Los enanos,
melodrama; 176 school songs, vn, pn music.
Books: 20 on music.
Sources: CA, DMEH, EMA

Lienas, Juan de, Mexican composer of Spanish origin?; b.ca.1550 Spain?;

fl.in Mexico, 1620-50.
Works: Mass, 5 voc cb; Magnificat Primi Toni, 8 voc; Magnificat Tertii
Toni, 5 voc, cb; Requiem, 5 voc, cb; 2 Lamentationes.
Bibl.: R. Stevenson, Renaissance and Baroque Musical Sources in the
Americas, Washington, DC, 1970.
Sources: DMEH, GDM

Lifchitz, Marcos, Mexican composer and guitarist; b.1 Jul 1951, Mexico
City, Mexico. He studied guitar at the Cons. Nacional de Música of INBA,
Mexico City, with Alberto Salas. He also studied music at the Taller de
Composición Carlos Chávez. Artistic Dir. of Sociedad Filarmónica de
Conciertos and of Grupo Promocorp.
Works: Vn concerto (1989); Me-xihc-co, mixed ch, orch (1990); La batalla
final, orch (1991); El nuevo sol, symph dances, mixed ch, pre-Hispanic
instr, orch (1992).
Sources: DCMMC, DMEH

Lifchitz, Max, Mexican composer, conductor, and pianist; b.11 Nov 1948,
Mexico City, Mexico. He studied composition with Darius Milhaud and
Charles Jones at Aspen Music School, CO (1967-68), composition with
Luciano Berio, and conducting with Dennis Russell Davies at The Juilliard
School of Music in New York, NY, USA, where he received a BM in
composition (1970) and an MS in composition (1971). He studied with
Jacob Druckman, Bruno Maderna, Elliot Carter, and Earl Kim at
Tanglewood/Berkshire Music Center, MA (1972). He completed course
work for a Ph.D. in composition at Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA, under
Leon Kirchner, Earl Kim, and Arthur Berger (1971-74). He settled in the
USA (1974) and taught at The Juilliard School of Music, the Manhattan
School of Music, Columbia Univ. Dept. of Music, all in New York, and at
Harvard Univ. Dept. of Music. Associate Prof. at the State Univ. of New
York at Albany, NY, since 1986.
Works: Intervención (1976); Yellow Ribbons No.8 and No.9 (1982); Yellow
Ribbons No.17 and No.18 (1983); Pn concerto (1989); Tiempos, chamb
orch (1969); Globos, chamb orch (1971); Roberta, chamb orch (1972);
Sueños, chamb orch (1974); Exploitations, chamb orch (1975); Yellow
Ribbons No.11 and No. 12, chamb orch (1982); Night Voc No.5, chamb orch
(1984), No.6 (1985), and No.10 (1989). Chamb, perc, pn, solo instr, voc,
band, electroacoustic, computer music.
Sources: DCMMC, DMEH, GP, ISC

Lima y Sintiago, Emirto de, Colombian composer; b.25 Jan 1893,

Barranquilla, Colombia; d.14 Aug 1972. He studied violin with Mario
Castellani, piano with Angelo Gasparini, harmony and counterpoint with
Giuseppe Pietri, and composition with Lorenzo Parodi at the Liceo
Musicale Amilcare Zanella of Genoa, Italy. Later, he studied harmony with
Achille Philip, counterpoint with Triconi, composition with Vincent d’Indy,
organ with Pineau, and violin with Claveau and Armand Parent at the
Schola Cantorum of Paris, France. He taught at various private and public
music schools. Music critic Colombian publications, including the
newspaper El Heraldo of Barranquilla. He was also in the diplomatic
service.
Books: El Arte Musical en Colombia, 1916; La Fiesta de la Música
Catalana, 1918; Crónicas Musicales, 1924; Folklore Colombiano, 1942.
Works: El club de los solteros, operetta; Sonatina, fantasia-ballet; Concerto,
pn orch; Poema indio, orch; Str qt; Danzas colombianas, vn, pn.
Sources: DM, DMEH, MLA, MMLA
Lima, Florêncio de Almeida, Brazilian teacher, conductor, composer,
clarinetist; b.26 Feb 1909, Rodelas, Bahía, Brazil; d.6 Dec 1996, Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil. At the Cons. de Música of Niterói, Brazil, he studied theory
with Felicio Toledo de Figueiredo and harmony with Hernani Bastos. Cond.
of several military bands in Rio de Janeiro. He entered the Inst. Nacional de
Música of Rio de Janeiro (1932) where he studied counterpoint and fugue
with Paulo Silva, composition and instrumentation with Francisco Braga,
João Otaviano, and Francisco Mignone. He studied conducting with Eugene
Szenkar and taught at EMU-FRJ. Member of the Acad. Brasileira de
Música.
Works: Prelúdio No.3, orch (1935); Prelúdio No.4, orch (1936); Symph in E
minor, str (1939); Contemplação dos cimos, symph poem (1940); O ratpo
do fogo, symph poem (1941); Symphony (1950-52). Chamb, solo instr
music.
Books: Elementos Fundamentais de Música, Rio de Janeiro, 1948;
Consonâncias e Dissonâncias, Rio de Janeiro, 1949; Canto Orfeônico no
Curso Secundário, Rio de Janeiro, 1951.
Sources: EMB2

Lira, José Agustín, Venezuelan pianist, teacher, and composer; b.4 Jun
1962, Caracas, Venezuela. At 13 he studied piano with Olga Mondolfi del
Monte, entered the Escuela de Música Juan Manuel Olivares (1977) and
graduated in 1983. He performed in Venezuela and began teaching chamber
music workshops for the Orch. Simón Bolívar (1980). He joined the piano
department of the Escuela de Música José Lorenzo Llamozas (1989) and
became chair of the accompaniment departments of the Cons. Municipal
Héctor Berlioz and the Cons. of Paris. He studied with Sergio Perticaroli at
the Acad. Santa Cecilia de Roma and at the Sommerakademia del
Mozarteum in Salzburg.
Works: 5 preludios op.4, pn.
Sources: DMEH

Llamozas, Salvador Narciso, Venezuelan pianist, composer, and music

critic; b.29 Oct 1854, Cumaná, Sucre, Venezuela; d.13 Jan 1940, Caracas,
Venezuela. He studied piano with José Antonio Gómez Cardiel. He
published a music journal El Album Lírico (1874) and edited the art journal,
La Lira Venezolana. In 1877, he became a member of the Acad. de Música
(today Escuela de Música José Angel Lamas) of the Inst. de Bellas Artes in
Caracas.
Works: Noches de Cumaná, pn; Himno a la caridad, pn; Dos romanzas,
voc, pn; Himno a la libertad; Himno a Miranda. Pn, voc music.
Sources: DMEH, EMV, MMLA

Liona, Alfonso, Chilean composer and agronomic engineer; b.4 Oct 1912,
Santiago de Chile, Chile; d.27 Aug 1994, Santiago de Chile. He studied
composition with Pedro Humberto Allende, piano with Raúl Hügel at the
Cons. Nacional de Música of the Univ. of Chile, Santiago de Chile.
Founder, with René Amengual, Juan Orrego Salas, and Elena Waiss, then
Dir., of the Escuela Moderna de Música of Santiago de Chile. Prof. of
harmony at the Cons. Nacional de Música (1946) and dean of the Facultad
de Bellas Artes (1952-62), both of the Univ. of Chile. Vice-provost of the
Univ. of Chile (1958-62). Member of the Acad. de Bellas Artes of the Inst.
de Chile. Dir. of the Dept. of Educación Musical of the Ministerio de
Educación. Became dean of the Facultad de Artes y Educación Física of the
Univ. Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación, Santiago de Chile (1986).
Dir. of the Revista Musical Chilena.
Works: La Magdalena, opera (1930); La historia de Tobías y Sara, opera-
oratorio (1955); Pequeña suite (1928-29); Misa solemne, soloists, harp, org,
str (1930); Balada y canción, voc (1936); Vida del campo, pn (1937);
Canciones de cuna, female voc (1939); Suite grotesca (1946); Sonetos de la
muerte, female voc (1943-48); Vitrales de la Anunciación, sop, female ch,
chamb orch (1950); Divertimento (1955); Aculeu, suite (1955-56); Gtr
concerto (1960); Preludios vegetales (1967-68); Tres canciones, female
voc, 16 instr (1974). Ch, chamb, pn, voc music.
Sources: BB, CTA2, DCM, DM, DMEH, HMC, ISC, MLA, MMLA

Lluán, Claudio, Argentine composer, cb player; b.10 Dec 1957, Rosario,

Prov. of Santa Fe, Argentina. He studied composition with Virtú Maragno
and Marta Varela, double-bass with Norberto Nofri at the Escuela de
Música of the Facultad de Humanidades y Artes of the Univ. Nacional of
Rosario, then continued with Dante Grela and Francisco Kröpfl. Prof. at the
Escuela de Música of the Univ. Nacional, the Escuela Nacional de Música,
and the Inst. Nacional del Profesorado de Música, all in Rosario. Vice-
president of the Asociación Santafesina de Compositores and member of
the Agrupación Nueva Música of Rosario.
Works: Cinco naditas, str qt (1979); Vidala de los tiempos muertos (1980);
Música, cb, pn (1984); Estudio cinético No.1, electronic sounds (1987);
Vestigios, electroacoustic music (1991).
Sources: DMEH, CAMR

Loarca Castillo, Eduardo, Mexican educator, conductor, composer, and

musicologist; b.13 Oct 1922, Querétaro, Mexico; d.10 Apr 2004. In 1929 he
joined the choir of Querétaro where he began his musical studies. He
attended the Colegio Civil of the Escuela de Música Sacra and the Cons.
where he studied piano with Arnulfo Miramontes. He lived in Mexico City
(1942-48), attended the music school of the UNAM, and studied piano,
harmony, and composition with Manuel M. Ponce and Juan D. Tercero.
After 1954 he worked as a musical teaching coordinator for the state
government, was a member of the Seminario de Cultura Mexicana and the
Sociedad Mexicana de Geografía y Estadística. He directed the Cons. of
Querétaro, directed its choir, and conducted and taught at the Cons. de
Música José Guadalupe Velásquez beginning in 1972. He researched
musicians of Querétaro, salvaged and reorganized archives and music
libraries.
Works: Himno a las secundarias, ch; sacred music, textbooks.
Sources: DMEH

Lobato, Domingo, Mexican composer and organist; b.4 Aug 1920,

Morelia, State of Michoacán, Mexico; d.5 Nov 2012, Guadalajara. He
entered the Escuela Superior de Música Sacra, Morelia, where he studied
composition, organ, and Gregorian chant with Miguel Bernal Jiménez. He
taught at the Escuela de Bellas Artes of Jalisco and the Escuela de Música
Sacra of Guadalajara, both in Mexico. Prof. and Dir. of the Escuela de
Música of the Univ. of Guadalajara and of Cons. de las Rosas, Morelia.
Works: El cantar de los cantares, opera (1972); México, Creo en ti, cantata,
mixed ch (1965); Desde el mirador de Chicoasén, str orch (1978); Los
árboles muertos, sym. poem, gtr (1979); Pastorela, soloists, ch (1980).
Chamb, pn, voc, ch music.
Books: Elementos Básicos de Música Tonal.
Sources: DCMMC, DMEH
Lockhart Genta, Beatriz, Venezuelan composer, pianist, and teacher of
Uruguayan origin; b.17 Jan 1944, Montevideo Uruguay. At the age of 15
she entered the Cons. Nacional de Música of Montevideo. With a
scholarship she studied at the Centro Latinoamericano de Altos Estudios
Musicales of the Fundación Di Tella of Buenos Aires (1969) with Alberto
Ginastera. She studied in Rome, Italy (1974), then settled in Venezuela
(1974). She taught organ in Fundación Musiyama, solfeggio, harmony, and
counterpoint at the Inst. Normal Miguel José Sanz of Barquisimeto,
Venezuela, at the Cons. Nacional de Música Juan José Landaeta, and music
schools, including Pedro Nolasco Colón, José Lorenzo Llamozas, and Emil
Friedman, all in Caracas.
Works: Pieza para Orch (1970); Homenaje a Andrés Bello, cantata (1981-
82). Chamb, pn, voc music.
Sources: DMEH, EMV

Lomán Bueno, Juan Sebastián, Mexican conductor, violinist, and

composer; b.25 Feb 1891, Coatepec, Veracruz, Mexico; d.2 Feb 1965,
Xalapa, Mexico. He first studied with his father and from a young age
composed dances. At 15 he attended the Cons. Nacional de Música de
Mexico (CNM) where he took classes in theory with Marcos Rocha,
harmony with Julián Carrillo, chamber music with Luis G. Saloma, and
violin with José Rocabruna. He joined the Cuarteto Clásico (later Cuarteto
Clásico Nacional) of CNM as second violin (1922), with Ezequiel Sierra
(first violin), Flavio Carlos (viola), and Jesús Camacho Vega (cello). He
moved to Xalapa (1925) and formed a symph. orch. for the city (1929).
Works: Ch, voc, sacred, dance music.
Sources: DMEH

Lombardi, Enrique, Peruvian pianist and composer of Italian origin;

b.19th century, Peru. He completed his studies at the Cons. of Milan.
Works: Marcha triunfal para Orch (1871); Sinfonía nueva, orch (1871);
Una flor gentil, waltz, voc (1871); La bella Florencia, operetta.
Sources: DMEH

Lombardi, Enrique, Argentine composer, chorus conductor, organist, and

musicologist; b.5 Aug 1922, Ensenada, Prov. of Buenos Aires, Argentina;
d.20 Dec 2013, La Plata. Ordained a priest (1948), he studied at the
Facultad de Bellas Artes of the Univ. Nacional of La Plata, Prov. of Buenos
Aires, graduating in 1953. Prof. of Gregorian chant in the Catholic culture
course at the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes of La Plata. Editor of the
publication, Psallite, devoted to sacred music. Founder and Dir. of choirs.
Works: Música incidental para cada uno; Misa Pascual; Misa Natalicia;
Misa de Requiem; Concerto in E major, org, orch; Tríptico, org, orch; Breve
fantasía, orch. Ch music.
Books: Jubilate Deo; Manual de Canto Gregoriano; Cultura Musical; La
Música Sagrada.
Sources: DMEH, VMA

Lombardi, Nilson, Brazilian composer; b.3 Jan 1926, Sorocaba, São Paulo,
Brazil; d.9 Apr 2008, Sorocaba. He began piano study in Sorocaba with
María de Oliveira Cordeiro then moved to São Paulo where he graduated in
piano performance from the Inst. Musical of São Paulo. From 1954-69 he
studied with Camargo Guarnieri. Founder of the Sociedade Pró-Música
Brasileira of São Paulo. Prof. at the UNESP. With Osvaldo Lacerda he
founded the Centro de Música Brasileira of São Paulo.
Works: Seis variações sobre un tema de Schoenberg, orch; Suite, orch. Pn
music.
Sources: EMB2

López, Fernando Javier, Mexican composer and singer; b.3 Dec 1954,
Mexico City, Mexico. He studied composition at the Escuela Nacional de
Música of UNAM, Mexico City, with Julio Estrada. He also studied with
Juan Antonio Rosado, Rodolfo Halffter, Raúl Pavón, Ramón Barce, Milton
Babbit, and Luis de Pablo. Co-founder of the Grupo de Música
Contemporánea of the Escuela Nacional de Música of UNAM. Prof. at the
Escuela de Bellas Artes, State of Mexico, Mexico.
Works: Altazor, orch (1982); Pieza, orch (1984); Cantata nocturna, sop,
bar, mixed ch, orch (1987). Chamb, pn, voc, ch music.
Sources: DCMMC, DMEH

López, Manuel I., Peruvian composer; b.? Peru. He published Patria y

libertad in 1891. Sales were to benefit the cities of Tacna and Arica.
Works: waltzes.
Sources: DMEH
López, María Luisa R. de, Peruvian composer; b.? Peru.
Works: El aviador, waltz, pn.
Sources: DMEH

López Buchardo, Carlos, Argentine composer; b.12 Oct 1881, Buenos

Aires, Argentina; d.21 Apr 1948, Buenos Aires. Brother of Próspero López
Buchardo. He began studies of piano and violin with Héctor Bellucci and
continued with Alfonso Thibaud. He studied harmony with Constantino
Gaito and Luis Forino in Buenos Aires, and composition with Albert
Roussel in Paris, France. He was appointed president of the Asociación
Wagneriana of Buenos Aires (1916), a position he held for 32 years. Dir. of
the Inst. de Arte of the Teatro Colón of Buenos Aires. He was appointed the
first Dir. of the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes of the Univ. Nacional of
La Plata, Prov. of Buenos Aires, Argentina (1923). He created the Cons.
Nacional de Música of Buenos Aires (1924), named in his memory.
Member of the Board of Dir. of the Teatro Colón.
Works: Il sogno di Alma, opera (1914); Madama Lynch, lyric comedy
(1932); La Perichona, lyric comedy (1933); Romeo y Julieta, incidental
music (1934); Amalia, musical comedy (1935). Escenas argentinas, sym
poem (1920). Ch, sacred, pn, voc music.
Bibl.: A. Jurafsky, Carlos López Buchardo, Buenos Aires, 1966.
Sources: BB, CA, CTA12, DM, DMEH, EMA, GDM, MLA, MMLA

López Buchardo, Próspero, Argentine composer and painter; b.2 Jul 1883,
Buenos Aires, Argentina; d.8 Mar 1964, Buenos Aires. Brother of Carlos
López Buchardo. He studied music with Luis Forino and Carlos Marchal.
He also studied painting in Paris, France.
Works: Str qt (1934); Evocaciones, musical triptych, orch, ch (1935);
Plenilunio, poem, orch (1936); Alí Babá, ballet pantomime (1937);
Sonatina, pn (1938); Nidos, suite, pn orch (1939); Sonata, vc, pn (1943).
Pn, voc music.
Sources: DM, DMEH, EMA

López Capillas, Francisco, Mexican composer and organist of Spanish

origin?; b.ca.1615, Andalusia?, Spain; d.18 Jan or 7 Feb, 1673, Mexico
City, Mexico. He studied with Juan de Riscos, who was choirmaster in
Jaén, Spain. He settled in Mexico (1641) and was hired as organist-
bassoonist for the choir of the Cathedral of Puebla, under Juan Gutiérrez de
Padilla, and in 1647, was appointed principal organist. In 1654, he was
appointed choirmaster and organist at the Cathedral of Mexico City.
Works: 8 masses; 8 Magnificat; 15 motets; hymns.
Bibl.: R. Stevenson, Renaissance and Baroque Musical Sources in the
Americas, Washington, DC, 1970. R. Stevenson, Francisco López Capillas,
Heterofonia, Vol.6, 1973. L. Brothers, A New World Hexachord Mass by
Francisco López Capillas, Yearbook for Inter-American Musical Research,
Vol.9, 1973.
Sources: DMEH, GDM

López de la Rosa, Horacio, Argentine composer; b.26 Oct 1933, Buenos

Aires, Argentina; d.7 Jul 1986, Buenos Aires. He studied piano with Oreste
Castronuovo and composition with Julián Bautista. He also studied at the
Cons. Nacional de Música Carlos López Buchardo of Buenos Aires.
Founding member of the Asociación de Jóvenes Compositores de la
Argentina and the Unión de Compositores de la Argentina. Prof. of
composition at the Cons. Nacional de Música Carlos López Buchardo and
the Cons. Prov. Juan José Castro, La Lucila, Prov. of Buenos Aires,
Argentina.
Works: Tempi, orch (1960); Salmo CXXVII, female ch chamb orch (1961);
Tres cantos de Dios, 2 nar, orch (1963); Tempi, orch (1963); Tercer
surrealismo, orch (1964); Camaruco, ballet (1964-65); Cantata para mi
país, nar, sop, ch, chamb orch (1966). Chamb, ch, pn, org, voc music.
Sources: DMEH, DMM, EMA, VMA

López-Gavilán del Rosario, Guido, Cuban conductor and composer; b.3

Jan 1944, Matanzas, Cuba. He received a degree in choral conducting from
the Cons. Amadeo Roldán de La Habana (1966) and a degree in orchestral
conducting (1973) from the Cons. Tchaikovsky of Moscow, where he
studied with Guido Guinsburg. He was head of the department of orchestral
conducting at the Inst. Superior de Arte. He directed orchestras in Cuba and
toured internationally. He developed the youth symphonic movement in
Cuba and founded and directed symphonic chamber orchestras for students
in art schools. He received the Premio de Reconocimiento from the Unión
de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba for his artistic merits and lifelong creative
work.
Works: Nubes, ch (1963); Canción cantada, voc, pn (1965); Tramas, orch
(1979); La real maravillos, gtr (1987); Guaguancó, orch, ch (1998).
Sources: DMEH

López Guzmán, Víctor Manuel, Salvadoran composer; b.23 Mar 1922,

Que-zaltepeque, El Salvador; d.24 Jul 1993, San Salvador, El Salvador. At
nine he joined the local chorus then entered the Escuela Municipal de
Música (1932) where he studied violin with Rafael Moreira. He later joined
the chamber orchestra sponsored by the parish priest Roberto Castro
Ramírez. He moved to San Salvador (1942) to continue his studies at the
Escuela Nacional de Música Rafael Olmedo, where he studied with
Domingo Santos and then he studied at the Escuela Superior de Música de
Morelia in Mexico (1944). He received a degree in music education and
returned to El Salvador (1950). He held teaching positions (1951-70) then
directed the technical-pedagogic services of the Ministerio de Educación
(1970). He was Dir. of the music department at the Centro Nacional de
Artes. After 1954 he did research, wrote books and articles for journals and
newspapers.
Works: Elegía para un soldado, orch (1982); Sonata-poema a la raza, orch
(1962); Retablo para un prócer, orch (1977); Cuadros, tríptico sinfónico,
orch (1979); Ritmos para el kindergarten; Ritmos para el kindergarten y la
escuela; over 100 compositions.
Books: Música de El Salvador, 1987.
Sources: DMEH

López Lezcano, Fernando, Argentine composer; b.1956, Buenos Aires,

Argentina. He studied at the Cons. Nacional de Música Carlos López
Buchardo of Buenos Aires, and graduated as electronic engineer from the
Univ. Nacional of Buenos Aires. Taught music and acoustics at the Univ. of
Keio, Japan. He settled in the USA to work at the Center for Computer
Research in Music and Acoustics of Stanford Univ., CA.
Works: Búsqueda, electromagnetic tape (1987); Hot’n Cold,
electromagnetic tape (1991); Three Dreams, electromagnetic tape (1994).
Sources: DMM

López Marín, Jorge, Brazilian composer and conductor; b.8 May 1949,
Havana, Cuba. He studied at the Cons. García Caturla and Cons. Amadeo
Roldan, both in Havana. From 1969-78 he studied conducting with Boris
Khaikin and composition with Aram Khachaturian in the Soviet Union.
Cond. of the Orq. Sinfónica Nacional and Prof. at the Inst. Superior de Arte,
both of Havana.
Works: Obertura cubana, orch (1973); Fl concerto (1974); Symph No.1
(1975); Symph No.2 (1978); En la plaza de la catedral (1980); Beat
Abruptio (1981).
Sources: DMC2, DMEH

López Maya, Juan de Dios, Venezuelan composer, teacher, producer, and

writer; b.7 Jul 1962, Caracas, Venezuela. He graduated from the Cons.
Nacional de Música Juan José Landaeta of Caracas, where he studied
solfeggio and theory with Enrique Quevedo, harmony and counterpoint
with Beatriz Lockhart, fugue, form, and orchestration with Antonio
Mastrogiovanni, composition and analysis with Juan Francisco Sans,
electroacoustic music with Eduardo Kusnir, music history and aesthetics
with José Peñín, piano with Adriana Moraga, percussion with Abelardo
Mato. Prof. at the Escuela de Música Sebastián Echeverría Lozano of
Valencia, Carabobo, and at the Escuela de Música Federico Villena of
Maracay, Aragua, both in Venezuela. He also taught at the Escuela de
Música José Lorenzo Llamozas and Cons. Nacional de Música Juan José
Landaeta, both in Caracas.
Works: Pinacoteca, ob, orch (1990); Punta Araya, cb, orch (1991); El valle
de los niños pobres, nar, bar, ch (1991). Band, chamb, electroacoustic, pn,
ch music.
Sources: DMEH, EMV

López Mindreau, Ernesto, Peruvian composer; b.17 Jun 1890, Chiclayo,

Peru; d.Jan 1972, Peru. He studied with Federico Gerdes at the Acad. de
Música of Lima, Peru. Later, he went to New York, NY, USA, where he
took piano lessons with Sergei Rachmaninoff and Sigismund Stojowsky at
the Inst. of Musical Art. With funding from the Peruvian government
(1920) he went to Germany to the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin, where
he studied piano with Xaver Scharwenka, and composition and
orchestration with Hugo Leichtentritt. In Panama City, he founded the
Cons. de Música of Panama, where he also taught piano, and the Acad.
Santa María in the Canal Zone, both in Panama. In 1929, he was appointed
Dir. of music of the Peruvian Army. Prof. of music at the Univ. Nacional of
Peru, Lima, Peru. In 1940, he founded the Acad. de Música Scharwenka in
Trujillo, Peru.
Works: Nueva Castilla, opera (1926), later titled Cajamarca; Francisco
Pizarro, opera (1943); Tema y variaciones, pn, orch (1936); La Misa al
Señor de la Caña de Chiclín (1945). Chamb, pn, voc, popular, indigenous
music.
Sources: ADBM, DM, DMEH, MLA, MMLA

López Moreno, Jesús, Mexican composer and organist; b.17 Jun 1971,
Morelia, State of Michoacán, Mexico. He received a degree in music
education from the Escuela Superior de Música of the Cons. de las Rosas,
Morelia, studied with Gerardo Antonio Cárdenas and Emil Awad, and
continued organ studies at the Escuela Nacional de Música of UNAM,
Mexico City. Member of Los Niños Cantores of Morelia.
Works: Concierto para órgano y Orch sinfónica (1993); Cuartet de
cuerdas, str (1992); Sonata, pn (1993).
Sources: DCMMC, DMEH

López Ríos, Antonio, Mexican composer and conductor; b.15 Dec 1955,
Mexico City, Mexico. He started his music studies with his father then
continued at the Cons. Nacional de Música of INBA, Mexico City. With a
scholarship from the Dutch government (1979-83) he studied at the Royal
Cons. of The Hague, Netherlands, with Nikolaus Harnoncourt. He also
studied at the Hochschule für Musik of Vienna, Austria (1985-89). He
taught at the Cons. Nacional de Música of INBA and conducted the Orq.
Sinfónica of Monterrey, Mexico. He moved to Berlin, Germany (1992) to
conduct the Berliner Sinfonietta.
Works: Ballet, chamb, solo instr music.
Sources: DCMMC, DMEH

López Rovirosa, María Isabel, Cuban composer; b.8 Jul 1910/1912,

Havana, Cuba; d.? She studied harmony and composition with José
Ardévol, whom she later married.
Works: Dos canciones corales (1934); Fanfarria, small orch; Preludio y
allegro, str orch (1935); Suite, fl, ob, bsn, vn, va, vc, pn (1938).
Sources: DMEH, IEW, MMLA
López Verdejo [Berdejo], Ezequiel, Mexican educator, organist, and
composer; b.1865, Copanatoyac, Guerrero, Mexico; d.? He studied at the
Escuela de Música Sacra de Querétaro with José Guadalupe Velásquez. He
taught organ, theory, harmony, counterpoint, and Gregorian chant at the
Colegio de Infantes de Chilapa, where he became the Dir.
Works: Ch music.
Sources: DMEH

Lopszyc, Eva Irene, Argentine composer, conductor, and pianist; b.1 Oct
1956, Buenos Aires, Argentina. She studied composition with Jacobo
Ficher, María Teresa Luengo, Augusto Rattenbach, and Roberto García
Morillo; and conducting with Adela Marshall, Alfonso Stagno, and Miguel
Angel Gilardi at the Cons. Superior de Música Manuel de Falla of Buenos
Aires. She continued conducting with Mario Benzecry at the Cons.
Nacional de Música Carlos López Buchardo of Buenos Aires. She also
studied piano, first with her mother, Tatiana V. de Lopszyc, and later, with
Elsa Piaggio de Tarelli. She was appointed Asst. Prof. in orch. conducting
and cond. of the orch. of the Cons. Superior de Música Manuel de Falla
(1985). Conductor of the vocational chamb orch. of the Escuela Municipal
de Bellas Artes Carlos Morel of Quilmes, Prov. of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Since 1989, she has been Dir. of the Grupo de Música Contemporánea of
the Cons. Superior de Música Manuel de Falla. Dir. of the Ensamble de los
Tres Tiempos. Member of CULTRUN Compositores Asociados, Asociación
Argentina de Compositores, and Centro Argentino de Etnomusicología y
Folklore.
Works: Lucma, opera (1998); Sinfonietta, chamb orch (1983-84);
Dramáticas, tnr, chamb ens (1984); Obertura (1984); En esta tierra oscura,
sop, mixed ch (1984-85); Alfa Libre, instr ens (1989); Aphéticos, sop, cl, vc,
pn, crotales (1990-91). Chamb, solo instr, pn, voc, ch music.
Sources: DMEH, ISC

Lorenz Abreu, Ricardo, Venezuelan composer and pianist; b.24 May

1961, Maracaibo, Venezuela. He started his music studies at the Cons. de
Música Juan Manuel Olivares and Cons. Nacional de Música Juan José
Landaeta, both in Caracas, Venezuela. He traveled to the USA (1981) where
he studied with Juan Orrego Salas, Donald Erb, and Michel Block and
received an MM in composition at the Univ. of Indiana, Bloomington, IN,
USA (1986). Dir. of the Latin American Music Center in Bloomington, IN,
until 1991.
Works: Delirio y descanso, overture (1984); Sinfonietta concertante, orch
(1987); Maracá, orch (1989); Concerto, orch (1989); Vn concerto (1990);
Sil Still, nar, ch (1991); Confabulaciones del alma, orch (1992); Concerto
(1992-93). Chamb, voc music.
Sources: DMEH, EMV

Loreto Zamaron, Juan Nepomuceno, Mexican composer; b.1813,

Guerrero, Chihuahua, Mexico; d.? Almost nothing is known of his life;
however, he left sacred music discovered in churches in Mexico City. He
founded the music Acad. in the former town of Tacubaya (now a residential
neighborhood in Mexico City). He had a significant library with first
editions of works of Haydn, Mozart, Clementi, Beethoven, and Field, now
in the archives of the library of the Cons. Nacional de Música (CNM).
Works: sacred music.
Sources: DMEH

Lóritga, José, Peruvian organist and composer; b.19 century, Chincha,

Peru. Active in Lima since 1830, in 1846 he was named choir master at the
Cathedral of Lima, a position he held until 1850. There was mention of
Lórtiga in an article by Benigno Ugarte about religious music in 1888, but
he died before this date.
Works: Trisagio; Dixit Dominus, 4 male voc, choir (1886).
Sources: DMEH

Loyola Fernández, José, Cuban flutist and composer; b.12 Feb 1941,
Cienfuegos, Cuba. He studied flute with Roberto Ondina and Emigdio
Mayo at the Escuela Nacional de Arte of Havana, Cuba, and later,
composition at the Superior School of Music of Warsaw, Poland, with
Witold Rufzinski. Vice-provost of education, he taught composition and
analysis at the Inst. Superior de Arte of Havana.
Works: Música, fl, str (1970); Música viva No.1, perc (1972); Tres
imágenes poéticas, bar, pn (1972); Música viva No.2, orch; Monzón y el Rey
de Koré, opera (1973); Cantata a los mártires del 5 de septiembre, nar, ch,
orch (1974); Poética del guerrillero, voc, orch, dedicated to Ernesto (Che)
Guevara (1976); Homenaje a Brindis de Salas, vn (1975).
Sources: DMC, DMEH

Lozano, Sebastián, Venezuelan organist and composer; b.20 May 1802,

Caracas, Venezuela; d.5 May 1878, ? From 1855 until his death, he served
as organist and choirmaster at the Cathedral of Caracas. His music is in the
archives at the Escuela Superior de Música.
Works: Miserere, 3 voc; Stabat Mater; Salve.
Sources: DMEH

Lozano Riveros, Mauricio, Colombian conductor and composer; b.5 Feb

1958, Santafé de Bogotá, Colombia. He studied violin with Francisco
Cristancho Hernández (1976-79) then worked with Blas Emilio Atehortúa
for a year in a creative music workshop. He studied piano with Ruth
Marulanda (until 1984), with Mathew Hazelwood (until 1985) and analysis,
form and conducting with Julián Lombana (1983-84). He traveled to Italy
(1985) and studied with Bonifacio Baroffio and Luciano Michellini at the
Pontificio Inst. di Musica Sacra in Rome and counterpoint, fugue and
orchestration with Alessandro Cusatelli at the Cons. di Musica Alfredo
Casella. He joined the chamber Orch. of Nuovo Mundo in Rome, the
Colombian orch., worked in the folklore research department in the Centro
de Orientación Musical Francisco Cristancho, was a member of the music
and dance group of Benposta (Ciudad de los Muchachos), and conducted
the chorus of the Univ. Javeriana de Santafé de Bogotá.
Works: Concerto grosso romántico, str orch, pn (1982); Suite, 2 fl, ob, str,
pn (1984); Preludios y fugas, pn (1988); Preludio, conquista, y fuga, orch
(1992); Encuentros, orch (1998).
Sources: DMEH

Luc, María Eugenia, Argentine composer; b.6 Dec 1958, Rosario, Prov. of
Santa Fe, Argentina. She began music studies (1976) at the Escuela de
Música of the Facultad de Humanidades y Artes of the Univ. Nacional of
Rosario then continued with Dante Grela, Francisco Kröpfl, Daniel Sueiro,
Julio Viera, and Marca del Carmen Aguilar. Prof. at the Cons. Superior de
Música Manuel de Falla, the Univ. del Salvador, the Univ. Nacional, and the
Collegium Musicum, all of Buenos Aires. Founding member of the
Asociación Santafesina de Compositores and member of the Grupo Otras
Músicas and the Grupo Ars Contemporánea.
Works: Continuo, str qt (1983); Tánatos, vn, va, vc (1985); Omega, str orch
(1989); Vieja Guardia, orch (1995); Enbat, orch (2000); Dao I,
electroacoustics (2002); Apocalipsis, orch (2006); Casi Orfeo, ten sax
(2008); You, fl, cl, perc, pn, vn, va, vc (2008); Nire Aitaren Etxea, mez sop,
8 vc (2008); Zephyrus, bcl, org, electroacoustics (2008).
Sources: CAMR, DMEH

Luciani de Bustamante, Itala Rosa, Venezuelan pianist and composer;

b.14 Feb 1901, Caracas, Venezuela; d.1 Apr 1977, Caracas, Venezuela. She
studied piano as a child then entered the Escuela de Música de Caracas
where she continued with Salvador Narciso Llamozas and Manuel Leoncio
Rodríguez. She moved to Maracaibo (1920), but economic problems,
marriage, the birth of six children, and the death of her husband hampered
her performing career. She composed, and her children published 11 of her
works in a limited edition.
Works: Ave María, pn; Pn music.
Sources: DMEH

Luengo, María Teresa, Argentine composer and musicologist; b.25 Nov

1940, Quilmes, Prov. of Buenos Aires, Argentina. She studied at the
Facultad de Artes y Ciencias Musicales of the Univ. Católica Argentina,
Buenos Aires, Argentina, from which she graduated with a Licenciate
degree in musicology, music criticism, and composition. She studied
composition with Alberto Ginastera, Luis Gianneo, Roberto Caamaño, and
Gerardo Gandini, and musicology with Carlos Vega and Lauro Ayestarán.
She taught at the Escuela Municipal de Bellas Artes of Quilmes, the
Escuela de Musicoterapia of the Facultad de Medicina of the Univ. of El
Salvador of Buenos Aires, the Facultad de Artes y Ciencias Musicales of
the Univ. Católica Argentina, and Facultad de Bellas Artes of the Univ.
Nacional of La Plata, Prov. of Buenos Aires. Dir. of the Dept. de Música of
the Escuela Municipal de Bellas Artes of Quilmes.
Works: Cuatro soles, fl, ob, vc, pn, perc (1973); Del museo imaginario, vn,
va, vc, pn, perc (1975); El libro de los espejos, 2 fl, cl, vn, va, vc, pn, perc
(1976); Seis imágenes mágicas, fl, cl, vc, perc (1978); Music for the film
Taumanía (1987). Chamb, pn music.
Sources: DMEH, DMM, ISC, NGDWC
Luna, Adolfo Victoriano, Argentine guitarist, teacher, and composer; b.24
Mar 1889, La Rioja, Prov. of La Rioja, Argentina; d.1970, Argentina. He
studied music with Armando Schiuma and guitar with Domingo Prat. He
taught guitar for many years.
Works: 3 sonatinas, gtr; Sonata, gtr, st qnt; El milagro del agua, ballet;
Serie argentina, vn, pn; Escenas norteñas, pn. Pn, voc, gtr music.
Sources: CA, DMEH, EMA

Luna, Carmen, Uruguayan composer; b.19th century, Uruguay. In the

literary-musical magazine La Abeja del Plata, 5 Aug 1837, an
announcement appeared that a “young daughter of a respectable family,”
dedicated to music composition will publish the minuet El 18 de Julio de
1837 she wrote in commemoration of the 7th anniversary of the
Constitution of Uruguay.
Works: El 18 de Julio de 1837.
Sources: DMEH

Luna, Manuel Norberto, Bolivian pianist and composer; b.1856, La Paz,

Bolivia; d.1889, La Paz, Bolivia. He founded the Sociedad Haydn (1884-
89) and conducted the Filarmónica La Paz.
Works: Misa dedicada a la Virgen de la Paz, 4 voc, org; Te deum; De
profundis; Claro de luna, waltz; voc, orch, music.
Sources: DMEH

Luna de Espaillat, Margarita, Dominican composer, pianist, and organist;

b.31 Jul 1921, Santiago, Dominican Republic. She began her music studies
with Juan Francisco García then studied piano with Manuel Rueda G.,
organ with Juan Urteaga, and harmony, counterpoint, and fugue with
Manuel Simó. She studied composition with Hal Overton at the Juilliard
School of Music, New York, NY, USA (1964-67). Dir. of the Liceo de
Música and the chorus of the Univ. Católica, both in Santiago. Prof. at the
Cons. Nacional of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
Works: Tres preludios, str orch (1964); Cambiantes, vc, chamb orch (1967);
Vigilia eterna, oratorio, nar, soloists, mixed ch, male ch, orch (1967);
Epitafio en el aire, elegy, nar, mixed ch, orch (1970); Cantata al Padre de
la Patria, nar, ch, orch (1976). Chamb, pn, voc music.
Sources: CTA19, DMEH, IBCC, IEW
Luna Jiménez, Fernando, Nicaraguan composer; b.1853, Nicaragua;
d.1936, Nicaragua. First violinist for the Orch. Vega Matus, member of the
Acad. de Bellas Artes of Nicaragua, and of Grupo Armonía.
Works: Cabaña de Lepha, overture; El Toro Huaco, orch; Te Deum;
Chamb, sacred music.
Sources: BNBD

Luna Ponce, Armando, Mexican composer; b.17 Sep 1964, Chihuahua,

Mexico. He sang in the chorus Niños Cantores de Chihuahua for five years
and received his first music lessons from Juan Manuel Medina. He studied
at the Escuela de Bellas Artes de Chihuahua (1979) and entered the Cons.
Nacional de Música (CNM) de Mexico (1980), where he studied with Pedro
de la Rosa (musical theory), Salvador Jiménez (piano), Gonzao Ruiz
Esparza (analysis), Humberto Medrano (harmony), and José Suárez
(counterpoint). He joined a composition workshop with Mario Lavista
(1984) and took second place in the annual competition at CNM (1985). He
completed a Masters in composition with Leonardo Balada at Carnegie
Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA (1988-91). He moved to Mexico City,
composed for the Orch. Sinfónica Mexicana Carlos Chávez (1997-98),
taught at the Cons. de Música el Estado de México, and since 1993 at
CNM.
Works: Trío, vn, vc, pn (1985); Divertimento, orch, vn (1986); Violin
concerto (1987); Égloga, orch (1988); Aquelarre, orch (1989); Concierto,
vc, orch without bows (1990-91); Elegía (1991); Danzas rústicas (1992);
Terpsícore (1992); 3 Salmos, ch (1993); Sonata de camera, no.1, cl, vn, va,
vc, pn (1994); Sonata de camera, no.5, fl, cl, va, vc (1999); Piano concerto
(2003); Fl concerto (2008); Marimba concerto (2009); Concerto, 2 harps
orch (2010); 2 symphonies (1997-98, 2010). Chamb, pn, ch music.
Sources: DCMMC, DMEH, GP

Lupi, Luis, Italian composer and conductor; b.9 Dec 1876, Marciana, Italy;
d.9 May 1974, Maracaibo, Venezuela. He studied with Giuseppe Melani in
the Cons. de Nápoles then moved to Venezuela (1896) and continued in
Caracas with Delgado Pardo. He played in the Banda Marcial for 14 years.
He lived in San Cristóbal with a group of Italian musicians including his
brother Ambrosio (1910-12) then moved to La Grita where he founded the
Banda Monseñor Jauregui. He later moved to Mérida, taught piano and
mandolin, then moved to Valera to conduct the Banda Lamas (Jan 1918-25).
He also played in and conducted the band Gómez of Maracaibo for eight
years. He taught at the Escuela Doctor José Rafael Pacheco and then retired
to Maracaibo.
Works: Ave María; Tantum ergo; Fantasia original; marches, band, dance
music.
Sources: DMEH

Luque Ancona, Sergio, Mexican composer; b.8 Sep 1976, Mexico City.
Luque studied composition with Ignacio Baca Lobera. He also studied
composition with Victor Rasgado, Vincent Carver, and Alejandro Velasco at
CIEM (BM). He completed a MA in composition at the Cons. of Rotterdam
with Klaas de Vries and René Uijenhoet and a MA in composition with
Distinction in Sonology while studying with Paul Berg and Kees Tazelaar at
the Inst. of Sonology in the Royal Cons. in The Hague (2006). He studied
composition with Jonty Harrison and Scott Wilson at the Univ. of
Birmingham (Ph.D.) and was a member of the Birmingham Electroacoustic
Sound Theatre (BEAST). He served as a guest lecturer at the Royal Cons.
in The Hague.
Works: De nada sirve hacer planes, str (2005); Absorbed, 2 va (2010); My
Idea of Fun, cl, perc, va (2010); Drinking Wine V, sop, alt sax or cl (2013);
Miniature for Paul Berg, electroacoustic (2014).
Sources: CW, GP

Luz, Father Francisco Inácio da, Brazilian composer and violinist; b.2
Mar 1821, Meia Ponte (today Pirenópolis), Brazil; d.27 Aug 1878, Meia
Ponte. He studied music with his father, José Inácio Nascimento. Brother of
Antônio da Costa Nascimento. He was ordained a priest in 1844.
Works: Quarteto, vn, fl; Mandato Lavapedes, ch a cappella.
Sources: EMB2

Luzuriaga, Manuel, Mexican composer; b.1797, Puebla; d.1873. He began

his training with the Banda de Música de los Dragones de la Reina in his
hometown. He formed and directed bands in Puebla, Huejotzingo, Tlaxcala,
and Mexico City.
Works: Himno nacional (1854).
Sources: GP
Luzuriaga Arias, Diego, Ecuadorian composer, flutist, and architect; b.20
Oct 1955, Loja, Ecuador. He studied at the Cons. Nacional de Música and
the Cons. Superior de Música, both of Quito, Ecuador, and at the Ecole
Normale de Musique of Paris, France. Member of Conjunto Taller de
Música, together with Ataulfo Tobar and Juan Mullo. Prof. of music at the
Dept. of Music of Columbia Univ., New York, NY, USA (1990-95).
Works: Concerto, fl, orch (1987); Felipillo, perc, orch (1987);
Apábatapabata, voc, fl, pn, perc (1987); Brasilia, fl, perc, synth (1988).
Voc, gtr music.
Sources: DMEH, MG, PEFCM

Luzzatti, Arturo, Argentine composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher of

Italian origin; b.24 May 1875, Turin, Italy; d.25 Jun 1959, Buenos Aires,
Argentina. He studied at the Cons. Verdi in Milan, Italy. He conducted the
orch. of the Opera of Boston, MA, USA (1912-1913) and the orch. of the
Teatro Colón of Buenos Aires (1925-1926). Pianist of the Trío Buenos
Aires. Taught counterpoint and fugue at the Cons. Nacional de Música
Carlos López Buchardo of Buenos Aires.
Works: Afrodita, opera (1928); Judith, ballet (1938); Salomón, oratorio
(1942); 2 symphonies; El jardín voluptuoso, sym. poem; Noche veneciana,
sym poem; Concerto, pn orch; Concerto, vn, orch. Chamb, voc, pn music.
Sources: CA, DM, DMEH, EMA, MLA
 M
Macedo, Manuel Joaquín, Brazilian composer, conductor, and violinist;
b.1847, Cantagalo, Prov. of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; d.3 Dec 1925,
Cataguases, Brazil. He studied violin with Hubert Léonard and Henri
Vieuxtemps, and harmony and composition with François-Joseph Fétis at
the Cons. Royal in Brussels, Belgium. He continued violin with Joseph
Joachim and Charles Auguste de Bériot. He went back to Brazil (1871)
where he became choirmaster at the Royal Chapel.
Works: Antonica da Silva, opera (1880); Tiradentes, opera (1897); Floriano
Peixoto, symph poem; Orfeu na roça, orch. Chamb, pn music.
Sources: EMB2, MMLA

Macedo, Nelson Batista de, Brazilian composer, violinist, and conductor;

b.6 Mar 1931, Rui Barbosa, Bahía, Brazil. Started music studies in 1949 at
the Inst. de Música of Bahía, violin with Flávio Gomes, clarinet with José F.
de Oliveira. He moved to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (1953) where he studied
violin with Paulina d’Ambrosio, and harmony, counterpoint, fugue, and
composition with Paulo Silva. He also took classes in conducting with
Eleazar de Carvalho, Semita Valenka, and Marion Matthaues. With a
scholarship awarded by the French government (1965) he attended the
Cons. de Musique of Paris, France, where he studied viola with Serge
Collot and Ettiene Ginot, chamber music with Jacques Ripoche. Violist at
the Orq. Sinfônica Brasileira and the Orq. Sinfônica do Teatro Municipal,
both in Rio de Janeiro. Prof. at the Inst. Villa-Lobos of Rio de Janeiro.
Works: Alt sax Concerto; Tiradentes, symph poem (1967); Fantasía em
forma de concerto, bsn (1969); Fantasía capricho, alt sax, str (1972); Trb
concerto (1973); Fantasía poema, harp (1981); Batuque (1988); Zumbi
Jaga de Matamba, nar, bs, mixed ch (1988); Cantata, soloists, mixed ch.
Chamb, voc, solo instr music.
Sources: EMB2
Machado, Alberto José, Argentine composer and music critic; b.1881
(DM)/1882 (DMEH, EMA), Buenos Aires, Argentina; d.1929, Buenos
Aires. He studied with Alberto Williams and Julián Aguirre then in Paris,
France, with Nicola D’Arienzo and in Italy with Giovanni Sgambati.
Works: El Nilo, symph poem; Suite antigua, str orch; Ananke, lyric
interlude; 2 masses, 3 and 6 mixed voc; Sonata, pn; Sonata, va, pn; Sonata,
vn, pn; Sonata, vc, pn. Pn, voc music.
Sources: DM, DMEH, EMA

Machado, Luis Ángel, Argentine organist, composer, and teacher; b.22 Oct
1922, Correa, Prov. of Santa Fe, Argentina. He studied at the Seminarios of
Santa Fe, Prov. of Santa Fe, and La Plata, Prov. of Buenos Aires, Argentina,
where he was ordained a Catholic priest. He continued musical studies with
Juan Carlos Paz and Teodoro Fuchs. Prof. of Gregorian chant at the
Seminario San José of La Plata, the Seminario of Rosario, Prov. of Santa
Fe, and the Univ. Nacional of Litoral, Rosario. Prof. of harmony and
composition at the Asociación Amigos del Arte of Rosario. In 1970, he
settled in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Works: Gozos de Santa María, voc, pn; Sonata, pn; Madrigales de
Navidad, ch a cappella; Toccata and Fugue, 2 gtr.
Sources: DMEH, EMA

Machorro, Aurelio, Mexican composer and Prof. of music; b.12 Nov

1851/1855, Acatzingo, Puebla, Mexico; d.27 Jul 1932. Prof. of Music at the
Inst. Normalista del Estado, He published a collection of military songs
arranged for school chorus
Works: Voces de la patria, military songs, ch, published by Casarrubías y
Caompañia (1913). Religious, voc music.
Sources: DMEH

Macías Andere, Gonzalo, Mexican composer and pianist; b.17 Jun 1958,
Huamantla, Tlaxcala, Mexico. Studied piano with Isaías Noriega at the
Cons. de Música of Puebla, Mexico, and with Jorge Suárez at the Escuela
Nacional de Música of UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico. He studied analysis
of 20th century music with Mario Lavista at the Cons. Nacional de Música
of INBA, Mexico City. With scholarships from the French government and
from UNAM he studied with Sergio Ortega, Betsy Jolas, and Gérard Grisey,
in Paris, France, and with Franco Donatoni, Klaus Huber, and Brian
Ferneyhough, at the Royaumont Foundation. Prof. of composition at the
Escuela de Música of the Benemérita Univ. Autónoma of Puebla, and Asst.
Prof. at the Escuela Nacional de Música of UNAM.
Works: Espacio viejo, orch (1993); Línea tres, orch (1992). Electroacoustic,
computer, solo instr, chamb, voc music.
Sources: DCMMC, DMEH, GP

Maciel, Argentina Barbosa Viana, Brazilian composer, pianist, and

painter; b.7 Mar 1888, Recife, Brazil; d.12 Jan 1970, Olinda, Brazil. She
studied with Teresa Fonseca Diniz Borges (1902-08) and at the Colégio São
Vicente de Paula.
Works: Valsas, pn.
Sources: IEW

Mackenna Subercaseaux, Carmela, Chilean pianist and composer; b.31

Jul 1879, Santiago de Chile, Chile; d.30 Jan 1962, Santiago de Chile. She
studied music theory privately as a youth with Bindo Paoli. Married to
Chilean diplomat Enrique Cuevas Bartholín, she lived in Chile, Great
Britain, and Uruguay before settling in Berlin (1926) where she studied
piano with Konrade Ansorge and composition with Hans Mersmann. In
1934, her piano concerto premiered in Berlin with the Chilean pianist
Armando Moraga and the Orch. of the Radio State under the direction of
Heinrich Steiner and debuted in Chile with Herminia Raccagni and the
Orch. of the Asociación Nacional de Conciertos Sinfónica conducted by
Armando Carvajal. One of Chile’s leading composers. She set texts by the
poet and politician Pablo Neruda
Works: Pn concerto (1933); Dos movimientos sinfónicos, orch (1935); Zwei
kleine Orchesterstücke (1935); Tantum ergo (1936); Mass, ch; Mass, 4 voc
(1943). Chamb, sacred, pn, voc music.
Sources: DMEH, HMC, IBCC, IEW, MLA, NGDWC

Macridimas, Dimitri, Argentine composer and doctor in jurisprudence of

Greek and Italian origin; b.1900, Trieste, Italy; d.22 Mar 1956, Buenos
Aires, Argentina. He settled in Buenos Aires (1939) and studied in Vienna,
Austria, with Félix Weingartner.
Works: Operas: Agamemnon; Mogreb; Los amores de don Perimplín y
Belisa en su Jardín; 3 str qt; Cantatas de primavera, ch a cappella. Songs.
Sources: EMA

Madina Igarzábal, Francisco de, Argentine composer, organist, and

Lateran priest of Spanish origin; b.1907, Oñate, Spain; d.30 Jun 1972,
Oñate, Spain. He studied music with Fr. Fernando de Urkia, José María
Beobide, and Fr. Antonio José while training for the priesthood. Ordained a
priest (1929). He lived in Argentina (1932-55), alternated duties in Salta
and Buenos Aires and continued music studies in Buenos Aires with
Gilardo Gilardi. He moved to New York (1955) to establish a residence for
the Canons Regular of the Lateran and continued his work in music. He
retired for health reasons (1971) and returned to Spain (1971), a few months
before he died.
Works: Akelarre, orch; Cantata pascual, soloists, female ch, orch; Flor de
durazno, lyric poem; Illargi bete (Música para escenas de planilunio); La
cadena de oro, mystery org, ch, orch; Rapsodia argentina; Salmo XCV, org
and ch; Tríptico de Navideño, org, orch; 4 masses, 3 voc, org; Misa de
Requiem, org, orch; 2 str qt; Trio; Sonata, vn, pn; Sonata, org; Concerto,
harp; 4 concertos gtr. Voc music.
Sources: DMEH, EMA

Madrigal Gil, Delfino, Mexican composer; b.30 Sep 1924, Erongarícuaro,

State of Michoacán, Mexico. He started music studies at the Escuela de
Música Sacra of Morelia, Mexico, and continued studying composition and
organ with Miguel Bernal Jiménez. Organist at the Cathedral of Mexico and
Prof. at the Escuela de Música Sacra and at the Cons. de las Rosas, both in
Morelia.
Works: Fanfarrias olímpicas, orch (1968); Suite pueblerina Tarasca, str
orch; Aclamaciones, ch, brass orch; Misa de Santa Cecilia, ch, brass orch
Sacred, pn, ch music.
Sources: DCMMC

Madux, Fray, Chilean composer; 18th century. No biographical data or

evidence of specific works survives. First choirmaster at the Catedral de
Santiago in Chile (1749) and a teacher.
Works: Probably sacred music although none has survived.
Sources: DMEH

Maffezoli, Napoleone, Peruvian composer and conductor of Italian birth;

b.1862, Bérgamo, Italy; ? He studied with Petroli in the Cons. in Bérgamo.
He began a career as an operatic conductor (1883) and toured extensively.
He settled in Lima (1898), taught, and composed.
Works: Arte ed Amore (1901), opera; Francesca da Rimini, (1904); Daniela
(1908), opera; Vanozza (1910); Elegía par alas exequias de E. Rebagliati;
Fantasía sobre un tema original; Vieni! Vieni, Val; pn, voc music.
Sources: DMEH

Magdaleno, Francisco de Paula, Venezuelan composer, conductor, and

violinist; b.4 Dec 1852, Caracas; d.13 Dec 1910, Caracas. He performed in
orchestras during opera seasons in theaters around Caracas. Eventually he
conducted at the Teatro Caracas and for concerts in the city featuring Teresa
Carreño. He became a regular performer in the Sociedad Unión
Filarmónica. With Pedro Elías Gutiérrez, he directed the Banda Marcial
Caracas. He won the Zuliana Press medal and the Medalla a la Instucción
Pública.
Works: In monte Olivetti, motet; Astro de amor, orch; pn music.
Sources: DMEH

Maggiolo, Daniel, Uruguayan composer, sound engineer, and teacher; b.20

Oct 1955, Montevideo. He started his music career as a guitarist in a rock
band and in an experimental electroacoustic group. He graduated with a
degree in sound engineering from the Hanns Eisler Hochschule für Musik
(1986) then studied musicology at the Escuela Universitaria Música (EUM)
in Montevideo. A faculty member of musical acoustics at EUM (1988), he
co-founded and directed the electroacoustic music studio from 1997. He
founded the Grupo Paisaje Sonoro (2000), produced popular classical
recordings, and participated in multimedia performances.
Works: Reflexión (1984-85), pn; Melotemía (1989), fl, ob, gtr; A pesar de
todos los naufragios (1999), perc, electroacoustic sounds; Empezando por
el tiempo (1995-2000), gtr ens; Por si acaso fuero cierto (2000-01), voc,
electroacoutic sounds; electroacoustic music.
Sources: DMEH
Maglia, Fernando, Argentine composer and guitarist; b.27 Oct 1954,
Bahía Blanca, Prov. of Buenos Aires, Argentina. He started music studies at
the Cons. de Música of Bahía Blanca and continued guitar studies with
Eduardo Fernández, Roberto Aussel, and Miguel Angel Girolet, and
analysis with Enrique Cipolla. He studied contemporary music with Luigi
Nono, Franco Donatoni, Luca Lombardi, Giacomo Manzoni, and Pierre
Boulez. With a scholarship awarded by the French government he studied
composition with Francis Miroglio in France (1986-87). Prof. at the Cons.
Guido D’Arezzo in Paris, France, at the Cons. Nacional de Música Carlos
López Buchardo of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and at the Cons. Alberto
Ginastera of Morón, Prov. of Buenos Aires.
Works: Imaginations; Cinco visiones desde el pn; From Bach; Lejanías;
Liturgias iridiscentes; Caos, cosmos, apocalipsis; F8AM, Symph No.1;
Imágenes míticas; Invocaciones nativas.
Sources: DMM

Magliano Ungaro, Ernesto Mario, Italian-born Venezuelan composer,

researcher, pianist, teacher; b.7 Apr 1911, Naples, Italy; d.? He studied
piano and theory at the Cons. Stea de Lima (1922-29) then conducted opera
in Lima and the Compañía de Zarzuelas del Teatro Avenida (1930-35). He
also worked at the Teatro Mayo, Teatro Solís in Buenos Aires. He briefly
became Dir. of the Círculo Hebreo in Santiago, Chile (1935) before
relocating to Venezuela to direct the Compañía de Revistas Modernas in the
national theater in Caracas. During the 1940s he was artistic Dir. and
composer for films. He was also artistic Dir. for La Voz de la Philco (1938
and 1941), archival Dir. for Radio Continente (1942-47), and Prof. at the
Músicos Militaires (1951-1968). Beginning in the mid-1950s he published
theoretical treatises. He donated his research on music and indigenous
musicians in Venezuela to the Centro de Documentación y de
Investigaciones Acústico-Musicales at the Univ. Central de Venezuela
(1992).
Works: Adiós juventud (1933); Amanecer (1934); Estampas del Alhambra
(1934); Pn concerto (1970); Romance aragueño, film (1940); Noche
inolvidable, film (1941); Pobre hija mía, film (1942). Popular, voc, film
music.
Books: Música y músicos de Venezuela (1976).
Sources: DMEH
Mahle, Ernst, Brazilian composer, conductor, and teacher of German
origin; b.3 Jan 1929, Stuttgart, Germany. He settled in Brazil in 1951. He
studied in Stuttgart with Nepomuk David and in São Paulo, Brazil, with
Hans Joachim Koellreutter and took post-graduate courses in Europe with
Olivier Messiaen, Ernst Krenek, and Rafael Kubelik. Vice-president of the
Sociedade Brasileira de Música Contemporánea and member of the Acad.
Brasileira de Música. He co-founded the Escola de Música de Piracicaba
and directed the orch. and chorus there.
Works: Maroquinhas Fru Fru, operetta (1974); A Moreninha, chamb opera
(1979); Sinfonietta (1957); Sinfonía em un movimento (1973); Sinfonía
modal (1983); Trb concerto (1983); Cb concerto (1990); A festa no céu, nar
(1992). 4 trios; 3 str qt; brass qnt (1975). Chamb, voc, pn, solo instr music.
Sources: EMB2, HMB

Mahle, Maria Apparecida Romera Pinto, Brazilian composer; b.?,

Piracicaba, São Paulo. Wife of Ernst Mahle. She studied piano with Maria
Dirce Camargo and choir conducting with Hans Joachim Koellreutter in
São Paulo. She co-founded the Escola de Música de Piracicaba with her
husband.
Works: Folk melodies, 16 pieces, rhythmic band (1969); Folk melodies, 18
songs, voc (1969).
Sources: IEW

Mahler Pick, Roberto, Chilean conductor, composer, pianist, and violinist

of Czech origin; b.24 Aug 1881, Nemscky Brod (now Havlickuv Brod); d.3
Feb 1953, Tegualda, Chile. He performed in the Vienna State Opera at a
young age and worked with publishers of piano and operatic music. After
WWI he worked in popular theater in Vienna writing songs and dance
music but returned to Valdivia in the mid-1920s and moved to Chile by the
end of the decade. He taught violin and piano with the latter under the
Cons. Nacional. He founded and directed the Orq. Mahler.
Works: Two Pieces vn, pn, op. 7 (1906); Canción y Danza de la Bruja,
orch.
Sources: DMEH

Maiguashca Guevara, Mesías, Ecuadorian composer; b.24 Dec 1938,

Quito, Ecuador. He received his first lessons on piano and harmony at seven
and later studied solfege and piano at the Cons. Nacional de Música of
Quito. He received a Master’s degree in piano and composition and met
Henry Cowell at the Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NY, USA (1959-
63). He took courses in composition at the Centro Latinoamericano de
Altos Estudios Musicales of the Inst. Di Tella of Buenos Aires, Argentina,
with Olivier Messiaen and Alberto Ginastera, and in electronic music at the
Hochschule für Musik in Cologne, Germany, with Herbert Eimert and
Karlheinz Stockhausen. He was Prof. of Electroacoustic Music at the
Musikhochschule Freiburg (1990-2004). He cofounded the K.O. Studio
Freiburg with Roland Breitenfeld (1998) and joined the board of the Group
for Experimental Music and Media Arts, Hannover (2008).
Works: Concertino, cl, chamb orch (1962); Huacayñán, orch (1962); Quiet
Music, orch (1963); Ayayayay (1971); …Y ahora vamos por aquí, magnetic
tape, 8 inst; Intensidad y altura, perc, electroacoustic sounds; Monodías e
interludios (1984-87), orch; Tiefen (1998), 8 loud speakers; Ton-geographie
II (2005), 4 trbs. Ch, voc, chamb, pn, concrete, electronic music.
Sources: CTA17, DMEH, PEFCM

Maiztegui, Isidro, Argentine composer; b.14 Jul 1905, Gualeguay, Prov. of

Entre Ríos, Argentina; d.29 May 1996, Mar del Plata, Prov. of Buenos
Aires, Argentina. He began music study at the Cons. Beethoven of
Gualeguay, and continued harmony, counterpoint, and composition with
Athos Palma and José André at the Cons. Nacional de Música Carlos López
Buchardo of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Asst. conductor at the Teatro Colón
of Buenos Aires (1931-39). Prof. and sub-Dir. of the Cons. de Música of the
Univ. Nacional of Cuyo, Mendoza, Prov. of Mendoza, Argentina (1940-43).
Chorus Dir. at the Consejo Nacional de Educación and the Galician society
Terra Nossa, both in Buenos Aires.
Works: Levana y las tres tristezas, ballet (1947); Romance de la niña negra.
Mazias O Namorado, staged cantata, sop, tnr, ch, orch (1956); Danza
exótica, orch (1936); Media caña, orch (1936); Gran vals, orch (1937);
Homenaje a cuatro vihuelistas españoles del Siglo XVI, gtr, str (1967); Qnt,
str, pn (1986); Adagio and Allegro, fl, ob, bsn, pn (1986); Seis poesías
gallegas, text by Federico García Lorca (1994). Chamb, pn, voc, film,
incidental music.
Sources: CA, DM, DMM, EMA
Malcher, José Cándido da Gama, Brazilian composer, pianist, conductor,
and teacher; b.2 Nov 1853, Pará, Belém, Brazil; d.17 Jan 1921, Pará. He
studied harmony, counterpoint, and composition at the Cons. Reale di
Musica in Milan, Italy, with Michele Saladino. Prof. at the Cons. and the
Escuela Normal, both of Pará.
Works: Bug Jargal, opera (1890); Iara, opera (1895); Idilio and
Seminarista, unfinished operas.
Sources: EMB2, MMLA

Malcolm, Carlos, Cuban composer; b.24 Nov 1945, Guanabacoa, Cuba.

He studied piano with Juan M. Quiñones and Sonia Montalvo and entered
the Escuela Nacional de Arte of Havana, Cuba (1962), where he studied
composition with Federico Smith. He also studied at the Cons. Amadeo
Roldán of Havana.
Works: Montaje contornos, nar, ch, orch; Estudios, pn; Marionetas; Allegro
en Son, wind qnt; Tonos de Orch; Fragmentos, pn; Oposiciones-Cambios, 3
pn, perc.
Sources: DMC, DMC2

Maldonado, Juan Antonio, Bolivian composer, pianist, and

harpsichordist; b.1 Mar 1949, Tarija, Bolivia. He studied at the School of
Music in Tarija then continued at the Cons. Nacional de Musica – Bolivia
and at the Univ. Católica Boliviana. He also studied in Brazil and
Venezuela. He taught at the Cons. Nacional de Música in Bolivia, served
with the National Symphony Orch. from 1970, and founded the Concertus
Musicus (1984).
Works: Pn music.
Sources: CW

Malpica Hernández, Pedro R., Peruvian composer and conductor. He

studied with Alfonso Fuentes at the Cons. de Puerto Rico (BA), with
Theodore Antoniou and Lukas Foss at Boston Univ. (2004, MA) and with
Christopher Rouse at Juilliard where he received a diploma in composition.
He entered the doctoral program in composition under David Del Tredici
and Joseph Straus at the Graduate Center, CUNY in New York. He taught at
Boston Univ., the Univ. of Nevada, Las Vegas, and at the Cons. Nacional in
Peru. He is a cofounder of the Latin American composers’ consortium,
áltaVoz.
Works: To Villalobos, gtr (1994); Shadow of what you see, sop, vc, perc
(20012002); Pachamama’s Catharsis, vc (2002-2004); Electronic Cello,
tape (200305); Rants 3, bsn (2005); My Forest 2, orch (2002/06); Illari, vn,
orch (200911); Tarikapuy fl, vc, pn; Tiempos Ligeros 2 vn, vc (2010). Film
music
Sources: CW

Malsio Montoya, José, Peruvian composer and conductor; b.2 Sep 1924,
Bellavista, Peru; d.13 Nov 2007, Lima, Peru. He studied in Lima, Peru, and
in the USA: Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NY, Yale Univ., New
Haven, CT, and Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA. A student of Paul
Hindemith and Arnold Schoenberg. Prof. and Dir. of the Cons. de Música of
Lima.
Works: Rondo concertante, orch; Concerto grosso. Chamb, pn music.
Sources: KTL

Mambretti, Mabel, Argentine composer and musicologist; b.29 Nov 1942,

Buenos Aires, Argentina. She began to study piano, solfeggio, and music
theory with Helvecia Braga and Elizabeth Bagnes then attended the Cons.
Nacional de Música Carlos López Buchard and Univ. Católica Argentina,
both of Buenos Aires, from which she graduated in 1968 with a Licenciate
degree in music. In addition, she studied with Alberto Ginastera, Luis
Gianneo, Roberto Caamaño, Juan Carlos Paz, Gerardo Gandini, Yannis
Ioannidis, Antonio Estévez, and musicologists from Argentina, Venezuela,
and Uruguay. She also took classes with Robert Stevenson and Francisco
Curt Lange. She resided in Caracas, Venezuela (1969-83), where she was
the Dir. of the Dept. de Música of the Inst. Interamericano de
Etnomusicología and Prof. at the Inst. Nacional de Folklore of Venezuda.
Since 1990, she has been Prof. at the Cons. Nacional de Música Carlos
López Buchardo.
Works: Concertino, str orch (1967); Secuencias libres, str orch (1976);
Secuencias integradas, str orch (1978); Divertimento, str orch (1989). Ch,
chamb, pn, voc music.
Sources: ISC
Mañanes, Rolando Alvaro, Argentine composer, pianist, and conductor;
b.17 Nov 1928, Juan N. Fernández, Prov. of Buenos Aires, Argentina. He
studied harmony with Juan Francisco Giacobbe, counterpoint and fugue
with Carlos Suffern, instrumentation with Roberto García Morillo at the
Cons. Nacional de Música Carlos López Buchardo of Buenos Aires,
Argentina, conducting with Mariano Drago at the Cons. Municipal de
Música of La Plata, Prov. of Buenos Aires, aesthetics with Alberto Epstein
at the Collegium Musicum of Buenos Aires, folklore with Pola Suárez
Uturbey at the Cons. Juan José Castro of La Lucila, Prov. of Buenos Aires,
techniques of contemporary music with Juan Carlos Paz, and electronic
music with Francisco Kröpfl. Active as a pianist, orch. conductor.

Mancilla, Mauricio, Bolivian conductor of military bands and composer;

b.1846, La Paz, Bolivia; d.1879, La Paz.
Works: Colorados de Bolivia, march.
Sources: CB

Mannis, José Augusto, Brazilian composer and electronic engineer; b.23

Jun 1958, São Paulo, Brazil. He studied composition at the Inst. de Artes of
UNESP with Conrado Silva, Michel Philippot, and Philippe Manoury. He
studied composition and music research at the Cons. National Supérieur de
Musique of Paris, France (1980-83), and received a MM degree from the
Univ. of Paris, under the supervision of Daniel Charles (1987). When he
returned to Brazil (1989), he organized in Unicamp, Campinas, Brazil, the
Centro de Documentaçâo da Música Contemporánea, Brazilian branch of
the same organization of Paris. Prof. at the Dept. de Música do Inst. de
Artes of Unicamp.
Works: Forge, pn (1982); Móbile, vibraphone (1995); Le messager de
l’automne, str sextet (1986); A suivre…, cl, vc, pn (1994); Arapongas, 11
percussionists (1997). Songs, electroacoustic music.
Sources: EMB2

Mansilla de Rosas de García, Eduarda Damasia, Argentine singer, music

critic, and composer; b.1834/1835, Buenos Aires, Argentina; d.1892,
Buenos Aires. Music critic for La Gaceta Musical of Buenos Aires.
Works: Brunette, ballad, pn; October, romance, voc, pn; Se alquila, bolero;
Yo no se si te quiero, song; Cantares.
Sources: EMA

Manzolli, Jonatas, Brazilian composer and music researcher; b.9 Apr

1961, Olimpia, São Paulo, Brazil. He began to study music in Olimpia then
studied composition and counterpoint with José Antonio Almeida Prado
and contemporary composition with Raúl do Valle at UNICAMP. He also
studied computer music at the Inst. of Sonology in the Netherlands and
became Dir. of an interdisciplinary research group on computer music at the
Núcleo Interdisciplinario de Sonidos por Computadora of UNICAMP
(1993). He received a Ph.D. in composition at the Univ. of Nottingham,
England (1994). Prof. at the Dept. de Música of UNICAMP. Member of the
Sociedade Brasileira da Música Electroacústica, Sociedade Brasileira da
Ciencias de la Computación, and Sociedade Brasileira da Ciencias
Cognitivas.
Works: Pax, symph poem (1986); Pn concerto (1988); Relevos, symph
variations (1995); Blue Blues, ch, electronics (1995). Chamb,
electroacoustic, computer, multimedia music.
Sources: ISC
Works: Cartas a Theo, opera; Camila, opera; Concerto, pn, brass ens, perc
(1981); Confines I (1982); Concerto, pn (1984); Segundo confines,
bandonion, timpani, vibraphone, str (1995). Chamb, pn, incidental music.
Sources: DMM, ISC

Maragno, Virtú, Argentine composer, choral conductor, and teacher; b.18

Mar 1928, Santa Fe, Prov. of Santa Fe, Argentina; d.24 Feb 2004, Buenos
Aires. At the Liceo Musical in Santa Fe he studied piano with Angélica
Mora de Paraván and composition with Emilio Piselli. In Buenos Aires,
Argentina, he studied piano with Vicente Scaramuzza and Antonio De
Raco, and composition with Luis Gianneo. He studied in Italy (1959),
composition with Goffredo Petrassi at the Accademia di Musica Santa
Cecilia in Rome, choral conducting with Santa Zanon in Venice, and
electronic music with Bruno Maderna at the Istituto de Fonología in Milan.
Prof. at the Univ. Nacional of Litoral, Rosario, and the Univ. Nacional of
Rosario, Prov. of Santa Fe, and at the Univ. Nacional of La Plata, Prov. of
Buenos Aires, Argentina. President of Juventudes Musicales de la
Argentina. Member of the Acad. Nacional de Bellas Artes since 1994.
Works: Cantata de la vida nueva, soloists, ch (1951-52); Concertino, pn
(1954); Laudes Creaturarum, ch (1968); Composición No.1, voc, instr,
magnetic tape (1962); Crónica de los que van a morir, nar, str orch (1966);
Diálogos sin voz, pn (1968); Triste y danza (1947); Tres piezas, str orch
(1952); Scherzo sinfónico (1952); Movimiento sinfónico (1960);
Combinaciones y diferencias (1960); Expresión (1962); Intensidad y
espacio (1962); Ricercare Fantasía (1968); Ecce Homo (1969); Symph
(1970); Vn concerto (1990-91. Divertimento, wind qnt (1952); Baladas
amarillas, sop, 5 instr (1952); 2 str qt (1959, 1961); Asénticas, 11 instr
(1960); Synapsis, vn, perc (1966). Chamb, ch, pn, voc music.
Sources: BB, CA, CTA8, DMM, EMA

Maranzano, José Ramón, Argentine composer; b.27 Nov 1940, Santiago

del Estero, Prov. of Santiago del Estero, Argentina. He studied composition
with Alberto Ginastera, Gerardo Gandini, Francisco Kröpfl, and Roberto
Caamaño at the Escuela de Artes y Ciencias Musicales of the Univ. Católica
Argentina of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and at the Centro Latinoamericano
de Altos Estudios Musicales of the Inst. Di Tella of Buenos Aires (1969-
70).
Works: Str qt I; Pequeño tríptico, 2 pn, perc.
Sources: EMA

Marcelli, Nino, Chilean composer; b.21 Jan 1890, Santiago de Chile,

Chile; d.16 Aug 1967, San Diego, CA, USA. He studied at the Cons.
Nacional de Música of Santiago de Chile. He was a cellist in the San
Francisco Symph. Orch., San Francisco, CA (1920). In 1927, he organized
the San Diego Symph. Orch., San Diego, CA, which he conducted until
1937.
Works: Suite araucana, based on Chilean Indian folklore. Marches;
overtures.
Sources: BB

Marchai, Carlos, Argentine composer of Belgian origin; b.1867, Brussels,

Belgium; d.1946, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied at the Royal Cons.
of Music of Brussels with the cellist Jacobs, and later, with Joseph Servais
and Jenö Hubay. He was hired by the Argentine government (1888) to teach
cello at the Cons. Nacional of Córdoba, Prov. of Córdoba, Argentina. He
moved to Buenos Aires (1891) to work as choirmaster at the Colegio
Lacordaire. Prof. at the Cons. Nacional de Música Carlos López Buchardo
of Buenos Aires.
Works: 2 rhapsodies, vc, vn, pn; Seis piezas melódicas, vc, vn, pn; La
muerte del payador, poem by Rafael Obligado, voc, pn, st qt; Berceuse,
elégie, nostalgie et méditation, orch. Sacred, voc music.
Sources: DM, EMA

Marchena Dujarric, Enrique de, Dominican composer and diplomat; b.13

Oct 1908, Ciudad Trujillo, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; d.1988,
Ciudad Trujillo. He studied at the Univ. Nacional of the Dominican
Republic, graduating in 1929 with a degree in law and political sciences. At
the same time, he studied piano with Flérida de Nolasco and harmony and
composition with Enrique Casal Chapí and Esteban Peña Morell at the
Liceo Musical of Ciudad Trujillo. One of the founders of the Sociedad
Sinfónica of Ciudad Trujillo. Music critic for Listín Diario and
correspondent for Musical America of New York, NY, USA. President of
the Sociedad de Autores y Compositores of the República Dominicana. In
1945, he was appointed general Dir. of Fine Arts and vice-provost at the
Univ. of Ciudad Trujillo.
Works: Concerto, vn, orch (1940); Suite de imágenes: Amanecer, Scherzo
de Luz, Crepúsculo, orch (1942); Arco Iris, symph poem (1943);
Concertino, fl, orch (1944); Concerto, pn, orch. Chamb, pn music.
Sources: DM, MLA, MMLA

Marín, Servio Tulio, Venezuelan composer; b.7 Sep 1947, Caracas,

Venezuela. He started his music studies at the Escuela de Música José
Angel Lamas of Caracas then studied contemporary techniques of
composition with Yannis Ioannidis for three years. With a scholarship from
the Inst. Nacional de Cultura y Bellas Artes of Caracas (1971) he studied
composition with Max Deustch, conducting with Jean C. Berrau,
electroacoustic music and musical research with Guy Reihel, Pierre
Schaeffer, and François Bayle in Paris, France. He graduated from the
Ecole Normal de Musique, the Cons. National Superieur, and the Inst.
Audio-Visuel, all in Paris. When he returned to Venezuela he was appointed
conductor of the Orq. de Cámara of the Radio Nacional of Venezuela, and
the Coral of the Univ. Metropolitana, Dir. of the Inst. de Fonología Musical,
and technical Dir. of the Coral Filarmónica, all in Caracas. Prof. at the
Escuela de Artes of the Univ. Central of Venezuela in Caracas.
Works: Damú, fl, cl, bsn, tpt, trb, pn, perc (1972); Toragus, bar, instr ens,
ch, magnetic tape (1973); Impresiones fugitivas, magnetic tape (1975);
Transparencias, fl, pn, magnetic tape (1976); Poema, sop, vn, trb, pn,
magnetic tape (1976).
Sources: EMV

Marín Varona, José, Cuban composer; b.10 Mar 1859, Camagüey, Prov. of
Camagüey, Cuba; d.17 Sep 1912, Havana, Cuba. Self-taught in music.
Conductor of the orch. of the Teatro Alhambra in Havana. Organized and
conducted the Banda del Estado Mayor del Ejército. Founder of the Dept de
Música of the Acad. Nacional de Arte y Literatura of Havana. Founder and
editor of the journal Cuba Musical.
Works: Tropicales, Cuban concert dances, pn.; El Brujo, zarzuela; songs.
Books: Tratado Completo de Teoría
Bibl.: O. Martínez, Programa de la Orch. Filarmónica de Habana.
Sources: DM, DMC2

Mariscal Canseco, Juan León, Mexican composer; b.10 Aug 1899,

Oaxaca, Mexico; d.21 Sep 1972, Mexico. He studied at the Cons. Nacional
de Música of Mexico, Mexico City, with Julián Carrillo. In 1923, he
received a felowship from the Mexican government to study in Germany.
Prof. at the Cons. Nacional de Música of Mexico.
Works: 2 symphonies; Fantasía mexicana, orch; Tres estampas
oaxaqueñas, orch suite; Guelaguetza, suite orch; Sinfonietta; Septet; Str qt.
Sources: DM, MLA, MMLA

Marotta, Alejandro, Argentine composer orch. conductor of Italian origin;

b.1830?, Italy; d.? Persecuted by the Austrians, he escaped to Switzerland
(1848), was in Montevideo, Uruguay (1851), and conducted the orch. of the
Sociedad Filarmónica of Buenos Aires, Argentina (1852). Conductor of the
orch. of the Teatro Victoria, Teatro Argentino, and Teatro Colón, all of
Buenos Aires.
Works: Gismonda, opera; Edita di Lorno, opera; Himno a la Libertad,
poem by Bartolomé Mitre, ch, orch.
Sources: EMA
Marqués, Fernandina Lagos, 20th-century Brazilian pianist, school
inspector, singer, and composer; b.Curitiba, Parana, Brazil. She was
awarded the Parana Arts Center honorary diploma. She taught in Curitiba
(1918-1938).
Works: A primavera chegou, voc; Cantiga de ninar, voc; Parana national
anthem, voc; Ave Maria.
Sources: IEW

Marques, Maria Adelaide D., Brazilian composer; d.ca. 1955.

Works: Pn music.
Sources: IEW

Márquez, Arturo, Mexican composer; b.20 Dec 1950, Alamos, State of

Sonora, Mexico. He studied music privately then entered the Cons.
Nacional de Música of INBA, Mexico City, Mexico. He later studied at the
Taller de Composición of INBA with Joaquín Gutiérrez Heras, Héctor
Quintanar, Federico Ibarra, and Raúl Pavón. With a scholarship from the
French government, he studied with Jacques Castérèd in Paris, France, and
with a Fulbright Foundation grant, he studied at the California Inst. of the
Arts, CA, USA, with Morton Subotnick, Lucky Mosko, Mel Powell, and
William Kraft, and received an MM in composition. Conductor of the
Banda Municipal of Navojoa, Mexico, coordinator of information and
documentation and researcher in CENIDIM, Prof. at the Escuela Nacional
de Música of UNAM, Mexico City, and at the Escuela Vida y Movimiento.
Works: Gestación (1983); Viraje, harp, str (1983); Ciudad rota, mez sop,
pn, percussion, chamb orch (1986); Son (1986); Noche de luna, mixed ch
(1991); Persecución, str (1992); Sehuailo, 2 fl, chamb orch (1992); Vals au
meninos da rua (1993); Paisajes bajo el Signo de Cosmos (1993); Danzón
No.2 (1993); Paisajes bajo el signo del cosmos (1993); Vals (1993); Danzón
No.3, fl, gtr, chamb orch (1994); Danzón No.4 (1996); Octeto Malandro
(1996); Concierto son (1997); Reuniones (1997); Máscaras, harp, orch
(1998); Danzón No.7 (2001); Espejos en la arena (2003); Danzón No.8
Homenaje a Maurice (2004); El torno a Frida y Diego (2005); Los sueños,
cantata (2005); Juárez a Maximiliano (2006); Lacumé (2006); Marchas de
duelo e ira (2008); Rapsodia tlaxcalteca (2009); Leyenda de Miliano
(2010); Goyas, Marcha a la UNAM (2010); De Sol a Sol (2011). Chamb,
electracoustic, computer, solo inst; ch music.
Sources: DCMMC, GP

Márquez Lacasa, Juan, Cuban composer; b.8 Feb 1945, Havana, Cuba.
Assistant conductor of the orch. of the Ballet Nacional de Cuba. Music
consultant for the Inst. Cubano de Arte e Industria Cinematográficos of
Havana.
Works: Suite, pn; Rimas, voc, pn; Trio, tpt, hn, trb; Pequeña toccata, vn, va,
vc; Sexta primera, str inst.
Sources: DMC

Martí Llorca, José, Argentine violist and composer of Spanish origin: b.8
Oct 1903, Valencia, Spain. He settled in Argentina and became a citizen
(1936). He studied with Celestino Piaggio, Pascual De Rogatis, Edmundo
Weingand, and Torcuato Rodríguez Castro. Member of the orch. of the
Teatro Colón of Buenos Aires (1926-54). Taught at the Cons. Superior de
Música Manuel de Falla of Buenos Aires.
Works: Tres piezas, str orch (1933); Dos piezas líricas, str orch (1934);
Siete piezas, orch (1936); Evocaciones valencianas, orch (1945);
Variaciones, orch (1954); Concertino, ob orch (1956); Symph No 1, orch
(1960); Tres canciones, voc, orch (1965-66); Concertino, gtr, orch (1968-
69). Chamb music.
Sources: EMA, VMA

Martín, Edgardo, Cuban composer, music critic, and teacher; b.6 Oct
1915, Cienfuegos, Cuba. He began music study with his maternal
grandmother, pianist Aurea Suárez. Later, he studied piano with Jascha
Fischerman and César Pérez Sentenat, and composition with José Ardévol
at the Cons. Municipal of Havana, Cuba. He received a Doctorate in
pedagogy from the Univ. of Havana. Prof. of music history at the Cons.
Municipal, 1945-68, and of music analysis at the Escuela Nacional de Arte,
1969-73, both of Havana. Music critic for the newspaper Acción. Member
of the Grupo Renovación Musical of Havana. Executive secretary for the
National Committee of Music of UNESCO (1962-71).
Works: Concerto, 9 wind instr (1944); 2 symphonies (1947, 1948); Los dos
abuelos, ch, instr ens (1949); El caballo de coral, ballet (1960); Canto de
héroes, voc, orch (1967); La carta del soldado, nar, tnr, ch, speaking ch,
orch (1970); Granma, ch, instr (1976). Chamb, pn, gtr, voc music.
Books: Catálogo Biográfico de Compositores de Cuba, Havana, 1970.
Panorama Histórico de la Música en Cuba, Havana, 1971.
Sources: BB, CTA7, DM, DMC, MLA, MMLA

Martínez, Ernesto, Mexican composer and pianist; b.21 Jul 1953, Mexico
City, Mexico. He received a Licenciate degree in composition from the
Escuela Nacional de Música of UNAM, Mexico City, and took courses with
Rodolfo Halffter and Federico Ibarra.
Works: Sinfonietta, orch (1985); Música sincrónica No.1, 3 pn, 9 pianists
(1988). Pn, chamb, voc music.
Sources: DCMMC

Martínez, José Daniel, Puerto Rican composer of American origin; b.8

Sep 1956, Bethesda, MD, USA. He studied at the Cons. of Puerto Rico with
Luis Antonio Ramírez and Luz N. Hutchinson. He received a Bachelor’s
degree in composition (1977) and a Master’s degree in piano (1980) from
the Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NY, USA. Taught piano and
theory at the Hochstein School of Music in Rochester (1977-80), the Cons.
de Música (1981-82) and Metropolitan Univ. College (1982), both of Puerto
Rico. He lived in New York City, NY (1982-83) and worked as an
accompanist. Prof. of piano at the Inter-American Univ. of Puerto Rico in
San Germán, Puerto Rico, since 1985.
Works: Tiempo sinfónico, orch (1976); Arreglos de aguinaldos típicos de
Puerto Rico, orch (1980); Fanfarria preámbulo, brass, perc (1981); Música
para la interamericana, org, baroque orch (1984); Margarita (1985); Mis
amores (1985); Violeta (1985); Linda mayagüezana (1985); Concierto para
aulos…Reflexiones sobre el retorno de un cometa, wind instr, pn (1986).
Chamb, pn, voc music.
Sources: BB, BB20, CPR

Martínez, Luis María, Argentine composer; b.21 Sep 1897, La Plata, Prov.
of Buenos Aires, Argentina; d.1938, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied
harmony with Athos Palma, counterpoint with José Gil, and composition
with José André at the Cons. Nacional de Música Carlos López Buchardo
of Buenos Aires. Music critic for the daily newspaper La Nación.
Works: Preludio, orch; Sonata, vn, pn; Str qt; Dos preludios, pn. Motets;
madrigals; songs.
Sources: DM, EMA, MMLA

Martínez, Odaline de la, Cuban-born American composer, pianist, and

conductor; b.31 Oct 1949, Matanzas, Cuba. In 1961, she moved to the USA
and became an American citizen in 1971. She studied at Tulane Univ., New
Orleans, LA, and later, in England, studied composition with Paul Patterson
at the Royal Acad. of Music in London (1972-76) and at the Univ. of Surrey
with Reginald Smith Brindle, where she received an MM (1977). She also
studied computer music. Conductor of the ensemble Lontano and the
Contemporary Chamb Orch.
Works: Sister Aimee, opera (1978-83); Phasing, orch (1975). Chamb, pn,
org, voc music.
Sources: BB20

Martínez, Ricardo, Mexican composer and music researcher; b.9 Jan

1953, Monterrey, State of Nuevo León, Mexico. He started music studies at
the Facultad de Música of UANL, Mexico, continued with Arturo Salinas at
the Escuela Superior de Música y Danza of Monterrey, and took courses in
composition of electroacoustic music with Rudolf Komorus, Martín
Bartlett, John A. Celona, and Michel Longton in Victoria, Canada. Prof. and
Dir. of the Laboratorio de Música Electroacústica of the Facultad de Música
of UANL
Works: Cenzontlatole cen cenmanca, sop, tnr, mixed ch (1989); Vida,
muerte y resurrección (1991); Regiomontano universal, nar (1992);
Eterizada energía acústica (1993). Instr, chamb, songs, electroacoustic
music.
Sources: DCMMC

Martínez Acosta, Orlando, Cuban composer and musicologist; b.17 Oct

1916, Havana, Cuba; d.18 Sep 1988, Cuba. He studied at the Cons. Hubert
de Blanck of Havana, from which he graduated in 1936. Editor and
commentator in programs of the Orq. Filarmónica of Havana. Music critic
for the musical journals Cubamena and Conservatorio. Dir. for the radio
station CMBF, Radio Musical Nacional del Circuito CMQ (1948-1973).
Works: María Merced, zarzuela; Berceuse, pn; Nocturno, pn, left hand;
Four Cuban Dances, pn. Songs.
Books: Eduardo Sánchez de Fuentes, Havana 1944; La Interpretación
Musical, Havana 1945; Recuerdos de Arte, Havana 1945; Vigencia de
Chopin, Havana 1946. He collaborated in the writing of the Diccionario
Enciclopédico de la Música, Barcelona, 1946.
Sources: DM, DMC, MMLA

Martínez Corres, Cristóbal, Cuban composer and pianist; b.Jun 1822,

Havana, Cuba; d.21 Jan 1842, Genoa, Italy. He studied in Bourdeaux and
Paris, France.
Works: El diablo contrabandista, comic opera; Don Papanero, opera; Misa
solemne; Gran morceau para una opera seria; Septuor. Pn music.
Bibl.: O. Martinez, Programa de la Orch. Filarmónica de Habana.
Sources: DM, DMC

Martínez de la Torre y Shelton, Emma, Cuban pianist and composer;

b.15 Jan 1889, Havana, Cuba; d.1980, Madrid. She studied with Rafael
Toniasi Requena at the Acad. di Musica Santa Cecilia in Rome, Italy. She
settled in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, where she continued her music
studies with Santiago Sabina Corona.
Works: Danzas gitanas, dances; Mañana de abril, incidental music;
Tenerife 1942, children’s play; Estampas de siglo XVIII; Marionetas.
Chamb, voc music.
Sources: IBCC, IEW

Martínez Oyanguren, Julio, Uruguayan guitarist and composer; b.3 Jul

1901, Durazno, Uruguay; d.13 Sep 1973, Montevideo. He studied with
Alfredo Hargain before moving to Montevideo in 1919 and studying guitar
with Leoncio Marichal. In 1932, he was one of the first artists to offer a
televised concert. He performed for USA President Franklin D. Roosevelt
and performed as a soloist with the New York Philharmonic. He concertized
in Uruguay, Argentina, and Brazil before serving as chief of police in
Durazno (1942-46). He recorded works for RCA.
Works: Arabia (1933); Aires andaluces; Oriente, triptych: Preludio, danza,
y leyenda; Fantasía gaucha; Preludio y fuga, gtr.
Sources: DM

Martini, Juan Emilio, Argentine opera and ballet conductor and composer;
b.19 Jul 1910, Buenos Aires, Argentina; d.4 Oct 1996. He studied piano
with Cayetano Troiani, and harmony, counterpoint, and composition with
Athos Palma. Since 1934, he has been a staff member of the Teatro Colón
of Buenos Aires. He taught opera repertoire at the Inst. Superior de Arte of
the Teatro Colón. Prof. at the Escuela de Ciencia y Arte Musicales of the
Univ. Católica Argentina of Buenos Aires. Artistic Dir. of the Teatro Colón
in 1955.
Works: Sonata, vc, pn (1935); Cinco líricas, voc, pn (1937); Concertino, pn
orch (1939).
Sources: DM, EMA

Martinoli, Carlos, Argentine composer, conductor, and pianist of Italian

origin; b.1863, Busto Arsizu, near Milan, Italy; d.1942, Rosario, Prov. of
Santa Fe, Argentina. He studied piano, vn, harp, organ, harmony,
composition, and pedagogy at the Reggio Cons. of Milan, Italy. He settled
in Rosario in 1887. Founder of several music cons. in Rosario.
Works: El viejo castillo, suite pn; Resurrección; Operetta. Sacred music;
songs.
Sources: CAMR

Marturet, Eduardo, Venezuelan composer and conductor; b.19 Sep 1953

Caracas, Venezuela. He graduated from the Anglia Polytechnic Univ.,
Cambridge, England (1978), then studied conducting with Franco Ferrara in
Italy, at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana, Siena (1976), and in Rome
(1981-83). Conducted European orch., did research in music therapy,
Artistic Dir. of the Sinfonietta Caracas (1986), music Dir. of the Teatro
Teresa Carreño of Caracas (1984-87). Permanent conductor of the Orq.
Sinfónica Venezuela of Caracas (1987).
Works: Notturno, orch (1981); Sol por occidente, orch (1982); Secretos,
ballet (1986); XXXIII Variaciones sobre un tema alemán, orch (1989).
Chamb, incidental, film, pn music.
Sources: EMV, ISC

Marx, Walter Burle, Brazilian composer and conductor; b.23 Jul 1902,
São Paulo, Brazil; d.28 Dec 1990, Akron, Ohio, USA. He studied with his
mother then with Henrique Oswald, Agnelo França, and Frederico
Nascimento. Later in Germany he studied piano with James Kwast,
counterpoint, fugue, and composition with Friedrich Ernst Koch and Emil
Nikolaus von Reznicek, conducting with Félix Weingartner. Founder of the
Orq. Filarmónica of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, taught at the Univ. of Rio de
Janeiro (1932-33), Artistic Dir. of the Opera of Rio de Janeiro (1947). He
settled in the USA (1952), promoted Brazilian symphonic music, and taught
piano and composition at the Settlement Music School, Philadelphia, PA,
USA (1952-77).
Works: Four symphonies (1945, 1950, 1956, 1973); Ave Maria, sop,
women’s ch, boys’ ch, orch (1938); Pater Noster, cantata, bar, mixed ch,
boys’ ch, orch (1940); Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, bs orch (1957); Samba
concertante, orch (1960); The Witch-Kids, musical play with ballet (1964);
2 concertinos, pn orch (1980, 1984); Concerto, vc, orch (1982-84). Chamb,
gtr music.
Bibl.: R. Almeida, Historia da Música Brasileira, Rio de Janeiro, 1942.
Sources: BB20, DM, EMB2, MLA, MMLA

Maselli, Renato, Guatemalan musicologist, composer, video artist, and

conductor. b.1964, Guatamala City, Guatamala. He studied music at the
Cons. Nacional de Música in Guatemala and at Manhattanville College,
New York. He traveled to Holland to study Sonology at the Koninklijk
Cons. in The Hague. He founded Caja Lúdica, a cultural art collective.
Artist in residence at the Rafael Landivar Univ. in Guatemala City (2011-
2012).
Works Expectations, tape (1996); Landscape, dance, tape, electronics
(1997); Puntos (1998); Líneas (1998); Reality (2001); Zonas adyacentes
(2001); Gracias (2001).
Sources: CW

Massa, Juan Bautista, Argentine conductor, teacher, and composer; b.29

Oct 1885, Buenos Aires, Argentina; d.7 Mar 1938, Rosario, Prov. of Santa
Fe, Argentina. In Buenos Aires, he studied with Casazza, Melani, Sartori,
and Aromatari then settled in Rosario where he studied with Alfredo
Donizetti. Conductor of the Sociedad Coral Argentina in Rosario.
Works: Esmeralda, operetta (1903); Zoraide, opera (1909); Triunfo del
corazón, operetta (1910); La eterna historia, operetta (1911); L’evaso,
opera (1922); La Magdalena, opera (1929); El cometa, ballet (1932); La
muerte del inca, symph poem (1932); Charito, symph prelude; 2 Argentine
suites, orch; Tres canciones indígenas, voc, 5 instr (1935); Quartet, 4 vn
(1923). Pn, voc music.
Bibl.: F.C. Lange, Juan Bautista Massa, Boletín Latino Americano de
Música, Washington, DC, 1938.
Sources: BB, DM, EMA, MLA

Massini, Esteban, Argentine composer and teacher of Italian origin;

b.1788, Genoa, Italy; d.1838, Argentina. He settled in Buenos Aires,
Argentina, in 1822. Teacher of flute, clarinet, and guitar. Flutist at the
Teatro Coliseo Provisional of Buenos Aires.
Works: Himno a los restauradores, by José Rivera Indarte; Canción fúnebre
a la memoria del General Juan Facundo Quiroga, dedicated to Manuelita
Rosas, daughter of Juan Manuel de Rosas; Himno a la libertad; El 25 de
Mayo, patriotic song.
Sources: EMA

Mastrogiovanni, Antonio, Uruguayan composer; b.26 Jul 1936,

Montevideo, Uruguay; d.1 May 2010, Montevideo. He studied with Nieves
Varacchi and Héctor Tosar then entered the Cons. Nacional de Música of
Montevideo to study composition with Carlos Estrada. He lived in Buenos
Aires, Argentina (1969-70), and studied electronic and avant-garde music
with Alberto Ginastera, Gerardo Gandini, and Francisco Kröpfl at the
Centro Latinoamericano de Altos Estudios Musicales of the Inst. Di Tella.
Works: Auqui Paukar, ballet (1960); Introducción, passacaglia, y danza,
orch (1963); Larghetto, ob, str orch (1964); Concerto, pn, orch (1964);
chamb Symph, orch (1965); Contrarritmos, 2 str orch, perc (1967-68);
Reflejos, instr ens (1970); Secuencial I, orch (1970); Secuencial II, tape
(1970); Maderas, ens (1974). Chamb, org, pn voc, electronic music.
Sources: BHMCU, CTA17, DCM, GDM, MU

Mastronardi, Ernesto, Argentine pianist and composer; b.21 Oct 1927,

Buenos Aires, Argentina; d.Jul 2012. He studied piano with Vicente
Scaramuzza and composition with Gilardo Gilardi. Asst. conductor at the
Teatro Colón of Buenos Aires. Taught at the Inst. Superior de Arte of the
Teatro Colón.
Works: La venganza de Don Mendo, opera (1991); Crisis, ballet; La nueva
tierra, ballet. Songs.
Sources: DMM

Mata, Eduardo, Mexican conductor and composer; b.5 Sep 1942, Mexico
City, Mexico; d.4 Jan 1995, Cuernavaca, Mexico. Mata studied music
casually with an uncle who encouraged formal music lessons. At age 11,
Eduardo entered the Cons. Nacional de Música de México, where he
studied theory with Francisco Moncada and Teodoro Campos Arce, piano
with Amelia Torres de Espinosa, voice with Matilde Ladron de Guevara,
and harmony with Carlos Jiménez Mabarak. He cofounded El Grupo
Berlioz with José Antonio Alcaraz, Salvador Reyes, Domingo Borrego, and
Jesus Villaseñor. With José Pablo Moncayo’s encouragement, the group
performed many of their own original compositions (1956-59). In 1960, he
commenced study with Carlos Chávez in the elder composer’s independent
composition workshop. He won a Koussevitzky Fellowship (1964) to study
conducting with Max Rudolph, and Erich Leinsdorf, and composition with
Gunther Schuller at the Berkshire Center in Tanglewood, Massachusetts. In
1965 he became the conductor for the Orq. Sinfónica de Guadalajara (later
renamed Filharmónica de Jalisco), and in 1966 he was appointed artistic dir.
of the Orq. Sinfónica (later Filharmónica) of UNAM. In 1972, Mata left
Mexico to become music dir. for the Phoenix Symphony Orchestra. Film
scores for Ya se quién eres (te he estado observando) (1971) and El señor
de Osanto (1974) marked the end of his compositional output. In 1977, he
took control of the troubled Dallas Symph. Orch. and led the organization to
international stature and worldwide acclaim over his 16-year tenure. He had
guest conducting and advisory roles that included the Baltimore Symph.
Orch., the BBC Northern Symph. Orch., the London Sinfonietta and
Chorus, the London Symph. Orch., the National Arts Centre Orch. of
Canada, the New Philharmonia Orch., the Opera Nacional de México, the
Orq. Sinfónica Simón Bolívar, the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de México,
and the Solistas de México. In 1993, he returned to Oaxaca to establish a
new music school and library and to promote contemporary Latin American
compositions. He was killed when the small plane he was flying suffered an
engine failure on takeoff and crashed.
Works: Trío a Vaughan Williams, cl, perc, vc; Cantata fúnebre – a Manuel
Ponce; Piano Sonata; 3 symphonies (1961-62, 1963, 1966-67); Déborah,
ballet music (1963); La venganza del pescador, suite, 2 fl, trb, vn, gtr, perc
(1964); Aires sobre un tema del siglo XVI, mez sop, 2 fl, ob, bsn, 2 va, vc,
cb (1964); Vc sonata (1966); Improvisaciones no.3, wind instr, hns (1970).
Chamb, pn electroacoustic, computer music.
Sources: BB, DCM, DCMMC, GP

Mata Oreamuno, Julio, Costa Rican composer and cellist; b.9 Dec 1899,
Cartago, Costa Rica; d.4 Mar 1969, ? He studied harmony, composition,
and cello at the Musical Acad. of Brooklyn, NY, USA (1921-26). He
returned to Costa Rica (1930) and became conductor of the Banda Militar
of San José (1940). First cello at the Orq. Sinfónica Nacional of Costa Rica.
Works: Tupuyán, opera; Rosas de Norgaria, operetta; Piedras preciosas
(Diamante, Amatista, Zafiro, Rubí y Esmeralda), symph suite; Suite
abstracta, orch. Marches; songs; ch music.
Sources: DM, MLA, MMLA

Matamoros, Gustavo, Venezuelan composer; b.8 Apr 1957, Caracas,

Venezuela. He settled in Miami, FL, USA (1979) and became a permanent
resident of the USA. He studied composition with Barry Brosh, Dennis
Kam, and John Van Der Slice at the Univ. of Miami, and received a BM
degree (1983). He attended master classes in composition with Earle
Brown, Donald Erb, Bernard Rands, Steve Reich, and Roger Reynolds in
Buffalo, NY, USA (1987). Appointed artistic and executive Dir. of the
South Florida Composers Alliance in Miami in 1989.
Works: Cervatana Music, fl, live processing (1982); Threnody and
Passacaglia, prepared pn, orch (1982); 142857, live electronics, tape
(1986); Entropy Etude, str orch (1987); Fanfarria for X Number of Instr and
Fanfarria I, both for any number of instr (1988); In Memory of Gentle
Giant, perc or live electronics and tape (1989); Portrait: Bob Gregory, poet,
tape (1990); Portrait: Joseph Celli, wind controller, tape (1990); Retrato:
Flores Chaviano, gtr, tape (1990); Retrato: Ricardo Dal Farra, tape, real-
time processing (1992); RCA Victor’s True Story, pn, live electronics, mid-
size dog (1993); Dreamcatcher, str qt, tape (1993).
Sources: ISC

Matos, A. de, Brazilian concert pianist and composer; b.ca. 1820, Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil; d.ca. 1880, Rio de Janeiro. Little is known about her.
Works: Album de jovem brasileira, pn; Waltz, pn.
Sources: IEW
Matos [Mattos] Priolli, María Luisa de, Brazilian pianist, teacher,
conductor, and composer; b.24 May 1915, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; d.2000, ?
She started her music education with her mother then entered the Inst.
Nacional de Música of Rio de Janeiro to study piano with Mary Alice
Rumley, harmony with Agnelo Franga, counterpoint and fugue with Paulo
Silva, composition with João Otaviano, and conducting with Francisco
Mignone. She also studied piano and analysis with William Bantock and
composition with William Chatermann at the Trinity College of Music in
London, England. Member of the Acad. Nacional de Música and of the
Acad. Feminina de Letras e Artes of Rio de Janeiro.
Works: Concerto in C minor, pn, orch (1940). Chamb, sacred, pn, voc
music.
Sources: EMB2, IBCC, IEW

Matos Rodríguez, Gerardo Hernán, Uruguayan composer, journalist;

b.28 Mar 1897, Montevideo, Uruguay; d.25 Apr 1948, Montevideo,
Uruguay. He wrote one of the most well known tangos, recorded in many
versions, used extensively in films. He travelled in Europe, lived in Paris
and Buenos Aires and worked as the Uruguayan consul to Germany. He
collaborated on the film score for Luces de Buenos filmed in France (1931).
He led his own tango orchestra for a short time.
Works: La Cumparsita, pn, orch (1916); Canciones Montevideanas, voc;
tangos, film music.
Sources: CW

Maturana, Eduardo, Chilean composer and violist; b.14 Apr 1920,

Valparaiso, Chile; d.17 Jul 2003, Toronto, Canada. He started to study
music in Valparaiso and continued viola with Luis Mutschler, composition
with Humberto P. Allende and Samuel Negrete, chamber music with
Armando Carvajal at the Cons. Nacional de Música of Santiago de Chile,
Chile, Secretary of the Sindicato de Músicos. Founder of the Agrupación
Tonus. Violist with the Orq. Filarmónica Municipal of Santiago de Chile.
Secretary-general of the Asociación Nacional de Compositores Chilenos.
Coordinator of the Teatro Municipal de Opera de Cámara. In 1993, he
moved to Canada to be near his children.
Works: Aforisticas, pn (1947-48); Regreso a la muerte, opera (1963);
Gamma I, orch (1962); Introducción y allegro, chamb orch (1963); Tres
piezas, orch (1965); Concertante, hn orch (1967); Cinco móviles, str orch
(1968); Responso para el Che Guevara, orch, tape (1968); Retrato, balada,
y muerte del poeta Teofilo Cid (1966); Canciones (1969); Elegías, vc, orch
(1970); Una temporada en el infierno (1980); Concierto, vc, orch (1982);
Dos canciones (2002). Chamb, pn, voc music.
Sources: DCM, GDM

Maul, Otávio Batista, Brazilian composer, conductor, and flutist; b.22 Nov
1901, Petrópolis, Brazil; d.9 Apr 1974, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He started
music study in Petrópolis with his father then continued piano with Jaime
Figueiras and harmony with Agnelo Franca. He entered the Inst. Nacional
de Música of Rio de Janeiro (1919) to study counterpoint and fugue with
Francisco Braga. In 1930, he founded the Inst. Musical of Petrópolis. Prof.
at the Cons. Brasileiro de Música of Rio de Janeiro, where he later
organized and conducted the orch. Founding member of the Acad.
Brasileira de Música.
Works: Marcha festiva, orch (1922); Em tempo de minuet, orch (1926);
Prelùdio sinfònico (1927); Paisagem tropical (1934); Dança brasileira
(1930). Chamb, pn, voc, sacred music.
Sources: EMB2

Maurage, Augusto, Argentine violinist and composer of Belgian origin;

b.1875, Brussels, Belgium; d.1925, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied
violin with Eugène Ysaye in Brussels (1894) then settled in Buenos Aires
(1904). After touring in Europe and the USA as a violinist he founded a
cons. in Buenos Aires (1912).
Works: Tupá, opera (1919); Les noces d’or, lyric idyl (1924).
Sources: EMA

Mauri, José, Cuban composer of Spanish origin; b.12 Feb 1855, Valencia,
Spain; d.11 Jul 1937, Havana, Cuba. He studied first with his father then
continued violin with Reinaldo Revagliatti and Anselmo López, piano,
harmony, counterpoint, composition, fugue, and instrumentation with
Manuel Ubeda. Dir. of the Banda Nacional de Música in Colombia. Artistic
Dir. of the Teatro Albisu in Havana. Conductor of the Banda del
Reformatorio of Guanajay in Cuba. Founding member of the Dept. de
Música of the Acad. Nacional de Arte y Literatura of Havana.
Works: La esclava, opera; Symph in A major; Grandeza y locura de Don
Quijote, symph poem; Serenata de Dulcinea, symph poem; Los gnomos del
Moncayo, symph poem; Adagio, orch. Zarzuelas; songs.
Bibl.: O. Martínez: Programa de la Orch. Filarmónica de Habana.
Sources: DM, DMC

Mauricio Júnior, José (José Gonçalves de Godói Mauricio Júnior),

Brazilian composer, teacher, and violinist; b.2 Sep 1854, Pirassununga, São
Paulo, Brazil; d.25 Mar 1881, Campinas, Brazil. He studied music with his
father.
Works: Credo, ch; Kyrie, ch; Missa de Nossa Senhora das Dores, ch.
Chamb, pn, voc music.
Sources: EMB2

Medeles, Víctor Manuel, Mexican composer; b.16 Dec 1943, Ajijic, State
of Jalisco, Mexico; d.2009. He studied at the Escuela de Música of the
Univ. of Guadalajara, Mexico, with Domingo Lobato, Leonor Montijo, and
Hermilio Hernández. He graduated from the Taller de Composición of
INBA, Mexico City (1977), where he studied with Mario Lavista, Joaquín
Gutiérrez Heras, and Héctor Quintanar. Member of the group Quanta. He
worked at CENIDIM, co-founded the Taller de Composición of SACM, and
founded and directed the Taller de Creación Musical Manuel Enríquez.
Works: Preludio modal No.1 (1976); Ictus (1977); Cinco piezas, str (1981,
rev. 1985); Continuum, perc, orch (1985); Fundaciones (1990); Homenaje a
Tzapopa (1991); Oda a la Univ. (1992); América…Flor en tierra, mixed ch
(1992); Gtr concerto (1996); Ictus (1997). Chamb, solo instr, ch music.
Sources: DCMMC, GP

Medina, Juan Pablo, Mexican composer; b.1 Jul 1968, Mexico City,
Mexico. He studied composition at CIEM, Mexico City, with María
Antonieta Lozano, Alejandro Velasco, Gerardo Tamez, and Enrique Santos.
He also studied at the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music,
London, England, and later continued studies with Juan Trigos, José Suárez,
and Franco Donatoni. Teacher at CIEM.
Works: Moquimilocan, tnr, instrens (1995); Vn concerto (1996); G, orch
(2003); Prenatural II (2007); Tema 2010 (2010). Chamb, pn music.
Sources: DCMMC, GP
Medina, Roberto, Mexican composer; b.13 May 1955, Morelia, State of
Michoacán, Mexico. He studied at the Cons. de las Rosas, Morelia, and at
the Taller de Composición of CENIDIM, Mexico City, Mexico, with
Bonifacio Rojas, Rubén Valencia, Gerhart Müench, Federico Ibarra, and
Manuel Enríquez. He also studied with Mario Lavista, Rodolfo Halffter,
Wlodzimiers Kotonski, and Leo Brouwer. Prof. at the Cons. de las Rosas, at
the Escuela Nacional de Música of UNAM, Mexico City, and at the Escuela
Superior de Música of INBA, Mexico City.
Works: Imagen primera (1983); Actus I, str, perc (1985); Actus II, small
orch, perc (1985); Ila Pascola, 2 harps (1996). Chamb, pn, ch, voc,
electroacoustic, computer music.
Sources: DCMMC, GP

Medina Hernández, Cecilia, Mexican composer; b.1958.

Works: Homenaje a Gyorgy Ligeti (1996).
Sources: GP

Medina Valenzuela, Rogelio, Mexican composer and trombonist; b.28

May 1920, El Oro, State of Mexico, Mexico. He studied composition with
Juan León Mariscal, and analysis with Rodolfo Halffter and Blas Galindo
Dimas at the Cons. Nacional de Música of INBA, Mexico City, Mexico.
Works: Seis columnas, nar, orch (1944); Andante en Mi Bemol, orch (1951);
Ensayo número uno, orch (1952); Adagio a Santa Cecilia, chamb orch
(1953); Divertimento, str (1953). Chamb music.
Sources: DCMMC

Mejía Arredondo, Enrique, Dominican composer; b.24 Dec 1901, Ciudad

Trujillo (Santo Domingo), Dominican Republic; d.1951, Dominican
Republic. He began to study music with his grandfather, José María
Arredondo, and later, studied piano with Américo Lugo Romero and
composition with Enrique Casal Chapí. Dir. of the Sociedad Sinfónica of
Santo Domingo and conductor of the first Orq. Sinfónica Dominicana,
created in 1932. Music critic for the newspaper La Opinión. President of the
Sociedad de Compositores y Autores Dominicanos.
Works: 2 symphonies; Renacimiento, symp poem; Concerto, pn orch;
Evocaciones, suite orch; Reverie, vn, orch; Cuento nocturno, based on
indigenous legend; Danzas Quisqueyanas, orch; Qnt, wind inst. Chamb, pn,
voc music.
Sources: DM, MLA, MMLA

Mejía Castro, Estanislao, Mexican composer and teacher; b.13 Nov 1882,
San Idelfonso Hueyotlipan, Tlaxcala, Mexico; d.15 Jun 1967, Mexico. He
studied with José de Jesús León, Arturo Aguirre, Gabriel Unda, and José
Rivas at the Cons. Nacional de Música, Mexico City, Mexico. In 1911, he
studied harmony with Rafael J. Tello, counterpoint, fugue, and
instrumentation with Gustavo E. Campa, and organ with Father José
Guadalupe Velázquez. Taught at the Cons. Nacional de Música of Mexico,
the Escuela Univ. de Música, Dir. of the Dept. de Música of the
UNAM,organized the Orq. Sinfónica Nacional of Mexico, all in Mexico
City.
Works: Edith, opera; Variaciones, str (c.1910); Suite, str; Primer trozo
mexicano (1919); Segundo trozo mexicano (1919); Sinfonía en estilo
romántico (1920); Suite mexicana, orch; Shadani, sympho-choreographic
poem (1933). Chamb, pn, voc music.
Books: Composición Musical, Mexico, 1941-42.
Sources: DM, GMM, GP, MLA, MMLA

Mejía Navarro, Adolfo, Colombian composer; b.5 Feb 1909, Sucre,

Colombia; d.6 Jul 1973, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia. He studied piano,
harmony, counterpoint, and music history with Juan de Sanctis, Jesús
Bermúdez Silva, Andrés Pardo Tovar, and Gustavo Escobar Larrazábal at
the Cons. Nacional de Música of Bogotá, Colombia. With a scholarship
from the Colombian government, he went to Paris, France, to study with
Nadia Boulanger at the Ecole Normal de Musique, and with Henri
Koechlin. Librarian at the Cons. Nacional de Música and Orq. Sinfónica
Nacional, both of Bogotá. Instructor and Dir. of the orch. and band of the
Colombian Navy at the Naval Base of Cartagena, and Prof. at the Escuela
Departamental de Música and the Inst. de Música, both of Cartagena.
Works: Finita-Remanacuaca el Condenillo, ballet: (1956). Pequeña suite,
str orch (1938); Preludio para la tercera salida de Don Quijote, orch
(1938); Homenajes, symp poem (1941); Capricho español, harp, orch
(1944); América, symp poem (1946); Improvisación y bachianas, str orch;
Música para una película; Intima primera, orch (1941) Suite de danzas
españolas, orch; Danza ritual africana. luminosidad de aguas, pn; Juguetes
infantiles, pn. Chamb, pn, gtr, ch music.
Sources: CMC, DM, LCRA, MLA, MMLA, ZCCC

Melgaco, Luis Gonzaga, Brazilian composer and conductor; b.4 Jun 1903,
Dores do Indalá, Minas Gerais, Brazil; d.11 Aug 1983, Belo Horizonte,
Minas Gerais. He studied solfeggio, music theory, clarinet with Francisco
Nisticó at the Inst. Dom Bosco of Itujabá, Minas Gerais (1914-1922). Later,
he studied orchestration with Willy Kune in Dores do Indalá. Prof. at the
Cons. Mineiro de Música of the Univ. Federal and Univ. Federal de Arte,
both in Minas Gerais.
Works: Music for the Stage: Vai, soldado, voc (1930); O gigante egoísta,
operetta (1939); A mascote da rainha, operetta (1941); Hino a Brasília, voc
(1957); Catuíra dos Araxás, opera (1966-72). Songs.
Sources: EMB2

Mell, Eidylia Rosa Lía, Argentine composer; b.29 May 1927, Prov. of
Buenos Aires, Argentina; d.31 May 1995, Buenos Aires. She studied with
Gilardo Gilardi, Luis Gianneo, Floro Ugarte, Juan F. Giaccobe, Abraham
Jurafsky, Pedro Valenti Costa, Carlos Pessina, Amelia C. de Weigand,
Angel Mangiamarchi, Rosalinda Crocco, Roberto Castro, Juan Emilio
Martini, and Bruno Bandini. She also studied guitar with Narciso Yepes,
voice with Jacqueline Ibels, and orchestration with Alexander Szenkar.
Prof. at the Cons. Nacional de Música Carlos López Buchardo, and at the
Cons. Superior de Música Manuel de Falla, both of Buenos Aires.
Works: La farsa, opera (1991); Vida de una cortesana, ballet; Radan, mixed
ch orch; Andante y alegro Sinfónico, orch; Tiempo de baguala y Tiempo de
milonga, orch; Homenaje a Gilardo Gilardi, symph band; Armonías
vespertinas, orch; Concerto, cl, orch; Concertino, pn, str orch. Chamb, pn,
ch music.
Sources: ISC

Mello, Luis Francisco G. O. “Chico,” Brazilian composer, guitarist,

singer; b.Curitiba, Brazil, 1956. He studied piano with Henry Jolles and
composition with José Penalva and Hans Joachim Koellreuter at the Escola
Livre de Música of São Paulo (1954-56). He also earned a medical degree
from Univ. Federal do Paraná. He studied piano with Margherita T. Kazuro
in Warsaw, Poland (1960), completed a master’s degree in composition at
Ithaca College, NY (1979-81), and continued composition studies at the
Hochschule der Künste with Dieter Schnebel and Witold Szalonek, and
studied Indian Dhrupad singing with Amália Cuni in Berlin, Germany
(1987). He blended Brazilian traditional elements with avant-garde
techniques in his music. He taught at the Univ. Federal of Paraná and
Escola de Música e Belas Artes do Paraná.
Works: Have a cup of poison, pn, live electronics, gestures (1991); Of the
Trees, 6 instr, gestures, 2 cl, tb, pn, perc (1999); Destination of Eight / Fate
at Eight / Schicksal one Acht, 2 sop, alto, bar, bs, 9 instr, free adaptation of
the play “Heart’s Desire” by Caryl Churchill. (2004-5). Chamb, instr, ch,
voc music.
Sources: CW

Melo Cruz, Carlos, Chilean composer, pianist, and conductor; b.5 Apr
1897, Concepción, Chile; d.1974, ? He studied piano, music theory, and
harmony with Luigi S. Giarda and Federico Stöber at the Cons. Nacional de
Música, Santiago de Chile, Chile (1912-19) while also studying at the
Facultad de Derecho of the Univ. of Chile, Santiago de Chile. Prof. at the
Cons. Nacional de Música until 1925. Dir. of the Orfeón Obrero Nacional
(male singing choir) and artistic Dir. of the Teatro Municipal. Secretary of
the Sociedad de Compositores Chilenos.
Works: Mauricio, opera (1939). Symphonies, poems, preludes orch; chamb,
ch, voc music.
Sources: HMC, MMLA

Melo Gorigoytía, Héctor, Chilean composer; b.30 Oct 1899, Santiago de

Chile, Chile; d.after 1971, ? He studied theory and solfeggio with Aníbal
Aracena, harmony with José Salinas, violin with Aurelio Silva, instrumental
ensemble with Enrique Soro, and composition with Carlos Lavín at the
Cons. Nacional de Música of Chile, Santiago de Chile (1916-23) while also
studying mine engineering. Dir. of the Orq. Universitaria and the Conjunto
Coral de Ingenieros of Chile, Santiago de Chile. Member of the Facultad de
Bellas Artes of the Univ. of Chile, Santiago de Chile.
Works: Alucinaciones de primavera, ballet, voc, ch, orch (1916); Manchas
de color, str instr, pn; Leie, vn, hn, ob, harp; Medieval, voc, pn, str orch;
Chañarcillo, ch, orch; Lebe, symp poem; La mina abandonada, symp
poem; Poema anacrónico, orch Chamb, pn, voc music.
Sources: DM, HMC, MLA, MMLA

Mena, Luis E., Dominican composer; b.12 Nov 1895, Ciudad Trujillo,
Dominican Republic; d.1964, Dominican Republic. He studied with José de
Jesús Ravelo at the Liceo Musical of Ciudad Trujillo. Later, he became
Prof. at that inst. and at the Cons. Nacional de Música of Ciudad Trujillo.
Conductor of the Orq. de la Estación Oficial de Radio.
Works: Sinfonía giocosa; Sinfonía de juguetes; Recuerdos de infancia, suite
in 13 sections orch; Intermedio andaluz y zapateado, orch; Suite, fl str orch;
Homage to the Dominican National Anthems, orch; Overture, orch; El
camino del cielo, orch; Ecos de libertad, orch; Marcha fúnebre, orch.
Chamb, org, pn music.
Sources: DEW, DM, MLA, MMLA

Mena Moreno, Juan Manuel, Nicaraguan composer and conductor;

b.1917; d.1989, Managua, Nicaragua. He studied at the School of Sacred
Music in Morelia, Mexico. After returning to Nicaragua he played the organ
in León and taught at the National Cons. in Managua. He founded the
Nicaraguan National Chorus (1979) and directed it until shortly before he
died.
Works: Lajicarita, chamb orch; Monimbó es Nicaragua (Sonniquería
bachiana no.1); Sonniquería no.2, marimba de arco, orch.
Sources: GDM

Mendes, Gilberto Ambrósio García, Brazilian composer, teacher, and

music critic; b.13 Oct 1922, Santos, Brazil. He studied theory and harmony
with Savino de Benedictis, piano with Antonieta Rudge at the Cons.
Musical of Santos. Later, he studied with Claudio Santoro and Olivier Toni,
and at the Darmstadt, Germany summer courses (1962, 1968), took classes
with Pierre Boulez, Henri Pousseur, and Karlheinz Stockhausen. He
founded the Festival Música Nova of Santos (1962), the oldest festival of
contemporary music in Latin America, of which he is the program and
artistic Dir. Visiting Prof. at the Univ. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA,
and the Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX, USA. Prof. at the Univ. of São Paulo,
Brazil, and the Facultad de Música of the Cons. Musical of Santos.
Works: Santos Football Music (1969); Concerto, pn (1981); Partitura
(1985); Um quadro de Gastão Z. Frazão (1985); The Last Tango in Vila
Parisi (1987); Rotationis (1962); Qualquer música (1980); Ulysses em
Copacabana Surfing with James Joyce and Dorothy Lamour (1988); Il
samba del soldato (1991). Chamb, pn, ch, theater music.
Sources: DCM, EMB2, GDM, ISC

Mendía, Guillermo de, Mexican composer; b.10 Aug 1955, Mexico City,
Mexico. He studied composition with Juan Antonio Rosado at the Escuela
Nacional de Música of UNAM, Mexico City. He also studied computer
music with Antonio Fernández Ross and Jorge Pérez Delgado, orch.
conducting with Armando Zayas. Founding member of Círculo Disonus.
Prof. at the Inst. de Litúrgica, Música, y Arte Cardenal Miranda. Member of
the Sociedad Mexicana de Música Nueva.
Works: When the Night Comes, orch (1991); ¿Dónde está el sol?, orch
(1993). Chamb, pn, voc, ch, electroacoustic, computer music.
Sources: DCMMC, GP

Mendoza, José Alberto, Guatemalan pianist and composer; b.30 Mar

1889, Guatemala City, Guatemala; d.2 Jul 1960, Guatemala. He studied
with Luis Felipe Arias, Germán Alcántara, Eduardo Lebegotti, and
Herculano Alvarado. He was Dir. of the Cons. Nacional of Guatemala,
Guatemala City (1925-31). Dir. of the oldest Guatemalan music
organization, Sociedad Filarmónica-Religiosa, founded in 1813.
Works: Gloria al General García Granados, triumphal march;
Improvisación sinfónica; Quezalcoatl. Pn, voc music.
Sources: DM, HMG, MMLA

Mendoza Guardia, Emilio, Venezuelan composer, researcher, and teacher;

b.8 Aug 1953, Caracas, Venezuela. He studied classical guitar with
Flaminia de Desola at the Escuela de Música Juan Manuel Olivares, and
composition with Yannis Ioannidis at the Univ. Metropolitana, both in
Caracas. In 1976, he traveled to Düsseldorf, Germany, where he obtained a
diploma in composition and electronic music from the Robert Schumann
Inst. under Günther Becker. He received a DMA from The Catholic Univ.
of America in Washington, DC, USA (1990). He founded, conducted, and
directed the orch. of ODILA in Caracas (1982-87). Assistant Prof. at the
IUDEM in Caracas (1982-84). Chief of the División Musical of the
Biblioteca Nacional Venezolana, Caracas (1985-87). In 1991, he settled in
Potsdam, New York, NY, USA, and was appointed Asst. Prof. at the Crane
School of Music, Potsdam College of the New York State Univ., New York,
NY.
Works: Pasaje, str orch (1976); Contienda, orch (1982); Tregua, orch
(1981); El último canto, Latin American instr (1984); Transonar, Latin
American instr (1985); Virtual Suicide, tape (1992). Chamb, pn, solo instr
music.
Sources: BB, EMV, ISC

Mendoza Gutiérrez, Vicente Teódulo, Mexican composer, musicologist,

and folklorist; b.27 Jan 1894, Cholula, State of Puebla, Mexico; d.27 Oct
1964, Mexico City, Mexico. He began music studies with his father, Vicente
M. Mendoza. He moved to Mexico City where he entered the Acad. de
Bellas Artes, and later, the Cons. Nacional de Música, where he studied
piano with Lauro Beristáin and Herminia R. de Cruz, and harmony and
composition with Gabrielli. He studied harmony, counterpoint, fugue, and
the theory and practice of Sonido 13 (Sound 13) with Julián Carrillo (1913-
25). He was appointed folklore researcher at the Inst. de Investigaciones
Estéticas of the UNAM in Mexico City (1937). Founder and president of
the Sociedad Folklórica de Mexico. In 1955, he received a Master’s degree
in music from the Univ. of Mexico. Taught at the UNAM, the Cons.
Nacional de Música, and in public schools of Mexico City.
Works: Tríptico de los mendigos (1927); Escena de ballet (Danza
Tarahumara), small ens (1930); No. V, from the Ballet de la Revolución
(Maquinismo) (1932); Tierras solares, suite michoacana (1936);
Impressiones de estio I – IV (1937); La rueda de la fortuna (1938); Suite
estival (1941); Danza ritual (1941); Danza negra (1942); Jalisco (1942-
44). Ch, chamb, pn music. pieces; songs.
Books: with D. Castañeda, Instrumental Precortesiano, Mexico, 1933-39;
Panorama de la Música Tradicional de México, Mexico, 1956.
Sources: GDM, GP, MLA, NH

Mendoza Nava, Jaime, Bolivian composer and conductor; b.1 Dec 1925,
La Paz, Bolivia; d.31 May 2005, Woodland Hills, CA. He settled in Los
Angeles, CA, USA (1953). He studied at The Juilliard School of Music in
New York City, NY, USA. Later, he studied at the Cons. Real de Música of
Madrid, Spain, and in Paris, France, with Nadia Boulanger and Arthur
Honneger. In 1952, he was appointed conductor of the Orq. Sinfónica
Nacional of Bolivia in La Paz.
Works: Don Alvaro, orch; Preludio sinfónico, orch; Suite andina, wind trio;
Estampas y estampillas, vc ens; Sonata, hn, pn. Film music.
Sources: GDM

Meneses, Miguel, Mexican composer; b.1839, Mexico; d.ca. 1888,

Bombay, India. He studied with Cenobio Paniagua.
Works: Agorante, Rey de la Nubia; El hada del lago; Himno a Juárez,
mixed ch orch; Judith; Luisa de Lavalliere. Atala, lyric drama.
Sources: MMLA, GP

Menezes, Flo, Brazilian composer; b.1962, São Paolo, Brazil. He studied

composition with composition Willy Corrêa de Oliveira at the Univ. of São
Paulo (1980-85). He was awarded a grant to study with Hans Humpert at
the Studio für elektronische Musik of the Musikhochschule Cologne (1986)
and remained there as a composer until 1990. During this time he studied
with Pierre Boulez in France (1988) and with Luciano Berio in Austria
(1989). He studied computer music at the Centro di Sonologia
Computazionale in Padova, Italy (1991). In July 1994, he founded and
became Dir. of the Studio PANaroma de Música Eletroacústica da Unesp.
He also studied with Brian Ferneyhough in France (1995) and with
Karlheinz Stockhausen in Germany (1998). He received a Doctorate in
Liège, Belgium, under Henri Pousseur and completed post-doctoral studies
on Berio’s manuscripts at the Paul Sacher Stiftung in Switzerland. He
taught music analysis at the Stockhausen-Kurse Kürten, Germany (1999,
2001) and was a Visiting Prof. at the Univ. of Cologne, Germany (2004-05).
He served as Prof. of Electroacoustic Music and Composition and Dir. of
Studio PANaroma at the State Univ.of São Paulo.
Works: Profils écartelés, pn, tape (1988); Parcours de l’Entité, fl, perc, tape
(1994); A Viagem sobre os Grãos, 2 perc, tape (1993; 1996); La Novità del
Suono, chamb orch, live electronics (2006).
Books: Apoteose de Schönberg, (1984-1985); 2 books on Luciano Berio.
Sources: CW
Mesa Saldarriaga, Sergio, Colombian pianist, composer, and teacher; b.14
Nov 1943, Medellín, Colombia. He studied piano with Annamaría Penella,
José Santamaría, and Harold Martina. He traveled to USA and Germany
where he studied philosophy and psychology, and took music courses in
Frankfurt and Heidelberg. Later, he continued his piano studies with Harold
Martina and composition with Luis Torres Zuleta. Prof. at various
Colombian univ. Permanent consultant for the Ministerio de Cultura.
Works: Cinco trazos, orch (1991); Comienzos (1992); Movimientos Orch.
(1996); Cántico, soloists, ch, orch (1999). Theater, chamb, voc music.
Sources: CW, LCRA

Meserón, Juan Francisco Pascual, Venezuelan composer and flutist; b.17

May 1779, Caracas, Venezuela; d.ca.1845, Caracas. He started music
studies with his father, Alejandro Mezerón (sic). In 1834, he was appointed
conductor of the orch. of the Sociedad Filarmónica in Caracas. Prof. of
music at Colegio Paz in 1838, and Colegio Independencia in 1839, both in
Caracas.
Works: Symph No.5; Symph No.6; Symph No.8 (1922); Obertura de la
entrada de Jerusalén; 3 overtures. 3 masses; Miserere; Himno al Santísimo
Sacramento. Sacred, patriotic music.
Sources: EMV, MMLA

Mesquita, Carlos Marciano de, Brazilian composer, pianist, organist,

conductor, and teacher; b.23 May 1864, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; d.27 Nov
1953, Paris, France. He studied piano with Giovanni Cerrone in Rio de
Janeiro, and later, at the Cons. de Musique in Paris, he studied organ with
César Franck, composition, counterpoint, and fugue with Jules Massenet,
harmony with Emil Durand, pn with Antoine-François Marmontel. First
Prof. of harmony at the Escola Nacional de Música in Rio de Janeiro.
Works: Esmeralda, opera (1891); Souvent l’homme varie, opera; Episódio
sinfônico, orch; Exaltação, orch; A Floresta encantada, orch; Hosana, orch;
Marcha triunfal. Pn, vn, voc music.
Sources: DM, EMB2, MMLA

Mesquita, Henrique Alves de, Brazilian composer, organist, conductor,

and teacher; b.15 Mar 1830, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; d.12 Jul 1906, Rio de
Janeiro. He studied at the Cons. de Música in Rio de Janeiro with
Gioacchino Giannini, and later, with a scholarship, he studied harmony at
the Cons. de Musique in Paris, France, with François-Emmanuel-Joseph
Bazin. Prof. of solfeggio at the Cons. de Música, and of brass instruments at
the Inst. Nacional de Música, both in Rio de Janeiro. Permanent conductor
of the orch. of the Teatro Fénix Dramática of Rio de Janeiro.
Works: Operas: Noivado em Paquetá; O vagabundo. Operettas: Triunfo ás
avessas (1871); Noite no castelo; Alí Babá (1872); Coroa de Carlos Magno
(1873); O vampiro (1873); Loteria do diabo (1877); L’etoile du Brésil; A
gata borralheira (1885). Salon music.
Sources: EMB2, GDM, HMB, MMLA

Mesquita, José Joaquím Emérico Lobo de, Brazilian composer,

conductor, and organist; b.12 Dec 1746, Vila do Príncipe do Serro do Frío,
Minas Gerais, Brazil; d.Apr 1805, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Active in the
prov. of Minas Gerais at the end of the 18th century. Entered the
Brotherhood of Nossa Senhora das Mercês dos Homens Crioulos in Arraial
do Tejuco (now Diamantina), Brazil. Organist at the Irmandade do
Santísimo Sacramento in the same city. Later, he moved to Vila Rica (Ouro
Préto), Brazil, and worked as composer, conductor, and organist of the
Irmandade da Ordem Terceira do Carmo.
Works: Antífona Regina Coeli Laetare; Antífona Zelus Domus tuae; Missa
em Mi bemol; Missa em Fa; Te Deum; Antífona de Nossa Senhora (Salve
Regina), ch, str, and org (1787); Ladainha in Honorem Beatae Mariae
Virginis; Ofertorio de Nossa Senhora (Benedicta et Venerabilis Es).
Bibl.: F.C. Lange, La Música de Vila Rica, Minas Gerais, Siglo XVIII,
Revista Musical Chilena, No.102, 1967; No.103, 1968.
Sources: EMB2, HMB, GDM

Meza, Miguel C., Mexican choral conductor, teacher, and composer; b.29
Sep 1903, San Luis Potosí, Mexico; d.? He studied piano and composition
at the Cons. Nacional de Música of Mexico City, where he graduated in
1932.
Works: Sinfonía en estilo mexicano; Revolución, symp poem; Las
binigüendas de plata, ballet; Impresiones, orch suite.
Sources: MLA, MMLA
Miceli, Antonino, Argentine composer of Italian origin; b. 1 Dec 1890, San
Vito lo Capo, Italy; d.? He lived in Argentina since childhood. He started
music studies with Father Francisco Zaninetti at Colegio Salesiano San
Juan Bautista of Buenos Aires, Argentina then studied solfeggio with Jaime
Bustamante, piano with Celestino Piaggio, and harmony and composition
with Alberto Williams at the Cons. Nacional de Música Carlos López
Buchardo of Buenos Aires. He also studied voc with Storges Graziani,
Arnoldo Bottaro, and Luis Benvenuto. Taught at the Cons. Nacional de
Música Carlos López Buchardo and in the school system of the Consejo
Nacional de Educación, the Colegio Nacional La Salle, and the Inst.
Normal Santa Catalina, all in Buenos Aires.
Works: Gran Misa, male ch, str orch, org. Pn, voc music.
Sources: DM, EMA

Michaca Valenzuela, Pedro, Mexican composer and teacher; b.26 Nov

1897, Canatlán, State of Durango, Mexico; d.16 Jul 1976, Mexico City,
Mexico. He studied music in his native town and he moved to Mexico City
(1919), where he entered the Cons. Nacional de Música to study solfeggio
and harmony with Estanislao Mejía, counterpoint, fugue, composition, and
music analysis with Gustavo E. Campa and Rafael J. Tello, piano with
Manuel M. Ponce, and organ with Aurelio Barrios y Morales. Taught at the
Cons. Nacional de Música and the Escuela de Música of the UNAM, in
Mexico City. Founding member and president of the Ateneo Musical
Mexicano.
Works: El zarco, symp poem. Religious, pn, voc music.
Books: El Nacionalismo Musical Mexicano; La Evolución de la Armonía a
través del Principio Cíclico Musical.
Sources: GMM, GP, MLA

Michans, Carlos Eduardo, Argentine composer, chorus conductor, and

teacher; b.18 Aug 1950, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied with Almah
Melgar, Carlos Larrimbe, Pedro Valenti Costa, Bruno D’Astoli, and
Roberto García Morillo. He graduated from the Escuela de Coro of the
Univ. del Museo Social Argentino, and from the Inst. Superior del Teatro
Colón, both of Buenos Aires. Member of the Asociación Argentina de
Compositores.
Works: Tres piezas, chamb orch (1980); Divertimento, pn, cl, 7 str instr
(1981); Tres piezas breves, wind qt (1976). Ch, religious, chamb music.
Sources: VMA

Migliori, Gabriel, Brazilian composer, and pianist; b.9 Nov 1909, São
Paulo, Brazil; d.2 Jan 1975, São Paulo. He studied music with Savino de
Benedictis, Armando Pugliesi, and Agostino Cantú.
Works: Variaçôes sinfônicas sobre un tema popular, orch; Concerto, vn,
orch; Impressóes brasileiras, str inst; Pirapora, 15 inst.
Sources: EMB2, MMLA

Mignone, Francisco Paulo, Brazilian composer and conductor; b.3 Sep

1897, São Paulo, Brazil; d.18 Feb 1986, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He started
music studies with his father and took courses in piano, flute, harmony, and
composition with Silvio Motto, Savino de Benedictis, and Agostino Cantú
at the Cons. Dramático e Musical of São Paulo. Later (1920) he studied
with Vincenzo Ferroni at the Cons. Reale di Musica of Milan, Italy. Prof. of
piano and harmony at the Cons. Dramático e Musical of São Paulo (1914-
20, 1929-32). He taught at the Escola Nacional de Música of the Univ. of
Brazil in Rio de Janeiro (1933-67).
Works: Suite campestre, orch (1918); Congada, from the opera O
contratador de diamantes (1922); Scenas da roda, symph dance (1923);
Festa dionisíaca, orch (1923); O contratador de diamantes, opera (1924);
Intermezzo Lirico, orch (1925); L’innocente, opera (1928); Momus, symph
poem (1933); Suite brasileira (1933); Maracatú de Chico-Rei, ballet
(1934); Sonho de un menino travesso (1937); Cuatro fantasías brasileiras,
pn (1931-37); Seresta, vc (1939); Miudinho, symph dance (1941); Leilão,
ballet (1941); O espantalhao, ballet (1941); Festa das igrejas (1942);
Quadros amazónicos, ballet (1949); O guarda chuva, ballet (1954); String
octet (1956); 2 str qt (1956, 1957); Concertino, cl, small orch (1957); Bsn
concertino (1957); Sinfonía tropical (1958); Pn concerto (1958); 2 wind qnt
(1960, 1962); Vn concerto (1961); Concerto, vn, pn (1966); 2 sextets (1935,
1968); Sonata, 4 bsns (1966); 2 wind trios (1967,1968); O Chalaga, opera
(1972); Concerto, vn, chamb orch (1975). Ch, pn, voc, wind instr music.
Bibl.: L.H. Correa de Azevedo, Francisco Mignone, Música Brasileña
Contemporánea, Rosario, Argentina, 1952.
Sources: BB, CTA4, DM, EMB2, GDM, MLA, MMLA
Míguez, Leopoldo Américo, Brazilian composer, violinist, conductor, and
teacher; b.9 Sep 1850, Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; d.6 Jul 1902, Rio de
Janeiro. He studied violin with Nicolau Medina Ribas, and harmony and
composition with Giovanni Franchini in Oporto, Portugal. He returned to
Brazil (1871) and was appointed Dir. of the Inst. Nacional de Música in Rio
de Janeiro (1890 until his death). Founder of Centro Artístico.
Works: Pelo amor, opera (1897); Os saldunes, opera (1901); Symph in B
flat (1882); Parisina, symp poem (1888); Ave Libertas, symp poem (1890);
Hino á proclamação da República (1890); Prometeo, symp poem (1892);
Ode a Victor Hugo, orch; Suite a l ‘antique, orch Overtures; marches; pn,
voc music.
Bibl.: O. Bevilacqua, Leopoldo Míguez e o Inst. Nacional de Música,
Revista Brasileira de Música, Vol.7, 1940.
Sources: BB, DM, EMB2, GDM, HMB, MLA

Mihovilcevic, Luis, Argentine composer; b.24 Oct 1958, Rosario, Prov. of

Santa Fe, Argentina. He studied piano with Enrique Graino and Jorge Sala,
music theory and solfeggio with Pedro Crapanzano and Carlos Goldberg,
harmony with Jacobo Ficher, counterpoint and composition with Salvador
Ranieri, analysis with Milko Kelemen, and electronic music with Enrique
Belloc. Board member of Ars Contemporánea, CUDA, and FAC.
Works: Concerto, str orch, timpani (1986); El jardín (Grito de Auschwitz),
children’s ch (1979); Intermezzo, nar, amplified pn (1984-85); Dos
imágenes, mixed ch (1984); El jinete acuático, 2 actors, pn, perc, objects,
and other circumstantial instr (1986-87). Chamb, ch, pn music.
Sources: ISC

Milici, Luis, Argentine composer and conductor; b.23 Nov 1910, Rosario,
Prov. of Santa Fe, Argentina; d.31 Jan 1998, Rosario. He started to study
music with Antonio Boreto and Alfonso Ingo and continued studying
composition and instrumentation with Juan Bautista Massa. He conducted
the Orq. Filarmónica of Rosario and the Orq. Sinfónica of the APO of
Buenos Aires, Argentina. Prof. of choral singing at the Escuela Profesional
de Mujeres de la Nación, and Dir. of the Inst. de Educación Musical of the
Univ. of Litoral, both in Rosario.
Works: Anyaay, symp poem (1940); El inca triste, poem, sop, ch, orch
(1942); Danza guerrera, orch (1943); Impresiones norteñas, symph suite
(1946); Malambo, orch (1948); Sinfonía in memoriam, soloists, ch, orch
(1953); Aire de gato, orch; Aire de bailecito, str qt. ch a cappella; pn, voc
music.
Sources: CA, DM, EMA

Milstein, Sylvina [née Mendzylewski], Argentine composer; b.12 Feb

1956, Buenos Aires, Argentina, resident of Britain. She studied at the
Collegium Musicum in Buenos Aires and the Univ. of La Plata before
immigrating to Britain after the Argentine military coup (1976). She studied
with Judith Weir and Lyell Cresswell at Glasgow Univ. (1979) and then
with Alexander Goehr at Cambridge Univ. (1983). Research Fellow at Jesus
College and taught at King’s College London. She was co-winner of the
Ralph Vaughan Williams Trust/SPNM Orchestral Award in 1985 for her
serial composition Sombras.
Works: Sombras (1985); Str qt (1989); Pn Phantasy (1992); Music of the
City (1993).
Books: Arnold Schoenberg: Notes, Sets, Forms, published, 1992.
Sources: NGDWC

Mindlin, Adolfo, Argentine pianist and composer; b.1922, Carlos Casares,

Prov. of Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied piano with Raúl Spivak, and
harmony, counterpoint, fugue, composition, and instrumentation with
Jacobo Ficher in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He settled in Paris, France, in
1952.
Works: Juan Cristóbal, overture, orch. Chamb, pn, voc music.
Sources: EMA

Minino, Manuel Martino, Dominican composer; b.2 Jan 1930, Baní,

Dominican Republic. He studied harmony, counterpoint, and composition
with Roberto Caggiano and Alfredo de Migno in Rome, Italy, and later he
studied in Paris, France.
Works: Symphonies; Concerto Grosso; Pn concerto; Cantata.
Sources: DEW, KTL

Miramontes, Arnulfo, Mexican composer and pianist; b.18 Jul 1882, Tala,
State of Jalisco, Mexico; d.1960, Mexico. He started his music studies in
Mexico then studied piano with Martín Krause, composition with Philippe
Rueffer, conducting with Alexander von Fielitz at the Sternsches
Konservatorium of Berlin, Germany (1908). He returned to Mexico (1911),
played the piano, taught, and conducted.
Works: Anáhuac, opera; Andalusia; Cihuatl, opera; Iris, symph ballet (ca.
1940); La leyenda de los volcanes (1918); 3 symphonies; Primavera,
overture; Suite sinfónica mexicana; Poema sinfónico de la Revolución (ca.
1936); Baile mexicano. Chamb, pn, org, ch, voc, religious music.
Sources: DM, GP, MLA, MMLA

Miranda, Ronaldo, Brazilian composer and music critic; b.26 Apr 1948,
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He studied piano with Dulce de Saules and
composition with Henrique Morelenbaum at EMUFRJ of Rio de Janeiro.
Music critic for the newspaper Jornal do Brasil. Prof. of composition at the
EMUFRJ.
Works: Terras de Manirema, cantata (1981); Variaçôes sinfônicas, orch
(1981); Pn concerto (1983); Oriens III, 3 fl (1983); Prólogo, discurso, e
reflexão, pn (1985); Imagens, cl, perc (1986); Pn concertino (1986); Três
momentos, solo vc (1987); Coração concreto, cantata (1987); Suite tropical
(1990); Dom Casmurro, opera (1992); Horizontes (1992); Cantoria, vc
(1994); Suite festiva (1997). Chamb, solo instr, pn, ch, voc, electroacoustic
music.
Sources: EMB2, ISC

Miyara, Federico, Argentine composer and pianist: b.4 Sep 1958, Rosario,
Prov. of Santa Fe, Argentina. He was initially self-taught in music and
became an electronic engineer. He studied piano with Alicia Correas and
composition with Dante Grela. Founding member of the Asociación
Santafesina de Compositores and of the Grupo Klank-Música
Contemporánea of Rosario.
Works: Malvinas, ch; Elegía y fanfarra, tpt; Fantasia, cl, vn, pn; Culpas, fl,
pn, perc; Impromptu y Kinesis I, cl, pn; Rapsodia, Kinesis II y Azeuxis, fl,
pn; pn music.
Sources: CAMR

Moçuranga, Bento João de Albuquerque, Brazilian composer, conductor,

violinist, pianist, and teacher; b.6 May 1879, Castro, State of Paraná, Brazil;
d.23 Oct 1970, Curitiba, State of Paraná. He studied piano with Manuel
Cristino dos Santos and violin, theory and solfeggio with Augusto
Mainardi. He went to Curitiba (1895) where he studied with Adolfo Corradi
at the Cons. de Belas Artes. He entered the INM of Rio de Janeiro (1907)
where he studied harmony with Frederico Nascimento, counterpoint,
composition, and fugue with Francisco Braga, and violin with Ernesto
Ronchini. He began conducting (1916). He returned to Curitiba (1930),
organized a music course at the Sociedade Musical Renascença and created
the Sociedade Orch. Paranaense. He organized the Orq. Estudantil de
Concertos (1946), later called Orq. Sinfônica da Univ. of Paraná. Taught at
the Colégio Estadual and the Escola de Música de Belas Artes, both of
Paraná.
Works: Bucólica paranaense; Hino do Paraná, official hymn, State of
Paraná (1903); Dezenove de Dezembro, military hymn (1904); Ingrata,
mazurka (1904); Guaicará; Marcha da cidade de Curitiba; Ondas do Lapó;
Pintassilgo dos Pinheirais; Rinçao; Sapecada. Instr, voc music.
Sources: EMB2

Moçurunga, Domingos da Rocha Viana, Brazilian composer and teacher;

b.20 Jan 1807, Salvador, Bahía, Brazil; d.29 Feb 1856, Salvador. Became
Prof. of music at the Acad. de Música of Salvador (1833).
Works: A Negra do Munguzá, stage music; Hino ao Dia Dois de Dezembro;
Hino Festival, orch (1985); Hino da Maioridade; Tres aberturas; Te Deum,
for Coronation of Don Pedro II; 9 missas festivas, orch. Religious, music,
waltzes, modinhas.
Books: Compêndio Musical, Salvador, 1834; Compêndio de Música,
Salvador, 1846.
Sources: EMB2, MMLA

Moleiro, Moisés, Venezuelan composer, pianist, and teacher; b.28 Mar

1905, Zaraza, Venezuela; d.18 Jun 1979, Caracas, Venezuela. He began
music studies with Manuel Martí Sandón, and entered the Escuela de
Música y Declamación of Caracas (1924) where he studied with Salvador
Narciso Llamozas. He studied harmony with Vicente Sojo in Caracas,
Venezuela. Taught piano at the Escuela Nacional de Música José Angel
Lamas and solfeggio and music theory at the Escuela de Música y
Declamación, both in Caracas.
Works: Toccata, pn; Sonatina, pn. Ch, pn, chamb, voc music.
Sources: CTA14, DM, EMV, MLA, MMLA
Molina, Francisco J., Bolivian instrumentalist and composer; b.3 Dec
1863, La Paz, Bolivia; d.2 Apr 1925, La Paz. He started music studies and
clarinet with his uncle, Issac Palacios. After time in the army he studied
several instruments, including clarinet, tpt, piano, and violin with Donaire.
Prof. of music at the Seminario of La Paz and in the main municipal
schools.
Works: Te Deum Anime, mass; El obligado de violín; La noche fue un día;
San Francisco Javier, meditation; Recuerdo a mi madre; Amor de madre.
Books: Elementos de Música y Canto became the official textbook in
schools and colleges.
Sources: CB

Molina, José Antonio, Dominican composer and conductor; b.4 Jun 1960,
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. He started music studies at the Cons.
Nacional de Música of Santo Domingo, and continued with Paulo Bracalli
and Vincent La Selva at the Manhattan School of Music and The Juilliard
School of Music, both in New York City, NY.
Works: Merengue fantasía, orch (1989).
Sources: DEW

Molina Pinillo, José, Guatemalan composer; b.28 Aug 1889, Guatemala

City, Guatemala; d.? He studied with Julián Carrillo in Mexico City,
Mexico, and with Xaver Scharwenka in Berlin, Germany.
Works: Rapsodias guatemaltecas; Miniatura; Cromos nacionales.
Sources: DM, MLA, MMLA

Moncayo García, José Pablo, Mexican composer, pianist, percussionist,

and conductor; b.29 Jun 1912, Guadalajara, State of Jalisco, Mexico; d.16
Jun 1958, Mexico City, Mexico. He studied composition with Candelario
Huízar and Carlos Chávez, piano with Eduardo Hernández Moncada.
Member of the Grupo de los Cuatro, with Daniel Ayala Pérez, Salvador
Contreras Sánchez, and Blas Galindo Dimas. He joined the percussion
section of the Orq. Sinfónica Mexicana, Mexico City (1932). With a
scholarship from the Berkshire Inst., MA, USA, he studied with Aaron
Copland (1942) then he became artistic Dir. of the Orq. Sinfónica Nacional
of Mexico City (1944) which he conducted (1949-52). Prof. of composition
orch. conducting at the Cons. Nacional de Música of INBA, Mexico City,
Mexico.
Works: Pieza para Orch. de cuerda (ca. 1935); Amatzinac (ca. 1937);
Huepayan, symph dance (1938); Huapango, orch (1941); Llano alegre
(1942); Sinfonía No.1 (1942-44); Sinfonietta (1945); Homenaje a
Cervantes, 2 obs, str (1947); Tres piezas (1947); La mulata de Córdoba,
opera (1948); Tierra de temporal (1949); Cumbres, orch (1953); Zapata,
ballet (1953); Bosques (1954); Tierra, ballet (1956). Chamb, pn, voc, ch
music.
Sources: BB, DCM, DCMMC, DM, GMM, GP, MLA, MMLA

Moncho, Vicente, Argentine composer, violinist, and teacher; b.10 Jul

1939, San Juan, Prov. of San Juan, Argentina. He studied violin in San Juan
and in Mendoza, Prov. of Mendoza, Argentina (1956-62). He studied violin
and viola with Humberto Carfi and harmony with Teodoro Fuchs in Buenos
Aires, Argentina (1962-65) then entered the Escuela de Bellas Artes of the
Univ. Nacional of La Plata, Prov. of Buenos Aires, Argentina (1965), where
he studied harmony and counterpoint with Jacobo Ficher, conducting with
Mariano Drago. He also studied at the Escuela de Bellas Artes of the Univ.
Nacional of Córdoba, Prov. of Córdoba, Argentina. Prof. at the Escuela de
Bellas Artes of the Univ. Nacional of Córdoba.
Works: Tres estructuras, orch (1969); Transmutaciones, orch (1973);
Introspección, orch (1975); Crecientes, orch (1990); El don del águila, band
(1991). El regreso de Anaconda, ballet (1982); En honor a la verdad,
operatic farce, soloists, ch, orch, actors (1988). Chamb, ch music.
Sources: ISC

Mondino, Luis Pedro, Uruguayan composer; b.19 Nov 1903, DM (1904,

BHMCU), Montevideo, Uruguay; d.1974, Europe. He studied piano with
Luisa Gallo and Camilo Giucci, and harmony with Felipe Larrimbe in
Montevideo. He went to Europe (1927) where he studied composition with
Léon Jongen, Raymond Moulaert, and Nadia Boulanger.
Works: Fiesta vasca, lute quartet. Songs: La vidalita; Diálogo campero; La
liebre arisca; Señora Loba, Señora Luna; Se enojó la luna; Señor
jardinero.
Sources: BHMCU, DM, MLA, MMLA
Monestel, Alejandro, Costa Rican composer and organist; b.26 Apr 1865,
San José, Costa Rica; d.3 Nov 1950, San José. He studied first in Costa
Rica then at the Cons. of Brussels, Belgium, piano, organ, and harmony. He
returned to Costa Rica (1884) and became organist and choirmaster at the
Cathedral of San José. Dir. of the Sociedad Filarmónica and the Escuela
Nacional de Música of Costa Rica. Prof. at the Cons. Nacional of San José.
He lived in New York, NY, USA (1902-37), where he was active as a
church organist and composer.
Works: 14 masses; 4 Requiems; 5 cantatas on the life of Jesus; Rapsodia
costarricense, orch (1935); Dos rapsodias guanacastecas, band.
Sources: BB, DM, MLA, MMLA

Monroy, José María, Mexican composer; b.?

Works: Himno Nacional (1854).
Sources: GP

Montalvo, José A., Puerto Rican composer; b.2 Feb 1951, Mayagüez,
Puerto Rico. He began music studies with Alfredo Romero at the Cons. de
Música of Puerto Rico. He attended Indiana Univ. at Bloomington, IN,
USA, where he received a Bachelor’s degree and a Master’s degree in
music as a student of Fred Fox. He continued music studies at New York
Univ., New York, NY, USA, with Dinu Ghezzo.
Works: Canto para la América Sufrida, timpani, str (1979); Afirmación, vc,
chamb ens (1980); Antillana, orch (1983); Espejos, orch (1985). Chamb,
solo instr, pn, voc music.
Sources: CPR

Montecino Montalva, Alfonso, Chilean composer and pianist; b.28 Oct

1924, Osorno, Chile. He studied piano with Alberto Spikin and composition
with Domingo Santa Cruz and Jorge Urrutia Blondel at the Cons. de Música
of the Univ. of Chile, Santiago de Chile, Chile. He went to the USA (1947)
where he studied composition with Randall Thompson, Edgar Varáse,
Bohuslav Martinu, and Roger Sessions. At the same time, he continued his
piano studies with Claudio Arrau and Rafael de Silva. Prof. of piano at the
School of Music of Indiana Univ. in Bloomington, IN, USA.
Works: Obertura concertante, orch (1948); Concertino de cámara, orch
(1965). Ch, chamb, pn, voc music.
Sources: CTA19

Montero, Claudia, Argentinian composer, b.1962, Buenos Aires. She

studied Musical Pedagogy and Composition at the Alberto Ginastera Cons.
in Buenos Aires. She moved to Valencia, Spain, where she completed a
Master’s degree in aesthetics and musical creativity. She pursued doctoral
studies at the Univ. of Valencia where she wrote her dissertation on the
influence of tango and folklore in Argentine music. She founded and
directed the Women in the Arts Foundation in Valencia and served as a
member of the International Alliance for Women in Music and Women in
Spain. She won the Latin Grammy Award for Best Classical Contemporary
Composition in 2014.
Works: Ausencias, str orch (1992); Rincones de Buenos Aires, str orch
(1993); Recitativo y fantasia, vn, pn (1993); Elegía, va, str (1994); Sueños
azules, bsn, str (1994); Fantasía, vc, str (1995); El Sueño de Uriel, str, qt, fl,
ob, cl (1997); Variaciones sobre Mambrú, pn (1998); Sonata en Mi m, pn
(1999); Tres canciones sobre textos de Juana de Ibarborou, ch (1999);
Mitos de Buenos Aires, 2 pn (2000); Cuarteto para Buenos Aires, str qt
(2000); 5 canciones sobre textos de Alfonsina Storni, voc, pn (2007-2013);
Evocaciones, harp (2008); Trío para flauta, arpa y viola, fl, harp, va (2008);
Trío, vn, vc, pn (2009); Suite de los Buenos Aires, fl, gtr (2010); Lágrimas
de ceniza, pn, fl, vn, vc (2010); Concierto para violín y Orquesta vn, orch
(2011); Tres colores porteños, gtr (2014).
Sources: CW

Montero, José Angel, Venezuelan composer; b.1839 (1832, EMV),

Caracas, Venezuela; d.24 Aug 1881, Caracas. He began music studies with
his father, José María Montero. He studied several instruments, including
the flute. Choirmaster at the Iglesia Metropolitana and member of the Acad.
de Música, branch of the Inst. Nacional de Bellas Artes in Caracas. Founder
of the journal El Arte Musical, in Caracas.
Works: Virginia, opera; 15 zarzuelas; 16 overtures; 5 marches; 30 oficios de
difuntos; salon music.
Sources: EMV, MLA, MMLA

Montes de Oca, Ramón, Mexican composer; b.11 Oct 1953, Mexico City,
Mexico; d.10 Nov 2006, between Guanajuato and Mexico City. He received
a Licenciate degree in music from the Southern Oregon College, Ashland,
OR, USA. Studied with Istvan Lang then at the Taller de Composición of
the Cons. Nacional de Música of INBA with Mario Lavista. Dir. and Prof.
at the Escuela de Música of the Univ. of Guanajato, Mexico. Member of the
Sistema Nacional de Creadores.
Works: El Descendimiento según Rembrandt, large str orch (1991). Chamb,
voc, solo instr music.
Sources: DCMMC, GP

Montiel, Javier, Mexican composer and violist; b.1954, Mexico City. He

joined the Orq. Sinfonica Nacional in 1974 and completed studies at the
Cons. Nacional de Música in 1978. He was a founding member of the
Cuarteto Latinoamericano. He taught at the Univ. Autonoma de Puebla and
the Escuela Vida y Movimiento in Mexico City.
Works: Variations on Paganini’s 24 Caprice (1982); Viola Concerto (1996).
Sources: GP

Montiel Olvera, Armando, Mexican composer and pianist; b.14 Oct 1917,
San Juan Teotihuacán, Mexico; d.1984, Mexico City. He graduated in piano
(1940) and in composition (1941) from the Cons. Nacional de Música of
Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico, where studied with Manuel María Ponce,
José Rolón, Candelario Huízar, Joaquín Amparán, José Rocabruna, and
Luis G. Saloma. He took a master class with Claudio Arrau. Prof. of piano
at the Cons. Nacional de Música of Mexico.
Works: Semblanza morisca, pn, orch (1939); Concertino mexicano, pn,
orch (1943); Asombro, cantata, bar, ch, orch (1945); Conga, chamb orch
(1947); Dos movimientos sinfónicos (1950); Tienda de sueños, ballet
(1956). Org, chamb, pn, voc music.
Sources: ISC

Mora, Manuel, Mexican composer; b.1943.

Works: Un cielo grande y sin gente (1979).
Sources: GP

Moraga, Manuel E., Guatemalan composer and teacher; b.middle of 19th

century, Guatemala; d.beginning of 20th century, Guatemala City,
Guatemala.
Works: Te Deum, 4 voc; Religiosa, march; Una lágrima, funeral march;
Salve, solo tnr; Salve Regina, solo tnr. Waltzes, mazurkas, polkas, dances,
marches.
Sources: MMLA

Moral, Jorge del, Mexican composer and pianist; b.23 Dec 1900, Mexico
City; d.26 Oct 1941?
Works: Pierrot, str. Songs.
Sources: GP

Morales, Carlos O., Puerto Rican composer and guitarist; b.17 Jun 1953,
San Juan, Puerto Rico. He earned two Bachelor’s degrees, one in guitar and
the other in music education from the Cons. de Música of Puerto Rico. He
also studied at the Accademia Chigiana di Musica in Siena, Italy. He went
to California (1979) where he earned a Master’s degree in musical arts
(1981). Prof. of guitar at the Cons. de Música of Puerto Rico and of music
history at the Univ. Interamericana del Recinto Metropolitano in San Juan.
Works: Guanina, symp poem (1981); La campana del ingenio, symp poem
(1984). Chamb, gtr, solo instr, children’s voc, sacred music.
Sources: CPR

Morales, Lorenzo, Guatemalan composer; b.10 Aug 1833, Zacapa,

Guatemala; d.17 Oct 1896, Guatemala City, Guatemala. He studied music
with Francisco Isaac Sáenz. Prof. at the Cons. Nacional de Música, of
Guatemala City, and several private inst.
Works: Los solterones, zarzuela; Miserere; 5 overtures. Pn music.
Sources: MMLA

Morales, Melesio, Mexican composer and teacher; b.4 Dec 1838, Mexico
City, Mexico; d.12 May 1908, San Pedro de los Pinos, Mexico. He studied
music with Jesús Rivera, Agustín Caballero, Felipe Larios, Antonio Valle,
and Cenobio Paniagua; also studied composition in France, and with
Teddulo Mabellini in Florence, Italy. Prof. of composition at the Cons.
Nacional de Música of Mexico, Mexico City.
Works: Romeo y Julieta, opera (1863); Ildegonda, opera (1866); Dios salve
a la patria, hymn-Symph (1867); Il Fior de Miei Ricordi (1867); Il sospiro
d’amor (1867); Il Talamo (1867); Guard esa flor (1869); La hija del rey
(1876); Gino Corsini (1877); Coro para los chicos del Concervatorio
(1879); Cleopatra (1891); Carlomagno; El baile de los niños; El judío
errante; Marcha; Misa solemne. Orch, chamb, pn music.
Bibl.: I.M. Altamirano, Don Melesio Morales, El Renacimiento, Mexico,
1869. A. Herrera y Ogazón, El Arte Musical en México, Mexico, 1917. O.
Mayer-Serra, Panorama de la Música Mexicana, Fondo de Cultura,
Mexico, 1941. J. Romero, Melesio Morales, Revista Musical Mexicana,
Mexico, 1943.
Sources: BB, DM, GDM, GP, MLA, MMLA

Morales, Roberto, Mexican composer, flutist, and pianist; b.26 Mar 1958,
Mexico City, Mexico. He studied at the Escuela Superior de Música of
INBA, Mexico City, and at the Center for Computer Research in Music and
Acoustics, USA. He also studied in France with Jean-Ettiene Marie and
Jean Claude Eloy. Founding member of the group Alacrán del Cántaro and
co-founder of the Estudio de Música por Computadora of the Escuela
Superior de Música of INBA. Composer in residence at Yale Univ., New
Haven, CT, USA, and at McGill Univ., Montreal, Canada.
Works: Claus, orch (1995); Qué cantidad de noche, pn orch (1995).
Electroacoustic, computer, chamb, pn music.
Sources: DCMMC

Morales García, Marcial, Mexican composer and conductor; b.3 Jul 1910,
Tepatlaxco, State of Puebla, Mexico; d.23 Dec 1996, Tepatlaxco. Self-
taught in music. Teacher at the high school of Tetela de Ocampo, State of
Puebla. Conductor of the Banda Municipal de Música of Puebla.
Works: La favorita, vn (1933); Destello de grandeza, vn (1936); Siete de
mayo, vn (1941); Arte provinciano, 2 vn (1941); Fuerza del destino, vn
(1942); Estudiantina, tb (1945); Alma mexicana, cl, sax, tpt (1945). Band,
org, sacred music.
Sources: DCMMC

Morales Nieva, Ignacio, Puerto Rican composer, conductor, and music

critic of Spanish origin; b.18 Dec 1928, Valdepeñas (Ciudad Real) in the
region of La Mancha, Spain; 14 Oct 2005, Puerto Rico. He studied with
Enrique Masso, Joaquín Turina, and Conrado del Campo at the Cons. Real
de Música of Madrid, Spain and conducting at the Manhattan School of
Music of New York City, NY, USA. He moved to Puerto Rico (1954),
taught at the Univ. of Turabo, Puerto Rico, the Cons. de Música of Puerto
Rico and founded and conducted the Orq. de Cámara Padre Antonio Soler
(1978).
Works: La luz lejana, lyric drama (1957); El primer Angelus, cantata,
soloists orch (1958); Pilar María de los Dolores, lyric novel (1958); El
Dorado, lyric drama (1962); Maese Tomé, comic opera (1964); La dama
duende, suite, str (1966); El grito de Lares, str orch (1970); Música para
arcos, str orch (1970); Soltero setenta y dos, musical comedy (1971); 4
symphonies (1974, 1974, 1985, 1986); Concerto grosso, orch (1972); La
enamorada del rey, musical comedy (1972); La tragedia del Santo
Domingo, lyric drama (1976); Obertura al gusto teatral italiano, orch
(1978); Oda a Héctor Berlioz, symp poem (1980); Salmo XI, sop, orch
(1982); La maja y el dragón, overture (1983); Las Siete Palabras de
Nuestro Señor Jesucristo, cantata, orch (1984); Ebed Jahave, nar, orch
(1987); El espectro insaciable, lyric drama (1988); Reconquista, orch
(1988). Chamb, pn, org music.
Sources: CPR

Morales Pino, Pedro, Colombian composer; b.1862, Cartago, Dept. of

Valle del Cauca, Colombia; d.1926, Bogotá, Colombia. He studied with
Julio Quevedo Arvelo. He founded the chamber ensemble, La Lira
Colombiana, to promote Colombian music, in Colombia and abroad.
Works: Las cuatro preguntas, based on classic traditional rhythm bambuco;
Fantasía sobre motivos colombianos, orch.
Sources: MMLA

Morel Campos, Juan, Puerto Rican composer, organist, flutist, double-

bass player, conductor; b. 12 May 1857, Ponce, Puerto Rico; d. 12 May
1896, Ponce.
Works: Puerto Rico, Symph; Un día de elecciones, zarzuela; Un viaje por
América, zarzuela; Amor es triunfo, zarzuela; Overture; Marcha
procesional. Sacred music; waltzes; marches; mazurkas; polkas; over 200
Puerto Rican dances.
Sources: MMLA, MMPR

Morel (Morell) Guzmán, Antonio, Dominican composer; b.20 Dec 1920,

Tamboril, Peña, Dominican Republic. He studied with Federico Camejo and
Enrique Casal Chapí. Dir. of the Acad. de Música del Reformatorio
Presidente Trujillo in San Cristóbal, Dominican Republic.
Works: Sonata, str qt; Concerto, str. Dances in ancient style.
Sources: DM, MMLA

Moreno, Alberto, Ecuadorian composer, poet, and journalist; b.1889, Co-

tacachi, Ecuador; d.1980, Ecuador. He studied at the Cons. Nacional de
Música of Quito, Ecuador.
Works: Solar nativo, suite, orch.
Sources: EFCMP

Moreno Andrade, Segundo Luis, Ecuadorian composer and musicologist;

b.3 Aug 1882, Cotacachi, Imbabura, Ecuador; d.18 Nov 1972, Quito,
Ecuador. He studied at the Cons. Nacional de Música of Quito with
Domínico Brescia. Founder and Dir. of the Cons. de Música of Cuenca, and
Dir. of the Cons. de Música of Guayaquil, both in Ecuador. Organizer and
Dir. of the First Festival of Indigenous Dances, under a project of the Unión
Nacional de Periodistas.
Works: Preludio sinfónico (1910); Diez de agosto, overture; La coronación
(1918); La emancipación, cantata (1920); Nueve de Julio, overture (1925);
3 suites ecuatorianas, orch (1921, 1944, 1945). Songs, military band music.
Books: Música en el Ecuador, El Ecuador en Cien Años de Independencia,
Quito, 1930; Música y Danzas Autóctonas del Ecuador, Quito, 1949; La
Música de los Incas, Quito, 1957; Historia de la Música en el Ecuador,
Quito, 1972.
Bibl.: C. Sigmund, Segundo Luis Moreno: His Contributions in Ecuadorian
Musicology, Univ. of Minnesota, 1971.
Sources: BB, DM, GDM, MLA, MMLA

Moreno González, Juan Carlos, Paraguayan composer and pianist; b.9

Feb 1912/1916, Asunción, Paraguay; d.30 Jan 1982/3. Initially self-taught
in music, he went to São Paulo, Brazil (1938), to study piano and
composition. Dir. of the Cons. del Ateneo of Asunción.
Works: Vn concerto in G; Pn concerto in A ; Symph Suite on Folkloric
Themes; El amanecer, orch; Primavera, orch; Trio, pn, vn, vc; Str qt. Pn
music; guaranias; tangos.
Sources: DM, KTL, MLA, MMPA
Moreno Manzano, Salvador, Mexican composer, poet, and painter; b.3
Dec 1916, Orizaba, State of Veracruz, Mexico. He entered the Cons.
Nacional de Música of INBA, Mexico City, Mexico (1936) to study
solfeggio with Teodoro Campos Arce, harmony with José Rolón, piano
with Francisco Agea, and composition with Carlos Chávez. He also studied
composition in Barcelona, Spain, where he settled in 1955.
Works: Severino, opera (1961); children’s ch, voc music.
Books: Carnet Musical; Los Angeles Músicos.
Sources: DCMMC, GMM

Moreno Montes de Oca, Hilarión Domingo, Argentine composer, Marine,

and diplomat; b.11 Nov 1863, Buenos Aires; d.31 Aug 1931, Lisbon,
Portugal. He began studies in music theory as a child that were interrupted
by the death of his parents. His family compelled him to join the Argentine
navy and pursue a military career.
Works: El príncipe Luzbel, zarzuela (1894); Sulamita, operetta; waltzes.
Sources: EMA

Moretto, Nelly, Argentine composer; b.20 Sep 1925, Rosario, Prov. of

Santa Fe, Argentina; d.24 Nov 1978, Buenos Aires, Argentina. She studied
at the Cons. Nacional de Música Carlos López Buchardo of Buenos Aires
then continued at the Univ. of Illinois, Chicago, IL, USA, and in Buenos
Aires with Juan Carlos Paz. Member of the Agrupación Nueva Música.
Works: Hipocicloides No.1 (1953); Hipocicloides No.2, chamb orch (1954);
Trio, ob, vn, vc (1956); Composición No.7, fl, va, bass cl, gtr (1959);
Composición No.8, instr ens (1962); Composición No.9, 2 instr ens,
magnetic tape, dance, light show (1966); Collage y música para un
espectáculo de danza (1967); Coeri Battenti, str qt, magnetic tape (1968);
Composición No.13: In Memoriam Juan Carlos Paz, tape, tpt (1972);
Composición No.14: Bah! Le dije al tiempo, vn, tpt, pn, tape (1974-75).
Sources: CAMR, DMM, EMA

Morozowicz, Zbigniew Henrique (Henrique de Curitiba), Brazilian

composer and pianist; b.29 Aug 1934, Curitiba, Brazil. He studied music
with his father then entered the Escola de Música e Belas Artes of Paraná,
Brazil, to study piano with Renée Devrainne Franck, organ with Rodrigo
Hermann, and composition with George Kaszas and Bento Moçuranga. At
the Escola Livre de Música of São Paulo (1954-56) he studied piano with
Henry Jolles and composition with Hans Joachim Koellreutter then
continued piano in Warsaw, Poland (1960), with Margherita T. Kazuro. He
studied for a Master’s degree in composition at Ithaca College, New York,
NY, USA (1979-81) with Karel Husa. Taught at EMBAP and the Univ.
Federal of Paraná.
Works: Chamb, instr, ch, voc music.
Sources: EMB2

Moya, Patricia, Mexican composer; b.1947. She studied composition at the

Cons. Nacional de Música. She relocated to Paris, France.
Works: Idée fixe, str (1994); Amanecer en Xtabay (1997); Sobre el lago
(2000); Fl concerto (2003); Bajo el volcán (2006); Danza Mexicana, tpt, str
(2007); Máscaras, fl orch (2008); Suite no.1 (2009); El vibráfono ligero
(2009); Un paseo abstracto, luminoso y sonoro (2012).
Sources: GP

Mucillo, Luis, Argentine composer and pianist: b.1956, Rosario, Prov. of

Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied piano with Aldo Antognazzi and
Gerardo Gandini and composition with Jorge Rotter and Francisco Kröpl.
He also studied in Germany with Hans Ulrich Humpert at the Dept. of
Electronic Music of the Univ. of Cologne. Dir. of the Núcleo de Música
Contemporánea of Brasília, Brazil.
Works: Dos poemas chinos, voc, pn (1974); Dos poemas de Li Po, voc, pn
(1974); Composición, cl (1976); Música, winds, pn, perc (1976); Nocturno
V, chamb orch (1978); Sonetos de Petrarca, voc, instr ens (1978); Tres
preludios, harpsichord (1981); Impromptu in memoriam of Berg, fl, pic,
harpsichord, celesta (1985); Isla de cristal, electroacoustic (1982); Au delá
des Portes D’Ivoiré, electroacoustic (1984); Imágenes, harpsichord, orch
(1987).
Sources: CAMR

Muench, Gerhart, Mexican composer and pianist of German origin; b.23

Mar 1907, Dresden, Germany; d.9 Nov 1988, Tacámbaro, State of
Michoacán, Mexico. He studied piano with his father, a Prof. at the Dresden
Cons. He emigrated to the USA (1947) where he taught composition in Los
Angeles, CA, and in 1953 he settled in Mexico. Taught at the Univ.
Nacional of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico.
Works: Tumulus Veneris, opera (1950); Concerto da camara, pn, chamb
orch (1926); Capriccio variato, pn, orch (1940); Vocaciones, pn, chamb
orch (1951); Bsn concerto (1955); Muerte sin fin, orch (1957-59);
Concerto, pn, str (1957); Vn concerto (1960); Labyrinthus Orphei, orch
(1965-67); Oximora, orch (1967); ¿Auditor? (1968); Epitomae
Tacambarensiae, orch (1974); Vida sin fin, pn, orch (1976); Oposiciones,
pn, orch (1978-82); Sortilegios, orch (1979); Exaltación de la luz, sop, male
ch, orch (1981); Paysages du rêve, orch (1984). Chamb, sacred, ch, voc
music.
Sources: BB, DCMMC, GP

Mujica, José Tomás, Uruguayan composer of Spanish origin; b.10 Feb

1883, Prov. of Guipúzcoa, Spain; d.28 Feb 1963, Tacuarembó, Uruguay. He
studied in Tolosa with Felipe Gorriti and Eduardo Mocoroa. In Madrid,
Spain, he studied at the Real Cons. Later, he studied with E. Morera in
Barcelona, Spain, and with Paul Gilson in Brussels, Belgium. He settled in
Uruguay (1913). Dir. of the Cons. Municipal of Tacuarembó.
Works: Str qt; Tema con variaciones, vc; Concerto, fl, pn; Ayacucho, sym.
poem. Orch, voc, chamb music.
Sources: BHMCU, DMD, MU

Muñoz, José Luis, Venezuelan composer; b.1928, Caracas, Venezuela;

d.1982, Caracas. He started his music studies at the Internado de los Padres
Salesianos of Valencia, Venezuela, with Father Alterio. He entered the
Escuela Superior de Música of Caracas (1947) to study solfeggio and music
theory with Inocente Carreño, piano with Moisés Moleiro and Emma
Stopello, harmony with Primo Moschini, music history and aesthetics with
Juan Bautista Plaza, and composition with Vicente Emilio Sojo. Later, he
went to the USA for advanced music studies at the New School of Social
Research, New York, NY. He taught at the Escuela de Música Lino
Gallardo, at the Escuela de Música José Lorenzo Llamozas (later Dir.), and
Dir. of the Escuela de Música Pedro Nolasco Colón, all in Caracas.
President of the board of the Asociación Venezolana de Compositores and
member of the newly founded Inst. Latinoamericano de Investigaciones y
Estudios Musicales Vicente Emilio Sojo in Caracas.
Works: Preludio, orch (1959); Fantasía de bolsillo, orch (1964); Móbiles,
partitura aleatoria, orch (1967); Romanza sin palabras, pn; Estudio en
Jazz. Chamb, pn, voc music.
Sources: CTA14, EMV

Muñoz Sanz, Juan Pablo, Ecuadorian composer, violinist, pianist, and

music critic; b.13 Mar 1898, Quito, Ecuador; d.5 Aug 1964, Quito. He
began violin at age seven, piano at eleven. Dir. of the Cons. Nacional de
Música of Quito, and the Cons. de Música of Loja, Ecuador. Conductor of
the Orq. Sinfónica Nacional.
Works: Capillana, indigenous dance; Danza incaica; Himno del
Cincuentenario del Cons.; Serenata, pn (1946).
Sources: MG

Mussolino, Rodolfo Rubens, Argentine composer and physician; b.1917,

Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied with Constantino Gaito and Rafael
González. He graduated from the Escuela de Medicina of the Univ.
Nacional of Buenos Aires.
Works: El relato del arpa, pn; Romance de la niña mora, pn Arrullo, pn;
Balada del mar, pn.
Sources: EMA
 N
Nancarrow, Samuel Conlon, Mexican composer and trumpetist of
American origin; b.27 Oct 1912, Texarkana, AZ, USA; d.10 Aug 1997,
Mexico City, Mexico. He studied at the Cincinnati Cons. of Music,
Cincinnati, OH, USA, and in Boston, MA, USA, privately with Nicolas
Slonimsky, Walter Piston, and Roger Sessions. In 1940, he settled in
Mexico and, in 1955, he became a Mexican citizen. Honorary member of
the Academia Nacional de Artes of Mexico.
Works: Piece No.1, small orch (1943); Piece No.2, small orch (1985);
Study, orch (1991); Three Movements, chamb orch (1993). Over 50 studies
for mechanical piano. Chamb music, electroacoustic, computer music.
Sources: DCMMC, DMEH

Nandayapa Balda, Zeferino, Mexican marimbist and composer; b.26 Aug

1931, Chiapa de Corzo, Mexico; d.28 Dec 2010, Tlalnepantla de Baz,
Mexico. He studied marimba as a child under the direction of his father,
Norberto, a band director and marimba maker. He studied counterpoint and
composition at the Cons. Nacional de Música. His instructors included Blas
Galindo, María García Genda, Carlos Chávez, and Carlos Jiménez
Mabarak. In 1956, he formed and toured extensively with Marimba
Nandayapa, a popular marimba band dedicated to Mexican and Latin
American folk music. He included the works of Bach, Chopin, and Liszt in
his repertoire and worked with organizations including the Orq. Sinfónica
Nacional, the Orq. Filarmónica de la Ciudad de México, the Orq.
Filarmónica de UNAM, and the Banda de la Secretaría de Educación
Pública.
Works: Rapsodia Chiapas; Himno al cirujano; Cuidado con el ciclón;
Fidelidad; Los parachicos; El pañuelo rojo; La petrona; Feria de mayo;
Ferrocarril de los altos; Himno al 21 de octubre; 15 de mayo; Zocton
Mandalumi.
Sources: DMEH
Nannetti, Augusto, Argentine conductor, professor, and composer of
Italian origin; b.ca.1845, Italy; d.1910. He settled in Buenos Aires in 1859.
He composed many popular ballads and waltzes that would be included in
the sets of foreign singers performing at the Teatro Colón and at the Teatro
Ópera. He worked as a bandleader at the Teatro Colón in 1864. He was the
first president of the Sociedad Musical de Socorros Mutuos. He published a
collection of his works in Album Musical Bonarense (1874). His work as a
music editor in Buenos Aires included the publisher Lucca de Milán.
Works: Notturno, op.16, pn (1867); Numa Pompilio, opera (1882); Briol-
valzer, voc, orch; Ave María, voc, pn. Waltzes, mazurkas, polkas, songs.
Sources: DMEH

Naón, Luis, Argentine composer; b.1961, La Plata, Prov. of Buenos Aires,

Argentina. He studied at the Cons. Musical of the Univ. Nacional of La
Plata, and in Buenos Aires, with Roberto Caamaño. He moved to Paris,
France, where he studied with Guy Reibel, Laurent Cuniot, Daniel Teruggi,
Horacio Vaggione, and Sergio Ortega at the Cons. de Paris. He organized
his own instrumental and electroacoustic group and worked in the dept. of
electroacoustic music at the Cons. National de Musique of Paris.
Works: Cinco personajes en busca de un autor; Tango del desamparo.
Sources: DMM

Napoleäo [Napoleón] dos Santos, Alfredo, Argentine pianist and

composer of Portuguese origin; b.31 Jan 1852, Oporto, Portugal; d.23 Nov
1917, Oporto. He settled in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1870. In 1875, he
was appointed prof. at the Escuela Provincial de Música of the Prov. of
Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Works: 3 concertos, pn, orch; Obertura sinfónica, andante, y polonesa, pn,
orch; Sonata in G, pn; Gran sonata in C minor, pn.
Sources: EMA

Napoleäo dos Santos, Artur, Brazilian pianist, teacher, and composer of

Portuguese origin; b.6 Mar 1843, Porto, Portugal; d.12 May 1925, Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil. Outstanding pianist, accompanist of Henri Vieuxtemps and
Henryk Wieniawsky. In 1857, he came to Brazil for a series of concerts and
settled there in 1866.
Works: Camôes, band; L ‘africaine, pn; Hino do Acre; Hino do Espirito
Santo. Large number of pn pieces.
Sources: EMB2

Napolitano, Emilio Ángel, Argentine composer and violinist; b.12 Nov

1907, Buenos Aires, Argentina; d.1989, Buenos Aires. He studied violin
with Edmundo Weingand, piano with Arturo Luzzatti, harmony with Floro
M. Ugarte, counterpoint with José Gil, and fugue and instrumentation with
Constantino Gaito. Artistic dir. of the Teatro Colón of Buenos Aires in
1948. First violin at the orchestra of the Teatro Colón. Founder of the
quartet of the Sociedad Nacional de Música, today Asociación Argentina de
Compositores. Prof. of violin and chamber music at the Cons. Nacional de
Música Carlos López Buchardo of Buenos Aires.
Works: Apurimac, sympho-choreographic poem; Sonata, vn, pn (1936);
Suite argentina, str qt; Quartet, fl, cl, bsn, pn. Piano pieces; songs.
Sources: CA, DM, EMA, MLA, MMLA

Naranjo Caravajo, Jaime Efraín, Ecuadoran organist, composer, and

professor; b.1940, Ambato, Ecuador. He completed studies in music
education at the Organización de los Estados Americanos (1973) in
Argentina and music therapy at the Univ. de Chile (1979). In 1985 he
earned a Bachelor of Science in Education for his work, La música popular
ecuatoriana y su relación con la música popular argentina. He received the
Premio Carlos Gardel from the Argentine embassy and the Casa de la
Cultura Ecuatoriana. He has written texts on music education and a flute
method. Member of SAYCE.
Works: El cortado.
Sources: DMEH

Nascimento, Adelelmo Francisco do, Brazilian composer, conductor, and

violinist; b.1852, Feira de Santana, Bahia, Brazil; d.28 Feb 1898, Paris,
France. He started music studies with his father, José Francisco do
Nascimento. Later, he studied violin in Salvador, Brazil, with Rodrigo
Pereira, Eduardo Silva, Joaquim Torres, and Giuseppe Baccigaluppi.
Choirmaster at the Metropolitan Cathedral of the city of Salvador, Brazil.
Works: Missa a Nossa Senhora da Boa Esperança.
Bibl.: Compêndio de Música Elementar, Manus, Brazil, 1904; Noçôes de
Música, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1916.
Sources: EMB2, MMLA

Nascimento, Antônio da Costa, Brazilian composer, conductor, and

teacher; b.28 Dec 1837, Meia Ponte (today Pirenópolis), Brazil; d.15 Feb
1903, Meia Ponte. He studied with his brother, Father Francisco Inácio da
Luz. Mester de capela (chapelmaster) at the Church Nossa Senhora do
Rosário of Meia Ponte. In 1868, he founded the Banda Euterpe, which he
conducted until his death.
Works: Amor de pai, fantasia; Cabeleira; Concerto dos sapos; Hino
Estadual Goiano. Sacred music; music for the theater.
Sources: EMB2

Nascimento, Elviro do, Brazilian composer, conductor, pianist, bassist, and

teacher; b.12 Dec 1890, Uberaba, Minas Gerais, Brazil; d.3 Dec 1980, Belo
Horizonte, Minas Gerais. He began music studies in Uberaba, and
continued in Belo Horizonte with Hostilio Soares. He also studied harmony
with Francisco Nunes, and composition, counterpoint, fugue, and
orchestration with Antônio de Assis Republicano at the Cons. Mineiro de
Música of Minas Gerais. Conductor of the police band of Minas Gerais and
prof. at the Cons. Mineiro de Música.
Works: Iara, opera. No monte Alverne, cantata. Several overtures; 6
symphonies; sacred music.
Sources: EMB2, MMLA

Nasi, Mauricio, Colombian organist, harpist, and composer; b.2 Feb 1949,
Bogotá. He moved with his family to Europe and studied piano with Selika
Masé and harp with Maria Selmi Dongellini. In 1968 he moved to the USA
as a biology major at Arizona State Univ., where he studied harp with Nevil
Wittmayer. He performed in the Municipal Orchestra of Salisbury in South
Africa (formerly Rhodesia) between 1970 and 1971. He returned to
Colombia and graduated from the Univ. de los Andes with a degree in
biology in 1974 and from the Cons. de la Univ. Nacional with a degree in
music (1977). His music professors included Fabio González Zuleta,
Antonio Becerra, Marina Becerra, and Ana Rita Slazar. He was named
organist of the chapel in the city univ. in Bogota. He performed on harp and
celesta in the Orq. Sinfónica Juvenil de Colombia and on harp in the
Filarmónica de Bogotá.
Works: Variaciones multiconcertantes (1979); Berceuse no.3, str qt (1981);
Concierto, harp, organ, celesta, orch (1981); Réquiem, children’s voc, orch
(1981); Hosanna (1984); Salmo 117, ch (1985); Sinfonía no.1 (1986).
Sources: DMEH

Navarre Viscarra, Gustavo, Bolivian pianist and composer; b.17 Jul 1931,
La Paz, Bolivia; d.2006, La Paz. He started music lessons with his mother.
In 1947, he studied piano with Egon Carl Schilf. In 1948, he entered the
Cons. Nacional de Música in La Paz, where he studied piano with Mario
Estensoro and Alicia Eguino Justiniano, music theory and solfeggio with
Teófilo Molina, and harmony and counterpoint with Erich Eisner. In 1957,
he was appointed prof. of harmony, counterpoint, and composition at the
Cons. Nacional de Música in La Paz. In 1968, in a competition held in
Geneva, Switzerland, he received a scholarship to study music in Paris,
France; he studied orchestration, composition, and music analysis with
Henry Dutilleux, Marcel Mihalovici, and Pierre Petit. In 1970, he became
dir. of the same cons., a position held until 1974.
Works: Quinteto para arcos y piano; Violin sonata; 3 piano sonatas; Trio; 2
symphonies; 2 quartets.
Sources: CB, DMEH

Navarro, Antonio, Mexican composer; b.26 Mar 1958, Guadalajara, State

of Jalisco, Mexico. He started music studies at the Escuela de Música of the
Univ. of Guadalajara, and later, he attended the Taller de Composición of
CENIDIM, studying with Federico Ibarra. In 1978, he became a member of
Agrupación Sonido XX. Music critic for the newspapers El Informador, El
Occidental, and Seminario Diez, all in Guadalajara. Prof. at the Escuela de
Música of the Univ. of Guadalajara.
Works: Gráfico, str orch (1979); Concerto, orch (1982); Espejo de las
aguas (Cantata I), sop, tnr, nar, mixed ch, orch (1982); Concerto, pn, orch
(1989); Cantata de celebración para la Nueva Galicia (Cantata II), nar,
mixed ch, orch (1990); Las meditaciones de la Virgen (Cantata III), female
nar, male ch, orch (1991); Divertimento, orch (1996). Music for ballet;
electroacoustic and computer music; chamber music; music for solo
instruments.
Bibl.: Escritos y Ensayos Musicales, Univ. of Guadalajara, 1989; Blas
Galindo, Semblanza y Perfiles de un Compositor, Jalisco, 1990.
Sources: DCMMC, DMEH

Navarro, Juan, Mexican composer, chorus singer, and Franciscan priest of

Spanish origin; b.ca.1550, Cádiz, Spain; d.ca.1610, Mexico? He worked in
the Mexican prov. of Michoacán as a Franciscan priest, confessor, and
chorus singer.
Works: Liber in quo Quatuor Passiones Christi Domini Continentur; Octo
Lamentationes; Oratioque Hieremie Prophete.
Bibl.: G. Chase, Juan Navarro Hispalensis and Juan Navarro Gaditanus,
MQ, Vol.31, 1945. R. Stevenson, Music in Mexico, New York, 1952.
Sources: GDM

Navas, Marcos de, Colombian composer; b.18th century. Evidence of his

work resides in the archive of the Catedral de Santafé de Bogotá.
Documents there identify him as choirmaster.
Works: Missa primi toni, 2 voc (1700).
Sources: DMEH

Navas Quevado, Marcos de las, Guatemalan; fl. 1683-1730. He appears to

have come from Nicaragua at the request of Andrés de las Navas y
Quevado, Archbishop of Guatemala, to serve as chapel master for the
Catedral de Guatemala. His signed and attributed works are preserved in the
Archivo Histórico Arquidi-ocesano.
Works: Con tantas luces, 3 voc; Sonoro clarín, voc, continuo; Al Sansón
valeroso, 2 ch. Villancicos, religious works.
Sources: DMEH

Nazareth (Nazaré), Ernesto Júlio de, Brazilian composer and pianist; b.20
Mar 1863, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; d.4 Feb 1934, Rio de Janeiro. He started
to study piano with his mother, and then continued with Eduardo Madeira
and Lucien Lambert, but he was mainly a self-taught musician.
Works: More than 200 compositions: tangos brasileiros; polkas; waltzes;
marches; dances in the rhythms of samba and chôro.
Bibl.: M. de Andrade, Ernesto Nazareth, Estado de São Paulo, 1940. R.
Almeida, Historia da Música Brasileira, Rio de Janeiro, 1942. B. Itiberê,
Ernesto Nazareth na Música Brasileira, Boletín Latinoamericano de
Música, Vol.6, 1946.
Sources: BB, CTA10, EMB2, GDM, HMB, MLA, MMLA

Negrete Woolcock, Samuel, Chilean composer and teacher; b.18 Dec

1893, Santiago de Chile, Chile; d.1981, Santiago de Chile. He studied
music at the Cons. Nacional de Música of Santiago de Chile, where he later
became prof. and dir., 1944-46. He also studied architecture, and, at one
time, taught mathematics. Many of his works are preserved at the Univ. de
Chile.
Works: Escenas sinfónicas, orch (1933); La fiesta del camino, symph poem;
3 string quartets; Wind septet. Pn, ch, voc music.
Sources: DM, HMB, MLA, MMLA

Nepomuceno, Alberto, Brazilian composer, conductor, pianist, and

organist; b.6 Jul 1864, Fortaleza, Brazil; d.16 Oct 1920, Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil. He began to study music with his father, Vitor Nepomuceno in
Pernambuco, Brazil. Later, he went to Europe where he studied in Rome,
Italy, with Eugenio Terziani and De Sanctis at the Accademia di Musica
Santa Cecilia; in Berlin, Germany, he studied composition with Heinrich
von Herzogenberg, composition for the organ with Arne Kleffel, and piano
with Heinrich Ehrlich at the Akademische MeisterSchule; in Paris, France,
he studied organ with Alexandre Guilmant. In 1895, he returned to Brazil,
and in 1902, he was appointed dir. and prof. of organ at the Inst. Nacional
de Música in Rio de Janeiro.
Works: Prière, orch (1887); Rapsodie brésilienne, orch (1887); Porangaba,
opera (1887-89); Série brasileira, orch (1892); Scherzo vivace, orch (1893);
Sinfonía (1894); Electra, opera (1894); Artemis, opera (1898); Seis valsas
humorísticas, pn (1903); O Garatuja, prelude (1904); O Garatuja, opera
(1904); Romance e tarantella, vc (1908); Abul, opera (1913). Chamber
music; piano pieces; songs.
Bibl.: J.R. Barbosa, Alberto Nepomuceno, Revista Brasileira de Música,
Vol.7, 1940. L.H. Corrêa de Acevedo, 150 Anos de Música no Brasil (1800-
1950), Rio de Janeiro, 1956. G. Béhague, The Beginnings of Musical
Nationalism in Brazil, Detroit, 1971.
Sources: BB, CTA10, DM, EMB2, GDM, HMB, MLA, MMLA
Neuman del Castillo, Hans Federico (Johan Friedrich Neuman del
Castillo), Colombian teacher, conductor, pianist, poet, and composer; b.19
Dec 1917, Barranquilla, Colombia; d.5 Jan 1992, Barranquilla. He started
music studies with María Isabel Salcedo and Aurelio Vázquez Pedrero.
Later, he studied at the Escuela de Bellas Artes of Barranquilla with Pietro
Biava Ramponi. Dir. of the music dept. of the Escuela de Bellas Artes of
Barranquilla, later Cons. de Música Pedro Biava. Asst. conductor of the
Orq. Filarmónica of Barranquilla and conductor of the Coro Estudiantil of
the Univ. del Atlántico. Prof. of music history and music appreciation at the
Dept. de Música of the Univ. Nacional of Bogotá, Colombia.
Works: Sara Cecilia; Intermezzo, orch; Pasillo de concierto No.1, orch
Chamber music; music for piano; songs; choruses.
Bibl.: José Ignacio Perdomo Escobar, Historia de la Música en Colombia,
Bogotá 1980; Luis Carlos Rodríguez Alvarez, Hans Federico Neuman, Del
Piano y del Poema, Medellín 1994.
Sources: DMEH, LCRA

Neumane Marco, Antonio, Ecuadoran conductor, pianist, violinist, and

composer of Corsican birth; b.13 Jun 1818, Corsica; d.3 Mar 1871, Quito,
Ecuador. He studied music in Germany and graduated from the Cons. of
Milan at 16. In Vienna he attained fame composing and conducting for
Maria Malibran and was decorated by the emperor in 1837. He moved to
Guayaquil, Ecuador, in 1841 and began conducting orch. and choirs in the
opera. He was contracted as prof. of music for the Batallón no.1 in 1843.
He traveled to Lima and toured Europe as an impresario and conductor of
an opera company that would present works of Verdi and Donizetti at the
Teatro de la Victoria en Valpraiso, Chile, in the 1850-51 season before
taking on the final season of the Teatro de la Univ. de San Felipe and
earning a medal of honor from the Sociedad de Beneficiencia de Santiago
(1852). First Dir. of the Cons. Nacional de Quito (1870), a position he filled
until his death.
Works: Himno a Jésus, voc, harp, vc, org; Beatus vir; Himno nacional del
Ecuador; Himno porteño.
Sources: DM, DMEH, MLA

Nicastro, Oscar, Uruguayan composer, cellist, and critic; b.1894,

Montevideo; d.Jun 1971, Montevideo. He studied at the Cons. Real in
Naples and won an internship he declined in order not to lose his
citizenship. He was admitted to the Acad. Imperial of Berlin due to his
talents despite being under the required age and in 1913 won, by contest,
the Mendelssohn Prize and a position teaching cello there. He broadcasted
and recorded for SODRE and toured considerably before becoming cello
prof. at the Escuela Municipal and at the Cons. Nacional de Música de
Uruguay.
Works: Tema con 24 variaciones, vc, orch; Sonata quasi fantasia;
Preludios; Caprichos; Minués; Canción de cuna; Danza del Diablo.
Sources: DMEH

Nicuesa, Diego de, Cuban composer; b.1400s, Spain; d.1511, Cuba. A

Spanish explorer and conquistador, he gained a reputation as a composer of
villancicos.
Works: Villancicos, songs, ballads.
Sources: DMEH

Nieto, Antonio, Ecuadorian composer; b.1850, Quito; d.28 Nov 1922,

Quito. He studied music at the Cons. de Quito where he studied with
Antonio Neumane and Manuel Jurado. He worked as choirmaster, band dir.
and prof. of organ, piano, and cello in La Merced.
Works: 30 funeral marches, pasillos.
Sources: DMEH

Nieto Casabo, César, Costa Rican composer of Spanish origin; b.31 Oct
1892, Barcelona, Spain; d.1969, San José de Costa Rica. He settled in Costa
Rica in 1899, and became a Costa Rican citizen in 1936. Conductor of a
choral society in San José, Costa Rica.
Works: La piedra del Toxil, ballet. Salon music; waltzes; marches.
Sources: MLA

Nin Culmell, Joaquín María, Cuban composer and pianist of German

origin; b.5 Sep 1908, Berlin, Germany; d.14 Jan 2004, Berkeley, California.
Son of Joaquín Nin y Castellanos. He started his music education in
Barcelona, Spain, where he studied solfeggio with Conchita Badia, 1913-
14. In 1924, he went to Paris, France, where he studied at the Schola
Cantorum and at the Cons. National de Musique, piano with Paul Brand,
Alfred Cortot, and Ricardo Viñes, and composition with Paul Dukas. He
also took some lessons with Manuel de Falla in Granada, Spain. He settled
in the USA, and became an American citizen in 1951. Pianist at the Spanish
School of Middleburg, VT, prof. at Williams College of Williamstown, MA,
and the Univ. of California at Berkeley, CA, and visiting prof. at the
Association of American Colleges, all in the USA.
Works: Yerma, incidental music (1956); El burlador de Sevilla, ballet
(1957-65); La celestina, opera (1965-85); Le rêve de Cyrano, ballet (1978);
Cybelline, incidental music (1981); Homenaje a Falla, orch (1933-90);
Concerto, p (1946); Tres piezas antiguas españolas (1959-61); Diferencias
(1962); Concerto, vc or gtr (1962-63); Cantata del Padre Pradas, voc,
harpsichord, str (1965-66); Seis canciones populares Sefardíes, voc (1982).
Chamber music; piano pieces; songs; choruses.
Bibl.: The Music of Cuba, Washington, 1943; Latin American Composers
and the I.S.C.M., Music Between the Wars, Oxford Univ. Press.
Sources: BB, DCM, DM, DMEH, ISC, MMLA

Nin y Castellanos, Joaquín, Cuban musicologist, composer, teacher, and

pianist; b.29 Sep 1879, Havana, Cuba; d.24 Oct 1949, Havana. Father of
Joaquín María Nin Culmell. He studied music theory with Felipe Pedrell
and piano with Carlos Vidiella in Barcelona, Spain, and composition with
Vincent D ‘Indy and piano with Moritz Moszkowski, at the Schola
Cantorum in Paris, France. Honorary prof. at the Schola Cantorum and at
the New Univ. of Brussels, Belgium. From 1910-39, he gave concert tours
throughout Europe, North Africa, Cuba, and South America. In 1939, he
returned to Cuba and settled in Havana as a piano teacher at the Cons.
Superior de Música; he also organized a musical society and was the editor
of a musical bulletin.
Works: 20 Cantos populares españoles, voc, pn (1923); 16 Sonates
anciennes d’auteurs espagnols, p (1925); 7 Chants lyriques and 7 Chansons
picaresques espagnoles Anciennes, voc, pn (1926); Mensaje a Claude
Debussy, p (1929); 10 Noëls espagnols, voc, pn (1932); Canto de cuna para
los huérfanos de España, p (1939); 3 symphonies; Ballet; Mimodrama. Pn,
voc music.
Bibl.: Pro Arte, 1909; Idées et Commentaires, 1912.
Sources: BB, DMC, DMEH, ISC, MLA
Niño, Ricardo, Mexican composer; b.27 Jun 1967, Torreón, State of
Coahuila, Mexico. He studied at the Casa de la Cultura of Torreón with
Lucía Galindo, Guillermo Serna, Ricardo Martínez, and María Esther
Duarte de Treviño. Later, he entered the Univ. Autónoma of Nuevo León,
Mexico.
Works: Los siete pecados capitals, ballet (1992); Icarus, ballet (1994).
Chamb music, pn, solo instr, electroacoustic, computer music.
Sources: DCMMC

Niño Rivera, Andrés Echevarría Callava, Cuban composer and

performer; b.18 Apr 1919, Pinar del Río, Cuba; d.27 Jan 1996, Havana. He
came from an autodidactic musical family. At age 5, he played bongos in
his uncle’s sextet and learned to play congas. He performed in various
popular ensembles, toured extensively, recorded for RCA, and wrote a
method for tres.
Works: Tres concerto.
Sources: DMEH

Nirenberg, Henrique, Brazilian violinist, violist, conductor, teacher, and

composer of Polish origin; b.3 Mar 1909, Warsaw, Poland; d.9 Jul 1990,
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He studied music theory and violin in Warsaw.
When he settled in Brazil, he continued music studies at the Inst. Nacional
de Música of Rio de Janeiro, where he studied viola, chamber music,
harmony, counterpoint, fugue, orchestration, and conducting. Founder and
conductor of the Orq. de Cámara of Rio de Janeiro and Orq. de Cámara
Macabi. Prof. at EMUFRJ. Founding member of the Academia Brasileira
de Música.
Works: Rapsódia hebraica; Symphony (1987); Suite, str. 2 string quartets.
Sources: EMB2

Noble Olivares, Ramón, Mexican composer, organist, and chorus

conductor; b.25 Sep 1920, Pachuca, State of Hidalgo, Mexico; d.1999. He
studied at the Cons. Nacional de Música of INBA, Mexico City, Mexico,
with Blas Galindo, Luis Herrera de la Fuente, and Romano Picutti. Founder
and conductor of Coral Mexicano of INBA and the Coro del Patronato of
the Orq. Sinfónica Nacional of Mexico. Prof. at the Cons. Nacional de
Música of Querétaro, Mexico, where later he became vice-dir.
Works: Fantasía en La, gtr, str orch (1958); Concertino mexicano, gtr. and
str. orch (1964); Las posadas, mixed ch, orch; Ballet azteca; Ballet maya;
Ballet peruano; Misa yoruva. Large number of pieces for gtr and for org, ch
music.
Sources: DCMMC, DMEH, GP

Nobre de Almeida, Marlos, Brazilian composer, conductor, and pianist;

b.18 Feb 1939, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil. He studied piano and music
theory at the Cons. Pernambucano de Música, Pernambuco, 1948-59. In
1960, he went to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where he studied with Hans
Joachim Koellreutter, and later, he studied with Camargo Guarnieri at the
Cons. Dramático e Musical of São Paulo, Brazil, 1963-64, and with Alberto
Ginastera at the Centro Latinoamericano de Altos Estudios Musicales, of
the Inst. Di Tella in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1963-64. He took a course in
electronic music with Vladimir Ussachevsky at Columbia Univ., New York,
NY, USA, in 1969. Music dir. of the Orq. Sinfônica Nacional of Brazil,
1971-76, and of Radio MEC. First dir. of the Inst. Nacional de Música at
the Funarte, 1976-1979. Composer-in-residence at the Brahms-Haus in
Baden-Baden, Germany, 1980-81. President of the Academia Brasileira de
Música. Coordinator of contemporary music programs at Radio MEC.
President of the National Music Committee of UNESCO. General dir. of
Juventudes Musicales Brasileiras.
Works: Concertino, pn, str (1959); Ukrinmakrinkrin, sop, wind instr, pn
(1964); Divertimento, pn, orch (1965); Rhythmetron, 32 perc instr (1968);
Convergencias, orch (1968); Desafío I, va, str orch (1968); Desafío II, vc,
str orch (1968); Desafío III, vn, str orch (1968); Concerto breve, pn, orch
(1969); Ludus instrumental, chamb orch (1969); Mosáico, orch (1970);
Biósfera, str orch (1970); O canto multiplicado, voc, str orch (1972); In
memoriam, orch (1976); Concerto No. 1, str orch (1975-76); Desafío IV, cb,
str orch (1977); Desafío V, 6 vc (1977); Desafío VI, str orch (1979); Desafio
VII, pn, str orch (1980); Concerto No.2, str orch (1981); Cantata do
Chimborazo, soloists, ch, orch (1982); Abertura festiva, orch (1982);
Concerto, pn, str orch (1984); Quatro danças latinoamericanas, chamb orch
(1989); Concerto, tpt, str orch (1989); Concertante do imaginario, pn, str
orch (1989); Xingu, orch (1989); Columbus, soloists, ch, orch (1990); O
café, opera (1991); Cantata do café, soloists, ch, orch (1991); Sinfonía
No.1, orch (1992); Concerto, 2 gtr, str orch, tim, perc (1994); Saga Marista
(1997). Chamb music, pn, ch, voc music.
Bibl.: G. Béhague, Music in Latin America: An Introduction, New Jersey,
1979. D.P. Appleby, The Music in Brazil, Austin, Texas, 1983.
Sources: BB, CTA17, EMB2, GDM, ISC

Nobre Olivares, Ramón, Mexican composer and choral conductor; b.25

Sep 1920, Pachuca, Mexico; d.1999. He studied at the Cons. Nacional de
Música of Mexico, Mexico City, where later he became its dir.
Works: Orch, ch music gtr.
Sources: KTL

Nogueira, Ilza María Costa, Brazilian composer, musicologist, and

teacher; b.12 Dec 1948, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. She studied piano with
Fritz Pierre Klose and composition with Ernst Widmer at the Univ. Federal
da Bahia. In 1972, she received a fellowship from the German government
to study composition with Mauricio Kagel at the Rheinische Musikschule in
Cologne. She was appointed to teach music at the Univ. Federal of Paraíba,
Brazil, in 1977. From 1982-85, she studied for a Doctorate degree in
composition under Lejaren Hiller at the State Univ. of New York at Buffalo,
NY, USA, and in 1990, she was a post-doctoral fellow at Yale Univ., New
Haven, CT, USA, under the supervision of Janet Schmalfeldt. Member and
first president of the board of directors of ANPPOM.
Works: Metástase, ch, magnetic tape (1971); Idiossincrasia, 7 vn, ronda,
perc, magnetic tape, voc (sop, ch, with audience participation), and
synthesizer, requiring staging and dance (1972); Triloquia, vn, hn, bsn, pn,
perc, tape, pic, tpt, vc (1977); Cromossons, 3 orch prerecorded (1977);
Kaleidoscope, brass ensemble (1984); Transforms, sax qt, tape (1985);
Urtext, sop, baritone, woodwinds, str qt, perc (1985); In memoriam, sop
perc (1988). Voc, electroacoustic music.
Sources: EMB2, NGDWC, NW

Nogueira, Teodoro Ascendino, Brazilian composer and violinist; b.9 Oct

1913, Santa Rita do Passa Quatro, Brazil; d.2002. He studied violin in his
native town with João Belon, and later, in Araraquara, Brazil, he studied
solfeggio and violin with José Tescari. He completed his violin studies with
Torquato Amore, and also studied composition with Camargo Guarniei in
São Paulo, Brazil. Member of the Sociedade Brasileira de Música
Contemporãnea.
Works: 5 symphonies; 2 quartets; 12 valsas-choros; 10 serestas; 6
brasilianas; Concertino, str orch; Senzala, suite of dances; Missa de N.S. dos
Navegantes. Pn, voc music.
Sources: EMB2, HMB

Nolasco Colón, Pedro, Venezuelan composer and organist; b.at the end of
the 18th century, Carabobo, Venezuela; d.10 Sep 1813, Caracas, Venezuela.
He studied in Caracas with Ambrosio Carreño. Organist at the churches
Altamira and La Pastora, both in Caracas.
Works: La llorona; Qualis est, Motete a la Inmaculada Concepción; Llorad
mortales, pésame a la Virgen.
Sources: EMV, MMLA

Noriega, Guillermo, Mexican composer and pianist; b.29 Aug 1926,

Mexico City, Mexico. He studied with José Pomar at the Escuela Superior
de Música of INBA, Mexico City. He was awarded a scholarship to study
with Henry Cowell at Columbia Univ., New York, NY, USA, and with
Darius Milhaud in Aspen School of Music, Aspen, CO, USA. Prof. at the
Cons. Nacional de Música of INBA.
Works: Music for ballet; electroacoustic, computer music, pn music, chamb
music.
Sources: DCMMC, DMEH

Noriega de la Vega, Isaías, Mexican composer and pianist; b.20 Dec 1918,
San Luis Potosí, Mexico; d.3 Jul 1993, Puebla, Mexico. He studied at the
Cons. Nacional de Música of INBA, Mexico City, Mexico, and later,
studied with Rodolfo Halffter. Taught at the Cons. Nacional de Música of
INBA, at UNAM, Mexico City, and at Casa de la Cultura of Puebla.
Works: 3 symphonies (1966, 1968, 1078); Fantasía (1958); Concerto, str
(1958); Danzas concertantes (1960); Cantata heroica, sop, tnr, baritone,
nar, mixed ch (1962); Piano Concerto (1970); Elegía (1975); Homenaje a
Silvestre Revueltas (1976). Chamb music, pn, ch music.
Sources: DCMMC, DMEH

Nova Sondag, Jacqueline, Colombian composer of Belgian origin; b.6 Jan

1935, Ghent, Belgium; d.13 June 1975, Bogotá, Colombia. She studied with
Fabio González Zuleta, Luis Antonio Escobar, Olav Roots, and Blas Emilio
Atehortúa at the Facultad de Artes of the Univ. Nacional of Colombia, in
Bogotá. In 1967, she received a scholarship to attend the Inst. Torcuato Di
Tella in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she studied with Alberto Ginastera,
Luigi Nono, Francisco Kröpfl, Vladimir Ussachevsky, Roman Haubenstock
Ramati, F. von Reichenback, and Gerardo Gandini. She worked with
Francisco Kröpfl at the Laboratorio de Acústica, Estudio de Fonología
Musical in Buenos Aires. She formed the Agrupación Nueva Música in
Bogotá.
Works: Julius Caesar; Macbeth; Metamorfósis III (1966); Móviles 12, pn,
str (1967); Ensayos, str (1968); Segmentos, ob (1979). Chamb music,
electronic, pn, voc music.
Sources: DMEH, IBCC, IEW, NGDWC

Noya, Francisco, Venezuelan composer and conductor; b.14 Jan 1955,

Caracas. He began studies at the Escuela de Música Sebastián Echeverría
Lozano de Valencia, Venezuela. He continued at the Cons. de Aragua with
Rose Marie Sader and Hariet Serr. At the Inst. de Fonología de Caracas he
studied electroacoustic music with Raúl Delgado Estévez, and composition
and instrumentation with Antonio Estévez and Eduardo Jaramillo. He was
arranger and assistant with the Coral Infantil de Valencia and founded the
Orq. Nacional Juvenil. He earned a BM (1979) and MA at Boston Univ.,
and worked as asst. dir. of the Boston Youth Symph. Orch. (1980) and the
Greater Boston Youth Orch. (1982). He attended classes at Berkshire Music
Center with Seiji Ozawa, Erick Leinsdoref, and Leonard Bernstein (1982-
83) and returned to Venezuela in 1985 to teach harmony at the Cons. de
Música de Caracas and work as advisor for the Opus program at
Venezolana de Televisión and invited conductor for the Orq. Sinfónica
Municipal de Caracas. He studied in Vienna at the J. Kalmar studio, where
he conducted the Pro-Arte Orch. Music Dir. at the Longwood Symph. Orch.
(1993-2004) and the Empire State Youth Orch. (1991-2002). Resident
conductor for the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orch., member of the
conducting and composition faculty at the Berklee College of Music, and
Dir. of the Berklee Contemporary Symph. Orch..
Works: Genfoo; Twisted, film music; Parallel Lives, film music.
Sources: DMEH
Nunes, Francisco, Brazilian composer, conductor, clarinetist, and teacher;
b.14 May 1875, Diamante, Minas Gerais, Brazil; d.20 Aug 1934, Belo
Horizonte, Minas Gerais. He studied first with his father, Francisco Nunes
Neto Leão, and later, at the Inst. Nacional de Música of Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil, where he became prof. of clarinet. Founder and dir. of the Cons. de
Música of Minas Gerais. He was one of the organizers of the Sociedade de
Conciertos Sinfônicos and one of the conductors of its orchestras
Works: Preludio, coral, y fuga, orch; Grande marcha sinfônica; Grande
valsa de concerto; Melodia sinfónica; Polonaise; music for the play Bodas
de Lía.
Sources: EMB2, MMLA

Nunes, João Sebastião Rodrigues, Brazilian composer, pianist, teacher,

and music critic; b.20 Jan 1877, São Luís, Maranhão, Brazil; d.18 Aug
1951, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He studied piano with Artur Napoleão, and
later, with Alfredo Bevilacqua at the Inst. Nacional de Música in Rio de
Janeiro. With a scholarship from the State of Maranhão, he went to study in
Europe for two years. When he returned to Brazil he founded the Escola de
Música of Maranhão. Prof. at ENMUB. Music critic at the newspapers O
Globo, Diário Carioca, and O Jornal.
Works: Cinq pièces drôles; Caixinha de música; La Vie des abeilles; Les
harmonies de la cathédrale; As peças infantis; Os tres meninos; Parque de
diversôes.
Sources: EMB2, MMLA

Nunes García, José Mauricio, Brazilian composer, organist, and teacher;

b.22 Sep 1767, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; d.18 Apr 1830, Rio de Janeiro. He
started his music education with his mother and an aunt. Later, he studied
music theory with a local teacher, Salvador José, and also philosophy,
languages, and theology. He was ordained a priest in 1792. He played in
bands and orchestras, and also performed as a singer. Choirmaster at the old
Cathedral of Rio de Janeiro, today Church of the Rosario.
Works: Religious music: Missa en Si bemol (1801); Missa de defuntos
(1809); Tantum Ergo; Missa de Requiem (1816). Masses; graduals;
sequences; offertories; funeral music; music for Holy Week; matins;
Vespers; antiphons; hymns; litanies; novenas; motets; canticles; psalms.
Secular music: Le due gemmelle, opera; Sinfonía fúnebre (1790); Zemira,
overture (1803); Ulisséia (1809); O triunfo da América (1809); Sinfonía
tempestade. Ch, chamb music, pn, voc music.
Sources: DM, EMB2, GDM

Núñez, Enrique, Argentine guitarist and composer; b.1945, Argentina. He

studied guitar with Graciela Pomponio, harmony with Jorge Martínez
Zárate, and composition with Emilio Dublanc at the Inst. Superior de
Música at the Univ. Nacional del Litoral.
Works: Tango, op.7, gtr. Gtr music.
Sources: DMEH

Núñez, Francisco, Mexican composer and pianist; b.14 Feb 1945, La

Piedad, State of Michoacán, Mexico. He studied at the Cons. Nacional de
Música of INBA, Mexico City, Mexico, and at the Taller de Composición
Carlos Chávez. Later, he took classes with Karlheinz Stockhausen, Jean-
Etienne Marie, and Gyorgy Ligeti. Dir. of the Escuela Superior de Música
of INBA and founder of the Laboratorio de Electroacústica of the Escuela
Superior de Música of INBA. Member of the Sistema Nacional de
Creadores since 1993.
Works: Sinfonía mozartiana (1965); Obertura romántica (1966); Sinfonía
en cuatro movimientos (1966); Microformas, timp, organ, perc, str (1971);
Timbres, pn (1973); Puntos y rayas, str (1975); Claroscuro (1976);
Contemplaciones (1977); Concerto (1978); La piedra y la rosa (1982);
Presencias, sop or tnr (1982); Incitaciones y remembranzas (1984);
Mutaciones, str (1985); No vendrán los años, sop (1992); Plegarias para
los cuerpos, sop (1992); Tamara “Perfil de luces” (1992); Aroms de lluvia
(1994); Tardes de fuego (1995); Cantinela (1998); Otoño de girasoles
(1998); Payal ch’ob (1998-2003); Perenne Peregrinar (2006); Variaciones
sobre una Pirekua (2006); Salterio concerto (2007); Luz y noche.
Electroacoustic, computer, chamb, pn, voc music.
Sources: DCMMC, GP

Núñez, Juan Carlos, Venezuelan composer and conductor; b.19 Sep 1947,
Caracas, Venezuela. He started music studies at age 6 with Sergio Moreira.
At age 11, he entered the Escuela de Música José Angel Lamas, where he
studied piano with Moisés Moleiro, and other subjects with Inocente
Carreño and Evencio Castellanos. He received a scholarship to study
conducting with Stanislaw Wislocki at the National Cons. of Warsaw,
Poland.
Works: Toccata sinfónica, orch (1973); Alejo Carpenter 1930, orch (1975);
Organ concerto, orch (1976); Ritos solares, orch (1976); Salmo popular y
doliente, orch (1978); Más música del hombre en otra historia, orch (1978);
Chúo Gil, opera (1982-90); Tango a Cortázar, orch (1984); Cello Concerto
(1985); Doña Bárbara, opera (1986); Doble concierto, fl, vn (1986);
Réquiem a la memoria de D. Simón Bolívar (1986); Casablanca concierto
(1987); Poeta en Nueva York (1991); Tres cuadros de Anita Pantin; El
arbol de Chernobyl (1992); Troie tzigane, vn (1993); Tríptico a José María
Vargas. Choruses; jazz; incidental music for the theater and films.
Sources: DMEH, EMV

Núñez Allauca, Alejandro, Peruvian accordionist and composer; b.18 Apr

1943, Moquegua, Peru. At age 9, he performed on accordion on the radio in
Cerro de Pasco. Beginning in 1955, he studied music theory with Manuel
Cabrera Guerra in Lima. He subsequently studied cello in the National
Cons. of Music and at the Inst. Torcuato di Tella in Buenos Aires with
Francisco Kröpfl, Gabriel Brncic, and Gerardo Gandini. He concertized in
the USA between 1972 and 1983. He relocated to Milan, Italy, in 1987 and
established a reputation in Europe. His style ranged from tonality to
pointillistic atonalism and later embraced neo-Baroque decoration, neo-
Romantic elements, and Andean characteristics.
Works: Suite Koribeni, orch; Fisuras, 2 fl; Salmo 100, ch; Trío para
vientos, fl, ob, bsn; Salmo 100, 8 soloists; Gravitación humana, magnetic
tape; El alba, ch (1965); Diferenciales I y II, pn (1967); Variables, 6 instr,
magnetic tape (1967); String Quartet No.1 (1970); Concierto, orch (1970);
Moto ornamentale e perpetuo, pn (1970); Sinfonía ornamental (1972);
Ornamenti, Op.3, 3 fl, pn (1973-7); Invention I, II, III and IV orch (1978);
Ornamentos, pn (1979); Movimiento ornamental, gtr (1980); Concierto
ornamental, orch (1981); Cuarteto peruano (1981); Huatyacuri, ballet
(1982); Cantata Bolívar, soloists, ch, orch (1983); Rapsodia y Serenata,
harp (1988); Aleluya del Alba, tnr, mixed ch, orch (1989); Wiesbaden
Konzert, pn, orch; Sonrisa de Jesús (1995); El Hijo del Sol (1997); Flor de
Nieve, 2 singers orch (1997); Missa Andina, soloists, ch, org, orch (1997–
98); Omaggio a Piazzolla (1998); Canción del alma (1999, orchestrated
2003); La montaña de Luz, 2 singers, orch (1998); Koribeni, solo gtr.
Sources: NMLA

Núñez Lacret, Leopoldina, Cuban guitarist, composer, and teacher; b.10

Nov 1916, Havana; d.2 Aug 2001, Havana. At 5, her family moved to
Santiago de Cuba, where they hosted regular literary and musical
gatherings. She studied piano with the hermanas Ibarra before returning to
Havana at 12 to study at the Cons. Municipal de Música de Habana. She
studied singing with Zoila Gálvez, Tina Farelli, and Arturo Bovi. In 1929
she commenced guitar studies with Clara Romero and Roberto de Moya,
and studied guitar and harmony with Vicente “Guyún” González Rubiera.
Notably, when de Moya emigrated from Cuba, she took over his studio at
age 14. She taught at various other colleges and participated successfully in
international competitions. She founded the Taller Musical Infantil in the
Teatro Estudio de Raquel Revuelta y Vicente Revuelta and wrote a theory
book for guitar, Breve tratado de armonía aplicada a la guitarra (1979)
Works: Canción a lo cotidiano; Era tarde para amar; Había rosas; Tu
recuerdo me pregunta si te olvidé; Qué triste es tu tristeza; Te perdiste en el
mar; Por estas cosas de la vida.
Sources: DMEH

Núñez Montes, Francisco, Mexican composer, conductor, and pianist; b.14

Feb 1945, La Piedad, Michoacán. He began musical studies at age 5 and
participated in a children’s choir. At 8, he began studying piano, organ, and
Gregorian Chant with Santiago Cendejas and Gonzalo Gutiérrez. He
became choral dir. at Uruapan in 1960. He continued piano, organ, and
composition studies at the Cons. de Las Rosas in Morelia, where Gerhart
Muench was one of his teachers. In 1963, he entered UNAM to study piano
with Carlos Vázquez, organ with Jesús Estrada, and composition with Juan
D. Tercero and Pedro Michaca. He also studied composition with Carlos
Chávez at the Cons. Nacional de Música. His conducting teachers included
Francisco Savín, Ernst Huber, Contwig, and Léon Barzin. He participated in
classes and workshops on electronic music with Jean-Étienne Marie,
Andrés Levin Richter, Krisztof Penderecki, György Ligeti, Karlheinz
Stockhausen, and Pierre Schaeffer. He created the Sistema de Educación
Musical Sensibilidad, Iniciación, y Apprendizage Musical y Artistico with
Susana Herner in 1970. Dir. of the Escuela Superior de Música del Inst.
Nacional de Bellas Artes (1977-83). He is responsible for the first
Laboratorio de Música por Computadora en México (1987) and for the
Laboratorio de Electroacústica de la Escuela Superior de Música (1980).
Member of the Computer Music Association since 1990. Founder and
president of the Sociedad Mexicana de Música Nueva (1992-1993).
Works: Sinfonía mozartiana (1965); Obertura romantic (1966); Sinfonía en
4 movimientos (1966); Reforma, symph poem (1972); Timbres, pn, orch
(1975); Claroscuro, orch (1976); Contemplaciones, orch (1977); Concierto
para orquesta (1979); La piedra y la rosa, sop, orch (1982); Presencias,
sop, orch (1982); No vendrán los años, sop, orch (1992); Plegaria para los
cuerpos, sop, orch (1992); Tardes de fuego, orch (1995); Otoño de girasoles
(1988). Voc, chamb, pn music.
Sources: DMEH

Nuñez Navarrete, Pedro, Chilean composer and pedagogue; b.3 Aug

1906, Constitución, Prov. of Maule, Chile; d.5 Jan 1989, Santiago. He
studied music theory and solfeggio with Ferruccio Pizzi, history of music
with Domingo Santa Cruz, piano with Norman Fraser, Juan Reyes, and
Rosita Renard, conducting with Armando Carvajal, and harmony,
counterpoint, fugue, and composition with Humberto Allende at the Cons.
Nacional de Música of Santiago de Chile, Chile. Prof. at various schools in
Santiago de Chile. Together with a group of young musicians, he founded
the Sociedad Chilena de Música in 1942, and was its first president.
Works: String quartet (1939); Adoremus, motet (1939); Sinfonía de los
Andes (1941); Quartet, vc (1942); El poeta Jacob, cantata, tnr, orch (1962);
Los guanayes, orch (1968); Wind Quintet (1969). Pn, voc music.
Sources: DM, DMEH, HMC, MMLA

Núñez Rivera, Gonzalo, Puerto Rican pianist and composer; b.12 Aug
1850, Bayamón, Puerto Rico; d.1 Oct 1915, New York City. A pioneering
musical modernist in Puerto Rico, he became the first Puerto Rican pianist
of repute and forged a union between poetry and music and was well-
respected by figures such as Rubén Darío and Amado Nervo. He studied
piano with Juan Cabrizas. In 1872, he entered the Paris Cons. An 1877 New
York debut and world tour preceded his invitation to be a private music
teacher for Mexican president Porfirio Diaz’s family. He returned to Puerto
Rico in 1893 and performed critically acclaimed recitals throughout the
island before traveling back to New York and entering the Manhattan
School of Music. Having acquired an international reputation, he would
ultimately retire to Manhattan.
Works: Lorelei; Papillón; La mariposa; La gaviota; El angelus; Dulce
sueño; String Quartet; Chamb music.
Sources: DMEH

Nuñez Romberg, José Gabriel, Venezuelan composer and band conductor;

b.7 Jul 1834, Maturín, Venezuela; d.1918, Cumaná, Venezuela. He studied
flute, piano, harmony, and organ in Trinidad, and later, he studied
counterpoint and composition in Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela. He lived and
taught in Bogotá, Colombia, until 1863, when he returned to Venezuela. He
taught in Carúpano and Maturín, both in Venezuela.
Works: Canto de un proscripto, zarzuela; Fantasía, fl, pn; Oficio de
difuntos.
Bibl.: Teoría de la Música al Alcance de Todos, Cumaná, before 1863; La
Música al Alcance de Todos, Cumaná, before 1863.
Sources: DMEH, EMV, MMLA

Nunó Roca, Jaime, Mexican composer of Spanish origin; b.8 Sep 1824,
San Juan de las Abadesas, Catalonia, Spain; d.18 Jul 1908, Buffalo, NY,
USA. He studied music in Barcelona, gained recognition as a soloist at the
cathedral in that city, and earned a scholarship to study with Saverio
Mercandante in Italy. He directed the Queen’s Regimental Band in
Barcelona (1851) and traveled to Cuba. Mexican President Antonio López
de Santa Anna invited him to lead the military bands in Mexico in 1853. He
won the 1854 national anthem competition penning music to words by
Francisco González Bocanegra. Upon Santa Anna’s overthrow, Nunó
emigrated to the USA to work as a conductor and opera dir. and finally as a
journalist in New York. Mexican President Porfirio Díaz invited him to
return. Nunó received a variety of awards between 1901-04. After his death,
Mexican authorities had his remains exhumed and interred in the Rotunda
de los Hombres Ilustres in Mexico City.
Works: Mexican National Anthem.
Sources: DM, GP, IEW, MLA, MMLA
 O
Ochando, Tomás, Mexican composer probably of Spanish origin; fl. 18th
century, Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico. In his writing, the 19th century
Spanish composer and musicologist Baltisar Saldoni refers to a “D.
Ochando” published in Madrid in 1799. In 1934, Gabriel Saldívar appears
to have provided the first list of Ochando’s works in the cathedral archives.
Ochando’s works are preserved in cathedrals in Mexico and Puebla and at
the Cons. de las Rosas in Morelia.
Works: Invitatorio de difuntos; Lauda Sion Salvatorem, 8 voc, orch; Misa a
4 con violins y clarines, 4 voc, vn, cl, continuo; Misa de difuntos, 8 voc, vn,
hn continuo; Misa de requiem (1757); Misa en Re mayor, 4 voc; Miserere, 4
voc; Parce mihi Domine, sop, vn,fl, hn, bs.
Sources: DMEH

Ochoa, Miguel Thadeo de, Mexican organist and composer; d.1760,

Puebla (?), Mexico. In 1720 he took the post of second organist at the
Catedral de Puebla and in July 1722 became Organista Mayor with the
death of Luis de Bomborón. In 1734 he was appointed rector of the Colegio
de Infantes in Puebla. He may have been one of the organists invited to
Mexico to play the new organ constructed by José Navarre. His corpus of
works resides in the Colección Sánchez Garza in CENIDIM and were from
the convent de la Santísma Trinidad de Puebla. Most of his works are
written for the female voice.
Works: A los influjos (1744); Bellos jilguerillos (1754); O vos omnes
(1751); Ríndanse los afectos; Tota pulchra es María; Vamo flacico en buen
ola (1740).
Sources: DMEH

Ochoa Cárdenas, Héctor, Colombian composer; b.24 Jul 1934, Medellín.

He first studied piano and guitar with his father, Eusebio Ochoa. He
founded and directed the Trío de Oro. He also worked in jazz groups and
recorded with Sonolux records. During the 1960s he worked in banking but
upon retirement returned to music. He worked as an advocate for
composers’ rights and became active in various cultural organizations. The
majority of his work comprises songs in the traditional local Andean style.
Works: Estrelita, orch; Fiesta del maíz, orch. Songs.
Sources: DMEH

Odero, Florencio Joseph Waldetrudis, Cuban composer and critic;

b.1872, Havana; d.1943? By age 7 he was composing small pieces for piano
and traveled to France to study music. His first comic opera came at age 20.
He was fond of setting texts by the poets Charles Baudelaire, Paul Verlaine,
and Jean Richepin.
Works: Los dos filósofos, comic opera (1892); Poème des Leures, vn, vc,
pn, nar, ch.
Sources: DMEH

Odgers, Alejandra, Mexican composer; b.1968. She studied composition

and oboe at the Escuela Nacional de Música, where she earned a
baccalaureate degree. She completed her master’s and doctoral degrees at
the Univ. de Montréal. Her teachers included Francisco Viesca, Mario
Lavista, Arturo Márquez, Paul Barker, José Evangelista, Alan Belkin, and
Jean-Jacques Nattiez. She became a resident of Canada and joined the
faculty of the Univ. de Montréal.
Works: Trajín (1999, rev.2003); Au’ka (2000); Drok Newodrow (2003);
Yoania (2003-04); Icnocuícatl, ch, orch (2004); Moemi, marimba, orch
(2005-07); Toni alossan (2007); Clarone, bcl, orch (2004-05).
Sources: GP

Ogando, Eduardo, Argentine composer; b.1933, La Plata, Prov. of Buenos

Aires, Argentina. He studied piano with Rafael González, and then,
composition with Gilardo Gilardi, and conducting with Mariano Drago at
the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes of the Univ. Nacional of La Plata. In
1954, he settled in Rome, Italy, where he worked with Goffredo Petrassi
and Guido Turchi. In 1964, he began expanding to electroacoustic
composition.
Works: Concertino, pn, orch; Oda, bar on a text by Ronsard; Variaciones,
orch (1953); Concerto, vn, orch; Líricas de Safo.
Sources: DMEH, EMA
Ohlsen Vázquez, Óscar, Chilean guitarist, lutenist, and composer; b.27
Jun 1944, Ancud, Chiloé, Chile. He studied guitar with Edmundo Vásquez,
Luis López, and Liliana Pérez and lute with Robert Spencer and Diana
Poulton. Prof. of guitar at the Inst. de Música at Pontificia Univ. Católica de
Chile. He authored Aspectos técnicos esenciales en la ejecución del laud
(1992) and La música barroca: un Nuevo enfoque (1993). In 1994 with
Eduardo Figueroa, he formed a duet to perform and record Baroque
repertory from Latin American composers. In contrast, he also performed
and recorded many Latin American guitar works from the latter half of the
20th century.
Works: Arrangements of Baroque duets.
Sources: DMEH

Ojangurren Lejarreturi, Justo, Cuban composer organist, pianist,

conductor, and professor of Spanish origin; b.5 Aug 1890, Durango,
Vizcaya; d.1 Apr 1968, Matanzas, Cuba. He studied organ with José Guridi
in Bilbao and moved to Cuba in 1920.
Works: Himno a Nuestro Señor Jesucristo; Himno a la Virgen de la
Caridad del Cobre; Ave María, op.1; Ave María, op.2; Oh, María; Divino
cazador; Jagua Libertad, soloists, mixed ch, orch.
Sources: DMEH

Ojeda, Juan Ramón, Venezuelan composer, choral and band conductor,

and teacher; b.27 Jan 1959, Caucagua, Miranda, Venezuela. He studied with
Víctor Sosa, and later, continued his music studies at the Escuela de Música
Pedro Nolasco Colón in Caracas.
Works: Misa folklórica barloventeña; Misa criolla venezolana; Misa
juvenil; Himno del Municipio Acevedo; Himno a Monseñor Boza (1983);
Himno del Colegio La Encarnación (1985). Religious music; children’s
songs.
Sources: EMV

Ojeda Álvarez, Mariano, Peruvian composer; b.1853, Cusco; d.1940,

Cusco. He studied music with Francisco Nieto and entered the San Antonio
Abad de Cusco seminary but did not enter the priesthood. He played organ
in his town cathedral and taught at the monasteries of Santa Clara, Santa
Catalina, and Santa Teresa. He collected popular tunes.
Works: Himno a la Exposición (1897); Tota pulchra, ch, pn/org; Te vi
señora (1985).
Sources: DMEH

Ojeda Campana, Roberto, Peruvian composer; b.1 Jul 1895, Cusco; d.6
Oct 1983, Cusco. He studied music with his father before entering the Univ.
Nacional de San Antonio Abad to study violin. He served as dir. of the
Missíon Peruana de Arte Incaica and as musical dir. of Centro Qospo de
Arte Nativo. He was appointed to the Orden de las Palmas Magisteriales
and named Hijo Ilustre de Cusco. He collected dances, huaynos, and
yaravís, many of which he orchestrated.
Works: Apu gigante; Manco II; Micaela Bastidos; Osccollo; Tres cantos a
Túpac. Songs, dances, huaynos.
Sources: DMEH

Olaizola, Carlos, Venezuelan teacher and composer; b.7 Sep 1926,

Caracas, Venezuela. In 1948, he started to study music at the Escuela de
Música José Angel Lamas in Caracas, solfeggio with Pedro Antonio
Ramos, and piano with Pablo Manelsky and Miguel Angel Espinel. In
1952, he entered the Cons. National Superieur de Musique in Paris, France,
where he studied solfeggio, harmony, and composition with Ivon Desportes,
harmony with Henry Challein, and counterpoint and fugue with Noël
Gallon. He also studied composition with Renato Parodi and Giacomo
Saponaro in Naples, Italy. In 1958, he returned to Venezuela starting a
career as a music teacher in several schools of the Ministerio de Educación
of Venezuela.
Works: Movimiento sinfónico, orch; Himno bolivariano, ch, band. Chamb,
pn, voc music.
Sources: EMV

Olaya, José, Mexican composer and performer; b.21 Oct 1922, Mexico
City. He studied music at the Cons. Nacional de México with José Rolón
and played violin in a number of chamber ensembles and orch.
Works: Vals no.1, pn (1945); String Quartet no.1 (1950); Tres valses para
tres guitarras (1986); Uno Danielito, voc, pn (1991); Un año más, voc, pn
(1992)
Sources: DMEH
Olazábal, Tirso de, Argentine composer; b.24 May 1924, Buenos Aires,
Argentina; d.5 May 1960, Buenos Aires. He studied at the Cons. Nacional
de Música Carlos López Buchardo of Buenos Aires, with Lita Spena, Athos
Palma, Oreste Castronuovo, and Jorge de Lalewicz. In 1951, he received a
scholarship to study in France with Arthur Honegger, Roland Manuel, and
Pierre Fournier. In 1957, he received a scholarship from the British Council
to study in London, England, with Matyas Seiber, Lennox Berkeley, and
Norman del Mar. Prof. at the Cons. of the Prov. of Buenos Aires, Argentina,
where he taught acoustics, and at the Cons. Superior de Música Manuel de
Falla of Buenos Aires.
Works: Trio, cl, vc, pn (1946); Scherzo, 9 instr (1946); Dos canciones
castellanas, on poems by Garcilaso de la Vega, sop or org, str (1946);
Sonata, 5 wind instr (1948); Divertimento No.1, fl, ob, cl (1953);
Introducción y tema variado, cl, pn, str qt (1954); Divertimento No.2, ob,
cl, bsn (1955); Bayaceto, music for the stage (1958); Macbeth, music for
the stage (1959). Pn, vocal music.
Sources: DMEH, EMA, ISC

Olea Nader, Óscar Humberto, Mexican composer and guitarist; b.11 Nov
1953, Mexico City, Mexico. He studied guitar at the Estudio de Arte
Guitarrístico, 1970-71, and composition at the Escuela Nacional de Música
of UNAM, 1972-76, the Cons. Nacional de Música of INBA, 1976-77, and
the Taller de Composición of CENIDIM, 1978-79, all in Mexico City. Some
of his teachers were Manuel Henríquez and Federico Ibarra. Music
programmer in Radio Educación, 1975-76. Prof. of music at Casa de
Cultura of Tuxtepec, Mexico, 1979. Prof. of composition at the Escuela de
Bellas Artes of the Univ. Autónoma and at the Casa de Cultura, both in
Oaxaca, Mexico, 1979-84. Prof. of composition at the Cons. Nacional de
Música of Mexico City, 1985-94.
Works: Deneb, str (1978); La unión de Marte y Venus, str (1980); Canopus
(1983); Cástor y Pollux (1983); Teopiscalco (1990). Chamb, pn, voc, ch,
solo instr music.
Sources: DCMMC, DMEH, ISC

Oliva, Julio César, Mexican composer and guitarist; b.16 Jan 1947,
Mexico City, Mexico. He started to study guitar with his father, and later, he
entered the Escuela Superior de Música and the Cons. Nacional de Música,
both of INBA, Mexico City. He wrote a method for the guitar. In 1970, he
presented the first guitarist to present a complete Bach program in Mexico.
Works: Pedro Páramo y el Llano en llamas; Tres instantes de amor; La
lejanía de los perfumes; Sonata de la muerte; Sonata de amor; Tres cuadros
mágicos; Suite Montebello; Imágenes de Paracho.
Sources: DCMMC, DMEH

Oliva, Roberto Luis, Argentine composer and pianist; b.11 Jul 1959, San
Juan, Argentina. He studied piano at the school of music in San Juan y
Mendoza. He studied composition with Luis Jorge González Fernández and
Jorge Fontenla. He formed several bands dedicated to jazz and rock and the
experience influenced his corpus of works. His music also employed
minimalistic, aleatoric, and polyrhythmic elements.
Works: Príncipe sin capa, pn (1981); Canción de cuna para un niño
primitive (1984); Alfonsin Against, fl, ob, bsn (1987); Anacoreta de ciudad,
orch (1987); El regreso de Sarmiento, pn synth (1987); Música estática
para octeto de cuerdas, 4 vn, 2 va, 2 vc (1989); Clarinet for Variations
(1989); Siete piezas para piano (1989); Solo flute theme (1989).
Sources: DMEH

Oliva Oliva, Mateo, Mexican composer; b.1947; d.15 May 2014, Xalapa,
Veracruz, Mexico. He studied with Eduardo Hernández Moncada, José
Pablo Moncayo, Juan José Vera, Imre Hartmann, and Francisco Savín at the
Cons. Nacional de Música in Mexico City. He joined the Orq. Sinfónica de
Xalapa as a trumpeter. He founded the Coro de la Escuela Normal
Veracruzana (1967), the Orq. Versalles, the Orq. Univ. de Música Popular
(1974), and the Orq. Sinfónica Juvenil del Estado de Veracruz (originally
Camerata Juvenil).
Works: Mosaico nacional.
Sources: GP

Olivares, Carlos Alberto, Argentine composer and conductor; b.11 Aug

1890, Tigre, Prov. of Buenos Aires, Argentina; d.11 Jul 1972, Buenos Aires.
He studied cello at the Cons. Williams of Buenos Aires. In 1911, he
received a scholarship to attend the Schola Cantorum of Paris, France,
where he studied cello with Francois Dressen, harmony with León Saint-
Requier, chamber music with Louis de Serres, and composition with
Vincent d’Indy. In Germany, he studied conducting with Arthur Nikish. One
of the founders of the Orq. Filarmónica of Tucumán, Prov. of Tucumán,
Argentina, in 1929, which he conducted for several years. In 1934, he
founded and conducted the orchestra of the Asociación Argentina de
Conciertos of Buenos Aires. Prof. of artistic culture at the Colegio Nacional
of Buenos Aires and at the Univ. Nacional of Buenos Aires.
Works: Sinfonía en Mi bemol, orch; Primera suite argentina, orch; Segunda
suite argentina, orch; 2 string quartets; Serie argentina, pn, vn, vc; Sonata,
vc, pn; Impromptu, pn; Elegía, vc, pn; Tríptico; Cuatro canciones, ten, pn;
Elegia, vc.
Sources: DM, DMEH, EMA

Olivares, Francisco José, Ecuadorian-born Spanish composer and

organist; b.17 Nov 1778, Rubielos Bajos, Cuenca; d.2 Sep 1854,
Salamanca. He joined the Colegio San José children’s choir of the Catedral
de Cuenca in 1788 and studied with Pedro Aranaz and Juan Manuel del
Barrio. He served as an organist in the cathedral until he moved to
Salamanca in 1803 to take the role as primary organist and rector of the
children’s school there. He collaborated with Aranaz on Tratado de
composición.
Works: Alepht, Alepht, ten, vn, va, fl, hn, bs (1790); Ecce panis, 5 voc, v,
ob, hn, org, bs (1794-96); Adeste cives, 5 voc, vn, hn, ob, org, bs (1795).
Masses, motets, hymns, villancicos.
Sources: DMEH

Olivares, Juan Manuel, Venezuelan composer, violinist, organist, pianist,

and teacher; b.12 Apr 1760, Caracas, Venezuela; d.1 May 1797, El Valle,
Venezuela. Nothing is known about his musical education. He belonged to a
group of artists that followed Padre Sojo. One of the first Venezuelan
musicians of the colonial period.
Works: Sacred music for the Cathedral of Caracas. Most of his works have
been destroyed. Masses; Lessons of the Dead; Lamentations for Good
Friday; Miserere; Salve; Stabat Mater; villancicos.
Bibl.: R. de la Plaza, Ensayos sobre el Arte en Venezuela, Caracas, 1883.
J.B. Plaza, Music in Caracas during the Colonial Period (1770-1811), The
Musical Quarterly, New York, 1943. C.F. Duarte, Los Olivares en la
Cultura de Venezuela, Caracas, 1967.
Sources: DMEH, EMV, GDM, MMLA

Oliveira, Alda de Jesús, Brazilian composer and teacher; b.3 Mar 1945,
Bahia, Brazil. She studied at the Univ. Federal of Bahia from which she
received two BA degrees, one in performance in 1968, and the other in
music education in 1971. She also received a MA degree from Tufts Univ.,
Medford, MA, USA, in 1979, under the auspices of Thomas Jefferson
Anderson, and a Ph.D. in music education from the Univ. of Texas at
Austin, TX, USA, in 1986, under the supervision of Judith Jellison. In
1992, she became head of the Escola de Música of the Univ. Federal da
Bahia.
Works: Songs for Music Initiation (1967); Quartet, recorders, 3 porcelain
plates (1969); O foguete, ens, children’s ch (1969); Tubala, ens (1970);
Fundo do mar, functional music for children’s play (1972); Acento no
assento, ballet (1979); Boneco de cêra, ch (1980); In memoriam, small ens
(1989); Tecendo a manhã, ens (1990); Capoeira, ch (1996); Báfrica, pn
(1998); Dança das Princesas, voc, pn; SAMU, voc, mixed ch (2011). Pn,
voc music.
Sources: NWC

Oliveira, Elvira, Peruvian composer; fl. 19th century. Little is known about
her life aside from a performance of her work in 1875 in Lima.
Works: Navegacíon, 4-hand pn (c.1875).
Sources: DMEH

Oliveira, Idalba “Babi” Leite de, Brazilian pianist and composer of

Salvadoran birth; b.23 Dec 1908, Bahia, Salvador; d.16 Jan 1993, Rio de
Janeiro. She studied piano at the Inst. de Música de Salvador. Her teachers
included Luiza Barbosa and Silvio Deolindo Fróes. She established a career
as a pianist and began composing while still in El Salvador. She moved to
Rio de Janeiro in 1940 and furthered composition studies with Batista
Siqueira, Assis Republicano, and Maximiliano Hellmann. She studied
folklore and harmony with Frei Pedro Sinzig at the Convento de Santo
Antônio, and folklore with Renato Almeida. Her songs were performed by
many artists, and she enjoyed a career in radio and television. She taught
folklore at the Univ. do Brasil in the 1970s.
Works: Caboclo amazonese, pn; A estrela do ceu, voc, vn, pn; Anda a roda,
voc; Cantigia para nani, voc; Rio enamorado, Trovas, voc.
Sources: IEW

Oliveira, Jailton Teixeira de, Brazilian composer and violist; b.5 Sep
1968, Medina, Minas Gerais, Brazil. He started to study music at UFMG,
from 1990-93. He graduated in composition from UNICAMP. He also
studied music perception and piano, 1989-90, and harmony and
counterpoint, 1990-91, at the Fundação de Educação Artística in Belo
Horizonte, Brazil. Prof. of music theory and piano at the Parish São Benito
of Campinas, of counterpoint at the Dept. de Música of the Inst. de Artes of
UNICAMP, of violin at the Escola de Música Almeida Prado of Jacareí,
São Paulo, Brazil, and of viola at the Escola Livre de Música Fábio
Marasca of Rio Claro, São Paulo.
Works: Concerto, vn (1994); Soneto No.1 and Soneto No.2 (1995); Tarde
brasileira, str (1995); Soneto No.3 (1996); Claressência, str (1996);
Translussência (1996); Interudes, pn (1999); Mare Serentatis (2002).
Chamb, pn, voc music.
Sources: ISC

Oliveira, Jamary de, Brazilian composer and teacher; b.21 Mar 1944,
Saúde, Bahia, Brazil. He studied composition with Ernst Widmer, as well as
flute, viola, and tuba at the Univ. Federal of Bahia. He studied composition
at Brandeis Univ. (MA, 1979) and Univ. of Texas Austin (Ph.D., 1986).
Member of the Grupo Experimental de Percusión and founding member of
the Grupo de Compositores of Bahia. Prof. of literature, music theory, and
composition at the Univ. of Bahia. Member of the Academia Brasileira de
Música. In 1991, he chaired the Associação de Pesquisa e Pós-Graduação
em Música (ANPPOM) and in 1994 he was elected a member of the Acad.
Brasileira de Música.
Works: Ponteio, str (1963); O sertão (1964); Grocerto (1967); Preambulu
(1968); Quatro Poemas Opus Nada, voc, pn (1968); Tonal-a-tonal (1969);
Delta, ch (1971); Pseudópodes (1971); Ludus, 2 sop, alt, 2 ten, bs (1973);
String Quartet (1978); Chamber Music, fl, cl, hn, pf (1979); Poema, mixed
ch (1980); Variações Variadas, pn (1980); Simetrias, cl, pn (1982); Piano
Piece (1984); Reminiscências, vn, pn (1985); Pseudópodes II, orch (1985);
Mesmamúsica, pn (1988); Estudo Polirrítmico Mixolídio, pn (1996); Estudo
Ilusório, gtr (1999); Très Brincadeiras, cl, pn (1999); Mutação I and
Mutação II (2002) – Eletronic music. Chamb, voc, pn, sacred music.
Bibl.: Informática en Música: O Parámetro Altura, UFBA, 1955. L.
Biriotti, El Grupo de Compositores de Bahia, Montevideo, 1971.
Sources: EMB2, GDM

Oliveira, Jocy de, Brazilian composer and pianist; b.11 Apr 1936, Curitiba,
Paraná, Brazil. She studied with José Kliass in São Paulo, Brazil, from
1946-53. From 1953-60, she lived in Paris, France, where she took lessons
from Marguerite Long. In 1968, she received a Master’s degree in music
from Washington Univ. in Saint Louis, MO, USA, where, from 1963-68,
her husband Eleazar de Carvalho was the conductor of the Saint Louis
Symph. Orch. While at the univ. she studied composition with Robert
Wykes. Asst. prof. at the Univ. of South Florida in Tampa, FL, USA. In
1977, she taught at the New Music School in New York City, NY, USA.
One of founders of the Academia Paulista de Música, São Paulo.
Works: Estória II, voc, perc, tape (1967); Polinteraçôes I, II, and III
(1970); Dimensôes, amplified pn, amplified harpsichord, electric org,
electric pn (1976); Wave Song, pn, tape (1977); Estória IV, voc, electric vn,
bs, perc (1978); Música no espaço, multimedia (1982); Fata Morgana,
opera (1987); Liturgia Thurs Espago (1988); Inori à prostitute Sagrada
(1993); Illud Tempus (1994); Canto e Raga (1995); Cenas de una Trilogia
(1999); As Malibran (1999-2000); Medea, Profecia e Balada (2003); Kseni
Estrangeira-A (2003-2005).
Sources: DMEH, EMB, EMB2, HMB, NGDWC, NWC

Oliveira, Manuel Dias de, Brazilian composer and conductor; b.ca.1734,

São José dei Rei (today Tiradentes); d.1813, São José dei Rei. He worked at
the Irmandade de São Miguel e Almas, the Irmandade de Nossa Senhora da
Piedade, the Irmandade de Nossa Senhora das Mercês, and at the Irmandade
dos Brancos, do Senhor dos Passos, do Santíssimo Sacramento, e do Bom
Jesús.
Works: Large number of sacred compositions.
Sources: EMB2

Oliveira, Sophie Marcondes de Mello, Brazilian pianist, musicologist,

teacher, and composer; b.23 Aug 1897, Guaratingueta, Brazil; d.16 Dec
1980, São Paulo, Brazil. She studied piano with Victoria Pinto Serva
Pimenta at the Escola Luigi Chiafarelli in São Paulo, and harmony,
counterpoint, and composition with Arthur Pereira.
Works: Chamb, pn, voc music.
Sources: IEW

Oliveira, Valdemar de, Brazilian composer, pianist, teacher, and

musicologist; b.2 May 1900, Recife, Brazil; d.18 Apr 1977, Recife. He
started to study piano with Olímpia Braga, and continued later with
Euclides Fonseca and Angéline Radévèse. He studied medicine at the Univ.
of Bahía, Brazil, writing a thesis on music therapy in 1923; in 1929, he
studied jurisprudence and social sciences at the Faculdade de Direito of the
Univ. of Recife. Music critic for Diário da Bahia and Jornal do Comércio,
and dir. of the journals Cultura Musical and Contrapontoi. President of the
Sociedade de Cultura Musical of Pernambuco, Brazil. Member of the
Academia Brasileira de Música.
Works: Berenice, operetta (1925); Aves de arribação, operetta (1926); A
rosa vermelha, operetta (1927); A madrinha dos cadetes, operetta (1932);
Lindamor, operetta (1935). Pn, voc music.
Sources: EMB2

Oliveira, Willy Corrêa de, Brazilian composer and teacher; b.11 Feb 1938,
Recife, Brazil. He began music study with teachers in his native town, and
later, studied music theory and composition in São Paulo, Brazil, with
Olivier Toni. With a scholarship from the Brazilian and German
governments, he went to Germany to study at the Darmstadt summer
courses with Pierre Boulez, Hans Werner Henze, Hermann Hiss, and
Karlheinz Stockhausen. He continued with Luciano Berio and Henri
Pousseur. Prof. at the Cons. Lavignac of Santos, Brazil, and at the Dept. de
Música da Escola de Comunicaçôes e Artes of the Univ.of São Paulo.
Works: Preludio e fuga (1959); Ouviver a música, pn, str (1965);
Divertimento (1967); Signus (1968); Adagio (1973). Pn, ch, voc music.
Sources: DCM, EMB2, GDM, HMB

Olivera Silva, Pío Wenceslao, Peruvian guitarist and composer; b.1847,

Cusco; d. 1904. He studied at the Univ. San Antonio Abad in Cusco. He
gained a reputation as a guitarist and his compositional work rests largely in
this area.
Works: Manchaypuito, yaraví; Encanto, gtr; La viudita, polka, gtr; Wayna.
Sources: DMEH

Olivera Vidal, José Manuel, Peruvian composer and promoter; b.1901,

Cusco; d.? He worked as a music promoter in Cusco, dir. for the Asociación
Orq. Cusco, and was a founding professor at the Acad. Regional de Música
Leandro Alviña.
Works: Capricho incaico, ch; Canción al Cusco.
Sources: DMEH

Olmedo, Rafael, El Salvadoran violinist and composer; b.12 Mar 1837,

San José Guayabal; d.24 Jun 1899? At 10, he entered the school of music
under José Escolástico Andrino in San Salvador. That same year he
presented his first violin recital, which was well received. He became
choirmaster at the Catedral de San Salvador, a position he held until 1859
when he moved to the Suchioto parish in Cuscatlán in the same capacity.
He subsequently worked at churches in Cojutepeque, San José Guayabal,
Santa Tecla, amongst others.
Works: Misa al Sagrado Corazón de Jésus (1890). 12 Gloria masses,
requiems, Ave Marías, chamb music.
Sources: DMEH

Olmedo y Lama, María Guadalupe, Mexican composer; b.1853, Toluca,

Mexico; d.1925. She studied piano as an accomplished dilettante and soon
took up composition by studying treatises by François-Joseph Fétis and
Hector Berlioz, among others. She took exams at the Cons. Nacional de
Música and won most high honors. She is reputed to have written the first
formal string quartet in Mexico.
Works: Luz, op. 1, pn; Illustrazione, Op.2 (on motives from Meyerbeer’s
Ugonoti); Ildegonda, op.5 (paraphrase on Melesio by Morales); Taci mio
cor, op.7, alt or ten, pn; Quartetto Studio Classico, op.14, str qt; Luisa,
op.15, orch; Segunda Reverie, op.28, pn.
Sources: DMEH, GP

Olmos Molina, Néstor, Bolivian educator and composer; b.26 Jan 1926,
La Paz. He studied music theory, piano, and harmony at the Escuela Normal
de Maestros in Sucre (1942-46). He subsequently continued studies in
harmony, counterpoint, and orchestration at the Cons. Nacional de La Paz
with Erich Eisner, Leonard Atherton, and Gerald Brown. His works
combine folkloric and nationalistic elements with advanced orchestral
techniques.
Works: Altiplánica, orch; Bolivia, orch; Fantasía paceña, orch; Tarija,
orch; Tonadinas chapacas, orch; Variaciones sinfónicas; Niño indio, ch.
Chamb, pn music.
Sources: DMEH

Olvera, Rafael, Mexican composer; b.22 Nov 1959, Huauchinango,

Puebla. He studied at the Escuela Nacional de Música of México with
Filiberto Ramírez, Federico Ibarra Groth, and Francisco Martínez Galnares.
He received a grant from CENIDIM to study composition at Brigham
Young (1992), where he completed his MM in composition and worked as
an Asst. Prof. He founded the Anat K’ay chorus and directed the Taller de
Ópera at the Escuela Nacional de Música at UNAM.
Works: El cuarto rey mago, opera (1985); Eterna vida, orch (1986);
Jesucristo en América, bar, organ, orch (1986); Dos himnos, ch (1987); La
creación, (1988); Two Great and Sore Battles, ballet (1989); Vocalise, ch
(1989); Once canciones, voc, pn (1989). Chamb, piano music.
Sources: DCMMC, DMEH

Oquendo Silva, Victor Hugo, Ecuadorian guitarist and composer; b.18

Aug 1929, Quito. Touted as the “Paganini of the Guitar” he taught himself
the fundamentals of music before studying with Alirio Díaz and Antonio
Lauro. He was performing on guitar in major theaters throughout Latin
America by 17 and in 1957 won the Gran Premio Panamericano de
Compositores. For many years his career was based in Rome.
Works: Gtr music.
Sources: DMEH

Orbe, Gabriel del, Dominican violinist and composer; b.18 Mar 1888,
Moca; d.5 May 1966, La Vega. He studied violin first with his father. At 7
he performed in Santiago, a child prodigy. At 10 he concertized throughout
Latin America. He received a scholarship from the Dominican government
to study in Europe and entered the Leipzig Cons. and performed in Vienna
and in Germany and completed studies at the Hochschule für Musik, where
he studied with Henry Mathot.
Works: Treinta canciones, sop, pn; Berceuse, vn, pn; Danza tropical, vn,
pn; Erótica, vn, pn; Leyenda, vn, pn; Tres danzas españolas, vn, pn.
Studies, pn music.
Sources: DMEH

Orbón de Soto, Julián, Cuban composer of Spanish origin; b.7 Aug 1925,
BB (1926, DM), Avilés, Spain; d.20 May 1991, Miami Beach, FL, USA. He
studied music in his native city and at the Cons. Musical of Oviedo, Spain,
with his father, Benjamín Orbón, and with Oscar Lorié. He settled in Cuba
at the end of the Spanish Civil War, and there he studied composition,
music aesthetics, and music history with José Ardévol. He completed his
music studies with Aaron Copland at the Berkshire Music Center in
Tanglewood, MA, USA, in 1946. Member of the Grupo de Renovación
Musical, 1942-49. Dir. of his father’s Cons. Orbón in Havana, Cuba, 1946-
60. Music critic for the newspaper Alerta. After the Cuban revolution of
1959, he went to Mexico and taught at the Cons. Nacional de Música of
Mexico City, 1960-63. In 1964, he settled in New York City, NY, USA.
Works: Cantar a Nuestra Señora, on a poem by Fray Luis de León (1943);
Capricho concertante, chamb orch (1943); Pregón, on a poem by Nicolás
Guillen, vn, fl, ob, bsn, hn, pn, (1943); Romance de Fontefrida, 4 mixed
voc (1944); Symphony in C, orch (1945); Danzas sinfónicas, orch (1955);
Concerto grosso, orch (1958); Oficios de tres días, ch, orch (1970); Partita
No.4, pn, orch (1983). Chamb, pn, ch, voc music.
Sources: BB, CTA6, DCM, DM, DMEH, MLA, MMLA

Ordóñez, Rafael, Mexican composer; b.1888; d.1950. Little is written

about him outside references to his march for the centenary of the 1810
revolution.
Works: 1810, Marcha triunfal (ca.1910).
Sources: GP

Ordóñez González, Aurelio, Ecuadorian pianist, composer, and conductor;

b.May 1896, Cuenca; d.ca.1984, Quito. He studied at the Escuela de los
Hermanos Cristianos and the Colegio Benigno Malo. He studied medicine
in Quito and piano and composition with Mario de la Torre. He pursued
postgraduate studies in Germany with Egon Pollak, Karl Rauscher, and Fr.
Abendroth.
Works: Misa en honor a Nuestra Señora de la Paz, org ch (1960). Pasillos.
Sources: DMEH

Orejón y Aparicio, José de, Peruvian composer and organist; b.1706,

Huacho, Peru; d.between 7 and 21 May 1765, Lima, Peru. He studied music
with Tomás de Torrejón y Velasco, and organ with Juan de Peralta, both of
the Cathedral of Lima. He received a Licentiate degree from the Univ. of
San Marcos in Lima. He was appointed choirmaster at the Cathedral of
Lima in 1760, while continuing as organist.
Works: Masses; motets; hymns; litanies.
Bibl.: R. Stevenson, The Music of Peru, Washington, 1960. A. Sas, Notas
sobre José de Orejón y Aparicio, Músico Peruano del Siglo XVIII, Revista
Peruana de Cultura, Vol.5, 1965. R. Stevenson, Renaissance and Baroque
Musical Sources in the Americas, Washington, 1970.
Sources: ADBM, DMEH, GDM

Orellana, Gilberto, Sr., Salvadoran composer and teacher; b.17 Mar 1920,
Santa Ana. He studied music with Felix Canizales and Guillermo Canizales
and with John Donald Robb in the USA. First Salvadoran composer to
employ serialism. He taught harmony and composition at the Centro
Nacional de Artes de San Salvador.
Works: Enmanuel I; Psicosis; Santo y grande amor; Sinfonía para cuerdas;
Transición.
Sources: DMEH

Orellana Castro, Andrés Gilberto, Jr., Salvadoran composer; b.12 Dec

1938, Santa Ana. He studied at the Cons. Nacional de Música de San
Salvador with Cecilio Orellana, Juan Francisco Amaya, Esteban Servellon,
and Alejandro Muñoz. He earned baccalaureate and master’s degrees at the
Univ. of New Mexico. Dir. of the Orq. Sinfónica de El Salvador (1974-85).
He taught violin at and directed the Orq. Sinfónica Juvenil of the Centro
Nacional de Artes de San Salvador.
Works: La Gran Cruz del Sur (1969); Amatepec, ballet (1977); Alabanzas,
4 voc, orch; Salmo 150, 4 voc, orch; Sinfonía Pipil.
Sources: DMEH
Orellana Mejía, Joaquín, Guatemalan composer, violinist, and writer; b.5
Nov 1937, Guatemala City, Guatemala. He studied violin with Carlos
Ciudad Real and composition with Franz Ippisch, José Castañeda, and
Augusto Ardenois at the Cons. Nacional de Guatemala. He studied at the
Inst. Torcuato di Tella in Buenos Aires (1967-69) on scholarship with
Alberto Ginastera, Gerardo Gandini, and Francisco Kröpfl. He worked as
violinist for the Orq. Sinfónica Nacional de Guatemala and founded and
directed the Grupo de Experimentación Musical. He worked at the
Dirección General de Bellas Artes and taught at the Cons. Nacional de
Guatemala.
Works: El jardín encantado (1958); Contrastes, ballet, orch, tape (1963);
Un extraño personaje (1964); Metéora, tape (1968); Humanofonía, orch,
tape (1971); Violín Sideral, vn, pn (1972); Imposible a la X (Imágenes de
una historia en redondo) (1980); Híbrido a presión (1982); Evocación
profunda y traslaciones de una marimba, marimba, ch, 5 fl, nar, tape
(1984); Canción de Imbervalt, vn, pn (1984); El violín valsante, vn, pn
(1984); Ramajes de una marimba imaginaria (1990); Cerros de Ilóm
(1992); Sacratávica (1998); La tumba del Gran Lengua (2001).
Sources: DMEH

Orozco Alemán, Keyla María, Cuban composer and pianist; b.22 Sep
1969, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba. She studied piano with Esteban Salas at the
Cons. de Música of Santiago de Cuba, and with Ileana Bautista at the
Escuela Nacional de Música of Havana, Cuba. In 1988, she studied
composition with Harold Gramatges.
Works: Baroque Concerto, symph variations on a theme by Corelli (1991);
Southern Chant, cl, str orch (1992); Violin Concerto (1993). Chamb, pn, ch
music.
Sources: ISC

Orrego Salas, Juan Antonio, Chilean composer; b.18 Jan 1919, Santiago
de Chile, Chile. He studied with Alberto Spikin, Julio Z. Guerra, Humberto
Allende, Armando Carvajal, and Domingo Santa Cruz at the Cons.
Nacional de Música of Santiago de Chile, 1936-43. With grants from the
Rockefeller and Guggenheim Foundations, he went to the USA and
attended classes in musicology with Paul Henry Lang and George Herzog at
Columbia Univ. in New York, NY, 1944-45. Later, he studied composition
with Randall Thompson at Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ, 1945-46, and
with Aaron Copland at Tangle-wood, MA, in 1946. In 1953, he received a
diploma as Profesor Extraordinario de Composición from the Univ. of
Chile, and was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor Scientiae by the
Univ. Católica of Chile in 1971, both in Santiago de Chile. From 1942 to
1961, he taught at the Univ. of Chile. In 1961, he was appointed prof. of
composition and Latin American music history and dir. of the Latin
American Music Center at Indiana Univ. in Bloomington, IN, USA.
Works: El retablo del rey Pobre, opera-oratorio (1950-52); Juventud, ballet
(1948); Umbral del sueño, ballet (1951); El saltimbanqui, ballet (1960);
Escenas de cortes y pastores, 7 symph scenes (1946); Obertura festiva
(1948); 4 symphonies (1949, 1954, 1961, 1966); 2 piano concertos (1950,
1985); Concierto de cámara, fl, ob, cl, bsn, 2 hn, harp, str orch (1952);
Serenata concertante (1954); Jubileaus musicus (1956); Psalms, wind orch
(1962); Concerto a tre, vn, vc, pn (1962); Concerto, wind orch (1964);
Volte, chamb ens (1971); Variaciones serenas, str orch (1971); Concerto,
ob, str orch (1980); Violin concerto (1983); Riley’s Merriment, scherzo
(1986); Fantasía, pn, wind orch (1987). Chamb, ch, pn, voc music.
Bibl.: V. Salas Viú, La Creación Musical en Chile (1900-1951), Santiago,
1951. J. Merino, Visión del Compositor Orrego Salas, Revista Musical
Chilena, 1978.
Sources: BB, CTA1, DCM, DM, DMEH, GDM, HMC, MMLA

Orta Velázquez, Guillermo, Mexican conductor, teacher, and composer;

b.27 Aug 1909, Zacatlán, Puebla; d.26 Oct 1984, Mexico City. At 6 he
began taking piano lessons and joined the choir in Zacatlán. In 1924 he
began studies at Cons. Nacional de Música where he studied with Silvestre
Revueltas, Manuel M. Ponce, Julián Carrillo, and Carlos Chávez. He was
appointed prof. of theory and choral singing at the Secretaría de Educación
Publica, where he would also direct the Orq. De Cámara. Dir. of the Orq.
De Cámara of the Cons. Nacional de Música. He worked in radio between
1934 and 1942 and conducted a radio orch. In 1965 he founded the Orq.
Sinfónica del Inst. Politécnico Nacional and served as its dir. until 1978.
Works: Suite no.1, orch (1935); Suite infantile no.2, orch (1938); Elegía a
Silvestre Revueltas, str orch (1941); Himno del Colegio Oxford, ch, pn
(1952); Ave Maria, ch, org (1956); 11 Cantos, solo voc; Corrido mexicano,
voz, pn (1980); Canciones de cuna, voc, pn (1984).
Sources: DMEH

Ortega Alvarado, Sergio, Chilean composer; b.2 Feb 1938, Antofagasta,

Chile; d.15 Sep 2003, Paris, France. He studied composition with Roberto
Falabella Correa and Gustavo Becerra Schmidt at the Cons. Nacional de
Música of Chile, Santiago de Chile, Chile. In 1969 he was appointed prof.
at the Cons. Nacional de Música at the Univ. de Chile and in 1970 became
artistic dir. of the univ. television station. He sought asylum in France upon
the 1973 coup and directed the Ecole Nationale de Musique de Pantin.
Works: Recabarren, opera; La dama del canasto, musical comedy; Asunto
sofisticado, musical comedy; Joaquín Murieta, cantata; Violin concerto
(1962). Chamb music.
Sources: DMEH, HMC

Ortega Carrillo, Armando, Mexican composer and singer (tenor); b.15

Jun 1936, Orizaba, State of Veracruz, Mexico; d.17 Nov 1973, Orizaba.
Self-taught in music. He also studied with Beatriz Casas Aragón, Ramón
Noble, and Umberto Zanolli. Founder of the 140-voice Coro Monumental
and conductor of the chorus of the Church Santa Rosa of Lima, Peru.
Works: Las golondrinas; La vengadora, opera (1952); La vengadora
(1952); Agnus Dei, tnr, bar, orch (1953); Eugenia, opera (1954); Crepúsculo
(1956); Sombras, opera (1958); El nacimiento de Venus, ballet (1958);
Ruinas; Idilio de las libélulas, ballet (1962); Esperanza, str (1966);
Esperanza (La quinceañera), opera (1968); Juventud (1968); Secreto
(1968); En el establo, soloists, nar, 2 tpt, perc, org, gtrs, and str orch (1972);
Ahavializápan, nar, tnr, mixed chor, actress, pno, perc, str orch (1973); Las
golodrinas; Patria y ciencia. Chamb, ch, voc music.
Sources: DCMMC, GP

Ortega del Villar, Aniceto, Mexican composer, pianist, and physician; b.17
Apr 1825, Tulancingo, Hidalgo, Mexico; d.17 Nov 1875, Mexico City,
Mexico. He entered the Seminario Conciliar of Mexico City in 1837, the
Seminario San Idelfonso in 1840, and the Escuela de Medicina in 1841.
Founding member of the Sociedad Filarmónica Mexicana.
Works: Guatimotzin, opera (1871); Viola tricolor; Invocación a Beethoven;
Republicana, march; Potosina, march; Zaragoza, march, considered the
second Mexican National Anthem (1863). Salo, pn music.
Bibl.: A. Herrera y Ogazón, El Arte Musical en México, Mexico, 1917. O.
May-er-Serra, Panorama de la Música Mexicana, Mexico, 1941. G.
Baqueiro Fóster, Historia de la Música en México, Mexico City, 1964.
Sources: DM, DMEH, GDM, GMM, GP, MMLA

Ortega Iriarte, Felipe de Jesús, Guatemalan conductor, flautist, composer,

surgeon, and clinical psychologist; b.1 May 1936, Guatemala. He studied
choral conducting with Romano Picutti in Morelia. At the Cons. Nacional
de Guatemala he studied organ with Elías Blas and Emigdio Papinutti and
piano with Salvador Ley. He performed on flute with the Orq. Sinfónica
Nacional (1966-91). He taught at the Univ. de San Carlos and at the Univ.
del Valle de Guatemala.
Works: Legend of a Mayan prince, band (1958); Serenata and abstaccion,
orch (1969); The first seven days, cantata, mixed ch (1975); Romantic
Rhapsody, pn, orch (1985); Small waltz into three rooms, orch (1990);
Three pearls, fl, harp (1986); Maderalma, wind qnt (1989); Voice of
Eternity, sop, orch (1991).
Sources: DMEH

Ortega Irusta, Jesús, Cuban guitarist, professor, and composer; b.15 Sep
1935, Havana, Cuba. He studied music at the Cons. Municipal de la Habana
(1950-58) and took guitar lessons with Isaac Nicola. His instructors
included José Ardévol, Harold Gramatges, Argeliers León, Edgardo Martín,
and Serafín Pro. He also studied guitar with Leo Brouwer (1964-72), Alirio
Díaz (1978), and Andrés Segovia (1981). He studied electroacoustic
composition with Juan Blanco (1974-1980). He taught at the Cons. Amadeo
Roldán de La Habana. He founded the guitar program at the Instituto
Superior de Arte with Isaac Nicola and Leo Brouwer.
Works: El cuarto grado del capitán Daurecg (1962), ballet; Portocarrero
no paga (1962), ballet; In memoriam por Luis Escalante (1964); Guitar
concerto (1982); Concertante, gtr, timp, orch; Divertimento, gtr, orch;
Elegía a los mártires del Goicuría. Chamb, voc music.
Sources: DMEH

Ortega Salinas, Carlos Alberto, Ecuadorian conductor, flautist, and

composer; b.17 Jun 1949, Loja. He studied music at the Colegio Bernardo
Valdivieso and at the Cons. Salvador Bustamante Celi with Víctor Moreno,
Jorge Avendaño, and Rodia Pop. He taught at the Cons. Salvador
Bustamante de Loja and José María Rodríguez. He also studied musicology
at the Pontificia Univ. Católica de Cuenca.
Works: Nuestra patria, sym. poem; Acuarela Andina; Senda Indigéna.
Sources: DMEH

Ortiz, Emma Wachter de, Chilean composer, pedagogue, and singer; b.19
Oct 1891, La Serena, Chile; d.3 Oct 1974, Santiago de Chile. She studied
piano with Fabio de Petris before moving to Germany to study singing and
opera at the Cons. Stern. She embarked on a singing career in Europe and
North America and was amongst the first singers to present lieder in Chile.
From 1932 she taught as a singing prof. in the Cons. Nacional de Música de
Santiago.
Works: Balada, voc, pn; Mis canciones (1940); Canciones de cuna (1946);
Cuatro canciones (1949).
Sources: DMEH

Ortíz, Gabriela, Mexican composer; b.20 Dec 1964, Mexico City, Mexico.
She studied at the Cons. Nacional de Música of INBA with Mario Lavista,
and at the Escuela Nacional de Música of UNAM with Federico Ibarra,
both in Mexico City. Later, with a scholarship from The British Council,
she took a course with Robert Saxton at the Guidhall School of Music and
Drama, England. With a scholarship from UNAM she obtained a Ph.D.
degree in composition and electroacoustic music from the City Univ.,
England.
Works: Patios (1989); Concierto candela, perc (1993); Elegía, 4 sop, fl,
perc, timp, pn, harp, str orch (1993); En pares (1993); Altar de neón, perc
(1995); ZócaloBastille, vn, perc (1996); Altar de piedra (2002); Fronteras
híbridas (2006); Altar de fuego (2010); Luz de lava (2010); Trama (2010).
Electroacoustic, computer, chamb, voc music.
Sources: DCMMC, DMEH, GP

Ortíz, José Antonio (Cristóbal Pirioby), Argentine composer; b.1764,

Misión de San Carlos, Alto Paraná, Argentina; d.1794, Buenos Aires,
Argentina. He taught music and voice to prominent families in Buenos
Aires.
Works: Salon dances, voc music.
Sources: EMA

Ortíz, Pablo, Argentine composer; b.1 May 1956, Buenos Aires,

Argentina. He studied at the Univ. Católica Argentina, Buenos Aires, with
Gerardo Gandini and Roberto Caamaño. Later, he studied at Columbia
Univ., New York, NY, USA, where he graduated with a DM at the School
of Arts and Sciences in 1986. He worked at the Columbia-Princeton
Electronic Center of New York and was asst. prof. at the Dept. of Electronic
Music of the Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Works: Tres pequeñas piezas (1983); Es ancho y negro el olvido (1988);
Horse Latitudes (1990); Sudor de tinta (1990); Ciego como una cebolla
(1991); Agua incierta (1991); Vida furtiva (1992).
Sources: DMEH, DMM

Ortíz, Sergio, Mexican composer, violist, and conductor; b.6 Jun 1947,
Xalapa, State of Veracruz, Mexico. He started music studies at the Escuela
de Música of the Univ. Veracruzana, Veracruz. Later, he entered the Cons.
Nacional de Música of INBA, Mexico City, Mexico. In 1974, the Romanian
government awarded him a scholarship to study violin at the Bucarest
Cons., Bucarest, Romania. In 1982, he obtained a MM from the Univ. of
Houston, TX, USA, and in 1991, he received a Ph.D. in composition from
the Univ. of California at Santa Barbara, CA, USA. He studied with
Michael Horvit, Peter Racine Fricker, Emma Lou Diemer, and William
Kraft. Secretary of the Centro de Estudios Musicales of INBA, asst.
conductor of the Orq. Filarmónica of Mexico City, and conductor of the
New Music Ensemble of the Univ. of Houston, TX, USA. Since 1975,
member of the Liga de Compositores de Música de Concierto of Mexico.
Works: Dos piezas para orquesta (1985); Elegy, in memoriam Peter Racine
Fricker (1990); Nocturno, vc (1992). Chamb, instr, voc music.
Sources: DCMMC

Ortíz Alvarado, William, Puerto Rican composer; b.30 Mar 1947, Salinas,
Puerto Rico. He started music studies at the Cons. of Puerto Rico. He
received a Master’s degree in composition from the State Univ. of New
York at Stony Brook, NY, and a Ph.D. in composition from the State Univ.
of New York at Buffalo, NY, both in the USA.
Works: Kantuta, Ritual para Orquesta (1976); Elegía a los inocentes
caídos, orch (1978); Antillas, orch (1981); Resonancia esférica, orch
(1982); Llegó la banda, orch (1984); Rican, opera (1986); Pasacalle, orch
(1988). Chamb, instr, voc, pn music.
Sources: CPR, DMEH

Ortiz Bobadilla, Sergio, Mexican violist, conductor, and composer; b.6

Jun 1947, Xalapa, Veracruz. He studied music at the Escuela de Música at
the Univ. Veracruzana and played in the Orq. Sinfónica de Xalapa as a
percussionist. He entered the Univ. Nacional de Música to study with Imre
Hartman, Andrés Aráiz, Carlos Luyando, Fernando Lozano, and Gonzalo
Ruiz Esparza. He performed second violin in a campus quartet and played
in the Sociedad de Conciertos of the cons. He played violin with the orch.
of the Teatro de Bellas Artes (1973) and received a scholarship to attend the
Bucharest Cons. of Music with Georg Manoliu. Back in Mexico he worked
as an administrator at the Inst. Nacional de Bellas Artes. He earned a MM
at the School of Music at the Univ. of Houston (1982) where he studied
with Fredell Lack and Michael Horvit. He returned to Mexico as asst. dir. of
the Orq. Filarmónica de la Ciudad de México and founded the Cuarteto
Ravel, in which he played viola. He earned a Ph.D. (1991) in composition
at the Univ. of California, Santa Barbara.
Works: Trio para alientos (1966); Canciones con textos de T. S. Eliot
(1969); Dos piezas para orquesta (1985); Elegía, orch (1990); Nocturno,
vc, orch (1992); Agnus Dei, ch (1991); 2 Canciones, ten, fl, va (1991); Día
de muertos, tape (1991).
Sources: DMEH

Ortíz de Zárate, Eliodoro, Chilean pianist, violinist, and composer; b.29

Dec 1865, Valparaiso, Chile; d.27 Jun 1952/3, Santiago de Chile, Chile. He
studied in Valparaiso and at the Cons. Reale di Musica of Milan, Italy.
Works: La fioraia di Lugano (1895), probably the first Chilean opera to be
produced in Santiago de Chile.
Sources: BB, DMEH

Ortiz de Zárate, Juan, Argentine composer; b.14 Mar 1959, Buenos Aires.
He studied guitar at the Cons. Provincial Juan José Castro and composition
at the Facultad des Artes y Ciencias Musicales with Roberto Caamaño and
Gerardo Gandini. He received scholarships from the Fondo Nacional de las
Artes, the Fundación Antorchas, and the Camping Musical Bariloche. He
completed studies with Helmut Lachenmann at the Musikhochschule de
Stuttgart with support from the French government and from the Deutscher
Akademischer Austauschdienst.
Works: La Leyenda de Mburucuya (1987-88), ballet; Música para la
Antígona de Jean Anouilh (1986), pn, harp, orch; La espada de Abaddon
(1988); Concierto para orquesta (1989); Libro del consejo (1990-91), tnr,
bar, ch, orch Choral works; Works for voice and instruments; chamber
works.
Sources: DMEH

Ortiz de Zevallos García de Raborg, Rosa, Peruvian pianist and

composer; b.1814?; d.1878? She wrote and performed piano works,
including fantasies on operatic themes.
Works: Tu y yo, pn (1876); 28 de julio, pno (1876).
Sources: IEW

Ortiz Peña, Julián, Ecuadorian organist, chapel master, and composer; b.6
Jan 1876, Villalba de la Sierra (o del Rey), Cuenca; d.1 Dec 1931, Cuenca.
His music began in 1884 with the Colegio San José children’s choir of the
Catedral de Cuenca. He entered the seminary of San Julián de Cuenca and
became an ordained priest in Ourense in 1889 before becoming chapel
master and later organist at the Catedral of Cuenca. He founded the Coro
Eucarístico de Cuenca, directed the choir of the Marías dal Sagrario, and
between 1926 and 1931 operated the archives of the cathedral.
Works: Adoremos in aeternum, voc, org; Al cielo a verla iré, 4 voc, vn, fl,
ob, cb; En la muerte de Jesús, org. Religious works.
Sources: DMEH

Ortíz y San Pelayo, Félix de, Argentine conductor, teacher, and composer
of Spanish origin; b.1857, Azpeitía, Guipúzcoa, Spain; d.1940, Buenos
Aires, Argentina. He studied at the Cons. Real of Madrid, Spain, and later,
at the Cons. Reale di Musica of Milan, Italy. He settled in Buenos Aires in
1879. Prof. at the Escuela de Música de la Provincia, Prov. of Buenos Aires,
Argentina.
Works: Artzay Mutilla, opera; Obertura en La; El medallón, zarzuela
(1882); De Rusia a Valladolid, zarzuela (1882); Misa (1882); Cantata vasca
(1885); Scherzo, orch. Pn music.
Sources: EMA

Osorio, José María, Venezuelan composer, teacher, journalist, instrument

manufacturer, physician, painter, and poet; b.23 Dec 1803, Caracas,
Venezuela; d.11 Jan 1852, Mérida, Venezuela. It is unknown with whom he
studied. Teacher of music in the cities La Victoria and Mérida, both in
Venezuela.
Works: Maestro Rufo Zapatero, opera (1845); Gran overtura La
Madrugada i Aurora. Chamb, religious music.
Sources: DMEH, EMV

Ossorio, Miguel, Colombian composer; fl. 18th century. Knowledge of him

is limited to the preservation of his works at the archives of the Cathedral
de Santafé in Bogota.
Works: A la voz del verbo a nazido, voc, accomp; Toquen los clarines y
suenen las cajas, 3 voc, harp; Soberano Baptista, 3 voc, accomp.
Villancicos.
Sources: DMEH

Ostos, Ovidio, Venezuelan composer, writer, and physician; b.22 Jun 1912,
Rubio, Táchira; d.? He completed medical studies in 1938. He studied
music at the Acad. Nacional de Música with Vicente Emilio Sojo studied
music history with Juan Bautista Plaza. While practicing medicine in San
Cristóbal he continued music studies with Andrés A. Sandoval. An
enthusiastic promoter of music, he would serve as president of the Sociedad
Salón de Lectura and other music societies.
Works: Piano Sonata; String Quartet; Campanitas de la Aurora; Lorito
Real con letra del poeta Manuel Felipe Rugeles; Recuerdos de Estudiante;
El Trigonómetra; Dulces Impresiones; Sublime Amor; Gladys Josefina;
Beatriz Emilia; Primera Inspiración; Lamentos; San Cristóbal.
Sources: DMEH

Oswald (Ochswald), Henrique José Pedro María Carlos Luis, Brazilian

composer, pianist, and teacher; b.14 Apr 1852, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; d.10
Jun 1931, Rio de Janeiro. He started music studies in São Paulo, Brazil,
with Gabriel Guiraudon. At sixteen years of age, he was sent to Florence,
Italy, where he studied harmony, counterpoint, and composition with
Reginaldo Grazzini and Gioacchino Maglioni, and piano with Giuseppe
Buonamici and Henri Ketten. Dir. of the Inst. Nacional de Música of Rio de
Janeiro, 1903-06. Brazilian vice-consul in The Hague, Netherlands, and
Genoa, Italy.
Works: La croce d’oro, opera (1872); Suite (1884); Festa, symph poem
(1885); Piano concerto (1888); Violin concerto (1888); Sinfonietta (1890);
Elegía (1896); Paysage d’automme (1898); Il neo, opera (1900); Le fate,
opera (1902); Symphony in C (1910); Andante e variaçôes, pn; Missa, 4
mixed voc, org (1925). Sacred, chamb, pn, voc music.
Bibl.: R. Almeida, História da Música Brasileira, Rio de Janeiro, 1942.
Sources: DM, EMB2, GDM, HMB, MLA, MMLA

Otero, Higinio Nicolás, Argentine composer and teacher; b.11 Jan 1901,
Buenos Aires; d.20 Dec 1971, Mendoza, Argentina. He studied music in
Buenos Aires before moving to Mendoza in 1926 to work as a teacher. He
organized and directed the Sociedad Orq. de Aficionados de Mendoza (later
the Asociación Filarmónica).
Works: Aires de mi tierra, orch (1921); Madrigal, vn, pn, str orch (1925);
Aladina, zarzuela (1934); Contemplación, orch (1940); Chasca, ballet
(1947). Band, ch, voc, chamb, pn music.
Sources: DMEH

Otero, Mercedes, Venezuelan guitarist, choral conductor and composer;

b.1953, Caracas, Venezuela. She studied classical guitar and won a
government scholarship to study in England and Italy. In 1976 she studied
choral conducting and composition at the Scola Cantorum of Caracas, the
Cons. of the Venezuelan National Youth Orch., and Llamozas Music
Schools. She was awarded an M.A. at California State Univ., Northridge.
Works: Gravitation, orch.
Sources: IEW

Otero Hernández, Ana, Puerto Rican pianist, pedagogue, and composer;

b.24 Jul 1861, Humacao, Puerto Rico; d.4 Apr 1905, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
She began studying music with her father, Ignacio Otero, and with
Concepción Gadea and Manuel Tinajero. In 1886, she became the first
woman in Puerto Rico to lead an orch. while concertizing in Puerto Rico in
order to find sponsorship for study in Europe. She moved to Barcelona in
1887, performed concerts, and earned a spot at the Paris Cons, where she
studied piano with Henri Fissot and composition and theory with Teaudon.
She also toured as a pianist in North and South America.
Works: Piano Concierto; Première pensée, pn; Un atrvimiento, pn.
Sources: DMEH

Otey, Orlando, Mexican composer, teacher, and pianist; b.1 Feb 1925,
Mexico City, Mexico. He received a DM from the Univ. of Mexico in 1945.
He studied at the Curtis Inst. of Music of Philadelphia, PA, USA, from 1945
to 1948. He also studied with Luis Moctezuma, Vladimir Sokoloff, Walter
Gieseking, Manuel María Ponce, and Gian Carlo Menotti. Prof. at the
Escuela Nacional de Música of the Univ. of Mexico, the Settlement Music
School in Jenkintown, PA, USA, the Wilmington Music School,
Wilmington, DE, USA, and since 1970, dir. of the Otey Music School in
Wilmington.
Works: Sinfonía breve (1956); Suite, str (1957); Tzintzuntzan, str (1958);
Poética, sop (1958); Poética, tpt (1970). Pn, voc music.
Bibl.: Otey Music Teaching Method (1973).
Sources: ISC

Ovalle (Ovale), Jaime (Jaime Rojas de Aragón y Ovalle), Brazilian

composer, violinist, poet, and guitarist; b.5 Aug 1894, Belém, Pará, Brazil;
d.9 Sep 1955, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Self-taught in music. In 1933, he was
appointed cultural attaché to the Brazilian embassy in London, England.
Founding member of the Academia Brasileira de Música.
Works: Descobrimento do Brasil, orch; Pedro Alvares Cabral, symph
poem; Legendas, pn; Dois Tangos, pn; Desafío, pn; Azulão, voc, pn; Tres
cantos nativos, vn, pn; Mondinha, voc, pn. Chamb, pn, voc music.
Sources: DM, EMB2, HMB, MLA, MMLA
 P
Pacheco, Assis (Francisco de Assis Pacheco), Brazilian composer, pianist,
conductor, and music critic; b.8 Jan 1865, Itú, São Paulo, Brazil; d.28 Feb
1937, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He started to study music in Itu, and then
continued in Italy, where he studied composition with Amintore Galli.
Music critic for Jornal da Tarde and Correio Paulistano. Co-founder of the
newspapers Quinzena Paulista and Brás Cubas.
Works: Moema, opera (1891); Romeu e Julieta, symph poem (1892);
Plainte, str qt (1892); Flora, opera (1898); Dor, opera (1900); Cleópatra,
opera; Jaci. Joanico, operetta.
Sources: EMB2, MMLA

Pacheco de Céspedes, Luis, Peruvian violinist, conductor, and composer;

b.25 Nov 1895, Lima, Peru; d.? He studied harmony with Father Villalba
Muñoz and violin with Claudio Rebagliati. He continued his music studies,
piano with Victor A. Duvernoy, violin with Jacques Thibaud, harmony,
counterpoint, and fugue with Reynaldo Hahn and Gabriel Fauré, and voice
with Hattich, at the Paris Cons. He conducted opera in Cannes, France, and
Monte Carlo. He returned to Lima in 1940, and was appointed conductor of
the Orq. Sinfónica Nacional of Lima.
Works: La masque et la rose, comic opera; La conquista, opera; La
mariscala, operetta; Navidad en la trinchera, symph poem; El himno al sol,
symph poem; Danza sobre un tema indio, orch; La selva, symph poem; La
procesión del Señor de los Milagros, symph poem; Suite limeña, symph
poem; 3 sonatas for violin and piano.
Bibl.: R. Barbacci, Revista Musical Peruana, Lima, October 1940.
Sources: DM, DMEH, MLA, MMLA

Pádua, Newton de Menezes, Brazilian composer, conductor, teacher, and

cellist; b.3 Nov 1894, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; d.2 Jun 1966, Rio de Janeiro.
In 1905, he started to study cello at the Inst. Nacional de Música with
Eurico Costa, Benno Niederberger, and Francesco Cornaglia. From 1912 to
1914, he went to Rome, Italy, to study cello with Luigi Forino and harmony
with Giacomo Setaccioli. When he returned to Brazil he studied
composition and orchestration with Francisco Braga, harmony,
counterpoint, and fugue with Paulo Silva, sacred music with Friar Pedro
Sinzig, conducting with Walter Burle Marx, and harmony with Agnelo
Franga at the Inst. Nacional de Música of the Univ. of Rio de Janeiro. Prof.
at the Cons. Brasileiro de Música of Rio de Janeiro. One of the founders of
the Orq. Sinfônica do Teatro Municipal of Rio de Janeiro. Member of the
Academia Brasileira de Música.
Works: Branca Dias, opera (1931); Irupé, opera (1951); Anchieta, symph
poem; Preludios, Suite sinfónica, Cançao e dansa, vc; Symphony in G
minor; São Paulo, symph poem; Suite auriverde; Suite clássica. Chamb,
pn, ch, instr music.
Sources: EMB2, KTL, MMLA

Pahissa, Jaime, Argentine composer, conductor, teacher, and musicologist

of Spanish origin; b.6/7 Oct 1880, Barcelona, Spain; d.27 Oct 1969, Buenos
Aires, Argentina. He studied with Francisco Laporta and Enrique Morera in
Barcelona. Dir. of the Escuela Municipal de Música and prof. of musical
aesthetics and culture at the Cons. of the Liceo, both in Barcelona, 1933-36.
He settled in Argentina in 1937.
Works: El combat, overture (1900); 2 symphonies (1900, 1921); En las
costas mediterráneas, overture (1904); La presó de Lleida, opera (1906); El
camí, symph poem (1909); Gala placidia, opera (1913); El rabadá,
overture (1917); La morisca, opera (1919); Nit de somnis, symph poem
(1921); Marianela, opera (1923); Monodía, orch (1925); Canto y cortejo
nupcial, orch (1926); Suite intertonal, orch (1926); La princesa Margarita,
opera (1928); Cantata a la tumba de García Lorca, opera (1937); Angélica,
opera (1938); Dos danzas catalanas, orch (1939); Bodas en montaña, opera
(1946); Somni d’infant, pn (1949); Don Gil de las calzas verdes, opera
(1955); Tragicomedia de Calixto y Melibea, opera (1956). Chamb, ch, pn,
voc music.
Books: Cultura General, Barcelona, 1935; Los Grandes Problemas de la
Música, Buenos Aires, 1945; Espíritu y Cuerpo de la Música, Buenos
Aires, 1946; Vida y Obra de Manuel de Falla, Buenos Aires, 1946.
Sources: DM, DMEH, EMA, GDM, MLA, MMLA
Palacio, Pedro Antonio, Argentine composer; b.1961, La Rioja, Prov. of
La Rioja, Argentina. He graduated in 1979 as prof. of guitar and, in 1985,
he studied composition at the Univ. of Córdoba, Prov. of Córdoba,
Argentina. In 1986, he studied composition, music analysis, and
electroacoustic techniques at the Ecole de Musique of Aulnay-sous-Bois,
France.
Works: Axis; Ohime; Dommerung.
Sources: DMM

Palacios, Edgar Augusto, Ecuadorian composer and trumpet player; b.7

Oct 1940, Loja, Ecuador. He studied at the Cons. Salvador Bustamante Celi
and at the Facultad de Ciencias de Educación of the Univ. of Loja. In 1962,
he was awarded a scholarship to study trumpet at the Cons. Cipian
Pernumbuscu of Bucharest, Romania. He also studied trumpet with Maurice
André in Paris, France. In 1968, he was appointed dir. of the Cons. Salvador
Bustamante Celi. In 1980, he was appointed general dir. of the Bandas del
Ejército and, in 1993, under the auspices of the Ministerio de Educación y
Cultura, he created and directed the Sistema Nacional de Música para Niños
Especiales.
Works: Boletín y elegía de las mitas, oratorium, orch, soloists, ch (1990).
Ch, voc music.
Bibl.: Política musical del Ecuador (1978); Proyectos de investigación y
estudios de diagnostic de la cultura y perspectivas para planificación del
desarollo cultural de le provincial de Loja, area de musica (1988); Proyecto
del desarollo musical “Equipamiento nacional del sector musical en el
Ecuador “ (1987-88).
Sources: DMEH, MG

Palacios, Rafael, Mexican composer; fl.mid-19th century.

Works: La Vendetta, opera; Stabat Mater; Mass.
Sources: MMLA

Palacios de Sans, Mariantonia, Venezuelan pianist, teacher, conductor,

and composer of English birth; b.5 Oct 1960, London. She studied piano
under María Luisa Ortiz de Stopello at the Escuela de Rítmica Dalcroze and
graduated as a performing piano teacher at the Escuela de Música Juan
Manuel Olivares in Caracas under the guidance of Gerta Reskova de Haas.
She took courses with Harriet Serr and studied composition with Antonio
Mastrogiovanni at the Cons. Nacional de Música Juan José Landaeta. She
studied musicology at the Central Univ. of Venezuela where she earned a
BA and Masters in Latin American Musicology. She served as conductor of
the orchestra at Juan José Landeata and founded the Ensemble de Metales
Juan José Landaeta and the Ensemble de Percusión Abelard Mata. From
1983, she worked as a radio producer and announcer for a variety of
classical programs.
Works: Pieza binaria, pn; Tetra-Elio, woodwind qt; Tetra-Corda, str qt; El
silencio, mixed ch; Nocturno, ch, orch.
Bibl.: Noticias en la cronistas de la Venezuela de los siglos XVII-XVIII
(2000).
Sources: DMEH

Palacios y Sojo y Gil Arratia, Father Pedro, called El Padre Sojo,

Venezuelan composer; b.17 Jan 1739, Guatire, Miranda, Venezuela;
d.ca.1799, Caracas, Venezuela. He received no formal music education,
however he was a pioneer and promoter of Venezuelan music. He finished
his priesthood studies at the Seminario of Caracas, Venezuela, and then
traveled to Madrid, Spain, and Rome, Italy, to collect music and
instruments.
Works: El paria, voc, pn; La vivandera, overture; Te Deum; Misa Solemne;
Responsorio, 3 voc, org. Seventy masses, waltzes, pn music.
Bibl.: O. Mayer-Serra, Panorama de la Música Mexicana, Mexico, 1941; J.
B. Plaza, El Padre Sojo, Caracas, 1957; J. A. Calcaño, El Padre Sojo,
Caracas, 1972; A. Calzavara, Historia de la Música en Venezuela, Caracas,
1987.
Sources: DMEH, EMV, MLA, MMLA

Palau, Felipe, Cuban organist, teacher, and composer; b.1866, Camagüey,

Cuba; d.1937, Havana, Cuba. Student of Ignacio Cervantes Kawanag, José
Manuel Jiménez Berroa, and Carlos Anckermann. For forty-three years he
was organist at the Cathedral of Havana. Prof. at the Colegio San Francisco
de Sales of Havana.
Works: Org, voc music.
Sources: DMC2, DMEH
Palau León, Rafael, Cuban conductor and composer of Spanish birth; b.2
Sep 1864, Spain; d.10 Oct 1905/1906, Havana. As a child, he moved to
Cuba with his family and began studies with his father, Rafael Palau March.
In 1869 he moved to Havana, where he would study with Juan Luna, José
Manuel Jiménez, Carlos Anckermann, Ignacio Cervantes, and Tomás de la
Rosa. He was a member of the cathedral choir and played violin in the
Campañia de Ópera Italiana of Andrés Anón. He later settled in Camagüey.
He conducted a variety of theater orchestras. He wrote primarily for the
theater. His song, La Palma, became popular during the Cuban war for
independence in the late 19th century.
Works: ¡Vapor correo! Lyric comedy; Artilleros y colegiales, operetta. Pn,
voc, ch music.
Sources: DMEH

Palazuelo, José María, Argentine teacher and composer; b.1840, Buenos

Aires, Argentina; d.1893, Buenos Aires. Organist at the Cathedral of
Buenos Aires.
Works: Misa de Requiem; Agnus Dei. Ch, salon music.
Sources: DMEH, EMA

Palazuelo, Jr., José María, Argentine violinist and composer; b.1867,

Buenos Aires, Argentina; d.1910, Buenos Aires. He studied with his father,
José María Palazuelo. Violinist with the orchestra of the Teatro de la Opera
of Buenos Aires.
Works: L ‘ucellino, vn, pn. Marches.
Sources: DMEH, EMA

Pallemaerts, Edmundo, Argentine composer and pianist of Belgian origin;

b.12/21 Dec 1867, Malinas, Belgium; d.20 Apr 1945, Buenos Aires,
Argentina. He studied at the Royal Cons. of Brussels, Belgium, with Hubert
Kufferath, Arthur de Greef, and François Auguste Gevaert. He settled in
Buenos Aires in 1889, and devoted his efforts to education, first at the cons.
founded by Juan Gutiérrez, and later, at his own Cons. Argentino de
Música.
Works: Bodnoguat, oratorio; Suite flamenca, orch; Symphony in C minor;
Fantasía argentina, orch. Pn music.
Sources: DM, DMEH, DMM, EMA
Palma, Athos, Argentine composer and teacher; b.7 Jun 1891, Buenos
Aires, Argentina; d.10 Jan 1951, Miramar, Prov. of Buenos Aires,
Argentina. He studied piano with Cayetano Troiani, solfeggio with A.
Cattáneo, and violin with José García Jacot in Buenos Aires. He spent ten
years in Europe and, when he returned to Buenos Aires, he studied
composition with Cayetano Troiani. He also graduated from the Facultad de
Filosofía y Letras of the Univ. of Buenos Aires, and studied for six years at
the Facultad de Medicina of the Univ. of Buenos Aires. Prof. at the Cons.
Nacional de Música Carlos López Buchardo of Buenos Aires. General dir.
and member of the board of the Teatro Colón of Buenos Aires. Supervisor
of music at the school system of the Consejo Nacional de Educación of
Buenos Aires.
Works: Nazdah, opera (1924); Los hijos del sol, opera (1928). Cantares de
mi tierra, str (1914); Los hijos del sol, symph poem (1929); Jardines
(1930). Chamb, voc music.
Books: Teoría Razonada de la Música; Tratado Completo de Armonía.
Bibl.: N. Lamuraglia, Athos Palma: Vida, Arte, Educación, Buenos Aires,
1954.
Sources: BB, CA, DM, DMEH, EMA, GDM, MLA

Palma y Meza Espinoza, Hernán, Mexican guitarist and composer; b.12

Nov 1961, Mexicali, Baja California. He studied music at the Inst. Nacional
de Bellas Artes and the Univ. of Monterrey with David García and Radko
Tichavsky. He studied composition at the Univ. Regiomontana in
Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico, where he would also teach. He would
also hold teaching positions at the Univ. Autónoma de Nuevo León, the
Escuela Superior de Música y Danza de Monterrey, and the Escuela
Superios de Música in Saltillo.
Works: Dzulum, orch (1990); Dos canciones, ch (1991); Dos motets para
tiempo de penetencia, ch (1993); Trenia, orch (1994); Preludio, canon, y
postludio, perc (1996). Chamb, ch music.
Sources: DMEH

Palmero Nava, Armando, Bolivian cellist, pianist, teacher, and composer;

b.1900, Potosí, Bolivia; d.1968, Tunari, Bolivia. Founder of the string
quartet Cochabamba, dir. of the Academia de Música Man Césped, and
conductor of the Orq. Filarmónica of Cochabamba, Bolivia.
Works: La rueda; Poema indio. Pn music.
Sources: CB, DMEH

Panameño, Fermín Antonio, Salvadoran composer and performer; b.11

Oct 1917, San Vicente; d.24 Jul 1993, San Vicente. He commenced musical
studies at age 15, attended the Escuela de Música Rafael Olmedo, and won
a scholarship to study orchestral music in the Dominican Republic. He
served as solo trombonist for the Orq. Sin. de El Salvador for 14 years and
directed the Banda Sin. de la Fuerza Armada. He taught at the Centro
Nacional de Artes.
Works: Bassoon concerto “a la manera de Mozart”; La pequeña violinist; El
sonido de los bronces; Minueto en Do; Scherzo par quintet de madera; El
sonido de los bronces.
Sources: DMEH

Paniagua, Francisco Apolinaro, Guatemalan violinist and composer;

b.1837, ?; d.? Father of Julián Paniagua Martínez. He moved from the city
of Guatemala to Chimaltenango where he served as choirmaster. General
Justo Rufino Barrios offered him a position in San Marcos.
Works: Benedicamus Domino. Religious and band music.
Sources: DL, DMEH

Paniagua, Lucas, Guatemalan bandleader and composer; fl. 18 Oct 1839;

d.? He studied music with Máximo Andrino. His mass won honor at the
1875 International Exposition in Santiago de Chile. He served in the Banda
Marcial directed by Emilio Dressner from 1877, and directed the Banda del
Batallón from 1884-86 before succeeding Dressner until 1890. He taught at
the Escuela de Sustitutos.
Works: Mass, voc.
Sources: DMEH

Paniagua, Manuel M., Mexican composer; b.1842; d.1907. His works are
preserved in the archives of Zevallos Paniagua.
Works: Domine Jesu Christe, mez sop, orch; Introduction to Verdi’s La
Traviata; La orfandad, ch, orch (1884); La segunda reserva; Maitines
Solemnes de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe; Misa de Requiem (1883);
Missa solemne, op. 148, 2 voc, orch.
Sources: GP
Paniagua, Raúl Fuentes, Guatemalan pianist, conductor, and composer;
b.17 Feb 1898, DM (1897, MMLA, DMEH), Guatemala City, Guatemala;
d.17 Apr 1956, Guatemala City. The son of Miguel A. Paniagua, composer
of religious music, he hailed from a musical family. He began his studies
with his older siblings, Humberto and Emilio Arturo, and debuted at the
National Exhibition in 1905. He later enrolled at the Cons. Nacional de
Música of Guatemala City, where he studied with Herculano Alvarado. He
also studied composition in New York, NY, USA. Prof. at the Cons.
Nacional de Música of Panama, Panama City, in 1916, and the Cons.
Nacional de Música of Guatemala, 1931-39, and dir. of the Cons. Nacional
de Música of San Salvador, El Salvador, 1939-42. Music critic for the
Diario Oficial of Guatemala. He served as musical dir. of the San Francisco
Ballet for seven years before returning to Guatemala in 1952 to direct the
national symphony.
Works: Leyenda maya, orch; Mass, voc; Tres canciones originales, voc,
orch. Several religious hymns for voice, orch.
Sources: DM, DMEH, MLA, MMLA

Paniagua Martínez, Julián, Guatemalan composer, violinist, and

conductor; b.5 Sep 1856, Guatemala City; d.27 May 1946, Guatemala City.
His first music lessons came from his father, the violinist Francisco
Paniagua, at age 8, and by 13 he was playing violin in his father’s orch. in
Chimaltenango. He became interested in popular contemporaneous dance
music and wrote a celebrated waltz at 12. At 16, he began performing
piccolo in his father’s band in San Marcos, where he also acquired
proficiency in other woodwinds. He was appointed, at 19, assistant dir. of
the military music in Quetzaltenango and a year later was coordinating a
brass ensemble at the Inst. Nacional para Varones de Occidente. Emilio
Dressner invited Paniagua to join the Banda Marcial and teach in the
capital. He founded the Banda de la Guardia de Honor. His music is
typically Romantic in style with some hint of folkloric elements.
Works: Tos Ferina, waltz (1867) [lost]; El primer laurel, orch; El Canario,
pic, orch (1890).
Sources: DL

Paniagua y Vásques (Vázquez), Cenobio, Mexican composer, organist,

violinist, and conductor; b.30 Oct 1821, Tlalpujahua, Mexico; d.2 Nov
1882, Córdoba, Veracruz, Mexico. He studied violin with Eusebio Vázquez
in Tlalpujahua, and at the Academia of Agustín Caballero and Joaquín
Beristáin in Mexico City. He worked as a violinist in the orchestras of
several cathedrals. He is considered the first Mexican opera composer. In
1859, he founded the Academia de Armonía y Composición in Portal de
Tejada, Mexico.
Works: Catalina de Guisa, opera (1845); Il Giacinto azurro (1861); Pietro
d’Abano, opera (1863); Siete palabras, cantata (1869); Tobías, oratorio
(1870); Requiem (1882); Gran marcha Lerdo. About 70 masses, dances,
marches, pn music.
Bibl.: M.G. Revilla, Cenobio Paniagua, Revista Musical Mexicana, Vol.2,
1942. R. Stevenson, Music in Mexico, New York, 1952.
Sources: DMEH, GDM, GMM, GP, MLA

Panizo, Manuel de la Cruz, Peruvian singer, organist, and choirmaster; b.3

May 1839, Lima; d.30 Mar 1889, Lima. He was a student of Padre Vargas
and M. Alarco at the convent of San Francisco. He worked at several
chapels, including a post as organist and choirmaster in La Merced, and he
stands out as a teacher of such figures as Daniel Alomía Robles, Pablo
Arredondo, Rafael Castro, Germán Nieto, and Felipe Otaiza. He was a
founding member of the Sociedad Musical Humanitaria del Carmen.
Works: Canción alegórica; Himno a la Confederación de Artesanos Unión
Universal; Himno de la clase obrera; Himno patriótico del Instituto
Literario. Ch, voc music.
Sources: DMEH

Panizza, Héctor (Ettore), Argentine conductor and composer; b.12 Aug

1875, Buenos Aires, Argentina; d.27 Nov 1967 (29 Nov 1965, DMM),
Milan, Italy. He started music studies with his father, Juan Grazioso
Panizza, in Italy. He graduated from the Cons. Verdi of Milan, where he
studied composition with Amintore Galli, Michele Saladino, and Vincenzo
Ferroni, and piano with Giuseppe Frugatta. He began his career as an opera
conductor in Italy, in 1899, and continued successfully for more than fifty
years.
Works: Il fidanzato del mare, opera (1897); Medioevo latino, opera (1900);
Aurora, opera (1908); Bizancio, opera (1939). El rey de la floresta, soloists,
ch, orch, orch; Tema con variaciones, orch; Bodas campestres, symph suite;
Sonata, vn, pn; Sonata, vc, pn; String quartet; Trio, pn, str. Pn, voc music.
Books: Medio Siglo de Vida Musical, an autobiography, Buenos Aires,
1952.
Sources: BB, CA, DM, DMEH, DMM, EMA, GDM, MLA, MMLA

Panizza, Juan Grazioso, Argentine composer, cellist, and conductor of

Italian origin; b.1851, Gazzuuolo, Mantua, Italy; d.8 Oct 1903, Buenos
Aires. Father of Héctor Panizza. He studied cello with Guglielmo
Quarenghi Lauro Rossi, and Franco Faccio, and composition at the Cons. of
Milan. Upon completion of studies in 1869, he was engaged as first cellist
with the opera theater of Cairo. In 1871, he moved to Calcutta and four
years later settled in Buenos Aires as part of the orchestra in the Teatro
Colón and as conductor of the musical society, La Lira, and of the concerts
of Jardín Florida.
Works: Il Caporal Bastogo (1871), opera; El paraíso perdido, orch; La
Argentina (1882); Clara (1889), opera; Cecilia (1893), opera; Sinfonía
pastoral. Chamb, instr music.
Bibl.: Método de lectura musical y solfeo (1876)
Sources: DMEH, EMA

Paolantonio, Franco, Argentine conductor and composer; b.1884, Buenos

Aires, Argentina; d.1934, Brazil. He studied with Jaime Bustamante, Julián
Aguirre, and Alberto Williams at the Cons. de Música of Buenos Aires.
With a scholarship from the Comisión Nacional de Bellas Artes of
Argentina, he went to Naples, Italy, where he studied at the Cons. Reale di
Musica San Pietro a Majella, with Paolo Serrao and Giuseppe Martucci.
Works: Serenata oriental; Nocturno en Si menor; Preludio sinfónico en Re
mayor; Hymn to Justo José de Urquiza. Pn, voc music.
Sources: DM, EMA

Paraskevaídis, Graciela, Uruguayan musicologist and composer of

Argentine birth; b.1 Apr 1940, Buenos Aires. She studied composition with
Roberto García Morillo at the Cons. Nacional in Buenos Aires. She also
studied at the Inst. Di Tella on a Centro Latinoamericano de Altos Estudios
Musicales (CLAEM) scholarship. There she took courses with Gerardo
Gandini and Iannis Xenakis. A grant from the Deutscher Akademischer
Austauschdienst afforded her an opportunity to complete composition
studies with Wolfgang Fortner. From 1975, she has been a resident of
Montevideo and obtained citizenship in Uruguay in 1980. She has won
myriad awards and honors including a Goethe Medal from the Goethe-
Institut in Munich (1994) and the Morosoli Silver Award from the
Fundación Lolita Rubial in Minas (2006). She has been widely published as
a musicologist and served as an editor for World New Music Magazine. She
has been a member of the Núcleo Música Nueva de Montevideo, the
Sociedad Uruguaya de Música Contemporánea, the Núcleo Música Nueva
de Buenos Aires, and the Sociedad Argentina de Música Contemporánea.
She has taught at the Univ. Nacional in Montevideo (1985–92).
Works: La terra e la morte (text by Cesare Pavese), mixed ch, orch (1968);
Aphorismen (text by Karl Kraus), 2 speakers, pn, perc, tape (1969); “libertà
va cercando..” (text by Dante Alighieri), mixed ch, orch (1969); Huauqui,
tape (1975); A entera revisación del público en general, tape (1978–81);
Dos piezas para pequeño conjunto, ob, cl, tpt, piano, claves (1989); ..Il
remoto silenzio, vc (2002). Chamb, ch, voc, pn music.
Bibl.: La obra sinfónica de Eduardo Fabini (1992); Luis Campodónico,
compositor (1999).
Sources: DMEH, NGDWC

Pardo Fuentes, Enrique, Cuban clarinetist, professor, and composer; b.26

Apr 1905, Caibarién, Villa Clara, Cuba; d.1996, Havana. He studied theory
and solfege with his father and in 1916 entered the Academy of the Banda
Municipal de Caibarién, where he studied clarinet with José María
Montalvan. In 1925 he moved to Havana to study harmony with Pedro
Sanjuan, Félix Guerrero, and Waldina Cortina, counterpoint with Frederick
Smith, cello with Fabio Landa, and conducting with Jan Constantinescu and
Alexander Frolov. He joined the Philharmonic Orch. of Havana in 1926 as
second clarinet and would aspire to first clarinet in a career that spanned
over 30 years. He performed the Cuban premiere of Mozart’s clarinet
concerto under the direction of Amadeo Roldán. He was a founder of the
Municipal Band of the National Police and the Academy of the Municipal
Band of Bauta.
Works: Concerto Fantasy for Clarinet and Piano; Symphonic Fantasy;
Cuban Concert Piece; Themes and six variations.
Sources: DMEH
Pardo Tovar, Andrés, Colombian musicologist, pedagogue, and composer;
b.5 Mar 1911, Bogotá; d.31 Aug 1972, Bogotá. He attended the Colegio
Mayor de Nuestra Señora del Rosario and earned a doctorate in political
science at the Univ. Libre de Bogotá. He started music studies with his
brother-in-law, Antonio María Valencia, and continued his path with Jesús
Silva and Andrés Bermúdez Martínez Montoya. He was Secretary of the
National Cons. of Music and helped organize the Cons. of Cali. He is
regarded as the first formally trained Colombian musicologist.
Works: La canción de cuna boyacense; Torcuato Meñique
Bibl.: La cultura musical en Colombia (1966)
Sources: DMEH

Paredes Pacho, Hilda, Mexican composer; b.22 Sep 1957, Puebla,

Mexico. She began musical studies in Mexico City, Mexico, and then
moved to London, England, in 1979, where she studied flute and
composition at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She also took
classes with Maxwell Davies and Harrison Birtwistle at Dartington Summer
School of London, and with Franco Donatoni at the Accademia Musicale
Chigiana of Siena, Italy. She returned to Mexico and was appointed prof. at
the Univ. Nacional of Mexico in Mexico City.
Works: La séptima semilla, chamber opera (1989); Fuegos de San Juan,
women’s ch, mez sop, orch (1985); El canto del Tepozteco (1987); Ajua
Cán (1987); Oxkintok (1991); Zaztún (1996); Ah paax o’ob (2001);
Demente cuerda, harp, str (2004); Recordare (2006); Altazor, bar, orch
(2011); Revelación (2011). Musicals: Agamenón toma un baño (1989);
Oxkutzkab (1989). Chamb, electroacoustic, compute, instr, ch music.
Arrangements of works by Bizet, Debussy, de Falla, and Milhaud.
Sources: DCMMC, DMEH, GP, NGDWC

Paredes Perez, Paulino, Mexican composer; b.22 Jun 1913, Tuxpan,

Michoacan; d.9 Apr 1957. His first studies in music were with Vicente
Ortiz and as part of the Coro de Cantores at the parish in Tuxpan (1925-
1929). Paredes received a scholarship to study composition with Miguel
Bernal Jiménez, piano with Ignacio Mier and Arriaga y de Salvador
Carvajal, Theory, Harmony and Counterpoint with José Cedillo Buitrón,
and Gregorian chant with Philip Guilera at the Escuela Superior de Música
Sagrada en Morelia (now the Cons. de las Rosas). There he was the first to
earn the graduate title of Magisterio en Composición (1940). He was
appointed Dir. of the Escuela de Música de la UANL a year before his
untimely death.
Works: Estampas campestres (1939); Muñecos de barro (1940); Bodas
alegres (1941); Diluvio de fuego, symph poem (1942); Las horas, ballet
(1942); Sinfonía provinciana (1945); Sinfonía Benjamina (1947); Piano
Concerto No.1 (1950); Cuatro convidados (1954); Espalda mojada, ballet
(1954); Violin Concerto (1954); Cañón huasteca (1956).
Sources: GP

Parera (Perera or Pereda), Blas, Argentine organist, teacher, and

composer of Spanish origin; b.1777, Barcelona, Spain; d.1838-1840?,
Barcelona. Organist at the Cathedral, and at the churches La Merced and
San Ignacio, all of Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 1803, he was hired by the
management of Coliseo Provisional of Buenos Aires, first musician,
teacher, composer, orch conductor. During the May Revolution of 1810, he
composed several patriotic songs, and in 1813, he was commissioned by the
Asamblea General Constituyente to put music to the national anthem.
Works: Argentine National Anthem, based on a poem written by Vicente
López y Planes.
Sources: DM, DMM, EMA, MLA

Pareyón, Gabriel, Mexican composer; b.23 Oct 1974, Zapopan, Jalisco,

Mexico. He started music studies with Marcela Orozco and continued at the
Escuela de Música of the Univ. of Guadalajara, Mexico, with Hermilio
Harnández, Roberto Morales, Jacobo Venegas, and Víctor Manuel Amaral.
He also studied with Mario Lavista and Domingo Lobato at the Cons.
Nacional de Música of INBA, Mexico City, Mexico. Taught at the Talleres
de Música del Bachillerato of the Univ. of Guadalajara.
Works: Trombone concerto (1995); Preludio orquestal (1995); Bassoon
concerto (1996); ‘Na ‘bafi xi ñudi ga tuhu (2002); The Mexican border is
another Auschwitz (2002); Di gehyu yo tuhni koyu nxui do (2004);
Invención no. 3 (2004); Hymyaimiyt noktha (2003, rev.2012).
Electroacoustic, computer, chamb, instr, ch music.
Books: Diccionario de Música en México.
Sources: DCMMC, DMEH, GP
París, Juan, Cuban pianist and composer of Spanish origin; b.1759,
Barcelona, Spain; d.10 Jul 1845, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba. In 1805, he was
appointed choirmaster at the Cathedral of Santiago de Cuba. He continued
the musical work of the Cuban composer Esteban Salas in Santiago de
Cuba.
Works: Three-part mass; Introito; Salmo; Lección primera de difuntos;
Oficio de difuntos. Christma, ch, voc music.
Sources: DMC, GDM

Parotti, Sergio, Argentine composer; b.12 Oct 1956, Buenos Aires,

Argentina. He studied at the Cons. Prov. de Música Juan José Castro, Prov.
of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and at the Cons. Superior de Música Manuel de
Falla of Buenos Aires, composition with Enrique Cipolla, viola with
Marcela Magin, violin with Eduardo Acedo, Osvaldo D’Amore, and
Norberto García, and piano with Beatriz Pedrini. He wrote over 248
compositons.
Works: El rostro de fuego, opera (1990); El mayorazgo de Ballantrae, orch
(1986); 3 concertos, gtr (1986, 1991, 1993); 3 concertos, vn (1988, 1991,
1992); 2 concertos, fl (1989, 1993); Emma Zunz, alt, ch (1990); 3 concertos,
vc (1990, 1993, 1999); Rutas, (1990); Argres (1990); 3 concertos, pn (1990,
1993, 1998); Concerto, va (1991); Argres 1 (1993); Argres 2 (1993); 3
symphonies (1994, 1995, 1996); Argres 4 (1996); Argres 5 (1996). Chamb,
instr, sacred, pn music.
Sources: ISC

Parpart, Gunter, Argentine composer, choral conductor, and music critic

of German origin; b.10 May 1928, Duisburg, Rhineland, Germany. He
settled in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1952. He studied with Roberto García
Morillo, Carlos Guastavino, and Juan F. Giacobbe at the Cons. Superior de
Música Manuel de Falla of Buenos Aires. Board member of the Asociación
Argentina de Compositores and of the Editoral Argentina de Compositores.
Works: 4 symphonies; Ascención, symph sketch; Cantos de soledad,
Cantata, sop, instr ens; Mass, soloists, ch, orch; Tres movimientos
sinfónicos, orch; Salón de baile porteño, sextet; Wind quintet. Chamb, pn,
voc music.
Sources: DMEH, ISC, VMA
Parra, Gustavo, Colombian composer; b.1 Jan 1963, Ipiales, Nariño,
Colombia. He began musical studies as a youth living in Quito and entered
the Cons. Nacional there in 1981. He studied sound editing at the Inst.
Cubano del Arte e Industria in Cuba. He studied cello with David Jenkis at
the Escuela Sinfónica de Quito where he took courses with Mario Baeza,
René Bonilla, Julio Masquera, María Niles, and César Ramón. He returned
to Colombia in 1982 where he continued studies at the Univ. Nacional de
Colombia and began teaching at various institutes. He also worked as an
asst. conductor and participated in the Orq. Juvemiles de Colombia project.
Works: Reflejos (1985); Arreglos, on themes by Alan Parsons orch (1987);
Villancico al Verbo Divino, ch, orch (1988). Chamb, ch, pn, voc music.
Sources: DMEH

Párraga Paredes, Manuel María, Venezuelan pianist and composer; b.ca.

1826, Venezuela; d.1895, Bogatá. Despite his fame in the late 19th century,
little is known of his early life. He is believed to have trained with Nicolás
Que-vado Rachadell. He was one of a group of pianists in the Orq. de la
Sociedad de Conciertos founded in 1846 by Enrique Price. Párraga formed
the Orq. de la Unión Musical with the German violinist Alejandro Linding
in 1857. His compositions comprise piano works that combine stylistic
elements of Chopin and Schubert with contemporaneous Colombian
elements.
Works: Gran nocturne de concierto, op.1; Fantasía brillante, op.4; Aires
nacionales neogranadinos variados, op.14.
Sources: DMEH

Parral de Velasco Ibarra, Corina, Ecuadorian pianist and composer of

Argentine birth; b.1905, Bahía Blanca, Argentina; d.7 Feb 1979, Buenos
Aires. She graduated as a gold medal pianist from the Cons. Alberto
Williams and continued studies with Juan Carlos Paz. She married José
María Velasco Ibarra, five-time president of Ecuador and advocate for the
arts. She worked with the Ecuadorian Unión de Artistas Nacionales to
improve and promote the Orq. Sinfónica Nacional de Ecuador. A volume of
her complete works was published in Ecuador.
Works: Ilusión, sop, pn, orch.
Sources: DMEH
Parreiras Neves, Inácio, Brazilian composer, conductor, and singer;
b.ca.1730, Vila Rica de Albuquerque (today Ouro Preto), Minas Gerais,
Brazil; d.ca.1793, Vila Rica. His activity was centered mainly in the Prov.
of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Singer at the Irmandade de Nossa Senhora das
Mercés dos Perdões, and in 1752, he entered the Irmandade de São José dos
Homens Pardos of Vila Rica de Albuquerque, where he became involved in
its musical affairs.
Works: Credo, mixed ch, small orch (1780-85); Oratória ao Menino Deus
para a Noite de Natal, Christmas oratorio; Antifonía Salve Regina.
Bibl.: G. Béhague, Música Mineira Colonial à Luz de Novos Manuscritos,
Barroco, Vol.3, 1971.
Sources: EMB2, GDM

Pascual, Tomás, Guatemalan choirmaster; fl. 1595-1635. He was active in

San Juan Ixcoy, Huehuetenango, where he produced a corpus of religious
music contained in Santa Eulalia M. Md. 7.
Works: Hoy es día placer, 4 voc; Si tanta Gloria se da y Victoria.
Villancicos.
Sources: DMEH

Pascual Navas, María Esperanza, Argentine guitarist and composer; b.2

Jun 1913, Buenos Aires; d.14 Nov 1986, Buenos Aires. She graduated from
the Inst. Musical Fontova in 1925 with specialization in theory and solfege.
She studied guitar with Hilarión Leloup and Domingo Prat. She concertized
locally and taught guitar before starting her career teaching composition at
the Cons. Nacional de Música y Arte Escénico in 1931. She became part of
the nationalist school of composition inspired by indigenous music and
prevalent in the 1930s.
Works: Atardecer en Maimará, orch; Procesión y danza al Gran Pucará,
orch; Danza orgiástica, gtr; Poema, gtr; La Ñusta Kori-Huanca (La Virgen
Efigie de Oro), ob, va, female voc, perc, gtr. Pn, voc music.
Sources: DM, DMEH

Pasqués, Víctor A., Argentine lawyer and composer; b.23 Mar 1896,
Baradero, Prov. of Buenos Aires, Argentina; d.2 Oct 1961, Buenos Aires,
Argentina. He studied music with Josefina Abella. In 1920, he graduated
with a Doctorate in jurisprudence from the Univ. Nacional of Buenos Aires,
Argentina. Music teacher at various schools.
Works: Preludio, orch; Incendio, female ch; Six Lieder, on poems by
Leopoldo Lugones; Tres canciones argentinas and Dos laúdes, on text by
Alfredo Bufano.
Sources: DM, DMM, EMA

Pastor Farill, Luis Gonzaga, Mexican composer; b.1966. He earned a

master’s degree in choral conducting and studied composition with
Humberto Hernández Medrano at the Centros de Estudios Corales of the
Dirección Nacional de Coros del Sistema Nacional de Fomento Musical
and pursued post-graduate studies in film scoring at Berklee College of
Music. He coordinated the Laboratorio de Informática Musical y Música
Electroacústica (LIMME) de la Escuela Nacional de Música de la UNAM,
where he also taught composition.
Works: Cubanerías, orch (2003); Sontata, cl, orch (2006); Introspecciones,
fl, cl (2008); El águila y la serpiente, orch (2010).
Sources: GP

Pastor Marco, Rafael, Cuban composer and professor of Spanish origin;

b.30 Nov 1860, Alicante, Spain; d.13 May 1947, Havana. He studied
harmony with Francisco Vilar and piano with Domingo Dispert in Spain
and by 17 wrote his first compositions serving as chapel master in the
Colegio de Alicante. He moved to Madrid where he studied harmony and
orchestration with Cosme de Benedito and singing with Napoleón Verger
while performing as a bass in the Capilla Real. He moved to Cuba in 1896,
and founded the Acad. de Artes y Letras de Cuba.
Works: Miserere, voc, orch (1877); Misa en si bemol; Salve; La aparición
del Salvador, oratorio; A la memorie de Wagner, symph poem; En un tumba
de Verdi, symph poem. Voc, orch, band pn music.
Sources: DMEH

Pastor Marco, Segundo, Ecuadorian teacher, guitarist, and composer of

Mexican birth; b.23 June 1916, Poveda de la Sierra, Guadalajara; d.9 Nov
1992, Madrid. As a child he moved with his family to Cuenca, Ecuador,
where at age 10 he was playing the organ in a village church. He studied for
a career in teaching and formed an award-winning dance band. He
completed musical studies in Madrid where he studied harmony and
composition. He studied guitar under Daniel Fortea. Ha attained a modicum
of fame as a touring guitarist specializing in the music of Francisco Tárrega,
Joaquín Turina, and Enrique Granados. He was an honorary prof. at the
Univ. of Oswego, New York. His compositions comprise classical works for
guitar.
Works: Elegía; Ensueño; Fantasía hispano-americana; Homenaje a la
Alcarria; La Mancha de Don Quijote, suite.
Bibl.: Escuela de guitarra española
Sources: DMEH

Patiño, Lucía, Ecuadorian composer and pianist; b.1967, Quito, Ecuador.

She studied at the Inst. de Música Sacra, at the Centro de Difusión Musical
of the Orq. Sinfónica Nacional, at the Inst. de Estudios Musicales, and at
the Cons. Nacional de Música, all of Quito. In 1986, she was awarded a
scholarship to study music at the Univ. of Lousiville, KY, USA, where she
obtained a BM degree. Prof. of piano at the Cons. Nacional de Música and
at the Fundación Zaldumbide Rosales, both of Quito.
Works: Meditaciones sobre la muerte (1988); Lamento guerrero, sop,
female ch, orch, orch (1990).
Sources: DMEH, MG

Patiño Andrade de Copes, Graciela, Argentine composer and educator;

b.7 Feb 1920, Buenos Aires, Argentina. She completed studies at the Cons.
de Buenos Aires in piano and solfege (1937), and at the Cons. Nacional de
Música y Arte Escénico in harmony (1940), piano (1941), and composition
(1945). Her instructors included Jorge C. Fanelli, Jorge de Lalewicz, Athos
Palma, José Torre Bertucci, and Arturo Luzzatti. She also studied
orchestration with Julián Bautista. Her dedication to education compelled
her to obtain a degree in continuing education from the Univ. Nacional de
Luján and studies in sociology at the Univ. Católica Argentina. Music
supervisor at the school system of the Consejo Nacional de Educación of
Buenos Aires.
Works: Symphony, pn, orch; El rubí, ballet; Dos bocetos sinfónicos; Suite,
pn; Sonata, vn, pn; Tema con variaciones, vn, pn; String quartet. Pn, voc
music.
Bibl.: El coro escolar (música argentina) (1967); Introducción al canto
coral (1968); La orquesta: guía didáctica para el maestro (1970).
Sources: DM, DMEH, DMM, EMA

Pauly, Mauricio, Costa Rican-born bassist and composer; b.1976, San

José, Costa Rica. He studied music at the Colegio Saint Clare (1990-1993),
the Univ. Latina de Costa Rica (1997-98), the Florida International Univ.
(MA, 2004), the Koninklijk Cons. voor muziek en dans (2005-06), and the
Univ. of Manchester (Ph.D., 2011). He taught at the Royal Northern
College of Music and was a Fellow at the Radcliffe Inst. for Advanced
Study at Harvard Univ. beginning in 2014. His work is largely atonal.
Works: Every New Volition a Mercurial Swerve, str qt; Las Prisa Educable,
cl, vc, pn; Dust Unsettled, voc, trb, vc, pn, perc.
Sources: NMLA

Pauta, Ascencio, Ecuadorian composer; fl. 19th century. No biographical

data appears to survive. Some of his works appear in Álbum de música, a
publication sponsored by President Gabriel García Moreno.
Works: Zona Tórrida, orch; Another Celibate Machine, vn, bs fl, gtr, vc,
perc, electronics. Voc, ch music.
Sources: DMEH

Pavia, Marcela, Argentine composer; b.1957, Rosario, Prov. of Santa Fe,

Argentina. She graduated from the Escuela de Música of the Facultad de
Humanidades y Artes of the Univ. Nacional of Rosario, with a degree in
composition. Later, she continued music studies with Dante Grela,
Francisco Kröpfl, and Daniel Sueiro. Prof. at the Collegium Musicum, the
Univ. of the Museo Social Argentino, and the Cons. Superior de Música
Manuel de Falla, all of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Member of the
Agrupación Santafesina de Compositores and of the Agrupación Nueva
Música, both of Rosario.
Works: Ecos, 2 fl; Hardyal, cl; Requiem; Octet, fl, ob, cl, hn, str qt; Pieza,
fl; Dúo, fl, cl; Pieza, chamb orch.
Sources: CAMR

Pavón Sarrelangue, Raúl, Mexican composer; b.31 Mar 1930, Mexico;

d.2008. He studied piano with María de la Luz Torres. He studied guitar,
with Andrés Segovia, and guitar construction. He studied engineering in
communications and electronics and later, computing in Paris. He studied
electronic music in Milan and Cologne and the United States and pioneered
electronic music with Héctor Quintanar in Latin America with the project
Icofón at the Cons. Nacional de Meusica in Mexico.
Works: Imitativos (1973); Suite icofónica (1983); Fantasía creacionista
(1985); Fantasía de la muerte (1987); Fantasía abstracta (1989).
Sources: DMEH

Payá, Francisco, Argentine composer of Spanish origin; b.1897,

Guipúzcoa; d.2 Sep 1929, Buenos Aires. He moved to Buenos Aires at 16
to join the theater. He joined the Teatro Apolo where he would eventually
take over the orch. He wrote primarily for theater.
Works: Zarzuelas; comedies; incidental music.
Sources: DMEH

Paz, Jorge, Mexican composer; b.20 Dec 1956/1957, Mexico City, Mexico.
He studied at the Cons. Nacional de Música of INBA, at CENIDIM, and at
the Escuela de Perfeccionamiento Vida y Movimiento, all in Mexico City,
with Rodolfo Halffter, Wlodzimiers Kotonski, Manuel Enríquez, Jean
Claude Eloy, Mario Lavista, and Federico Ibarra.
Works: Pieza para orquesta de cuerdas (1996); Alba, orch (1996); Oda a
Muroroa, xylophone, orch; Piano Concerto (1996). Chamb, ch, pn,
electroacoustic, computer music.
Sources: DCMMC, DMEH

Paz, José Luis, Venezuelan composer, pianist, and teacher; b.30 Mar 1919,
Maracaibo; d.12 Apr 1969, Maracaibo. He studied piano with Cayetano
Martucci and at 22 entered the Escuela de Música de Caracas to study piano
with Evencio Castellanos and Moisés Moleiro, harmony with Antonio
Estévez, and counterpoint and fugue with Vicente Sojo. He competed for
and won the position of pianist in the Orquesta Sinfónica Venezuela,
worked in the orch. of Luis Alfonzo Larrain, and served as artistic and
musical director in radio. He was named Dir. of the Acad. de Música de
Maracaibo in 1953. In 1957, he was awarded a scholarship to study piano
and composition under Bruno Mazzota at the Cons. de Música San Pietro a
Maiella in Naples. Upon return to Venezuela he resumed direction of the
Cons. de Música de Maracaibo, where he worked as prof. of harmony,
piano, and composition until his death.
Works: Misa de la Virgen de la Chiquinquirá; Ave María, ten, orch; Sonata,
vn, pn; Suite, fl, pn; Ecce Sacerdos Magnus.
Sources: DMEH

Paz, Juan Carlos, Argentine composer, musicologist, and music critic; b.5
Aug 1901, Buenos Aires, Argentina; d.25 Aug 1972, Buenos Aires. He
studied composition with Constantino Gaito and Eduardo Fornarini in
Buenos Aires, and later, with Vincent D’Indy at the Schola Cantorum in
Paris, France. He studied piano, org with Roberto Nery and Jules Beyer.
Founding member of the Grupo Renovación in 1929, and the Agrupación
Nueva Música in 1936, both of Buenos Aires.
Works: Canto de Navidad, orch (1927); Tema y transformaciones, 11 winds
(1929); Movimiento sinfónico (1930); Wind octet (1930); Sonatina No.1, cl,
pn (1930); Suite for Ibsen’s Juliano Emperador, orch (1931); Tres piezas,
orch (1931); Sonatina No.2, fl, cl (1932); Sonatina No.3, ob, bsn (1933);
Concierto No.1, fl, ob, cl, bsn, tpt, pn (1932); Cuatro composiciones
dodecafónicas: No.1, fl, eh, vc (1934); No.2, fl, pn (1935); No.3, cl, pn
(1937); No.4, vn (1938); Concierto No.2, ob, tpt, 2 trb, bsn, pn (1935);
Passacaglia, orch (1936); Overture, 12 instr (1936); Cuatro piezas, solo cl
(1936); Tres composiciones en trío: No.1, fl, cl, bsn (1937); No.2, cl, tpt, alt
sax (1938); No.3, fl, ob, bcl or bsn (1940-45); 2 string quartets (1938, 1940-
43); Música, orch: Preludio y fuga, orch (1940); Música, fl, sax, pn (1943);
Passacaglia, str orch (1944-49); Dedalus 1950, fl, cl, vn, vc, pn (1950-51);
Rítmica constante (1952); Continuidad 1953, pn, perc (1953-54); Seis
superposiciones (1954); Tres contrapuntos, cl, electric gtr, celesta, tpt, trb,
vc (1955); Transformaciones canónicas (1955-56); Música, bsn, str, perc
(1955-56); Continuidad 1960 (1960-61); Invención, str qt (1961);
Estructuras 1962, chamb orch (1962); Música, pn (1964); Concreción, fl,
cl, bsn, hn, tpt, trb, tb (1964). Chamb, pn, org music.
Books: Introducción a la Música de Nuestro Tiempo, Buenos Aires, 1952;
La Música en los Estados Unidos, Buenos Aires, 1952; Arnold Schoenberg,
o el Fin de la Era Tonal, Buenos Aires, 1954; Alturas, Tensiones, Ataques,
Intensidades, Buenos Aires, 1970.
Bibl.: J.C. Bechinsky, Juan Carlos Paz, Buenos Aires, 1964. J. Romano,
Juan Carlos Paz, Tribulaciones de un Músico, Buenos Aires, 1970.
Sources: BB, CA, CTA2, DCM, DM, DMEH, GDM, MLA, MMLA

Paz Hermo, Egidio, Argentine composer of Spanish birth; b.ca.1863,

Caramiñal, Galicia; d.25 Feb 1933, Buenos Aires. He came from a musical
family with whom he trained. He moved to Buenos Aires in 1888 and
worked as a composer for theater, a director of Orfeón Gallego, and a
promoter for the Centro Gallego.
Works: Alma gallego, ch (1904); Angustias del querer, zarzuela; El dolor
de una delora, zarzuela; Rosiña de Belsar, zarzuela. Theater, voc, ch music.
Sources: DMEH

Paz Ruiz, Marceliano, Colombian performer and composer; b.13 Jun

1903, Pasto; d.1983, ? He studied guitar with his mother, theory with
Ramón Rosero, and flute with Luis Gúzman. He studied music in the USA
with James Politis and John Guumer. Upon return to Colombia he worked
on the railroad while also teaching flute at the Inst. de Bellas Artes. He
would also play flute in a number of orchestras.
Works: Divertimento, fl; Flute quintet on a theme by Gluck; Himno a los
Ferrocarriles Nacionales; Variaciones sobre un bambuco anónimo
nariñense.
Sources: DMEH

Pazmiño Trota, Terry Shyry, Ecuadorian guitarist and composer; b.1949,

Quito, Ecuador. He studied philosophy and literature at the Univ. Simón
Bolivar, and music at the Cons. Juan José Landaeta, both in Caracas,
Venezuela. Studied guitar with Antonio Lauro and Alirio Díaz. He also
studied in Paris, France, with Alberto Ponce. Founding member of the
Asociación de Guitarristas of Ecuador.
Works: Contrapunteando, popular Ecuadorian suite; Suite ecuatoriana,
cantata. Gtr music.
Sources: DMEH, MG

Pazos, Carlos, Mexican composer; b.1 Mar 1953, Oaxaca, State of Oaxaca,
Mexico. Started music studies at the Cons. Nacional de Música of INBA,
Mexico City, Mexico. With a scholarship from the Secretaría de Educación
Pública of Mexico, he studied at the Moscow State Cons. Piotr Ilyich
Tchaikovsky, and at the St. Petersburg (formerly Leningrad) Cons., both in
Russia. He also attended a composition course given by Luis de Pablo at the
Real Cons. Superior de Música of Madrid, Spain. Founded the Asociación
Civil de Intérpretes, Musicólogos, y Compositores graduated in URSS.
Works: Popol Vuh, opera (1985); 4 symphonies (1983, 1992, 1994, 1995);
Pasacalle, orch (1993); Iconografía, orch (1994); Urbes, ballet (1995);
Interludio y fuga (1996); Rapsodia mestizo (1999). Pn, ch, voc music.
Sources: DCMMC, DMEH, GP

Peacan del Sar, Rafael, Argentine composer; b.6 Jun 1884, Buenos Aires,
Argentina; d.1960, Buenos Aires. He studied harmony, counterpoint,
composition, and orchestration with Carlos Pedrell and Eduardo Torrens
Boqué. Artistic dir. of the Exposición Internacional de Arte por el
Centenario de la Revolución Argentina in 1910. Prof. at the Cons. Nacional
de Música Carlos López Buchardo of Buenos Aires, and the Escuela
Superior de Bellas Artes of the Univ. Nacional of La Plata, Prov. of Buenos
Aires, Argentina.
Works: Chrysanthème, opera (1927); Las rosas, ballet (1915); Misa de
Requiem; La conversión de Longino, oratorium. Ch, voc music.
Sources: CA, DM, DMEH, EMA, MMLA

Pedraza, Francisco, Mexican composer and guitarist; b.21 Mar 1963,

Mexico City.
Works: Fantasía, gtr (1975); Le jerónima, gtr (1979); La invasion de la
noche, 3 cb (1986); Elegía a ser una casta pequeñez, pn (1986); Misa de
Gloria, org (1990). Band, ch, voc, instr music.
Sources: DMEH

Pedreira, José Enrique, Puerto Rican composer and pianist; b.2 Feb 1904,
San Juan, Puerto Rico; d.6 Jan 1959, Puerto Rico. He started his music
studies at the Academia de Piano of Rosa and Ana Sicardó of Puerto Rico.
In 1928, he went to New York, NY, USA, to study piano with Sigismund
Stojowsky. When he returned to Puerto Rico in 1932, he opened his piano
studio, and formed a piano and organ duo with his student, José Raúl
Ramírez. Several of his compositions were later orchestrated by his student,
José Raúl Ramírez.
Works: Concerto in D, pn, orch (1924). Chamb, pn, voc music.
Sources: CPR, DMEH
Pedreiras Rodríguez, Martín, Cuban composer and guitarist; b. 19 Jan
1952, Havana. He studied music at the Escuela Nacional de Arte de La
Habana (1969-1975), where his primary instrument was guitar, and
continued studies at the Inst. Superior de Arte. His major instructors
included Isaac Nicola and Leo Brouwer. From 1985 he worked at the
Editora Nacional de Música de Cuba, where he translated and published
collections and transcriptions of pedagogical guitar works by living
guitarists such as the Iranian Joseph Urshalmi and Cuban José A. (Ñico)
Rojas. He concertized on guitar throughout Cuba and in 1990 became a
music adviser for the Festival Internacional de Guitarras de La Habana.
Works: Suite simple, gtr (1976); La canción del son, voc, gtr (1977); Sobre
mi hombre, voc, fl (1986); Divertimento I, gtr (1987); Preludio son (1987);
Divertimento II (1990); Son de cuna, 12 gtr (1991).
Sources: DMEH

Pedrell, Carlos, Uruguayan composer; b.16 Oct 1878, Minas, Uruguay; d.9
Jan/3 Mar 1941, Montrouge, near Paris, France. He studied with his uncle
Felipe Pedrell in Madrid and Barcelona, Spain, and later, with Vincent
D’Indy and Pierre Bréville at the Schola Cantorum in Paris, France. Music
supervisor at the school system of the Consejo Nacional de Educación in
Buenos Aires, Argentina. Prof. at the Univ. of Tucumán, Prov. of Tucumán,
Argentina. In 1921, he went to Paris where he remained for the rest of his
life.
Works: Une nuit de Schéhérazade, orch (1908); Danza y canción de Aixa,
orch (1910); En el estrado de Beatriz, orch (1910); Fantasía argentina,
orch (1910); Ouverture catalane, orch (1912); Ardid de amor, opera (1917);
Pastorales, voc, orch (1928); Cuento de abril, opera (1924); La guitarra,
opera (1924); La rose et le gitan, ballet (1930); Alleluia, ballet (1936). Ch,
voc music.
Bibl.: A. Suáres, Carlos Pedrell, Revue Musicale, June 1931.
Sources: BB, BHMCU, DM, DMEH, EMA, GDM, MLA, MMLA

Pedro, Roque de, Argentine composer, teacher, and journalist; b.26 Nov
1935, Comodoro Rivadavia. He studied piano and composition at the Cons.
Nacional Carlos López Buchardo, where he would chair the institute, and at
the Escuela Nacional Bellas Artes Manuel Belgrano. He also assumed
chairmanship of the Cons. Municipal and was general dir. of Educación
Artística de la Municipalidad de Buenos Aires. He was the music critic for
the daily paper, Clarín, for 18 years. He founded the experimental group,
Movimiento Música Más, in 1989 and directed it for the next decade.
Works: Mburucuyá, ballet; Rip van Winkel, ballet (1960); Tres canciones,
sop, chamb orch (1960); Concierto para piano y orquesta (1966);
Evoluciones, orch (1966); Partita de Brescianello, orch (1976); Dos tangos
para orquesta (1987); Momenticos, ballet (1989); Tres momentos, str orch
(1991); Concierto (con algo de tango…), cbsn, bsn, orch (1991). Chamb,
ch, voc, pn, electroacoustic music, mixed media and experimental pieces.
Sources: DMEH

Pedrolini, Aquiles, Argentine composer and priest; b.12 Sep 1872, Buenos
Aires, Argentina; d.12 Sep 1930, Rodeo del Medio, Mendoza. He studied at
the Colegio San Carlos, where he served as magistrate until 1905, and was
amongst the first Salesian priests in Argentina. He actively promoted the
development of sacred music there. He founded the magazine, Santa
Cecilia. He directed children’s choirs
Works: Religious ch, voc music.
Sources: DEMH, EMA

Peixoto Alcoforado, Mário Guedes, Brazilian conductor and composer;

b.25 Jan 1933, Goiana, Pernambuco, Brazil. He studied at the Cons. de
Música of Pernambuco with César Guerra Peixe, Kelev Ruitzes, Father
Jaime Dinis, and Severino Revoredo. Musical dir. of Sociedade de Opera of
Pernambuco, and conductor of the Orq. Sinfônica of Recife, Brazil.
Works: Bujari, bar (1962); Aboio, orch (1979); Ciranda, orch (1979);
Maracatu, pn (1980); Polimorfia nordestina, orch (1984). Pn, popular
music.
Sources: EMB2

Pelaia, Emilio, Argentine teacher, music critic, and composer of Italian

origin; b.21 Jan 1894, Limbadi, Italy; d.? He studied violin with Hércules
Galvani at the Cons. Santa Cecilia of Buenos Aires, and harmony and
composition with the priest Josué Macrí. Prof. at various high schools of the
Consejo Nacional de Educación in Buenos Aires.
Works: De los Apeninos a los Andes, children’s comedy; Un viaje a la luna,
children’s comedy; Primera suite argentina and Segunda suite argentina,
orch; Danza india, orch; Quena en el valle, orch; Suite clásica, chamb orch;
Plegaria profana, chamb orch. Pn, voc music.
Sources: DM, EMA

Pelazza, Juan Bautista, Argentine organist and composer of Italian origin;

b.1848, Turin, Italy; d.1936, Argentina. He settled in Argentina in 1898.
Works: Cristóforo Colombo, oratorio.
Sources: EMA

Pemberton, Carlos, Argentine composer; b.13 Jan 1932, Buenos Aires,

Argentina. He studied with Julián Bautista and Roberto García Morillo.
Member of the Asociación de Jóvenes Compositores of Buenos Aires.
Works: Tres paisajes de Antonio Machado, mez sop, fl, vn, vc (1957);
Concertino de cámara, pn and ensemble (1962); Variaciones fugitivas, pn
(1962, orchestrated in 1966); Perseo, ballet (1965-67); Malleus
Maleficarum, orch (1968). Chamb, voc music.
Sources: DMM, DMEH, EMA

Peña, Víctor Manuel, Mexican composer; b.14 May 1952, Mexico City,
Mexico. He studied music with Alfonso de Elías, Yolanda Moreno,
Leopoldo González, and Don Sebesky. Also studied composition with
Mario Lavista.
Works: Escenas infantiles, ballet (1995); Tres canciones sin palabras, orch
(1990); Lamento, str (1996); Fuga, orch (1996); Post mortem, ch (1996).
Chamb, pn music.
Sources: DCMMC, GP

Peña Hen, Jorge, Chilean composer and conductor; b.1928, Santiago de

Chile, Chile; d.1973, Chile. He studied with Pedro Humberto Allende, René
Amengual, and Domingo Santa Cruz. Dir. of the Cons. Regional of La
Serena, Chile.
Works: La Cenicienta, opera; Coronación, ballet; Concertino, pn and
children, orch; Piano Concerto; String Quartet. Incidental film music.
Sources: DMEH, HMC

Peña Morel, Esteban, Dominican folklorist and composer; b.1897, DM

(1894, MMLA), Santo Domingo (Ciudad Trujillo), Dominican Republic;
d.6 Mar 1938, DM (1939, MMLA), Barcelona, Spain. He studied with
Alfredo Soler. Bassoonist at the Orq. Filarmónica of Havana, Cuba. He
performed important studies in folklore research.
Works: Anacoana, symph poem; Sinfonía bárbara, military band; Embrujo
antillano; Alma criolla.

Books: La Folklo-Música Dominicana, unpublished.

Sources: DM, MLA, MMLA

Peña Plaza, Ángel [Lito], Puerto Rican performer, composer, and

conductor; b.17 Jul 1921, Humacao; d.9 Jun 2002, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
He studied clarinet, saxophone, and piano with his father. He served as
organist of the church in his village. He studied piano further under
Carlemina Figueroa in San Juan. During WWII, he was a member of the US
Army Band. He performed in a variety of orchestras and bands afterwards
and studied harmony, beginning in 1963, at the Cons. de Música de Puerto
Rico with Julián Bautista. He was a member of the Junta de Directores de la
Corporación de las Artes Musicales de Puerto Rico and published a
biography on Juan Peña Reyes (1994).
Works: La ciudad gris, pn (1938); Suite Antillana, pn (1963); Bomba
puertorriqueña, voc, orch (1972); Fantasía Caribe, ch, orch (1972); Areita
final, ballet (1991). Band, voc music.
Sources: DMEH

Peña Ponce, Belisario, Ecuadorian composer and pianist; b.1902, Quito,

Ecuador; d. 12 Jul 1959, Quito. He studied piano with Ettore Pozzoli and
composition with Julio César Pasibini and Ildebrando Pizzetti at the Cons.
Verdi in Milan, Italy, from 1922 to 1929. When he returned to Ecuador in
1930, he was appointed subdirector of the Cons. Nacional de Música in
Quito, where later he became dir. In 1937, he traveled to Berlin, Germany,
to study piano at the Hochschule für Musik.
Works: Edipo en Colona, orch; Himno del III Congreso Eucarístico
Nacional (1958); Mass in D minor, 4 mixed voc. Pn, ch, voc music.
Sources: DMEH, MG, MMLA

Peña Reyes, Juan, Puerto Rican violinist, educator, and composer; b.22
Sep 1879, Humacao; d.7 Nov 1948, Humacao. He studied violin and
saxhorn with Lino Rendón in Humacao and with José Rendón in San Juan.
Peña played in the Banda de la Policía Insular. He studied harmony with
Julio César de Arteaga.
Works: Misa, ch, org (1924); Himno al arcángel San Rafael, voc, org
(1928); Brisas de otoño, pn (1928); Himno guadalupano, voc, org (1933);
Suite en Re menor, str qt (1938). Band, voc music.
Sources: DMEH

Peñin, José, Venezuelan composer of Spanish origin; b.14 Oct 1942,

Pereda de Ancares, León, Spain. He studied music at the Facultad de Artes
y Ciencias Musicales of the Univ. Católica of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and
graduated with a Licentiate degree in musical education, musicology, and
composition in 1974. He also studied at the Inst. Inter-Americano de
Etnomusicología y Folklore of Caracas, Venezuela, where he later became a
researcher. Dir. of the Academia de Música San Agustín in Buenos Aires,
1969-72, and researcher at the Inst. Latino Americano de Investigaciones y
Estudios Musicales Vicente Emilio Sojo of Caracas in 1978.
Works: Ainapsih, symph poem, ch, orch, non-conventional instr; Espejos,
str qt; Sonata, org; Música para sonar con corno y maderas; Requiem para
un coro muerto, choral-symph composition; Cinco estampas a Petare, 4
mixed ch.
Sources: ISC

Perales, Stella, Argentine composer; b.23 Aug 1944, Rosario, Prov. of

Santa Fe, Argentina. She graduated from the Escuela de Música of the
Facultad de Humanidades y Artes of the Univ. Nacional of Rosario, with
degrees in composition and music education. She studied later with Dante
Grela and Francisco Kröpfl. Dir. of the Escuela National de Música of the
Univ. Nacional of Rosario.
Works: Gestación I, trio, dance (1975); Divertimento, 11 instr (1976);
String quartet (1977); Contraste, pn (1981); Conflicto en el tiempo,
electroacoustic music (1985); Semejanzas, vc (1985); Gestación II,
electroacoustic music (1985).
Sources: CAMR

Peralta, Ramón Emilio, Dominican composer and conductor; b.1868,

Santiago de los Caballeros; d.7 Dec 1941, Santiago de los Caballeros. He
studied music with Rafael Ildefonso Arté, José Feliu, and Adolfo Núñez.
He moved to Havana and played soprano saxophone in the Banda Militar
de Música del Batallón Yaque de Santiago. He founded and directed the
Banda y Academia Municipales in 1905. The band developed a repertoire
of over 1200 pieces, promoted works by Dominican composers, and earned
significant praise.
Works: El guapo, zarzuela; Gloria de Quisqueya, orch. Band, dance music.
Sources: DMEH

Peralta Cáceres, Catalina Leonor, Colombian composer and teacher; b.28

Dec 1963, Bogota. She studied oboe at the Cons. de la Univ. Nacional de
Colombia (1979-83) and composition with Alfred Uhl at the State Academy
of Music and Representational Arts in Vienna (1983-87). She studied
electrocoustic music with Dieter Kaufmann in the Institute of Electronic
Music and Acoustics and received a scholarship to work in the Carl
Michael Ziehrer Foundation (1989-1990). She taught at the Univ. Nacional
de Colombia, chaired the composition division there, and worked as asst.
prof. at the Univ. de los Andes in Bogota.
Works: Elegía Extraordinaria, ob, eh, vibraphone, xyl (1985); Labarinto
gamma, pn (1987-88); Epígrafe, orch (1995); Turtur-Tetrix … Casi un
Diágolo Allá Afuera, tape (2000). Chamb, electroacoustic music.
Sources: DMEH

Peralta Castera, Ángela, Mexican pianist, singer, and composer; b.6 Jul
1845, Puebla, Mexico; d.30 Aug 1883, Mazatlán, Sinaloa, Mexico. She
studied voice with Agustín Balderas, solfeggio with Manuel Barragán, and
composition with Cenobio Paniagua in Mexico. She studied voice with
Francesco Lamperti in Italy.
Works: Nineteen salon pieces for piano (1875).
Sources: DMEH, IEW

Peramo Cabrera, Tulio, Cuban composer, editor, and professor; b.14 Sep
1948, Havana. He studied singing with Constanta Kirova at the Escuela
Nacional de Arte and composition with Roberto Valera at the Inst. Superior
de Arte de La Habana. He also studied with Félix Guerrero, Leo Brouwer,
and Harold Gramatges. He was a supervising editor for Editora Musical de
Cuba.
Works: String Quartet (1985); Evocación, vn (1986); Para Gershwin – A
Mid-Fall Morning Smile, gtr (1986); La parabola del rey, orch (1987); 24
Piezas breves para piano (1990); Tientos y cantos, gtr, orch (1991); Rumbo
al océano, gtr qt (1992).
Sources: DMEH

Perceval, Julio Miguel Adolfo, Argentine organist and composer of

Belgian origin; b.17 Jul 1903, Brussels, Belgium; d.7 Sep 1963, Santiago de
Chile, Chile, in a car accident. He studied organ with Paul de Maleingrau at
the Brussels Royal Cons., and later, with Marcel Dupré in Paris, France. He
settled in Argentina in 1926. Organist at the Metropolitan Cathedral of
Buenos Aires, the Colegio Nacional of Buenos Aires, a high school
affiliated with the Univ. Nacional of Buenos Aires, and at the Teatro Colón
of Buenos Aires, Argentina. He had a strong relationship with the founding
members of the Grupo Renovación, and later, he became a member of the
Agrupación Nueva Música, both in Buenos Aires. In 1939, he organized
and directed the Cons. de Música of the Univ. Nacional de Cuyo, Mendoza,
Prov. of Mendoza, Argentina. In 1959, he settled in Chile, where he was
prof. of organ, composition, and counterpoint at the Facultad de Ciencias
Musicales of the Univ. Nacional of Chile, Santiago de Chile.
Works: Cantata para la primera fundación de Buenos Aires, soloists, ch,
orch, orch (1935); Te Deum, for soloists, org, ch, orch, orch (1944-45);
Poema criollo, pn, orch (1945); Canto a San Martín, soloists, ch, orch,
children’s ch, orch, military band, orch (1950); Salve, voc (1956). Chamber,
pn, org music.
Sources: BB, CA, DM, DMEH, EMA, MLA, MMLA

Perches Porrás, José, Mexican composer, pianist, and pedagogue; b.1853,

Chihuahua; d.1913, Chihuahua. He studied music with Julio Ituarte at the
Cons. Nacional de Música de México. He taught music theory in
Chihuahua.
Works: El poder de tu Mirada, pn (1885). Dances; salon pieces.
Sources: DMEH

Percuoco, Carlos, Argentine trumpeter and composer of Italian origin; b.27

Oct 1888, Naples, Italy; d.? He settled in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1908,
where he studied with Vicente Scaramuzza, Eduardo Fornarini, and
Constantino Gaito. Principal trumpet of the Banda Municipal of Buenos
Aires, 1910-26, and later, its assoc. conductor, 1926-33.
Works: Obertura en La menor, orch (1944); Norteñas, symph poem (1946).
Sources: CA, EMA

Pereira, Antônio Leal de Sá, Brazilian composer, pianist, teacher, and

writer; b.Aug 1888, Salvador, Bahía, Brazil; d.21 Feb 1966, Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil. He started to study piano in Europe: in Paderborn, Germany, and in
Paris, France, with Motte Lacroix at the Schola Cantorum. Later, he studied
harmony and counterpoint with Heinrich Lang and piano with Bruno Eisner
and Ernest Hut-cheson in Berlin, Germany. In 1915, he went to Lausanne,
Switzerland, where he studied with Emile Blanchet. He was the founder of
the Cons. de Música of Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Prof. and dir. of
EMUFRJ. Founding member of the Academia Brasileira de Música.
Works: Tango brasileiro, pn; Berceuse, pn; harmonization of the Brazilian
National Anthem, 4 voc, orch. Piano pieces; songs; choruses.
Books: Um Teste de Apreciação Musical, Rio de Janeiro, 1932; Ensino
Moderno do Piano, São Paulo, 1933; Psicotécnica do Ensino Elementar da
Música, Rio de Janeiro, 1937; O Pedal na Técnica do Piano, Rio de
Janeiro.
Sources: EMB2, MMLA

Pereira, Artur, Brazilian composer and teacher; b.12 Sep 1894, São Paulo,
Brazil; d.3 Aug 1946, São Paulo. He studied piano with Alessandro Longo
and composition with Daniele Napoletano at the Cons. Reale di Musica San
Pietro a Majella of Naples, Italy. Prof. at the Cons. Dramático e Musical of
São Paulo. Founding member of the Academia Brasileira de Música.
Works: Atala, opera; L’intrusa. Interlúdio para um bailado infantil, orch;
Cabocla bonita, mixed ch; Capim da Lagoa, mixed ch; Seis peças
monotonais sobre Temas do folklore brasileiro, pn; O poema da negra, voc,
orch, on a poem by Mario de Andrade; Missa da Glória; Cançôes
populares brasileiras, ch, orch. Chamb music.
Sources: DM, EMB2, MLA, MMLA

Pereira, Elpidio de Brito, Brazilian composer, violinist, conductor, and

teacher; b.16 Oct 1872, Caxias, Brazil; d.13 Apr 1961, Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil. He started music studies in his native town with Antônio Cariman
and Antônio Coutinho. At sixteen years of age he went to Paris, France,
where he studied harmony with Antoine Taudou and composition with
Domenico Ferroni. He returned to Brazil and started to teach violin and
music theory in Belém, Pará, and Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil. In 1913, he
went back to Paris where he furthered his composition studies with Paul
Vidal.
Works: Calabar, opera; Missão de Jesus, orch; Les pommes du voisin;
Prelùdio; Fantasía pastoral; Sol poente; Scherzo. Pn, voc, sacred music.
Sources: EMB2, MMLA

Pereira, Raimundo, Venezuelan composer and teacher; b.15 Mar 1927,

Calabozo, Guárico, Venezuela; d.25 Aug 1996, Calabozo. He attended the
Escuela Normal Miguel Antonio Caro and the Escuela de Música José
Angel Lamas, both in Caracas, studying in the latter one under Vicente
Emilio Sojo. Prof. at several Venezuelan music schools.
Works: Movimiento sinfónico (1959); Cántico, ch (1963); Guariqueña, orch
(1965); Canción de la nueva mujer venezolana (1968). Chamb, film,
theater, voc, pn music.
Sources: DMEH, EMV

Pereira da Silva, Adelaide, Brazilian pianist and composer; b.5 Jul 1928,
São Paulo, Brazil. She studied piano with Nair de Sousa, Hans Bruch, and
Dinorá de Carvalho, and harmony and counterpoint with Osvaldo Lacerda,
and composition with Camargo Guarnieri. She taught at the Faculdade de
Música Marcelo Tupinamba, the Escola Superior de Música Santa
Marcelina, and the Faculdade Santa Cecilia, all in São Paulo.
Works: Ele nasceu lá na Loanda (1964); 2 suites, 2 pn (1965); Reza de
Umbanda (1971); Sonatina, 2 pn (1975); Coros infantis brasileiros (1977);
Canto da terra (1980). Chmb, voc music.
Sources: IBCC, IEW, NGDWC

Pereira Lecaros, Celerino, Chilean composer, pianist, conductor, and

teacher; b.8 May 1874, Santiago de Chile, Chile; d.1942, Viña del Mar. He
revealed a penchant for music by age four and in 1882 commenced studies
with the violinist Alberto Ceradelli. Prof. and dir. of the Cons. Nacional de
Música of Chile, Santiago de Chile.
Works: Mirando al mar, symph sketch (1903); Capricho y danza
fantástica, orch (1904); Elegía, orch (1904); Mass (1971). Chamb, ch, pn
music.
Sources: DMEH, HMC

Pereira Montes, Celerino, Chilean composer; b.1897, Santiago de Chile;

d.1941, Santiago de Chile. He was a critically acclaimed composer of music
in contemporaneous press; however, his works do not appear to have
survived.
Works: Détresse, voc, pn. Orch, pn, chamb music.
Sources: DMEH

Pereyra Lizaso, Nydia, Uruguayan composer, pianist, and teacher; b.12

May 1916, Rocha, Uruguay. She started music studies with Dolores Bell
and Carmen Barrera at the Cons. Teresiano of Rocha. Later, she settled in
Montevideo, Uruguay, where she studied piano with Guillermo Kolischer,
harmony, counterpoint, and fugue with José Tomás Mujica, and
composition with Enrique Casal Chapí. Prof. at the Cons. Kolischer and at
the Inst. de Enseñanza Musical, both in Montevideo.
Works: Cantata de Navidad; Symphony; String quartet; Sonatina, pn; Duo,
cl, pn; Cuatro miniaturas, vn, va. Music for the stage; piano pieces;
chamber music; choral music; songs.
Sources: BHMCU, DMEH, MU, NGDWC

Pérez, Delfín, Venezuelan composer, ethnomusicologist, pianist, and

teacher; b.2 Apr 1955, Caracas, Venezuela. He started his first studies of
composition in Caracas, with Yannis Ioannidis, and ethnomusicology at the
Inst. Interamericano de Etnomusicología y Folklore. Later, he studied
composition in Argentina with Eduardo Kusnir and Mariano Etkin, and in
Brazil with Hans Joachim Koellreutter. In 1984, he was awarded a
scholarship from Fundayacucho/Conac to study at the New England Music
Cons. in Boston, MA, USA. He taught at Taller de Música of Caricuao,
Colegio Emil Friedman, Casa Rómulo Gallegos, all in Venezuela, and at
Harbor Performing Arts Center, New York, NY, USA.
Works: Acciones (1976); Tributo (1978); Urka (1979); Prosa para seis
instrumentos (1981); Iris (1981); Thelonius Monk in memoriam (1982);
Septet, str, winds, perc (1985); String quartet (1986); Discurso, orch
(1988).
Sources: EMV

Pérez Cámara, Efraín, Mexican composer; b.23 Nov 1892, Mérida,

Yucatán; d.15 Jun 1967, Mexico City. In 1907 he entered the Inst. de José
Cuevas Pachon and studied violin with Cayetano de las Cuevas and
harmony with Francisco Heredia Rosada. At 16, he enrolled in the Cons.
Nacional de Música de México. He taught harmony and viola in the Escuela
de Música de Mérida. and became Dir. of the Banda de Música del Estado
in 1915. He would later direct bands in Hunucmá and Motul and guest
conduct orchestras in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Peru.
Works: Tzentzontli, opera (1940); Edmeé, symph overture (1948); Ensueño
maya (1948); Rapsodia yucateca (1949).
Sources: GP

Pérez de Bocanegra, Juan, Peruvian singer and composer; fl. 16th-17th

century. He was a singer in the Catedral de Cuzco by 1592, where he
managed the choral books, and was noted as skilled in plainchant and
organ. By 1613, he was a priest and member of the Third Order of St.
Francis. He is reputed to have produced the first polyphony in the
Americas, a religious work in the Quechuan language.
Works: Hanacpachap, 4 voc. Religious music.
Sources: DMEH

Pérez González, Nicolás, Paraguayan guitarist, singer, and composer; b.6

Dec 1927, Asuncion, Paraguay; d.18 May 1991, Asuncion. In 1943, he
joined the Coro Polifónica de Altenea Paraguayo and the following year
won a scholarship to study with Sofía Mendoza at the Escuela Nacional de
Canto. He also studied composition with Francisco Alvarenga in Buenos
Aires (1950) and vocal technique with Faroni Fainhaus in São Paulo (1951-
53). He studied composition and orchestration with Gerardo Guevara and
Carlos Tuxen-Bang in Paris (1966-71).
Works: Mangoré, gtr (1966); Tres canciones paraguayas en guarani, voc,
gtr (1966); Limón, voc, perc (1968); Elegía, cantata (1970); Tarumá (1976),
Songs; chamb works; music for television.
Sources: NMLA
Pérez González, Rodolfo, Colombian composer, conductor, researcher, and
promoter; b.22 Feb 1929, Medellín. He studied violin with Joseph Matza,
piano with Annamaría Pennella, harmony with Boshuslav Harvaneck at the
Inst. de Bellas Artes de Medellín. He founded the Coral Tomás Luis de
Victoria and taught at the Liceo Univ. de Antiquia, the univ. of Medellin
and Pontificia Boli-variana, and at the colegios Isabel la Católica and
Mayor de Antioquia. In 1959, he organized and headed the Cons. de Música
de la Univ. de Antioquia. He transcribed many polyphonic works from the
15th through 17th centuries from South American archives. He was invited
by the USA government in the 1960s to assist in choral courses at the Univ.
of Oakland, Michigan with Robert Shaw and Kleyton Krebihely and with
Pro Música Antigua of New York with Lanoue Davenport and Ernst
Murphy. He founded the Grupo de Vientos de Medellín (1980), the Grupo
Vocal de Cámera de la Facultad des Artes de la Univ. de Antioquia (1982),
and received an honorary doctorate from the Univ. de Antioquia (1987).
Works: El inspector, opera (1956); Salmo miserere, 3 voc, ch, str orch
(1969). Songs; chamb music.
Sources: DMEH

Pérez Monagas, Ariel, Venezuelan composer, conductor, pianist, and

teacher; b.29 Jul 1949, Caracas, Venezuela. He studied at the Escuela de
Música of the State of Lara, Venezuela, and at the Escuela de Música José
Angel Lamas of Caracas. He also studied at the Inst. Interamericano de
Educación Musical of the Univ. of Santiago de Chile, Chile, and at the
Butler Univ., Indianapolis, IN, USA, where he obtained Licentiate and
Master’s degrees in different musical subjects. Conductor of several
choruses in Venezuela.
Works: Ciudad nocturna, orch (1976); Oratorio por la paz del hombre,
soloists, nar, ch (1984-87); Discrepancia sinfónica, fl (1985). Chamber
music; vocal and choral music; hymns; instrumental music.
Sources: EMV

Pérez Puentes, José Ángel, Cuban guitarist, composer, and conductor; b.20
Sep 1951, Havana, Cuba. He studied guitar, percussion, and clarinet at the
Cons. Amadeo Roldán where his instructors included Isaac Nicola, Jesús
Ortega, Juan Junco, and Domingo Aragú. He graduated with a degree in
composition from the Inst. Superior de Arte (1981) while studying with
Roberto Valera. He taught at the Cons. Amadeo Roldán and at the Escuela
Nacional de Arte. He founded various orch. and guitar ensembles, including
La Orq. de Guitarras de la ENA.
Works: Exponentes del paisaje, bar, nar, 2 gtr (1976); Polipuntos y
contragolpes I y II, 9 perc instr (1977); Toccata, vc, pn (1979); Concierto
para niños No. 3, orch (1980); Para on hada con hilos de oro, gtr, orch;
Dos preludios, gtr (1985).
Sources: DMEH

Pérez Sentenat, César, Cuban teacher, pianist, and composer; b.18 Nov
1896, Havana, Cuba; d.4 May 1973, Havana. He studied music theory and
solfeggio with José Molina, and piano with Antonio Saavedra, Rafael
Serrano, and Hubert de Blanck. From 1913 to 1922, he studied in Paris,
France, with Joaquín Nin Castellanos and Léon Saint-Requier at the Schola
Cantorum. In 1922, he returned to Cuba and became prof. of piano and
harmony at the Cons. Nacional de Música of Havana. He helped to organize
the Orq. Sinfónica of Havana, together with Gonzalo Roig and Ernesto
Lecuona, and in 1924, he joined Amadeo Roldán to create the Orq.
Filarmónica of Havana. Prof. of piano at the Cons. Municipal of Havana,
where he became dir. in 1931. He held several official posts in musical inst.
before and after the 1961 revolution. In 1961, he was prof. of piano and
conducting at the Cons. Guillermo Tomás of Guanabacoa, Cuba. In 1965,
he was appointed general dir. of the Consejo Nacional de Cultura of Cuba.
Works: Suite cubana en Sol menor, pn; Preludios en todos los tonos, pn;
Cuatro estampas para un pionero, pn; Martianas; Tres canciones
campesinas; Tríptico de villancicos cubanos.
Sources: DMC, DMC2, DMEH

Pérez Velázquez, Ileana, Cuban composer and professor; b.24 Mar 1964,
Cienfuegos, Cuba. She studied piano and composition at the Inst. Superior
de Arte (BA, 1989) with Carlos Fariñas and Ninowska Fernández-Britto.
She won compositional prizes from the Unión de Escritores y Artistas de
Cuba (UNEAC) and at the Concurso Nacional de Juventudes Musicales and
was lauded at several music festivals. She moved to the USA in 1993 where
she pursued studies in electroacoustic music at Dartmouth College (MA,
1995) with Jon Appleton, Charles Dodge, Larry Polansky, and Kathryn
Alexander. She then entered Indiana University (DMA, 2000) to work with
Claude Baker, Eugene O’Brien, and Marta Ptaszynska. She worked briefly
at Portland State University before becoming Prof. of Music Composition
and Electronic Music at Williams College in Williamstown, MA.
Works: Cinco Telegramas para los Srs. X, C, D, B, y F, large instr ens
(1990); Un ser encantado, aguas saladas, y piedras infinitas, 2 pn, 2 perc
(1997); Fragmented memories, orch (1999); Kuru ku fuku…Lega celu yen
di splendor, fl, cl, bsn, 2 vn, va, vc, cb, perc, pn, gtr (2001); Duendes
Alados, str qt (2001); Cipres, fl, vn, vc, gtr (2003); Beguiling breezes, gtr qt
(2003); Inflorescence, orch (2005); Like the subtle wings of love, fl, cl, va, 2
perc, 5 voc (2008); Idolos del sueño, vn, cl, vc, pn, sop (2009); Alma de
guije, str qt (2012); Del falso amor impuro, vn, alt sax, pn, perc (2013);
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (2014). Chamb music; electroacoustic
works; ch pieces.
Sources: CW, DMEH

Pérez Ximeno, Fabián, Mexican choirmaster; b.ca.1595; d.17 Apr 1654,

Mexico. He appears first as a well-paid second organist at the Catedral de
México in 1623 and financial records reveal his work as an inspector of
organs in various churches. He rose to the position of first organist and
choirmaster and wrote a corpus of work preserved in the archives of the
Catedral de Puebla.
Works: Missa de la Batalla sexti toni, 8 voc; Missa super Beatus vir, 11
voc; Magnificat Secundi toni, 11 voc; Magnificat Tertii toni, 8 voc; Dixit
Dominus, 8 voc; Laudete Pueri, 11 voc; Ay, ay galeguiños, 5 voc.
Sources: DMEH

Pericás Díaz, Jaime, Puerto Rican violinist and composer; b.13 May
1870/72, Aguadilla, Puerto Rico; d.2 Apr 1938, Ponce, Puerto Rico. He
studied music with Antonio Egipcíaco, Juan Morel Campos, and G.
Carreras. He organized the Banda Escolar de Ponce and founded and
directed the Club Mandolinas. His death certificate reveals he died of a
cerebral hemorrhage.
Works: Lirios y rosas, orch; El día de Farfantón, operetta; Así canto mis
amores, voc, pn.
Sources: DMEH
Perini, Mario, Argentine composer, conductor, and performer; b.19 Oct
1911, Buenos Aires; d.16 Aug 2000, Córdoba, Argentina. He studied violin
at the Cons. Santa Cecilia de Buenos Aires. He then studied viola with
Bruno Bandini and composition with Juan F. Giacobbe. He played popular
tangos in various bands throughout much of the 1930s and 1940s. He
became first violist in the Orq. Filarmónica de Buenos Aires in 1946. In
1950, however, he left to take the same spot in the Orq. Sinfónica de
Córdoba. He was one of the founding faculty of the music department at the
Univ. Nacional de Córdoba, where he played viola in the string quartet,
taught classes in harmony, composition, and orchestration, and would lead
the Madrigalistas. In 1956 he left the univ. and formed the Coro Claudio
Monteverdi. From 1962 to 1981, he conducted the Coro Polifínico. He
returned to the Univ. de Córdoba in the 1970s to teach composition.
Works: Los Atridas, ballet; Por valles y sierras, str orch (1947); Concierto
para 4 violas y orquesta (1947); Madrigal aymara, chamb orch (1954);
Concierto sinfónico (1961); Takjuaj, ballet (1965); No corras paloma mía,
ch (1983); Romance de la luna, ch (1989); Concierto para trompeta y
orquesta (1990); Tres motivos argentines, vn (1991). Ch music; chamb
works.
Sources: DMEH

Perón Hernández, Alain, Cuban composer; b.4 Jul 1966, Havana, Cuba.
He studied at the Escuela Nacional de Música of Havana, where he
graduated in 1987. From 1989 to 1994, he took graduate courses in
composition at the Facultad de Música of the Inst. Superior de Arte of
Havana, under Roberto Valera. In 1994, he went to study at the Fundación
Phonos of the Univ. Pompeu Fabra of Barcelona, Spain.
Works: A través de los siglos, pn (1992); Mutaciones jeroglíficas, orch
(1995); De dos a Lucas, amplified gtr, magnetic tape.
Sources: CDMC, DMEH

Perusso, Mario, Argentine composer and conductor; b.16 Sep 1936,

Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied composition with Mario Marcolli and
conducting with Mariano Drago. Later, he was awarded a scholarship to
study with Alberto Ginastera at the Inst. Di Tella of Buenos Aires. He
began his music career singing in the opera chorus of the Teatro Colón of
Buenos Aires. In 1967, he was appointed opera conductor at the Teatro
Argentino in La Plata, Prov. of Buenos Aires, Argentina, an activity that he
later continued in other Argentine cities, Tucumán, Prov. of Tucumán,
Bahía Blanca, Prov. of Buenos Aires, and Buenos Aires. Member of the
Asociación de Jóvenes Compositores of Argentina.
Works: La voz del silencio, opera (1969); Escorial, opera (1989);
Guayaquil, opera (1993). Tres movimientos sinfónicos, orch (1956); Elegía,
orch (1964); Cantos de guerra, sop, orch (1965); Partita, vc solo (1967);
Invenzioni, str qt (1967); La eternidad y el viento, orch (1968); Requiem de
los angeles (1971); In memoriam, Roberto Kinsky (1976); Violin Concerto
(1983); Symphony No.3.
Sources: BB, DMEH, DMM, EMA

Petris y Gigli, Fabio de, Chilean organist, composer, and organist of Italian
origin; b.11 May 1849, Rome; d.28 Jun 1927, Concepción, Chile. He
studied piano, counterpoint, and organ at the Accademia di Federico
Capocci in Italy and at 14 had a formidable reputation as an organist. He
was organist at the Capilla Lateranense in Rome when Francisco Salazar
convinced him to direct the Cons. de Quito in Ecuador. Ensuing political
turmoil forced Petris to move to Chile, where he assumed the role of dir. of
the choir at Teatro Municipal de Santiago. He performed in concerts,
participated in the Sociedad de Música Clásica, accompanied the premiere
of the Sociedad de Cuarteto in 1885, taught, and wrote as a correspondent
with the Buenos Aires daily, El Mundo Artístico. He was named, in 1886,
prof. at the Cons. Nacional de Música with an opportunity to chair the
department if he renounced his Italian nationality.
Works: Sinonía de la toma del Huáscar, orch (1880);
Sources: DMEH

Pey Casado, Diana, Chilean composer of Spanish origin; b.8 Mar 1922,
Madrid, Spain. She started music studies in Madrid and continued them at
the Cons. Nacional de Música of Chile, Santiago de Chile, Chile, where she
studied composition with René Amengual, Juan Orrego Salas, and Alfonso
Letelier.
Works: Sonatina, fl, pn (1954); El cantar de los cantares, cantata (1961);
Sonata, 2 pn (1961).
Sources: HMC
Peyrellade Zaldivar, Carlos Alfredo, Cuban composer and pianist;
b.1840, Santa María de Puerto Príncipe, Camagüey, Cuba; d.9 Dec 1908,
Havana, Cuba. He studied piano with Nicolás Ruíz Espadero in Havana.
His father sent him to Paris, France, where he studied piano with Camille-
Marie Stamaty, and harmony with Maleden. Since 1871, he has lived in
Havana where he founded a cons. that bears his name.
Works: Ecos tropicales, Cuban capriccio (1866); Gran scherzo; Pongan
pleitos, zarzuela.
Sources: DMC2, DMEH, MMLA

Peyrellade Zaldivar, Eduardo, Cuban composer, pianist, and pedagogue;

b.1846, Camagüey; d.?, Havana. He studied violin under Antonio Solá and
piano and harmony with Antonio Coscuella. He studied piano in New York
while also studying to become a dental surgeon. He completed his medical
degree in 1869 and toured the USA as a pianist. He returned to Havana in
1870, where he also enjoyed accolades as a pianist. He would found the
Cons. de Música y Declamación with his brother Carlos Alfredo and
assume directorship upon his sibling’s demise. Most of his work was
unpublished.
Works: Polaca de salon; Vals lento; Impromptu; Scherzo. Cuban dances for
piano.
Sources: DMEH

Pfeiffer, Oscar, Uruguayan composer and pianist; b.ca.1824, Montevideo;

d.4 Aug 1906, Belgrano, Argentina. The son of a lawyer and a famous
Viennese female geographer, Ida Reyer-Pfeiffer, he was born on one of his
parents’ trips to the Americas but studied in Germany. He concertized on
piano from his youth with tours throughout Europe and had presented his
skills on stage in the Americas by 1850. At age 34, was celebrated in the
Latin American press as a Uruguayan-born pianist comparable to
Sigismond Thalberg, Franz Liszt, and toured the Río de la Plata region
before the virtuoso Louis Moreau Gottschalk. He settled in Buenos Aires to
teach and dedicate himself to composing. His obituary in 1906 reported he
died in poverty and virtual obscurity.
Works: Andante y rondó, pn, orch (1855); Gran fantasia dramática sobre
temas de la ópera Lucrezia Borgia de Donizetti, pn (1855); Dúo da dos
pianos sobre un tema de Norma de Bellini, pn (1858); Introducción y
variaciones sobre el Carnaval de Venecia, pn (1858); Variaciones para la
mano izquiera sobre un tema originali, pn (1858); Fantasía sobre el aria de
Dinorah, de la ópera El perdón de Ploermel de Mellerbeer, op. 27;
Fantasía sobre la introducción y danza de los esclavos moriscos del
Segundo acto de la ópera Aida de Verdi, op.29.
Sources: DMEH

Piaggio, Celestino, Argentine composer and conductor; b.20 Dec 1886,

Concordia, Prov. of Entre Ríos, Argentina; d.28 Oct 1931, Buenos Aires,
Argentina. He started music studies with his father, and then, studied
solfeggio with Jaime Bustamante, harmony with Alberto Williams, piano
and composition with Julián Aguirre, violin with Andrés Gaos, and
orchestral ensemble with Carlos Marchal at the Cons. de Música of Buenos
Aires. At the Schola Cantorum of Paris, France, he studied harmony with
Léon Saint-Requier, counterpoint with Groz, organ with Cinand and Abel
Decaux, Gregorian chant with Amédée Gastoué, and composition with
Vincent D’Indy. He returned to Buenos Aires in 1921, and was appointed
prof. of composition at the Cons. Williams of Buenos Aires.
Works: Overture in C minor, orch (1914); Sonata in C sharp minor, pn;
Homenaje a Julián Aguirre, pn. Pn, voc music.
Sources: CA, DM, DMEH, DMM, EMA, MLA, MMLA

Piantino, Eduardo, Argentine contemporary composer; b.12 Nov 1943,

Rosario, Prov. of Santa Fe, Argentina. He graduated from the Escuela de
Música of the Facultad de Humanidades y Artes of the Univ. Nacional of
Rosario, with a degree in composition. He continued music studies with
Dante Grela and Francisco Kröpfl. Prof. at the Escuela de Música of the
Univ. Nacional, the Escuela Nacional de Música, and the Inst. Nacional del
Profesorado de Música, all of Rosario.
Works: Voc, instr, stage music.
Sources: CAMR

Piazzini, Edmundo, Argentine composer, pianist, and teacher of Italian

origin; b.1857, Missaglia, Milan, Italy; d.1927, Castelar, Prov. of Buenos
Aires, Argentina. He settled in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1878. In 1904,
he founded, together with Alfonso Thibaud, the Cons. de Música Thibaud-
Piazzini of Buenos Aires.
Works: Pn music.
Sources: EMA

Piazzolla, Astor Pantaleón, Argentine composer and bandonion player;

b.11 Mar 1921, Mar del Plata, Prov. of Buenos Aires, Argentina; d. 5 Jul
1992, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He started music studies in New York City,
NY, USA, with Bela Wilde. In 1940, he returned to Buenos Aires and
studied composition with Alberto Ginastera and piano with Raúl Spivak.
Later, he took lessons from Nadia Boulanger in Paris, France.
Works: Suite, harp, str (1943); Rapsodia porteña, orch (1948); Suite, ob, str
orch (1949); Contemplación y danza, cl, str orch (1950); Buenos Aires,
three symph movements (1951); Tango dramático, 13 instr (1953);
Sinfonietta, chamb orch (1953); Tres minutos con la realidad, bandonion,
celesta, str orch (1955); Tango ballet, octet (1956); Hombre de la esquina
rosada, nar, voc, 12 instr (1960); Tango para una ciudad, qnt (1961); Serie
del diablo, qnt (1962); Serie de tangos, orch (1963); Oda íntima a Buenos
Aires, nar, voc, orch (1965); María de Buenos Aires, chamber opera nar,
soloists, 11 instr (1968); Tangata, orch (1969).
Sources: CA, DMEH, EMA

Picchi, Silvano, Argentine composer and music critic of Italian origin; b.15
Jan 1922, Pisa, Italy. He settled in Córdoba, Prov. of Córdoba, Argentina, in
1926, and then moved to Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1938. He studied with
Arnaldo D’Esposito, Constantino Gaito, José Torre Bertucci, Gilardo
Gilardi, Carlos Suffern, Roberto García Morillo, Alberto Ginastera, Floro
Ugarte, Arturo Luzzatti, and Erwin Leuchter. Music critic for the newspaper
La Prensa in Buenos Aires, since 1962. Prof. at the Cons. Superior de
Música Manuel de Falla of Buenos Aires.
Works: 7 symphonies; Suite irreverente, orch (1949); Divertimento, 2 gtr,
chamb orch (1951); Música para caballos, orch (1952); Cuatro poemas
cordobeses, mixed ch (1958); Nocturnales, sop (1958); Ruth, cantata
(1963); Violin Concerto (1965); Concierto, pn (1965); Contrapunto
all’antica, str (1968); Eue, Funeral Song on an African Theme, str (1968);
Homenajes (1969); Mozartiana (1971); Serie argentiana (1974); Vivaldiana
(1988); Música cuerdas (1992-93); Cecilia (1994). Tríptico, ch (1963);
Pequeños corales de amor, ch (1967); Invención copernicana (1984);
Magnificat (1985). Chamb, pn, org, gtr, voc music.
Sources: BB, CTA15, DMM, DMEH, EMA

Pichardo Vicioso, Miguel, Dominican pianist, organist, teacher, and

composer; b.1939, Santo Domingo, D.R. He studied music first with his
father, then studied piano from 1954 with Dionisia del Orbe de Agudín and
later with Hugo Toyos. He studied violin at the Escuela Elemental de
Música de Santo Domingo and at the Cons. Nacional de Música, where he
was in the first graduating class in composition under Manuel Simó. His
violin teachers included Jacinto Gimbernard, Ernesto Leroux, and Carlos
Suzi, and he took organ lessons with Lauriano Elcano. During the 1960s, he
embarked on recording projects and conducted and taught in a variety of
choral and symph. groups including the Coro Nacional and the Coro del
Cons. He studied piano, organ, orchestration, and harmony at the
Tchaikovsky Cons. in Kiev (1970-1975). He also studied composition with
Live Mikolayevich Kolodub. He taught harmony and analysis at the cons.
and the Univ. Autónoma de Santo Domingo where he also served as
chairman of the music department.
Works: Aura de Soledad, ch (1964-68); Negro manso, ch (1964-68); Tu
mano, ch (1964-68); Cuarteto, str, cl, fl (1964-68); Preludios, fl, pn (1964-
68); Proyección, orch (1969); Reflexiones, org, fl (1970-78); Rondó, str
orch (1975); Sierra Bahoruco, orch (1976). Pn, org music.
Sources: DMEH

Pickenhayn, Jorge Oscar, Argentine composer, musicologist, and music

critic; b.3 Mar 1921, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He graduated from the Cons.
Nacional de Música Carlos López Buchardo of Buenos Aires. He also
received a Doctorate degree at the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras of the
Univ. Nacional of Buenos Aires. Music critic for the newspaper El Pueblo
of Buenos Aires. He founded the musical magazine Polifonía in 1944. Dir.
of the Inst. Superior de Arte of the Teatro Colón of Buenos Aires. Prof. at
the Cons. Nacional de Música Carlos López Buchardo and the Cons.
Superior de Música Manuel de Falla, both of Buenos Aires.
Works: Sonatina, pn (1939); Diez corales breves, 4 parts (1939); Dos
impresiones criollas, orch (1941); La flauta de ébano, program sym.
(1942); 30 songs, voc, pn (1956).
Sources: DMEH, EMA
Pietrafresa Bonnet, Renée, Uruguayan pianist, keyboardist, and composer;
b.17 Dec 1938, Montevideo, Uruguay. She studied music with her mother,
the pianist Renée Bonnet. She also studied piano with Jörg Demus and José
Turchinsky, organ with Ángel Turriziani and Xavier Guerner, and
composition with Héctor Tosar and Jorge Arriagada. She received a French
government scholarship to study electroacoustic music with François Bayle
in the Groupe de Recherches Musicales. While in Paris she studied
conducting with Jacques Mercier. She founded the Coral de la Alianza
Francesca and the Ars Musicae in Uruguay. She oversaw the Pedagogía
Musical de la Escuela Univ. de Música de Montevideo. In 1984 she was
named Chevalier de l’Ordre des Artes et des Lettres in France.
Works: Padre nuestro, ch (1968); Enigmas (1978); Contemplación y sueño,
pn, synth (1978); Sonata “Renée Bonnet” (1980); Fantasías para cinta
magnética, tape (1980); 5 piezas para piano preparado, pn (1983-90);
Fantasía, orch (1992). Pn, synth music, mixed media.
Sources: DMEH

Pignoni, Remo, Argentine composer and pianist; b.4 May 1915, Rafaela;
d.15 May 1988? He studied music with Luis Ricci. He composed almost
exclusively songs and piano pieces.
Works: Da’ la Dorita, pn; Por el Sur, pn; Pal’ Ñato, pn; Como queriendo,
pn; Danzas tradicionales, pn; Danzas tradicionales, 2 gtr (1971). Voc
music.
Sources: DMEH

Pineda Duque, Roberto, Colombian composer; b.29 Aug 1910, Santuario,

Antioquía, Colombia; d.1977, Colombia. He started music studies at the
Inst. de Bellas Artes in Medellín, Colombia, and later, he studied piano with
Joaquín Fuster and harmony with Carlos Posada Amador. In 1942, he went
to Cali, Colombia, to study choral singing with Antonio María Valencia. In
the early fifties, he studied counterpoint, fugue, orchestration, 12-tone
technique, and composition with Carlo Jachino. Prof. of harmony and
composition at the Cons. Nacional de Música, and chapelmaster at the
Church Nuestra Señora de las Nieves, both in Bogotá, Colombia.
Works: Fantasía y tema con variaciones, orch (1953); Serenata, str (1954);
Fantasía coral, ch (1958); Edipo Rey, cantata, 2 nar, talking ch, mixed ch
(1959); Andante y presto, str (1959); Preludio sinfónico (1960); Concerto,
pn (1960); Concerto, vn (1960); Sinfonía (1961). Chamb, sacred music.
Sources: CTA7, DMEH

Piñera, Juan, Cuban composer and pianist; b.18 Jan 1949, Havana, Cuba.
He started music studies with César Pérez Sentenat, and later, he studied
with Silvio Rodríguez Cárdenas and Margot Rojas. Student at the Inst.
Superior de Arte of Havana.
Works: Cuatro primeras canciones, voc, orch (1977); Fresco, ch, pn, orch
(1981); Del espectro nocturno, gtr and tape (1986); Piano concerto (1992);
Es el amor la mitad de la vida. Pn, voc, ch, chamb music.
Sources: DMC2, DMEH

Pinilla Sánchez-Concha, Enrique, Peruvian composer, conductor,

musicologist, and writer; b.3 Aug 1927, Lima, Peru; d.22 Sep 1989, Lima.
He studied at the Inst. Bach with Carlos Sánchez Málaga, at the Academia
de Música Sas-Rosay with Andres Sas, and at the Cons. Nacional de
Música with Rodolfo Holzmann, all in Lima. In 1947, he went to Spain and
then to Paris, France, where he studied with Charles Koechlin. Later, he
studied at the Cons. Real of Madrid, Spain, for several years. With a
scholarship awarded by the Deutscher Akademischer Auslandsdienst, he
spent two years in Berlin, Germany, studying with Boris Blacher. He also
studied electronic music with Vladimir Ussachev-sky at Columbia Univ.,
New York, NY, USA, 1966-67. He returned to Lima in 1961 and was
appointed prof. at the Cons. Nacional de Música, where he taught music
history and ethnomusicology.
Works: Cuatro danzas para orquesta (1950); Four Pieces, orch (1960-61);
Festejo (1965); Evoluciones (1967); Song (1968); Piano Concerto (1970);
Peruvian Suite (1972). Chamb, pn, ballet, film, incidental music.
Sources: CTA11, DCM, DMEH, GDM

Pinto, Alejandro, Argentine composer of Polish origin; b.30 Aug 1922,

Nieswiez, Nowogrodek, Poland; d.18 May 1991, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
He settled in Argentina in 1935. He studied with Guillermo Graetzer.
Member of the Asociación de Jóvenes Compositores de la Argentina.
Founding member of the Editorial Argentina de Compositores.
Works: Los raptores, chamb opera (1951); Tiempo de Alejandra, voc, orch
(1968); Requiem, ch; Requiem para Alejandra, orch; Dybbuk, suite orch;
Tempo di marcia, orch; Canto a San Martín, nar, bar, mixed ch, orch;
Adonias, opera. Chamb, voc music.
Sources: DMEH, DMM, EMA, ISC, VMA

Pinto, Alfredo A., Argentine composer and pianist of Italian origin; b.22
Oct 1891, Mantua, Italy; d.26 May 1968, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He
settled in Argentina in 1915. He studied piano with Alessandro Longo and
composition with Camillo de Nardis at the Cons. Reale San Pietro a Majella
in Naples, Italy. Prof. at the Cons. Beethoven of Buenos Aires.
Works: La última esposa or Sheherazade, opera; Gualicho, opera (1940);
Nostalgias, symph prelude (1929); Eros, symph poem (1930); Contrastes,
orch (1932); Comentario a un canto d’annunziano, orch (1934); Serie
popular italiana, orch (1936); Rebelión, symph poem (1939); La esposa de
Cadi, lyric drama, (1939); El pillán, ballet (1947). Pn, voc, ch music.
Sources: BB, CA, CTA14, DMEH, EMA, MLA

Pinto, Octavio, Brazilian composer; b.3 Nov 1890, São Paulo, Brazil; d.31
Oct 1950, São Paulo. He was trained as an architect. He studied piano with
Isidor Philipp in Paris, France.
Works: Scenas infantis, pn (1932); Children’s Festival, pn (1939). Pn
music.
Sources: BB

Pinto Reyes, Guillermo, Mexican composer and organist; b.22 Dec 1922,
Villa de Dzitbalché, State of Campeche, Mexico; d.18 Jun 1997, León,
State of Guanajuato, México. He studied organ, composition, and Gregorian
chant with Miguel Bernal at the Escuela Superior de Música Sacra of
Morelia, Mexico. He also studied in Paris, France, with Nadia Boulanger.
Works: Suite en estilo antiguo, orch. Pn, sacred, voc, ch music.
Sources: DCMMC, DMEH

Pinzón, Jorge Humberto, Colombian composer, oboist, and teacher; b.10

Jan 1968, Moniquirá, Boyacá. He attended the Escuela Superior de Tunja
(1981-1986) where he studied theory and piano with Jorge Zorro and oboe
with Rizshard Jorosik and graduated with honors. He performed piano with
the Coro de la Escuela Superior de Tunja the Incolballet. He taught theory
and harmony at the Cons. Antonio María Valencia de Cali. He received a
scholarship to attend the Tchaikovsky Cons. in Moscow in 1988. He played
first oboe in the Orq. Filarmónica de Lima and was a member of the Banda
Sinfónica Nacional and taught theory in piano in the Escuela de Música
Coopfilarmónica de Bogotá.
Works: Suite, 2 ob (1991); Evocación, ob, pn (1992); Sonatina, vn, pn
(1992); Música para cuerdas y órgano sintetizador (1994); Evocación, fl,
pn (1996); Evocación, marimba (1996); Tres miniaturas, cl (1996).
Sources: DMEH

Pinzón Urrea, Cecilia, Colombian composer, conductor, and pianist;

b.1927, Bucaramanga, Colombia. She studied at the Acad. Departamental
de Música de Bucaramanga with Roberto Pineda Duque, Jaime Guilléen,
Artidoro Mora, and Leonardo Gómez Silva. She studied composition with
her brother in Bogota. She founded the Coro de Colores and the Centro
Musical Infantile in Bucamanga.
Works: Agnus Dei, ch; Arrurú, 2 voc; Cantares colombianos, ch;
Golondrinas mensajeras, 3 voc; Guabina Huilense, ch.
Sources: DMEH

Pinzón Urrea, Jesús, Colombian composer, conductor, pianist, and

ethnomusicologist; b.10 Aug 1928, Bucaramanga, Colombia. He began his
music studies in Bucaramanga, and later, entered the Cons. de Música of the
Univ. Nacional of Colombia, Bogotá, where he studied with Olav Roots,
Tatjana Gontscharowa de Espinosa, Roberto Pineda Duque, Fabio
González, Andrés Pardo, and José Rozo. Founding member and first
conductor of the Orq. Filarmónica, and prof. at the Cons. de Música, both in
Bogotá. President of the Sociedad de Autores y Compositores of Colombia.
Works: Sinfonía No.1 (1966); Estudio, orch (1970); Estructuras, orch
(1971); Sinfonía No.2, soloists, ch (1971); Concertante, tpt (1964); Viola
Concerto (1971); Contrastes, str (1963). Chamb, ch, pn music.
Sources: CTA17, DMEH

Pires de Campos, Lina, Brazilian pianist, teacher, and composer; b.1918,

São Paulo, Brazil; d. 14 Apr 2003? She studied the piano with E. Lubrano
Franco and L. Peracchi, theory with F. Francheschini, Caldeira Filho, and
O. Lacerda and after 1958, composition with Camargo Guarneri. She
graduated from the João Gomes de Aruajo Cons. and the Inst. Musical
Benedetto Marcello, São Paulo. She founded her own music school in 1964,
was a member of the Music Commission for São Paulo from 1969-71 and a
jurist at national piano competitions.
Works: Acalanto, pn (1959); Ponteio No.1, pn (1959); Valsa Nos.1 and 2,
pn (1960, 1975); Ciclo da boneca, 5 small pieces, pn (1961); Embolada,
voc (1961); Sete variacões sobre o tema Mucama Bonita, pn (1962); Chula
(Amazonia), mixed ch (1962); Preludios, No.1, 2, 3, va (1975); Sonatina, fl,
pn (1976); Toada, str orch.
Sources: IEW

Pires de Lima, D. Maria Clementina, Brazilian composer and

musicologist; b.8 Oct 1909?; d.1941? Sparse nominal references in texts
lack biographies and erronsously refer to her as Pires de Pires.
Works: Folclore, opera.
Sources: IEW

Pires dos Reis, Hilda, Brazilian pianist, conductor, teacher, and composer;
b.10 Oct 1919, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In 1929, she entered the Inst.
Nacional de Música of Rio de Janeiro, where she studied music theory and
solfeggio with Vera Vasconcelos Cavalcanti de Albuquerque, harmony with
Arnaud Gouveia, counterpoint and fugue with Paulo Silva, composition and
instrumentation with Francisco Braga, and conducting with Francisco
Mignone. In 1951, she was appointed prof. at the EMUFRJ and at the Cons.
Brasileiro de Música, both in Rio de Janeiro.
Works: Bailado dos gigantes de botas, orch (1942); O navio aventureiro,
symph poem (1943); Spanish Fantasy, orch (1945); Maracatu, orch (1945);
Introdução e modinha (1955); Revery (1963). Chambe, pn, voc music.
Sources: EMB2, IBCC, IEW

Pítari, Jorge Alberto, Argentine composer; b.16 Apr 1943, Buenos Aires,
Argentina. He graduated from the Univ. Católica Argentina of Buenos
Aires. With a scholarship he worked at the Centro de Investigación en
Comunicación Masiva, Arte, y Tecnología of Buenos Aires. Prof. at the
Dirección de Enseñanza Artística of Buenos Aires.
Works: Tres piezas (1970); Calidoscopio (1974); CMB 77 (1977); Tiento
(1977); El ave Fénix (1979); Suite de antiguas canciones sefaradíes, female
voc, str orch (1983); Veinte años después (1983); Canciones de Dago
(1991). Ch, electroacoustic music.
Sources: DMEH, DMM

Planchart, Alejandro Enrique, Venezuelan composer and musicologist;

b.29 Jul 1935, Caracas, Venezuela. He attended the Escuela Preparatoria de
Música in Caracas, where he studied piano with Istvan Nádas, music theory
with Flor Estévez and Juan Bautista Plaza, and harmony with Angel Sauce.
He also studied counterpoint with Vicente Emilio Sojo at the Escuela
Superior de Música of Caracas. Later, he studied composition at Yale Univ.,
New Haven, CT, USA, with H.L. Baumgartner, Quincy Porter, and Richard
Donovan, and musicology at Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA, USA, where
he received a Ph.D. in music. Prof. at Yale Univ.
Works: Tropos: Symphony No.1 (1968); Stetit Puella (1980); Nueve líricas
japonesas (1986). Chamb, pn, voc music.
Sources: DCM, DMEH, EMV

Plasencia, Ubaida, Peruvian pianist and composer; fl.19th century. She

performed in chamber concerts in 1876.
Works: El incognito, pn.
Sources: IEW

Plaza Alfonzo, Eduardo, Venezuelan composer, teacher, chorus conductor,

diplomat, and political scientist; b.11 Nov 1911, Caracas, Venezuela; d.1 Jul
1980, Caracas. He studied music with his brother, Juan Bautista Plaza
Alfonzo. Prof. at the Escuela Superior de Música José Angel Lamas and the
Escuela Preparatoria de Música Juan Manuel Olivares, both of Caracas. Dir.
of the Escuela Superior de Música and of the Escuela Preparatoria de
Música.
Works: Elegía arcaica, orch (1965); Himno de pro Venezuela, 4 voc, orch
(1959); Himno del cuerpo técnico de la Policía Judicial, ch, orch (1966).
Chamb, religious, pn, org, voc music.
Sources: CTA14, DMEH, EMV

Plaza Alfonzo, Juan Bautista, Venezuelan composer, teacher, organist, and

musicologist; b.19 Jul 1898, Caracas, Venezuela; d.1 Jan 1965, Caracas.
Brother of Eduardo Plaza Alfonzo. He studied piano and solfeggio with
Jesús María Suárez in Caracas. In 1920, he went to Rome, Italy, where he
studied at the Inst. Ponteficale di Musica Sacra with Licinio Refice, Césare
Dobici, Raffaele Casimiri, Raffaele Manari, Paolo M. Ferretti, and Edoardo
Dagnino. He returned to Venezuela in 1923, and became choirmaster and
organist at the Cathedral of Caracas. Prof. at the Escuela Nacional de
Música y Declamación (today Escuela de Música José Angel Lamas) and
supervisor of artistic education at the Centro de Extensión Cultural of the
Ministerio de Educación, both of Caracas.
Works: Misa en Mi menor, 2 voc, org (1924); Misa en Re mayor, 3 mixed
voc, org (1926); El picacho abrupto, symph poem (1926); Vigilia, symph
poem (1928); Campanas de Pascua, symph poem (1930); Las horas,
symph poem (1930); Fuga criolla, str qt (1931); Sonatina venezolana, pn.
Chamb, sacred, pn, voc music.
Books: Music in Caracas during the Colonial Period (1770-1811), MQ,
Vol.29, 1943. Música Colonial Venezolana, Letras Venezolanas, Caracas,
1958.
Sources: BB, CTA9, DM, DMEH, EMV, GDM, MLA, MMLA

Polonio, Cinira, Brazilian actress, singer and composer; b.1861, Rio de

Janeiro, Brazil; d. 1948. She studied singing and music in France and Italy
and made her debut as Marguerite in Faust in Rio, 1878.
Works: O Relogho de Cardeal, operetta (1919).
Sources: IEW

Pomar, José, Mexican composer, organist, pianist, conductor, and teacher;

b.18 Jun 1880, Mexico City; d.1961, Mexico City. He studied music with
his father and later studied piano with T. Alarcón and harmony with Félix
María Alcérreca, organ with Guadalupe Velázquez, and composition with
Gustavo E. Campa at the Cons. Nacional de Música. Prof. of theory and
choral singing at the Escuela Normal de México; teacher of theory and
composition at the Inst. Científico y Literario de Pachuca. He founded the
symph. orch. in Guanajuato and in León. In 1929, he moved to Mexico City
to work at the Cons. Nacional de Música teaching music theory. He
established and conducted the Coro de la Univ. Obrera de México. He
would serve as subdirector of the Escuela Superior Nocturna de México
until his death.
Works: América; Huapango (1931); Ocho horas; Preludio y fuga rítmicos.
Sonata para piano; Sonata para violin y piano; Suite infantile; Suite la
quimera; Suite del convent de San Francisco de Pachuca; La bestia parda;
Huelgas; Sinfonía América; Huapango.
Sources: DMEH, GP

Ponce Cuéllar, Manuel María, Mexican composer and pianist; b.8 Dec
1882, Fresnillo, State of Zacatecas, Mexico; d.24 Apr 1948, Mexico City,
Mexico. He started music studies with his older sister, Josefina, and with
Cipriano Avila. Later, he studied at the Cons. Nacional de Música of
Mexico City. In 1904, he went to Europe where he took lessons in
composition and orchestration with Enrico Bossi and Luigi Torchi in
Bologna, Italy, and studied piano with Martin Krause in Berlin, Germany.
After WWI, he went to Paris, France, where he took lessons with Paul
Dukas. When he returned to Mexico he was appointed prof. of piano at the
Cons. Nacional de Música of Mexico City. Conductor of the Orq. Sinfónica
Mexicana of Mexico City. Codir., together with Ruben M. Campos, of the
Revista Musical Mexicana. Editor of the monthly musical magazine
Cultura Musical.
Works: Piano Concerto (1910); Balada Mexicana (1918); Estampas
nocturnas, orch (1923); Canto y danza de los antiguos mexicanos, orch
(1933); Chapultepec, symph triptych (1929, 2nd vers.1934); Suite en estilo
antiguo, orch (1933); Poema elegíaco, orch (1934); Gavota (1936); Ferial,
orch (1940); Concierto del sur, gtr, orch (1941); Violin Concerto (1943);
Instantáneas mexicanas (1947); Canto de un soldado a la bandera;
Díptico; Intermezzo; Malgré tout; Marchita el alma; Rayanda el sol;
Scherzino mexicano; Estrellita. Chamb, pn, voc music.
Bibl.: D. López Alonso, Manuel María Ponce: Ensayo Biográfico, Mexico
City, 1950. J. Romero, Efemérides de Manuel Ponce, Nuestra Música,
1950.
Sources: BB, CTA1, DCM, DM, DMEH, GDM, GP, MLA, MMLA

Ponce de León, Esteban, Peruvian composer, priest, and choirmaster;

b.ca.1692?; d.1750s, Cuzco, Peru. An Augustinian priest, the earliest
mention of him is in provincial council documents in Lima in 1713. He is
later identified as a teacher of theology and as a composer. After 1750 he is
mentioned as the choirmaster in the Catedral de Cuzco.
Works: Antíoco y Seleuco, comedy (1743); Venid, venid deidades, opera
(1749); Comedia de S. Eustachio (1750); Dixit Dominus (1741);
Lamentación (1746).
Sources: DMEH

Ponce de León Ramírez, José María, Colombian composer; b.16 Feb

1846, Bogotá, Colombia; d.21 Sep 1882, Bogotá. He studied music, first
with Juan Crisóstomo Osorio in Colombia, and then, in 1867, he went to
Paris, France, where he studied under Charles Gounod and Ambroise
Thomas at the Cons. National de Musique. In 1871, he returned to Bogotá
and became conductor of the Band of Bogotá.
Works: Los diez, opera; Ester, opera; El castillo misterioso, opera;
Florinda, opera; Sinfonía sobre temas colombianos, orch; El himno a los
Andes; Apoteosis de Bolívar; Misa de Gloria; La voz humana, cantata;
Salve Regina; Misa de Requiem.
Sources: MLA, MMLA

Porras González, William, Costa Rican composer; b.26 Jun 1956. The son
of popular song and dance composer Paulino Porras Hidalgo, he studied
composition in the Cons. de Castella, where he received a degree in
composition (1973). He studied piano with Pilar Luzán, instrumentation
with Benjamín Gutiérrez, conducting with Agustíin Cullell, and
composition with Bernal Flores Zeller at the Escuela de Artes Musicales de
la Univ. de Costa Rica (BM, 1979). He was a founding member of the
Assoc. of Composers and Authors (ACAM) and served as vice-president
for 6 years.
Works: Amor, orch (1973); Sonata para un atardecer, pn (1979); Rapsodia
para orquesta (1996); Caminata especial, orch (2008); Caminata especial,
orch; Domingo de Resurrección, str orch; Ostinato para orquesta, orch;
Variaciones sobre la Guaria Morada, str orch. Chamb, pn music.
Sources: NMLA, TV

Portugal, Marcos Antônio da Fonseca, Brazilian composer and conductor

of Portuguese origin; b.24 Mar 1762, Lisbon, Portugal; d.7 Feb 1830, Rio
de Janeiro, Brazil. He studied music in Lisbon at the Seminario Patriarcal
with João de Sousa Carvalho, where in 1800, he was appointed mestre de
capela (chapelmaster). In 1792, he went to study to Naples, Italy. In 1811,
he settled in Brazil where he was appointed mestre da Capela Real (Royal
chapelmaster)
Works: Damofoonte, opera; Merope, opera; L ‘oro no compra amore, opera;
A saloia namorada, opera; Augúrio de félicitá, opera; Adrasto Re d’Eggito,
opera; La morte de Semiramide, opera. These operas established the
beginning of the lyric theater in Brazil. Sacred music.
Sources: EMB2, MMLA

Posada Amador, Carlos, Colombian composer; b.25 Apr 1908, Medellín,

Colombia; d.21/22 Dec 1993, Mexico City, Mexico. In Medellín he studied
violin with Pedro Begué and piano with Germán Posada at the Escuela
Santa Cecilia. In 1931, he went to Paris, France, to study at the Ecole
Normale de Musique with Nadia Boulanger and George Dandelot. Later, he
studied Gregorian chant with Amadée Gastoué and conducting with Vincent
D ‘Indy and Paul Dukas at the Schola Cantorum. When he returned to
Colombia, he studied fugue with Guillermo Uribe Holguín. Between 1935
and 1937, he was dir. of the Cons. del Palacio de Bellas Artes of Medellín.
He moved to Mexico in 1943, where he taught at the Escuela de Música of
the UNAM and the Cons. Nacional de Música, both in Mexico City. He
always kept his Colombian citizenship.
Works: Marinas, orch (1934); Obertura, orch (1937); La coronación del
Zipa en Guatavita, symph poem (1939) and ballet (1991); Concierto
barroco, harpsichord, str, fl, cl, hn, tpt, triangle (1981); Rubaiatas or Suite
lírica persa, bar, orch (1992). Chamb, instr, ch, pn, voc music.
Sources: CTA8, DM, DMEH, LCRA, MLA, ZCCC

Posada Saldarriaga, Andrés, Colombian composer; b.24 Feb 1954,

Medellín, Colombia. He studied piano and music theory at the Escuela
Superior de Música y Artes Representativas of the Univ. of Antioquía,
Medellín. He received Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in composition
from The Mannes College of Music in New York City, NY, USA, where he
studied with Leo Edwards and Peter P. Stearns. He also studied conducting
with Jacob Kreisberg in New York. Founder and dir. of the Laboratorio
Colombiano de Música Electrónica Jaqueline Nova in the Univ. Autónoma
of Manizales, Colombia. Music teacher at the Facultad de las Artes of the
Univ. of Antioquía.
Works: Poema para una catedral invisible, orch (1984); Obertura para un
concierto (1987); Los colores, orch (1988); Eventos móviles, 20 players
(1991); Danza para orquesta (1992); El pastor y la hija del sol, opera
(1995-98); Salmo 55, orch (1999). Chamb, ch, voc, electroacoustic music.
Sources: DMEH, ISC, LCRA

Posadas [Pozadas], Florencio, Bolivian violinist, percussionist, and

composer; b.7 Nov 1939, Potosí, Bolivia; d.6 Dec 1968, Bolivia. He studied
music in Potosí with Father José Díaz Gainza and José Sandi. Later, he
studied at the Cons. Nacional de Música Carlos López Buchardo of Buenos
Aires, Argentina.
Works: Pn, voc, perc music.
Sources: CB, DMEH

Potes Cortés, Alba Lucía, Colombian composer; b.28 Jun 1954, Cali,
Colombia. She studied mandolin with Hector Garcia beginning at age 12,
continued music studies and traditional music at the Cons. Antonio Maria
Valencia then at the Univ. del Valle and privately with Leon J. Simar. She
graduated from Temple Univ., Phila., PA, USA (1989) with a BS (theory);
Master’s degree (1991); PhD in composition (1997). Her composition
teachers included Ursula Mamlok, Matthew Greenbaum, and Maurice
Wright. She founded the Music Festival of the Americas based in NYC. She
teaches music theory, ear training, harmony, and counterpoint at the Mannes
College of Music in NYC and is a board member of the International
Society for Contemporary Music. Her works have been performed
internationally.
Works: Pedro Páramo, cantata, narr, tn, bar, ch, fl/bass fl, cl/bass cl, perc,
vc (2015); Amarillas eran sus mariposas (Then, his butterflies were
yellow), bs cl (2014); Changing Trains in Times Square in 30 Seconds, vn,
orch (2014); Tríptico, Colombian tiple, pn (2013); Soliloquios (Soliloquy),
pn (2012); Tukanos, gtr, chamb orch (2011); Todavía (Still), tnr, mixed ch,
chamb orch (2011); Entornos II (Glances II), alto sax (2010); Coplas
Andinas (Andean Couplets), sop, hrp (2008); ¿Qué puede ser ? (What could
that be?), bar or mezzo sop, dbl bass, perc (2004); Oleajes (Waves), str qrt
(2003); Toques de Arrullos, vc (Touches) (2001); Cánticos para Cinco
(Canticos for five players), ob, hn, vl, vc, pn (1998); Las Palabras (Words),
mezzo sop, orch (1997); Aprisa (Swiftness), fl, vc, pn (1994); Canciones
Nocturnas (Nocturnal Songs), sop, fl, cl, vc (1993); Canciones a la Tierra
(Songs for the Earth), vc, cl, pn (1989).
Sources: CW

Pozadas, Willy, Bolivian composer, percussionist, and conductor; b.1946,

Potosí, Bolivia. He attended the Colegio Nacional Pichincha and the
Academia de Bellas Artes de la Univ. Autónoma Tomás Frías. He studied
percussion with Antonio Yepes in Buenos Aires (1969). He studied
composition and conducting in the Taller de Música de la Univ. Católica
Boliviana with Alberto Villalpando and Carlos Rosso (1978). He performed
in the Conjunto “Ritmus” and the orch. of the Teatro Colón and the Teatro
San Martín. He founded and directed the Conjunto “Repercusión.” He
directed the Casa Juvenil de la Cultura “Juancito Pinto,” was chief of
Música del Teatro Municipal de la Paz, and administrated the Teatro
Municipal. Prof. de rítmica in the escuela del ballet official; Prof. of the
Taller de música de la Casa Juvenil Juancito Pinto; Prof. at the Escuela
Militar de Música de Viacha; teacher at the Univ. Evangélica de la Paz;
teacher at the Cons. Nacional de Música; music career teacher at the Univ.
Estatal Mayor de San Andrés en La Paz, Bolivia.
Works: Amtasiñani, native instr; Wiracocha, indigenous instr, ch;
Variamento para orquesta sinfónica; Ancestrofonías, orch; Paisajes, orch;
Pentafonías, gtr.
Sources: CW

Pozzati, Guillermo Daniel, Argentine composer; b.30 Jul 1958, Buenos

Aires, Argentina. He studied with Francisco Kröpfl. In 1978, with a
scholarship, he studied at LIPM. Prof. at the Univ. Nacional, the Cons.
Nacional de Música Carlos López Buchardo, and Fundación Antorchas, all
of Buenos Aires.
Works: Microsuite, pn (1985); El adiós, tape (1990); Elbi, fl, cl, eh, pn, vn,
vc (1993); Micromatematismo (1994).
Sources: DMM

Pozzi Escot, Olga, Peruvian composer and theorist; b.1 Oct 1931, Lima.
She studied at the Acad. Sás-Rosay in Lima (1949-53) with Andrés Sas and
later settled in the USA. She studied at the Juilliard School of Music in New
York (1956-57) with William Bergsma, at the Hochschule für Musik und
Darstellende Kunst in Hamburg, Germany (1957-61), and studied with
Philipp Jarnach. She taught theory and composition at the New England
Cons. of Music (1964-67, 1980-81) and at Wheaton College in Norton, MA
from 1972. She wrote The Poetics of Simple Mathematics in Music (1999)
and co-authored Sonic Design: The Nature of Sound and Music (1976) and
Sound Design: Practice and Problems (1981).
Works: Sinfonía (1953); Sinfonía para cuerdas (1955); Credo, sop, str qt
(1959); Tres poemas de Rilke, nar, str qt (1959); Lamentos, sop, 2 vn, 2 va,
pn, perc (1962); Cristos, fl, cbsn, 3 vn, perc (1963). Pn, voc music.
Sources: BB, CTA17, DMEH, NGDWC

Prada García, Juan Antonio, Cuban composer, orchestrator, pianist, and

teacher; b.18 Apr 1965, Havana. He studied piano with José Amer
Rodríguez at the Cons. Alejandro García Caturla and with Marina
Pavolovna at the Cons. Amadeo Roldán. He studied composition with
Harold Gramatges at the Inst. Superior de Arte, where he completed piano
studies and took courses in conducting. He taught at the Escuela de
Superación Profesional Ignacio Cervantes de La Habana (1988) and at the
Escuela Nacional de Música (1990-93). In addition to teaching workshops,
he would travel to Uruguay to teach at various inst. in 1994. Active in
international festivals, he has also recorded for film, theater, and television.
Works: Pinceladas, bsn (1986); Preludios, pn (1988); Penumbras, wind qnt
(1989); Fantasía, orch (1991); Divertimento para cuerdas (1990); Esbozos,
pn (1993); Controversia, ob (1999).
Sources: DMEH

Pradas, Santiago, Ecuadorian choirmaster and organist; b.ca.1777,

Cuenca; d. ca.1821, Cuenca. He studied with Pedro Arnaz and Juan Manuel
del Barrio at the Colegio San José as a member of the children’s choir of the
Colegio San José in the Catedral de Cuenca. He served as an organist in
Cuenca and composed a large body of religious works preserved there.
Works: Magnificat, 5 voc, vn, hn, fl, ob, org, cb; O quam suavis est, 2 sop,
org. Sacred music.
Sources: DMEH

Prado Quesada, Alcides, Costa Rican composer; b.5 Nov 1900, San
Ramón, Costa Rica; d.? He started music studies with his father, conductor
of the Banda Municipal of San Ramón, who taught him to play the viola
and the clarinet. Later, he entered the Colegio de Salesianos in Cartago,
Costa Rica, where he studied piano with Eduardo Peralta and Manuel J.
Freer, with whom he also studied music theory and harmony. He also
studied harmony and counterpoint with Julio Fonseca. Clarinetist and
conductor of several bands in Costa Rica. Conductor of the Military Band
of Alajuela, Costa Rica, in 1932. In 1940, he was appointed technical dir. of
music at the schools of the Republic of Zone I in Panama.
Works: Tamira, orch (1969); Remembranza, orch (1971); La casa del
diablo, opera; Amor campestre, zarzuela; String quartet; Misa de Requiem,
3 voc, org, orch; Dolorosa, funeral march; Plegaria a la Virgen de la
Soledad, tnr, org.
Sources: DMEH, MMLA

Prats Llorens, Rodrigo Ricardo, Cuban composer, conductor, violinist,

and pianist; b.7 Feb 1909, Sagua la Grande; 15 Sep 1980, Havana. He
studied violin from age 7 with Mauricio Ortega and Emilio Reinoso. He
soon enrolled in the Cons. Orbón to study harmony, composition, piano,
and violin. At 13, he was playing in the Cuban Jazz Band under his father’s
direction. He also joined the Orq. Sinfónica de La Habana, and in 1928
became the bandleader of the Compañía Hernández-Prats – a company
formed for his father and for Teófilo Hernández. He founded and directed
the Orq. de Sinfónica del Aire for radio between 1937 and 1940. In 1938 he
took the reins of the Orq. de Cámara del Circulo de Bellas Artes and began
teaching at the Cons. Iranzo, which he would later direct. He directed the
radio station RCH Cadena Azul (1941-48) and conducted the Orq.
Sinfónica del Ministerio de Educación (1942-50). He served as music
advisor and director of the Grupo Jorge Anckermann in the Teatro Martí
(1965-71).
Works: Así eres tú, voc, pn (1930); Canto a Camagüey, voc, pn (1931);
María Belén Chacón, zarzuela (1934); Allá en Oriente, voc, pn (1955); El
cocinero, pn (1955); Paisaje tropical; orch; Dos estampas guajiras, orch;
Amanecer e Intermezzo, orch; En la campiña; orch; Engancha carreteno;
orch; Jugando contigo, orch.
Sources: DMEH

Prieto y Fernández de la Llana, María Teresa, Mexican composer of

Spanish origin; b.22 Apr 1896 (DMEH, NGDWC)/1908 (NH), Oviedo,
Spain; d.24 Jan 1982, Mexico City, Mexico. She studied piano and
composition with Saturnino del Fresno at the Escuela de Bellas Artes of
Oviedo. Later, she studied piano with José Antonio Cubiles and harmony
and composition with Benito García de la Parra at the Cons. de Música y
Declamación of Madrid, Spain. In 1936, when the Spanish Civil War
started, she moved to Mexico and studied composition and orchestration
with Manuel M. Ponce, Carlos Chávez, and Rodolfo Halffter. She took
lessons from Darius Milhaud at Mills College, Oakland, CA, USA, in 1946
and 1947.
Works: Impresión sinfónica, pn (1940); Excelsitud, symph poem, ch (1941);
Sinfonía asturiana (1942); Chichén Itza, op.3, symph poem (1944);
Sinfonía breve, op.3a (1945); Variaciones y fuga (1946); Adagio y fuga, vc
(1948); Oración de quietud, symph poem, voc (1949); La danza prima
(1951); Sinfonía cantabile (1954); Sinfonía de la danza prima (1955);
Symphonic suite from the ballet El palo verde, op.18 (1956); Cuadro de la
naturaleza (1967); Tema variado y fuga (dodecafónico) (1965); Sonata
modal en tres movimientos, voc (1971). Chamb, voc music.
Sources: DMEH, GP, MMLA, NGDWC, NH

Pro Guardiola, Serafín, Cuban composer; b.30 Jul 1906, Havana, Cuba;
d.15 Sep 1977, Havana. He studied piano with María Luisa Chartrand,
choral conducting with María Muñoz, and harmony, counterpoint, and
music history and aesthetics with José Ardévol at the Cons. Superior de
Música in Havana. Dir. of the Coro Polifónico Nacional. Prof. at the Cons.
Superior de Música Amadeo Roldan and the Cons. García Caturla, both of
Havana. Dir. of the bulletin of the Grupo de Renovación Musical.
Works: La tarde, ch (1940); Estar así, ch (1940); Las siete doncellas, ch
(1940); Canción, ch (1940); Sinfonía de las campanas, orch (1945); Sonata,
orch (1951); Chorale and Fugue, str orch (1951). Pn, voc music.
Sources: DM, DMC2, DMEH, GDM, MMLA

Prudencio B., Cergio, Bolivian composer; b.3 Nov 1955, La Paz, Bolivia.
He studied guitar and flute, and later, composition and conducting at the
Univ. Católica of Bolivia, La Paz. Prof. of harmony, composition, and
music analysis at the Cons. Nacional de Música of La Paz.
Works: Perpetuidad, ballet (1978); La ciudad, native instr orch (1980);
Juegos imaginados, ballet (1985-87); AWASQA, electroacoustics (1985);
Cantos de piedra, native instr orch (1989); Cantos de tierra, native instr
orch. Chamb, film, theater music.
Sources: DMEH, ISC

Puelma Francini, Roberto, Chilean composer and conductor; b.24 Mar

1893, Santiago de Chile, Chile; d.1976, Santiago. He studied with Nino
Marcelli and Enrique Soro at the Cons. Nacional de Música of Chile,
Santiago de Chile, and later, he studied in Europe and the USA.
Works: Un drama en Recoleta, zarzuela (1912); Due intermezzi romantici
per grande orchestra (1915-7); Violin Concerto (1935-40); Lihuén, opera
(1936); El reino de las almas, symph poem (1939); Sinfonía abajeña
(1940); Ardid de amor, opera (1951). Chamb, voc music.
Sources: DMEH, HMC

Puig Hatem, Carlos, Cuban composer, trumpet player, and pedagogue;

b.20 Dec 1968, Havana. He studied cello, piano, and trumpet at the Cons.
Guillermo Tomás de La Habana. He attended the Cons. Amadeo Roldán
and won a scholarship to the Inst. Superior de Arte where he studied with
Roberto Valera, Harold Gramatges, and Félix Guerrero and became a
student asst. in harmony there in 1990. Upon graduation, he assumed the
role of prof. of harmony, orchestration, and composition (1992-94). He
served as chief conductor of the Orq. Sinfónica Infantil de La Habana
(1993-94) before moving to Santa Cruz de Tenerife, where he became an
asst. teacher at the Cons. Superior de Música (1994). He earned a MM from
the Univ. of Miami in 2010.
Works: El Güije, orch (1989); Auidi alteram partem, str orch (1990);
Sombras de Managuaco, mixed ch, str, perc (1991); A.G.C. Montparnasse,
orch (1992); Estilo de la palma, gtr (1992); Historia de lunas, str orch
(1993); Cuatro piezas para violin y piano (1993); Artificios, orch (1995);
Villancico, mixed ch (1995); Oda al Atlántico, mixed ch (1996);
Polymorphos, orch (1997); Triple concierto – Celebration, vn, vc, pn, orch
(1997).
Sources: DMEH

Pulgar Vidal, Francisco Bernardo, Peruvian composer; b.12 Mar 1929,

Huánaco, Peru. He studied piano with Gustavo Leguía and violin with
Mariano Béjar Pacheco, and later, studied harmony, counterpoint, and
orchestration with Andrés Sas, and fugue and composition with Roberto
Pineda Duque in Bogotá, Colombia. He received a degree in music from the
Cons. Nacional de Música of Lima, Peru, and a law degree from the Univ.
Mayor de San Marcos of Lima. Prof. of humanities at the Univ. Jorge Tadeo
Lozano of Bogotá.
Works: Suite mística (Danzas mestizas), str orch (1956); Taki No.1, orch
(1960); Chulpas, 7 estructuras sinfónicas (1968); Apu Inqa, sop, nar, ch,
orch (1970). Pn, ch, voc music.
Sources: CTA16, DMEH, GDM

Pulido Cejudo, Ignacio, Mexican composer; b.1961, Mexico City. He

studied theater and music at UNAM (1973-1979) and music, recording, and
performance at the Cons. Nacional de Música in Mexcio (1977-1987). He
worked as and audio engineer starting in 1990.
Works: Divertimento no. 1 (2000).
Sources: GP

Pulido Hurtado, Luis, Colombian composer and flautist; b.4 Apr 1958. A
two-time winner of the Ministry of Culture’s composition prize, he began
his studies with Solón Garcés (1974-78) and later studied flute with Alberto
Gaitlán, Luis Becerra, and Katherine Muller, and composition and
instrumentation with Jesús Pinzón Urrea. He participated in the Orq.
Sinfónica Juvenil de Colombia (1980-83) and in 1985 entered the Orq.
Filarmónica de Bogotá as flutist and piccolist. He received a two-year
scholarship (1987-89) from the Centro Colomboameri-cano de Bogotá to
study composition with Mauro Cardi, piccolo with Maria Teresa Palermo,
and conducting with Julian Lombana, all in Rome. He would also study
composition with Franco Donati and conducting with Gennady Roz-
ndestvensky at the Chigiana Acad. in Siena (1988). From 1990 he acted as
part of the board of the Festival Internacional de Música Contemporánea de
Bogotá. He joined the faculty of the Univ. de los Andes as a prof. of
composition in 1999.
Works: Laberinto (1982); Eventos rítmicos, orch (1983); Crepitaciones,
orch (1985); La Madremonte, orch (1985); Suite Aquelarre, orch (1985);
Concierto para flauta y orquesta (1987); Samosnes, sop, perc, vn, va, vc
(1989); Concierto para flauta y orquesta (1990); Concierto para viola y
orquesta (1990); Atajo, tpt (1990); Diosa Chía, woodwind qnt. Chamb,
film, theater music.
Sources: DMEH
 Q
Quaratino, Pascual, Argentine composer of Italian birth; b.13 Jun 1904,
Tarento, Italy; d.10 Mar 1973, Buenos Aires. He studied first in Buenos
Aires, and later, at the Cons. Reale di Musica San Pietro a Majella of
Naples, Italy, where he studied piano with Juan Barbieri, organ with José
Cotrufo, harmony with Genaro Nápoli, counterpoint, fugue, and
composition with Camillo de Nardis, orchestration with Rafael Caravallis,
and organ composition with Juan Tebaldini. Prof. at the Cons. Nacional de
Música Carlos López Buchardo and dir. of the Cons. Superior de Música
Manuel de Falla, both of Buenos Aires. Asst. conductor at the Teatro Colón
of Buenos Aires, Teatro Municipal of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Teatro
Municipal of São Paulo, Brazil, Teatro San Carlos of Naples, and Teatro
Reale di Opera of Rome, Italy.
Works: Tríptico, orch; Voces de la tierra, orch; Quartet in D major;
Guadiana, voc, pn (1930); Canto de la noche, vn, pn (1932); Alla luna, voc,
pn (1939); Canción para el niño en la cuna, voc, pn (1944); El flechazo, vn,
pn (1947); Canto de la llanura, 2 pn (1960); Machao, voc, pn (1964). Ch,
pn, voc music.
Sources: CA, DM, DMEH, EMA, MLA

Quesada, José, Costa Rican composer; b.6 Oct 1894, San Rafael, Costa
Rica; d.? He studied music in San José, Costa Rica. Conductor of a military
band in San José.
Works: El son de la luna, orch (1930); Costa Rican Dances, band.
Sources: MLA

Quesada Aguilar, Marco Antonio, Costa Rican composer and teacher; b.5
Jan 1964, San José de Costa Rica. He studied composition, piano, and
conducting at the Univ. de Costa Rica. He was a founding member of and
secretary for the Centro de Música Contemporánea. He won the Premio
Nacional Aquileo J. Echeverría in 1988 for his work. He taught the youth
program of the Orq. Sinfónica Nacional and the Escuela de Artes Musicales
at the Univ. de Costa Rica.
Works: Quinteto para metals; Arcoiris.
Sources: DMEH

Quevedo Arvelo, Julio, Colombian composer and conductor; b.16 Mar

1829, Quesada, Colombia; d.26 Mar 1896, Zipa, Colombia. He took his
first lessons in theory and compositions from his father. By age fifteen he
was playing piano, violin, and cello, and was already composing school
songs. He studied piano further with Teresa Tanco de Herrera. He was prof.
of music at the Colegio de Señoritas in 1845 and ran the Sixta Pontón de
Santander. For around a decade he worked with an Italian-Hispanic opera
compony in Venezuela. In 1866 he co-founded and directed the Sexteto de
la Armonía, society dedicated to promote chamber music, with pianist
Daniel Figueroa. Between 1886 and 1889 he taught harmony at the Acad.
Ncional de Música founded by Jorge W. Price.
Works: Misa breve de la Virgen, sop/ten, str orch; Misa de requiem no.4, 2
male voc, orch; Salve Pastoral; Te Deum, 4 voc; Lamentaciones de la
Semana Santa; Misa de Santo Tomás; Misa Negra; Misa en Re menor;
Oración de Jeremías; Fantasías concertantes, vn, orch.
Bibl.: J.I. Perdomo Escobar, Historia de la Música Colombiana, Bogotá,
1945.
Sources: DMEH, MMLA

Quevedo Zornoza, Guillermo, Colombian composer, conductor, and

teacher; b.1882, Zipaquirá, Colombia; d.1964, Zipaquirá. He trained in
music with his uncles, Julio Quevado Arvelo and Carolina Quevado. He
also studied with Emiliano Quijano Torres and Miguel Díaz. He taught at
the Escuela Nocturna de Obreros de Zipaquirá, conducted the Banda de
Batallón Bárbula de Zipaquirá, directed the Orq. Del Club Militar de
Bogotá, directed the Cons. de Música del Tolima, and conducted the Banda
Municipal de Zipaquirá. He was lauded widely and internationally for his
work.
Works: El duende gris, zarzuela; Diez intermedios para orquesta; Himno de
la Academia de Música de Tolima, voc, orch (1910); Torbellino
colombiano, ch; Al despertar, voc, fl, tpt, vn, bs, pn. Band, ch, org, pn, voc.
Sources: DMEH
Quezada Monzon, Vinicio, Guatemalan composer, arranger, and pianist;
b.25 Jun 1960, Guatemala. He studied composition and piano at the Cons.
Nacional de Guatemala, where he would later direct the piano program and
act as artistic dir. He was appointed dir. of the Filarmonía del Ballet
Guatemala with Felipe de Jesús Ortega. Prof. at the Escuela superior de
Arte de la Univ. de San Carlos de Guatemala from 2011.
Works: Concierto no.1 (1976); Cincierto no.2 (1978); 12 Preludios, pn.
Sources: DMEH

Quezadas Luna, Arturo, Mexican composer; b.1957. He studied at the

Cons. Nacional de Música, the Escuela Superior de Música, and the Escuela
de Perfeccionamiento Musical “Ollin Yolistli. He participated in
compositional workshops with Mario Mavista. He served as Dir. of the
Capacitación Nacional de Bandas Conaculta and as the Dir. of the Orq.
Típica de la Ciudad de México in the fall of 2013.
Works: El Cordero, requiem, mixed ch, children’s ch, voc, orch.
Sources: GP

Quintanar Prieto, Héctor, Mexican composer and conductor; b.15 Apr

1936, Mexico City, Mexico; d.24 Oct 2013, Mexico City. He studied with
Carlos Chávez, Rodolfo Halffter, Carlos Jiménez Mabarak, and Blas
Galindo at the Cons. Nacional de Música of Mexico City, 1959-64. He also
studied electronic music with Andrés Lewin Richter at Columbia Univ. in
New York, NY, USA, 1964, with Jean-Etienne Marie in Paris, France, 1967,
and in Mexico City, 1968. He supervised the construction of the country’s
first Laboratorio de Música Electrónica at the Univ. Nacional of Mexico,
Mexico City, in 1968. Dir. of the Dept. de Música of the Secretaría Técnica
of the Inst. Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, 1965-70. Founder and
dir. of the Estudio de Música Electrónica del Cons. of Mexico City and
subdir. of the Orq. de la Opera of Mexico City. Founder and president of the
Sociedad de Música Contemporánea of Mexico.
Works: 3 symphonies (1961, 1962, 1964); Sinfonía modal (1961-62); El
viejo y el mar, symph. poem (1963); Fábula, ch, orch (1964); Double
quartet, str qt, wind qt (1964-65); String trio (1965-66); Violin sonata
(1967); Aclamaciones, ch, tape, orch (1967); Sonata, 3 tpt (1967); Galaxias,
orch (1968); Sideral I, tape (1968); Sideral II, orch (1969); Solutio?, sop,
pn (1969); Símbolos, vn, cl, sax, hn, tpt, trb, pn, tape, optical slides, and
lights (1969); Ilapso, cl, bsn, tpt, trb, perc, vn, cb (1970); Sideral III, tape
(1971); Voz, sop, tape (1971); Quintet, pn, vn, cb, fl, tpt (1973); Diálogos,
pn, tape (1973); Fiestas (1976); Pequeña obertura (1979); Canto breve
(1981); Himno (1985); Divertimento (1989); Concertino para orquesta
(2001); Violin concerto (2004).
Sources: BB, CTA15, DCM, DCMMC, DMEH, GDM, GP

Quintanilla, Alba, Venezuelan composer, harpist, harpsichordist, teacher,

pianist, and conductor; b.11 Jul 1944, Mérida, Venezuela. She started her
music education with her parents, and later, studied piano, harp,
harpsichord, composition, and conducting with Vicente Emilio Sojo,
Raimundo Pereira, Juan Bautista Plaza, Gonzalo and Evencio Castellanos,
Cecilia de Majo, Evelia Taborda, Lidya Bentturini, and Pablo Manelski at
the Escuela Superior de Música (today Escuela de Música José Angel) in
Caracas, Venezuela. She also studied composition in Warsaw, Poland, and
in Mannheim, Germany. First woman to conduct the Orq. Sinfónica
Venezuela in Caracas. Teacher of music in various cons. and music schools
in Venezuela. Dir. of the Cons. of Maracay, State of Aragua, and from 1985
to 1990, dir. of the Escuela de Música Juan Manuel Olivares in Caracas.
Works: La aldea, cantata (1965); Tres canciones, mex sop, orch (1967); La
llanura, cantata for mixed ch, str orch (1969); Vals Venezolano, harp; Danza
Marabina, harp; Contradanza Zuliana, harp; Joropo, harp. Chamb, ch, pn,
voc music.
Sources: DMEH, EMV, IEW

Quintano Santorsola, Giuseppe, Chilean composer, violinist, and teacher

of Italian birth; 11 Mar 1878, Calabria; d.16 Apr 1956, Santiago de Chile.
He moved with his family to Chile when he was 17 and settled in Santiago
1895. He started violin studies with José Varalla and enrolled in the Cons.
Nacional de Música in 1897, where he studied violin with Juan Gervino and
piano and harmony with Federico Stöber. His early work emulated Verdi’s
style.
Works: El conde Ugolino, orch; Il giorno, orch (1909); Sinfonía primera,
orch; Minuetto no.1, qnt (1920); Cuarteto no.1, vn, va, vc (1921); La morte
di Mozart, str orch, pn (1924); Quietud, vn, orch (1924); Nocturno no.2, vn,
vc, pn (1926).
Sources: DMEH
Quintero, Joaquín, Venezuelan composer and band conductor; b.16 Aug
1894, Valencia, Venezuela; d.11 Jul 1955, Valencia. He studied music with
Aquiles Antich, Florentino Amato, Luis Francisco Troya, Pedro Antero
Alfonzo, and Luis F. Carbonell. Conductor of the Banda 24 de Junio of the
State of Carabobo, Venezuela.
Works: Lágrimas al Nazareno (1914); Cantemos mortals (1922); Himno a
San Gabriel de la Dolorosa (1931); Regina Coeli (1943); Venid oh Madre
del Socorro (1961). Many dances and marches.
Books: Libro Teórico y Práctico de la Teoría Musical; Disertación
Histórica sobre la Cultura Musical en Carabobo.
Sources: DMEH, EMV

Quintero, Rafael Daniel, Salvadoran composer and bassist; b.1889, Santa

Ana; d.1 Jul 1946 ? He studied music at the Colegio Divino Salvador and
worked as a choral master in a German parish. He also directed choirs in
churches in Merced, Rosario, Candelaria, the church of Perpetuo Socorro,
and the Basílica del Sagrado Corazón. He performed in the Orq. Lion D’Or
under Flavio Pineda, in an orchestra under Luis López Navarro, and
sometimes with the Orq. Lírica Santaneca.
Works: Misa en honor a San Judas Tadeo; Misa del Sagrado Corazón;
Misa de San Antonio; Misa en Sol mayor; Flores cuscatlecas; Rosalía,
waltz; 25 requiem masses.
Sources: DMEH

Quinteros Figueroa, Abelardo, Chilean composer; b.10 Dec 1923,

Valparaiso, Chile. He studied industrial design at the Univ. Santa María of
Valparaiso, and composition with Humberto Allende and Free Focke in
Santiago de Chile, Chile. With a scholarship from the Austrian government,
he went to Vienna to study serial techniques and voice at the Hochschule
Othmar Steinbauer. Many of his works are preserved at the Univ. de Chile.
Works: Tres arabescos concertantes, cl, orch; Sinfonema, vn, orch;
Obertura austral, orch; Concerto, sop, chamb orch; Misa de Navidad, voc,
org. Chamb, org, voc music.
Sources: DMEH, GDM, HMC

Quintón del Rosario, José Ignacio, Puerto Rican composer and pianist;
b.1 Feb 1881, Caguas, Puerto Rico; d.19 Dec 1925, Coamo, Puerto Rico.
He studied harmony, counterpoint, composition, and piano with his father,
Juan Bautista Quintón. Organist at the Parroquia San Blas.
Works: El coquí, orch (1901); Misa de Requiem, orch (1903); Obertura de
concierto; Una página de mi vida, orch (1920). Chamb, pn, religious music.
Sources: CPR, DMEH, MMLA

Quiroz, Francisco, Guatemalan composer; fl. 18th century. He is primarily

known for works preserved in the archives of the Catedral de Guatemala.
Works: Al arma, al arma, al arma, 4 voc, bs; Sancta María, sucurre
miseris, 4 voc.
Sources: DMEH

Quiroz, Manuel Joseph de, Guatemalan choirmaster; b.? Santiago de

Guatemala; d.1765, Santiago de Guatemala. He managed printing for the
Franciscans before he was appointed maestro de capillo of the cathedral in
1738, a post he held until his death.
Works: Digo a Siola Negla (1736); Jesuclisa Magdalena (1745); Pues que
de pascuas estamos (1745); Vengo turo flanciquillo (1746); Jesús, Jesús
(1743).
Sources: DMEH

Quispe, Ignacio, Peruvian composer; fl. 18th century. He was likely of

indigenous or mestizo background. A villancico survives in the archives of
the seminary of San Antonio Abad de Cuzco.
Works: A Señores los del buen gusto.
Sources: DMEH
 R
Radamés, Apóstol, Argentine composer, pianist, and teacher; b.18 Dec
1929, San Fernando, Prov. of Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied piano
with Dvieta de Castro and harmony with Amelia Oses.
Works: Tritemática, orch; Suite, orch.
Sources: VMA

Raffelin, Antonio, Cuban composer and teacher; b.1796, Havana, Cuba,

DM (Catalonia, Spain, DMC); d.1882, Marianao, Cuba. He studied cello
and bass with Gregorio Velázquez, counterpoint and fugue with Manuel
Coccó, and violin with Thomas Tlown. Founder of the Acad. Filarmónica
Cristiana. He lived for some time in Philadelphia, PA, USA, where he
edited the musical journal La Lira Católica.
Works: hymns; motets; masses; Passion books. 3 symphonies; Str qt.
Bibl.: A. Carpenter, La Música en Cuba, Mexico, 1946.
Sources: DM, DMC, DMEH

Rafols, Félix, Cuban teacher and composer of Spanish origin; b.1894,

Barcelona, Spain; d.1961, Camagüey, Cuba. He studied in Spain with
Enrique Granados. When he arrived in Cuba, he settled in Camagüey, where
he founded the male singing society, Orfeón Catalán, and later, the Cons.
Rafols. He conducted several choral groups.
Works: Orch, pn, ch music.
Sources: DMC, DMEH

Rago, Alexis, Venezuelan composer and pianist; b.25 May 1930, Caracas,
Venezuela; d.6 Jan 2009, Monaco. He began to study music in Caracas and
continued at the Peabody Cons. of Music in Baltimore, MD, USA. He also
studied piano with Aldo Mantía and composition with Franco Margola and
Armando Renzi in Vienna, Austria, and in Rome, Italy. Director of the
Cons. de Música of the State of Aragua, Venezuela.
Works: Auyantepuy, symph poem (1962); Milles Gärten, symph poem
(1963); Una sinfonía para los niños (1965); Hambre, dramatic cantata, mez
sop, mixed ch, children’s ch (1966); Cinco instantes para orquesta (1968);
Guri, Indian symph poem (1968); Sincronismos audio-sonorrítmicos
(1969); Coro de espectros, mixed ch (1969). Chamb, pn, voc music.
Sources: BB, CTA14, DMEH, EMV

Ramírez, Ariel, Argentine composer and pianist; b.4 Sep 1921, Santa Fe,
Argentina; d.18 Feb 2010, Monte Grande, Argentina. He studied piano in
Santa Fe and then composition in Buenos Aires with Luis Gianneo and
Erwin Leuchter. He traveled through various provinces in the center and
Northeast of Argentina to familiarize himself with regional music (1941)
and he included traditional Argentine and South American music in his
piano recitals. In 1943 he arrived in Buenos Aires, played concerts and
signed a permanent contract with Radio El Mundo. In 1946 he began
recording with RCA Victor then in 1950 traveled to Europe, and stayed for
four years. After touring as a performer he was awarded a scholarship to
study in Spain at the Instituto de Cultura Hispánica. He moved to Lima
(1954) and continued to perform in Peru, Bolivia, Chile, and Uruguay then
established a folklore company in Argentina which toured internationally
until 1980. He created an anthology of music of various Argentine regions
from many genres. His songs and mass have been widely performed and
recorded often with him at the piano.
Works: Zurda del diablo, pn (1939); Misa criolla, tenor, ch, pn, perc,
Andean instruments (1964); Cantata sudamericana, voc (1972). Voc music
Sources: DMEH

Ramírez, Luis Antonio, Puerto Rican composer; b.10 Feb 1923, San Juan,
Puerto Rico; d.15 May 1995, San Juan. He studied piano, harmony with
Alfredo Romero in San Juan, 1954-57. Then he went to Spain, where he
studied composition with Cristóbal Halffter and Daniel Bravo, and piano
with Juan Molinari at the Cons. Real de Música of Madrid, Spain, 1957-60.
Prof. of harmony and composition at the Cons. de Música of Puerto Rico
since 1968.
Works: Sinfonietta, str orch (1963); La buena herencia, documental music
fl, ob, cl, hn, timpani, pn, str (1965); Tres homenajes, str orch (1962-65);
Suite, for small orch (1966); Balada concierto, for vn (1967); Fantasía
sobre un mito antillano, gtr, hn, timpani, cb, and str (1969); Fragmentos,
three pieces (1973); Nueve cantos antillanos (1975); Rasgos y perfiles,
symph poem (1977); Figuraciones, symph poem (1974); Aire y tierra,
symph poem (1978); Ciclos, symph poem (1979); El cuarto Rey Mago,
symph poem (1983); La tierra escuchó tu voz, symph poem (1984); 2 Suites
para la Navidad (1982, 1983); Días sin alborada (1986); Siete episodios
históricos, fl, vc, hn, timpani, fl, str (1986). Chamb, voc music.
Sources: BB, CPR, DMEH

Ramírez, Serafín, Cuban critic, cellist, and composer; b.1833, Havana,

Cuba; d.11 May 1907, Havana, Cuba. He studied cello, piano, counterpoint,
and composition and was a student of Manuel Saumell. In 1865 he founded
the Sociedad de Música Clásica then years later was named general director
of the Liceo de La Habana and created an Acad. for song while teaching
conducting at the Teatro Tacón. A critic in the daily newspaper, in 1886 he
wrote the book, Prontuario del dilettante, although no copies have been
found. His book, La Habana artística (printed by Estado Mayor de la
Capitanía General de La Habana, 1891), is a bibliographical source of
Cuban musical historiography of the 19th century.
Works: Str qts, vc, vn, pn music.
Sources: DMEH

Ramírez, Ulises, Mexican composer; b.28 Feb 1962, Uruapan, State of

Michoacán, Mexico. He studied at the Escuela Nacional de Música of
UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico, with Juan Antonio Rosado, where he later
became a Prof. In 1983, he was awarded a scholarship from the USSR
government to study composition at the Moscow Cons. Piotr Ilyich
Tchaikovsky.
Works: 2 symphonies (1992, 1995). Chamb, solo instr music.
Sources: DCMMC, DMEH

Ramírez Ávila, Hernán, Chilean composer and physician; b.10 Jun/Apr

1941, Santiago de Chile, Chile. He began studying piano, theory in 1951
with Enriqueta Leroy, continued with Luis Guillermo Vilches and Lucila
Césped and studied composition with Carlos Botto and Gustavo Becerra. A
contralto in the Niños Cantores de Santa Rosa de Lima chorus, he entered
Facultad de Medicina de la Univ. de Chile (1960). In 1964 he began
studying counterpoint with the composer Gustavo Becerra Schmidt in 1965
joined his composition department at the Cons. Nacional de Múscica de la
Univ. de Chile. He also studied orchestration for band with Rafael del
Guidice. In 1967 he graduated in medicine then studied analysis with the
composer Fernando García (1967-70). He worked as secretary of the
Asociación Nacional de Compositores de Chile (1973-75) then settled in
the city of Viña del Mar (1975). In 1985 he directed composition workshops
in the Escuela de Música de la Univ. Católica de Valparaíso and taught
fundamentals of 20th century music at the Univ. de Playa Ancha in
Valparaíso. He received the Premio Regional de Arte Domingo Santa Cruz
(1981), the Premio a la Cultura de la V Región (1993) and became a
member of the Acad. Chilena de Bellas Artes, of the Instituto de Chile
(1992).
Works: En Viet Nam (1970); Str qt (1971); Pn concerto (1970); Cuatro
trozos aleatorios, orch (1970). Chamb, voc music.
Sources: DMEH, HMC

Ramírez Franco, Filiberto, Mexican composer; b.18 Feb 1919, Meoqui,

Chihuahua, Mexico; d.24 Sep 2001, Mexico City. He studied piano,
chemistry, biology, and pharmacology in Meoqui before entering the
Escuela Nacional de Música of UNAM graduating in composition (1955).
Here he studied with Estanislao Mejía, Carlos del Castillo, Luis G. Saloma,
Juan D. Tercero, Julián Carrillo, Pedro Michaca, Ramón Serrantos, and
Vicente T. Mendoza. He taught harmony, counterpoint, orchestral
ensembles, and composition at UNAM then joined the group Círculo de
Compositores Universitarios and performed some of his works with them.
He studied composition with Pedro Michaca Valenzuela (1960) and
alternated his time at UNAM with teaching at secondary schools. He was
director of the music school of UNAM (1968-72). In 1982 he received a
medal commemorating 1300 years of the state of Bulgaria for his works
dedicated to this country and another in 1985 to celebrate the 40th
anniversary of the triumph of the socialist revolution of Bulgaria. He was a
founding member of the Liga de Compositores de Música de Concierto de
México.
Works: Cuatro pequeñas piezas, pn (1944); Fiesta, suite, orch (1947);
Concierto para piano y orquesta, pn, orch (1949); La voz del agua, sop, pn
(1950); Sinfonia no.1 “Festiva,” orch (1950); Sinfonia no.2 “Norteña,”
orch (1952); Chihuahua 1910, symph poem, orch (1955); Serenata, orch
(1985); Suite No.1, orch (1985); Suite No.2 (1985); Sonata, vn, pn (1959);
Nocturno, sop, pn (1960); Sonata, bsn, pn (1982); Sinfonietta con temas
mexicanos, orch (1984); Sonata no.3 “Clásica,” (1990). Chamb, pn, voc
music.
Sources: DCMMC, DMEH, GP

Ramírez Ruiz, Rodolfo, Mexican composer and musicologist; b.1957,

Huitzo, Oaxaca, Mexico. In 1972 he began studying music at INBA. In
1976 he studied composition with Salvador Contreras then entered the
Cons. Nacional de Música to continue studying composition and take
courses in piano and theory. From 1977-80 he was member of the
composition and research workshop at the cons. under the direction of
Mario Lavista and Daniel Catán. From 1979-83 he studied composition
with Federico Ibarra at CENIDIM. He worked as transcriber of colonial
music at CENIDIM with the project “El manuscrito de Gaspar Fernández.”
His works have been performed in the contemporary music festivals in
Mexico.
Works: Preludio, pn (1979-80); Para seis…, perc (1981); Lauda, ch, tpt, pn
(1981-82); Bixee, orch (1983).
Sources: DMEH, GP

Ramírez Sierra, Alvaro, Colombian composer and teacher; b.6 Jun 1932,
Cali, Colombia. He studied at the Cons. of Cali and at the Cons. of Boston,
MA, USA. Prof. at the Cons. of Cali.
Works: Pn concerto; Vn concerto; Gtr concerto; Concerto, 2 vn, orch.
Chamb, orch, pn, ch music.
Sources: DMEH, KTL

Ramos, Antonio José, Venezuelan pianist and composer; b.28 Jun 1901,
Carúpano, Sucre, Venezuela; d.? He studied piano with Salvador Narciso
Llamozas and composition with Vicente Emilio Sojo at the Escuela de
Música y Declamación (today Escuela de Música José Angel Lamas) of
Caracas, Venezuela, where later he became Prof. Member of the Sociedad
Venezolana de Conciertos, of the Sociedad de Autores y Compositores, and
of the Sociedad Fantasías Dominicales.
Works: Concerto, orch; Anoche cuando dormía, ch; Trio, vn, vc, pn.
Sources: DMEH, EMV
Ramos, Eudocia, Peruvian pianist and composer; fl. 1869-70. She
performed at the concerts of the Sociedad Filarmónica, 1869-70.
Works: Sueño, pn; Las tres perlas, pn.
Sources: IEW

Ramos, Juan José, Argentine composer and pianist; b.17 Jul 1930,
Córdoba, Prov. of Córdoba, Argentina; d.1995, ? He studied with Clara
Moltini, Jaime Pahissa, and Alicia de Larrocha. Founder of the chamb octet
Tango Ensemble.
Works: Rapsodia popular de Buenos Aires, orch; Siete variaciones de
tango, bandonion, orch; Suite porteña, gtr, pn; Momento de tango, pn; Suite
pampeana, gtr, orch. Pn music.
Sources: VMA

Ramos Barrios, Manuel, Venezuelan composer and conductor; b.17 Dec

1915, Barquisimeto, Lara, Venezuela; d.? He studied clarinet with Antonio
Garrido, Efraín Aguilar, and Antonio Carrillo. He entered the Escuela de
Música y Declamación (today Escuela de Música José Angel Lamas)
(1938) in Caracas, Venezuela, where he studied music theory and solfeggio
with Pedro Antonio Ramos, clarinet with Oreste Denty, piano with Pablo
Manelsky, music history and aesthetics with Juan Bautista Plaza, harmony
orch. conducting with Antonio Estévez, and composition with Vicente
Emilio Sojo. Very active in several musical organizations and ensembles.
Member of the Asociación Venezolana de Autores y Compositores.
Works: Impresión sinfónica, orch; 2 concerto waltzes, pn; Pn sonata; 2
concerto waltzes, gtr; 8 waltzes, cl; Misa venezolana. Songs; Venezuelan
popular and folkloric music.
Sources: EMV

Ramos Buensot, Federico, Puerto Rican composer; b.1857, Arecibo,

Puerto Rico; d.1927, Ponce, Puerto Rico. He taught piano in Arecibo and
later in Ponce.
Works: Cuarteto de cuerdas en Sol mayor (op. 102); Gran marcha triunfal,
dedicated to Theodore Roosevelt; songs, chamb, pn music, marches,
dances, romances, operettas.
Sources: DMEH
Ramos Junior, Ezequiel, Brazilian composer, music critic, and poet; b.29
Jan 1874, Limeira, São Paulo, Brazil; d.19 Dec 1928, Jundiaí, São Paulo.
He studied at the Cons. of Geneva, Switzerland, with Henri Ruegger and
Emile Jacques Dalcroze.
Works: Qnt in C minor; Qt in A minor; Angelus, orch; Adagio, orch.
Chamb, pn music.
Sources: EMB2, MMLA

Ramos Rangel, Víctor Guillermo, Venezuelan composer, bassoonist; b.10

Feb 1911, Cúa, Venezuela; d.10 Dec 1986, Caracas. He studied at the
Escuela de Música José Ángel Lamas with Vicente Emilio Sojo, and
graduated with a degree in composition. He was bassoonist in the Orq.
Sinfónica Venezuela.
Works: Lo eterno, sonata, orch; La flor de la maravilla, ch; Suite clásica,
pn (1942).
Sources: DMEH

Ranieri, Salvador, Argentine composer and clarinetist of Italian origin;

b.19 Oct 1930, Arena, Prov. of Catanzaro, Italy; 13 May 2012, Buenos
Aires. He settled in Argentina in 1947. He studied clarinet with Salvador
Carbone, Ruggiero Lavecchia, and Cosme Pomarico, and piano,
composition, and Gregorian chant with Cayetano Marcolli, Juan Francisco
Giacobbe, and Dora Castro. He also studied electronic music with
Francisco Kröpfl at the Inst. Di Tella of Buenos Aires, Argentina. With a
scholarship from the Fondo Nacional de las Artes of Buenos Aires, and the
Italian government, he studied composition with Goffredo Petrassi at the
Accademia di Musica Santa Cecilia in Rome, Italy, and in electronic music
with Domenico Guaccero. He played clarinet in several symphonic chamb
orch. President of Compositores Unidos de la Argentina.
Works: Sinfonietta sinfónica, str; Serenata concertante, ob, perc, str;
Concierto 1984, recorder, mez sop, perc, str; Concerto grosso; Le voci
morte, voc, perc, speaking ch; Requiem, soloists, ch; E tuo il mio sangue,
signore, sop, chamb orch; Concierto, marimba, vibraphone; La vida, un
enigma, oratorium. Chamb, ch, voc, pn, org music.
Sources: DMEH, EMA, ISC
Rapp, Jorge, Argentine composer; b.23 Dec 1946, Buenos Aires,
Argentina; d.21 Aug 2010, Buenos Aires. He graduated in 1971 from the
Facultad de Artes y Ciencias Musicales and two years later, funded by the
Fondo Nacional de las Artes, attended the Centro de Investigaciónes en
Comunicación Masiva, Arte y Tecnología de Buenos Aires (1973) working
in electroacoustic music with Gandini, Brncic, Maranzano, and Kröpfl.
After 1976 he taught in Argentina and abroad and was founder and later
director of the sound laboratory at the Centro de Estudios Musicales (1978).
He worked the Laboratorio de Investigación y Producción Musical (1988)
and was part of the Agrupación Nueva Música and the Federación
Argentina de Música Electroacoústica. He explored new technology,
electronic and acoustic sounds, incorporating them from the computer or
digital instruments. He also used traditional instruments in live music.
Works: Variantes, pn, orch (1971); Cotidiana, electroacoustic (1978);
Música para trio, fl, cl, pn (1985); Break up, acoustic, electronic generated
with a DX7 (1992).
Sources: DMEH

Rasgado Flores, Víctor Dagoberto, Mexican composer; b.8 Jul 1959,

Mexico City, Mexico. He started music studies with Rosa Cobo, and later,
he studied at the Escuela Nacional de Música of UNAM, Mexico City, at
the Centro de Investigación y Estudios Musicales Tlamatinime, Mexico
City, at the Royal Acad. of Music, London, England, and at the Cons. Verdi,
Milan, Italy, where he graduated in composition and electronic music under
Franco Donatoni. He also studied at the Accademia Chigiana, Siena, and at
the Accademia Lorenzo Perosi, Biella, both in Italy. Co-founder of the
Ensemble Sones Contemporáneos of Mexico. Member of the Sistema
Nacional de Creadores de Arte of Mexico.
Works: Canto florido, tr, perc (1987); Anacleto Morones, opera (1991); Zan
Tontemiquico, tn (1992); Quetzaltepec (1994); Alebrijes (1995); Rabinal
Achí (1997-2001); Calatayud (1999-2000); Continuum Motus (2001);
Fanfarria (2001); Tambucada, 4 perc, orch (2011). Chamb, pn, ch, voc,
solo instr, electroacoustic, computer music.
Sources: DCMMC, DMEH, GP

Rattenbach, Augusto Benjamín, Argentine composer; b.5 Feb 1927,

Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied composition with Teodoro Fuchs in
Buenos Aires, 1947-58. Later, he studied in Germany at the Hochschule für
Musik in Hamburg, with Ernest G. Klussman and Philip Jarnach (1959-60)
In 1974 and 1975, he studied electronic music with Francisco Kröpfl José
Maranzano, and took composition lessons from Juan F. Giacobbe. Director
of the Cons. Superior de Música Manuel de Falla of Buenos Aires, 1973-74
and 1986-89, and director of Educación Artística y Especial of the
Municipalidad de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, 1975 and 1989. Regional
secretary for Latin America of the Consejo Internacional de la Música
(CIM-UNESCO).
Works: Suite sinfónica (1955); Passacaglia, orch (1956); Concertino
pastoral, ob, str orch (1958); Variaciones sinfónicas (1959); Cuatro piezas,
orch (1960); Microvariaciones I, str, timpani (1961); Un episodio vulgar,
ballet (1961); Cantata, sop, bar, mixed ch (1962); Cinco piezas, ob, str
(1963); Sinfonietta, chamb orch (1962); Cinco momentos líricos (1963);
Ficción, fl (1963); Cuatro tristes, bar (1964); Microvariaciones
concertantes, cl, hn (1964); Obstinaciones (1965); Sonatina, wind orch,
perc (1966); Pn concerto (1966); Divertimento, brass, perc (1968); Doble
concierto, cl, eh (1969); Díptico, str (1970); El tiempo y el fuego, ballet
(1970); Recuperación de la memoria, voc (1970); Serenata, chamb orch
(1971); Jettatore, opera (1972); Interpolaciones (1973); Variaciones y fuga
sobre un tema infantil, str orch (1973); Tríptico lídico (1973-75); Concerto,
org, str (1974); Cb concerto (1975); Joaquín y Bohas, opera (1975-79); Hn
concerto (1977-78); Concerto, recorder, str orch (1978); Obertura festiva
para el Día de la Música (1978); Sonatina, chamb orch (1980); La planta,
opera (1981); Variaciones Buenos Aires (1982); Sinfonietta bucólica,
chamb orch (1984); Alberdiana, chamb orch (1984); Movimiento
concertante, hn, chamb orch (1984); El brujo de la cortada, opera (1984);
Edipo en San Telmo, opera (1985); Cinco variantes elegíacas, str orch
(1985); Chamb concerto, vc, inst ens (1987); El tigre enamorado, opera
(1987); Martina, ballet (1987); Los amantes de la calle Corrientes, opera
(1987); Introducción y tango, chamb ens (1988); Sinfonía de otoño, (1989);
Tango de cámara, chamb ens (1989); Variaciones concertantes, chamb orch
(1990); La piedra azul, opera (1990); Concierto breve, pn (1990). Chamb,
pn, voc music.
Sources: BB, CTA12, DMEH, EMA
Ravelo, José de Jesús, Dominican composer; b.21 Mar 1876, Ciudad
Trujillo (Santo Domingo), Dominican Republic; d.12 Feb 1951, Ciudad
Trujillo. He studied music with Juan Francisco Pereyra in 1890. Conductor
of the Banda Pacificador. Founder of the Octeto del Casino de la Juventud,
which later became the Orq. de la Sociedad de Conciertos of the Dominican
Republic. Founder and first director of the Liceo Musical and the Banda de
Niños Escolares, both of the Dominican Republic.
Works: Marcha fúnebre, band (1900); Himno masónico, voc, orch (1903);
Str qt (1929); La muerte de Cristo, oratorium (1939); Misa de Requiem, for
4 voc orch (1940); La resurrección de Cristo, oratorium (1942); Las siete
palabras, 3 voc, orch (1943). Sacred, org, pn, ch, voc music.
Sources: DEW, DM, DMEH, MLA, MMLA

Rayol, Antônio Carlos dos Reis, Brazilian composer, tenor, violinist, and
conductor; b.15 Aug 1855, São Luis, Maranhão, Brazil; d.1905, Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil. Brother of Leocédio dos Reis Rayol. He started music
studies at age 13 then went to Italy to study voice with Alberto Giannini
and harmony and composition with Vincenzo Ferroni. When he returned to
Rio de Janeiro he was appointed vice-director and Prof. of the newly
created Acad. de Música. In 1901, he founded the Escola de Música of
Maranhão, where he was the first director and voice Prof.
Works: Iraceama, opera (unfinished); Hino abolicionista, orch; Hino do
Maranhão, orch; Protofonía São Luis, orch; Primeira sinfonía originale,
orch; Segunda sinfonía originale, orch; Tercera sinfonía originale, orch;
Quarta sinfonía originale. Sacred music.
Sources: EMB2

Rayol, Leocádio dos Reis, Brazilian composer, violinist, conductor, and

teacher; b.1849, São Luis, Maranhão, Brazil; d.7 Jun 1909, Rio de Janeiro.
Brother of Antônio Carlos dos Reis Rayol. He started to study violin in São
Luis with Francisco Xavier Beckman then studied in Lisbon, Portugal, with
Moreira de Sá. Prof. at the Escola de Música of São Luis.
Works: Abertura sinfônica, orch; São Luis, symphony, orch; Missa Bom
Jesus dos Navegantes; Missa de Glória; Pequena Missa, 3 voc.
Sources: EMB2
Rebagliati, Claudio, Peruvian pianist, violinist, conductor, composer, and
teacher of Italian origin; b.6 Oct 1843, Noli, near Savona, Italy; d.23 Dec
1909, Lima, Peru. He settled in Lima in 1863. First violinist of the orch. of
the Teatro Principal of Lima. In 1868, he was appointed conductor of the
orch. of the Sociedad Filarmónica of Lima. President of the Sección de
Música of the Sociedad de Bellas Artes of Lima, and founding member and
first president of the Sociedad Musical de Aficionados of Lima, both in
1879.
Works: Obertura a gran orquesta, orch (1867); Un 28 de Julio en Lima,
Peruvian rhapsody, orch; Canción nacional de Bolivia, orch (1873);
Primicias, overture, orch (1896); Misa solemne, soloists, ch, orch; Misa de
Requiem, soloists, ch, orch; Invitatorium, soloists, ch, orch. Restored and
orchestrated the Peruvian National Anthem, written by José Bernardo
Alcedo, to its original version.
Bibl.: R. Barbacci, Revista Musical Peruana, Lima, 1940.
Sources: DM, DMEH, GMP, MLA

Rebagliati, Reynaldo, Italian violinist and composer; b.19th century,

Savona, Italy; d.? Peru. He settled in Lima (1863), performed as a violinist
in orchestras, theaters and in concerts organized by pianist Louis Moreau
Gottschalk (1865). He became a business owner and in 1873 conductor of
the Sociedad Filarmónica in the Palacio de la Exposición in Lima. He
trained opera and operetta companies and in 1877 created the Orquesta
Rebagliati.
Works: La actriz, orch (1864); No te vayas, pn (1872); Fantasía sobre La
forza del destino, vn, pn (1879).
Sources: DMEH

Rebelo, Arnaldo Alfonso, Brazilian pianist, teacher, and composer; b.7 Jun
1905, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil; d.8 May 1984, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He
entered the Inst. Nacional de Música of Rio de Janeiro, where he studied
music theory with José Raimundo da Silva and piano with Godofredo Leão
Veloso. With a scholarship awarded by the federal government, he went to
Paris, France, to study piano with Robert Casadesus. Prof. at EMUFRJ, at
the Univ. Católica of Salvador, Bahía, Brazil, and at the Inst. Musical José
Mauricio of São Paulo, Brazil.
Works: Pn, voc music.
Sources: EMB2

Rebolledo, Pedro, Panamanian composer and band conductor; b.27 Apr

1895, Panama City, Panama; d.3 Oct 1963, David, Chiriquí. He studied
with Rufino Sainz Alvarez, and later, at the Cons. Nacional de Música y
Declamación of Panama, Panama City, and at the Cons. Nacional de
Música of Mexico, Mexico City, under Julián Carrillo. Conductor of the
Banda Republicana and president of the Sindicato de Músicos, both of
Panama.
Works: Obertura 1903; Suite in B minor; Fugue, orch; Str qt; Fantasía
sobre motivos panameños; 2 movements of a symphony; 2 triumphal
marches.
Sources: DM, MMLA

Rebouças, José Pereira, Brazilian violinist, conductor, and composer; b.2

Jan 1789, Maragogipe, Bahía, Brazil; d.8 Jan 1843, Salvador, Bahía. He
began violin study in his native town then continued with Charles de Bériot
at the Cons. de Musique of Paris, France, and harmony, counterpoint, and
composition in Bologna, Italy (1828). He returned to Brazil (1833) and with
Damião Barbosa de Araújo and Domingos Moçurunga organized the Acad.
de Música of Salvador.
Works: Overture, orch (1832); Overture II, orch (1833); Overture III, orch
(1934); Magnificat, orch (1835); Hino Constitucional, orch (1837).
Sources: EMB2, MMLA

Reis, Júlio César do Lago, Brazilian composer, organist, music critic, and
pianist; b.23 Oct 1870, São Paulo, Brazil; d.20 Sep 1933, Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil. Began piano with his mother at an early age, was an amateur
musician and worked as a public servant for the Federal Senate.
Works: Sóror Mariana, opera (1920); Heliofar, opera (1923). Over 100
additional compositions.
Sources: EMB2, MMLA

Renart, Marta García, Mexican pianist, choral conductor and composer;

b.1942, Mexico City, Mexico. She studied with E. Hartmann, B. Samper, P.
Michaca, F. Agea, and B. Flavigny in the summers of 1958-62. She
graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia (1964) where her
teachers included R. Serkin and E. Sokoloff. She continued studying
composition, analysis, and conducting at Mannes College in New York
(1964-67) with C. Shachter, P. Simmons, and P. Bearl. Choir-director of the
Coro del Orfeo Catala in Mexico (1971-77) she performed in Mexico and at
Carnegie Hall, NY. She is a member of the Liga de Compositores de
Música de Concierto.
Works: Choral music, music for a children’s play.
Sources: IEW

Rendón García, Guillermo, Colombian composer, researcher and prof.;

b.25 Mar 1935, Manizales, Colombia. From a musical family, he began
lessons with his father then continued at the Univ. de Caldas (1954-59)
studying piano, composition, and conducting. He received a music degree
(1959) then studied with Ramón Cardona and attended the Univ. de La
Plata (1960-63) where he studied composition with Mariano Ficher,
instrumentation and orchestration with Alberto Ginastera, conducting with
Mariano Dragó, and organ with Margarita Cas-aretto. He lived in Rio de
Janeiro (1962-66) continuing training as a composer and working at the
Ministerio de Educación y Cultura in the Campaña de Radiodifusión
Educativa. He returned to Colombia (1966) and studied at the Univ.
Nacional (1967-68), and then at the Univ. INCCA (1968-71) of Bogotá. He
studied conducting in Weimar, Germany, with N. Rabinowitsch and
attended seminars at the Symp. Orch. of Berlin taught by J. Katlewicz and
G. Herbig (1970). In 1971 he received a doctorate from the Univ. of
Humboldt of Berlin for studies in music, philosophy, and ethnographic
sciences. Again returning to Colombia, he led ethnographic research in
Vaupés and la Tunebia (1971-72), taught ethnomusicology in the Palenque
de San Basilio, at the Univ. de Tunja (1972-76) and the Univ. de Antioquia
(1976-79), and his works on pictography and petroglyphs were shown at the
Instituto Bókkota de Altos Estudios de Bogotá (1976). He presented results
of his research on anthropology of art in Colombia, Brazil, Berlin,
Bratislava, Prague, and France, won the Medal Smetana of UNESCO
(1974) and an award from the Ministry of Culture of Poland (1980). He
uses elements derived from his research of indigenous cultures in his music.
Works: Sonata, vn, pn (1962); Sonata, pn, (1964); Sexteto, fl, ob, cl, bsn,
tpt, pn (1963); Concierto para violin, vn, orch (1965); Requiem in viridibus,
ch, wind qnt, perc (1988).
Books: Teorética del arte in Bogotá (1974).
Sources: DMEH

Rengifo, Rafael, Venezuelan composer and conductor; b.24 Oct 1937,

Tucupido, Guárico, Venezuela. He studied music in his native town and
with a scholarship awarded by the Consejo Municipal of Maracaibo,
Venezuela (1958) he went to Italy where he studied at the Accademia di
Musica Santa Cecilia in Rome, with Olivio Domenico and Vicenzo Davico.
Works: Piano concerto; 2 vn concertos; Va concerto; Hn concerto; Fl
concerto; 3 suites, str; 8 symphonies; 3 overtures; 2 symphonic suites; 2
cantatas; Fantasía sinfónica; La princesa del bosque. Chamb, ch music.
Sources: DMEH, EMV

Rengifo Gallardo, Javier, Chilean composer, conductor, and pianist; b.17

Mar 1879, MMLA (1884, HMC, DMEH), Santiago de Chile, Chile; d.1958,
Chile. He studied piano and violin with Juan Agustín Reyes then entered
the Cons. Nacional de Música of Chile in Santiago de Chile, where he
studied theory and solfeggio with Zubicueta, harmony with Federico
Stöber, and counterpoint with Domingo Brescia. He went to Europe (1904)
where he studied piano with Théophile Ysaÿe, and counterpoint, fugue,
composition, and form with Désiré Pâque in Brussels, Belgium. Later he
studied with Auguste De Boeck and Paul Gilson and briefly with Jules
Massenet in Paris, France. He also took lessons in orchestration and
conducting from Lecail. Music critic for the newspaper, La Nación.
Director of the Acad. Musical del Club de La Unión, (1926-41) and of the
Acad. Musical de los Colegios de los Padres Franceses, both in Santiago de
Chile.
Works: Amor plebeyo, zarzuela; Himno a León XIII, soloists, ch, orch;
Himno a la ciencia, 4 voc; Juan José, opera; Intermedios, str qt; Oda
heróica. Hymns; pn, voc music.
Sources: DMEH, HMC, MMLA

Renta, Beatriz, Argentine composer, musicologist, and teacher; b.24 May

1942, Buenos Aires, Argentina. She graduated from the Univ. Católica
Argentina of Buenos Aires.
Works: Sonata, vc, pn; Quintet, pn, str qt; Serranilla, bs, fl, harp, va, vc. Pn,
voc music.
Sources: VMA
Repetto Espinosa, Amelia, Uruguayan contemporary composer and
teacher; b.Montevideo, Uruguay; fl.mid-20th century. She studied piano
with Julieta Bizzozero and harmony, counterpoint, and orchestration with
Guido Santórsola. Taught music appreciation in the high schools and
elementary schools.
Works: Dualisme, vocal distich (1961); Str qt; Poema crepuscular, voc, str
qt. Chamb, ch, voc, pn music.
Sources: BHMCU, DMEH, MU

Republicano, Antônio de Assis, Brazilian composer, conductor, bsnist, and

teacher; b.15 Nov 1897, Pôrto Alegre, Brazil; d.26 May 1960, Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil. He studied bassoon with Agostinho de Gouveia,
composition, counterpoint, and fugue with Francisco Braga and harmony
with Agnello França at the Inst. Nacional de Música of Rio de Janeiro.
Works: Ubirajara, symph poem (1921); A cheia do Paraíba, opera (1924);
Seis danças brasileiras (1924-56); Navio negreiro, symph poem (1925); O
bandeirante, opera (1925); Improviso sobre un tema brasileiro, vc (1925);
A Natividade de Jesús, opera (1937); As amazonas, opera (1938); Sinfonía
das multidôes (1938); O ermitão da glória, opera (1943); Narciso (1945);
Sinfonía das Américas (1945); Vn concerto (1948); Guararapes, opera
(1948); Pn concerto (1950); Sinfonía de São Paulo (1955). Songs.
Sources: DM, EMB2, MLA, MMLA

Rescala, Tim, Brazilian composer, pianist, and teacher; b.21 Nov 1961, Rio
de Janeiro, Brazil. He studied piano, theory with Maria Yeda Cadah at the
Escola Nacional de Música of Rio de Janeiro (1976-78). He continued
harmony at the Escola de Música Villa-Lobos, and in 1979, studied
counterpoint and composition with Hans Joachim Koellreutter. Founding
member of the Estúdio da Gloria (1981) for the production and promotion
of electroacoustic compositions.
Works: A orquesta dos sonhos, children’s opera (1995-96). Electroacoustic,
voc music.
Sources: EMB2

Restano, Antonio, Argentine composer; b.1860, Buenos Aires, Argentina;

d.1928, Buenos Aires. He studied at the Cons. Reale di Musica of Milan,
Italy, with Amilcare Ponchielli. After residing in Europe for 27 years, he
returned to Buenos Aires where he founded a conservatory.
Works: Un milioncino, opera (1885); Moroveldo, opera (1886); Margherita
d’Orleans, opera (1887); Cantata al Calvario, ch, orch; Himno al
Centenario, ch, orch; Overture in B flat, orch. Pn music.
Sources: DMEH, EMA

Revueltas Retes, Román, Mexican composer, violinist, and conductor;

b.1952, Mexico City. He began studying violin at age 8 with Vladimir
Vulfman and José Smilovits. He studied music at the Rubin Acad. of Music
(1974; now the Jerusalem Acad. of Music and Dance) and at the Royal
Cons. of Liège in Belgium (1980) with Igor Ozim. He served as
concertmaster in the Orq. Ciutat de Barcelona (1992-94), founded the Orq.
San Ángel in Mexico City in 2005, and conducted the Orq. Sinfónica de
Aguascalientes.
Works: Camino cerrado (1987); 19 de septiembre (1988); Fanfarria para
la Filarmónica de la Ciudad de México; Andante Elegíaco; Pasos
Perdidos; Presagio y Luna.
Sources: GP

Revueltas Sánchez, Silvestre, Mexican composer, conductor, and violinist;

b.31 Dec 1899, Santiago Papasquiaro, State of Durango, Mexico; d.5 Oct
1940, Mexico City, Mexico. He began violin studies at age 8 in Colima,
Mexico, and entered the Inst. Juárez in Durango, at age 12. He studied
composition with Rafael J. Tello and violin with José Rocabruna in Mexico
City (1913-16) and took courses at St. Edward College in Austin, TX, USA
(1916-18). He attended the Chicago Musical College, Chicago, IL, USA
(1918-20), where he studied violin with León Sametini and composition
with Félix Borowsky. He studied violin with Paul Kochansky and Otakar
Sevcik, also in Chicago (1922-26). Asst. conductor of the Orq. Sinfónica of
Mexico, Mexico City, 1929-35, and later, appointed permanent conductor.
Prof. of violin at the Cons. Nacional de Música of Mexico, Mexico City.
Works: Cuauhnáhuac, orch (1931-32); Dúo para pato y canario, orch
(1931); Esquinas, orch (1931); Ventanas, orch (1931); Alcancías, orch
(1932); Colorines, orch (1932); El tecolote, orch (1932); Parián, orch
(1932); Ranas, orch (1932); Ocho por radio, orch (1933); El renacuajo
paseador, ballet (1933); El renacuajo paseador, orch (1933); Toccata, orch
(1933); Janitzio, orch (1933); Caminos, orch (1934); Planos, “Geometric
Dance” (1934); Redes, orch (1934); Homenaje a García Lorca, orch
(1936); No sé por qué piensas tú… (1937); Sensemaya, voc (1937); Música
para charlar, concert suite (1938); Hora de junio, nar (1938); Itinerarios
(1938); Cinco canciones para niños y 2 canciones profanes (1939); La
noche de los mayas, concert suite (1939); Paisajes (1940); Parias, sop, ch
(1940); Troka (1940). 3 str qts (1930, 1931, 1931); Toccata sin fuga, vn, 7
winds (1933); Canto de guerra de los frentes leales, 3 tpts, 3 tbs, 2 tb, perc,
pn (1938); Tres sonetas, chamb ensemble (1940); Three Little Serious
Pieces, pic, ob, tpt, cl, sax (1940); La coronela, ballet, left unfinished at his
death and completed by Blas Galindo and Candelario Huízar (1941). Pn,
voc music.
Bibl.: O. Mayer-Serra, Silvestre Revueltas and Musical Nationalism in
Mexico, Musical Quarterly, Vol.27, 1941. G. Contreras, Silvestre Revueltas:
Genio Atormentado, Mexico City, 1954.
Sources: BB, CTA1, DCM, DM, DMEH, GDM, GP, MLA, MMLA

Reyes, José, Dominican composer; b.1835, Santo Domingo, Dominican

Republic; d.31 Jan 1905, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. He studied
with Juan Bautista Alfonseca.
Works: Dominican Republic National Anthem, symph music, hymns.
Sources: DM, DMEH, MLA

Reyes, José Trinidad, Honduran composer; b.11 Jun 1797, Tegucigalpa,

Honduras; d.29 Sep 1855, Tegucigalpa. He studied music with his father,
Felipe Santiago Reyes. He became a priest in 1822 at the Convento de
Recoletos.
Works: Masses; villancicos; songs; zarzuelas. Most of his music has been
lost.
Sources: DMEH, MLA, MMLA

Reyes Camejo, Angel, Cuban teacher and composer; b.1 Oct 1889,
Matanzas, Cuba; d.6 Feb 1986, Homestead, FL. He studied in Cienfuegos,
Cuba, with César Bonafú, and in Havana with Pedro Sanjuán. In Mexico,
he studied with Julián Carrillo. He attended the Univ. of Michigan and
taught at Northwestern Univ. He was a member of the Northwestern Piano
Trio.
Works: Poema sinfónico; Suite, orch; Concerto, vn orch; Tambó, qnt;
Yemayá, vn, pn; Fantasía, harp.
Sources: DMC, DMEH

Reyes Meave, Manuel, Mexican composer, musical instrument builder,

and educator; b.4 Sep 1917, Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico; d.20 Jan 1995,
Mexico City, Mexico. He studied at the Escuela Superior de Música de
Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes and UNAM with Manuel León Mariscal,
Roberto Téllez Oropeza, Eduardo Hernández Moncada, Francisco
Contreras, Raquel Bustos, Manuel M. Ponce, Juan D. Tercero, José F.
Vásquez, and Rodolfo Halffter. He also studied philosophy of music,
aesthetics, and psychology of art at UNAM. He was member of the
Cuarteto Clásico (second violin, viola) and the Orch. Symph. of UNAM. He
began researching musical instruments (1932) with the goal of improving
the sound of string instruments and built instruments until 1987. He was
secretary (1962-64) and director of the music school of UNAM (1964-68).
Works: Concertino, vn, orch (1947); Suite sinfónica, orch (1950); 3
Preludios, pn (1954); Sonatina, vn, vc, pn (1978).
Sources: DMEH

Reynoso Compuesto, Antonio, Argentine violinist, conductor, and

composer of Spanish origin; b.1869, Bilbao, Spain; d.1912, Buenos Aires,
Argentina. He settled in Buenos Aires in 1890.
Works: Guardia Nacional; Una heroína; Libertad de sufragio; Las aves
negras; La esquila; El embargo preventivo; Justicia criolla. Music for 11
chapters of the Passion of Jesus Christ. El chiripá rojo, lyric drama on a
book by Enrique García Velloso.
Sources: EMA

Rezende, Marisa, Brazilian composer, pianist, and teacher; b.8 Aug 1944,
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She studied piano with Marieta de Saules and
composition at the Escola Nacional de Música of Rio de Janeiro. She
received a BM from the Univ. Federal of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil, and
in 1976, an MM from the Univ. of California at Santa Barbara, CA, USA, in
piano performance, studying with Erno Daniel. In 1984, she received a
Ph.D. in composition at the same inst., under the supervision of Peter
Fricker. She taught theory at the Univ. Federal of Pernambuco (1977-87)
then composition at the Univ. Federal of Rio de Janeiro. She retired from
teaching in 2002. Leader of the Grupo Nova Música, an ensemble dedicated
to the promotion of Brazilian contemporary music. Founding member of the
Associação Nacional de Pesquisa e Pós-Graduação em Música.
Works: Sincrética e obstinadamente, orch (1983); Concertante, ob, pn
(1985); Syntagma, fl, perc, pn (1988); Telúrica, str (1989); Volante, fl, cl,
vc, pn (1990); Variations, fl (1995); Elos, harpsichord (1995); Vortex, str qt
(1997); Schisms, vn, va, vc, cb, pn (1997); Contrasts, pn (2001). Chamb,
pn, voc music.
Sources: EMB2, ISC.

Ribeiro, Agnaldo, Brazilian composer; b.1 Dec 1943, Jequié, Brazil. He

received a degree in design from the School of Fine Arts (1969) and in
composition at the Music School (1976) at the UFBA. He studied with
Ernst Widmer, Jamary Oliveira, and participated in courses with Peter
Maxwell Davies then taught composition, literature, and musical structure
at UFBA where he was an administrator and coordinator of the board
(1977-2011). He was part of the Bahia Composers Group.
Works: Jorunská-Conka, fl, pic, ob, bsn, perc, str orch (1969); Morbidus-
Mad.E Met. The 2, 4 perc, 2 mez sop, org, str (1972); Korpus-Et-
Antikorpus, fl, pic, cl, bsn, tpt, pn, 2 perc, 2 vn, va, vc, cb (1975);
Momentus 4, 2 fl, ob, cl, tnr sax, mez sop or alt, sop or tnr, str orch (1977);
In Labrinthus 3, cl, vc, pn (1985); Al-tusaxfragmentus Or Saxassaltando
The Ideas, alto sax (1986); In Labrinthus 4, fl, pic, vn, va, vc (1987); Three
Fragments: Fragment 1, fl (1988); Ritus 1-The Trough Illuminated, tpt
(1988); Ritus 2-The Trough Encantado, tn sax, str orch (1990); Screen
Without Border, Actus 1, The 2, perc, str orch (1993); Green Lemon Color-
Mad and Met. The 2, 2 perc, org, str (1997); In Kantus or The Centaur
Encantado, pn (1999); Solopiano, pn (2003).
Sources: GDM; NMLA

Ribeiro, León Julio Alfredo, Uruguayan composer and teacher; b.11 Apr
1854, Montevideo, Uruguay; d.12 Mar 1931, Montevideo. He studied with
Carmelo Calvo and Luis Sambucetti. In 1885, he was appointed Prof. of
harmony at the Cons. de Música La Lira in Montevideo, where he became
Prof. of piano, and then, in 1889, technical director, and two years later,
director, a position that he occupied until his death in 1931.
Works: Liropeya (1881); Don Ramiro; Nidia; Nora; Yole; Harpago y
Helena. 4 symphonies; Misa solemne, 4 voc; Misa, 2 vo; Salve Regina, 2
voc, harmonium; Str qt (1897); Sextet, pn, fl, ob, cl, bsn, hn. Chamb, pn,
voc music.
Sources: BHMCU, DMEH, MLA, MU

Ribeiro Neves, Vítor, Brazilian composer, flutist, teacher, and conductor;

b.14 Sep 1900, Santa Vitória do Palmar, Brazil; d.? In 1922, he entered the
Inst. Nacional de Música of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where he studied flute
and music theory with Pedro de Assis. Prof. of history of music and dir. of
the male singing choir at the Inst. de Belas Artes of Pôrto Alegre, Brazil.
Founder of Coral Nossa Senhora da Piedade. Conductor of the Orq.
Sinfônica of Pôrto Alegre.
Works: Ponaím, opera; Agonia da tarde, prelude, voc, ch, pn. Pn, solo instr,
symph music.
Sources: EMB2, MMLA

Richter, Frederico, Brazilian composer of German origin; b.1932,

Hamburg, Germany. He received a Doctorate in music in Pôrto Alegre,
Brazil. He did his post-graduate studies in electronic music at McGill Univ.
in Montreal, Canada. Prof. of composition, orch. conducting, chamb music
in Pelotas, in Santa María, and in Pôrto Alegre, all in Brazil. Director and
acting dean of the Dept. de Música of the Univ. of Santa María.
Works: Dom Quixote de Portinari, opera; Concentratas No. 1, 2 e 3, orch;
Três contos poéticos, orch. Chamb, solo instr, ch, voc music.
Sources: HMB

Rico, Horacio, Mexican composer; b.2 Jan 1957, Celaya, State of

Guanajuato, Mexico. He studied at the Escuela Nacional de Música of
UNAM, and at the Taller de Composición of CENIDIM with Federico
Ibarra, both in Mexico City, Mexico. He also studied in Russia with
Vladimir Tsitovich. Conductor of the chorus of UNAM and the chorus of
the Cons. Nacional de Música, Mexico City.
Works: La fiesta de los locos, ballet (1996); Imágenes, orch (1984); Hn
concerto (1987); Díptico, orch (1988); Bsn concerto (1990); Concerto, 2 pn
(1991); Rosa divina, cantata, sop, tn, ch (1995). Chamb, pn music.
Sources: DCMMC, DMEH
Rico, Régulo Ramón del Carmen, Venezuelan composer and conductor;
b.30 Mar 1878, Guatire, Venezuela; d.20 May 1960, Guatire, Venezuela. He
studied music (1886-95) with Enrique de León in Guatire. He founded the
Sociedad Unión Phil. (1900) to train performers in his town and taught at
the Escuela Municipal de Niños in Concejo Municipal del Distrito Zamora
(1904-26). He founded the Estudiantina Santa Cecilia (1930) in which some
of his own children participated. His archive in Guatire became
disorganized due to the 1967 earthquake and although it was reorganized
many of his works were lost. He left a document: Manuscrito o datos de la
vida de Régulo Rico, relating the history of his family.
Works: sacred music, songs.
Sources: DMEH

Ried, Aquinas, Chilean composer and physician of German origin;

b.between 1810 and 1813, Bavaria, Germany; d.17 May 1869, Chile. After
completing his education in Schottenkloisters, Germany, he studied
medicine in England. Nothing is known about his musical education. He
served in the military medical Corps on the island of Northfolk, a British
territory of Polynesia. He traveled through the port of Valparaíso on his way
back from Australia and remained there. Interested in music, he wrote lyrics
for a hymn, organized concerts, and founded the Sociedad Harmónica. Most
of his works and papers were lost during the 1906 earthquake in Valparaíso
and only the titles of his works are known. In 1846 he moved to Bolivia
after accepting an offer from the president, General Ballivián, to lead the
chemistry, pathology, and obstetrics departments in Sucre.
Works: La telésfora, opera; Il grenatiere, opera; Walhalla, opera; Diana,
opera; Ismenilda, opera; Idona, opera; Ondega, opera; Atacama, opera;
Misa solemne. Voc music.
Sources: DMEH, HMC, MLA, MMLA

Riesco Grez, Carlos, Chilean composer; b.23 Dec 1925, Santiago de Chile,
Chile; d.20 May 2007, Chile. He studied theory with Luis Vilches and
Fedor Gleboff in Canada (1941), composition with Humberto Allende in
Chile (1943-46). In 1947 he moved to New York and studied with David
Diamond (composition), Curt Sachs (musicology), Rafael da Silva (piano),
Philip James (instrumentation) (summer seasons 1947-49) at Tanglewood
with Aaron Copland and Olivier Messiaen. In 1950 he returned to Chile and
was the technical chief of staff at the Instituto de Extensión Musical and
treasurer of the Asociación Nacional de Compositores (Chilean affiliate of
the Sociedad Internacional de Música Contemporánea). He traveled to
Mexico City in 1951 to work with Rodolfo Halffter. In 1966, he was
appointed director of the Inst. de Extensión Musical of the Univ. of Chile,
in Santiago de Chile. President of the Inst. de Chile (1997-2000).
Works: Semblanzas chilenas, pn (1946); Canzona e rondo, vn, pn (1948);
Vn concerto (1951); Passacaglia y fuga, str orch (1952); Cuatro danzas,
orch (1952-53); Candelaria, ballet (1954-55); Sonata, pn (1959); Pn
concerto (196163).
Sources: DMEH, HMC

Rifo Suárez, Guillermo, Chilean composer and percussionist; b.16 Feb

1945, Santiago de Chile, Chile. He began studying percussion (1956) then
continued at the Cons. Nacional with Jorge Canelo. He received a degree in
percussion then studied harmony and analysis with David Serendero, 12
tone composition with Roberto Escobar, harmony and improvisation
techniques in jazz with Mariano Casanova, dodecaphonism, contemporary
sounds, and counterpoint with Ernst Hubert-Contwig, contemporary
composition with Juan Amenábar, and conducting with Víctor Tevah. He
became a percussionist with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Chile (1965),
founded and conducted the Conjunto de Percusión Chile, arranged,
composed, and played vibraphone with the Conjunto Hindemith (1976) and
conducted, composed, and performed with the Conjunto Latinomúsica
Viva. In 1968 he founded the percussion department at the Inst. de Música
de la Univ. Católica de Chile, and taught there until 1982. He also taught at
the Univ. Católica de Santiago and Valparaíso, the Univ. de Chile, the Inst.
Interamericano de Educación Musical (INTEM), Facultad de Artes de la
Univ. de Chile, and the Inst. Profesional Escuela Moderna. He was
secretary of the Asociación Nacional de Compositores de Chile (1987-88)
and 2nd vice president of the Sociedad Chilena del Derecho de Autor
(1988-92). His music combines popular music and jazz into classical works.
Works: Estudios inconexos, perc, str orch (1979); Estudio para seis
percusionistas, perc (1968); Caliche, bsn, orch (1984); Encuentros, fl, harp
(1985-86); Retrovías inconexas, vc, pn (1991); Recados a Gabriela, voc, 2
bsns, cl, fl (1995).
Sources: DMEH
Rimaudo Banegas, Salvador, Argentine conductor and composer; b.27
Oct/Dec 1928, Santiago del Estero, Argentina; 5 Jan 2006, Madrid. He
settled in Tucumán (1946), and taught conducting at the Cons. de Música
there. He founded the Coro Alter, later Camerata Alter (1954), toured in
Europe (1965, 1988), and performed in Chile and Brazil. In 1969 he
organized the Concurso Latinoamericano de Coros de Tucumán and in 1991
led the Seminario de Musicología Animada. After 1992 he taught in the
department of music of the Teatro Alberdi de la Univ. Nacional de
Tucumán.
Works: Symphch, ch, chamb, inst music.
Sources: DMEH

Ripper, João Guilherme, Brazilian composer, teacher, and conductor; b.20

Aug 1959, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He studied with Henrique Morelenbaum,
Ronaldo Miranda, Garth M. Drozin, and Roberto Duarte at the Escola de
Música of the UFRJ. He received a DM degree from the Catholic Univ. of
America, Washington, DC, USA, where he studied with Helmut Braunlich
and Emma Garmendia. In 1987, he inaugurated the Banco de
Composiciones Orquestales of the Inst. Nacional de Música in Rio de
Janeiro and organized the catalogue Música Brasileira para Orquesta,
published by the same Inst. Prof. of composition at the Escola de Música of
the Univ. Federal of Rio de Janeiro.
Works: Augusto Matraga, opera (1996); Terra Brasilis, orch (1983); Rio
São Francisco, orch (1986). Chamb, instr, ch music.
Sources: EMB2, ISC

Risco Cortés, Ricardo, Mexican composer and conductor of Panamanian

origin; b.10 Nov 1960, Panama City, Panama. In 1981, he settled in Mexico
and studied composition with Mario Lavista and conducting with Alberto
Alva at the Cons. Nacional de Música of INBA, Mexico City. Took courses
and workshops with Rodolfo Halffter and Istvan Lang. Conductor of the
Ensamble Coral of the Cons. Nacional de Música and of the Coro de
Cámara de Bellas Artes, both of Mexico. Became conductor of the Coro y
Ensamble Vocal del Inst. Tecnológico of Monterrey, Mexico (1994).
Works: Convergentes, str (1985); Tres canciones, mezzosop, orch (1985);
Música nocturna (1988); El jardín encantado (1991); Mantrams (1999); Te
deum (2003); Tres oraciones marianas (2004); Suite no. 1 (2005); Ave
verum (2006); Espíritu amazónico (2010); Juventudes musicales
panameñas (2010). Chamb, solo instr, voc, ch music.
Sources: DCMMC, DMEH, GP

Ritter, Jorge, Mexican composer; b.1 Aug 1957, Mexico City, Mexico. He
studied at the Cons. Nacional de Música of INBA, Mexico City, with Mario
Lavista and Daniel Catán. Later, he studied in New York, NY, USA, with
Georg Continescu, then participated in workshops with Rodolfo Halffter,
Istvan Lang, Luciano Berio, Earl Brown, and Leo Brouwer. Prof. at the
Cons. de Música of the State of Mexico, Mexico.
Works: Largo maestoso, str (1983); Gtr concerto (1989); Marionetas, orch
(1994). Chamb, gtr, voc, electroacoustic, computer music.
Sources: DCMMC, DMEH

Rivera, Eusebia, 19th century Peruvian composer.

Works: Polka (1856).
Sources: IEW

Rivera, Graciela, Puerto Rican singer, Prof. and composer; b.17 Apr 1921,
Ponce, Puerto Rico; d.17 Jul 2011, Mays Landing, NJ. She graduated from
The Juilliard School of Music (1943) and debuted in the title role of Lucia
di Lammermoor at the Metropolitan Opera (1952). She performed over 300
leading roles in the United States and Europe. She was Asst. Prof. at Hostos
Community College and received honors including the Pro Arte Musical
medal, Puerto Rico, and the Exemplary Citizen award, Institute of Puerto
Rico. She earned a doctorate in humanities from the Pontificia Univ.
Católica de Puerto Rico (1993).
Works: Campanitas (sacred); Padre nuestro (sacred); Puerto Rican danzas;
Borinquen (dance).
Sources: IEW

Rivera Bozinovich, Enrique, Chilean composer; b.28 Dec 1941, Santiago

de Chile. He studied composition with Juan Orrego Salas and Gustavo
Becerra, and later, continued at the Inst. Di Tella of Buenos Aires,
Argentina.
Works: Suite sine nomine, pn (1962); La ausencia, song cycle (1962); 2
sonatas, pn (1963, 1965); El hombre acecha, 2 songs and 1 interlude, voc,
pn (1966); Los lectores, 2 nar, gtrs, perc (1966).
Sources: HMC

Rivera González, Luis, Dominican composer and violinist; b.22 Jun 1901,
Monte Cristi, Dominican Republic; d.16 Sep 1986, Dominican Republic.
He studied music with Father José de Jesús Rivera, and violin with García
Vila. In Cuba, he studied harmony and composition with Amadeo Roldén.
Artistic director of La Voz Dominicana. Prof. of solfeggio and harmony at
the Cons. Nacional de Música and conductor of the Banda de la Policía
Nacional, both in the Dominican Republic.
Works: Rapsodia dominicana, pn orch; Rapsodia dominicana, orch; Poema
indio, nar, bar, orch. Pn, voc music.
Sources: DEW, DMEH, MLA, MMLA

Rivera Vera, Manuel Alfredo, Peruvian composer, violist, and

musicologist; b.9 Jul 1928, Arequipa, Peru. He studied viola and
composition at the Escuela Regional de Arequipa and received a
scholarship to study harmony and counterpoint with Pablo Chávez Aguila
and Jaime Aicua and viola with Harold Franken at the Cons. Nacional de
Música in Lima (1947-51). He worked as a violist with the Orq. Sinfónica
de Arequipa and taught viola at the Escuela de Bellas Artes del
Departamento de Puno, where he also directed the choir. He cofounded the
Orq. Filarmónica de Lima with José Malcio. He also founded the Coro
Filarmónico de Lima. He dedicated himself to 12-tone theory in 1964.
Works: Contrastes y Apocalipsis, orch; Espejos, symphony, str orch;
Cuarteto de cuerdas no.1, str qt; Trío para violin, violoncello, pn, vn, vc,
pn; Suite no.1, pn; Salomé, symph poem. Voc, ch music.
Sources: DMEH

Rivero, Demetrio, Argentine composer and violinist; b.1822, Buenos

Aires, Argentina; d.1889, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He studied with his father,
an Argentiene composer exiled in Uruguay. One of the first Argentine
violinists, he lived in Rio de Janeiro, 1843 until his death.
Works: O primo da California, probably the first Argentine opera;
Libertad; Canción de la joven generación; Marcha a Lavalle; Himno de los
Libertadores; No me olvides.
Sources: DMEH, DMM
Robles Girón, Héctor, Mexican composer and cellist; b.6 Mar 1957. He
entered the Cons. Nacional de Música at the age of 17 and studied with
Leopoldo Téllez, Ignacio Mariscal, José Suárez, Óscar Lobato, and Icilio
Bredo. He studied cello and chamber music with Christine Walewska and
Peter Wopke and performed in Mexico.
Works: Nocturno solo, orch (1981); Transición, op.2, chamb orch (1981);
Lejanía, op.7, vn, va (1984); Desprendimiento, op.5, vc (1984); Fusión,
op.10, vc, bs (1989); Latente op.12, vc (1990); Secuencia, op.9, fl, cl
(1990); Parajes sonoros, op.15, gtr (1992); Ave sensorial, op.14, ob, pn
(1993); Sheng, op.17, gtr, chamb orch (1995).
Sources: DMEH, GP

Robles Gutiérrez, Manuel, Chilean composer; b.6 Nov 1780, Renca,

Chile; d.27 Aug 1837. He started music studies with his father, Marcos
Matías Robles. In 1820 he composed music for the first Chilean national
hymn with text by the Argentine poet Bernardo Vera. He earned his living
as a billiards player in Buenos Aires until he joined an orchestra as a
violinist. After returning to Chile he helped found the Sociedad Filarmónica
(1827) and played in an orchestra.
Works: First Chilean National Anthem (1819), (the second and definitive
Chilean National Anthem was written by Ramón Carnicer in 1828).
Sources: DMEH, HMC, MLA, MMLA

Rocha, Pérsio Moreira da, Brazilian composer, pianist, and teacher; b.7
Mar 1934, São Paulo, Brazil. He began piano study with Nait Tabet and
graduated from the Cons. Dramático e Musical of São Paulo (1952) where
he studied with Alberto Sales. Continued piano studies with Magda
Tagliaferro and Sebastian Benda, then graduated from the Cons. Paulista de
Canto Orfeónico (1955) where he studied harmony and counterpoint with
César Guerra Peixe and instrumentation and composition with Camargo
Guarnieri.
Works: Suite Vinte e Cinco de Janeiro, orch (1963); Seresta, pn (1963);
Sonata, pn (1965); Qto, fl, cl, bsn, pn (1965); Valsa, pn (1967).
Sources: EMB2

Rocha Iturbide, Manuel, Mexican composer and photographer; b.1963,

Mexico City. He studied composition with Julio Estrada, Ratko Tichavsky,
and Federico Ibarra at UNAM. He received a scholarship to study
electronic music and composition with Alvin Curran, Anthony Braxton,
David Rosenboom, and Larry Polansky at Mills College (MFA, 1991). He
then studied with Bryan Fernyhough in Paris and commenced doctoral
studies with Horacio Vaggione at the Univ. of Paris, where he would later
teach.
Works: Irregularidades transitorias (2012); Estudio Antimatierico no.1;
Agnus Dei. Electroacoutic music.
Sources: GP

Rodas Dávila, Arturo, Ecuadorian composer; b.3 Mar 1951 Quito,

Ecuador. He studied at the Cons. Nacional de Música of Quito. Later, he
studied composition, electroacoustic composition, and music information
through computers in France, with Yoshihisa Taira, Michéle Reverdy,
Mesías Maiguashca, and François Pinot at the Ecole Normale de Musique
of Paris, and at the Centre Européen pour la Recherche Musicale of Metz.
Founder and member of the board of directors of the musical association,
Denosjours of Paris. Editor and coordinator of the journal Opus, published
by the División Musical del Banco Central of Ecuador.
Works: Arcaica, orch; Fibris, orch; Espacios invertidos, perc; Fibris, pn,
orch; Climax, orch; Entropía, orch; Andino III, solo fl; Ramificaciones
temporales, solo cl.
Sources: DMEH, MG, PEFCM

Rodrigues, Maria Joachina, Mexican composer; b.ca. 1688; d.?

Works: Musicos ruysenores: cantata a duo al Nacimiento, alto, tenor.
Sources: IEW

Rodríguez, Armando, Cuban composer and guitarist; b.23 Jul 1951,

Havana, Cuba. He studied guitar and theory at ENA. After graduating
(1972) he studied composition with José Ardévol and Roberto Valera at
ISA. After 1972 he taught guitar at the Cons. Municipal Esteban Salas in
Santiago de Cuba, and guitar and theory at ENA (1974). He won
composition prizes and his music has been performed throughout the
United States, Latin America and Europe. He has collaborated with other
artists including the painter Kate Rawlinson and the Venezuelan composer
Gustavo Matamoros. He founded the experimental music group Punto with
Gustavo Matamoros.
Works: Sonatina, pn (1972); Dos poemas, voc, pn (1977); 12 Estudios para
guitarra, gtr (1979); Toccata, preludio, y fuga, gtr (1980); Logos, gtr
(1984); Configuration, pn (1989); The Helga Pictures, va (1991);
Threshold, ch (1997).
Sources: DMEH

Rodriguez, Arturo, Mexican composer, pianist, and conductor; b.1976,

Monterrey. He studied at the Univ. de Monterrey and later the Univ. de
Nuevo Léon, Texas Christian Univ., and Butler Univ. He won the Medalla
Mozart in Mexico (1996), participated in the ASCAP Film Scoring
Workshop (2003), and was a Sundance Composer Fellow (2010).
Works: Mosaico mexicano (1998); Desolación (1999); From Earth to Mars
(1999); Org concerto (1999); Fafare and Theme (2002); Misa 2 (2004);
Siete villancicos mexicanos de Silvino Jaramillo (2005, 2009); Canto de la
noche (2006); Cuando las cosas suceden, film music (2006); Introducción,
canción, y verbena (2006); Symph fantasy on El corridor de Monterrey
(2006); Fantasía concertante, pn, orch (2007); Saudade, harp, str orch
(2007); Carlota (2008); Elegy and Rondo (2009); Maximiliano (2009);
Maximiliano y Carlota (2010); Una historía hecha a mano (2010).
Sources: GP

Rodríguez, Esther, Cuban composer; b.29 Nov 1920, Manzanillo, Cuba.

She studied piano, solfeggio at the Cons. Orbón of Havana, Cuba, with
Berta Momoyito and Julián Orbón, and later, entered the Cons. Municipal
of Havana, where she studied harmony, counterpoint, and history of music
with José Ardévol and Amadeo Roldán. Member of the Grupo de
Renovación Musical of Cuba.
Works: Str qt in A major; Preludio, pn; Sonata, vc, pn; Invenciones y
preludio, pn. Ch music.
Sources: DM, MLA, MMLA

Rodríguez, José Napoleón, Salvadoran composer; b.24 Jul 1901, San

Lorenzo, Dept. of San Vicente, El Salvador; d.1986, El Salvador. He
studied in his native town with Carlos Martínez and Francisco C. Cañadas.
Conductor of the Banda Regimental of Usulután, El Salvador. Prof. of voice
at official schools and choirmaster at parochial schools. In 1932, he was
appointed conductor of the Banda Regimental of Zacatecoluca, Dept. of La
Paz, El Salvador.
Works: Libertad y paz, overture; Salve, insigne patriota, overture; Sueño y
realidad, fantasia. Pn, voc, military marches, boleros, religious music.
Sources: MMLA

Rodríguez, Laureano, Argentine composer, pianist, and organist; b.1905,

Tucumán, Prov. of Tucumán Argentina; d.? He studied at the Acad. de
Bellas Artes of Tucumán. In 1929, he settled in Jujuy, Prov. of Jujuy,
Argentina, where he worked as an organist at the San Francisco Church.
Prof. of music at the Escuela Secundaria of Jujuy, and director of the Inst.
Musical Jujuy.
Works: Preludio y tema fugado, pn; Dos nocturnos, vn, pn; Scherzo, org;
Ausencia, 5-voc a cappella ch. Chamb, voc music.
Sources: DM, EMA

Rodríguez, Marcela, Mexican composer and guitarist; b.18 Apr 1951,

Mexico City, Mexico. She studied composition with María Antonieta
Lozano, Mario Lavista, and Leo Brouwer, and attended composition
seminars at Brown Univ., Providence, RI, USA, and the Hochschule für
Musik in Freiburg, Germany. Member of Sistema Nacional de Creadores of
Mexico.
Works: Canto sin luz, orch (1984); Fantasía, ob, perc str (1984); Nocturno,
orch (1986); La fábula de las regiones, str orch (1990); Religiosos
incendios, orch (1991); La sunamita, opera (1991); Concerto, recorders
(1993); Vc concerto (1994); El verano (1994); Gtr concerto (1994);
Funesta, sop (1995); Cantata del Tequila (1998); Vértigos (1998); Hacia el
vacío (2007); Cl concerto (2008); Pn concerto (2008); Irrupciones (2011);
Pn concerto (2011); Requiem mexicano, oratorio (2011). Theater, chamb,
solo instr, ch music.
Sources: DCMMC, DMEH, GP, NGDWC

Rodríguez, Nilo, Cuban composer and Prof.; b.19 Sep 1921, Jagüey
Grande, Cuba; d.23 Jan 1997, Havana, Cuba. He began studying music in
his native city then moved to Havana (1941) where he studied composition
at the Cons. Municipal with Ardévol. He composed, co-founded and was
vice president of the Sociedad Cultural Nuestro Tiempo (1940-50). He
created the music appreciation deprtment at the Cons. Municipal and taught
at the Univ. Masónica José Martí de La Habana. He conducted and
represented Cuba in the Festival Mundial de la Juventud y los Estudiantes
(World Festival for Students and Youth) celebrated in Vienna (1959),
followed by tours in the Soviet Union. He programmed for the radio station
CMZ, broadcasting music by Cuban composers of different eras and styles.
Founding director of the Escuela de Música de la Escuela Nacional de Arte
(1962) then after 1965 he was an assessor of the Dirección Nacional de
Música del Consejo Nacional de Cultura, edited music, organized and
directed the Editora Musical de Cuba until 1988. Vice-president and
president of the composition section, he helped organize the Asociación
Cubana de Compositores y Autores Musicales.
Works: Nubes, ch (1946); Canción, ch (1948); Cantata por la paz, voc, ch,
orch (1953); Cantata a Manuel Ascunce Domenech, sop, tn, bar (1965);
Impronta, orch (1966-67); Señor Juan Plim, ch (1972); Advinanazas, ch
(1981); Diálogo concertante, va, pn (1985); Sonata-habanera, vn, pn
(1988); De vuelta, ch (1992).
Sources: DMEH

Rodríguez, Ricardo, Argentine composer; b.15 Apr 1879, EMA (1877,

MMLA), Concordia, Prov. of Entre Ríos, Argentina; d.1 Oct 1951, Buenos
Aires, Argentina. He began music studies in Concordia, and then continued
violin with Pietro Melani and composition with Alberto Williams in Buenos
Aires. After winning the Grand Prix Europa in 1904, he went to Paris,
France, where he entered the Schola Cantorum and studied harmony with
Victor Vreuls and León Saint-Requier, counterpoint with Albert Roussel,
organ with Abel Decaux and Alexandre Guilmant, Gregorian chant with
Amédée Gastoué, chamb music with Louis Serres, and composition with
Auguste Sérieyx and Vincent d’Indy. Prof. of composition at the Cons.
Nacional de Música Carlos López Buchardo of Buenos Aires. Director of
the Escuela Argentina de Música Julián Aguirre. Member of the Board of
Directors of the Teatro Colón and member of the Acad. Nacional de Bellas
Artes, both of Buenos Aires.
Works: El palmar, symph poem; Atardecer en la tablada, symph poem; El
yuquerí, symph poem; Overture, orch; Sonata in G, vn, pn; Qt, pn, cl, va,
bsn; San Ignacio, cantata, soloists, ch, orch. Pn, voc music.
Sources: CA, DM, DMEH, EMA, MMLA

Rodríguez, Zolio Joel, Mexican composer; b.27 Jun 1933, Ocotlán,

Oaxaca, Mexico. He studied music with Mario Kuri Aldana, Armando
Lavalle, and Francisco Núñez and graduated from INBA.
Works: Concierto para guitarra y orquesta, gtr, orch; Obertura suriana,
band; Sexteto para orquesta de cámara, sop, fl, chamb orch; Sonata, gtr;
songs.
Sources: DMEH

Rodríguez Alvira, José, Puerto Rican composer and guitarist; b.3 Jan
1954, Havana, Cuba. He started his music studies with Alfredo Romero and
Leonardo Egúrbida in Cuba. Between 1972 and 1976, he studied at the
Cons. of Puerto Rico with Héctor Tosar, Luis A. Ramírez, Amaury Veray,
and N. Justicia. In 1976, he went to Paris, France, where he studied with
Alberto Ponce, Roberto Aussel, Antonio Ruíz Pipó, and Narcis Bonet. In
1981, he graduated in guitar from the Cons. Nacional de Música of
Aubervilliers, France, and in music aesthetics from the Ecole Normale of
Paris. Prof. at the Cons. de Música of Puerto Rico.
Works: Fantasía, str orch (1986); Suite de canciones puertorriqueñas, sop,
fl, cl, vn, vc, gtr (1987). Chamb, solo instr, pn music.
Sources: CPR, DMEH

Rodríguez Amador, Augusto Alejandro, Puerto Rican composer and

conductor; b.9 Feb 1904, San Juan, Puerto Rico; d.5 Jan 1993, San Juan. He
studied medicine at the Univ. of Puerto Rico, and music at Harvard Univ.,
Cambridge, MA, USA, with Edward B. Hill, Walter Piston, and Hugo
Leichtentritt (1933-34). He also studied at the New England Cons. of
Music. Appointed Prof. at the Univ. of Puerto Rico in 1934. He founded the
Cantores del Inst. de Cultura Puerto riqueña and the Coro del Festival de
Opera de Puerto Rico.
Works: Ch, voc, pn music, dance suites.
Sources: BB, MMLA

Rodríguez Arenas, Mario, Argentine performer, educator, and composer;

b.20 Sep 1879, Buenos Aires, Argentina; d.1949, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
He studied harmony with Enrique Morera. After 1907 he taught guitar and
founded the Acad. Tárrega with Antonio Sinópoli. He composed,
transcribed, and edited works for the guitar including didactic repertoire.
Works: La escuela de la guitarra, 7 volumes; gtr music.
Sources: DMEH

Rodríguez Arresón, José María, Puerto Rican composer and conductor;

b.24 Sep 1870, Añasco, Puerto Rico; d. 1947. He studied violin and
solfeggio with his father, then, at age 12 went to Mayagüez, Puerto Rico,
where he studied violin with Marcelina Medina and Mariano Casanova. He
received a BA degree from the Inst. Provincial of San Juan, Puerto Rico,
then continued studying harmony and composition in Barcelona, Spain. He
lived in the Dominican Republic for 40 years, conducted the Banda
Municipal, directed the Acad. Municipal, the Centro Musical, and the
Escuela Normal Superior, all of Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic.
Works: Sinfonía quasi una fantasía 30 de Marzo, orch; 16 de agosto,
military fantasia; Ave Maria Stella, cantata, soloists, ch, orch; Himno a
Santa Cecilia, ch orch. Hymns; marches; waltzes.
Books: El Clasicismo en Música; El Arte Musical y el Estado.
Sources: DM, DMEH, MMLA

Rodríguez Cubillos, José Antonio, Colombian composer and pianist; b.12

Oct 1897, Bogotá, Colombia; d.? In 1912, he entered the Cons. Nacional de
Música of Bogotá, where he studied piano with Pedro Villa and Lucía
Gutiérrez de Uribe Holguín, and composition with Guillermo Uribe
Holguín. Later, he studied musical pedagogy with Henry Joos in Brussels,
Belgium, and with Paul Braud and Vincent D’Indy at the Schola Cantorum
of Paris, France (1925-28). He also studied piano with Pierre Lucas and
composition with Louis Aubert and Joaquín Nin y Castellanos (1929-31).
Prof. of piano, theory at the Cons. Nacional de Música of Bogotá (1919-
23).
Works: Habanera, pn; Twelve Impromptus, pn; Suite santafereña.
Sources: MMLA

Rodríguez Fauré, José, Argentine conductor and composer; b.11 Apr

1911, Avellaneda, Argentina; d.2 Mar 1995, Argentina. Beginning in 1920
he studied percussion with Francisco Lobrero, clarinet and cello with J.
Fernández, piano and harmony with Adolfo Castro, piano and composition
with Cayetano Marcolli, practice in orchestral ensemble with Bruno
Bandini. In 1931 he continued harmony, counterpoint, fugue, form,
composition, and instrumentation with Eduardo Fornarini. He also studied
conducting with Hugo Mariani and Héctor Panizzam and composition with
Esteban Eitler. In Rome he studied conducting with Pizzetti. He
collaborated with Radio El Mundo in Buenos Aires, was artistic director of
business and recording and worked in film. After 1948 he helped form the
Escuela de Conjunto Orquestal de Avellaneda, later the Orquesta Sinfónica
Municipal. He conducted and toured internationally participating in
conferences and international meetings for composers and critics.
Works: Obertura incaica sobre temas norteños, orch (1939); Fuga tonal, qt
(1943); Trío, va, cl, tpt (1946); Pieza no.1, fl (1963); Cuarteto no.2 qt
(1969); Impresiones pictóricas, orch (1972); Dos mundos, nar, ch, orch
(1990); Elegía concertante, fl, bsn, vc, perc, str orch (1992); Canto a
Iberoamérica, nar, ch, orch (1992).
Sources: DMEH

Rodríguez Ferrer, José Antonio, Cuban composer and teacher; b.23 Aug
1864, Havana, Cuba; d.22 Oct 1935, Havana. He studied with Felipe Palau.
Director of several singing societies. Prof. of solfeggio and music theory at
the Cons. Hubert de Blanck, today Cons. Nacional de Música of Havana.
Works: Marcha de concierto, band; Gran marcha triunfal, band; Martí,
military march; Maceo, solemn march; La marcha presidencial; Suite
elegíaca, orch and band. Preludio temático, orch; Gran cantata a Colón, tn,
bs, ch, orch; Danzas de concierto cubanas.
Sources: DMC2, DMEH, MMLA

Rodríguez Legendere, Fidel Luis, Venezuelan researcher, composer, and

percussionist; b.29 Jul 1961, Caracas, Venezuela. He studied composition at
the Cons. Nacional de Música Juan José Landaeta and received a master’s
degree in percussion from the Escuela de Música José Ángel Lamas (1991).
At the same time he studied sociology at the Univ. Central de Venezuela
and musicology, theoretical and methodological concepts for a master’s
degree in Latin American musicology at the Centro de Estudios de
Posgrado de la Facultad de Humanidades y Educación. He also received a
degree in History of the Venezuelan Republic. He taught theory at the Cons.
de Música Simón Bolívar, history and aesthetics at the Escuela de Música
Pablo Castellanos, harmony at the Cons. Nacional de Música Juan Jose
Landaeta, and analysis at the Escuela de Artes de la Univ. Central de
Venezuela. He published articles on music and sociology of art and a study
on orchestras and the public in Caracas for the Orquesta Filarmónica
Nacional (1998). He researched, edited, directed, and wrote music for
documentaries.
Works: Ludus rítmico no.1, pn (1989); Sinfonietta concertante, cl, orch
(1993); Misa compacta, ch, 2 tpts, 2 trb, timpani (1991); Trío no.1, vn, va,
vc (1991); Díspositivo sonoro, orch (1995); Piezas cotidianos, quintet
(1998).
Sources: DMEH

Rodríguez Payés, Carlos, Salvadorian composer, physician, and guitarist;

b.21 Mar 1944, Zacotecoluca, El Salvador. He began studying guitar with
Dolores Rodriguez (1956) then moved to San Salvador and studied the
work of the Paraguayan composer Agustín Barrios Mangoré with Cándido
Morales. He continued guitar study with José Tomás in Santiago de
Compostela (1969) then harmony and composition in Madrid with Adelina
Barrios. He returned to El Salvador (1970) to continue studying with
Esteban Servellón and received a doctorate from the Univ. de El Salvador
(1972). He performed guitar recitals throughout El Salvador and Spain,
received awards and commissions.
Works: Aires salvadoreños (1978); Variaciones sobre un tema de Mozart;
Tres preludios; Fantasía, pn; Suite romántica, pn; Concierto a la italiana
(1972).
Sources: DMEH

Rodríguez Socas, Ramón, Uruguayan composer and teacher; b.31 Aug

1890, MMLA (1886, BHMCU), Montevideo, Uruguay; d.28 Nov 1957,
Montevideo. He studied with Francisco Baldomir and León Ribeiro at the
Cons. La Lira of Montevideo where later he was appointed director. He
continued studies at the Cons. Verdi in Milan, Italy, with Ettore Pozzoli,
Giacomo Orefice, and Michele Saladino.
Works: Alda, opera (1908); Yeba, opera (1908); Amor marinero, opera
(1909); Morte di amore, opera (1912); Antony, opera (1923); Urunday,
opera (1940); Afrodita, triptych orch; Ondinas, symphonic sketch; Himno al
Centenario del Uruguay; Grito de Asencio, symph poem; Zulul,
choreographic poem (1937); Obertura andina (1938); Concerto, pn, orch
(1943); Kishuar, choreographic poem (1944); Sinfonía Artigas, ch, org,
orch (1948).
Sources: BHMCU, DM, DMEH, MLA, MMLA, MU

Roig Lobo, Julio Gonzalo Elías, Cuban composer and conductor; b.20 Jul
1890, Havana, Cuba; d.13 Jun 1970, Havana. He studied solfeggio, piano,
and violin and later graduated from the Cons. Hubert de Blanck, today
Cons. Nacional de Música of Havana. He played violin in theater
orchestras. In 1922, together with Ernesto Lecuona and César Pérez
Sentenat, he organized the Orq. Sinfónica of Havana. Conductor of the
Banda Municipal and the orch. of Teatro Martí, both of Havana. In 1938, he
founded the Opera Nacional.
Works: Cecilia Valdés, zarzuela. In 1912, he wrote the popular bolero
Quiéreme mucho.
Sources: BB, DM, DMEH

Rojas, Bonifacio, Mexican composer and conductor; b.14 Nov 1921,

Morelia, State of Michoacán, Mexico; d.12 Jun 1997, Morelia. He studied
at the Escuela de Música Sacra of Morelia with Felipe Aguilera Ruiz,
Ignacio Mier Arriaga, Paulino Paredes Pérez, Miguel Bernal Jiménez, and
Gerhart Muench. Founder of the Orq. Sinfónica of Morelia and the Orq. de
Cámara of Michoacán.
Works: Sinfonía “Herencia Tarasca” (1946); Intermezzo, vn (1947); Fiesta
de la libertad, orch (1953); Jardines vallisoletanos, nar, perc, str (1960);
Variaciones sinfónicas sobre el son “Flor de canela” (1964); Himno a
Morelos (1965); Gerdemani, symph poem (1971); Pn concerto (1975);
Obertura 80 (1980); Tollocan, vn (1981); Tzintzuntzan “Tata Cristo de
Paja” (1986); Himno patriótico Nicolaita (1991); Morelia in tempo mesto
(1991); Súplica (1991); Cinco rosas en cantera rosa, suite (1992); Al padre
de la patria, symph poem (1996). Chamb, pn, voc music.
Sources: DCMMC

Rojas, Miguel, Argentine composer; b.1845, San Nicolás de los Arroyos,

Prov. of Buenos Aires, Argentina; d.1904, Argentina. Active at the society
Los Negros where he participated as orch. and choral conductor.
Works: Los dos padres, zarzuela (1867); El pasaporte, zarzuela (1869);
Amor y orgullo, zarzuela (1882). La gatta bianca, operetta; Recuerdos del
carnaval, grand waltz, orch (1868); Cos’e amore, romance, voc, orch
(1878); Himno oficial a Rivadavia (1880); Tres marchas fúnebres, orch; Ave
Maria, vn, vc, pn, harmonium (1895); Chaquira Liew, incidental music
(1903). Songs.
Sources: DMEH, EMA

Rojas, René, Venezuelan composer, teacher, and conductor; b.2 Aug 1928,
Campo Elías, Yaracuy, Venezuela; d.9 Mar 2000, Caracas. He started music
studies with Blanca Estrella and piano with Doraliza Giménez de Medina.
Later, he studied harmony with Antonio Estévez and composition with
Primo Casale at the Escuela Superior de Música (today Escuela de Música
José Angel Lamas) of Caracas, Venezuela. With a scholarship from the
Univ. Central of Venezuela, he went to Paris, France (1959) to study
composition with Nadia Boulanger, conducting with Robert Blot, and
musicology with Jacques Chailly. In 1962, with a scholarship from
UNESCO, he went to Brussels, Belgium, to study conducting with René
Defossez. In 1965, he was director of the Dept. de Música of the Univ.
Central of Venezuela. In 1979, he founded the Inst. de Música Experimental
Infantil René Rojas, dedicated to music initiation for children.
Works: La veragacha, ballet (1955); La hilandera, profane cantata (1970);
Historia de un caballo que era bien bonito, orch (1972); Tres movimientos,
str (1974); Semblanza, orch (1983). Voc, ch, pn music.
Sources: DMEH, EMV

Rojas Enríquez, Gilberto, Bolivian teacher and composer; b.10 Mar 1910,
Oruro, Bolivia; d.1983, La Paz. He studied piano with Samsó and Arana in
Bolivia. Later, he went to Buenos Aires, Argentina, to study harmony,
composition, and orchestration. Prof. in many private and public schools.
Music supervisor at the Dirección Nacional de Educación Musical in La
Paz, Bolivia.
Works: Tiqui Miniqui, taquirari; Hay que trabajar, huayno; Flor de
Chuquisaca, cueca; Palmeras, polka. El valle de los sueños, zarzuela (first
Bolivian zarzuela).
Sources: CB, DMEH
Rojas M., Amadeo, Colombian conductor, educator, and composer; b.25
Aug 1937, Gama, Colombia. He studied at the Cons. de la Univ. Nacional
de Colombia then studied choral music in the United States. Asst. conductor
of the Sociedad Coral Bach, then principal conductor. He taught at the Univ.
Pedagógica Nacional in Bogotá, the National, América and Orefón Euterpe
Universities. He was a coordinator at Colegio de Nuestra Señora de Fátima.
Works: Ojos serenos, voice. Sacred, ch music.
Sources: DMEH

Rojas Restrepo, Darío, Colombian educator and composer; b.23 Mar

1953, Medellín, Colombia. He studied at the Facultad de Artes of the Univ.
de Antioquia with Rodolfo Pérez González, Ignacio Gil, Mario Gómez
Vignes, and Gustavo Yepes (1968-71). Later he studied oboe, auditory
training, theory, counterpoint, harmony, orchestration, and composition in
Maastricht, Belgium (1984-86) with Kingma, Wilheim Kersters, and Peter
Steivers. He also took courses with Blas Emilio Atehortúa and Fritz
Voegelin. Beginning in 1972 he taught at the Univ. de Antioquia.
Works: Homenaje a Huidobro, ch (2001); Tres canciones corales, ch;
Haiku, voice, pn. Film, theater music.
Books: Taller de ritmo, in collaboration with Clara Misas (1988).
Sources: DMEH

Rojas Ruiz, Edgar Omar, Mexican composer, pianist, and musicologist;

b.1982. He studied music at CIEM-Trinity College (2000-2006) and the
Janácek Acad. of Music and Performing Arts (MA, 2009; Ph.D., 2012). He
taught keyboard harmony at CIEM in Mexico City.
Works: El cielo (2003, rev. 2005); Tenochtitlan (2009).
Sources: GP

Rojo Cama, Vicente, Mexican composer; b.15 Jan 1960, Mexico City,
Mexico. He participated in the course on electroacoustic composition given
by Pierre Schaffer and Guy Reibel at the Cons. Supérieur de Musique, and
also attended the workshops at the Groupe de Recherches Musicales, both
in Paris, France. Later, he worked at the Center for Computer Music of
Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY, USA.
Works: Electroacoustic, computer music.
Sources: DCMMC, DMEH
Roldán Gardes, Amadeo, Cuban composer, conductor, and violinist; b.12
Jul 1900, Paris, France (of Cuban parents); d.2 Mar 1939, Havana, Cuba.
He studied at the Cons. Real de Música of Madrid, Spain, with Pablo
Hernández, Agustín Soler, and Antonio Fernández Bordas, graduating in
1916. Later, he studied harmony and composition with Conrado del Campo,
Benito García de la Parra, and Pedro Sanjuán in Madrid. He settled in Cuba
in 1921. Concertmaster at the Orq. Filarmónica of Havana. Founder of the
Cuarteto de la Habana. Asst. conductor and later, conductor and music
director of the Orq. Filarmónica of Havana, 1925, 1932. Founder of the
Escuela Normal de Música of Havana. Prof. at the Cons. Municipal of
Havana, today Cons. Amadeo Roldán.
Works: Obertura sobre temas cubanos (1925); La rebambaramba, ballet
(1928); El milagro de Anaquillé, religious choreographic play (1929);
Danza negra, voc, 7 inst (1929); Motivos de son, voc, 9 inst (1930); Tres
toques, chamb orch (1931); Seis rítmicas, Nos. 1-4, pn, wind qnt, Nos. 5-6
perc ens; Tres pequeños poemas: Oriental, Pregón, Fiesta negra, orch;
Curujey, ch, 2 pn, perc. Chamb, pn, voc music.
Sources: BB, CTA1, DCM, DM, DMC, DMEH, GDM, MLA

Roloff Reyes-Gavilán, Julio, Cuban composer, percussionist, teacher; b.27

Dec 1951, Havana, Cuba. He studied at the cons. Amadeo Roldán and
Ignacio Cervantes then at ISA studied composition with Roberto Valera
(1983). He played in the theater group Ensayo Ocuje (1971), in the
Orquesta Pequeña Sinfónica (1974) and the Orquesta de Opera y Ballet
(1976). After 1980 he taught harmony, counterpoint, and orchestration at
the Escuela Nacional de Arte and the Cons. Amadeo Roldán. He produced
and recorded for Empresa de Grabaciones y Ediciones Musicales (1984),
worked in the Estudio Electroacústico, then the Laboratorio Nacional de
Música Electroacústica. He teaches at the Univ. of Florida, Miami.
Works: Masa, wind quintet, percussion, pn, ch (1974); Variaciones para un
percusionista, perc (1979); Concierto para violin y orquesta, vn, orch
(1983); Halley 86, tape (1984); Cartas de África, 2 gtr (1986);
Divertimento, wind qnt (1989); Nocturno, str orch (1990).
Sources: DMEH

Rolón, Zenón, Argentine teacher and composer; b.1856, Buenos Aires,

Argentina; d.1902, Argentina. He studied first in Buenos Aires, and later in
Italy.
Works: Fides, opera; Solanel, opera; Le prove, opera; Le chateau du Pic
Tordu, operetta (1885); Chink-Yonk, operetta (1886); El castillo hechizado,
operetta (1887); La torre degli spiriti, operetta (1888); Los dos veteranos,
operetta (1889); Gran marcha La Argentina (1880); Himno al Sol de Julio
(1891); Una noche de farra, zarzuela (1900); Salve Coral (1900); Himno a
Sarmiento; Himno a Falucho; Himno a Francia; Himno al Saber; Stella d
‘Italia, cantata; Oda sinfónica; Obertura, orch; Misa del Carmen (1901);
Kyrie (1903). Pn music.
Sources: DMEH, EMA

Rolón Alcaraz, José, Mexican composer; b.22 Jun 1876/1883, Ciudad

Guzmán, Jalisco, Mexico; d.3 Feb 1945, Mexico City, Mexico. He studied
piano with Moritz Moszkowski, and later, harmony and counterpoint with
Nadia Boulanger, fugue with André Gédalge, and orchestration with Paul
Dukas at the Ecole Normale in Paris, France. He founded a music school in
Guadalajara, Mexico. Director of the Cons. Nacional de Música of Mexico,
and chief of the Sección de Música of the Ministerio de Educación of
Mexico, both in Mexico City.
Works: Obertura de concierto, orch (1920); Symphony in E minor (1923);
El festín de los enanos, ballet (1925); Zapotlán, symph suite (1925);
Cuauhtémoc, symph poem (1929); Los gallos (1930); La Reforma (1931);
Pn concerto (1935); 2 str qts; Pn quintet. Pn, voc music.
Sources: BB, DCM, DM, DMEH, GDM, GP, MLA, MMLA

Romaniello, Luis, Argentine composer and pianist of Italian origin;

b.1858, DM (1862, EMA), Naples, Italy; d.1917, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
He studied at the Cons. Reale di Musica San Pietro a Majella of Naples,
Italy, with Beniamino Cesi. He settled in Buenos Aires in 1896, and
founded a music cons. Music critic for Argentine and Italian publications.
Works: Alda, opera; El corsario, symph poem; Manfredo, symph poem;
Bug Jargal, symph suite; Concerto, pn, orch; 2 symphonies; 2 str qts.
Chamb, voc music.
Books: Several music textbooks.
Sources: DM, DMEH, EMA
Romano Gómez, Ana Mária, Colombian composer; b.14 Jul 1971,
Bogotá, Colombia. She studied music at the Univ. de los Andes with
Catalina Peralta, graduating in 1999. A finalist in competitions she
participated in a computer/composition workshop with the engineer Camilo
Rueda. In 1998 she participated in the concert “Nuevos Compositores
uniandinos” and in the program “A, B, Cs (and some others) of the Latin
American Electroacoustics Composers” of the Univ. de Concordia, Canada.
Works: Siliesti, ob (1996-97); Lamentos del señor de Monserrate, tape
(1993-94); Umbrales 1, tape (1996); Eco y reflejo, perc, tape (1998).
Sources: DMEH

Romero Armendáriz, Ventura, Mexican composer; b.2 May 1913, San

Buenaventura, Chihuahua; d.1994. He studied music at the Cons. Nacional
de Musica and the Escuela Superior Nocturna de Música. He worked as a
music teacher in Mexico City.
Works: La Burrita; Un madrigal, orch.
Sources: GP

Romero Pacheco, Germán, Mexican composer; b.28 Oct 1966, Mérida,

Yucatán, Mexico. He studied at the Escuela de Bellas Artes de Yucatán and
continued with Julio Estrada then received a degree in composition at the
Escuela Nacional de Música (ENM) of the Univ. Nacional Autónoma de
Mexico. He also studied in the Taller Nacional de Composición of
CENIDIM and took courses with Arturo Márquez, Jorge Herchet, Mario
Lavista, Federico Ibarra, and Daniel Catán. Later he studied in Darmstadt,
Germany, and at Les Ateliers Unité Polyagogique Informantique du Centre
des Études Mathematiques Automatiques Musicales (UPIC), CEMAMu in
Massy, France. He taught at the Escuela de Perfeccionamiento Vida y
Movimiento and the ENM of UNAM, the Escuela Vida y Movimiento, the
Instituto Cardenal Miranda, the Instituto de Cultura de Yucután, the Cons.
de las Rosas de Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico, and was an assessor at the
Instituto de Cultura de Yucatán.
Works: Entre sangre y fuego, no.1, str qt (1988); El mito del reencuentro, vc
1989); Composición 1, 12 inst (1990); Velasco, pn (1994); Tejidos, harp
(1996); Cuarteto de cuerdas no.3; Estrellas tenues, women’s voc, pn, str qt
(1997); En Sepias, orch (2001-02); Laberinto, orch (2001-02); Mares, orch
(2010-11); film scores.
Sources: DMEH, GP

Romero Zerpa, Aldemaro, Venezuelan composer, producer, pianist, and

conductor; b.12 Mar 1928, Valencia, Carabobo State, Venezuela; 15 Sep
2007, Caracas. He began studying music with his father Rafael Romero,
played the piano, guitar, and sang as a child on the radio. He began
composing at 11, moved to Caracas (1941), and at 13 began to work as a
popular musician. A pianist for the Radio Libertador and later in the
orchestra of Alfonso Larrain, he debuted as a conductor in 1948. In New
York he worked with the Cuban music groups of Machito and Miguelito
Valdés. He conducted the Filarmónica de Caracas, London Symphony,
English Chamb Orch., Orch. of the Radio Television of Romania, and the
Royal Philharmonic Orch. He created the Venezuelan musical form known
as “onda nueva” (new wave), derived from joropo beats and influenced by
the bossa nova of Brazil. He founded the Orch. Filarmónica de Caracas
(1979) incorporating international young musicians into the group and then
established a music school.
Works: Suite para cuerdas No.1, str (1975); Ave María (1979); Canto a
España, mez sop, orch (1981); Réquiem para Bolívar, ch, orch. Voc music.
Sources: DMEH

Roncal, Simeón, Bolivian composer and pianist; b.20 Apr 1870, Sucre,
Bolivia; d.12 Jan 1953, La Paz, Bolivia. Choirboy at the Cathedral of Sucre.
Teacher at the Colegio Pichincha in 1910. In 1917, he founded the Círculo
de Bellas Artes of Potosí, Bolivia.
Works: Tres de febrero, funeral march; Las campanas de la catedral,
funeral march; Música nacional boliviana, pn music based on Bolivian
popular dances: cueca; bailecito; tonada; burro katina. Marches, voc, ch
music.
Bibl.: A. Alba, Don Simeón Roncal, Potosí, 1970.
Sources: CB, DMEH, GDM, MLA, MMLA

Ronchi Desquier, Apolo, Uruguayan composer of Romanian origin: b.8

Mar 1896, Galatz, Romania; d.6 May 1963, Paysandú, Uruguay. He studied
with Gerardo Metallo in Montevideo, Uruguay, with Falcetti in Turin, Italy,
and at the Official Cons. of Argel, Romania. Later, he studied harmony and
counterpoint with Bruno Goyeneche in Paysandú, Uruguay. Prof. of choral
singing and musicology at the Liceo Departamental, and of music history at
the Inst. Normal, both of Uruguay.
Works: Siete canciones para los niños de América (1934); El tiempo pasa,
choreographic fantasia (1936); Tormenta de verano, ballet, ch (1940); El
reino de las ideas, fantasia, ch, dialogues, ballet (1941).
Sources: DM, DMEH

Rondano, Miguel Ángel, Argentine composer; b.20 May 1934, Godoy

Cruz, Argentina. He studied composition at the Cons. Nacional Superior de
Música Carlos López Buchardo with Alberto Ginastera and Roberto García
Morillo. He studied contemporary composition with Bruno Maderna,
Olivier Messiaen, and Aaron Copland with a scholarship from Centro
Latinoamericano de Altos Estudios Musicales (1963-64) and then in Paris
with Nadia Boulanger and René Leibowitz. He also studied composition
with Rodolfo Halffter and Alberto Ginastera (1974). He was a visiting
teacher at the ballet of the Teatro Colón.
Works: Preludio, intermedio, y toccata, pn (1960); Sonata para clarinet y
piano, cl, pn (1961); Overtura 1813; (Homenaje a Rossini), (1992); Tres
canciones españolas, ch (1962); Variaciones para orquesta, orch (1963);
Cuarteto para cuerdas, str qt (1963); Pater Noster, ch, orch (1966);
Leyenda (D’après Wagner), tape (1994); incidental music.
Sources: DMEH

Roots Pähn, Olav, Estonian pianist, conductor, composer, and educator;

b.1910, Uderna, Estonia; d.30 Jan 1974, Bogotá, Colombia. He graduated
from the Cons. in Tallin then studied performance in Paris with Alfred
Cortot (1933, 1935), conducting with Felix Weingartner at the Acad. of
Vienna and with Nicolai Malco and Bernard Paumgartner in the Mozarteum
of Salzburg. He taught at the music school in Tartu (1931-35) and the Cons.
in Tallin. He reorganized the Orquesta Nacional (the Sinfónica de Colombia
after 1952) for the Univ. Nacional de Colombia which he conducted during
his life in Colombia. He was awarded the Premio Nemqueteba by the
Radiotelevisora Nacional in recognition of his work as a conductor of the
Coro de Cámara, and was awarded the Medalla Cívica Francisco de Paula
Santander by the Ministerio de Educación (1960) for his cultural work in
music in Colombia.
Works: Preludio, vc, pn, 2 qts; Rondó, pn (1958); Variazioni e passacaglia,
orch (1960); Sinfonía, orch (1967); Secuencia del solitario, voc, ch, orch
(1973).
Sources: DMEH

Rosa, Andrés, Colombian composer and organist; b.16 Oct 1911,

Avigliano, Italy; d.? He arrived in Colombia in 1929, studied philosophy
and theology in Mosquera, Cundinamarca, with the Salesian order and was
ordained a priest in 1939. He studied counterpoint and fugue with Jesús
Bermúdez Silva, piano with Demetro Haralambis, organ and composition
with Egisto Giovannetti, and music history with Antonio Maria Valencia at
the Cons. Nacional de Música. He studied theory and harmony at the
Instituto de Bellas Artes de Medellín, was director of the organ Acad. Santa
Cecelia de Medellín, and conducted the Orch. Sinfónica de Colombia and
the Acad. Coral de Medellín. He was director of the Pueri Cantores para
Ámerica Latina and was a member of the Centro Cultural de Huila and
director of the Cons. de Música de Neiva, Huila. He also directed the
educational institutions of the Salesian Order in Colombia and wrote
articles and a study on folk music of Huila.
Works: Concerto Grosso, fl, gtr, orch; Cuarteto italiano, str; Quinteto, fl,
ob, cl, tpt, bsn; Sonata, vc, pn; 39 masses, 12 operettas.
Books: Estilo, esencia y presencia del rajaleña, Instituto Caro y Cuervo
(1965).
Sources: DMEH

Rosado Rodríguez, Juan Antonio, Mexican composer of Puerto Rican

origin; b.10 Dec 1922, San Juan, Puerto Rico; d.27 Aug 1993, Mexico City,
Mexico. He settled in Mexico in 1948. Studied at the Escuela Nacional de
Música of UNAM, Mexico City, with Roland Mac Kamul, Juan D. Tercero,
and Rodolfo Halffter. Prof. at the Escuela Nacional de Música of UNAM.
Founder of several composers groups: X-1, Círculo Universitario de
Compositores, and Círculo Disonus.
Works: Concerto, 2 pn, orch (1954); Rapsodia callejera, ballet (1956);
Fantasía sinfónica, orch (1958-59); Transmutaciones III, orch (1961); Tn
sax concerto (1983). Chamb, pn, voc music.
Sources: DCMMC, DMEH, GP
Rosaenz, Elifio Eduardo, Argentine composer; b.13 Oct 1916, Junín,
Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina; d.2001. He studied with José André,
Constantino Gaito, Athos Palma, José Torre Bertucci, and José Gil at the
Cons. Nacional de Música Carlos López Buchardo of Buenos Aires. He
also studied piano with Jorge Fanelli. Prof. at the Cons. Nacional de Música
Carlos López Buchardo in 1941, and in 1942, Prof. at the Escuela Superior
de Música of the Univ. of Cuyo, Mendoza, Prov. of Mendoza, Argentina,
where in 1958, he was appointed director.
Works: Qt in E flat, pn, vn, va, vc (1951); Tres movimientos sinfónicos,
orch (1961); Tríptico, str orch (1965); Música, orch (1969); Homenaje, orch
(1973). Chamb, ch music.
Sources: DMEH, EMA, VMA

Rosales, Hugo, Mexican composer; b.9 Dec 1956, Mexico City, Mexico.
He studied at the Escuela de Iniciación Artística No.1 of INBA, at the
Escuela Nacional de Música of UNAM, both of Mexico City, and at the
Facultad de Música of the Inst. Superior de Arte of Havana, Cuba, where he
studied under Roberto Valera, Carlos Fariñas, and Harold Gramatges.
Attended courses given by Juan Blanco, Luigi Nono, Franco Donatoni, and
Manuel Enríquez. Co-founder of the Círculo Disonus and the Ensamble
Nacional de Artes Escénicas, both of Mexico City. Prof. at the Escuela
Superior de Música of INBA and Escuela Nacional de Música of UNAM.
Works: El cuíjaro, orch (1979); Nuestra América, orch (1985-2002);
Pirámides, orch (1985); Jimaguas, orch (1986); Tonatiuh (Sol mestizo)
(1989); El sueño, soloists, mixed ch (1995); Da-Lan-Yo, fl, orch (2002, rev.
2012). Chamb, gtr, voc, ch, electroacoustic, computer music.
Sources: DCMMC, DMEH, GP

Rosario Ceballos, Aura Marina del, Dominican composer and pianist;

b.26 Jan 1927, La Romana, Dominican Republic. She studied humanities
and began her musical studies in La Romana then continued at the Cons.
Nacional in Santo Domingo, graduating with a degree in piano (1955) then
studied harmony, analysis, and composition with Manuel Simó and
graduated with a degree in composition (1972). In 1976 she became sub-
director of the Cons. She retired in 1986 and continued to teach piano
privately.
Works: Ave María (1966); Niñita de Pescadores, voc, accomp (1969);
Preludios I y II, vn, pn (1969); En un bohío, symph poem, orch (1972).
Sources: DMEH

Rosas, Juventino [José Juventino Rosas Cadenas], Mexican composer

and violinist; b.23 Jan 1868, Santa Cruz de Galeana, Mexico; d.13 Jul 1894,
Batabanó, Cuba. He played the violin in various churches and with Angela
Peralta’s touring opera orch.
Works: Flores de México; Último adios. Salon music: Waltzes; polkas;
mazurkas; schottisches. A cycle of waltzes, titled Sobre las olas, gained
international popularity.
Bibl.: R. Stevenson, Music in Mexico, New York, 1952.
Sources: DMEH, GDM, GP, MLA, MMLA

Rosas Fernandes, María Helena, Brazilian composer, conductor, and

pianist; b.8 Jul 1933, Brazópolis, Minas Gerais, Brazil. She studied with
Liddy Mignone and João de Souza Lima at the Cons. Brasileiro de Música
of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In 1977, she enrolled at the Escola Superior de
Música Santa Marcelina of São Paulo, Brazil, where she studied piano with
João de Sousa Lima, and composition, orch. conducting with Osvaldo Costa
de Lacerda. Later, she studied composition, analysis, and orchestration with
José Antonio de Almeida Prado at the Univ. of Campinas, São Paulo,
where, in 1992, she held a teaching appointment.
Works: Maráwawa, ch, chamb ensemble (1978); Ciclos, pn (1979);
Dawawa Tsawidi, sop, perc (1979); Territórios e ocas, str qt, perc (1979);
Nakutuak, chamb ens (1980); In memoriam, ob, cl, str (1980); Canto de
Maracatu, ch, perc (1980); Dapraba, mixed ch (1980); Sinhá marreca, pn
(1981); Cantilenas, chamb orch (1981); Modinha, pn (1981).
Sources: EMB2, HMB, NGDWC, NWC

Rosato, Clorinda, Brazilian composer and pianist; b.11 Dec 1913, São
Simão, São Paulo, Brazil; d.22 May 1985, São Paulo. She started to study
music with Alice Ornellas, and at the age of 13, entered the Cons.
Dramático e Musical of São Paulo, where she studied solfeggio with
Antônio Càndido, harmony with Artur Pereira, and composition with
Miguel Antônio Gallo. She also studied composition privately with
Francisco Mignone and Martin Braunwieser, piano with Frutuoso Viana,
and music analysis with Furio Franceschini.
Works: Chamb, pn, ch music.
Sources: EMB2, MMLA

Rose, Mario de, Argentine conductor, composer, and guitarist; b.11 Sep
1958, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied composition in the Facultad de
Artes y Ciencias Musicales de la Univ. Católica de Argentina with Roberto
Caamaño, Marta Lambertini, and Gerardo Gandini and improvisation with
Gandini. He also studied conducting with Pedro Ignacio Calderón, Bruno
D’Astoli, Antonio Russo, and guitar with Irma Costanzo and César
Grimaldi. He graduated in 1983. Asst. conductor of the Orch. Municipal de
Avallaneda, Buenos Aires (1985), he conducted the Orch. de la Provincia de
Tucumán, Argentina (1986-87), the Orch. de la Univ. de San Juan (1988),
the Banda Sinfónica Municipal de Buenos Aires, and the Orch. de la
Provinica de Tucumán. Teacher at the Cons. Juan José Castro.
Works: Variaciones virtuosas, fl, ob (1983); Mutaciones, orch (1985);
Microestructuras IV, sop, fl, vn, gtr, perc (1988); Verdiana, orch (1989);
Nubes, gtr (1990); Cuarteto de cuerdas, str qt (1991); Estados 5,
electroacoustic (1991).
Sources: DMEH

Rosquellas, Mariano Pablo, Argentine violinist, composer, and singer of

Spanish origin; b.1790, Madrid, Spain; d.1859, Sucre, Bolivia. He settled in
Buenos Aires, Argentina (1823), and organized opera seasons in Argentina.
He presented most of Rossini’s operas and some of Mozart’s operas in
Buenos Aires (1825-30) and founded the Sociedad Filarmónica Dramática
in Sucre.
Works: Variaciones, vn, orch (1823); El califa de Bagdad, opera (1826);
Gran cantata, ch (1827); El pampero, overture (1828); La batalla de
Ayacucho, symphony (1832). Songs.
Sources: EMA

Rosseger, Mario, Argentine composer, violinist, and teacher of Italian

origin; b.12 Sep 1877, Trieste, Italy; d.1945, Argentina. He studied in
Fiume, Yugoslavia, with Giovanni Baldini and at the Cons. Reale di Musica
of Milan, Italy, with Giovanni Rampazzini. First violin in the orch. of the
Teatro Real de San Carlos, Lisbon, Portugal. Conductor of orchestras in
Switzerland. Concertmaster of first symphony orchestra in Buenos Aires,
the Sociedad Orquestal Bonaerense, Prov. of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Taught at the Cons. Provincial, Prov. of Buenos Aires, the Cons. Thibaud-
Piazzini of Buenos Aires, and the Cons. Rosseger, founded 1914 in Buenos
Aires.
Works: A la bourrée, pn, vn, pn; Canción de cuna, vn, pn; Polacca, vn, pn;
Vuelo de abejas, vn, pn; Primavera itálica, voc, pn.
Sources: DM, DMEH, EMA

Rossi, Rinaldo, Brazilian composer, conductor, and teacher; b.9 Jul 1945,
Recife, Brazil; d.1984, Salvador da Bahia. He studied music privately at 5
years of age and later continued at the Escola da Música of Bahia, Brazil.
At the Univ. Federal of Bahia, he studied piano, percussion, composition,
conducting. Prof. at the Univ. Federal of Bahia and the Univ. Federal of
Brasília, Brazil. Conductor of Orq. Sinfónica Nacional (1970), and Orq.
Sinfónica Brasileira (1971), both in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Works: Paisagem antagónica No.2, orch (1967); Réquiem para o velho
mundo, orch (1970); Epifanías, str qt (1973).
Sources: EMB

Rossi Rossi, Alfredo, Argentine composer, conductor, and teacher; b.8 Oct
1920, Olavarría, Argentina. He studied with his father, José B. Rossi, then
in Buenos Aires with Ginastera, Martí Llorca, Gandini, and Pítari. He
conducted the Orch. Estable Municipal of the City of Olavarría and taught
at the Inst. Superior de Música de Olavarría.
Works: Estudio, pn (1940); Poema sinfónico Martín Fierro, orch (1972); El
ave, voc, pn (1976); Cinco piezas, str qt (1982); Concierto para piano y
orquesta, pn, orch (1989); Nueve variaciones (Zamba de Vargas), pn, str
(1991); Argentina y Memoria de mar, esperanza y vida, tn, nar, 2 vn, va, vc,
pn (1992); El gran pianist, pn (1993).
Sources: DMEH

Rotter, Jorge, Argentine composer and conductor; b.13 Oct 1942, Buenos
Aires, Argentina. He graduated from the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes
of the Univ. of La Plata, Prov. of Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he studied
with Mariano Drago, Guillermo Graetzer, Teodoro Fuchs, and Francisco
Kröpfl. He studied conducting with Hermann Scherchen in Berlin,
Germany. Asst. conductor of the Orq. Filarmónica of La Plata, 1961-62, of
the Orq. Sinfónica of the Univ. of Tucumán, Prov. of Tucumán, Argentina,
1963-64, and of the orch. of the Teatro Colón of Buenos Aires, 1964-65.
Conductor of the Orq. Provincial of Rosario, Prov. of Santa Fe, Argentina.
Member of the Agrupación Nueva Música.
Works: Canto, hn, va, perc.
Sources: DMEH, EMA

Rozo Contreras, José, Colombian composer; b.7 Jan 1894, Bochalema,

Dept. of Santander, Colombia; d.1974, Bogotá, Colombia. He studied in
Vienna, Austria, with Eugene Zádor and Rudolf Nilius from 1929 to 1931.
Conductor of the Banda Nacional of Bogotá, and the Banda Departamental
del Norte of Santander. Prof. of orchestration and conducting at the Cons.
de Música of the Univ. Nacional of Colombia in Bogotá.
Works: Tierra colombiana, suite (1930); Obertura No.2, orch (1932);
Scherzo sobre un aire de bambuco, orch (1932); Burlesca, symph scherzo
(1940). Ch, voc music, transcriptions for orch, band.
Sources: DMEH, CTA18, DM, MLA, ZCCC

Ruano Guerrón, Marcelo, Ecuadorian composer; b.1962, Tulcán,

Ecuador. He studied at the Cons. Nacional de Música of Quito, Ecuador.
Member of the composition workshop, A Tempo, of the municipality of
Quito.
Works: Imágenes, nar, orch (1987); Movimientos sonoros, orch; Plaza
grande, overture, symph band (1992); Ibianchi, chamb orch.
Sources: DMEH, MG, PEFCM

Rubiano Trimiño, Jorge, Colombian teacher, conductor, and composer;

b.14 Jul 1889, Bogotá, Colombia; d.15 Jul 1964, San Juan, Puerto Rico. He
studied at the Cons. Nacional and with Guillermo Uribe Holguín. He played
as soloist in Estudiantina Colombia, traveled and recorded with his own
groups in Latin America including Arpa Colombiana, and organized the
Quinteto Rubiano (1918). He settled in Puerto Rico (1919) and was
involved in the cultural life of the island for 45 years, although he kept his
Colombian citizenship. He taught himself to play the cello, joined the Orq.
de Mandolinas del Club Armónico, and helped form Familia del Cuatro
Puertorriqueño, a group that performed classical and regional works.
Works: Voc, chamb music, dances.
Sources: DMEH

Rubin, Marcel, Mexican composer of Austrian origin; b.7 Jul 1907,

Vienna, Austria; d.12 May 1995. He studied music theory and composition
at the Musikakademie of Vienna with Richard Robert and Franz Schmidt,
and in 1925, he continued music studies with Darius Milhaud in Paris,
France. He settled in Mexico in 1942 but returned to Vienna after World
War II. Guest conductor of the Orq. Sinfónica of the Univ. Nacional of
Mexico in Mexico City.
Works: La princesa Brambila, opera; La ciudad espera, ballet; Tierra,
symphony; Guerra y paz, symphony; Concerto, vn, orch; 2 str qts; Str trio;
Serenata, solo vn; 3 sonatas, pn; Sonata, vc, pn.
Sources: MMLA

Rud, Diana Elena, Argentine composer and pianist; b.20 Aug 1940,
Rosario, Prov. of Santa Fe, Argentina. She studied piano, composition with
Arminda Canteros, Antonio de Raco, Virtú Maragno, and Dante Grela at
the Escuela Nacional de Música of the Univ. Nacional of Rosario. She also
studied contemporary techniques in composition and analysis with
Francisco Kröpfl. Founding member of the Asociación Santafesina de
Compositores and member of the Agrupación Nueva Música of Rosario,
and Asociación Argentina de Compositores. Taught at the Escuela de
Música of the Facultad de Humanidades y Artes of the Univ. Nacional of
Rosario, the Escuela Nacional de Música, and the Inst. Nacional del
Profesorado de Música, both of Rosario and the Inst. Prov. del Profesorado
de Música of Rosario.
Works: Palabras al hijo por nacer, sop, inst ens (1975); Música, pn (1975);
Tres piezas, cl (1977); Amor con lluvia y palomas, mixed ch (1978); Tema,
variaciones y final, orch (1979); Tres melancolías, fl, pn (1984); Cuatro
vertientes, str qt (1988); Lejanías, str orch (1996); Classyche, harp, va, fl
(1997); Pequeña música, harp, fl, cl, bsn, vn, va, vc (2000). Chamb, pn, voc
music.
Sources: CAMR, DMEH, ISC
Rugeles, Alfredo, Venezuelan composer and conductor of US birth; b.13
Dec 1949, Washington, DC, USA. From 1958-76, he studied music theory,
harmony, music history and aesthetics, piano, guitar, voice, choral
conducting, and composition at the Escuela de Música Juan Manuel
Olivares of Caracas, Venezuela, under Fedora Alemán, Alberto Grau, and
Yannis Ioannidis. He took private piano lessons with Chereau in Paris,
France. He also studied conducting with Gonzálo Castellanos, Antonio
Estévez, Abraham Abreu, Silvia Eisenstein, Modeta Bor, Eric Colón, José
Clemente Laya, Alba Quintanilla, and Ingrid Hernández. Later, he
continued conducting studies with Sergiu Celibidache in Tré-veris,
Germany, with Michel Tabachnik in Hilversum, Netherlands, and with
Franco Ferrara in Rome, Italy. Since 1987, he taught contemporary
composition and techniques in conducting at the Inst. Univ. de Estudios
Musicales in Caracas. Founding member of the Sociedad Venezolana de
Música Electroacústica. Artistic Dir. of the Orq. Sinfónica Municipal, the
Orq. Sinfónica Simón Bolivar, and music director of the Teatro Teresa
Carreño, all of Caracas.
Works: Camino entre lo sutil e inerrante, orch (1979); El ocaso del héroe,
nar, mixed ch (1982); Sinfonola, orch (1988). Chamb, pn, ch, solo instr,
electroacoustic music.
Sources: DMEH, ISC

Rugeles, Ana Mercedes Azuaje de, Venezuelan composer, violinist, and

teacher; b.8 Aug 1914, Barquisimeto, State of Lara, Venezuela; d.21 Apr
2012, Caracas. She studied violin with Franco Medina and Ascanio
Negrettu, and composition with Vicente Emilio Sojo at the Escuela de
Música José Angel Lamas in Caracas, Venezuela. After graduating she
continued at the Catholic Univ. of Washington, DC, USA, in Buenos Aires,
Argentina, with Jacobo Ficher, and in Paris, France, and Geneva,
Switzerland. Prof., vice-dir., and dir. of the Escuela de Música Juan Manuel
Olivares in Caracas (1953-75). She organized programs for Radio Nacional
of Venezuela (1953-64) and was in charge of the academics for the Orq.
Nacional Juvenil of Venezuela (1978-86).
Works: Serenata barquisimetana, double qnt, pn (1967); Puerta del aire,
voc, pn, chamb orch (1977). Sacred, pn, voc, ch music.
Sources: EMV, IEW
Ruiz Armengol, Mario, Mexican composer and pianist; b.17 Mar 1911,
Veracruz, Mexico; d.22 Dec 2002, Cancún. He studied with José Rolón,
Rodolfo Halffter, and Joaquín Amparán at the Cons. Nacional de Música of
Mexico in Mexico City, Mexico.
Works: Quinteto de metals, Romanza, vc, pn; Preludio en Mi mayor, pn or
harp; Canta, clave, canta; En el café; Gracias a Dios; La calle de los
sueños (1956); Lamento criollo; Las frías montañas, pn. Songs: Ausencia;
Tengo miedo; Estoy enamorado; ¿Porqué llorar?; Aunque; Cuando tu no
me quieras; Muchachita.
Sources: DMEH, GP, NH

Ruíz Castellanos, Pablo, Cuban composer; b.26/29 Jun 1902,

Guantánamo, Cuba; d.3 Nov 1980, Havana. In 1922, he joined the band on
the ship Cuba and later, entered the band of the Estado Mayor del Ejército.
Works: Rumba en rapsodia; Río Cauto; Mito; Sinfonía heterodoxa cubana;
El gran Changüí; Campiña; Concierto negro; Monte Rus. Chamb, ballet,
stage music.
Sources: DMC2, DMEH

Ruíz Espadero, Nicolás, Cuban composer and pianist; b.15 Feb 1832,
Havana, Cuba; d.30 Aug 1890, Havana. He started music studies with his
mother, continued with José Miró, and later, with Fernando Arizti.
Works: 2 sonatas, pn; Inocencia, poetic capriccio pn; Pureza y calma, pn;
Two Romances, pn; Preludio, pn; Barcarola, pn; Grand trio; Rondó
brillante, 2 vn, va, vc; Scherzo, 2 vn, va, vc, pn; Serenata cubana, voc, pn;
Romance, voc, pn; Grand Symphony, orch; El Canto del esclavo, vn, pn;
Canto del guajiro, pn.
Bibl.: J.L. Vidaurreta, El Compositor y Pianista Nicolás Ruíz Espadero,
Havana, 1937. O. Martínez, Nicolás Ruíz Espadero, Programa de la
Orquesta Filarmónica de Habana, 12 Dec 1946. A. Carpenter, La Música
en Cuba, Mexico, 1946.
Sources: DM, DMC, DMEH, MMLA

Ruíz Gallegos, Margarita, Venezuelan composer, conductor, and teacher;

b.13 Jan 1902, Valencia, Venezuela; d.13 Nov 1991, Valencia, Venezuela.
She began studying music with Matilde de Amaré then studied mandolin
with Rafael Romero at the Escuela Sebastián Echevarría Lozano in
Valencia. She also studied with Antonio Pineda, Juan Vicente Lecuna, and
harmony, composition, fugue, and counterpoint with Julio Bando. She
taught mandolin and conducted the student band at the Escuela de Folklore
Benito Galarraga (1969-85), then founded and directed the Estudiantina
Pedro Alfonzo for six years.
Works: Cuarteto en Do, str qt (1956); A Cristo, 4 voc; Agnus Dei, 4 voc
(1985); dances.
Sources: DMEH

Ruíz Hurtado, Federico Alberto, Venezuelan composer and teacher; b.8

Feb 1948, Caracas, Venezuela. He graduated from the Escuela Superior de
Música José Angel Lamas in Caracas in 1974, where he studied
composition with Primo Casale, Vicente Emilio Sojo, and Evencio
Castellanos. He also studied 20th century composition techniques with
Yannis Ioannidis, electroacoustics techniques with Eduardo Kusnir,
conducting with Silvia Eisenstein and Gonzalo Castellanos. Prof. at the
Escuela Superior de Música José Angel Lamas and the Cons. Nacional de
Música Juan José Landaeta, both of Caracas.
Works: Evocación, bar, mixed ch (1974); Pieza para orquesta (1977); Pn
concerto (1979); Lauda (1980); Viaje, nar, mixed-voc qnt, org (1981);
Elegía (1982); Tpt concerto (1993). La Pastora, musical comedy (1975);
Los martirios de Colón, opera (1982-93). Band, ch, voc, chamb, stage,
electroacoustic music.
Sources: DMEH, EMV, ISC

Ruíz Lastres, Magaly, Cuban composer; b.2 Oct 1941, Santa Clara, Cuba.
She studied piano with César Pérez Sentenat at the Cons. Guillermo Tomás
of Havana, Cuba, and later, composition with Roberto Valera at the Inst.
Superior de Arte, Havana, from which she received a degree in music in
1981. Member of the Facultad de Educación Artística of the Inst. Superior
Pedagógico Enrique José Varona of Havana. Prof. at the Inst. Superior de
Arte of Havana.
Works: Tres preludios, pn (1968); Tres piezas, vn, piano (1976); Ob
concerto (1979); Movimiento No.2, str qt (1980); Tres ambientes sonoros,
orch (1981); Variaciones en habanera, ob, orch (1983). Ch, voc, pn, chamb
music.
Sources: DMC2, DMEH, NGDWC
Russek Martínez, Antonio Raúl, Mexican composer; b.3 Aug 1954,
Torreón, Coahuila, Mexico. He joined a youth orchestra as a saxophonist
and studied piano. In Mexico City he studied film, design, physics,
chemistry, acoustics, and electronic sound at UNAM (1973). He
collaborated with the Compañia de Repertorio Nuevo de la UNAM,
CENIDIM, the journal, Pauta, and the record producer of the Univ.
Autónoma Metropolitana. His recording studio became the headquarters of
the Centro Independiente de Investigaciones Musicales y Multimedia,
which directs and produces the Colección Hispano-Mexicana de Música
Nueva. He worked on the computer of the Unité Polyagogique Informatique
with Iannis Xenakis in France (1987), received a scholarship from the
Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (1991), and a Rockefeller
Foundation grant to work at the Center for Computer Research in Music
and Acoustics at Stanford Univ. in California (1992).
Works: Atmósferas 1, tape (1977); Estudio electrónico no.2, tape (1980);
Diez miniaturas, tape (1980-90); Coexistencias, prepared pn, tape (1984);
Nuevas miniaturas, tape (1995); Zayio, fl, electronics (1996).
Sources: DMEH

Russo, Antonio María, Argentine conductor, teacher, and composer of

Italian origin; b.18 Oct 1934, Messina, Italy. He began studying music in
Italy and continued in Buenos Aires where he received a degree in piano
from the Cons. Manuel de Falla. In 1960 he began his conducting career as
Asst. conductor, adjunct conductor, then conductor of the Orquesta
Filarmónica de Buenos Aires. He was artistic and general director of the
Teatro Argentino de La Plata.
Works: Voc, ch, chamb, orch music.
Sources: DMEH

Rutty, Alejandro, Argentine composer orch. and choral conductor, b.3 Mar
1967, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied composition and conducting,
first at the Univ. Católica Argentina of Buenos Aires, with Gerardo
Gandini, Marta Lambertini, Roberto Caamaño, Guillermo Scarabino, and
Néstor Andrenacci, and later, at the Univ. of New Mexico, NM, USA,
where he received a MM in conducting, and the State Univ. of New York,
NY, USA, where he received a Ph.D. in composition. In the USA he studied
under David Felder, Cort Lippe, Roque Cordero, and Jorge Pérez Gómez.
He is active as a conductor in Argentina and the USA.
Works: Der transeúnte, opera (1994); Sinfonietta, orch (1995); MacBeth,
opera (1997); El pequeño espejo del diablo, 13 instr (1999). Chamb, voc
music.
Sources: ISC

Ruvalcaba Romero, Higinio, Mexican violinist, composer, and conductor;

b.11 Jan 1905, Yahualica, Jalisco, Mexico; d.15 Jan 1976, Mexico City. The
family moved to Guadalajara where he played in professional mariachi
bands at markets, parks, and public plazas. He first performed at 12 years
old as a soloist in the Teatro Degollado playing a Bruch violin concerto
with the Symph. Orch. of Guadalajara conducted by his teacher, Felix
Peredo. He moved to Mexico City (1920) and attended the Cons. Nacional
de Música to study with Spanish violinist Mario Mateo. During this time he
was a gymnast and a boxer resulting in blindness of his right eye and a
fractured and paralyzed middle finger on his left hand. In 1921 he formed
his own quartet, played the cello and guitar in dance halls, theaters, and
cabarets, as well as sporadically boxing. He joined the Orq. Típica de
Miguel Lerdo de Tejada then he joined the Orq. Symph. de Mexico (ca.
1928-40) becoming concertmaster in 1931.
Works: Concierto, bs, orch (1920); Quinteto, pn, str (1920); 14 str qts
(1919-20); cadenzas, vn (1925-50).
Sources: DMEH
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Saccaggio, Adelina Luisa Nicasia, Argentine teacher and composer; b.29
Oct 1918, Buenos Aires, Argentina; d.? She studied at the Cons. Nacional
de Música Carlos López Buchardo, at the Cons. Superior de Música Manuel
de Falla, and at the Inst. de Música Sagrada, all of Buenos Aires. Prof. at
the Cons. Nacional de Música Carlos López Buchardo and in the school
system of the Consejo Nacional de Educación of Buenos Aires.
Works: Chamb, sacred music; songs.
Sources: IEW

Sáenz, Antonio, Spanish composer, conductor; b.? Sevilla; d.? He settled in

Montevideo, Uruguay (c.1829) and became conductor of the orch. Casa de
Comedias for 15 years. He was known for his ability to play string and
wind instruments and performed in Buenos Aires as a cellist. He created the
second Sociedad Filarmónica (1831) with 22 players which lasted four
years, actually the first symphony orch. in Uruguay. He performed in 1845
in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on 14 different instruments.
Works: Danza española, orch (1831); Misa solemne, ch, orch (1833);
Himno de la Resauración, ch (1833).
Sources: DMEH

Sáenz, Benedicto, Guatemalan composer; b.14 Oct 1815, Guatemala; d.6/7

Aug 1857, Guatemala. Son of José Benedicto Sáenz Álvarez. He studied
medicine, graduating with a Licenciate degree from the Univ. of San Carlos,
Guatemala. Later he studied organ and piano and was choirmaster at the
Cathedral of Guatemala City, Guatemala. For his contribution to music in
Guatemala he was named “Prince of Music of Guatemala.”
Works: Misa grande; Invitatorio al Sagrado Corazón de Jesús; Duetto a la
Santísima Virgen; 8 hymns, orch; Parce Mihi, tnr, orch; Responso, 4 vocs;
Salmo de Difuntos, 3 voc and orch; Domine Salvam fac Republicam;
Regina sine Labe Concepta; Te Deum. Patriotic songs, hymns.
Sources: DMEH, HMG, MMLA
Sáenz, Francisco de Paulo Isaac, Guatemalan composer, conductor,
pianist, and teacher; b.3 Jun 1815 Guatemala; d.1 Jan 1880, Guatemala.
Uncle of Benedicto Sáenz, Prof. of voc at the Colegio Seminario and
choirmaster at the Cathedral, both of Guatemala City, Guatemala.
Works: Misa en Mi bemol, 4 vocs; Lamentación en Fa menor.
Sources: DMEH, MMLA

Sáenz Álvarez, José Benedicto, Guatemalan composer, educator, singer,

organist; b.1781, Antigua, Guatemala; d.5 Aug 1831. Father of Benedicto
Sáenz. He studied music with his father and with Esteban de Léon Garrido.
He was appointed organist at the cathedral in Antigua in 1803.
Works: Religious music.
Sources: HDM, NG

Sáenz Amadeo, Pedro Alejo, Argentine teacher, pianist, and composer; b.4
May 1915, Buenos Aires, Argentina; d.17 Feb 1995, Madrid, Spain. He
studied with Carlos Pellicer, Alberto Williams, and José Gil at the Cons.
Williams of Buenos Aires. He graduated from the Cons. Nacional de
Música Carlos López Buchardo of Buenos Aires, where he studied
composition, fugue, and counterpoint with José Gil, harmony with Athos
Palma, piano with Jorge de Lalewicz. In Paris, France, he continued his
training with Darius Milhaud, Arthur Honegger, and Jean Rivier. Prof. at
the Cons. Nacional de Música Carlos López Buchardo. Dir. of the Cons.
Superior de Música Manuel de Falla, 1955-63, and dean of the Facultad de
Artes y Ciencias Musicales of the Univ. Católica Argentina, 1963-65, both
of Buenos Aires.
Works: Dos piezas, orch (1934); Suite, str (1936); Salmo CL, choir (1938);
Vals brillante (1959); Movimientos sinfónicos (1963); Música para los
jardines de Versailles (1968). Chamb, harpsichord, pn, voc music.
Sources: BB, CA, CTA12, DM, DMEH, DMM, EMA, VMA

Sagreras, Gaspar, Argentine guitarist, composer, and Prof. of Spanish

origin; b.21 Oct 1838, Palma de Mallorca, Spain; d.14 Apr 1901, Buenos
Aires, Argentina. He abandoned medical studies to study music. He studied
harmony and befriended many guitarists, such as Juan Alais Moncada,
Carlos García Tolsa, and Bernardo Troncoso.
Works: Un lágrima, gtr. Songs, gtr music.
Sources: DMEH

Sagreras, Julio Salvador, Argentine guitarist and composer; b.22 Nov

1879, Buenos Aires, Argentina; d.20 Jul 1942, Buenos Aires. He started
music studies with his father, Gaspar Sagreras, and Carlos Marchal, and
graduated as Prof. of gtr from the Acad. de Bellas Artes of Buenos Aires.
Prof. of gtr, solfeggio at the Acad. de Bellas Artes. Founding member and
first president of the Asociación Guitarrística Argentina.
Works: (more than 200 compositions): Sonatinas, gtr; Mercedes, gtr;
Dulces cadenas, gtr; Rapsodia sobre motivos criollos, gtr; El colibrí, gtr;
Flor de pasión, gtr; Cajita de música, gtr.
Books: Lecciones de Guitarra, Buenos Aires; Técnica Superior de Gtrra,
Buenos Aires.
Sources: DM, DMEH, MMLA

Saitta, Carmelo, Argentine composer of Italian origin; b.23 Jan 1944,

Stromboli, Sicily, Italy. He settled in Argentina (1951), studied at the Cons.
Superior de Música Manuel de Falla of Buenos Aires, with Enrique Belloc,
José Ramón Maranzano, Francisco Kröpfl, and Gerardo Gandini. Vice-
president of Agrupación Nueva Música. Taught at the Cons. Nacional de
Música Carlos López Buchardo of Buenos Aires, the Cons. Superior de
Música Manuel de Falla, Facultad de Bellas Artes of the Univ. of La Plata,
Prov. of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Fundación Antorchas, Inst. Goethe of
Buenos Aires, and Camping Musical Bariloche, Prov. of Neuquén,
Argentina.
Works: Evoluciones, pn (1964); Tres poemas trágicos, voc, pn (1967);
Evoluciones II, pn, 6 percussionists (1971); Collage, electronic sounds
(1973); Dos estudios electrónicos, electronic sounds (1975-76); 2 por 4,
voc, perc (1978); Tres regulaciones circunstanciales, str sextet (1979); La
maga o El angel de la noche, electronic sounds (1989); Macondo, pn, 2
perc (1990-91); Rompecora-zones, incidental music for film (1991); U
mare, strombolicchio e ‘chidda luna, 4 perc, tape (1995).
Sources: DMEH, DMM

Saiz-Salazar, Marina, Panamanian composer; b.1930; d.1990. She studied

composition and music education at the Inst. Nacional de Música. She was
a student of Roque Cordero. She lived in the USA.
Works: Sonata, 3 movements, pn (1955); Ensayo para orquesta; Quinteto,
sop, cl, vn, va, vc; Fuga para cuarteto de viento; Siete Piezas para violín y
piano; Preludios para piano; Sonata Sejatpar, pn, orch.
Sources: IEW, NMLA

Salas y Castro, Esteban [Salas Montes de Oca], Cuban composer,

conductor, and priest; b.25 Dec 1725, Havana, Cuba; d.14 Jul 1803,
Santiago de Cuba, Cuba. He began his musical training at the age of nine,
when he entered the parish church of Havana as a boy soprano, studied
plainchant, organ, composition. Later he studied philosophy and theology at
the Real y Ponficia Univ. de San Cristóbal de La Habana. No more is
known about him until 1763 when he reorganized the music chapel in the
cathedral of Santiago de Cuba. He moved to Santiago de Cuba (Feb 1764)
and became choirmaster at the Cathedral and conducted an ensemble of 3
boy sopranos, 2 altos, 2 tenors, 2 violins, a double bass, 2 bajones
(woodwind instrument), harp, and organ. He became a priest in 1790, and
taught philosophy, theology, and ethics.
Works: Las siete últimas palabras, voc, orch; Stabat Mater, soloists, ch,
organ, insts (1790); 5 masses; 3 Requiems; 5 hymns; 12 Salves; 2 litanies; 3
canticles; 12 anthems; 3 Passions; 29 alleluias; 7 sequences; 12 antiphonies;
5 psalms; 2 motets; 8 lessons; Christmas carols and villancicos.
Bibl.: P. Hernández Balaguer, Obras de Esteban Salas, Santiago de Cuba,
1960. P. Hernández Balaguer, La Capilla de Música de la Catedral de
Santiago de Cuba, Revista Musical Chilena, 1964.
Sources: BB, DM, DMC, DMEH, GDM, MMLA

Salazar, Adolfo, Mexican musicologist and composer of Spanish origin;

b.6 Mar 1890, Madrid, Spain; d.27 Sep 1958, Mexico City, Mexico. He
studied in Madrid with Manuel de Falla and Bartolomé Pérez Casa then
went to Paris, France, to study with Maurice Ravel. Editor-in-chief of the
Revista Musical Hispano-Americana (1914-18), music critic for Madrid’s
El Sol (1918-36), founder then secretary of Sociedad Nacional de Música of
Spain (1915-22). He settled in Mexico (1938) after the Spanish Civil War.
Prof. at the Colegio de México and the Cons. Nacional of Mexico, both in
Mexico City. Corresponding member of the Sociedad Hispánica de
América and the Inst. Español de Musicología of Spain.
Works: Arabia, pn, orch; Paisajes, orch; Estampas, orch; Don Juan de los
infiernos, orch; Tres preludios, pn; Trois poèmes de Paul Verlaine, voc, pn;
Rubaiyat, str qt; Romancillo, gtr.
Books: More than 30 books on music history and aesthetics, and about 20
important essays, including La Música en la Sociedad Europea, Mexico,
1942-46.
Sources: BB, DM, GDM, MLA, MMLA

Salazar (Zalazar), Antonio de, Mexican composer, music Dir., organist; of

Spanish origin b.ca.1650, Seville, Spain; d.before 27 May 1715, Mexico
City, Mexico. He became choirmaster at the Cathedral of Puebla, Mexico,
11 July 1679. He became choirmaster at the Cathedral of Mexico City (Aug
1688). Many of his carols are in the collection Sánchez Garza at CENIDIM,
brought there from the convent of the Santísima Trinidad de Puebla. On 11
Jan 1710 he was granted permission to teach young students in the school
choir. He composed Christmas carols with texts attributed to Sor Juana Inés
de la Cruz and Sor Juana.
Works: Missa sine nomine, 5 vocs; Oficio de defuntos, 4 vocs; 2
Magnificat, 5 and 12 vocs; Litaniae Lauretanae; Salve Regina, 8 vocs; 11
hymns; Motet, 8 vocs; 6 Responsories 8 vocs.; villancicos, chansonnettes,
octets.
Bibl.: R. Stevenson, Music in Mexico, New York, 1952. A.R. Catalyne,
Music of the Sixteenth through the Eighteenth Centuries in the Cathedral of
Puebla, Mexico, Yearbook, Inter-American Inst. for Musical Research,
Vol.2, 1966. R. Stevenson, Renaissance and Baroque Musical Sources in
the Americas, Washington, DC, 1970.
Sources: DMEH, GDM, MMLA

Salazar, Paulino, Ecuadorian Kapellmeister; b.1778, Cuenca, Ecuador; d.?

He started studying at the Colegio San José and in the children’s choir in
the cathedral of Cuenca (1789). On 17 Jan 1798 he became a tenor in the
music chapel with an annual salary of 200 ducats.
Works: Magnificat, 8 voc, vn, tpt, org, bs (1797); Misa, 5 voc, vn, org, bs;
Misa, 8 voc, vn, ob, cl, org, bs (1800); motets, psalms, hymns.
Sources: DMEH
Salcedo de las Cuevas, Rafael Pascual, Cuban pianist and composer; b.23
Oct 1844, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba; d.15 Apr 1917, Santiago de Cuba. He
started music studies with his father, then with Juan Casamitjana and Isidro
Matón, organist at the Cathedral of Santiago de Cuba. He went to Paris,
France (1856) to study harmony, counterpoint, composition, piano,
conducting with Félix Le Couppey. He returned to Cuba (1865), founded a
cons. and the Sociedad Musical Beethoven.
Works: Symphony in F; Lumen, symph poem; Arma virumque cano, symph
poem dedicated to the memory of the martyrs that fought for the freedom of
Cuba; Sinfonía sobre himnos de los aliados (1915). Religious, pn music.
Sources: DMC, DMEH, MMLA

Saldívar, René, Mexican composer, violist, violinist; 14 Apr 1968,

Matamoros, Mexico. He studied at the Facultad de Música of the Univ. of
Tamaulipas, Mexico. Violinist at the Orq. Sinfónica of Xalapa, Mexico.
Works: Fantasía sinfónica, orch (1989); Vn concerto (1989); Concerto, 3
va, str (1993); Canasta de villancicos, mixed ch (1993); Rapsodia
navideña, mixed ch (1993); Suite de valses mexicanos, orch (1994); Suite
de sones (1994); Trb concerto (1995); cb concerto (1995). Chamb, brass
music.
Sources: DCMMC, DMEH

Salgado Ayala, Francisco, Ecuadorian composer, band conductor, pianist,

and music critic; b.1880, Cayambe, Pichincha, Ecuador; d.1970, Quito,
Ecuador. He studied music in Quito with Domingo Brescia. In 1917, he
graduated as Prof. of piano from the Cons. Nacional of Quito. Dir. of the
Escuela de Música of the Univ. of Loja, Ecuador. Member of the Ateneo
Ecuatoriano. Music critic of the newspapers El Comercio and El Día, both
of Quito.
Works: Canción indiana (1946); Prelude and Fugue, org (1947); A la bien
amada, triptych (1965).
Sources: DMEH, MG

Salgado Fiúza, Virginia, Brazilian teacher and composer; b.5 Aug 1897,
Fortaleza, Brazil; d.1 Aug 1987, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She studied voice
with Nicia Silva and music theory with Alfredo Richard at the Inst.
Nacional de Música of Rio de Janeiro (1916). In 1924, she studied harmony
with Arnaud Gouveia and Agnelo França and harmony, counterpoint, and
fugue with Paulo Silva, folklore with Luis Heitor, composition,
orchestration with João Otaviano, conducting with Francisco Mignone
(1935-39). Prof. at the Cons. Brasileiro de Música and at the Escola
Nacional de Música of the Univ. of Brazil, both in Rio de Janeiro.
Works: Chamb, pn, voc music.
Sources: EMB2, IEW

Salgado Torres, Gustavo Enrique, Ecuadorian composer and pianist; b.5

Sep 1905, Cayambe, Ecuador; d.1978. Brother of Luis Humberto Salgado
Torres. He started music lessons at the Cons. Nacional of Quito, Ecuador,
under Francisco Tipán and his father, Francisco Salgado Ayala, who taught
him piano, harmony, counterpoint, and fugue (1915-25). He continued his
piano training with Jan Javorski at the Moscow Cons., Russia (1929-30).
When he returned to Ecuador, he became honorary Prof. of history of music
at the Cons. Nacional of Quito, 1938-39. In 1943, he became Prof. at the
Univ. Central of Quito.
Works: Rodrigo, opera; A orillas del lago Leman, prelude; El expreso
Paris-La Rochelle, poem; Crepúsculo andino, poem; Erranzas bajo la luna,
nocturne; Fantasía lunar, poem.
Sources: DMEH, MG, MMLA

Salgado Torres, Luis Humberto, Ecuadorian composer, pianist, conductor,

and music critic; b.10 Dec 1903, Cayambe, Pichincha, Ecuador; d.11 Dec
1977, Quito, Ecuador. Brother of Gustavo Enrique Salgado Torres. He
started music studies with his father, Francisco Salgado Ayala. He entered
the Cons. Nacional of Quito (1910), graduating as a pianist (1928). Prof.,
and later Dir., of the Cons. Nacional of Quito. Music critic of the
newspapers El Comercio and Diario del Ecuador, both of Quito.
Works: Suite atahualpa, orch (1933); Consagración de las vírgenes del sol,
concerto, pn (1941); Suite coreográfica, orch (1946); El amaño, ballet
(1947); Variaciones en estilo folklórico (1948); Escenas de corpus, opera-
ballet (1948-49); Licisca, ballet (1949); Sismo, tone poem (1949); El Dios
Tumbal, ballet (1952); Concerto, vn (1953); Cumandá, opera (1954);
Concerto, va (1955-56); Eunice, opera (1956-57); Third pn concerto (1958-
59); El centurion, opera (1959-61); Concerto, hn (1968); El tribune, opera
(1964-71); 9 symphonies (1945-49, 1949, 1954-55, 1957, 1958, 1968,
1969-70, 1971-72, 1972); Concerto, vc (1974-75); Suite ecuatoriana
(1972); Concerto, gtr (1976). Voc, chamb, pn, org music.
Bibl.: G. Alzamora, Síntesis Histórica de la Música Ecuatoriana, Quito,
1957; A. Morlás, Florilegio del Pasillo Ecuatoriano, Quito, 1961.
Sources: CTA4, DM, DMC, DMEH, MG, MLA, MMLA

Salicrup, Narciso L., Venezuelan pianist and composer; b.3 Nov 1869,
Puerto Cabello, Venezuela; d.1908, New York, United States. A
biographical note from the journal, El Cojo Ilustrado, states that at the age
of four years he played guitar, sang, and at 11 years composed dance pieces
for the piano and studied with Amalia Brandt de Rodríguez. He settled in
Caracas then continued his studies in Canada with Rachele. He taught piano
until 1889 when the president of the Republic, Andueza Palacio, employed
him in the Dirección de Bellas Artes.
Works: dances, pn.
Sources: DMEH

Salinas, Arturo, Mexican composer and ethnomusicologist; b.24 Nov

1955, Monterrey, State of Nuevo León, Mexico. Studied composition with
Robert Cogan at the New England Cons. of Music, Boston, MA, USA,
graduating in 1978. He also studied electroacoustic and microtonal music
with Jean-Etienne Marie at the Centre International de Recherches
Musicales in Paris, France. In Weimar, Germany, he studied with Igor
Markevitch, in Montreal, Canada, with Charles Boilès and with Pauline
Oliveros in the USA and Canada. He researched Mexican indigenous
music, especially the Tarahumara. Composer in residence at Mills College,
Oakland, CA, USA, and at Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ, USA.
Works: Manantial, orch (1990); Estrellas de invierno, orch (1994).
Electroacoustic, computer, chamb, voc, ch music; music using Mexican
indigenous instruments.
Sources: DCMMC, DMEH

Salinas Álvarez, Horacio, Chilean composer, guitarist; b.8 July 1951,

Lautaro, Chile. He studied classical guitar at the Escuela Musical
Vespertina of the Univ. de Chile with Liliana Pérez Corey (1964-70). He
joined the orch. of the Ballet Folklórico Pucará (1965) as a guitarist and the
group Inti Illimani of the Nueva Canción Chilena movement (1967). He
studied composition with the Peruvian composer Celso Garrido-Lecca
(1972), but after the 1973 coup he went into exile for 15 years. He moved to
Rome until he was able to return to Chile (1988). Much of his music was
written for Inti Illimani and after 1978 most of the group’s repertoire was
his music.
Works: songs, chamb, gtr, theater, film, television music
Sources: DMEH

Salomón, Carlos R., Mexican composer; b.1967, Mexico City. He studied

music at the Cons. Nacional de Música. His instructors included Raúl
Pavón, Francisco Savin, and Mario Lavista.
Works: Cantera verde (2006); Fandango para vn (2006); Nocturno a
Juárez (2006); Barro negro (2007); Danza mestizo (2007); Obertura Stappa
Beeu (2007); Ojo de agua (2007); Serenata sureña (2008); Nación de
heroes (2010); Concierto para marimba (2011).
Sources: GP

Salvetti, Renzo, Venezuelan composer of Italian origin; b.13 Aug 1906,

Trento, Italy; d.13 Aug 1989, Maracaibo, Zulia, Venezuela. He studied at
the Cons. of Pesaro and Parma, and later, at the Cons. di Musica in Milan,
all in Italy. He settled in Venezuela in 1954, and became a Venezuelan
citizen. Founder and Dir. of the Acad. de Música in Acarigua, Venezuela.
Sub-Dir. of the Cons. José Luis Paz of Maracaibo.
Works: Fiesta campestre, orch (1970); Jardín de rosas, orch (1979); La
batalla naval del lago de Maracaibo, orch; Leyenda, pn; Misa de Réquiem.
Masses, chamb, voc music.
Sources: EMV, KTL

Salvo, Francisco de, Uruguayan composer; b.19 century, Uruguay.

Works: Credo, 3 vocs, orch (1833); Tantum ergo, voc, orch (1842); sacred
music.
Sources: DMEH

Samayoa, José Eulalio, Guatemalan composer; b.1 Dec 1781, Guatemala;

d.1866, Guatemala. Initially self-taught, he later studied with Manuel
Mendilla Retalhuleu. He joined the music chapel of the Cathedral of
Guatemala (1813) and established the Asociación Filarmónica del Sagrado
Corazón de Jesús which annually celebrated the Día del Músico on 8 July
with a mass and public concert.
Works: sacred music; 2 Piezas de iglesia, orch; Allegro no.10, trp, str;
Sinfonía no. 7, orch; Tocata no.9, orch.
Sources: DL, DMEH

Sambucetti, Luis [Nicolás], Uruguayan composer, violinist; b.29 Jul 1860,

Montevideo, Uruguay; d.7 Sep 1926, Montevideo. He studied in
Montevideo with Luis Preti and José Strigelli. In 1885, he traveled to Paris,
France, where he studied violin with Hubert Leonard, harmony with
Théodore Dubois, and composition with Jules Massenet, Ernst Guiraud, and
Leo Delibes at the Cons. Nationale de Musique of Paris. Founder of the
Cons. Verdi in Montevideo in 1890. He also organized the Orq. Nacional of
Uruguay in Montevideo, which he conducted from 1908 to 1914.
Works: Colombinson, operetta (1893); El diablo rojo, zarzuela (1893); El
fantasma, operetta (1894); San Francesco D’Assisi, mystic poem (1910);
Invocación, prelude, orch (1889); Leyenda patria, prelude, orch (1889);
Indiana, instrumental capriccio (1897); Suite, orch (1899). Chamb, ch, pn,
voc music.
Sources: BHMCU, CTA14, DMEH, MLA, MU

Sammartino, Luis Rafael Dionisio, Argentine composer and pianist; b.8

Apr 1890, Buenos Aires, Argentina; d.31 Aug 1973, Buenos Aires. He
studied piano with Corradino d’Agnillo and Elmérico Fracassi, and
composition with Constantino Gaito. Taught music in high schools,
supervisor of music at the school system of the Consejo Nacional de
Educación of Buenos Aires.
Works: Suite orchl; Obertura en Re, orch; Suite, pn, str orch; Sonata, vc,
pn; Sonatina, pn; Acuarelas, pn (1929); Zamba, pn (1930); Pericón, pn
(1946); Canción, pn (1948); Sonata, vn, pn (1935). Songs.
Sources: CA, DM, DMEH, EMA

Samper Marqués, Baltasar, Mexican composer, pianist, and musicologist

of Spanish origin; b.3 May 1888, Palma de Mallorca, Spain; d.18 Feb 1966,
Mexico City, Mexico. From a family of musicians, he moved to Mexico
(1942) and became a Mexican citizen. He studied piano in Spain with
Enrique Granados, harmony, composition, and orchestration with Felipe
Pedrell. He conducted the orch. de Cámara de Barcelona (1935-38), moved
to France then to Mexico where he worked in an opera theater, gave music
lessons, and wrote orchestrations for the radio. He composed the soundtrack
to the film, La barraca, which won the Premio Ariel (1945), awarded by
the Acad. Mexicana de Ciencias y Artes Cinematograficas. In the same year
the music department of the Secretaría de Educación Pública named him
dir. of research and publications for the Archivo de Folklore Mexicano.
Works: Orch suite; cantatas; chamb, ch music.
Sources: DMEH, KTL

Sánchez, Manuela Cornejo de, Argentine teacher and composer; b.1854,

Salta, Prov. of Salta, Argentina; d.1902, Argentina. Prof. at the Escuela
Normal of Salta.
Works: El sol de mayo; Himno a Rivadavia; Himno a Colón; El sol de
julio; A mi patria; Canto a Güemes; Canto patriótico; La escuela. Sacred
music.
Sources: EMA

Sánchez del Carpio, Hilario, Mexican composer and pianist; b.2 Sep
1939, Bochil, State of Chiapas, Mexico. Self-taught musician.
Works: El cenote sagrado, orch (1984); Itzapapalotl, amplified voc (1985);
Dodecaforítmica (1986); Niebla en Montebello (1987); Amor al arte
(1990); Danza en Peyotepec (1990); Paseo a lo largo de un río (1990);
Máscaras mexicanas (1991); Chiapas cantabile (1991); Paseo a lo largo de
un río (1992); México mezzo picante (1992); Romance entre marimba y la
luna, mez sop; (1993); Jazz de noche Ondulada, mez sop, str (1993);
Ciudad gallina gris, mez sop, str (1994). Chamb, band music.
Sources: DCMMC, DMEH, GP

Sánchez de Fuentes, Eduardo, Cuban musicologist and composer; b.3 Apr

1874, Havana, Cuba; d.7 Sep 1944, Havana. He studied with Sancho and
Arturo Quiñones at the Cons. de Música Hubert de Blanck of Havana.
Later, he studied with Carlos Anckermann and Ignacio Cervantes Kawanag.
Music critic for the newspaper El Mundo of Havana. President of the Acad.
Nacional de Artes y Letras of Cuba, and founding member of the Sociedad
de Autores Cubanos, both in Havana.
Works: Yumurí, opera (1898); El náufrago, opera (1901); La dolorosa,
opera (1910); Tríptico cubano, orch (1916); Doreya, opera (1918); El
caminante, opera (1921); Bocetos cubanos, sop, women’s ch, orch (1922);
Anacoana, symph poem (1928); Dioné, ballet (1940); Kabelia, opera
(1942); Temas del patio, symph prelude; Navidad, oratorio; Str qt. Pn, voc
music.
Books: El Folklore en la Música Cubana, 1923; Folklorismo, 1928; Viejos
Ritmos Cubanos, 1937.
Bibl.: O. Martínez, Eduardo Sánchez de Fuentes: In Memoriam, Havana,
1944. M. Guiral, Un Gran Musicógrafo y Compositor Cubano: Eduardo
Sánchez de Fuentes, Havana, 1944. A. Carpenter, La Música en Cuba,
Mexico, 1946.
Sources: BB, DM, DMC, DMEH, GDM, MLA, MMLA

Sánchez de la Barquera Gutiérrez, Daniel, Mexican composer; b.1961,

Mexico City, Mexico. He studied at UNAM, the Centro de Investigaciones
de Estudios Musicales, the Escuela Cívica de Milan with Franco Donatoni
and the Cons. de Milan with David Anzaghi. He founded the Mitote Project
in 2000.
Works: Sea son I, marimba, bass drum, cymbals (1992); Trio, fl, cl, sax;
Dos canciones, mez sop, pn; Canción de cuna, inst ens.
Sources: DMEH

Sánchez Ferrer, Roberto Matías, Cuban composer and conductor; b.31

Dec 1927, Havana, Cuba. He studied at the Cons. Municipal de La Habana
with Enrique Bellver and Félix Guerrero. He founded the orch. de Cámara
de las Juventudes Musicales de Cuba (1959) in Havana. He studied
conducting with Jan Constantinesco and later at the Inst. Superior de Músic
in Liepzig, Germany, with Franz Jung. He returned to Cuba (1961) and
became conductor of the orch. de Cámara Nacional and also conducted the
Ópera de Cuba for many years.
Works: Ballet a Santiago, orch (1972); Jati, voc, orch (1981); Van Troi y
Écue Yamba O, opera (1986); Variaciones para qnt de viento, wind qnt
(1987).
Sources: DMEH
Sánchez Gutierrez, Carlos Daniel, Mexican composer; b.22 Jul 1964,
Mexico City, Mexico. He started his music studies at the Escuela de Música
of the Univ. of Guadalajara, Mexico, and then he received a MM in
composition from Yale Univ., New Haven, CT, USA, and from Princeton
Univ., Princeton, NJ, USA. He taught at the Escuela de Música of the Univ.
of Guadalajara, Princeton Univ., San Francisco State Univ., San Francisco,
CA, USA, and in the composition department at Eastman School of Music,
Univ. of Rochester, NY.
Works: Gota de noche, orch (1989); Figura y secuencia, orch (1989);
Conductus, orch (1990); Tzilini, orch (1992); Retablos, orch (1993); Son del
corazón, orch (1993); Girandula, orch (1994); Girando, danzando (1996);
Fandango y cuna, tb, str (1996); Afterlight (2000); Just look (The last days
V.I.R.U.S.) (2004); …Ex Machina, marimba, pn, orch (2008); Diaries
(2012). Chamb, electroacoustic, computer music.
Sources: DMEH, DCMMC, GP

Sánchez Málaga, Armando, Peruvian conductor and composer; b.22 Aug

1929, Arequipa, Peru. He began his training at the Cons. Nacional de
Música in Lima and continued at the Univ. de Chile and the Hochschule für
Musik de Munich then studied conducting with Igor Markevich (in Spain,
1966 and Monte Carlo, 1968). He taught composition at the Cons. de Lima
(1955), conducted the orch. de Cámara de la Univ. de Concepción (Chile),
conducted the orch. Sinfónica Nacional de Peru (asst. 1957-62, principal
1962-64), general and artistic Dir., (1977-87) and the Coro Nacional (1971-
72). He founded and conducted the orch. Sinfónica del Cons. Nacional de
Música (1982-93). Concurrently he taught at the Cons. Nacional, the Univ.
Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, and the Univ. Católica de Peru. He was
Dir. of the Escuela Nacional de Música (Cons. Nacional 1986-90) and
executive Dir. of the Inst. Nacional de Cultura (1973-74).
Works: Movimiento sinfónico, orch; Madrigales, ch; Preludio, fuga, y coda,
vn, va, vc; Preludios y fugas, pn; Canciones y danzas populars para niños,
pn (1965).
Sources: DMEH

Sánchez Málaga, Carlos, Peruvian composer, choral conductor, and

teacher; b.8 Sep 1904, Arequipa, Peru; 17 Jul 1995, Lima. He studied at the
Escuela San Francisco of Arequipa with Father Francisco de María
Palomino. Prof. of solfeggio, choral singing at the Cons. Nacional de
Música of La Paz, Bolivia. After his return to Peru in 1929, he became Prof.
and later, in 1932, Dir. of the Cons. Nacional de Música Alcedo of Lima,
Peru. Prof. of piano, Dir. of the Inst. de Música Bach of Lima. President of
the Sociedad Peruana de Autores y Compositores.
Works: Cayma (1925); Yanahuara (1925); Crepúsculo (1928); Vísperas
(1933); Suite acuarelas infantiles (1938). Ch, sacred, voc music.
Sources: CTA15, DM, DMEH, GDM, GMP, MLA, MMLA

Sandi Espinoza, Marvin, Bolivian composer; b.17 May 1938, Potosí,

Bolivia; d.30 Apr 1968, Madrid, Spain. He studied first with his father, José
Sandi, and later, he went to Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he studied with
Jacobo Ficher, Alberto Ginastera, and Roberto Locatelli.
Works: Cantata siciliana, pn; In Memoriam de Eduardo Caba.
Sources: DMEH, CB

Sandi Meneses, Luis, Mexican composer and conductor; b.22 Feb 1905,
Mexico City, Mexico; d.10 Apr 1996, Mexico City. He studied violin with
José Rocabruna, 1923-30, and composition with Gustavo Campa and
Estanislao Mejía, 1925-31, at the Cons. Nacional de Música of Mexico
City. Conductor of the ch of the Cons. Nacional de Música of INBA,
Mexico City (1922-35); in 1937, he founded the Coro de Madrigalistas,
which he conducted until 1965. Taught music in primary schools (1924-32),
chief of the Sección de Música del Ministerio de Eduación Pública (1933-
65), President of Juventudes Musicales of Mexico and of Comité Nacional
del Consejo Internacional de la Música. Founder of the Liga de
Compositores de Música de Concierto of Mexico and Dir. of the opera of
INBA. Music critic for the journal, Nuestra Música.
Works: Los cuatro coroneles de la reina, orch (1928); El venado, orch
(1932); Sonora, orch (1933); Las troyanas, orch (1936); Suite banal, orch
(1936); Corrido de la colecta, orch (1938); Día de difuntos, ballet (1938);
La angostura, orch (1939); Suite de la hoja de plata, orch (1939); Norte,
orch (1940); La guarecitas, orch (1941); Concertino (1944); Tema y
Variaciones (1944); Día de defuntos (1947); Bonampak, ballet (1948);
Carlota, opera (1948); La señora en su balcón, opera (1964); Coatlicue,
ballet (1949); Esbozos sinfónicos (1951); Cuatro miniaturas (1953);
Poemas del amor y de la muerte (1965); América, symph poem (1968);
Cinco gaceloas (1968); Il Cantico delle Creature (1972); Ajorca de cantos
floridos (1977); Trenos, in memoriam Carlos Chavez (1977); Sinfonía
minima (1978); Second symphony (1980); Díptico (1986). Las troyanas, ch,
instruments (1936); Gloria a los héroes, cantata (1947); Cyrano, music for
theater (1950); La suave patria, cantata (1951); Kipec cuum kipec cucuas,
sop, orch; Vícu ve de mexu.

Books: De Música y Otras Cosas; Bitácora de Viaje; Introducción al

Estudio de la Música. Chamb, ch, pn, voc music.
Bibl.: C. Chávez, Luis Sandi, Nuestra Música, Vol.4, July 1949.
Sources: BB, CTA14, DCMMC, DM, DMEH, GDM, GMM, GP, MLA,
MMLA

Sandoval, Carlos, Mexican composer; b.6 Sep 1956, Mexico City, Mexico.
He studied composition with Antonio Rosadi at UNAM and later with Julio
Estrada. He was resident composer at Les Ateliers of the Univ. de
Picardiem France, at Trimpin in the USA, and the Studio for Electro-
Instrumental Music in Holland. Asst. to Colon Nancarrow (1991-94), he
collaborated on the project Música, Matemáticas, Computación in Mexico
(1990-92) with Julio Estrada.
Works: Olvadem, vn, prepared gtr (1984); Filos, 6 vn, 4 va, 2 pn, perc
(1989); Ginantria, vc (1990); Homenaje, tape (1991); Slow Piece,
mechanical pn (1992); Dos piezas para pn (un poco) preparado y
violoncello, prepared pn, vc (1995); Estudio de tramas no.1, pn (1997).
Sources: DMEH

Sandoval Cabrera, Miguel Angel, Guatemalan composer and conductor;

b.22 Nov 1903, Gazacapán, Guatemala; d.23 Aug 1953, New York City,
NY, USA. He lived in New York City (1919-53). He studied piano with
Hersilia D. de Tronchi and Humberto Paniagua in Guatemala City,
Guatemala (1912-17), and continued to study piano with Edoardo Trucco
and music theory and composition with Vicente Mañas (1919-20). In 1922,
he entered the Escuela de Música Santini in New York City. Dir. of the
Estación de Radio Nacional Guatemalteca.
Works: Recuerdos en un paseo, symph poem. Classical, popular, film,
commercial, orch, ch, pn, voc music.
Sources: BB, DMEH, ISC
Sandoval Yanes, Andrés Avelino, Venezuelan composer, violinist, and
conductor; b.3 Aug 1924, Caracas, Venezuela. He started music studies
with his father, Avelino Sandoval. Later, he entered the Escuela de Música y
Declamación in Caracas, where he studied music theory and solfeggio with
Eduardo Plaza and Vicente Emilio Sojo, violin with José Lorenzo
Llamozas, clarinet with César Guzmán, music history with Juan Bautista
Plaza, and composition with Vicente Emilio Sojo. He continued his violin
studies (1949) with Ricardo Odnoposoff in Caracas. Dir. of the Escuela
Estatal de Música (today Escuela de Música Miguel Angel Espinel) of San
Cristóbal (1951) and of the Escuela Estatal de Música (today Cons. de
Música José Luis Paz) of Maracaibo, both in Venezuela. Founder of the
Orq. Sinfónica of Maracaibo.
Works: Sinfonía Venezuela, orch (1950); Rapsody, pn (1956); Caracas, cl
(1957); Fuga de los espíritus, symph poem (1958); Caracas
cuatricentenaria, symph poem (1966); Réquiem No.1, bar (1966); Salt de la
llovizna, symph poem (1977); El campanario, fantasy (1978); Exaltación a
un héroe, vn (1982). Chamb, sacred, pn, ch music.
Sources: DMEH, EMV, KTL

Sang[h]üesa Inostroza, Iris, Chilean composer, pianist, conductor,

percussionist; b. 1933/1938, Chile. She studied with Herminia Raccagni,
Flora Guerra, and Germán Berner at the Cons. Nacional de Música in
Santiago de Chile, Chile. She also studied percussion with Jorge Canelo,
conducting with Agustín Cullel, and composition with Gustavo Becerra and
Alberto Ginastera.
Works: Copahue, ballet based on an Araucanian legend (1963); Los
trabajos del bailarín, ballet; Síncresis, orch (1963); Abstractas, orch
(1965); Aforismos del Bhagavad Gita, orch (1965); Estudios orchestales,
orch (1966); Transiciones, orch (1967). Chamb, pn, sacred music.
Sources: DMEH, IBCC, IEW

Sanjuán Nortes, Pedro Eugenio, Cuban conductor, teacher, and composer

of Spanish origin; b.15 Nov 1887, DMC (1886, BB), San Sebastián, Spain;
d.18 Oct 1976, Washington, DC, USA. He studied in Madrid, Spain, with
Joaquín Turina, and also in Paris, France. In 1924, he moved to Cuba where
he founded the Orq. Filarmónica of Havana, Cuba. He settled in the USA in
1942, when he became Prof. of composition at Converse College,
Spartanburg, SC, USA.
Works: Rondó fantástico, orch (1926); Castilla, suite, orch (1927); Liturgia
negra (1930); Invocación a Ogún (1942); Canción Yorubá (1942); La
Macumba, ritual symphony (1945); Antillean Poem, band (1945); Sketch
Caribe (1946); Symph Suite. Ch, pn music.
Sources: BB, DMC, DMEH

Sans Moreira, Juan Andrés, Venezuelan guitarist, composer, and teacher;

b. 10 Dec 1956, Caracas, Venezuela. Brother of Juan Francisco Sans
Moreira. At the Escuela de Música Juan Manuel Olivares of Caracas he
studied harmony with Angel Sauce and Tiero Pezutti, counterpoint with
Primo Casale, fugue with Antonio Mastrogiovanni, and music history and
aesthetics with Eduardo Plaza. He also studied composition and music
analysis with Yannis Ioannidis, dodecaphonic music with Alfredo del
Mónaco, electroacoustic music with Raúl Delgado Estévez and Servio Tulio
Marín, and composition, orchestration, and music analysis with Héctor
Tosar Errecart at the Univ. Metropolitana of Caracas. He studied guitar with
José María Verdú, Abel Calevaro, and Alirio Díaz. Founding member of
Cantoría Alberto Grau, and of Schola Cantorum, both in Caracas. Prof. at
the Cons. de Música Simón Bolívar and the Cons. Italiano de Música, both
in Caracas.
Works: Chamb, ch, pn music.
Sources: DMEH, EMV

Sans Moreira, Juan Francisco, Venezuelan composer, pianist, and

teacher; b.17 Feb 1960, Caracas, Venezuela. Brother of Juan Andrés Sans
Moreira. At the Escuela de Música Juan Manuel Olivares of Caracas he
studied piano with Gerty Haas then at the Cons. Nacional de Música Juan
José Landaeta of Caracas, he studied piano with Harriet Serr, conducting
with Pablo Castellanos, electroacoustic music with Eduardo Kusnir,
composition with Primo Casale, Angel Sauce, Héctor Tosa Errecart, and
Antonio Mastrogiovanni. At the Univ. Central of Venezuela he earned a
Licentiate degree in arts (1984). Secretary, and later president, of the
Juventudes Musicales of Venezuela. Dir. of the Cons. Italiano de Música
and Prof. at the Escuela de Música José Lorenzo Llamozas, at the Escuela
de Artes of the Univ. Central of Venezuela, and at the Inst. Univ. de
Estudios Musicales, all in Caracas.
Works: Impromtu, orch (1987). Chamb, ch, instr, electroacoustic music.
Sources: DMEH, EMV

Santa Cruz Wilson, Domingo, Chilean composer, teacher, and music

administrator; b.5 Jul 1887/1899, La Cruz, Prov. of Valparaiso, Chile; d.6
Jan 1987, Santiago de Chile, Chile. He studied jurisprudence at the Univ. of
Chile in Santiago de Chile, graduated with a law degree in 1921, then
entered the diplomatic service. He studied music with Enrique Soro in
Santiago de Chile, and with Conrado del Campo in Madrid, Spain. Prof. at
the Cons. Nacional of Santiago de Chile, and dean of the Facultad de
Ciencias y Artes Musicales of the Univ. of Chile, 1933-51 and 1962-68.
Dir. of the Inst. de Extensión Musical of the Univ. of Chile. Founder of
Sociedad Bach, the journals Marsyas, Aulos, and Revista Musical Chilena.
Works: Cinco piezas breves, str orch (1937); Cantata de los ríos de Chile,
ch, orch (1942); Variaciones, pn, orch (1943); Sinfonía concertante, fl, pn,
str (1945); 4 symphonies (1948, 1948, 1965, 1968); Egloga, sop, ch, orch
(1950); Cantares de la Pascua, ch a cappella (1950); 3 str qts; Oratorio
Ieremieae Prophetae (1969). Chamb, ch, pn, voc music.
Bibl.: V. Salas Viú, La Creación Musical en Chile 1900-1951, Santiago de
Chile, 1951. Revista Musical Chilena, Vol.8, 1952. R. Stevenson, Chilean
Music in the Santa Cruz Epoch, Inter-American Music Bulletin, 1968.
Sources: BB, CTA2, DCM, DM, DMEH, DMM, GDM, HMC, MLA,
MMLA

Santaolalla, Gustavo Alfredo, Argentine composer and producer; b.19

Aug 1951, El Palomar, Argentina. He began studying guitar at 5 and
established a professional music career with the rock nacional group, Arco
Iris, in 1967. He became the eighth composer to win back-to-back Academy
Awards for Best Original Score with soundtracks for Brokeback Mountain
in 2005 and Babel in 2006.
Works: 21 Grams, soundtrack (2003); Motorcycle diaries, soundtrack
(2004).
Sources: CW
Santillán Alcocer, Ana Paola, Mexican composer; b.25 Jun 1972, Mexico
City. She attended the Colegio Williams in Mexico City and studied music
with Antonieta Lozano, Alejandro Velascu, and Gerardo Taméz at CIEM.
She earned a Licentiate in music composition from Trinity College in
London and a MM from Rice Univ. She also counted Vincent Carver and
Arthur Gottschalk amongst her most influential teachers. She held
composition fellowships around the world, including a Fulbright, and
entered DM studies at McGill Univ. in Montreal, Quebec, under John Rea.
Works: Némesis (2008); Oneirophrenia, video, electronics; Fractum, fl, bcl,
pn.
Sources: GP

Santoro, Cláudio Franco de Sá, Brazilian composer, violinist, and

conductor; b.23 Nov 1919, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil; d.27 Mar 1989,
Brasília, Brazil. At the Cons. de Música of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, he
studied violin with Eduardo Guerra, harmony with Nadin Lacaz de Barros,
and musicology with Augusto de Freitas Lopes Gonçalves. He also studied
composition with Hans Joachim Koellreutter and in Paris, France, with
Nadia Boulanger. In Paris, he also studied conducting with Eugène Bigot.
Music teacher at various schools. He conducted extensively in South
America, Europe, and Russia. In 1970, he went to Germany and became
Prof. of composition at the Hochschule für Musik in Heidelberg. He
returned to Brazil in 1978.
Works: Variations on a 12-tone Row, orch (1945); Ponteio, str (1945); Ode
to Stalingrad, ch (1947); A Fábrica, ballet (1947); Anticocos, ballet (1951);
Choro, sax (1952); O Café, ballet (1953); Abertura trágica, (1958); 2 vn
concertos (1951, 1958); Icamiabas, ballet (1959); 3 pn concertos (1953,
1959, 1960); Zuimaaluti, ballet (1960); Vc concerto (1961); Prelúdios,
ballet (1962); 9 symphonies (1940, 1945, 1945, 1949, 1956, 1960, 1963,
1963, 1982); 7 str qts (1943-1965); Cantata elegíaca, nar, 2 ch, orch
(1970); Strukturen, ballet (1976); Aus den Sonnetten an Orpheus, cantata,
tnr, ch, str orch (1979); Conflito, ballet (1981); Lamentações, ballet (1982);
Alma, opera (1984); Elegias, ballet (1986); Cantares, prazeres (1987);
Brasilia Ano I, ballet (1988); I topolini e le cicale, ballet (1988). Chamb,
pn, voc music.
Sources: BB, CTA9, DCM, DM, EMB2, HMB, MLA, MMLA
Santórsola, Guido, Uruguayan composer, violinist, violist, and conductor
of Italian origin; b.18 Nov 1904, Canosa di Puglia, Italy; d.25 Sep 1994,
Montevideo, Uruguay. He settled in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1909, where he
began music study with his father. Later, he entered the Cons. Dramático y
Musical of São Paulo, where he studied violin with Zacarías Autuori, and
harmony, counterpoint, and composition with Agostino Cantú and
Lamberto Baldi. He also studied violin in Italy with Gaetano Fusella and in
London, England, with Alfred Mitowsky. Founder of the Inst. Musical
Brasileiro. Taught violin, viola, and harmony at the Cons. Dramático y
Musical of São Paulo. He settled in Montevideo, Uruguay (1931), and
became violist of the symphony orch of SODRE. Prof. of harmony and
music aesthetics at the Inst. de Estudios Superiores of the Escuela Normal
de Música of Montevideo. He founded and conducted the orch. of the
Sociedad de Cultura Artística Uruguaya and the Inst. Cultural Brasil-
Uruguay, both of Montevideo. Member of the Cuarteto Kleiber of
Montevideo.
Works: Canción brasileña, orch (1930); Saudade, orch (1931); Concerto,
va (1932); Preludio No.1, str orch (1936); Tres estados psicológicos, vn
(1936); Preludio y fuga a la manera clásica, double str orch (1937);
Concerto, pn (1938-39); Concertino, gtr (1942); Vida de Artigas (1951);
Symphony No.1 (1957); Rapsodia criolla (1960); Concerto, vn (1962);
Concerto (1964); Cantata a Artigas, nar, ch (1965); Concerto, 4 vns (1969).
Chamb, gtr, ch, pn music.
Sources: BHMCU, CTA8, DCM, DM, DMEH, EMB2, GDM, MLA,
MMLA, MU

Santos, Domingo, Salvadoran composer; b.4 Aug 1892, San Esteban, El

Salvador; d.1951. He studied harmony, counterpoint, fugue, musical form,
orchestration with Ricardo Storti, violin, pn with Monteli, Neglia,
Alicandri, and Antonio d’Illía at the Istituto Nazionale di Musica of Rome,
Italy. When he returned to El Salvador, he became conductor of the 5th
regiment’s Military Band and Dir. of the Escuela Nacional de Música
Rafael Olmedo in San Salvador.
Works: Martita, overture, orch; Dorita, overture, orch; 3 pn sonatas;
Marcha heróica; Requiem V, 2 male vocs, orch, org; Requiem VI, 3 voc,
orch; 6 funeral marches; 2 fantasias, vn, pn; Salve, mixed vocs; Salve
Regina, bar, mixed voc.
Sources: DM, DMEH, HDM, MLA, MMLA

Santos, Murilo Tertuliano dos, Brazilian pianist and composer; b.30 Mar
1931, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In 1937, he entered the Cons. Brasileiro de
Música of Rio de Janeiro to study piano with Liddy Chiaffarelli Mignone,
and graduated in piano at ENMUB, today EMUFRJ, under Arnaldo Estrela.
In 1965, he studied composition, conducting at ENMUB with José Siqueira,
Henrique Morelenbaum, and Eleazar de Carvalho. He graduated in 1970.
Prof. of composition at EMUFRJ and pianist of the Orq. Sinfônica do
Teatro Municipal of Rio de Janeiro.
Works: In memoriam, orch (1974); Jogos natalinos, orch (1982); Fantasia,
pn (1991); Poema (1996). Chamb, instr, voc music.
Sources: EMB2

Santos Barreto, Adelina, Brazilian composer, percussionist, and author;

fl.20th century.
Works: Perc music, children’s band.
Sources: IEW

Santos Mazal, Enrique, Mexican composer and optician; b.2 Apr 1930,
Mexico City, Mexico. Mainly a self-taught musician. In 1960, he entered
the Cons. Nacional de Música of INBA, Mexico City, where he studied
with Joaquín Amparán and Rodolfo Halffter.
Works: Ob concerto No.1 (1975); Fl concerto (1980); Pn concerto No.1
(1980); Symphony No.1 (1981); Pieza para orch (1982); Homenaje a
Carlos Chávez (1983); Divertimento (1983); Simón Bolívar, overture
(1983); Juárez y Maximilliano, overture (1985); Marcha para Querétaro
(1987); Ob concerto (1987); Adagio, eh, strs (1988); Vc concerto (1988);
Concerto, gtr, chamb orch (1988); Harpsichord concerto (1988); Un saludo
a Roberto (1988); Divertimento, str (1989); Pn concerto No.2 (1990);
Clavecin concerto (1999); Va concerto (1991); Gtr concerto No.1 (1994);
Cantos fúnebres, mez sop, bar, ch (1995); Va concerto (1996); Pn concerto
No.3 (2000). Chamb, pn, gtr, ch music.
Sources: DCMMC, DMEH, GP

Santos Tejada, César Augusto, Ecuadorian flutist and composer; b.6 Mar
1962, Riobamba, Ecuador. He studied at the Cons. Nacional de Música de
Quito with Julio Bueno, Mesías Maiguashca, and Thomas Humel. He was
member of the group Jatari, in charge of the music information technology
system of the Symph. del Municipio de Quitom, head of the Taller de
Composición y Arreglos del Departamento de Desarrollo y Difusión
Musical del Distrito Metropolitano de Quito. He also collaborated on the
musical journal, A Tempo.
Works: San Juan de Blancos ostiantos sinfónicos sobre el tema del
Chuccurillu, orch (1993); Nostalgias (página de álbum), pn (1985).
Sources: DMEH

Sanz, Rocio (Carmen Rocío Sanz Quirós), Costa Rican composer and
teacher; b.28 Jan 1934, San José, Costa Rica; d.13 Apr 1993, Mexico City,
Mexico. She began music study with her mother, Rosita Quirós, then
entered the Cons. Nacional de Música of Costa Rica in San José, and the
Los Angeles City College, Los Angeles, CA, USA. She settled in Mexico
(1954) and studied at the Cons. Nacional de Música of Mexico in Mexico
City, with Carlos Jiménez Mabarak, Blas Galindo Dimas, and Rodolfo
Halftter. With a scholarship she studied at the Tchaikovsky Cons. in
Moscow, Russia, with Vladimir Feré (1965-66). Prof. at the Escuela de
Danza y Arte Dramático of the Inst. de Bellas Artes and at the Centro
Teatral of the Univ. of Costa Rica, both in San José.
Works: Ballet Suite, orch (1959); Suite Hilos, orch; Cantata de la
independencia, bar, ch, symph band (1971); El forastero, ballet (1973);
Letanía erótica para la paz, ballet (1973); Palenque (1978); Canciones de
la muerte, sop, str (1984); Theater, film, chamb, ch, voc music.
Sources: DMEH, GP, IBCC, IEW, NGDWC

Sanz Guerrero, Fernando, Bolivian pianist, conductor, and composer; b.6

Nov 1936, La Paz, Bolivia. He studied pn in Buenos Aires, Argentina,
graduating in 1951. He moved to the USA (1960) to study at the Peabody
Inst. in Baltimore, MD, and at Columbia Univ. in New York City, NY. He
received Masters’ degrees in composition and conducting. His teachers
included Leonard Bernstein, Peter Mennin, Lázsló Halász, Ifor Jones,
Howard Mitchell, and Max Rudolph. Founder and Dir. of the choir of Johns
Hopkins Univ. and of the chamb orch. of the Peabody Inst., both of
Baltimore. He also founded the Conjunto de Cámara and the Sociedad
Musical Panamericana, both of Buenos Aires. He became Dir. of the Opera
Boliviana (1973), Dir. of the Cons. Nacional de Música, and Supervisor
Nacional de Educación Musical of Bolivia (1974), all in La Paz.
Works: Ritmo de cueca; Scherzo, wind inst; Str qt.
Sources: CB, DMEH

Sarmientos de León, Jorge Álvaro, Guatemalan composer and conductor;

b.19 Feb 1931, San Antonio Suchitepequez, Guatemala; 26 Sep 2012,
Guatemala City. He studied at the Cons. Nacional de Música y
Declamación of Guatemala City, Guatemala. In 1955, he went to Paris,
France, to study piano with Blanche B. de Geraldi and Lucile Geraldi
Bascourret, composition with Tony Aubin, orch. conducting with Jean
Fournet at the Ecole Normale Superieur de Musique. In 1965, he received a
scholarship to study for two years at the Centro Latinoamericano de Alts
Estudios Musicales of the Inst. Di Tella in Buenos Aires, Argentina, with
Alberto Ginastera, Maurice Le Roux, Iannis Xenakis, Roger Sessions,
Mario Davidovsky, and Fernando von Reishenbach. He was music and
artistic Dir. of the Orq. Sinfónica Nacional of Guatemala, Guatemala City
(1972-92).
Works: Cinco estampas cakchiqueles descriptivas, orch (1953); David y
Betzabé, symph poem (1954-55); Va concerto (1954-55); Marimba
concerto (1957); 3 pn concertos (1959, 1960, 1968-69); Obertura popular
(1962); Coropoema sinfónico Bolívar, nar, ch, and dance (1962-63); Oda a
la libertad (1963); Sinfonía coreográfica (1965); Preludio y danza
orgiástica (1965); Planetarium (1969); Vn concerto (1971); Ofrenda y
gratitud (1976); Cl concerto (1981); Tres cuadros corales sinfónicos, nar,
ch (1982). Chamb, pn, ch music.
Sources: DMEH, ISC

Sas Orchassal, Andrés, Peruvian composer, musicologist, and folklorist of

French origin; b.6 Apr 1900, Paris, France; d.25 Jul 1967, Lima, Peru. He
studied music in Belgium, at the Academie de Musique of Anderlecht-
Brussels, then music theory and solfeggio with Fernand Bauvias, violin
with Alfred Marchot, history of music with Ernest Closson, chamber music
with Paul Miry at the Cons. Royal of Brussels. He continued violin with
Johan Schmitt, and harmony, counterpoint, and fugue with Maurice Imbert.
Concertmaster of the orch. of the Sociétè National de Compositeurs Beiges.
Prof. of violin at the Ecole de Musique Forest in Brussels. The Peruvian
government hired him to teach violin and conduct the orch. of the Acad.
Nacional de Música of Lima (1924). In 1929, he founded the Acad. de
Música Sas-Rosay of Lima, together with his wife, pianist Lily Rosay.
Works: Le malade imaginaire, incidental music to Moliere’s play (1943);
La señora del pueblo, ballet (1946); El hijo pródigo, ballet (1948); Canción
india, orch (1927); Rapsodia peruana, vn (1928); Tres estampas del Perú
(1936); Poema indio (1941); Sueño de zamba (1943); Danza gitana (1944);
La patrona del pueblo (1945); La parihuana (1946); Las seis edades de la
tía Conchita (1947); La leyenda de la isla de San Lorenzo (1949); Fantasía
romántica, tpt (1950). Chamb, pn, ch, voc music.
Sources: BB, CTA2, DM, DMEH, GDM, MLA, MMLA

Satalía, Agustín, Argentine cellist, music critic, and composer; b.28 Nov
1904, Concordia, Prov. of Entre Ríos, Argentina. He studied cello with
Ramón Vilaclara.
Works: En el ocaso, pn; Preludio en Sol menor, pn; Momento musical, pn;
Minué, pn; Melodía, vc. Voc music.
Sources: DM

Sauce, Ángel, Venezuelan composer, teacher, and conductor; b.2 Aug 1911,
Caracas, Venezuela; 26 Dec 1995, Caracas. He studied music composition
with Vicente Emilio Sojo, violin with Manuel Leoncio Rodríguez and José
Lorenzo Llamozas at the Escuela Nacional de Música of Caracas (1944).
With a scholarship from the City of New York, NY, USA (1945), he studied
at Columbia Univ. Conductor of the Orq. Sinfónica Venezuela and Orq. de
Conciertos de Radio Caracas. Founder and Dir. of the Orfeón Obrero Juan
Manuel Olivares (male singing society). Organizer and conductor of the
Banda Obrera of Caracas. In Caracas taught at the Escuela de Música Juan
Manuel Olivares and the Cons. Nacional de Música Juan José Landaeta.
Works: Cecilia Mujica, ballet; Romance del rey Miguel, ballet; Movimiento
sinfónico, orch (1942); Vn concerto (1942); Jehová Reina, cantata, soloists,
ch (1942); Obertura sinfónica (1943); Himno a la gloria de Andrés Bello,
ch (1979); Canto de libertad, cantata soloists, ch (1983). Ch, pn, voc music
Sources: DMEH, CTA14, EMV, MMLA

Saucedo García, José Carmen, Mexican organist, composer, and educator;

b.26 Feb 1949, Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico. He studied music with his
father then at the Escuela Superior de Música de Morelia with Bonifacio
Rojas where he received a degree in Gregorian chant and a Masters in organ
and composition. He continued at the Inst. Pontificio de Música Sacrade
Roma in organ, composition, musicology, and Gregorian paleography. As a
grant recipient he took courses at the Curso Manuel de Falla in Granada
(composition in 1976), Cursos Música in Compostela (composition in 1977,
organ in 1982), Curso Música Barroca y Rococó de San Lorenzo of El
Escorial (musicology in 1980), and the Curso Internacional de Música
Antigua in Daroca (continuing studies in 1982). He gave organ recitals in
Spain and Italy and received first prize in the Concurso de Composición
Silvestre Revueltas from UNAM (1976). Organist of the Cathedral of
Morelia (1966-92), he taught at the Cons. de Las Rosas and the Univ.
Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo.
Works: Crastina Die, cl, pn (1972); Suite, orch (1975); Primera sinfonía,
orch (1979); Cuarteto, str qt (1980); Organum, org (1982); Sonata, vn, pn
(1983); Preludio, tb, pn (1986); Toccatina, perc (1994); Cuetlaxóchitl-
Poinsettia, (1994).
Sources: DMEH

Saumell Robredo, Manuel, Cuban composer and pianist; b.1817, Havana,

Cuba; d.14 Aug 1870, Havana. Initially self-taught, later studied piano with
Juan Federico Edelmann and harmony, counterpoint, orchestration with
Mauricio Pyke. He initiated Cuban musical nationalism, and is considered
the father of the Cuban contredanse.
Works: Plegaria, sop, org; Melopea, orch; Concerto, vc, pn; Idilio, pn, vn,
vc; Ave Maria, sop, orch Creator native dances: contredanse; habanera;
danzón; guajira; clave; criolla.
Bibl.: O. Martínez, Programa de la orch. Filarmónica de Habana, Nov 4,
1946. A. Carpenter, Saumell y el Nacionalismo, La Música en Cuba,
Mexico City, 1946.
Sources: DM, DMC, DMEH, GDM, MLA, MMLA

Savín Vázquez, Francisco, Mexican conductor and composer; b.18 Nov

1927/1929, Mexico City, Mexico. He studied piano with José Velásquez
(1944-53) conducting with Hermann Scherchen, and composition with
Rodolfo Halffter (1955-56) in Mexico City. He studied composition with
Karel Janecek at the Music Acad. in Prague, Czechoslovakia (today Czech
Republic) (1957-59). Assistant conductor of the Orq. Sinfónica Nacional,
Mexico City (1959-62) and principal conductor of the Orq. Sinfónica of
Xalapa, Xalapa, Mexico (1963-67). Dir. of the Cons. Nacional de Música in
Mexico City (1967-70). Prof. of music aesthetics and art history at the Univ.
of Veracruz, Mexico, and the Cons. Nacional de Música of INBA. In 1972,
he became head of the Dept. de Música of the Inst. Nacional de Bellas
Artes of Mexico, Mexico City.
Works: Quetzalcóatl, symph poem, 2 nar, orch (1957); Metamorfosis, orch
(1962); Concreción, electronic org, orch (1969); Monólogo de las delicias,
4 female voc, orch (1969); Quasar 1, electronic org, tape, perc (1970).
Sources: BB, DCM, DCMMC, DMEH, GP

Savio, Isaías, Brazilian guitarist, conductor, teacher, and composer of

Uruguayan origin; b.1 Oct 1900, Montevideo, Uruguay; d.12 Jan 1977, São
Paulo, Brazil. At age 8, he entered the Liceo Franz Liszt of Montevideo to
study piano with Carlos Dubar, and at age 11, guitar with Conrado P. Koch.
Later, he studied with Vicente Ascone. In 1941, he settled in São Paulo
where he founded the Associação Cultural Vnística Brasileira. In 1947, he
became Prof. of guitar at the Cons. Dramático e Musical of São Paulo.
Works: Gtr music.
Sources: EMB2

Scaffo Roldríguez, Nibia Aída, Uruguayan composer, pianist, and teacher;

b.27 May 1946, Montevideo, Uruguay. She studied piano at the Cons.
Kolischer, graduating in 1964. She also received training in painting at the
Univ. del Trabajo de Uruguay then she studied musicology at the Facultad
de Música de la Univ. de Montevideo. With a scholarship from this
institution she attended the Primeros Cursos Latinoamericanos de Música
where she studied with Jan Bark, Folke Rabe, Eduardo Bértola, Oscar
Bazan, Mariano Etkin, Conrado Silva, Coriún Aharonian, Hector Tosar,
Luigi Nono, Konrad Bohemey, and José Vicente Asuar.
Works: Triptico, chamb (1970); Fuga a cinco voces para pequeño conjunto
instrumental, chamb (1971); Ejercicio. Trabajo experimental par
sintetizador, synth (1972); Espirales, ch (1973); Elementos, ob (1976);
Vetuspieza, pn (1976).
Sources: DMEH
Scalese, Lorenzo, Argentine composer, piano teacher of Italian birth;
b.1867, Serrastretta, Italy; d.? His family moved to Buenos Aires when he
was very young. He studied first with Crisanto Del Cioppo then later in
Naples, Italy at the Cons. San Pietro a Maiella with Paul Serrao
(counterpoint, composition) and Camilo De Nardis (harmony). He returned
to Buenos Aires (1887) where he performed and taught. He founded the
Cons. Beethoven (1900). He was the teacher of Argentine composer
Domingo Soderini.
Works: Suite, orch; Symphonic Poem, orch. Voc, vn, pn music.
Sources: DMEH

Scaramuzza, Vincenzo, Argentine pianist and composer of Italian origin;

b.19 June 1885, Crotone, Italy; d.24 Mar 1968, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Introduced to the piano by his father, Francesco, he started performing at
the age of 7. He attended the Acad. of Music of San Pietro a Maiella in
Naples and studied with Florestano Rossomandi, Alessandro Longo, and
Beniamino Cesi. He moved to Argentina (1907) where he taught at the
Santa Cecilia Acad. of Music in Buenos Aires before founding the
Scaramuzza Acad. of Music (1912). He performed in Argentina, Europe,
and North America.
Works: Pn music.
Sources: DMEH

Scheller Zembrano, María, Argentine composer; b.1917, Buenos Aires,

Argentina; d.1944, Buenos Aires. She graduated from the Cons. Nacional
de Música Carlos López Buchardo of Buenos Aires (1937) where she
studied with Rafael González, Ricardo Rodríguez, and José André.
Works: Str qt in F major (1936); Suite, pn (1937); Sonata in E flat, pn
(1938); Sonata, vn, pn (1939); Concerto in A minor, pn, orch (1939); 4
sonatas, pn.
Sources: EMA, IEW

Schemper, Raúl, Argentine composer; b.27 May 1921, Buenos Aires,

Argentina. He studied composition with Jacobo Ficher, piano with Oreste
Castronuovo, trumpet with Salomón Flechter, contemporary techniques of
composition with Eduardo Tejeda and electronic music with Francisco
Kröpfl.
Works: Suite, orch; Variaciones, orch; Elegía, tpt, hn, trb, timpani, str;
Variante, orch. Chamb, pn music.
Sources: DMEH, VMA

Schianca, Arturo C., Argentine pianist, musicologist, and composer; b.26

Dec 1889, Mercedes, Prov. of Buenos Aires, Argentina; d.?
Works: Dances and songs inspired by Argentine folklore.
Books: Historia de la Música Argentina, Buenos Aires, 1933.
Sources: DM, DMEH, MLA, MMLA

Schidlowsky Gaete, León, Chilean composer; b.21 Jul 1931, Santiago de

Chile, Chile. He studied philosophy and psychology at the Univ. of Chile
(1948-52) composition with Free Focke and harmony with Juan Allende
Blín at the Cons. Nacional de Música of Chile, both in Santiago de Chile. In
Germany he studied at the Detmold Music Acad. with Hanns Jelinek in
Barsbüttel (1952-55). When he returned to Chile (1955) he became a
member of the Agrupación Tonus. Music teacher at the Hebrew Inst. in
Santiago de Chile, 1955-61. Dir. of the Archivos Musicales del Inst. de
Extensión Musical of the Univ. of Chile, 1961-65, and later, Dir. of the Inst.
and a member of the Facultad del Cons. Nacional de Música, 1965-69. In
1969, he emigrated to Israel where he joined the faculty of the Rubin Acad.
in Tel Aviv.
Works: Die Menschen, opera (1970); Requiem, sop, chamb orch (1954);
Caupolicán, epic narrative, nar, ch, 2 pn, celesta, perc, orch (1958);
Tríptico, orch (1959); Oda a la tierra, 2 nar, orch (1958-60); La noche de
cristal, symphony, tnr, male ch, orch (1961); Erostrato, perc, orch (1963);
Invocación, sop, nar, perc, str orch (1964); Nueva York, orch (1965);
Jeremías, 8 mixed vocs, str orch (1966); Kadish, vc, orch (1967); Epitaph
for Hermann Scherchen, orch (1967); Babi Yar, str orch, pn, perc (1970);
Serenata, chamb orch (1970); Arcanas, orch (1971); Constellation II, str
orch (1971); Rabbi Akiba, scenic fantasy, nar, 3 soloists, children’s and
mixed ch, orch (1972); Amereida, nar, orch (1965-72); Prelude to a Drama,
orch (1976); Images, str orch (1976); Lux in tenebris, orch (1977); Tel Aviv,
orch (1978-83); Ballade, vn, orch (1986); Elegy, orch (1988); Laudatio,
orch (1988). Chamb, pn, voc music.
Bibl.: M.E. Grebe, León Schidlowsky, Síntesis de su Trayectoria Creativa,
Revista Musical Chilena, 1968. W. Elías, León Schidlowsky, Tel Aviv, 1978.
Sources: BB, CTA10, DCM, DMEH, HMC, GDM

Schifrin, Boris Claudio (Lalo), Argentine pianist, conductor, and

composer, presently residing in USA; b.21 Jun 1932, Buenos Aires,
Argentina. He studied music with his father then harmony with Juan Carlos
Paz. In 1950, he was awarded a scholarship to study at the Cons. de
Musique of Paris, France, where he took courses with Charles Koechlin and
Olivier Messiaen. He was interested in jazz, went to New York, NY, USA
(1958), and became a pianist with Dizzy Gillespie’s band. In 1964, he
settled in Hollywood where he composed music for several films.
Works: Suite, tpt, brass orch (1961); The Ritual of Sound, 15 inst ((1962);
Pulsations, electronic keyboard, jazz band, orch (1971); Madrigals for the
Space Age, nar, ch (1976); Capriccio, cl, str (1981); Gtr concerto (1984);
Songs of the Aztecs, soloist, orch (1988); 2 pn concertos. Film music.
Sources: BB20, DMEH

Schiuma, Alfredo Luis, Argentine composer, conductor, vnist of Italian

origin; b.25 Jun 1885, Spinazzola, Italy; d.24 Jul 1963, Buenos Aires,
Argentina. Son of Rafael Schiuma and brother of Armando Schiuma. He
settled in Argentina (1889). He studied violin with his father and David
Bolia, and composition with Luis Romaniello. First violin in the orch. of the
Teatro Colón of Buenos Aires. Founder of the chamb orch. of the
Asociación Argentina de Música de Cámara of Buenos Aires.
Works: Biancafiore, opera (1913); Amy Robsart, opera (1920); Litigio de
amor, opera (1922); La sirocchia, opera (1922); Tabaré, opera (1925); Las
vírgenes del sol, opera (1939). La Pampa, symph poem (1920); La Vida de
un hombre, symph poem (1922); Chacayaleras, symph suite (1927); 4
symphonies (1928-57); Pitunga, symph poem (1929); Los incas, symph
poem (1930); La infanta, ballet (1941). Ch, voc, chamb music.
Sources: BB, CA, DM, DMEH, EMA, MLA, MMLA

Schiuma, Armando, Argentine conductor and composer of Italian origin;

b.23 Feb 1891, Spinazzola, Italy; d.1955, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Son of
Rafael Schium, brother of Alfredo Luis Schiuma, he studied in Buenos
Aires with Luis Romaniello, Ernesto Drangosch, and Eduardo Fornarini.
Assistant conductor at the Teatro Colón of Buenos Aires. Teacher in various
schools.
Works: Overture, orch; Música de escena, orch; Passacaglia, orch;
Impresiones de mi tierra, orch; Str qt; Sextet, pn, str. Chamb music;
children’s songs.
Sources: DM, DMEH, EMA

Schiuma, Rafael, Argentine music teacher and composer; b.1844,

Spinazzola, Italy; d.1940, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Father of Alfredo Luis
and Armando Schiuma. He settled in Argentina in 1889.
Works: Salon music; hymns for Garibaldi and Humberto I.
Sources: DMEH, EMA

Schleder, Grizelda Lazzaro, Brazilian composer, choral conductor,

teacher, writer; b.1889, São Paulo; d.? She studied piano and harmony at
the National School of Music in Rio de Janeiro, performed and conducted
orchestras and choirs including the First Brazilian choir.
Works: E o teu amor, operetta; theater music.
Sources: IEW

Schmilovich, Sergio Daniel, Argentine composer; b.28 Nov 1959, Buenos

Aires, Argentina. He received a degree in flute (1982) from the Cons.
Nacional de Música Carlos López Buchardo. At the Univ. of Tel Aviv,
Israel, he studied flute with Alfredo Montanaro and Oscar Piluso, electronic
media with Itzhak Sadai, composition with Francisco Fröpfl, León
Schidlowsky, and Ami Ma’ayani, completing degrees in composition (1989,
1992). He then worked in the electronic studies department of the Univ.
(1988-93). He participated in international festivals including in Dusseldorf,
Germany (1989), Bourges, France (1989-90), and Madrid (1992). In Israel
he won awards from the Univ. of Tel Aviv (1990) and the League of Israeli
Composers (1993). After returning to Buenos Aires he received awards
from the Consejo Argentino de la Música (1994, 1995).
Works: Música para orch de cuerdo, str orch (1987); Cuarteto de cuerdas,
str qt (1989); Momentum, fl, gtr (1991); Eclesiastés, sop (1992); Si muero
(text: Federico García Lorca), sop, fl, str orch (1993); Neurosis n°6, str orch
(1993); Dúo, fl, cl (1993); Movimientos circulares, vibraphone (1993); La
confesión, electroacoustic (1994); Constelaciones, harp, fl (1994); Sueños,
electroacoustic (1994); Prisma, fl, ob, cl, 2 vn, va, vc (1994-95).
Sources: DMEH
Schnorrenberg, Roberto, Brazilian conductor, teacher, and composer; b.23
Jul 1929, São Paulo, Brazil; d. 12 Oct 1983, São Paulo. He studied violin
with Zacarías Autuori and composition and conducting with Hans Joachim
Koellreutter and Ernst Krenek (1936-53). In 1954 and 1955, he continued
his studies at the Mozarteum of Salzburg, Austria, with Gerhard Wimberger
and Igor Markevitch. He studied in Detmold, Germany, with Wolfgang
Fortner. He was principal conductor of the chamb orch. Música Viva of
Brussels, Belgium (1955-57). He returned to Brazil (1957) and became
active as a conductor of several Brazilian orchestras. Dir. of the Collegium
Musicum of São Paulo (1965-83). Prof. at the Inst. Musical and Dir. of the
Escola Superior de Música, both in São Paulo. President of the Sociedade
Brasileira de Música.
Works: Sonata, pn (1954); Symphony, large orch (1957); Cinco ensaios,
orch (1962).
Sources: EMB2

Schreiber Rosenthal, Jacky, Venezuelan composer, guitarist; b.26 Jan

1951, Caracas, Venezuela. He studied guitar with Antonio Ochoa and
electroacoustic composition with Eduardo Kusnir at the Cons. Juan José
Landaeta of Caracas.
Works: Preguntas a mi mismo y a alguien más, electroacoustic sounds on a
magnetic tape (1985); El ojo del Golem, orch (1985-86); La paz de los
mundos, electroacoustic sounds on magnetic tape (1986); Adagio, str orch
(1986); Cuando lleguen los bomberos…todo habrá pasado, fl, bar sax,
electroacoustic sounds on magnetic tape (1988); La meditación del loro
moro, chamb orch (1991); Animalia, orch (1990-91). Incidental, stage, solo
instr, chamb, ch, pn music.
Sources: DMEH, ISC

Schulkin, Claudio Bernardo, Argentine composer and pianist; b.8 Mar

1953, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He graduated from the Univ. Católica
Argentina of Buenos Aires, where he studied with Roberto Caamaño and
Gerardo Gandini. He studied piano with Alfredo Rodríguez Mendoza and
Galia Schalman in Argentina, and with Sonia Valin in Israel. With other
composers he founded the Grupo de Creación Musical for the diffusion of
20th century music. He was a member of the Grupo de Experimentación e
Improvisación Musical del Centro Recoleta of Buenos Aires (1985-87).
Prof. at the Cons. of Morón, Prov. of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and at the
Cons. Nacional de Música Carlos López Buchardo of Buenos Aires.
Works: Fantasia, pn (1982); Tres valses imaginarios (1983); Cuatro
esbozos para una despedida (1984); Pn concerto; Str qt; El cantar de los
cantares, soloists, ch, orch (1995).
Sources: DMM

Schutmaat, James, Colombian composer and conductor; b.1946, Medellín,

Colombia. He began his musical training with his parents then entered the
Escuela de Bellas Artes de Barranquilla, to study violin with Teófilo Tipón
and Luis Biava. At the Cons. Juan José Landaeta and the Cons. Italiano
Alberto Falmini he studied violin with Sidney Harth, chamber music with
Melhi Mehta. He represented Venezuela at the Festival Roy Harris of
Puerto Rico (1962) then performed in Venezuela, the United States, and
Colombia. He received a degree in architecture from the Univ. of Michigan
(1969). He conducted the orch. de Cámara de Caracas (1984-87).
Works: sacred, chamb music
Sources: DMEH

Schwartz, Francis, Puerto Rican composer of American origin; b.10 Mar

1940, Altoona, Pennsylvania, USA. He settled in Puerto Rico (1965). He
studied piano in Texas with Patricio Gutiérrez, then entered The Juilliard
School of Music in New York City, NY, USA, where he studied with Lonny
Epstein, Vittorio Giannini, and Louis Persinger. He received Bachelor’s and
Master’s degrees from The Juilliard School of Music, and a Ph.D. in music
aesthetics from the Univ. of Paris, France, under the supervision of Daniel
Charles. Prof. and later also chairman (1971-80) of the Dept. de Música at
the Univ. of Puerto Rico. Visiting Prof. at the Univ. of Paris (1977-79) then
Dir. of Asuntos Culturales at the Univ. of Puerto Rico (1981-86). He
established the first Laboratorio de Música Electrónica and a Laboratorio de
Nueva Música in the Caribbean. Music critic for the newspaper, San Juan
Star, of Puerto Rico.
Works: Auschwitz, tape, aromas, lights, corporal movements (1968);
Homenaje a una obscenidad, free ens (1970); El zoológico de cristal,
incidental music (1970); Las bacantes, incidental music (1970); Plegaria,
voc, orch (1973); Suicida y requiescit, sop, instr, tape (1973); GEO-FLUX,
electric ballet, tape (1974); Yo protesto, orch, tape (1974); Caníbal-Calibán,
voc, free ens (1975); The Tropical Trek of Tristán Trimble, orch (1975);
Time, Sound, and the Hooded Man, actors, tape, video (1975); Is There Sex
in Heaven?, chamb opera (1976); Hommage a K…, musical theater (1978);
Amistad III, gtr, orch (1979); Mon oeuf, polyartistic work, tape, video,
aromas, sculpture (1979); L’oncle de Baudelaire, inst theater (1980); Un
sourire festif, inst theater (1981); Gestos, orch (1983); Grimaces, voc, insts
(1983); The Night of the Fiery Angels, insts, participating audience (1987);
El sueño de Bolívar, sop, cl, vn, pn (1988); DALI and GALA, chamb opera
(2004); Antigone’s Dream, fl, orch; Cooking at the Crossroads with Pauline
& John (2012). Chamb, solo instr, electronic, voc music.
Sources: CPR, DMEH, ISC

Sciammarella, Senivaldo Ricardo, Argentine choral conductor, teacher,

and composer; b.20 Jan 1924, Buenos Aires, Argentina; d.8 Sep 2014,
Argentina. He graduated from the Cons. Nacional de Música Carlos López
Buchardo of Buenos Aires. He also studied piano with Vicente Scaramuzza
and Antonio De Ra-co, and composition with Julián Bautista. Later, he
studied in Italy with Goffredo Petrassi and Luigi Dallapiccola. From 1958
to 1969, he was associated with the Teatro Colón of Buenos Aires first, as
an assistant conductor, and later, as Dir. of the children’s chorus, associate
Dir. of the permanent adult chorus. Prof. at the Cons. Nacional de Música
Carlos López Buchardo, the Cons. Superior de Música Manuel de Falla, the
Univ. Católica Argentina, all of Buenos Aires, and the Escuela de Bellas
Artes of the Univ. of La Plata, Prov. of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Founding
Dir. of the choir, Los Pequeños Virtuosos, of the Mozarteum Argentino of
Buenos Aires.
Works: Homenaje a Falla, orch (1952); Variaciones concertantes, pn, orch
(1952); Díptico, orch (1953); Canzona, sop, orch (1954); Rondas, orch
(1955); Cantata para la fundación de Buenos Aires, bs, ch, brass orch, perc
(1956); Marianita Limeña, lyric comedy (1957); Salmo I, soloists, orch
(1958); Recordad el amor, ballet (1962); Galería humana, ballet (1962);
Credo, ballet (1964). Chamb, pn, voc music.
Sources: BB, CA, CTA12, DMEH, DMM, EMA

Scliar Cabral, Esther, Brazilian composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher;

b.28 Sep 1926, Pôrto Alegre, Brazil; d.18 Mar 1978, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
She studied piano in Pôrto Alegre with Judite Pacheco and Demófilo
Xavier. In 1948, she studied with Hans Joachim Koellreutter in Rio de
Janeiro. Also in 1948, she went to Venice, Italy, to study conducting with
Hermann Scherchen. In 1949, she returned to Rio de Janeiro, and studied
composition with Claudio Santoro and Edino Krieger. She formed the
chorus of the Associação Juvenil Musical in 1952, and from 1962 to 1975,
she taught music analysis and music form at the Inst. Villa-Lobos and the
Escola de Música Pró Arte, both of Rio de Janeiro.
Works: Sonata, pn (1961); O auto da barca do inferno, prelude, orch
(1962); Sonata, fl, pn (1962); Desenho leve, ch (1962); O menino ruivo, ch
(1962); Str qt (1963); Canto menor com final heróico, ch (1964); A busca
da identidade entre o homen e o río, ch (1971); Entre o ser e as coisas, voc,
pn (1973).
Books: Fraseología Musical, Pôrto Alegre, 1882; Elementos de Teoría
Musical, São Paulo, 1985-87.
Sources: EMB, EMB2, HMB, NGDWC, NWC

Sebastiani, Pía, Argentine pianist and composer; b.27 Feb 1925, Buenos
Aires, Argentina. She studied piano with Jorge de Lalewicz and
composition with Gilardo Gilardi. In 1947, she received a scholarship from
the French government to further her studies with Darius Milhaud and
Olivier Messiaen in Paris, France, and in Boston, MA, USA. Member of the
Seminario de Jóvenes Músicos Argentinos and of the Liga de Compositores
de la Argentina.
Works: Concerto, pn, orch (1941); Coral, fuga, y final, orch (1945);
Estampas, orch (1946); Sonatina, 2 vn (1948); Cuatro preludios, pn (1944-
47); Canción de cuna para Bibí, pn (1947). Songs.
Sources: CA, DM, DMEH, EMA, IEW

Segnini Sequera, Rodrigo, Venezuelan composer and music critic; b.1968,

Caracas, Venezuela. In Caracas, he studied at the Escuela de Computación
of the Facultad de Ciencias, at the Escuela de Artes of the Facultad de
Humanidades y Educación, at the Escuela de Música Lino Gallardo, and at
the Cons. Nacional Juan José Landaeta. He also studied with Carlos
Fariñas, Orlando Jacinto García, and Helmut Rilling. He studied electronic
music, music technology, piano at the Univ. Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona,
Spain, computer music at Stanford Univ., and composition at the Tokyo
National Univ. of Fine Arts and Music. He taught at the Fundación Musical
Yamaha, at the Cons. Nacional de Música, and at the Facultad de
Humanidades, all in Caracas. He worked on Dr. Shinsuke Shimojo’s
Implicit Brain Project in Tokyo.
Works: Madriz, for magnetic tape (1995). Symph, chamb, electroacoustic,
incidental music for dance, theater, films, and television.
Sources: CDMC

Seiji Asato, Pedro, Peruvian composer; b.11 Jul 1940, Lima, Peru. He
began music studies at the Cons. Nacional de Música and continued in
composition (1963) with Enrique Iturriaga, then with Edgar Valcárcel until
1975. He studied harmony and orchestration with Joseph Malsio and Celso
Garrido-Lecca. With a grant from the Univ. Nacional Autonoma he
attended the First Seminar of Electronic Music held in Mexico City (Feb
1974). He taught music history, harmony, counterpoint, fugue, analysis,
form, styles, composition, literature, orchestration (1976-91).
Works: Siete piezas infantiles para pn (1965); Quasar III, magnetic tape,
pn, perc (1972); Quasar IV, 2 pn, cb (1973); Escatología, ch, women
soloists, 5 inst (1974); Ultrafanía, orch (1975); Teofanía, mixed ch a
cappella (1976); Preludio y Ricercar, orch (1979); Canzona, Fantasía sobre
un tema de Palestrina, 4 fl, 4 hn, double ch (1980); Detenimientos (text by
Javier Sologuren), tn, str qt (1980); Suite sinfónica “Martínez de
Compañón,” orch (1983); Proteo, transformaciones de un tema de
Iturriaga, wind instr, perc (1989); Pange lingua, mixed ch a cappella
(1991).
Sources: NMLA, CW

Senanes, Gabriel, Argentine conductor, composer, physician, and

journalist; b.16 Apr 1956, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He graduated as a
physician from the Facultad de Medicina of the Univ. of Buenos Aires
(1979). He studied music at the Cons. Superior de Música Manuel de Falla
and Cons. Nacional de Música Carlos López Buchardo, both in Buenos
Aires, with Juan Francisco Giacobbe, Mariano Drago, and Simon Blech. He
conducted orchestra in Argentina.
Works: Ring Side, opera (1995); Hércules en la perfumería, orch (1995);
Proa al este, orch; Tres retratos entrañables, orch; Suite antipopular, orch;
Concierto en Canto negroriano, vn; Four Fatos for Fats, tpt; Oboide, ob;
Suite a cuerda, str; Campechana, str; Bandada, symph band; Bandida,
symph band. Chamb, incidental, film music.
Sources: DMEH, ISC

Sepe, João, Brazilian composer, conductor, and teacher; b.21 Apr 1889,
Tatuí, State of São Paulo, Brazil; d.27 Aug 1961, São Paulo, Brazil. He
studied music theory with Filipe Stella and band insts with Antônio Mugnai
in São Carlos, São Paulo. In 1918, he studied composition with Savino de
Benedictis and Agostino Cantú at the Cons. Dramático e Musical of São
Paulo, where he later taught harmony and counterpoint.
Works: Hino de setembro, orch (1912); Hino Brasil Unido, orch (1934);
Independência ou morte (1934); Hino Brasil Atlético (1953); Voz do oeste,
suite. Carnaval carioca, fantasia, 12 pn, celesta, voc; Cascata, preludio e
elegía, pn (1935).Pn, voc music.
Books: Tratado de Harmonía, São Paulo, 1948; Tratado de Contraponto e
Fuga, São Paulo, 1960.
Sources: EMB2, MMLA

Sepúlveda, Maira María Luisa, Chilean composer, pianist, and teacher;

b.14 Aug 1898, MMLA (1896, NGDWC), Chillán, Chile; d.5 Apr 1959,
HMC (1958, NGDWC), Santiago de Chile, Chile. She studied with Luigi
Giarda and Domingo Brescia at the Cons. Nacional de Música of Santiago
de Chile. First woman composer to graduate in Chile, she was a pioneer in
the compilation and research of Chilean folk music. Prof. at the Cons.
Nacional de Música and the Escuela de Cultura Artística, both of Santiago
de Chile.
Works: Estudio sinfónico, orch (1932); Greca, orch (1932); Canción de las
Corhuillas, orch (1940); Trutruka, orch (1940); Suite, pn, chamb orch
(1940); Cancionero chileno, 16 Chilean songs, voc, pn. Voc, pn, gtr music.
Sources: DMEH, HMC, MMLA, NGDWC

Serebrier, José, Uruguayan conductor and composer; b.3 Dec 1938,

Montevideo, Uruguay. He studied violin with Juan Fabbri and Miguel
Pritsch, composition with Vicente Ascone at the Escuela Municipal de
Música of Montevideo, then piano with Sarah Bourdillon and counterpoint,
fugue, composition, and conducting with Guido Santórsola. He also took
lessons in composition with Carlos Estrada. He went to the USA and
studied composition with Vittorio Giannini at the Curtis Inst. of
Philadelphia, PA (1950), conducting with Antal Dorati in Minneapolis, MN.
He also studied with Pierre Monteaux in Maine. Composer-in-residence
with the Cleveland Symph. Orch., Cleveland, OH, USA (1968-70) and
conductor of the Cleveland Phil., 1968-71.
Works: qt, sax (1955); Pequeña música, wind qnt (1955); Symphony No.1
(1956); Momento psicológico, str orch (1957); Suite canina, wind trio
(1957); Symphony, perc (1960); The Star Wagon, chamb orch (1967);
Nueve, cb, orch (1970); Colores mágicos, variations, harp, chamb orch,
“Synchrona” images (1971); Nueveritual, nar, ch, cb, orch, lights (1971).
Chamb, ch, band, voc music.
Sources: BB, BHMCU, DCM, DMEH, GDM, MU

Serendero Proust, David, Chilean composer, conductor, musicologist,

violinist; b.28 Jul 1934, Santiago de Chile, Chile. He studied violin,
composition at the Cons. Nacional de Música in Santiago de Chile, with
Juan Orrego Salas, Alfonso Letelier, and Gustavo Becerra. He studied
conducting in Stuttgart, Germany. Conductor of the Symphony Orch. of
Chile in Santiago de Chile (1967-72), he moved to Germany (1972) to
conduct in Wiesbaden.
Works: Str trio (1952); Dúo heterogéneo, fl, cl (1953); Suite barroca, vn,
pn (1956); Interludio, orch (1959); La leyenda de la creación, cantata
(1959); El ensayo, melodrama, sop, 14 inst (1962); A la nueva Eva,
magnificat, voc, orch (1963-64); Estratos, orch (1969).
Sources: BB, CTA15, DMEH, HMC

Seroussi, Edwin, Uruguayan musicologist, teacher, and composer; b.26

Dec 1952, Montevideo, Uruguay. He studied in the Cons. de Montevideo
(1961-69), violin privately with Miguel Szylagy (1961-71), and
composition with Héctor Tosar (1970-71). He moved to Israel (1971),
studied musicology at The Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem and composition
with André Hajdu (1978-80). He received a doctorate from the Univ. of
California, Los Angeles (1981-84), where he researched theory in
methodology of ethnomusicology especially in the historical development
of Jewish music and its oral and written traditions. Executive coordinator
for the Latin American section of the Sephardic Educational Center of
Buenos Aires.
Works: Five Sephardi Wedding Songs from Bulgaria, voc, pn (1980); Bitain
Hamdan, fl (1980); Three Sephardi Love Songs from Salonika, voc, 2 fls,
(1981); Five Sephardi Wedding Songs from Bulgaria, orch (1988);
Rapsodia tetuani, vn, pn (1990).
Sources: DMEH

Serpentini, Juan, Argentine organist and composer of Italian origin;

b.1864, Recanati, Italy; d.1937, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied in
Recanati with José Guardabassi, Tabellini, and Carlo Pedrotti. He settled in
Argentina (1886) and studied counterpoint and composition with Juan
Bautista Montano in La Plata, Prov. of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Dir. of
music education in the La Plata school system. Prof. at the Escuela Normal
de Profesores Mariano Acosta in Buenos Aires. Organist at the Church San
Ponciano of Buenos Aires.
Works: Dos preludios, orch; La platense, orch; Caridad, cantata, soloists,
ch, orch.
Sources: DM, DMEH

Serra, Luis María, Argentine composer, lecturer, conductor; b.18 Apr

1942, Lanús, Prov. of Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied privately with
Roberto Locatelli and Lita Spena, and at the Univ. Católica Argentina of
Buenos Aires, Argentina with Alberto Ginastera, Roberto Caamaño,
Gerardo Gandini, and Francisco Kröpfl. With a scholarship from the Centro
Latinoamericano de Estudios Musicales of the Inst. Di Tella of Buenos
Aires (1967-68) he studied with Cristóbal Halffter, Francisco Kröpfl, Luigi
Nono, and Vladimir Ussachevsky then with a scholarship from the French
government, he studied with Pierre Schaeffer, François Bayle, and Guy
Reibel in Paris, France.
Works: Las invasiones inglesas (1988); Las dulces niñas (1990); Ana y
Haroldo (1991). Tres piezas, pn (1964); Vitraux I, pn, perc (1965); Ave
Maria, mixed ch (1965); Adagio, str (1965); Elegía y toccata, orch (1965);
Tres poemas, mez sop, fl, vn, va, harp, perc (1966); Nocturno, mez sop, ens
(1967); Trígono, 2 fls, harpsichord (1967); Inocentes, mixed ch (1968);
Momento, str qt (1968); Cantata, soloists, ch, orch (1968); Tenebrae factae
sunt, magnetic tape (1968). Electroacoustic, ch, incidental, film music.
Sources: DMEH, DMM, EMA
Serrallach, Lorenzo, Argentine composer; b.18 Jul 1893, Córdoba, Prov.
of Córdoba, Argentina; d.? He studied violin with A. Ruta, pn with A.
Vasconsellos, harmony, counterpoint, and fugue with Toro Chacón and
Goula. He continued his studies in Spain with Sánchez. Prof. at the Cons.
Municipal de Música Manuel de Falla and teacher at the Escuela de Opera
of the Teatro Colón, both of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Works: Chamb music; Pn music; ch; songs.
Books: Pedagogía Musical; Método de Lectura Musical en Clave de Fa en
Cuarta Línea, Buenos Aires, 1939; Nueva Pedagogía Musical, Buenos
Aires, 1943.
Sources: DM

Serrano Redonnet, Ana, Argentine guitarist, conductor, music critic, and

composer; b.30 Dec 1914, Buenos Aires, Argentina; 5 Jul 1993, Buenos
Aires. She studied guitar with Antonio Sinópoli and composition with
Gilardo Gilardi and Jaime Pahissa. She researched sources of Argentine
popular song. Music critic for the newspaper, Tribuna, of Buenos Aires and
musical advisor at the Dept. de Asuntos Culturales of the Ministerio de
Relaciones Exteriores.
Works: El niño alcalde (1943); La Chaya (1944); Tierra (1945); Vidala
(1946); Indianas, sop, fl, Indian drum; Quebradeñas, voc, fl, ob, cl, bsn, gtr,
Indian drum; La soledad, poem, voc, ch, chamb orch; Canción del Guagua
(1936); Seis aires argentinos (1939); Coplas tuyas (1941); Escenas de
Navidad norteña (1946); Rapsodia del Paraná. Gtr, voc music.
Sources: DM, DMEH, DMM, EMA

Setti de Castro Lima, Kilza, Brazilian ethnomusicologist, composer, and

pianist; b.26 Jan 1932, São Paulo, Brazil. She graduated from the Cons.
Dramático e Musical of São Paulo (1953) where she studied composition
with Camargo Guarnieri then went to Buenos Aires, Argentina, to study
with Alberto Ginastera at the Inst. Torcuato Di Tella. Later, in Lisbon,
Portugal, she investigated Portuguese folklore under the supervision of
Michel Giacometti and Fernando Lopes-Graça. Devoted to researching
Brazilian folklore, she became a founding member of the Associação
Brasileira de Folklore and Comissão Paulista de Folklore (1977) while
teaching at the Escola de Música Santa Marcelina in São Paulo. Member of
the Sociedade Brasileira de Música Contemporânea and ANPPOM.
Works: Obialá Korô and Iemanjá Otô, ch a cappella (1958); Balada do reis
das sereias, cantata; Lenda do céu, cantata; Folgança, suite, chamb orch;
Suite, fl, cl, str; Trova de muito amor, voc; Cantorias paulistas, voc; Oito
Variaçôes on a Popular Theme, pn (1972); Dois momentos I, recorder
(1972); Dois momentos II, recorder (1975).
Sources: EMB, EMB2, NGDWC, NWC

Sibrián, Gonzalo, Salvadoran composer; b.14 Nov 1887, Olocuilta, El

Salvador; d.21 Jan 1988, Olocuilta, El Salvador. A student of Juan Aberle,
at the age of 14 he worked as a choral conductor. He was copyist at the
orch. Symph. de los Supremos Poderes for 12 years, taught music education
for more than 40 years. In 1951 he founded the Coro Nacional de El
Salvador.
Works: Misa a la Virgen de las Vistorias; sacred music.
Sources: DMEH

Sicardó Iser, Ramona, Puerto Rican pianist, educator, and composer;

b.1878, San Juan, Puerto Rico; d.1945, Havana. She began studying music
with her father then moved to Havana with her husband to study with
Hubert de Blanck (1893). She also studied piano with Ignacio Cervantes
and performed with him several times. In 1900 she studied at the Cons. de
Madrid, then with Granados and Pedrell (Spain), Arín (Brussels), and
Marmontel (Paris). She returned to Cuba in 1914 and taught at the Hubert
de Blanck y Falcón Cons. until 1917, when she founded the Cons. Sicardó.
She also wrote essays on theory and harmony.
Works: Pn music.
Sources: DMEH

Siccardi, Honorio, Argentine composer and teacher; b.13 Sep 1897,

Buenos Aires, Argentina; d.10 Sep 1963, Dolores, Prov. of Buenos Aires,
Argentina. He studied with Felipe Boero, Pablo Berutti, Ernesto Drangosch,
and Gilardo Gilardi. In Italy, he studied at the Cons. of Parma with Gian
Francesco Malipiero. Member of the Grupo Renovación of Buenos Aires.
He settled in the town of Dolores where he founded a musical cons.
Works: Buenos Aires, ballet (1935); Títeres, ballet (1936); Flechas y
arcabuces, opera (1940); Variaciones sobre un tema de Haendel, orch
(1921); Dos poemas sobre Martín Fierro, orch (1925); Pasa la tropa, orch
(1926); Crescendo, orch (1926); Gandhi, symph poem (1936); Vn concerto
(1939); Symphony (1950); Pn concerto (1951). Tres cantatas, on
Prometheus by Aeschilus (1923); Odas seculares, cantata (1948); Las nueve
musas, cantata (1952). Chamb, ch, pn, voc music.
Sources: CA, CTA2, DM, DMEH, DMM, EMA, MLA

Siciliani, José, Argentine pianist, choral conductor, and composer; b.20

Apr 1910, Buenos Aires, Argentina; d.1995. He studied with Athos Palma,
José Gil, Arturo Luzzati, and Constantino Gaito at the Cons. Nacional de
Música Carlos López Buchardo of Buenos Aires. Music teacher at
elementary and high schools and at the Cons. Nacional de Música Carlos
López Buchardo. President of the cultural association, El Unísono.
Works: Tres series argentinas, orch; Atardecer, symph poem; Tres
preludios sinfónicos, orch; Sonata, pn; Sonatina, pn; Doce preludios, pn;
Sonata, vn, pn; Trio, pn, vn, vc; Str qt. Ch, voc music.
Sources: CA, ISC

Sicouret Destruge, Angelina, Cuban pianist, teacher, and composer;

b.1880, Cuba; d? Her parents were Venezuelan. She studied music with her
mother then with Fornells, Fernando Aritzi, Ruiz Espadero, and Ignacio
Cervantes. She gave her first public performance at the Sociedad de
Conciertos de La Habana. A piano virtuoso, she taught at schools then at
the Cons. she founded and directed.
Works: Pn music.
Sources: DMEH

Sierra, Manuel, Spanish organist, composer, and conductor; b.?, Lerín,

Navarra, Spain; d.1943, Trujillo, Peru. He studied at the Inst. de Misioneros
Hijos del Inmaculado Corazón de María, harmony (1917) with Manuel
Burgés. An organist and choral conductor, he collaborated with Father José
González on the 3rd edition of Repertorio de música sagrada and became
Dir. of Tesoro Musical in 1917.
Works: El medico de Lerín, voc, pn. Sacred music.
Sources: DMEH

Sierra, Roberto, Puerto Rican composer; b.9 Oct 1953, Vega Baja, Puerto
Rico. He studied at the Cons. of Music and the Univ. of Puerto Rico. After
graduation he continued his musical education at the Royal College of
Music and the Univ. of London, England (1976-78) then at the Inst. of
Sonology in Utrecht, Netherlands (1978). He took advanced studies in
composition at the Hochschule für Musik in Hamburg, Germany, under
György Ligeti (1979-82). He returned to Puerto Rico (1982) to work in arts
administration and higher education at the Univ. of Puerto Rico, and later as
chancellor of the Cons. of Music of Puerto Rico. He moved to the USA and
became composer-in-residence of the Milwaukee Symphony Orch.,
Milwaukee, WI. (1989).
Works: Polarizaciones, 2 orch groups (1979); El mensajero de plata, opera
(1985); Júbilo, orch (1985); Cuatro ensayos orqesales, orch (1986); El
contemplado, ballet (1987); Glosas, pn, orch (1987); Descarga, orch
(1988); Concierto nocturnal, harpsichord, chamb ens; Preámbulo, orch;
SASIMA, orch; Concierto evocativo, hn, str orch. Chamb, solo instr, pn, voc
music.
Sources: DMEH, CPR, ISC

Sierra, Tonatiuh de la, Mexican composer, pianist and educator; b.1 Dec
1955, Mexico City, Mexico. He began his music studies with his mother
then continued with Alicia Muñiz, Francisco Núñuez, Héctor Quintanar,
Carlos Chavez, Rodolfo Halffter, and Humberto Hernández Medrano. He
taught at the Escuela Superior de Música at INBA and at the Cons. del
Estado del Mexico.
Works: Escape, pn (1972); Trío a Carlos Chavez, cl, trumpet, pn (1978);
Coral y fuga, ch (1979); Trío no.3, fl, vc, pn (1993); Continuo, pn (1994);
Cinco canciones, sop, pn (1995); Sonata, 2 pn (1995).
Sources: DMEH

Sigal Sefchovich, Jorge Rodrigo, Mexican composer; b.1 Oct 1971,

Mexico City, Mexico. He studied piano, music theory, and harmony with
María Antonieta Lozano, and composition with Juan Trigos and Franco
Donatoni at the Escuela Nacional de Música of Mexico City. He also
studied contemporary composition with Maurizio Barbetti, and computer
music with Stefano Scarani. He received a Licentiate degree in composition
from CIEM under Alejandro Velasco, and was a member of the Taller de
Composición of Mario Lavista. He earned a Ph.D. in electroacoustic
composition at the City Univ. of London, England, directed the Computer
Music Lab at CIEM (1994-98), and became a board member of the Latin-
American Sonic Arts Network in 2004.
Works: Murmullo, str qt (1996); Altai, str qt (1996); El firmamento I, pn,
electromagnetic tape (1997); El firmamento II, fl, cl, electromagnetic tape
(1997); Vueltas al sol, str qt (1997); Acacia, cl qt (1997); Babel, fl,
electromagnetic tape, electronics (1997); Lagarto, ens, electromagnetic tape
(1998); Dolor en Mi, gtr, electromagnetic tape, electronics (1998); Fe, pn,
electromagnetic tape (1998).
Sources: ISC

Silfa, Ana Margarita, Dominican composer and pianist; b.7 Aug 1949,
Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic. She began studying music at the age of
8 at the Cons. de Santo Domingo with Ramón Díaz, graduating in 1978.
She studied composition with Manuel Simó and received a degree in
composition (1980). She also studied music education at the Inst.
Interamericano of the Univ. de Santiago de Chile (1975). Her music
contains traditional harmony and dodecaphonism and has been performed
in the Dominican Republic, Colombia, Venezuela, Guatemala, Panama, and
the United States.
Works: Canon, cl, bsn, (1976); Aspectos, orch (1980); Campanas de la
tarde, 4 voc (1980); Sorpresa no.1, pn (1980); Nocturno, pn (1981); Te traje
una flor, perc qt (1984); Preludio y toccata para pequeña orch, orch (1991).
Sources: DMEH

Siliézar Ramos, Felipe B., Guatemalan composer; b.1 May 1903,

Guatemala City, Guatemala; 12 Jun 1982. He studied in Guatemala City
and in New York, NY, USA, where he resided for five years. Conductor of
bands in Guatemala.
Works: Doña Beatriz la sinventura, opera; Hechicería maya, orch.
Sources: DM, DMEH, HMG, MLA

Silva [Santisteban], Alfonso de, Peruvian composer; b.22 Dec 1903,

Callao, Peru; d.7 May 1937, Lima, Peru. He studied at the Acad. de Música
of Lima with Federico Gerdes, completing his training at the Cons. of
Madrid, Spain, with Conrado del Campo.
Works: Instantes (Extasis, Jardines antiguos, Elegía ingenua, Vísperas y
Consolación), symph suite; Cuento de hadas, symph sketch, orch; Canción
amarilla, orch Chamb music, pn, ch, voc music.
Sources: ADBM, DM, DMEH, GMP, MMLA

Silva, Alipio César Pinto da, Brazilian composer, flutist, conductor, and
teacher; b.14 May 1871, Cametá, Pará, Brazil; d.25 May 1925, Belém, Pará.
He studied piano with María Dolores de Morais in Cametá, flute in Belém.
Later, in 1892, with several scholarships, he went to study at the Reale
Cons. in Milan, Italy. Founder of the Centro Musical Paraense of Pará.
Founder and Dir. of the Cons. Paraense Alípio César.
Works: Notte bizarra, opera (1917); A estrela de Natal, pastoral drama
(1917); Celestial prodígio, pastoral drama (1919); Redenção, pastoral
drama (1921); Dia de Natal, pastoral drama (1922); Brasiléia, march;
Fantasia in B flat major; Fata del mare, symph poem; Prelude in D major;
Symphony in A major. Chamb music.
Sources: EMB2, MMLA

Silva, Antonio Jesús, Venezuelan composer; b.13 Jun 1833, Caracas,

Venezuela; d.? Prof. of music theory and solfeggio at the Inst. Nacional de
Bellas Artes of Caracas. Choirmaster at the church Nuestra Señora de
Altagracia. Founding member of the Acad. de Música of Caracas.
Works: Misa de Requiem; Stabat Mater; Motete a la Virgen; Motete al
Santísimo Sacramento; La esperanza, symph overture; La regeneración,
patriotic hymn.
Books: Tratado Teórico Musical.
Sources: DMEH, EMV, MMLA

Silva, Cayetano Alberto, Argentine composer of Uruguayan origin; b.7

Aug 1868, San Carlos, Dept. of Maldonado, Uruguay; d.12 Jan 1920,
Rosario, Prov. of Santa Fe, Argentina. He studied solfeggio, violin, trumpet,
horn at the Escuela de Artes y Oficios with Estanislao Grasso and started
his music career by playing trumpet in the band of his native town. After
settling in Argentina, he founded the Banda del Cuerpo de Bomberos of
Mendoza, Prov. of Mendoza. In Rosario, he founded the Band of Rosario
and a cons. where he taught until his death.
Works: Two military marches adopted by the Argentine Army: San Lorenzo
(1902) and Curupaytí (1905). La aurora de la vida, hymn, soloists, ch, orch
(1887); incidental music for the play Canillita by Florencio Sánchez.
Sources: BHMCU, DMEH, EMA

Silva, Eloísa María Dolores Juana de la Santísima Trinidad d’Herbil

de, Argentine composer of Spanish origin; b.22 Jan 1842, Cadiz, Spain;
d.22 Jun 1944/1943, Buenos Aires, Argentina. She studied piano with Louis
Moreau Gottschalk in Cuba. She settled in Argentina in 1870. Active as a
pianist in Europe and in Argentina.
Works: Minuet con variaciones, pn; Scherzo, pn; Saltarello, pn; A orillas
del mar, waltz; Remember; La caridad; Serenata. Voc music.
Sources: EMA, IEW

Silva, Francisco Manuel da, Brazilian music teacher, choral conductor,

cellist, and composer; b.21 Feb 1795, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; d.18 Dec
1865, Rio de Janeiro. He studied with Marcos Portugal, José Mauricio
Nunes García, and Segismundo Neukomm. He founded the Sociedade
Beneficência Musical (1833) and the Cons. de Música of Rio de Janeiro
(1847). He participated in the creation of the Acad. Imperial de Música and
the Opera Nacional (1857) in Rio de Janeiro.
Works: Hino ao 7 de Abril, Brazilian National Anthem (1831); Hino ã
coroaçao (1841); Hino das artes (1854); Missa dos mortos, 4 voc, orch;
Tedeum Laudamus, 4 voc, orch; O prestigio da lei, opera. Religious, secular
music.
Books: Compêndio de Música Prática, Rio de Janeiro, 1832; Compêndio de
Música, Rio de Janeiro, 1838; Compêndio do Principios Elementares de
Música, Rio de Janeiro, 1848.
Bibl.: A. de Albuquerque, Ouviram di Ypiranga, Vida de Francisco Manuel
da Silva, Rio de Janeiro, 1959. A. de Andrade, Francisco Manuel da Silva e
seu Tempo, 1808-65. Uma Fase do Passado Musical do Rio de Janeiro a
Luz de Novos Documentos, Rio de Janeiro, 1967.
Sources: BB, DM, EMB2, GDM, HMB, MLA, MMLA

Silva, José Paulo, Brazilian teacher, conductor, and composer; b.1 Jan
1892, Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; d.11 Jul 1967. Rio de Janeiro. He
started music studies with José Belisario de Santana then entered the INM
of Rio de Janeiro (1905), to study trombone with I. Guarisck, cello with
Frederico Nascimento and Eurico Costa, music theory and solfeggio with
José Raimundo da Silva, harmony with Agnelo França, and counterpoint,
fugue, and composition with Francisco Braga. Prof. at INM and at the
Escola Arcângelo Corelli of Rio de Janeiro. He studied medicine briefly,
then transferred to law school, graduating in 1932. Founding member of the
Acad. Brasileira de Música.
Works: Brasil, orch; Franco Vaz, orch; 1915, orch; 1916, orch; 1917, orch;
1918, orch; 1919, orch; 1920, orch; Republicano, orch. Chamb, pn, voc
music.
Sources: EMB2

Silva-Díaz, Joaquín, Venezuelan pianist and composer; b.14 Jun 1885

Cumaná, Venezuela; d.5 Apr 1977, Caracas, Venezuela. He studied piano
with José Gabriel Núñez Romberg then continued theory, harmony, and
composition with Andrés Delgado Pardo, piano with Pardo and Salvador
Llamozas and harmony with Manuel Revenga at the Acad. de Música y
Declamación de’ Caracas. He also studied law at the Univ. Central de
Venezuela. He won a composition award (1911) then with a government
grant he studied in Paris (1913). Because of WW I he moved to Andrenos,
France, and conducted a small orch. in an opera company for a year.
Returning to Paris he entered the Schola Cantorum, studied with Vincent
D’Indy until 1918, then took piano with Isidore Philipp, harmony with
Fauchet, and composition with Widor, finishing in 1921. For most of the
1920s and ‘30s he included his own compositions in his recitals and
eventually performed only his own works. He returned to Venezuela briefly
(1936), then settled in Nice, France, but continued traveling between France
and Venezuela.
Works: Himno patriótico, voc, pn (1911); Danza exotica, pn (1913?);
Adiós, 2 voc, pn (1922); Berceuse criolla, voc, pn (1935); Serenata, vn or
vc, pn (1935?); Golodrinas, voc, pn (1936?); Alegre, pn (1936); Serenta
lánguida, op.85, gtr (1937); Diez danzas venezolanas, pn (1942-48); Del
recuerdo, voc, pn (1947); Azul, voc, pn (1954); Ay! La vaquita de ordeño,
voc, pn (1955); Berceuse, vn, vc, pn (1960); Duerme, voc, pn (1971); Padre
nuestro, 2 voc, organ (1974).
Sources: DMEH

Silva Gainza, Electo, Cuban conductor, composer, and teacher; b.1 Nov
1928, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba. His family moved to Haiti where he played
the piccolo in a band. At the age of 14 he studied violin and joined a string
quartet. He returned to Cuba (1947), studied psychology at the Univ. de
Oriente, took classes in violin at the Cons. de Dulce María Serret, and
played in the symph orch. there for four years. In 1950 he entered the Coral
Universitaria as a singer then moved to Paris to study (1952-54) with a
grant from the Alianza Francesa de La Habana. He taught psychology and
music at the Univ. de Oriente, Cuba (1954-65). He founded and conducted
the choir Cantores Polifónicos (1956) and became Dir. of the Cons. Esteban
Salas, the Orfeón Santiago, and Dir. of the music department at the Univ. de
Oriente (1960). He was also one of the founders and the principal promoter
of the Festival de Coros Santiago de Cuba. Dir. of the Centro Cubano de
Información Coral and international relations at the Asociación de Coros de
Cuba. He trained and evaluated choirs in Latin American and Caribbean
countries.
Works: Versos sencillos, men’s ch (1957); Dos movimientos, str orch
(1957); Canción de cuna para despartar un negrito, sop, ch (1963); Tres
poemas mínimos, mixed ch (1965); Cervantina, ch, pn 4 hands (1971); Dos
canciónes, ch, vn, pn (1974); Proverbios y cantares, womens’ ch (1985);
Tres canciones de F. Garcia Lorca, mixed ch (1987); Cinco canciones
francesas, mixed ch (1991); Tres extrañas habaneras, mixed ch (1999).
Sources: DMEH

Silva Silva, Diego Rafael, Venezuelan composer, guitarist; b.15 May 1954,
Caracas, Venezuela. Studied music theory and solfeggio with José Reyna,
Oscar Soler, Salvador Bosque, harmony and counterpoint with Atilio
Ferrari, instrumentation with Antonio Estévez. Later, he studied
composition with Antonio Mastrogiovanni, guitar with Simón Viana and
Rómulo Lazarde. Founding member of Camerata Renacentista.
Works: Se levantó David, perc (1985); Tritonías, fl (1987); Gtr concerto
(1990); Tientos, gtr (1992); Gráficas sonoras, pn, perc (1992); Para
compartir los pájaros (1992); Solsticio tropical (1995-96). Chamb, pn, gtr
music.
Sources: EMV

Silveira [Silveyra], Guillermo [Rodolfo Guillermo], Argentine composer

and conductor; b.1959, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied piano with
Marta B. de Levín, Héctor Moreno, Marisa L. de Maranca, and Lucía
Maranca, chamber music with Ljerko Spiller, composition with Gerardo
Gandini, Francisco Kröpfl, and Roberto Caamaño, conducting with Mario
Benzecry, Pedro Calderón, Bruno D’Astoli, and Alberto Balzanelli in
Buenos Aires. He received Master and Ph.D. degrees in music composition
from the Benjamin T. Rome School of Music of the Catholic Univ. of
America, Washington, DC (1985, 1988). Prof. at the Cons. Santa Ana of
Buenos Aires.
Works: Obacaesnas, voc, four-hand pn, tape (1979); DROB, voc, instr, pn,
tape (1980); Concierto porteño, pn, insts (1983); Ten Mad Songs for the
End of the World, musical (1983); Latelaraña, chamb opera (1984); Varieté,
musical (1984); Más allá del Río Grande, voc, cl, vc, perc orch (1987); In
Memory of Jorge Luis Borges, voc, cl, gtr, pn, and synth (1987); Concrete
Unconsciousness, madrigal dramático, voc, inst (1987); La ronda del
angelito, voc, electronic sounds (1989); Suite Standard, voc, instr,
electronic sounds (1989); Morning, cantata, voc, electronic sounds (1991);
Sur 2, rhapsody, pn, electronic sounds (1991); Ladies and Gentlemen, bar,
vocs, electronic sounds (1992). Music, voc, different inst with electronic
sounds. Chamb, solo inst music.
Sources: DMEH, ISC

Simar, Léon J., Belgian monk, conductor, and educator; b.3 Nov 1909,
Liege, Belgium; d.10 Aug 1983, Cali, Colombia. He entered the Real Cons.
of Liege (1918) to study theory, organ with L. Mawet, harmony with C.
Smulders, counterpoint and fugue with S. Dupuis and J. Leroy, piano with
Du Chastain, and composition with S. Dupuis and F. Rasse. He also took
conducting courses with S. Dupuis and A. Marsick finishing in 1932. He
taught harmony at the Cons. until 1944, became Dir. of the Cons. of Music
of Charleroi, Belgium (1943). Dir. of the Opera Theater of Verviers, asst.
conductor of the choral group Societe Royale La Légia and Dir. of the
Society of Concerts of Charleroi. He moved to Colombia (1949), was an
organist, conductor of the symph orch. of the Cons. Antonio María Valencia
and the Coral Palestrina, and taught theory, harmony, counterpoint,
composition, orchestration, instrumentation until 1951. He was Dir. of the
Cons. de Música de Cali (1954-57) and conducted at the Inst. Hispano-
americano de Cali (1957-59). He founded the music department of Univ.
del Valle and was chair until his retirement (1979) when he became
emeritus. Founded the Coro Magno and the Coro de Cámara at the univ.
and conducted them for more than 12 years.
Works: Ballade et Scherzo, orch (1933); Petite suite en cinq mouvements,
vn, pn (1933); Trio, fl, va, pn (c. 1935); Rapsodie wallonne, ch, orch
(1939); Suite en Sol, ch (1940); Cuarteto, fl, strs (1940); Sinfonía breve,
orch (1950); Cantemos el sentir popular, pn (1954); Réquiem litúrgico, ch,
orch (1955); Danzas sinfónicas, orch; (1961); Misa de Gloria, ch (1962);
Divertimento no.2, str orch (1978); Señor ten piedad, 3 vocs (1983).
Sources: DMEH

Simó, Manuel, Dominican composer; b.30 Jun 1916, Los Cacaos,

Dominican Republic; d.1988, Dominican Republic. He started music
studies at the Acad. Municipal of his native town. Later, he moved to
Ciudad Trujillo, Dominican Republic, where he studied composition with
Enrique Casal Chapí (1941-45).With a scholarship he continued at the
Cons. Kolisher of Montevideo, Uruguay. He graduated as composer and
Prof. of composition. Founding member and Dir. of the Orq. Sinfónica
Nacional of the Dominican Republic, Ciudad Trujillo. Dir. of the Cons.
Nacional de Música in Ciudad Trujillo (1955-59) and later until he retired
in 1979.
Works: Concertante, wind qnt; Overture, orch; Pastoral, orch; Symphony in
D major, orch; A la patria, cantata; Sonata, pn; Toccata, 2 pn. Chamb, pn,
voc music.
Sources: DEW, DM, DMEH, MLA, MMLA

Simoniello, Juan Pablo, Argentine composer, guitarist; b.8 Jul 1969,

Rosario, Prov. of Santa Fe, Argentina. He studied guitar with Víctor
Rodríguez in 1983, at the Escuela Nacional de Música and the Inst.
Nacional del Profesorado de Música, both of Rosario. From 1988 to 1989,
he studied composition with Jorge Horst, and later, with Mariano Etkin and
Gerardo Gandini.
Works: Contornos, ob, va, gtr, cb (1990); Solo para decir, fl, cl, pn, cb
(1990); A tempo nuevo, fl, ob, cl, hn, trb, vn (1990); A ella le gusta mucho,
fl, eh, bcl, gtr, pn, perc, vn, va, vc (1991).
Sources: CAMR

Sindici, Oreste, Colombian singer and composer of Italian origin; b.1837,

Italy; d.1904, Colombia. He studied music with Julio Quevedo Arvelo.
Works: Colombian National Anthem.
Sources: DM, MLA, ZCCC

Sinópoli, Antonio, Argentine guitarist, music teacher, and composer; b.14

Oct 1878, San Isidro, Prov. of Buenos Aires, Argentina; d.1964 He studied
guitar with Julio S. Sagreras, and harmony with Constantino Gaito and
Morera.
Works: Vidalita con variaciones, gtr; Canción indígena, gtr; Canción de los
Alpes, gtr; Saudades do Brazil. Gtr transcriptions of Bach, Beethoven, etc.
Books: Gran Método Aguado-Sinópoli, gtr.
Sources: DM, DMEH

Siqueira, João Batista, Brazilian musicologist, teacher, conductor, and

composer; b.8 Jul 1906, Princesa Isabel, Paraíba, Brazil; d.5 Nov 1992, Rio
de Janeiro, Brazil. Brother of João de Lima Siqueira. He started music
studies with his father then studied harmony, counterpoint, and fugue with
Paulo Silva, composition, orchestration with Francisco Braga, conducting
with Francisco Mignone at INM of Rio de Janeiro (1921). Founder of the
Orq. Sinfônica Brasileira. Prof. at ENMUB, today EMUFRJ, later Dir.
Music critic of the journal, A Coluna, of Rio de Janeiro.
Works: A Marquesa de Santos, opera (1948); Canjeré, cantata (1958);
Caatimbó, cantata (1959); Rita Valéria, opera (1962); Guriatã, symph poem
(1943); Muiraquitãs (1944); Macunaíma, symph poem (1946); Jandaia,
symph poem (1947); Boiúna, symph poem (1948); Ritual dos mitos (1964).
Chamb, instr, voc, sacred music.
Books: Folclore Humorístico, Rio de Janeiro, 1946; A Função do
Cromatismo e da Atonalidade na Harmonía Moderna, Rio de Janeiro,
1949; Influência Amerindia na Música Folclórica do Nordeste, Rio de
Janeiro, 1951; A Contribuição Didáctica dos Sons Indeterminados, Rio de
Janeiro, 1954; O Problema das Controvérsias Harmónicas, Rio de Janeiro,
1956; Modinhas do Pasado, Rio de Janeiro, 1956; Pentamodelismo
Nordestino Baseado em Dados Folclóricos, Rio de Janeiro, 1956.
Sources: EMB2, KTL

Siqueira, João de Lima, Brazilian conductor, teacher, musicologist, and

composer; b.24 Jun 1907, Conceição, Paraíba, Brazil; d.22 Apr 1985, Rio
de Janeiro, Brazil. Brother of João Batista Siqueira. He studied saxophone
and trumpet with his father then entered the Escola Nacional de Música in
Rio de Janeiro to study music theory with Paulo Silva, conducting with
Walter Burle Marx, composition with Francisco Braga, piano with Luis
Amabile. He founded the Orq. Sinfônica Brasileira of Rio de Janeiro
(1940), conducted it until 1948, and organized the Orq. Sinfônica of Rio de
Janeiro (1949). Prof. of harmony at the Escola Nacional de Música. In
1951, he went to Europe to study with Olivier Messiaen, Tony Aubin,
Eugène Bigot, and Jacques Chailly at the Cons. de Musique of Paris,
France. Member of the Acad. Brasileira de Música.
Works: Uma festa na roça, ballet (1943); O carnaval do Recife, ballet
(1947); A compadecida, opera (1959); Gimba, lyric drama (1960); O
carnaval carioca, festive theater piece (1965); Os pescadores, symph
poem; Alvorada brasileira, symph poem (1936); O despertar de Ariel,
symph poem; Cuatro poemas indígenos (1944); 4 symphonies (1933, 1951,
1954, 1956); Vc concerto (1952); Pn concerto (1955); Seis danças
brasileiras; 5 symph suites on Brazilian themes (1955-70); Candomblé,
oratorium (1957); Encantamento da magia negra, motet on native themes
(1957); Vn concerto (1957). Chamb, pn, voc, ch music.
Bibl.: E. Nogueira Franca, Festival José Siqueira, Revista Brasileira de
Música, Vol.2, 1963.
Sources: BB, CTA16, DM, EMB2, GDM, MLA

Smith, Federico [Frederick Anthony], Cuban composer of American

origin; b.2 Mar 1929, New York; d.1977, Matanzas, Cuba. Cuban citizen.
He studied in Boston, MA, USA, and at the Cons. Nacional de Música of
Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico. He lived in Mexico (1950-62) then settled in
Cuba. Prof. of composition at the Sección de Música of the Escuela
Nacional de Arte of Havana.
Works: Música para orch; Trio, ob, gtr, perc; Música, 2 sax, orch. Ballets,
chamb, pn, ch, film television music.
Sources: DMC2, DMEH, KTL

Soares, Hostilio de Almeida, Brazilian composer, violinist, conductor, and

teacher; b.14 Nov 1896, Visconde do Rio Branco, Minas Gerais, Brazil;
d.22 Oct 1988, Visconde do Rio Branco. He started music studies with his
father. He moved to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (1922) to study violin with Raúl
Lipoff then harmony, counterpoint, and fugue with Paulo Silva and
composition, instrumentatation with Francisco Braga at the Inst. Nacional
de Música. Prof. at the Cons. Mineiro de Música of Belo Horizonte, Minas
Gerais.
Works: A vida, opera; Príncipes románticos, operetta; O asceta e a
dangarina, opera; Brasilia, symphony; Annie Besante, symphony;
Krishnamurti, symphony; Cavaleiros da távola redonda, overture; Suite
brasileira, band. Voc, sacred music.
Sources: EMB2, MMLA

Soares Gómes dos Santos, Milton, Brazilian composer and physician; b.26
Aug 1916, Salvador, Bahía, Brazil; d.25 Feb 1974, Minas Gerais. He
studied with Hans Joachim Koellreuter and Ernest Widmer at the Univ.
Federal of Bahía
Works: Meditação sobre a paz, orch; Nordeste, nar, 3 pn, ch, perc (1965).
Chamb, pn, ch music.
Sources: EMV, KTL

Soares Netto, Calimerio Augusto, Brazilian composer and pianist, b.26

Dec 1944, São Sebastião do Paraíso, Minas Gerais, Brazil. He studied at the
Univ. Federal of Uberlândia, Brazil, and received a DM in composition
from the Univ. of Leeds, England (1996), where he studied with Philip
Wilby, David Cooper, and Julian Rushton. He also studied harpsichord and
organ. Taught composition, counterpoint, music history and analysis,
chamber music at the Dept. de Música y Artes Escénicas of the Univ.
Federal of Uberlândia since 1979. Member of the Sociedade Brasileira de
Música Contemporânea, of the Association Aristide Cavaillé-Coll of Paris,
France, and the Associação Brasileira de Organistas.
Works: Crazy Boy, opera (1995); Pólos colaterais, chamb orch (1979);
Fuga sobre un tema infantile, chamb orch (1987); Psalm 97 (1995).
Sinfonietta, symph band (1993). Electronic, ch, chamb, solo instr, pn music.
Sources: ISC

Soderini, Domingo, Argentine composer of Italian origin; b.28 Feb 1887,

Sersale, Italy; d.? He settled in Argentina and studied in Buenos Aires at the
Cons. Beethoven with Adolfo Rinaldi and Lorenzo Scalese, and in Bologna,
Italy, with Giuseppe Martucci. Since 1936, Prof. at the Escuela Normal
Nacional of Junín, Prov. of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Works: Tres preludios, pn (1925); Suite argentina, pn (1926); Sonata in C
sharp minor, pn (1927); Vidala, pn (1927); Suite moderna, pn (1937);
Concerto in C major, pn (1938); Suite mecánica: En avión, en automovil,
en ferrocarril, pn (1948); Overture in F minor, orch; Overture in F sharp
minor, orch.
Sources: DM

Sodré, Joanídia Núñez, Brazilian composer; b.22 Dec 1903, Pôrto Alegre,
Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil; d.7 Sep 1975, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She began
to study piano with Alberto Nepomuceno then went to the Inst. Nacional de
Música of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to study piano with João Nunes and
Henrique Oswald, counterpoint, fugue, and composition with Francisco
Braga. She taught harmony and form at the Inst. Nacional de Música of Rio
de Janeiro (1925) then went to Germany (1927) where she studied
composition with Paul Juon, conducting with Ignaz Waghalter in Berlin.
She returned to Brazil (1930), founded and conducted the Coral Femenino,
and the Orq. Sinfónica Infantil and the Orq. da Juventude, both in 1939.
Dir. of the Escola Nacional de Música of the Univ. of Brazil in Rio de
Janeiro (1946-67).
Works: Casa forte, opera (1927); A cheía do Paraíba, incidental music
(1927); Girassol, ch, orch; Incêndio em Roma, ch, orch.
Books: Compêndio de Contraponto, Rio de Janeiro; Compêndio de
Instrumentação, Rio de Janeiro.
Sources: EMB2, NGDWC

Sofía, Pedro, Argentine composer; b.1 Jan 1890, Buenos Aires, Argentina;
d.? He studied at the Cons. Wagner and at the Cons. Massún, both in
Buenos Aires. Founding member and first president of the Asociación
Argentina de Música de Cámara. Taught in public schools.
Works: Ironías del destino, lyric comedy; Reyma, lyric comedy (1910);
Intillay, ch; Vendimiadores, ch; Virgen del sol, ch. Songs.
Books: Method, gtr.
Sources: DM, DMEH, EMA

Sojo, Vicente Emilio, Venezuelan composer, conductor, teacher, and

ethnomusicologist; b.8 Dec 1887, Guatire, Miranda, Venezuela; d.11 Aug
1974, Caracas, Venezuela. He studied with Régulo Rico in Guatire then
with Andrés Delgado Pardo and Primo Moschini at the Acad. de Bellas
Artes in Caracas. Dir. of the Orfeón Lamas (male singing society), Prof. of
music theory, and later, Dir. at the Escuela Superior de Música, both in
Caracas. In 1937 he founded the Orq. Sinfónica Venezuela in Caracas.
Active ethnomusicologist.
Works: Str qt (1913); Requiem a la memoria del Libertador Bolívar; Te
Deum. Motets; cantatas; masses; hymns; liturgic psalms.
Bibl.: R. Fernández, Vicente E. Sojo, Caracas, 1968.
Sources: BB, CTA14, DM, DMEH, EMV, GDM, MLA, MMLA

Solare, Juan María, Argentine composer and pianist; b.11 Aug 1966,
Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied piano with María Teresa Criscuolo and
Perla Brúgola, conducting with Mario Benzecry, and composition with
Fermina Casanova, Valdo Sciammarella, and Juan Carlos Zorzi. He
received degrees from the Cons. Nacional de Música Carlos López
Buchardo in Buenos Aires in piano (1989), and composition (1993). He
also studied analysis with Francisco Kröpfl then taught harmony,
counterpoint, form, music history, acoustics, chamber music at the Cons. of
Tandil, Prov. of Buenos Aires, Argentina. With a scholarship from the
German Academic Exchange Service he did postgraduate work at the
Musikhochschule in Cologne, Germany (1993-96), in composition with
Johannes Fritsch, Clarence Barlow, and Mauricio Kagel.
Works: Veinticinco de agosto 1983, chamb opera (1992-93); Orchestral
Variations, orch (1991); La memoria de Caronte, str orch (1994); Miz Az-
Zulumat, large orch (1995); Diez estudios escénicos, three actors, diverse
objects, inst sextet (1996); Cuando la cornisa se termina, str orch (1997);
Un angel de hielo y fuego, large orch (1997). Chamb, pn, solo instr, ch, voc,
electronic music.
Sources: DMEH, ISC

Solares Echeverría, Enrique, Guatemalan composer and pianist; b.11 Jul

1910, Guatemala City, Guatemala; d.? He studied piano with Salvador Ley
and Raúl Paniagua in Guatemala, with Ernest Bacon and Misha Pelz in San
Francisco, CA, USA; composition with Raymond Moulaert and Joseph
Jongen in Brussels, Belgium, and with Jaroslav Kricka in Prague,
Czechoslovakia (today Czech Republic) (1936-39); Alfredo Casella in
Rome, Italy (1939-42). He returned to Guatemala and taught piano (1943).
Later he entered the diplomatic service.
Works: Ricercare sobre el nombre de Bach, str orch (1941); Toccatina, gtr
(1946); Partita, str orch (1947); Sonata, solo vn (1958); Fantasia, gtr
(1959); Idea con 15 Deformaciones, pn (1962); Siete travesuras, pn (1969);
Doce microtransparencias, pn (1970).
Sources: BB, CTA4, DCM, DMEH, MMLA

Solomonoff, Natalia, Argentine composer and recorder player; b.28 Dec

1968, Rosario, Prov. of Santa Fe, Argentina. She studied composition with
Diana Rud, Jorge Horst at the Escuela Superior de Música de la UNR and
with Mariano Etkin at the Inst. Superior de Música de Santa Fe. As an
intern at the Fundación Antorchas, she worked with Carmelo Saitta, Julio
Viera, Gerardo Gandini, and Francisco Kröpfl. She graduated from the Inst.
Nacional del Profesorado de Música de Rosario as a flute major.
Works: Rocal, vn, va, vc, ob; Azathots, fl, trb, vn, cb; Epitafios rasgados,
str trio; “…de nada,” fl, ob, cl, bsn.
Sources: CAMR

Somellera, Josefa, Argentine pianist and composer; b.1810, Buenos Aires,

Argentina; d.1885, Argentina. Niece of Candelaria Somellera de Espinosa.
She studied with Juan Antonio Picasarri and Juan Pedro Esnaola, at the
Escuela de Música y Canto in Buenos Aires.
Works: La muerte de CorinaI, song, words by Juan Cruz Varela, published
in El Cancionero Argentino, 1837. Salon music.
Sources: DMEH, EMA

Somellera de Espinosa y de Pino, Candelaria, Argentine composer and

pianist; b.1777; d.1856, Buenos Aires. Aunt of Josefa Somellera de Zavalla.
She hosted a musical salon.
Works: Minuet, pn. Sacred music.
Sources: IEW

Soriano Thebas, Alberto, Argentine composer and ethnomusicologist; b.5

Feb 1915, Santiago del Estero, Prov. of Santiago del Estero, Argentina; d.16
Oct 1981, Concepción del Uruguay, Prov. of Entre Ríos, Argentina. He
studied violin with Dante Souza, harmony and counterpoint with Silvio
Deolindo Roes in Bahia, Brazil. He lived mostly in Brazil and Uruguay and
was often considered a Uruguayan, but he retained his Argentine
citizenship. From 1953 to 1969, he was Prof. of ethnomusicology at the
Univ. of Montevideo, Uruguay.
Works: Gtr concerto No.1 (1952); Sinfonietta, gtr, str (1952); Pn concerto
(1954); Suite, ballet (1954); Divertimento, bsn, str (1955); Cuatro rituales
sinfónicos (1957); Vn concerto (1957); Gtr concerto No.2 (1958); Cantos
sinfónicos, Series I y II (1962); Tres canciones, sop (1962); Tres esquemas
sinfónicos sobre la vida de Artigas (1964); Tiempo sinfónico para los
caídos en Buchenwald (1964); Vc concerto (1964); Pastoral, fl (1965);
Tríptico de Praga (1966); Suite sinfónica (1967); Homenaje a Dresden, va,
(1967); Baladillas de Buenos Aires, pn (1970). Chamb, pn music.
Sources: BB, BHMCU, CTA16, DMEH, EMA

Soro Barriga, Enrique, Chilean composer, conductor, and pianist; b.15 Jul
1884, Concepción, Chile; d.3 Dec 1954, Santiago de Chile, Chile. Son of
the Italian composer José Soro Sforza, with whom he started his music
education. He graduated from the Cons. of Milan, Italy (1904) where he
studied with Luis Mapelli and Gellio Coronaro. Returning to Chile (1905)
he became supervisor of music education in primary schools. He joined the
faculty of the Cons. of Santiago de Chile (1906) and was its Dir. (1919-28).
Dir. of the Inst. de Extensión Musical in Santiago de Chile (1942), a
position held until his death.
Works: Str qt (1904); Andante appassionato, orch (1915); Danza fantástica,
orch (1916); Suites sinfónicas No.1 and No.2, orch (1918, 1919); Pn qnt
(1919); Pn concerto (1919); Sinfonía romántica, orch (1920); Pn trio
(1926); Tres preludios sinfónicos (1936); Aires chilenos (1942); Suite en
estilo antiguo (1943); Vn sonata; Vc sonata; 3 pn sonatas (1920, 1923,
1942). Pn, voc music.
Bibl.: V. Salas Viú, La Creación Musical en Chile 1900-1951, Santiago de
Chile, 1953.
Sources: BB, CTA1, DCM, DM, DMEH, GDM, HMC, MLA, MMLA

Sosa López, Jorge Luis, Cuban pianist and composer; b.13 Dec 1964,
Guantá-namo, Cuba. He began studying music at the Escuela de Música de
Guantánamo (1973), concluding at the Escuela de Arte de Camagüey
(1984). He studied composition at the Inst. Superior de Arte with Roberto
Valera and won composition awards including several from the Unión de
Escritores y Artistas de Cuba. In 1985 he began working as a pianist,
composer, arranger, and conductor of the popular music group Guaicán.
Works: Advertencia, chamb orch (1984); Llamas, 2 tpt pn (1985); Trío no.1,
fl, cl, pn (1985); Cuarteto no.1, sax qt (1986); Concertina para trombone y
orquesta, trb, orch (1988); Concierto para tres y orquesta, orch (1989); El
gran zoo, pn (1991); Serie coral, mixed ch (1991).
Sources: DMEH

Sosaya Wekselman, José Roberto, Peruvian composer; b.8 Jun 1956,

Trujillo, Peru. He studied piano at the Escuela Regional de Música of
Trujillo then composition at the Cons. Nacional de Música in Lima, Peru,
with Edgar Valcárcel. He also studied composition with Yoshihisa Taira at
the Ecole Normale de Musique, and electroacoustic music with Philippe
Mion and Jacques Lejeune at the Groupe de Recherche Musicale, both in
Paris, France. He also studied with Alain Louvier, Michel Zbar, and Sergio
Ortega. Prof., later chair, of the Dept. de Composición at the Cons.
Nacional de Música in Lima. Founder and artistic Dir. of the CIDEMP.
Works: Coral, orch (1984); Miniature, orch (1986); Texturas, orch (1990-
91). Chamb, electronic, pn, ch music.
Sources: DMEH, ISC

Soto León, Jaime, Chilean composer; b.8 Jun 1947, Santiago de Chile,
Chile. He studied humanities at the Inst. Luis Campano, song with Hernan
Würth at the Cons. Nacional (1967) and composition for three years with
Cirio Vila, Sergio Ortega, Gustavo Becerra, and Celso Garrido-Lecca. He
participated in choral groups and was an editor at the publisher Discoteca
del Cantar Popular (DICAP) (1969-7) primarily representing the Nueva
Canción Chilena. He founded and directed Barroco Andino, a group that
plays Baroque music on traditional South American folk instruments.
Works: Misa andina, voc, ch, traditional Andean instr, ob, fl, vc, b, perc;
Oratorio de los trabajadores (1972); San Jorge, film music (1974).
Incidental, theater, chamb music.
Sources: DMEH

Soto Millán, Eduardo, Mexican composer; b.3 Aug 1956, Mexico City,
Mexico. Studied at the Escuela Nacional de Música of UNAM, Mexico
City, and at the Laboratorio de Composición of Julio Estrada. He also
studied with Ramón Barce, Rodolfo Halffter, and Jean-Etienne Marie.
Founder and Dir. of the Grupo de Música Contemporánea of the Escuela
Nacional de Música of UNAM, 1979-82 and Ensamble Intermúsica, 1984-
86. Composer in residence of the Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ, USA,
1995-96.
Works: Bindú, str, perc (1982); Metaphoras, orch (1982); Composición II,
música del interior, perc (1986); Voces II, con himno a Marcel Duchamp
(1986); Composición IV, Ollin Yoliztli, perc (1987); Caminos de silencio, str
(1991); Con piel como la tierra (2001); La pregunta es … la repuesta
(2003). Chamb, solo instr, voc, ch, electroacoustic, computer music.
Sources: DCMMC, DMEH, GP

Soto Uribe, Elías Mauricio, Colombian composer; b.22 Sep 1858, Cúcuta,
Colombia; d.11 Oct 1944, Cúcuta. Dir. of the band of Norte de Santander in
Cúcuta (ca.1900-33).
Works: Brisas del Pamplonita, orch.
Sources: DMEH

Sotuyo Blanco, Pablo, Uruguyan composer and horn player; b.22 Jul 1963,
Montevideo, Uruguay. He began studying theory and piano as a child at the
Cons. de la Asociación Uruguaya de Músicos then continued with Guido
Santórsola. Later at the Escuela Universitaria de Música he studied
composition and horn with Héctor Tosar and Paolo Rigolín then continued
horn in Buenos Aires with Domingo Garreffa. He played in the Banda
Sinfónica Municipal de Montevideo, the Segunda orch. Latinoamericana de
Juventudes Musicales in Bogotá (1990), and performed symphonic and
chamber music.
Works: Sutilezas, cl, vc, pn (2nd edition, 1987); Lamento, orch, pn;
Texturas, ballet; Juke Box, orch (1990); Retratos, mixed media. Chamb,
symph, ballet, film, theater, video music.
Sources: DMEH

Soublette Asmussen, Sylvia (Sylvia Soublette de Valdés), Chilean

composer, choral conductor, and singer; b.5 Feb 1924/3, Antofagasta/Viña
del Mar, Chile. She studied voice with Clara Oyuela and composition with
Domingo Santa Cruz and Federico Heinlein at the Cons. Nacional de
Música in Santiago de Chile, Chile. With a scholarship from the French
government (1951) she studied composition, conducting at the Cons.
National de Musique in Paris, France, with Darius Milhaud and Olivier
Messiaen. Prof. at the Univ. Católica of Valparaiso, Chile. She founded
several choral groups.
Works: Alicia in the Country of Mirrors; Le sicilien. preludio y fuga, orch
(1949); Te Deum, soloists, ch, orch. Chamb, ch, sacred, voc music.
Sources: DMEH, HMC, IBCC, IEW

Sousa, Alvaro Corcoroca de, Brazilian flutist, composer, and teacher; b.29
Jun 1879, Nossa Senhora do Desterro (today Florianápolis), Santa Catarina,
Brazil; d.1 Aug 1939, Nossa Senhora do Desterro. He studied music with
his father, José Bracilício de Sousa. He founded the band named Amor à
Arte.
Works: A canção da arvore, orch; Iris, orch; Rapsódia catarinense, orch;
Ins, voc, sacred music.
Books: Dó Sustenido não e Ré Bemol; Noçöes de Harmonia; Glossàrio de
Termos Italianos Usados na Escrituração Musical; Compêndio Elementar
de Música.
Sources: EMB2

Sousa, José Brasilício de, Brazilian composer, violinist, pianist, conductor,

and teacher; b.9 Jan 1854, Goiana, Pernambuco, Brazil; d.30 Mar 1910,
Florianápolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil. Father of Alvaro Corcoroca de Sousa.
He studied music with Augusto Guilherme Hautz.
Works: O ermitão de Muquém, opera (1881-83); Hino a Lauro Müller;
Hino artístico; Hino do Estado de Santa Catarina; Ela dorme; Murmúrios
da madrugada; A solidão; O salutaris Hostia; Sub tuum praesidium;
Tantum ergo.
Sources: EMB2

Sousa, Rodolfo Coelho de, Brazilian composer; b.8 Aug 1952, São Paulo,
Brazil. He studied composition with Olivier Toni and Hans Joachim
Koellreutter, orchestration with Claudio Santoro, and electronic music with
Conrado Silva. Music critic for the journal, O Estado de São Paulo. With a
scholarship from the United States Information Service, he traveled to ten
univ. research centers in USA, to study computer music.
Works: Galáxias, pn, orch (1987-88); Tristes trópicos, synth (1990-91).
Chamb, instr, ch, voc music.
Sources: EMB2

Souza, Antonio Miguel de, Brazilian composer, band conductor, and

clarinetist; b.1868, Minas Gerais, Brazil; d.1915, Brazil.
Works: Hino do Bi-Centenario de Mariana. Sacred, dance music.
Sources: MMLA

Souza Coutinho, João Francisco de, Brazilian organist, pianist, clarinetist,

conductor, and composer; b.18 Mar 1804, Nossa Senhora do Desterro
(today Florianápolis), Santa Catarina, Brazil; d.11 Sep 1869, Nossa Senhora
do Desterro. He started a political career (1820), first as representative then
as vice-president in the Prov. of Santa Catarina. He studied music with
Francisco Luís do Livramento.
Works: Sacred music.
Sources: EMB2, MMLA

Souza Lima, João de, Brazilian composer, conductor, teacher, and pianist;
b.21 Mar 1898, São Paulo, Brazil; d.28 Nov 1982, São Paulo. He studied
piano with Luigi Chiaffarelli and harmony and composition with Agostinho
Cantú in his native city then went to Paris, France, where he studied piano
with Isidor Philipp and Marguerite Long, music history with Maurice
Emmanuel, chamber music with Camille Chevillard and Paul Paray at the
Cons. de Musique of Paris. He also studied harmony and composition with
Eugene Cools, organ with Eugène Gigout, piano with Alexander
Brailowsky. Founder and conductor of the Orq. de Cámara do Sociedade de
Cultura Artística of São Paulo. Founder and artistic Dir. of Rádio Tupí of
São Paulo. Member of the Acad. Brasileira de Música.
Works: O rei mameluco, symph poem (1937); Poema das Américas, symph
poem (1942); Dança inacabada (1953); Fantasía brasileira (1953); Andrea
del Sarto, opera (1957); Pn concerto; Danças brasileiras, pn.
Improvisaciones sobre temas populares, pn; Suite infantil, pn. Chamb, voc
music.
Books: Técnica Moderna; Nociones de Música.
Sources: DM, EMB2, HMB, MLA, MMLA
Spena, Lita, Argentine composer and pianist; b.4 Oct 1904, Buenos Aires,
Argentina; d.1989, Buenos Aires. She studied at the Cons. Nacional de
Música Carlos López Buchardo of Buenos Aires, where she later taught
harmony.
Works: More than 30 children’s songs; Sonata, pn (1937); Cuatro preludios
impresionistas, pn (1938); Coplas jujeñas, voc, pn (1939); Kildina, ballet.
Sources: DM, DMEH, DMM, EMA

Spena, Lorenzo, Argentine composer of Italian origin; b.29 Apr 1874,

Naples, Italy; d.? He studied in Naples with Luis Porro and Constantino de
Crescenzo. In 1901, he settled in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and in 1907,
founded the Cons. Clementi.
Works: 6 operas; symph, chamb, pn music.
Books: Tratado Analítico de la Teoría Musical.
Sources: DM, DMEH, MLA

Spies Heilbronn, Claudio, Chilean composer, musicologist, and conductor;

b.26 Mar 1925, Santiago de Chile, Chile. He settled in the USA (1942) and
entered the New England Cons. of Music in Boston, MA, where he studied
piano, bassoon, cello, conducting, analysis, and form. He enrolled at the
Longy School of Music in Cambridge, MA (1943), to study counterpoint,
composition, and analysis with Nadia Boulanger. Later he took courses with
Irving Fine, Walter Piston, Paul Hindemith, Tillman Merritt, and Randall
Thompson at Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA. Instructor at Harvard Univ.,
lecturer at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, and Prof. at Swarthmore
College, Swarthmore, PA, and Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ. Conductor of
the Swarthmore College orch.
Works: In Paradisum, voc (1950); Music for a Ballet, orch (1955); Il
cantico di Frate Sole, bar, orch (1958); Tempi, 14 inst (1962); Five
Orchestral Songs, sop, orch (1966). Chamb, ch, voc music.
Bibl.: P. Lansky, The Music of Claudio Spies, Tempo, 1972.
Sources: BB, CTA15, DMEH, GDM, HMC

Spreáfico, Federico, Argentine guitarist, composer, and conductor; b.23

Dec 1871, Rosario, Argentina; d.13 Jul 1958, Santa Fe, Argentina. He
began studying music in Rosario with his father, continuing with Antonio
Frígola and Giovanni Centemeri (violin), Juan Alais (guitar), F. della Rosa
(harmony and composition). He settled in Santa Fe province, taught guitar
and composition. He conducted the Banda de la Policía de Santa Fe (1904-
33).
Works: Barcarola-serenata, voc, ch, orch (1909); Danza árabe, gtr (1936);
Encanto, gtr (1940); Canción invernal, gtr (1947).
Sources: DMEH

Spreáfico, Juan Carlos, Argentine conductor and composer; b.1 Nov

1890, Concepción del Uruguay, Prov. of Entre Ríos, Argentina; d.1 Feb
1958, Mendoza. He studied in Santa Fe, Prov. of Santa Fe, Argentina, with
Martín Hardin, and in Buenos Aires, Argentina, with Eduardo Fornarini. He
taught in schools of the Consejo Nacional de Educación of Buenos Aires
(1927-32). He settled in Santa Fe (1931) and was a founding member of the
Asociación Filarmónica. He helped create the Cons. Provincial (1937) and
became Prof. at the Liceo Municipal (1939), both in Santa Fe.
Works: S.O.S., symph poem (1931); Suite antigua, orch; Norteña, orch;
Obertura dramática, orch. Children’s songs; hymns.
Sources: DM, DMEH, EMA

Stea, Vicente, Peruvian pianist, conductor, and composer of Italian origin;

b.19 Apr 1884, Gioia del Colle, Prov. of Bari, Italy; d.10 Jun 1943, Lima,
Peru. He studied with his father then entered the Cons. di Musica San Pietro
a Majella in Naples, Italy, to study flute with Italo Piazza, harmony with
Camillo de Nardis, piano with Alessandro Longo and counterpoint with
Paolo Serrao. He settled in Peru (1917). Dir. of the Acad. Nacional de
Música Alcedo in Lima.
Works: Symphony in G; Sinfonía autóctona; Meditación, vc, orch; Páginas
de album, pn; Nocturnos, pn; Romanzas sin palabras, pn; Burlesca, pn;
Plegaria del canto 33 del Paraíso del Dante, voc, pn.
Bibl.: R. Barbacci, Revista Musical Peruana, Lima, Feb.1939.
Sources: ADBM, DM, DMEH, MLA, MMLA

Stefaniani, Emeric, Hungarian pianist, conductor, and composer; b.13 Dec

1885, Budapest, Hungary; d.4 Jul 1959, Chile. He studied with Ernö
Dohnani in Budapest, Ferrucio Busoni in Berlin, and composition with
Engelbert Humper-dinck. He received the Mendelssohn Award from the
Cons. of Berlin (1907) and the Chopin Award in Warsaw and the Liszt
Award in Budapest (1908). He traveled as a performer, returned to Hungary,
then settled in Chile (1945). He taught at the Acad. Musical de la
Asociación Nacional de Providencia and directed concerts for the
Asociación Nacional de Conciertos Sinfónicos (1954).
Works: Sinfonía; Introducción y Passacaglia; Suite cordillerana, pn;
Passacaglia, pn, orch (1950); Estampas húngaras, orch (1938); Concierto
húngara, pn, orch; Andante appassionato, pn, orch; El viento, pn (1963); El
Molino embrujado. Pn, orch music.
Sources: DMEH

Steiger, María Susana, Argentine composer; b.3 Nov 1953, Rosario, Prov.
of Santa Fe, Argentina. She graduated from the Escuela de Música of the
Facultad de Humanidades y Artes of the Univ. Nacional of Rosario with a
degree in composition. She also studied composition with Dante Grela.
Founding member of the Asociación Santafesina de Compositores and
member of the Agrupación Nueva Música of Rosario.
Works: Estudio, 2 pn performers; Transparencias, fl, cl, 2 pn performers,
perc; Dos preludios, amplified gtr; “1983,” pic, fl, ob, cb, perc; Ideas, fl, cl.
Sources: CAM

Steinfort Mulsow, Andrés, Chilean composer, pianist, and educator;

b.1883, Santiago, Chile; d.19 Jul 1949, Santiago, Chile. His father was
German and his mother Austrian. He taught theory and harmony at the
Cons. Nacional de Música and wrote didactic books. Most of his more than
200 works have been lost.
Works: Berceuse, Wiegenlied; Chopin, waltz, pn (1927); Elegía (1927);
Largo (1927); Marcha fúnevre (1927); Matinal; Sueño de bebé;
Variaciones.
Sources: DMEH

Stern Feitler, Mario, Mexican composer; b.12 May 1936, Mexico City,
Mexico. He studied music with Jesús Bal y Gay and Rodolfo Halffter at the
Cons. Nacional de Música of INBA, Mexico City, and with Harald
Genzmer at the Staatliche Hochsohnie für Musik, Munich, Germany. With a
scholarship he studied at the Ecole Superieur de Musique, Paris, France,
with Pierre Schaeffer (1968-70). President of the Liga de Compositores de
Música de Concierto of Mexico. Prof. at the Escuela Nacional de Música of
UNAM, Mexico City.
Works: Nudos, orch (1972, rev. 1985); Sinfonía Methoni, orch (1975); Tres
canciones tradicionales alemanas, mixed ch, orch (1976); Sinfonía
concertante, va, vc (1977); Jaque, opera (1978); Adagio, orch (1979);
Adagio for teclado, chamb orch (1979); Malinalco, orch (1979); Delfos,
orch (1980); Serenata, str (1980); Big Klaus and Little Klaus, opera (1980);
Sinfonía mosaicos (1982); Pinocchio, opera (1983); Mosaicos II (1984);
Papalotzin (1984); Concerto, va, tb (1984); Barroco, str (1985); Mosaicos
V (1986); Vn concerto (1989); Serenade, str (1990); La ira de Aquiles,
oratorio (1991); Horatiana, soloists, harpsichord, gtr (1992); Seis sonetos
de Sor Juana, mez sop (1995); Presagios para la Ruina de Tula (1998); Vn
concerto (2004); La rueda (2005); Rodando (2005); Homenajes (2007);
Juegos (2007); Pn concerto (2006); Pn concerto (2007); Citric Acid Cycle,
ballet. Chamb, voc, pn, gtr, ch music.
Sources: DCMMC, DMEH, GP

Stiattesi, César Alberto, Argentine violinist, conductor, and composer of

French origin; b.1881, Nice, France; d.1934, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He
studied violin in France with Amadeo Magri. He settled in Argentina in
1889, and continued to study piano with Hércules Galvani and Coumerme,
and composition with Cayetano Troiani. Teacher in the schools of the
Consejo Nacional de Educación and at the Cons. Nacional de Música
Carlos López Buchardo, both of Buenos Aires. Conductor of the orchestra
and choir of the Teatro Colón of Buenos Aires.
Works: Blanca de Beaulieu, opera. Songs.
Sources: DM, DMEH, EMA, MMLA

Storm, Ricardo, Uruguayan composer; b.14 Mar 1930, Montevideo,

Uruguay; 26 Mar 2000. He studied piano with Cora Abal, Guillermo
Kolischer, and Maria A. Piola, and harmony, counterpoint, and composition
with Enrique Casal Chapí.
Works: El regreso, opera (1958); Introducción y allegro, orch (1954);
Música, str, pn, timpani (1959); Sonata, str (1968); Tres canciones, mez
sop, orch (1963). Ch, chamb, pn, voc music.
Sources: BHMCU, DMEH, MU
Strigelli, José, Argentine conductor and composer of Italian origin; b.1844,
Vigévano, Milan, Italy; d.1916, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied with
Amilcare Ponchielli in Milan. He settled in Argentina (1875). Prof. of
composition at the Escuela de Música de la Provincia, Prov. of Buenos
Aires, Argentina. Conductor of the orch. of Teatro de la Opera of Buenos
Aires (1875-79). He resided in Mendoza, Prov. of Mendoza, Argentina
(1886-90). He became blind (1893).
Works: I figli di Borgia, opera; Inés de Castro, opera; Los contrabandistas,
opera; La presa di Troia, operetta; Una scena nel Olimpo, operetta; Tres de
Febrero, march commissioned by President Sarmiento; El pronunciamiento
de mayo, zarzuela; Sinfonía original, orch; Gran valzer sinfónico; Corona
sulla tomba di Vittorio Emanuele, march. Marches.
Sources: DMEH, EMA

Stubbs, Walter, American composer; b.24 Feb 1854, Saint Thomas, United
States; d.9 Nov 1902, Lima, Peru. He arrived in Lima (1874). He played
piano, organ, and composed music for Catholic, Protestant, and Anglican
churches in Lima.
Works: Misa solemne, soloist, ch, orch (1894); Misa solemne, soloist, ch,
orch (1898); Te deum, soloist, ch, orch (1898); Ave María, voc, vc, org,
collection of Anglican and Protestant hymns.
Sources: DMEH

Stubbs du Perron, Walter Eduardo, Peruvian composer and conductor;

b.31 Dec 1891, Lima, Peru; d.23 Mar 1965, Paris, France. He went to
Buenos Aires, Argentina (1909), to study music with Alberto Williams and
Carlos Pedrell. Later, he continued music studies in Paris, France, with
Vincent D’Indy. In 1940, he returned to Peru and worked for the Radio
Nacional.
Works: Fille indienne, opera; Elegie in memoriam; Atahualpa, ballet;
Symphony in 3 movements; Flamenca, symph suite; Six amabilités, orch;
Pancho, operetta; Str qt; Pn trio; Suite incéica.
Sources: DMEH, GMP, MLA, MMLA

Suárez, Jesús María, Venezuelan educator, pianist, and composer; b.21

May 1845, Caracas, Venezuela; d.3 Jan 1922, Caracas, Venezuela. He
began studying the piano at 19 with José Mármol Muñoz and his own
brother, Cesáreo Suárez. He taught, wrote pedagogical works, and in 1877
became a member of the recently founded Inst. de Bellas Artes. He and his
son (Antonio César Suárez) founded a music store in 1904 which published
some of his compositions. Others were included in the publications El
Zancudo, La Lira Venezolana, and El Cojo Ilustrado.
Works: Marcha militar no.1 y no.2, (1869); El pasado, fantasie, vn, p
(1870); Último pensamiento, cl, p (1871); La ausencia, op.6, romance
(1878); Marcha Páez, (1883); Pater Noster, voc, org; Himno, sop, mez sop,
ch, orch (1897); Ave María, 2 voc; Janua Coeli, ch (1901).
Books: Compendio de historia musical desde antigüedad hasta nuestros
días (Caracas, 1909).
Sources: DMEH

Suárez, Marco Antonio, Colombian composer; b.20 Sep 1974, Bogotá,

Colombia. He began studying guitar (1984) and continued theory and guitar
with Héctor Cifuentes Acero (1990) and classical guitar with G. Parra. He
participated in performing groups and a guitar duo with Gregorio Grin
(1992-94). From 1994-98 studied in the music department at the Univ. de
los Andes with F. Triana, D. Vega, J. C. Marulanda; and engineering, sound
and electronic composition with M. Ardila.
Works: Reflejos para guitarra sola, gtr (1993); Micropieza para violin y
guitarra, gtr (1995); Tema y variaciones, fl, cl, vc, p (1996); Estructuras, pn
(1997).
Sources: DMEH

Suazo Lang, Sergio, Honduran pianist and composer; b.1956. He studied

piano privately with Norma Erazo and briefly attended the Escuela de
Música Victoriano López before going to Canada where he studied at the
Cons. de Musique in Quebec and graduated from the Univ. de Montreal
with a masters degree in music. Professor at Univ. Nacional Autónoma de
Honduras-Valle de Sula.
Works: Piano pieces.
Sources: NMLA

Sudupe Osinalde, Estanislao de, Cuban composer, organist of Spanish

origin; b.9 Jun 1915, Azcoitía, Guipúzcoa, Spain; d.24 July 1973, Puerto
Rico. He studied piano with Father José María Arregui and harmony with
Father Celaya in Spain. He settled in Havana, Cuba, where he studied
counterpoint, fugue, orchestration with José Luis Vidaurreta. He studied
composition, organ at the Yon Music Studios of Carnegie Hall, New York,
NY, USA, under Pietro A. Yon. In 1938, he became organist and
choirmaster at the Church San Francisco in Havana.
Works: Cautivo del corsario, zarzuela (1930); Variaciones sobre un tema
vasco, org (1942); Preludio y fuga, orch (1940). Ch, pn music.
Sources: DMEH, MMLA

Suffern, Carlos, Argentine pianist, music administrator, and composer;

b.25 Sep 1905, Luján, Prov. of Buenos Aires, Argentina; d.30 May 1991,
Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied with César Stiattesi, Athos Palma,
José André, and Constantino Gaito, at the Cons. Nacional de Música Carlos
López Buchardo of Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was artistic Dir. of the
Teatro Colón of Buenos Aires in 1949 and 1970. In 1970, he was appointed
to the board of Directors of SADAIC, the first classical musician to hold
this position. Member of the Comisión Nacional de Cultura, now
Subsecretaría de Cultura of Argentina. Music critic for the newspaper, La
Razón, of Buenos Aires. Founding member of the Mozarteum Argentino of
Buenos Aires. Prof. of music at the Cons. Nacional de Música Carlos López
Buchardo, the Univ. Nacional of Rosario, Prov. of Santa Fe, Argentina, the
Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes of La Plata, Prov. of Buenos Aires, and
the Univ. Católica Argentina in Buenos Aires.
Works: Tierna historia del Príncipe Jazmín y la Princesa Almendra, ballet
(1934); Dos bocetos sinfónicos, orch (1932); Aire con diferencias, str orch
(1938); La noche, symph poem (1944); Las orientales, mez sop, bass, ch,
orch (1946); Rey Lear, overture, orch (1961); Belkiss, soloists, nar, ch, orch.
Chamb, ch, pn, voc music.
Books: Biography of Gluck.
Sources: DM, DMEH, DMM, EMA, MLA, MMLA

Sugo, Miguel Ángel, Argentine composer, violinist; b.12 Jun 1951, Ciudad
de San Juan, Argentina. He studied violin and after 1980 joined and
composed for the Cuarteto Sugo. In 1986 he created the Ensemble
Contemporáneo Andino to perform music of Latin American composers.
Initially self-taught, he studied composition with Luis J. González
Fernández in San Juan, Dieter Schnebel, and Gilberto Mendes in Uruguay
and Aribert in Berlin. He incorporated rhythms, melodies and indigenous
folk instruments into his music.
Works: Opugnación no.1, vn (1978); Momento, pn (1983); Atavios no. 1,
voc, qt; Chunca-Soctáyock, qt (1983); Opaco resplandor no.1, vn, pn
(1984); Coral I, 4 voc (1985); Aimuari, orch (1986).
Sources: DMEH

Sumaya (Zumaya), Manuel de, Mexican composer and chapelmaster;

b.ca.1678, Mexico; d.between 12 Mar and 6 May 1756, Oaxaca, Mexico.
He studied with Antonio Salazar, choirmaster at the Cathedral of Mexico
City, and later with Joseph Ydíaquez, principal organist of the Cathedral.
He was ordained a priest ca. 1700. Choirmaster, organist at the Cathedral of
Mexico City.
Works: Parténope, first opera written in Mexico; El Rodrigo, incidental
music. Religious compositions: Lamentation; 3 motets; 13 hymns;
villancicos; 3 Magnificats; 2 psalms; Mass.
Bibl.: R. Stevenson, Music in Mexico, New York, 1952. R. Stevenson,
Renaissance and Baroque Musical Sources in the Americas, Washington,
DC, 1970.
Sources: DMEH, GDM, MMLA

Syrse Valdés Rosada, Diana, Mexican singer and composer; b.3 Jun 1984,
Mexico City, Mexico. She received a Master’s Degree in composition for
theater from the Hochschule für Musik and Theater (Munich, Germany)
where she studied with Prof. Moritz Eggert, obtained a Master’s in Fine
Arts degree from the Performer-Composer program at the California Inst. of
the Arts (Los Angeles) and studied composition at Indiana Univ.,
Bloomington, IN. She also received a degree in composition and one in
voice from the National School of Music in Mexico City. Resident
composer for several choirs in Minneapolis and Mexico her commissions
include works for the Siemens Stifftung Junge Solisten, the Bayerische
Akademie der Schönen Kunste, El Colectivo de Mujeres en el Arte, and
VocEssence in Minnesota. As a singer she focuses on the interpretation of
Latin American music and contemporary vocal music involving
improvisation, extended techniques, and electronic media.
Works: Mariposas, fl (2005); Shanka Chakra, vn, va, vc (2005-2006);
Astral, fl (2006); El Fantasma Soy Yo, sop, pn (2006); La Gruta de
Balankanché,bcl, tape (2007); Xochiatl, mez sop, fl, pn (2008); Ríos de
Evolución, 6 women vocs (2009); Tierra de Maíz, women s ch, perc, soloist
(2010); The Essence Of Our Souls, mixed ch a capella (2011); Sinfonie I,
Nach der Tragödie; Colección de Realidades, orch (2012); La Torturai,
chamb opera (2012); Multiple Realities, pn, video, sop-improviser (2012);
Words Without Frontiers, sop, str qnt, live electronics controlled by a weii
controller (2012); El Hombre Funcional, ob, pn (2013); La Frontera de
Cristal, fl, ob, pn, vc (2013); Pyramids in an Urban Landscape, str qt,
prehispanic instruments (2013); Jenseits Des Körpers, 4 vocs,
choreography, tape (2013). Chamb, ch, orch, solo instr, opera, electronic
music.
Sources: CW

Szarán, Luis, Paraguayan composer, conductor, and researcher; b.24 Sep

1953, Encarnación, Paraguay. He began studying with José Luis Miranda
then studied at the Cons. of Santa Cecelia in Rome (1975): conducting with
Massimo Pradela and Piero Bellugi, and analysis with Mario Migliardi. He
also studied with Hans Swarowsky at the Acad. Chigiana in Sienna (1977)
with Franco Ferrara at the Inst. Francesco Canneti de Vicenza, and
composition (1977) with Luciano Berio, Giacomo Manzoni, and Mauricio
Kagel. He conducted internationally, won awards and presented his
compositions at festivals and events including the Festival de Música
Contemporánea de Ouro Preto, Brazil (1975, 1978), Encuentros de
Compositores de Latinoamérica in Santiago, Chile (1988, 1989), Belo
Horizonte, Brazil (1989), and in Buenos Aires (1990). Since 1978 he has
conducted the orch. Sinfónica de la Ciudad de Asunción (OSCA) and was
artistic Dir. for the Festival Internacional de Música de Cascavel, Brazil. In
1986 he created the Grupo Compositores de Asunción for young
composers. He published works on indigenous and popular music of
Paraguay and was the Dir. for Paraguay of the Diccionario de la música
española e hispanoamericana (DMEH).
Works: Añesú, voc (1970); Sonata, vn, pn (1975); Sonata, pn (1978);
Variaciones en puntas, wind qnt (1986); Miniaturas, ob, pn (1990); La
Magdalena, pn, tbn (1992).
Sources: DMEH
 T
Tacuchian, Ricardo, Brazilian composer, conductor, lecturer, and teacher;
b.18 Nov 1939, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He began to study music with Nelly
Adelino dos Santos. He took his undergraduate and graduate music courses
at the Escola de Música of the Univ. Federal of Rio de Janeiro, and studied
composition with José Siqueira, Francisco Mignone, and Claudio Santoro.
He took a course in orch. conducting with Hans Swarowsky. Attended the
Univ. of Southern California at Los Angeles, CA, USA, on a Fulbright
scholarship, and studied composition with Stephen Hartke; received a
Doctorate in music. Member of the Acad. Brasileira de Música and the
faculty of UFRJ and UNIRIO. Prof. of musical education at Secretaría de
Educação e Cultura of the State of Rio de Janeiro, and of musical
appreciation at the Cons. Brasileiro de Música of Rio de Janeiro.
Works: Concertino, fl, orch (1968) Estruturas sinfónicas, orch (1976);
Concertino, pn, orch (1977); Sinfonietta, str; Nuclei, chamb orch (1983);
Hayastan, ballet (1990). Estruturas sincréticas, winds, perc, projected
slides, electronic resources (1970); Estruturas simbólicas (1973);
Estruturas primitivas (1975); Estruturas verdes (1976); Estruturas
divergentes, fl, ob, pn (1977); Estruturas gêmeas, pn (1979); 4 cantatas.
Chamb, pn, electronic music.
Sources: EMB2, HMB, ISC

Tada Paz, Herberto di, Argentine composer; b.25 Dec 1903, Juárez, Prov.
of Buenos Aires, Argentina; d.? He studied piano and composition with
Ernesto Drangosch, Constantino Gaito. Prof. of music at high schools in
Buenos Aires.
Works: Sonata in A minor, pn (1921); Epigramas y epitafios, pn (1924);
Caperucita Roja, ballet (1930); Le regret, voc, pn (1931); Suite, pn, orch
(1931); Imágenes americanas, symph poem (1943); Aire de amor, pn
(1950).
Sources: DM, EMA, MMLA
Tagliaferro, Pablo Pedro, French conductor and composer; b.19th century,
France; d.20th century, Brazil. He went from Brazil to Chile (1872) and
worked as an educator in secondary schools in Santiago. In 1882 he
founded the Orfeón Francés de Santiago de Chile. He was the father of the
Brazilian pianist Magdalena [Magda] Tagliaferro.
Works: Cantata a la Divina Providencia (ca.1878); Himno a la inocencia
(1878).
Sources: DMEH

Taibo García, Luis, Spanish composer; b.ca. 1880, Santiago de

Compostela, Spain; d.1954, Mexico City, Mexico. He studied medicine at
the Univ. de Santiago, organized and trained student street bands, and
researched folk music in Galicia. He moved to Mexico City, Mexico, where
he practiced medicine and composed.
Works: Céltica I, II, III, orch; Madrigalesca, mixed ch; Noites de vran, voc,
pn; Concierto breve, vc, pn; Suite, vn, pn. Chamb music.
Sources: DMEH

Talavera Andrade, Mario, Mexican composer, singer, and conductor; b.13

Dec 1885, Jalapa, Mexico; d.27 Mar 1960, Mexico. He studied with Adrián
Guichené at the Cons. Nacional de Música of Mexico in Mexico City
(1906). He formed Cuarteto Clásico de Canciones Mexicanas (1923) with
Agustín Delgado, Ángel H. Ferreiro, and José Rodríguez Pantoja then in
1927 a quartet, Los Cuatro Ases de la Canción, with Lerdo de Tejada, Tata
Nacho, Esparza Otero. He became vice president of the SACM (1951).
Member of the Acad. Mexicana de Bellas Artes.
Works: Mater Nostra; Los muertos hablan; La cruz y la espada. Orch, voc
music.
Sources: DMEH, KTL

Tamez, Gerardo, Mexican composer of American origin; b.6 May 1948,

Chicago, IL, USA. He studied with Guillermo Flores Méndez at the Escuela
Nacional de Música of UNAM (1964-65) and at the Cons. Nacional de
Música of INBA, both in Mexico City. He studied harmony and analysis at
CIEM (1979-81) and completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts (1982) at the
California Inst. of the Arts, San Francisco, CA, USA. Founding member of
the group Los Folkloristas. Prof. at the Escuela Nacional de Música of
UNAM.
Works: Dos mundos, opera (1988); Tierra mestiza, orch (1976); Concierto
San Angel, gtr (1982). Chamb, pn, gtr, electroacoustic, computer music.
Sources: DMEH, DCMMC

Tamez, Nicandro E., Mexican pianist, organist, and composer; b.30 Jan
1931, Monterrey, State of Nuevo León, Mexico; d.15 May 1985, Villa de
Santiago, State of Nuevo León. He studied composition with Domingo
Lobato at the Escuela Superior de Música of Guadalajara, Mexico, and
later, with Gerhart Muench. He graduated with a degree in Gregorian chant
from the Cons. de las Rosas, Morelia, Mexico, where he studied with
Miguel Bernal Jiménez. Founded the Escuela Superior de Piano y
Composición of San Luis Potosí, and the Escuela Libre de Artes of
Monterrey, both in Mexico. Dir. of the Escuela de Música of UANL.
Works: Tetramero, pn (1961); Criptofanía “Passio et Resurrectio,” pn
(1977); Macromófica una sinfonía silogística con un corolario, electric gtr,
2 pn, synth, percussion, mixed ch (1983); Misa modal (1984). Chamb, pn,
voc, ch, electroacoustic, computer music.
Sources: DCMMC

Tamez, Omar, Mexican composer and guitarist; b.1974. He studied music

with Nicandro Tamez, and at workshops and seminars with André Richard,
Daniel Catán, Manuel de Elías, Helmut Lachmann, Pierre Boulez, and
Karlheinz Stockhausen. He completed a master’s degree in composition and
philosophy at the Univ. Regiomontana in Monterrey and attended IRCAM
in Paris. He founded and directed Non-Jazz.
Works: Concerto, vn, str (1994).
Sources: GP

Tapia, Verónica, Mexican composer; b.12 Jan 1961, Puebla, State of

Puebla, Mexico. She studied at the Taller de Composición of Federico
Ibarra and at the Escuela Nacional de Música of UNAM, Mexico City.
Later, she studied at The Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD, USA.
Works: Diafonía de Chapultepec, orch (1994). Chamb, pn, children’s,
electroacoustic, computer music.
Sources: DCMMC, DMEH, GP
Tapia Colmán, Simón, Mexican composer, violinist, and conductor of
Spanish origin; b.24 Mar 1906, Aguarón, Zaragoza, Spain; d.13 Feb 1993,
Mexico City, Mexico. He studied at the Real Cons. de Música of Zaragoza
with Ramón Barobia and at the Real Cons. de Música of Madrid, Spain,
with Conrado del Campo and took lessons from Paul Hindemith. Settled in
Mexico in 1939. Prof. and Dir. of the Cons. Nacional de Música of INBA.
Works: Igazú, opera (1993); Leyenda gitana, ballet (1954); Estampas de
Iberia, orch (1935); Una noche en Marruecos, orch (1935); Danzas, vn
(1941); Retratos, gtr (1965); Sísifo, symph poem (1967); Núcleos, str
(1967); Los días de la voz (1975); Canto sin palabras, vn (1985); Himno de
los trabajadores de México. Chamb, voc, pn, ch music.
Books: Música y Músicos en México.
Sources: DCMMC, GP, KTL

Tapia Mendoza, Gloria, Mexican composer; b.16 Apr 1927, Araró, State
of Michoacán, Mexico; d.28 Mar 2008, Araró, Michoacan. She studied
composition and musicology at the Cons. Nacional de Música of INBA,
Mexico City, where she became a teacher. Involved in the promotion of
contemporary music. General co-ordinator for culture y musical education
of the Dirección General de Acción Educativa of Mexico. Member and
president of the Liga de Compositores de Música de Concierto of Mexico.
Works: Cl concerto (1961); Canto fúnebre, tpt (1970); Allegro concertante,
pn (1974); Tres movimientos sinfónicos (1974); Tres preludios breves
(1975); Amor sin tiempo (1975); Sé mujer (1975); Volver a empezar (1976);
Qué me dicen tus ojos (1976); Vivencias siderales (1978); Tenochtitlan, 3
nar (1992); Hospital infantil de México (1993); Suite sinfónica (1993).
Chamb, pn, gtr, ch, voc music.
Sources: DCMMC, DMEH, GP

Tapia y Zegarra, Melchor, Peruvian organist and composer; b.ca.1755,

Lima, Peru; d.1818/19, Lima, Peru. As a Presbyterian he became cantor at
the Chapel of the Cathedral of Lima (1775). In 1780 he was named teacher
of the sixth grade. He became the second organist and after 1807
temporarily first organist during Manuel Chauca Dávalos’s illness,
replacing him (1811) after Dávalos died.
Works: Misa, 3 voc, ob, tp, va, bc, org (1796); Misa, 6 voc, orch (1800); St.
Luke’s Passion (1807); Salmos de vísperas, 2 ch, orch (1809); Kyrie,
Gloria, y Credo, 8 voc, vn, cl, tp, cb, 2 org, (1817).
Sources: DMEH

Tardío de Guzmán, Blas, b.1714; d.before 1761. Possibly a student of

Juan de Araujo. He entered the music chapel of the cathedral of La Plata (7
Oct 1714) and became music director (3 Apr 1745) when Juan Guerra de
Biedma died. He introduced a more classical style into the highlands in
Peru using organ and harp as accompaniments and violins in some of his
compositions. His works are in the Biblioteca Nacional de Bolivia, most
from the archives in the Cathedral of Sucre.
Works: Suenen los clarines, 7 voc, 2 vn, accomp; In nomine Jesus, 4 voc,
ac-comp; Tota pulcra, 8 voc, accomp. A la cima cored, 4 voc, accomp;
Rorro, a la rorro mi niño, rorro, 6 voc, accomp.
Sources: DMEH

Tarnawiecki, Douglas, Peruvian composer; b.29 Mar 1948, Lima, Peru. He

studied composition, conducting, and piano in the Escuela Nacional de
Música de Perú with Enrique Iturriaga, Édgar Valcárcel, and Celso Garrido
Lecca (1973). With a Fulbright scholarship (1974) he continued at the
Eastman School of Music, Univ. of Rochester, with Warren Benson, Joseph
Schwantner and Samuel Adler, receiving a master’s in composition (1977).
He traveled to Greece to work on a UNESCO research project (1977) then
returned to Peru (1982), taught composition at the Escuela Nacional de
Música, conducted the ensemble Pro-Música de Cámara de Lima, and
created the Taller Libre de Creación Musical with other young musicians.
Invited by the Partners of America (1988) he presented his work and gave a
seminar on Latin American music at the Univ. of Texas, Austin. He moved
to Mexico (1989), collaborated with theater groups, and composed.
Works: Cuarteto de cuerdas no.1, str qt (1971); Aurora I, fl, 2 hn, harp,
perc, str orch (1975); Poemas de aire, agua, tierra, fuego y luz II, ch
(1976); Auras I, vn, vc, cb, pn, 2 perc (1980); Aulos III, fl (1982); Paisajes
internos, ch, orch (1984); Paisajes sonoros, pn, 3 perc, magnetic tape,
natural and urban sounds (1985); Génesis III, vn vc, pn, perc (1991).
Sources: DMEH, NMLA

Tauriello, Antonio, Argentine conductor, pianist, and composer; b.20 Mar

1931, Buenos Aires, Argentina; d.20 Apr 2011, Buenos Aires. He studied
piano with Raúl Spivak, Oreste Castronuovo, and Walter Gieseking, and
composition with Alberto Ginastera. He conducted the orch. of the Teatro
Colón of Buenos Aires, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, IL, the Opera Society
of Washington, DC, and the New York City Opera, New York, NY, all in
the USA.
Works: Escorial, opera (1966). Obertura sinfónica, orch (1951); Serenata,
orch (1957); Ricercare I-VI, orch (1963); Transparencias, 6 instr groups
(1964); Música III, pn, orch (1965); Serenata II, 7 perc instr (1966); Canti,
vn, orch (1967); Pn concerto (1968); Mansión de Tlaloc, pn, perc, str
(1969); Signo de los tiempos, fl, cl, vn, vc, pn (1969); Impromptus, vn, pn,
cb, 11 str soloists (1980); Impromptus IV, 2 pn, marimba (1982); Concerto,
gtr, small orch (1982); Cuatro Piezas, vn, pn (1984); Al menor ruido los
pájaros se callan (1986); Impromptus d’après Schoenberg, 4 hand pn
(1986); Les Guerres Picorocholines. Chamb, pn music.
Sources: BB, CA, DCM, DM, DMEH, DMM, EMA, VMA

Tavares, Hekel (Heckel), Brazilian composer, conductor, and folklorist;

b.16 Sep 1896, Satuba, Alagoas, Brazil; d.8 Aug 1969, Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil. He was mostly self-taught in music, but in 1921, he studied
orchestration with João Otaviano in Rio de Janeiro.
Works: Concerto, pn, orch; André de Leão e o Demônio de cabelo
encarnado, symph suite; Cançôes brasileiras, voc, pn; Cantiga dos
sertanejos cuibanos, ch; Concerto, vn, orch; Anhangüera, symph poem
soloists, ch, children’s ch, orch. He revised and harmonized many Brazilian
folk songs.
Bibl.: C. Torres Pastorino, Pequeña Historia da Música, Rio de Janeiro,
1938.
Sources: DM, EMB2, MLA, MMLA

Tavares, Mário, Brazilian composer, conductor, and cellist; b.18 Apr 1928,
Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil; d.5 Feb 2003, Rio de Janeiro. He began
cello study at the age of 7 with Tommaso Babini and settled in Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil (1947) where he studied at the Escola Nacional de Música.
Cellist at the Orq. Sinfónica Brasileira. Founder and conductor of the
Orquestra de Cámara da Ràdio Ministério da Educação (1957).
Works: Moda e ponteio, harp, celesta, str (1955); Abertura folclórica,
mixed ch, orch (1955); Potiguara, segunda dança brasileira, str orch
(1957); Ganguzama, symph poem (1959); Concertino, fl, bsn, str (1959);
Praiana, ballet (1963); Dualismo, ballet (1963); Divertimento, vc, orch;
Rio, a epopéia do Morro, cantata (1965); Symphony No.1, orch; Suite
Copihue, orch (1975); Concerto, vc, orch (1981); Symphony No.2, orch
(1992).
Sources: CTA16, EMB2, HMB

Tavares de Lacerda, Lucas, Brazilian composer; b.1888, Minas Gerais,

Brazil; d.? He studied at the Inst. Nacional de Música in Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil.
Works: Sonho de Oiro, operetta; 2 symphonies; lyric poem.
Sources: MMLA

Tavárez, Manuel Gregorio, Puerto Rican composer, conductor, and

teacher; b.1843, San Juan, Puerto Rico; d.1 Jul 1883, Ponce, Puerto Rico.
He started music studies with pianist José Cabrizas, organist Domingo
Delgado. With a scholarship from Sociedad Económica de Amigos del País
(1858), he entered the Cons. National de Musique of Paris, France, to study
piano with Eugène d’Albert, and harmony and composition with Daniel
François Auber.
Works: Gran fantasía de concierto, orch; A Campeche, funeral march, orch;
Vals de concierto; Redención, triumphal march, orch. Dances, pn, voc
music.
Sources: DMEH, MMLA, MMPR

Tejeda, Eduardo Esteban, Argentine composer; b.25 May 1923, Buenos

Aires, Argentina. He studied piano with Oreste Castronuovo; harmony,
counterpoint, fugue, orchestration, composition with Gilardo Gilardi, Luis
Gianneo, and Jacobo Ficher. He began to study and use avant-garde
techniques (1962) under the supervision of Carlos Roqué Alsina and
Francisco Kröpfl. Founding member of the Asociación de Jóvenes
Compositores de la Argentina and the Unión de Compositores de la
Argentina. Member of the Agrupación Nueva Música. Taught harmony and
instrumentation at the Inst. Superior de Música del Teatro Colón of Buenos
Aires.
Works: Sonata 1958, pn; Serenata, orch (1958); Symphony in three
movements, orch (1959); Espartaco, overture (1959); Wind qnt; Canciones
del Paraná; Tres piezas, voc, 5 instr (1962); Tres movimientos, 5 instr, perc
(1963); Estructura, 5 wind instr (1966); Protestatio, orch (1966); Once
estructuras, pn; Secuencias móviles I, voc, 8 instr; Secuencias móviles II,
qnt; Música electrónica 1969; Estudio electrónico II (1969); At-Ocso, orch,
magnetic tape (1972); Anmtakarana, chamb ens (1976); Senzar,
electroacoustic devices; Mantram IV, vn, pn, cl; Fantasia I y II, vn, pn
(1980); El panal, ballet (1983); Concertino, pn, orch (1984); Cántico de
gloria a Juan Manuel de Rosas (1988); Concerto, vn, orch (1990); Double
concerto, 2 vns, str orch (1991); Concerto, trb, orch (1992); Concerto, gtr,
str orch (1993); Triple concerto, vn, vc, pn, percussion, str orch; Concerto,
hn, str orch (1996).
Sources: DMEH, EMA, ISC, VMA

Tejera, Francisco Manuel, Venezuelan composer, teacher, writer, and

pianist; b.1840, Caracas, Venezuela; d.1878, Caracas. Member of the Acad.
de Música of the Inst. Nacional de Bellas Artes of Caracas.
Works: Romances; salon waltzes; variations on operatic themes.
Books: Gramática Musical.
Sources: DMEH, MMLA

Téllez Oropeza, Roberto, Mexican composer; b.16 Dec 1909, Zacatlán,

State of Puebla, Mexico; d.2001. He studied music with his mother, Josefa
Oropeza, and later, with his father, Juan C. Téllez, at the Acad. de Música
Santa Cecilia. Studied composition with Silvestre Revueltas at the Cons.
Nacional de Música of INBA, Mexico City, Mexico, conducting with Igor
Markevitch.
Works: Estatuas de humo, symph poem (1933); Sumario, symph poem
(1935); Netzahualcóyotl, opera (1949); Pn concerto No.1 (1969); Benito
Juárez, ch (1970); Vc concerto (1970); Vn concerto No.1 (1971); Pn
concerto No.2 (1971); 3 symphonies (1971, 1972, 1973); Str concerto
(1974); Pn concerto No.3 (1975); Guanajuato, orch (1975); La gracia,
opera (1975); Ifigenia cruel, opera (1976); Acapulco, opera (1978); Adagio,
str orch; Ballet suite (1977); Romances filosóficos, cantata (1978); En la
cúspide (a la Memoria de Carlos Chávez) (1978); Chichen Itzá, suite
(1979); Ciudad de México (1981); Día de Campo (1983); Ob concerto
(1984); La Tzararacua (1985); Vn concerto No.2 (1975); Pn concerto No.4
(1975); Simón Bolívar, ch (1982); Gtr concerto (1984). Chamb, pn, org, gtr,
voc, ch music
Sources: DCMMC, DMEH, GP

Tello Malpartida, Aurelio, Mexican composer, choral conductor of

Peruvian origin; b.7 Oct 1951, Cerro de Pasco, Peru. He settled in Mexico
(1982). He studied at the Escuela Nacional de Música of Peru with Enrique
Iturriaga, Edgar Valcárcel, Celso Aguirre Lecca, Guillermo Cárdenas,
Marco Dusi, and Manuel Cuadros Barr. Founded the Taller de Investigación
of the Escuela Nacional de Música of Peru (1975). He was associate Dir. of
CENIDIM (1988-89), and of Dirección de Música of INBA (1990-92), both
in Mexico City, Mexico.
Works: Tres piezas para cuerdas, str (1972); La casita bonita, orch (1977);
Acuarelas infantiles, orch (1978); Dansaq III, str (1986); Otro elogio de
Falami, str (1991); Harp concerto (2002); Memorias de Antonín (2004);
Algunas canciones de Brindisi (2006). Chamb, pn, solo instr, ch music.
Books: Tesoro de la Música Polifónica en México, Vol.III; Cincuenta Años
de Música en el Palacio de Bellas Artes; Salvador Contreras: Vida y Obra.
Sources: DCMMC, DMEH, GP

Tello Rojas, Rafael J., Mexican composer, teacher, and pianist; b.5 Sep
1872, Mexico City, Mexico; d.17 Dec 1946, Mexico City. He started his
musical education with his mother, Julia Rojas Caso. He studied piano with
Carlos J. Meneses and Julio Ituarte, and composition with Ricardo Castro.
Dir. of the Cons. Libre de México. Prof. at the Cons. Nacional de Música
and at the Facultad de Música of UNAM, both in Mexico City. Music critic
for several Mexico City newspapers.
Works: Juno, opera (1896); Nicolás Bravo, opera (1909); Intermezzo, opera
(1915); Dos amores, opera (1916); Sonata trágica, vn, chamb orch (1921);
Patria heróica, symph poem (1929); Minuetto humorístico (1932); Tríptico
mexicano, orch (1939); El oidor, opera (1942); Sextet, pn, wind instr;
Drama en música, str qt; Fantasía, 2 pn, orch (1943). Chamb, sacred music.
Sources: DM, DMEH, GMM, GP, MLA, MMLA

Tena, Juan Bautista, Peruvian composer; b.19th century, Peru. One of few
composers who presented in the competition held by the general José de
San Martín in 1821 to compose the national Peruvian hymn. He founded a
Philharmonic society (1836) and was still active in Lima (1841).
Works: Canción patriotica, voc, orch.
Sources: DMEH

Tenreiro Vidal, Alfonso, Venezuelan composer; b.1965, Caracas,

Venezuela. He began to study music with Francisco Aragués. With a
scholarship from the Government of Venezuela (1983) he attended the
Univ. of Indiana, Bloomington, IN, USA, where he obtained a Bachelor’s
degree in composition, organ, and a MM in composition. In 1990, he settled
in the USA.
Works: Poema, mez sop, orch (1986); Harp concertino, harp, orch (1986);
Overture, cl, orch (1988); Guri, orch (1989); Memorias del centáuro, orch
(1990); Imágenes de luz, orch (1991). Sinfonietta, band (1990). Chamb
music.
Sources: DMEH, EMV

Teppa Abad, Carlos, Venezuelan cellist and composer; b.4 Jun 1923,
Caracas, Venezuela. He started music studies at the Escuela de Música y
Declamación (today Escuela de Música José Angel Lamas) in Caracas. He
studied cello with Andrés Añez and Carlos Añez (1938). He also studied
with Pedro Antonio Ramos and Moisés Moleiro. Later, he studied in New
York, NY, USA, in Zurich, Switzerland, and in Siena, Italy.
Works: Fantasía infantil, suite (1969); Fantasía de concierto, orch (1970);
Sonata, bsn, strs (1971); Sonata, vn, pn; Wind qt; Sexteto de invierno
(1985).
Sources: DMEH, EMV, KTL

Tercero, Juan Domingo, Mexican conductor, educator, and composer; b.12

Dec 1896, Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, Mexico; d.23 Sep 1987, Mexico
City, Mexico. He taught composition in the Cons. Nacional de Música de
México, harmony and counterpoint in the Normal School of Music in Paris,
and the interpretation of lieder in collaboration with María Bonilla in
Mexico City. He conducted vocal groups including Au temps de Rousard
(Paris, 1933-35), Coro de la Escuela Nacional de Música of the Univ.
Autónoma Metropolitana (Mexico, 1946-54), and the Sociedad Coral Univ.
(Mexico, 1952-69) which he founded. He was vice president of the
Confederación Nacional de Coros de América and Pres. of the Federación
Nacional de Coros de Mexico. After 1948 he was member of the Seminario
de Cultura Mexicana. He donated his library to ENM of UNAM (1963)
where he became emeritus in1967.
Works: Sinfonía del IV centenario, orch, ch; Salve Regina, ch, fl; O quam
suavis, ch; Veni sponsa Christi, ch; Ave Maria, voc, org; Sonatina, vn, pn;
Sonata, pn; Oda a la Patria, orch, ch.
Sources: DMEH, GP

Terraza Gayán, Emilio José, Brazilian composer, conductor, teacher, and

pianist of Argentine origin; b.26 Mar 1929, Bahía Blanca, Prov. Of Buenos
Aires, Argentina. He started music studies with Domingo Amadori at the
Cons. Nacional de Música Carlos López Buchardo of Buenos Aires,
Argentina. Later, he studied piano with Ruwin Erlich, and harmony,
counterpoint, fugue, orchestration, and composition with Jacobo Ficher in
Buenos Aires. He continued his music studies with Leon Barzin in Paris,
France. He settled in Brazil (1958) where he studied conducting with
Eleazar de Carvalho and Rafael Batista. Assistant conductor of the Orq.
Sinfônica of Univ. of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (195964). Prof. of music at
Brazilian universities.
Works: Whom?, pn (1952; Prelude, pn (1953); Cânon a duas vozes, ob, bsn
(1955); La farra de la búsqueda, ballet (1956); Preludio e fuga, str orch
(1961); Micropeças, pn (1966); Peça improviso, hn, pn (1970); Quo Vadis,
mez sop, 5 instr, perc, electronic tape (1971); Suite tropológica, fl, ob, bsn
(1977); Tango, 2 pn (1987); Microsuite, pn (1989). Chamb, pn, voc music.
Sources: EMB2, HMB

Teruel Levitsky, Ricardo, Venezuelan composer and engineer; b.11 Jan

1959, Caracas, Venezuela. He graduated as an electronic engineer from the
Univ. Simón Bolívar in 1979. He studied piano in London, England, 1963-
65, and in Caracas with Harriet Serr, Alberto Grau, Judit James, and Nilyan
Pérez, 196576. He studied composition with Yannis Ioannidis and
techniques in concrete music with Raúl Delgado Estévez. Prof. of
electroacoustic music at the Inst. de Fonología of the Orq. Juvenil where, in
1983, he became Dir. Member of the Sociedad de Música Contemporánea
and of the Sociedad de Música Electroacústica.
Works: Irrelevancia (1976); Opusnón (1976); Apéritif’(1977); Flash
(1977); La montaña respira (1978); Respira a tu ritmo natural (1978);
Concierto de pequeñas acciones (1978); Liturgicante (1981); Ocurrencias
(1983); Jugarretas (1989); Esencia en escena (1991); El niño de la mirada
clara (1989); Bucuburucubú y la sombra comesombras (1993);
Orchestadas No.1, No.3, No.4, No.5, No.6, No.7; Fanfarria tropical, orch
(1985); Ahí te dejo eso, suite (1988); Concierto de las tres esferas (1989);
Canto de trabajo (1990); Ambientes vulnerables, vn (1993). Chamb, ch,
instr, dance, film, theater, electroacoustic music.
Sources: DMEH, EMV

Teruggi, Daniel, Argentine composer; 11 Mar 1952, La Plata, Argentina.

He received a degree in physics from the National Univ. of La Plata and
also studied music at the La Plata Cons. (1973–77). He moved to France
(1977) and entered the electroacoustics class at the Cons. National
Supérieur de Musique in Paris, receiving a diploma in 1980. In 1983 he
joined the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM), assumed artistic
responsibility for the group (1984), and became its Dir. (1997) and director
of research and experimentation at Ina-GRM (2001). He has explored the
SYTER (système en temps réel) audionumeric system, taught at the
Sorbonne since 1986, and became managing dir. of GRM (2012).
Works: Sphaera (1984-89); Xatys (1988); Syrus (1992); The shining space
(1999); Spaces of mind (2004); Parole perdue, acousmatic drama (2009);
Small ens, media support, instr music.
Sources: CW, NMLA

Terzián, Alicia, Argentine composer; b.1 Jul 1934, Córdoba, Prov. of

Córdoba, Argentina. She studied at the Cons. Prov. of Córdoba, and
graduated from the Cons. Nacional de Música Carlos López Buchardo of
Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1958. She studied piano with Rafael González
and Celia Bronstein, harmony and composition with Alberto Ginastera,
fugue with Gilardo Gilardi, counterpoint with Floro Ugarte, orchestration
with Roberto García Morillo. With Father Leoncio Daian at the
Congregazione Nazionale Mekitarista in Venice, Italy (1962), she was
involved in a research project concerning religious Armenian music,
neumes, and microtones. Secretary of the Board of Dir.s of the IMS.
Faculty member of the Univ. Católica Argentina, Consejo Argentino de la
Música, Asociación Argentina de Compositores, and Asociación Argentina
de Musicología, all of Buenos Aires. She taught at the Cons. Nacional de
Música Carlos López Buchardo (1960), at the Escuela Superior de Bellas
Artes of the Univ. Nacional of La Plata, Prov. of Buenos Aires, Argentina
(1967), and at the Inst. Superior de Arte of the Teatro Colón of Buenos
Aires (1968). Dir. of the Society for the Promotion of New Music in the
Three Americas and executive secretary of the Latin American and
Caribbean divisions of the International Music Council of UNESCO.
Works: Cantata de la tarde, nar, orch, ch (1958-59); Introducción y cántico
de primavera, based on Solomon’s Song of Songs, orch, ch (1958-59);
Movimiento sinfónico (1956); Recitativo dramático del mensajero, bass
(1957); Oración de Jimena, sop (1957); Escena lírica, sop, tnr (1957); First
symphony (1957); Vn concerto (1959); Movimientos contrastantes (1964);
Atmósferas II (1969-70); Gris de la noche (1969-70); Imágenes cósmicas II
(1970); Proagon, vn, str (1970); Sinfonía apocalíptica, tape (1978-80);
Achtamar, ballet (1979); Narek, voc, chamb orch, tape (1979); Y la luz se
oirá, chamb orch (1982); Amores, various instr, soloists, ens (1984-87);
Buenos Aires, me vas a matar, pn, actors, tape (1990); Yagua-ya Yuca, perc
(1992); Off the Edge, bar, str orch, tamtam (199293). Chamb, ch, pn, voc,
theater music.
Sources: DMEH, EMA, ISC, NGDWC

Teseo, René, Argentine composer; b.5 Jan 1926, Rio Cuarto, Prov. of
Córdoba, Argentina; d.29 Nov 1996, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He
graduated from the Escuela de Música of the Univ. del Litoral, Rosario,
Prov. of Santa Fe, Argentina. In Buenos Aires he studied piano with
Domingo Scarafia, Ruwin Erlich, Josefina Preli, and Moisés Makaroff,
harmony, counterpoint, composition, orchestration with Teodoro Fuchs,
Jacobo Ficher, and Roberto Garcia Morillo. He taught music theory and
harmony at the Escuela de Música D’Elía y Balmoral of the Univ. of La
Plata, Prov. of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Taught music at the Coro Nacional
de Niños. President of Juventudes Musicales de Argentina and the
Asociación Argentina de Compositores.
Works: El ser, cantata mixed ch, orch; Balada de la placeta, bar, children’s
ch, orch; Obertura para una quimera, orch; Suite para la juventud, orch;
Movimiento sinfónico, orch; Movimiento de tango, orch; Dos tangos, str
ens. Chamb, pn, ch, voc music.
Sources: DMEH, ISC

Thibaud, Alfonso, Argentine pianist and composer of French origin;

b.1861, Paris, France; d.1937, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied piano
with Antoine Marmontel at the Cons. National de Musique of Paris. He
founded the Cons. Thibaud-Piazzini in Buenos Aires (1904) with Edmundo
Piazzini.
Works: Suite, orch; Sonata, vn, pn; Str qt in E major; Ave Maria, org, ch,
orch.
Sources: DMEH, EMA

Thompson, Casildo, Argentine military officer and composer; b.1826,

Buenos Aires, Argentina; d.1873, Buenos Aires. He was one of the few
black Argentine soldiers to advance to the rank of lieutenant colonel. Father
of Casildo Gervasio Thompson. Upon departure from the military, he
immersed himself in music as an avid amateur.
Works: El tipógrafo, waltz, voc, pn (1862); La locomotive (1857);
Recuerdos del campamento (1865); Las ilusiones, romance (1870); Una
lágrima de amor, voc, pn.
Sources: DMEH, EMA

Thompson, Casildo Gervasio, Argentine poet, soldier, guitarist, and

composer; b.1856, Buenos Aires, Argentina; d.25 May 1928, Buenos Aires,
Argentina. Son of Casildo Thompson. Noted as a major Afro-Argentine
poet, he was also known for religious compositions. He studied music at the
cons. in Buenos Aires.
Works: Religious music; salon music.
Sources: DMEH

Tichavsky, Radko, Mexican composer of Czechoslovakian origin; b.15

Aug 1959, Jeseník, Czechoslovakia (today Czech Republic). He settled in
Mexico in 1984. He received a Licentiate degree in music from the Acad. of
Fine Arts in Czechoslovakia with Ctirao Kohoutek, and a MM from the
State Cons. Rimsky Korsakoff, St. Petersburg, Russia, with Boris Ivanovich
Tischenko. Prof. at the Escuela Nacional de Música of UNAM, at the
Escuela Superior de Música of INBA, both in Mexico City, Mexico, and at
Facultad de Música of the Univ. of Guadalajara, Mexico. Dir. of the Escuela
de Música of UANL, Mexico.
Works: Adentro, fantasia (1982); Encuentro, fantasia (1984); Parábolas,
ballet (1984); Dos piezas en un Movimiento (1988); Amadeus, overture
(1993). Chamb, pn, voc music.
Sources: DCMMC

Tieles Soler, Evelio, Cuban composer and dentist; b.28 Aug 1904, Pedro
Betancourt, Cuba; d.? He started music studies in his native town then
continued in Matanzas, Cuba. Later, he studied violin with Joaquín Molina,
and composition with Pedro Sanjuán and Ernesto Xancó. He graduated in
dentistry from the Univ. of Havana, Cuba.
Works: Sonata, va, pn; Elegía, voc, ch, orch; Gesta, poem by Pablo Neruda,
ch, orch; Pn concerto; Yerba H\hedionda, lyric drama; Danzas, pn. Songs.
Sources: DMC2, DMEH

Tirado, Pedro Ziménez Abril, Peruvian Kapellmeister, composer; b.1780,

Arequipa, Peru; d.1856, Sucre, Bolivia. Active in Lima early 19th century.
He played the vihuela and cello. He became music director in the cathedral
of Sucre (Feb 1838). After 1847 he shared the management of the chapel
with Julián Vargas.
Works: Misa, 8 voc, vn, ob, tpt, org, cb (1816); Ángeles virtudes, 4 voc, vn,
ob, tpt, org, cb (1819); Sinfonia concertante, orch; yaravies (Argentina
indigenous songs); Vn Concerto; overtures, orch; Str qnt (1836); Concerto,
cl obbligato, orch; Str qt; Symphony, orch (1838); Sinfonía concertante, 2
vn, 2 va, 2 ob, 2 tpt; chamb, gtr music.
Sources: DMEH

Tobar [Tovar], Alejandro Wolfano [Alex], Colombian composer,

violinist, conductor, instrumentalist, arranger, and teacher; b.24 May 1908,
Bogota, Colombia; d.23 Feb 1975, Bogota, Colombia. He studied violin,
composition, and conducting at the Cons. Nacional. He also played the
saxophone, clarinet, guitar, viola, flute, trumpet, piano, accordion, and
percussion instruments. At the age of nine he gave his first violin concert.
Around 1926 he played in orchestras using the name Alex Tovar. He played
violin in the Orq. Sinfónica Nacional and the orchestra of Efraín Orozco on
a tour through South America, conducted the orchestra at the radio station
Nueva Granada and the orchestra of Lucho Bermúdez in the hotel Nueva
Granada. He taught violin at the Cons. Nacional de Música in Bogotá.
Member of Sociedad de Autores y Compositores de Colombia and
periodically the president.
Works: Ballet guajiro; Atardecer en Partiaso, cl, orch; Agua sagrado, fl.
orch.
Sources: DMEH

Tollis (Tolis) de la Roca, Matheo, Mexican composer and harpsichordist of

Spanish origin?; b.ca.1710, Spain?; d.between 5-18 Sep 1781, Mexico City,
Mexico. He settled in Mexico City (1756) and became assistant
choirmaster, organist of the Mexico City Cathedral (1757).
Works: 4 orch masses; 3 Requiems; 14 liturgical compositions
accompanied by orch.
Bibl.: R. Stevenson, Renaissance and Baroque Musical Sources in the
Americas, Washington, DC, 1970.
Sources: DMEH, GDM

Tomás, Guillermo M., Cuban conductor, musicologist, teacher, and

composer; b.10 Oct 1868, Cienfuegos, Cuba; d.30 Oct 1933, Cienfuegos.
He began music studies with his father, went to New York, NY, USA (1888)
to continue his education, and received a Doctorate in music. He returned to
Cuba (1899), founded the Inst. Voc Aguado-Tomás, then the Banda del
Cuerpo de la Policía Nacional later called the Banda Municipal of Havana.
He founded the Escuela de Música O’Farrell (1903) later the Escuela
Municipal de Música of Havana, and founded and directed the journal
Bellas Artes (1908). He created the Orq. Sinfónica of Havana (1910) and
organized the Cons. Municipal de Música Félix Alpizar in Havana (1911).
Works: Sakuntala, opera; La oración del creyente, cantata, tnr, ch, wind
orch; Canto de guerra, vocs (1896); Veilée de fête, symph poem; Ronde
interrompue, symph poem; Escenas de un ballet imaginario, orch; Coral y
fuga, orch; Danzas íntimas, wind band; Esbozos de mi tierra, pn, orch. Pn
music.
Sources: DMC, GDM

Tomás Clovet, Tomás, Cuban conductor, pianist and composer; b.1820,

Cien-fuegos, Cuba; d.5 Sep 1887, Havana, Cuba. He studied piano in
Cienfuegos and later traveled to the United States to continue piano and
study harmony and composition. He returned to Cienfuegos (1845) and
founded the first orchestra in Cienfuegos which accompanied Italian opera
companies visiting the city. He students included his son, composer and
conductor Guillermo Tomás.
Works: Orch, chamb, pn music.
Sources: DMEH

Toni, Olivier George, Brazilian composer and conductor; b.27 May 1926,
São Paulo, Brazil. He began his music education with piano and bassoon
lessons then he studied theory, chamber music, composition, and
conducting with Martín Braunwieser, Hans Joachim Koellreutter, Camargo
Guarnieri, and Mario Rossini. Founded music groups and an orchestra in
São Paulo.
Works: Preludios, chamb orch (1946); Anunciação, voc, orch (1959); Três
variaçôes, orch (1959); Quatro poemas breves, sop, ch, orch (1989);
Estudo, orch (1996). Chamb, ch, pn, voc music.
Sources: CTA19, ISC

Toro, Tomás de, Peruvian composer; b.19th century, Peru. He was a

clarinetist, flutist, and band conductor. He was active in Lima (1831-35).
Sources: ADBM, DMEH

Toro Pérez, Germán, Colombian composer; b.4 Mar 1964, Bogotá,

Colombia. He studied guitar with Carlos Ramírez then entered the Univ. de
los Andes in Bogotá, where he continued to study music. He studied piano
privately with Sergio Mesa and harmony with Luis Torres Zuleta. He settled
in Frankfurt, Germany (1985), then went to Vienna, Austria, where he
studied composition with Erich Urbanner and conducting with Karl
Osterreicher at the Hochschule für Musik und Kunst, graduating in 1992.
He also studied conducting with Dominique Rouits in Szombathely,
Hungary.
Works: Earth, Light and Blue, str orch; Azogue, 2 orch groups (1992). Pn,
electroacoustic, voc, chamb music.
Sources: DMEH, LCRA

Torrá, Celia, Argentine violinist and composer; b.18 Sep 1889,

Concepción del Uruguay, Prov. of Entre Rios, Argentina; d.1962, Buenos
Aires, Argentina. She studied harmony, counterpoint, fugue, and
composition with Alberto Williams and Athos Palma in Buenos Aires, with
Paul Le Flem, and Vincent d’Indy in Paris, France, and with Zoltan Kodaly
in Budapest, Hungary. She also studied violin with Américo Montenegro
and Andrés Gaos in Buenos Aires, with César Thompson in Brussels,
Belgium, and with Jeno Hubay in Budapest. Artistic Dir. of the Asociación
Sinfónica Femenina and Asociación Coral Argentina.
Works: Rapsodia entrerriana, orch (1931); Suite Incaica, orch (1938);
Himno a la paz, ch, orch; Atardecer, ch, orch; El arroyo, ch, orch;
Crepuscular, ch, orch. Ch, pn, voc music.
Sources: CA, DM, DMEH, EMA, MLA, MMLA

Torre, Salvador, Mexican composer and flutist; b.26 Jun 1956, Veracruz,
State of Veracruz, Mexico. He studied composition at the Cons. Nacional de
Música of INBA, Mexico City, Mexico, with Mario Lavista and Daniel
Catán, and at the Cons. de Musique of Pantin, France, with Yosihisa Taïra,
Alain Louvier, and Sergio Ortega. Prof. at the Cons. Nacional de Música of
INBA, Escuela Superior de Música y Danza of Monterrey, Mexico, and the
Cons. de Música of the Estado de México, Mexico. Member of the Consejo
Estatal para la Cultura y las Artes of San Luis Potosí, Mexico.
Works: Azares de la tarde, orch (1979); Dos poemas de Valerio Magrelli,
orch (1982); Chamb concerto, orch (1984); Symphony No.1 “EK” (1990);
Bosquejo del quinto sol, mixed ch, bells (1992); Tlaloques, bcl, orch (2002-
03). Chamb, ch, electroacoustic, computer music.
Sources: DCMMC, DMEH, GP

Torre Bertucci, José, Argentine composer and teacher; b.8 Jul 1888,
Buenos Aires, Argentina; d.1970, Buenos Aires. He studied with Alberto
Williams and Eduardo Fornarini. Prof. of counterpoint and acoustics at the
Cons. Nacional de Música Carlos López Buchardo of Buenos Aires.
Member and vice-president of the Sociedad Nacional de Música.
Works: Sonata in C sharp minor, pn (1924); Suite in A, pn; Choral in C
minor, pn; Choral in A minor, pn; Duettino, vn, pn; Tres poemas (Soledad,
Canción Ingenua, El retorno), voc, pn.
Books: Tratado de Contrapunto, Buenos Aires, 1947.
Sources: CA, DM, DMEH, EMA, MLA, MMLA

Torre Suárez, Benigno de la, Mexican pianist, composer, and educator;

b.13 Feb 1854, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico; d.6 Nov 1912, Guadalajara,
Jalisco, Mexico. He began music study with José María Mendoza Ciprés.
He joined the chorus at the Opera Company of Ida Visconti (1872), was
active in the Teatro Degollado then moved to Tepic, Nayarit (1875), where
he studied harmony and piano with Miguel Meneses. He returned to
Guadalajara (1876) and sang in the choruses of the operetta companies of
Emilia Leonardi and Felipe Caballero. He played violin then viola in the
theater orchestra and studied piano and theory with Abel L. Loretto. He
taught vocal music at the Liceo de Niñas and music at the Escuela de Artes
y Oficios. He was organist at the Metropolitan Cathedral, substituting for
Francisco Godínez until 1884. He traveled to Paris (1885) to study piano in
the Cons. of Paris with Antoine-François Marmontel and composition with
Jules Duprato. Returning to Guadalajara (1886) he became concert master
at the Teatro Degollado. After 1907 he taught at a music academy.
Works: Fantasía para violencello y orquesta, vc, orch (1886); Marcha
fúnebre, orch (1896); Quatour a cordes, str (1896).
Sourcs: DMEH

Torre Suárez, Luis de la, Mexican pianist, violinist, composer, and painter;
b.16 Sep 1869, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico; d.1916, Guadalajara, Mexico.
He began studying music with his older brother Benigno de la Torre. He
was also student of Abel L. Loretto and Francisco Godínez.
Works: Suite de arcos; Poema heroic, voc, mixed ch (1908); Mazurka de
concierto qnt; Dos siglos en una noche, operetta (1899); Nacha (1891).
Sources: DMEH

Torrealba, José Antonio, Venezuelan violinist and composer; b.13 Feb

1886, Barquisimeto, Venezuela; d.? He studied music in his native city with
José María Pérez. Because of political conflict he moved to Cúcuta,
Colombia (1858), to continue his studies then returned to Barquisimeto. As
a politician he was one of the founders of Partido Liberal, participated in
the civil war, and became a general. He was a representative in the
government, District Attorney and president of the regional legislature. He
was assasinated.
Sources: DMEH

Torrealba, José Eligio, Venezuelan conductor, professor, and composer;

b.13 Nov 1909, Barquisimeto, Venezuela; d.? Brother of José Antonio
Torrealba, he studied music in his native city with José María Pérez and due
to political strife moved to Colombia where he continued to study music.
He joined the military with his brother, but then dedicated himself
exclusively to music. In 1862 he began teaching music in the secondary
schools of San Agustín and Yépez. He founded a concert orchestra, band,
dance orchestra, classical quartet, and performed.
Works: Misa en Re.
Sources: DMEH

Torrealba Pérez, Juan Vicente, Venezuelan harpist, and composer; b.20

Feb 1917, Caracas, Venezuela. His family moved to Camaguán, Apure
(Venezuela) where he had contact with folk music of the region. He played
the guitar as a child and at 16 he learned to play the harp then the quattro
and the maracas. He moved to Caracas (1950) and founded the group Los
Torrealberos. He toured internationally (1980s-90s).
Works: Sinfonía en el palmar; Concierto en la llanura; songs, concert
music.
Sources: DMEH

Torrejón y Velasco, Tomás de, Spanish composer active in Peru; b.23 Dec
1644, Villarobledo, Spain; d.23 Apr 1728, Lima, Peru. He came to Peru in
1666, and in 1676, became chapelmaster at the Cathedral of Lima.
Works: Sacred music; La púrpura de la rosa, first opera in the New World,
text by Calderón de la Barca (1701).
Sources: DMEH, DMM

Torrens [Torrents] Boqué, Eduardo, Argentine pianist and composer of

Spanish origin; b.1850, La Selva del Camp, Tarragona, Spain; fl.second half
of the 19th century. He studied piano under his father, an organist, and at 13
moved to Barcelona to join the orchestra in the Teatro Circo Barcelona as a
violinist. After an extensive tour through various American countries with
violinist Agustín Robbio he settled in Argentina (1878). He performed at
the Sociedad del Cuarteto.
Works: Gualteri, opera (1883); El secreto, opera (1900); Marangoré, opera.
Pn music.
Sources: DMEH, EMA
Torres, Carlos M., Colombian conductor, educator, and composer; b.1833,
Tunja, Colombia; d.1911, Tunja, Colombia. He began studying music with
his father, music director at the church of Santiago. He studied in the Acad.
Nacional de Música in Bogotá and promoted music in Tunja starting in
1877. He conducted the Banda del Estado Soberano de Boyacá which
performed his symphonies (1878) and taught at the Normal de Institutores.
He organized and conducted the Banda Departamental (1878-88).
Works: Sacred music, exercises for ch.
Books: Teoría de la música al alcance de todas las inteligencias (1879);
Colección de canciones fáciles para el uso de las escuelas del estado de
Boyacá (1880).
Sources: DMEH

Torres, José de, Mexican composer; he lived at the beginning of the 18th
century. Succesor to Manuel de Sumaya as chapelmaster at the Cathedral of
Mexico.
Works: Misa sobre los ocho tonos, voc, vn, cb; Letatus Sum, 5 voc, vn, ob,
hn, cb, org; Magnificat, 8 voc, vn, cb.
Sources: MMLA

Torres, Juan de Dios, Colombian composer; b.19th century, Colombia. He

began working at the Cathedral of Santafé de Bogotá (1817) and became
music director in 1826. Records indicate that he was there in 1844.
Works: Lauda Jerusalem (ca.1804); Missa ceciliana (1827); Missa de feria,
voc, accomp (ca.1827); Missa en Re menor, 2 voc (ca.1828); Vísperas de
virgenes (ca. 1828); De una virgin Hermosa. A nuestra Señora, voc, vn.
Sources: DMEH

Torres, René, Mexican composer and guitarist; b.1960.

Works: Vn concerto; Doña Zenaida, opera (2001); Tlatelolco (2006);
Alquimistas.
Sources: GP

Torres Barrós, Dolores Lorenza, Cuban conductor, professor, and

composer; b.15 Jun 1922, Havana, Cuba. She began studying the piano at
five years old then entered the Cons. Municipal de La Habana (1936) to
study harmony with Virginia Fleites and theory with José Ardévol (1937).
She joined the Grupo Renovación Musical (1942) to finish composition
studies. As a member of the Sociedad Coral de La Habana she studied vocal
music and conducting with Maróa Muñoz de Quevedo. She was director of
the Escuela de Cantro Coral de La Habana (1949-52), the Coro Juvenil del
Colegio El Salvador (1953-55), Musicalia (1954-55) and after 1961, the
Conjunto de Danza Moderna of Guernica, the Grupo Rita Montaner, the
Teatro Estudio, and the Conjunto Folklórico Nacional. She created
innovative choral arrangements and also worked with theatrical groups and
dancers. She was an editor for the magazine La Música.
Works: Quinteto para instrumentos de viento, wind qnt (1947); Concertino
sobre temas populares (1948); Ciclo de canciones para coro feminino,
women’s ch (1949); Cantata para un poeta muerto, dedicated to F.G. Lorca
(1952); ch music.
Sources: DMEH

Torres Donneys, Jaime, Colombian composer; b.30 Jul 1955, Cali,

Colombia. Involved in theatrical groups, participated in festivals in Cali and
Bogotá; he studied music at the Cons. de la Univ. Nacional de Bogotá
(1977-79) while working with the groups Cántigas Arbosféricas and Ars
Antigua. From 1979 he studied Colombian, Latin American, Spanish
literature and music composition with Antonio Benavides, Elsa Gutiérrez,
Ellie Anne Duque, Hernando Caro Mendoza, Luis Biava, Jesús Pinzón,
Patricia Pérez at the Univ. Nacional de Colombia. Beginning in the 1980s
he taught music and performed with the Orq. Sinfónica de Colombia under
conductors André Rieu and Luis Biava and experimental works with Luz
Sombra. He received a master’s degree in composition from the Univ.
Nacional de Colombia (1987) and participated in the founding of the
Asociación Colombiana de Compositores. He cataloged concert programs
for the Orquesta Filarmónica de Bogota (1988) and taught at the Cons. del
Tolima, in Ibagué city.
Works: Azucenas alacranadas, ch, 4 voc (1982); Sonata académica, pn
(1983); Piélago monotemático, orch, cu (1984); Tríptico, orch (1986).
Sources: DMEH

Torres Maldonado, Javier, Mexican composer; b.1968, Chetumal,

Mexico. He studied violin and composition at the Cons. Nacional de
Música (1982-1994) and studied electroacoustic composition with Sandro
Gorli and Alessandro Solbiati at the Cons. of Milan (1999-2003) and
IRCAM (2003). He then studied with Franco Donatoni and Azio Corghi at
the National Acad. of Santa Cecelia and the Acad. Chigiana of Siena.
Works: Exabrupto (1999); Figuralmusik III (1998); Silueta (2001); Como el
viento (2002); Currentes (2003); Obscuro Etiantum Lumine, vn, orch
(2004); Tres invensiones “Haydn” (2005); Esferal (2006); Sinfonía mixta
(2006-08).
Sources: GP

Torres Sáenz, Jorge, Mexican composer; b.1968, Mexico City. He studied

composition at UNAM and later with Jacques Charpentier and Alain
Louvier at the Paris Cons. He taught at the Univ. Iberoamericana.
Works: Laberintos (1995); Hommage a Ravel (1997); Le Muezzin passion
III (1997); Pn concerto (1997, rev. 2003); Danzas de Magdala (2004); El
Evangelio de Myriam (2004); Los crisantemos se incorporan etéros tras el
chubasco, bass fl, orch (2004); Canciones de la estrella imbécil, sop, orch
(2006, rev. 2010); L’echange, accordion, orch (2007-08); Uncle Meat
(Frank Zappa) (1997); Esa voz, bsn, orch (2009); Salón Calavera (2009);
Vanished Gazes, perc, orch (2011); For Paul Klee (2012).
Sources: CW, GP

Torres Santos, Raymond, Puerto Rican composer, pianist, arranger, and

Dir. for the television and movie industries in Hollywood; b.19 Jun 1958,
Río Piedras, Puerto Rico. He began to study music with his father, Ramón
Torres Olivo then continued at the Escuela Libre de Música with Jaime
Meléndez. He entered the Cons. de Música of Puerto Rico (1976) where he
studied piano with Narciso Figueroa, and composition with Amaury Veray.
He settled in Los Angeles, CA, USA (1980) and studied composition with
Henry Lazarof and Paul Reale, conducting with Samuel Kralmanick, and
film music with David Raskin at the Univ. of California at Los Angeles,
where he received a MM and a DM in composition. At the Inst. für Neu
Musik in Darmstadt, Germany, he studied with Brian Ferneyhough and
Clarence Brown (1982) and in 1985 he studied computer research in music
and acoustics at Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA. Assistant Prof. at the
California State Univ., San Bernardino. Taught and was chairman of the
music department at the Univ. of Puerto Rico, chancellor of the Cons. de
Música of Puerto Rico.
Works: Movements, ballet (1980); Sinfonietta concertante, orch (1980);
Esta es toda mi historia: sol, avidez, cansancio, cantata, mixed ch (1980);
Elegía de Reyes, cantata, nar, soloist, rondalla, chamb orch (1981);
Exploraciones, str orch (1982); La canción de las Antillas; Areytos, symph
picture (1986); El país de cuatro pisos (1988); Monchín del alma, ballet
(1988); Danza (1991). Chamb, ch, pn, film, tape music.
Sources: BB, CPR, DMEH, ISC

Torres Zulueta, Luis, Colombian composer; b.8 Mar 1941, Bogotá,

Colombia. He studied at the Cons. de la Univ. Nacional with Antonio
Benavides (harmony), José Rozo Contreras (band instrumentation), Olav
Roots (orchestration), and Fabio González Zuleta (counterpoint). Interested
in Colombian music, he was guided by Luis Biava, Gerald Brown, Druce
Morton Wright, and Olav Roots.
Works: Asíndeton, vn, vc, fl, ob, cl, p, perc; Cántico y fantasia temática,
orch, vc; Concertante, orch, vc; En la muerte de un árbol, ch;
Interversiones, wind qnt, pn; La trova paralela, orch; Monólogo y allegro,
orch, vn; Sinonimias, wind qnt, pn, perc; Tríade, vn vc, pn; Variacones,
orch, fl.
Sources: DMEH

Tort Oropeza, César, Mexican composer; b.4/14 Sep 1925, Puebla, State
of Puebla, Mexico. While his birth year is misreported in some sources, a
1950 ship manifest reveals his age as 25. He studied music with Ramón
Serratos, Pedro Michaca, and Juan D. Tercero in Mexico (1946-48), and
composition with Conrado del Campo, Nemesio Otaño, and Benito García
de la Parra at the Real Cons. of Madrid, Spain (1950-53). He also studied
with Aaron Copland at the Berkshire Music Center, Tanglewood, MA,
USA. When he returned to Mexico, he became involved in reorganizing
music education for children. Founder of the Taller de Educación Musical
Infantil of the Escuela Nacional de Música of UNAM, and of the Cons.
Nacional de Música of INBA, both in Mexico City, Mexico.
Works: Hilitos de oro, opera (1972); Estirpes, orch (1961); La espada,
cantata a Morelos, nar, mixed ch, orch (1965); Pasos…, ch, perc (1975);
Tianguis, ch, perc (1980); El pequeño huasteco, sop, ch (1980); El bosque
indiano (1990); La santa furia, sop, 2 tn, bar, nar, mixed ch (1992); Los
buhoneros (1996). Chamb, pn, voc, ch music.
Sources: BB, DCMMC, DMEH

Tortolero Leanivis, Numa, Venezuelan composer; b.21 Oct 1962, Caracas,

Venezuela. He studied in Caracas at the Escuela de Música José Angel
Lamas (1971) and Cons. Nacional Juan José Landaeta where he studied
harmony and counterpoint with Beatriz Lockhart, fugue and form with
Antonio Mastrogiovanni, history and aesthetics with José Peñín and
electroacoustic music with Eduardo Kusnir, graduating in 1992 in
composition. He also received a degree in philosophy from the Univ.
Central de Venezuela and was asst. researcher and dir. of musicology at the
Fundación Vicente Emilio Sojo. He published in the journals Música y
Ensayo and Umbrales, the latter edited by the Fundación Metrópolis, of
which he was a founding member.
Works: Dos piezas basadas en la situación de la ciudad: La avenia, La
oficina, magnetic tape (1986); Brisa que apenas, 4 voc (1987); Adagio para
cuarteto de cuerdas, str qt (1988); Pieza para orquesta, orch (1992).
Chamb, electroacoustic, voc music.
Sources: DMEH, EMV

Tosar Errecart, Héctor Alberto, Uruguayan composer, conductor, and

pianist; b.18 Jul 1923, Montevideo, Uruguay; d.18 Jan 2002, Montevideo.
He studied piano with Guillermo Kolischer, harmony with José Tomás
Mujica, and composition, instrumenation with Lamberto Baldi. With a
scholarship from the Guggenheim Foundation (1946) he studied
composition with Aaron Copland, conducting with Serge Koussevitzky in
the USA. Later, with a scholarship from the French government, he studied
composition with Darius Milhaud and Jean Rivier at the Cons. National de
Musique of Paris, France; composition with Arthur Honegger, conducting
with Pierre Fournet and Eugène Bigot at the Ecole Normale de Musique of
Paris. He taught at the Cons. de Música of Montevideo, and at the Univ. of
Montevideo. Chair of the composition dept. at the Cons. of Puerto Rico
(1974).
Works: 3 symphonies (1949, 1959, 1973); Concertino, pn, orch (1941);
Oda a Artigas, nar, orch (1951); Serie sinfónica (1952); Salmo C II, sop,
mixed ch (1955); Sinfonía concertante, pn (1957); Te Deum, bs, mixed ch
(1960); Recitativo y variaciones (1967); Aves errantes, bar, 11 instr (1964).
Chamb, sacred, ch, pn, voc music.
Sources: BB, BHMCU, CTA6, DCM, DM, DMEH, GDM, MLA, MMLA,
MU

Toscano Giúdice, Alberto Oscar, Argentine conductor and composer;

b.1906, Buenos Aires, Argentina; d.1974. After his ordination as a priest he
studied composition with Gilardo Gilardi. He was a professor at the
Seminario Pontificio (1926-46) and at the Univ. Nacional de Litoral. He
was conductor and organist at the church El Salvador and at the
Metropolitan Cathedral of Buenos Aires. He left the clergy to dedicate
himself exclusively to music. He conducted the orch. of Teatro Argentino
de La Plata and Orch. Symph. de Paraná (1954).
Works: Oremos pro Pontífice, ch, 3 voc; sacred music.
Sources: DMEH

Tosco, Virgilio, Argentine composer and educator; b.21 May 1930,

Achiras, Córdoba, Argentina; d.1 Jul 2000, Córdoba, Argentina. He
graduated from the Escuela de Artes de la Univ. Nacional de Córdoba
(1957) where he studied harmony, form, and fugue. He taught music in
secondary schools and after 1958 moved to Viedma (Rio Negro province)
where he continued to teach. He was a delegate in the Fondo Nacional de
las Artes for Rio Negro province and was general dir. of culture there
(1958-62). He taught and trained teachers at the Escuela de Artes de la
Univerisdad and conducted choirs. He helped create the Centro de Música
Experimental in the Escuela de Artes, a laboratory for electro acoustic
music and the Collegium, a private center for education and musical
research.
Works: Música 1965, pn, 2 performers; Visión apocalíptica, pn, 2
performers; Complejos no. 1-5, heterogeneous groups of instr; Pieza para
cuarteto de cuerdas, str qt; Complejo n°5; Estudio no.3; Atmósferas II.
Sources: DMEH

Toussaint Uhthoff, Eugenio, Mexican composer and pianist; b.9 Oct 1954,
Mexico City, Mexico; d.8 Feb 2011, Mexico City. Mainly self-taught, he
took classes in harmony with Jorge Pérez Herrera, piano with Néstor
Castañeda (1974) and with Mario Lavista, Roberto Sierra, and Lucas Foss.
With a scholarship from FONAPAS (1980) he studied orchestration with
Albert Harris at the Dick Grove Music School in Los Angeles, CA, USA.
He returned to Mexico (1986) to compose. A member of the national
system Creadores del Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (1994).
Works: Calaveras, imaginary ballet (1995); Días de los muertos, ballet
(1997); Vc concerto no.1 (1982-1991); Hijo de la ciudad, concerto, pn, jazz
orch (1990); Popol Vuh, symph poem (1991); Danzas de la ciudad, chamb
orch (1991); Gauguin, harp, eh, str (1992); Suite de las ciencias, chamb
orch (1992); Gtr concerto (1994); Suite galáctica (1995); El cambio, chamb
orch (1995); Symphony no.1 “El Viaje de la vida” (1995); Bouillabaise,
chamb orch, pn (1996); Concertino (1997); Vc concerto no.2 (1999); Kay
Nieté (1999). Chamb, solo instr, pn, ch, voc music.
Sources: DCMMC, DMEH, ISC

Traversari Salazar, Pedro Pablo, Ecuadorian composer; b.28 Jul 1874,

Quito, Ecuador; d.6 Jul 1956, Quito. He studied flute with Federico
Lucares, cello, double-bass with Giuseppe Marangoni, and harmony and
composition with Federico Stöber at the Cons. Nacional de Música of
Santiago de Chile, Chile. He also studied in Paris, France, in Rome, Italy,
and in Basel, Switzerland. Taught voice at the Inst. Nacional of music
theory, solfeggio, and music history at the Cons. Nacional de Música, and
Dir. of the Acad. Musical, all in Santiago de Chile. Dir. of the Cons.
Nacional de Música y Declamación of Quito, Prof. at the Acad. de Bellas
Artes of Riobamba, Ecuador, and Prof. of musicology and folklore at the
Univ. Central of Quito.
Works: Cumandá o La Virgen de las Selvas, melodrama; La profecía de
Huiracocha, melodrama; Kizkiz o El último exponente del alma incaica,
melodrama; Los hijos del sol, melodrama; La araucana, melodrama.
Glorias andinas, symph poem; Meditación, orch. Dances, hymns.
Books: Tratado Práctico de Teoría General de la Música; Método Ilustrado
de Caligrafía Musical; Sinopsis de las Relaciones de la Escala General
Temperada; Historia General Ilustrada de la Música Indígena y Popular de
los Paises Americanos; Tratado de Musicología; Tratado de Folklore
Ecuatoriano.
Sources: DM, DMEH, MG, MLA, MMLA

Trespuentes, José [Vetusto Claro], Cuban teacher and composer of

Spanish origin; b.1798, Logroño, Spain; d.1862, Havana, Cuba. He settled
in Havana (1823) to teach music, algebra, and geometry at the Colegio San
Cristóbal. Organist at the Cathedral of Havana. Became Dir. of the Sección
de Música of the Liceo of Havana (1844). Editor of the journal Revista
Musical. He founded music schools (1823 and 1842) for teaching harmony,
counterpoint, and composition.
Works: Gonzalo de Córdoba, opera; Le baccanale di Roma, opera; Stabat
Materi; Mass. Chamb, voc music.
Sources: DMC, DMEH

Treviño Tapia, José Guadalupe, Mexican conductor and composer; b.21

Aug 1889, Santa Clara del Cobre, Michoacán, Mexico; d.21 Apr 1983,
Mexico City, Mexico. His father was an organist then he became organist at
the Cathedral of Morelia. He became a priest (1914) and worked in Espiritú
Santo (1920). He was invited to Solesmes, France, to study Gregorian
chant. In addition to composing he wrote many books and managed the
journal La Cruz for 62 years.
Works: Sacred music.
Sources: DMEH

Triegeque, José Ygnacio, Mexican flutist, composer, scribe, arranger,

collector, and music teacher; fl.1805-50. Born in Mexico City, he entered
the Catedral Metropolitana in Mexico City in 1805 and is mentioned in
1807 in the Diario de México. In 1816 he was active in the Orq. del Coliseo
de México and in 1819 was part of the orch. Honras de la Reina María
Isabel Francisca de Braganza y Borbón. Between 1822 and 1823 he played
in the Orq. de la Capilla Imperial de Agustín de Iturbide. His name
appeared (1840) in association with the orchestra of Narciso Sort de Sanz.
With his brother Matías and others he founded music academies in Mexico
(1822). He was music director of the Cathedral of Mexico (ca. 1842), asst.
conductor and played flute in the orchestra of the cathedral. Many
manuscripts conserved in the Cathedral Mexico have the initials JYT on
them.
Works: Ecce quam bonum et quam judundum habitare unum, 4 voc, vn, fl,
cl, tps, accomp (1842); manuscripts dated 1840, 1842-43, 1850.
Sources: DMEH

Trigos, Juan, Mexican composer and conductor; b.26 Feb 1965, Mexico
City, Mexico. He studied at the Cons. Nacional de Música of INBA,
Mexico City, and the Istituto de Liturgia, Musica, e Arte Cardinale
Miranda, and the Cons. di Musica Giuseppe Verdi of Milan, these last two
in Italy. He studied with Franco Donatoni and Jesús Villaseñor. Co-founder
of Ensamble Sones Contemporáneos, 1988, and Ensamble Música XX,
1992.
Works: Sansón, ballet (1985); Gloria (1986); Xochiyaoyotl (1988); Sax sin
aliento (1988); Cantata concertante no. 1 Magnificat guadalupano (1990,
rev.2001); Liguero (1991); Danza concertante No.1, pic (1992); Calzones
rojos, from the opera De cachetito raspado (1995); Ricercare I (1995);
Ricercare de cámara II (1998); Ricercare de cámara VI, Gtr concerto no. 1
(1999); Concerto, 4 gtrs, 4 instr groups (2001); Bagattella para Bartók
(rev.2002); Homenaje a Manuel M. Ponce, gtr concerto (2003); Ni una gota
de conciencia (2004); Hispano, gtr concerto no. 2 (2006); Historia de
cabeza (2006); Triple concerto no. 1, cl, bsn, pn (2006); Triple concerto no.
2, fl, cl, pn (2007); Concerto for double bass (2008); Cantata concertante
no. 2 (2010); Concerto, 4 gtrs, orch (2010); Symphony no. 1 (2007);
Concertante no. 3, Phos Hilaron (2011); Symphony no. 2 (2010). Chamb,
pn music.
Sources: DMEH, DCMMC, GP

Tristán de Tillit, Joaquina, Peruvian composer; active ca. 1890, Peru.

Works: Amalia, waltz, pn (1890); pn music.
Sources: DMEH

Troiani, Cayetano, Argentine pianist, teacher, and composer of Italian

origin; b.20 Oct 1873, Chieti, Italy; d.30 Sep, 1942, Buenos Aires,
Argentina. He studied piano with Achille Simonetti, composition with
Paolo Serrao, and harmony with Camillo De Nardis at the Cons. Reale di
Musica San Pietro a Majella of Naples, Italy. Co-Dir. and later, Dir. of the
Inst. Musical Santa Cecilia of Buenos Aires. Prof. of harmony at the Cons.
Nacional de Música Carlos López Buchardo of Buenos Aires.
Works: Scene infantili, suite, orch; Estilo y cueca, str orch; Ettincelles, 15
pieces, pn; Rêves et fantaisies, 20 pieces, pn; Evocaciones, 3 pieces, pn;
Ritmos argentinos, 7 folkloric pieces, pn; Motivos de la sierra y la llanura,
12 folkloric pieces, pn; Overture, orch.
Sources: CA, DM, DMEH, EMA, MLA
Troya, Luis, Venezuelan composer and educator; b.3 Dec 1882, Maiquetía,
Venezuela; d.9 Dec 1929, Turmero, Venezuela. He was sent to Valencia,
Venezuela, to study with Salesian priests (1894) including Father Jacinto
Piana. He conducted the school band, played piano, violin, clarinet, and
trumpet, composed, and taught. From 1905 until he died he was music
director of the Cathedral in Valencia, founded a chorus and orchestra of 15
teachers with religious posts. Most of his music has been lost.
Works: La desesperación de Judas, ch, orch; Himno al Obispo de Valencia,
ch, orch; 15 masses, 64 motets.
Sources: DMEH

Troyo Pacheco, Rafel Ángel, Costa Rican composer; b.1875, Cartago,

Costa Rica; d.4 May 1910, Cartago, Costa Rica. Poet and composer, he died
in the earthquake of Cartago (1910).
Works: Book of compositions printed in Europe.
Sources: DMEH

Tsilicas, Jorge, Argentine composer; b.16 Oct 1930, Buenos Aires,

Argentina; d.2 Jan 1995, Buenos Aires. He studied harmony, counterpoint,
fugue, instrumentation, and composition with Jacobo Ficher, and form with
Enrique Belloc and Francisco Kröpfl. With a scholarship from the Italian
government and the Fondo Nacional de las Artes of Argentina, he attended
workshops with Franco Donatoni at the Cons. Verdi in Milan, and with
Boris Porena at the Accad. di Musica Santa Cecilia in Rome, both in Italy.
He taught contemporary music courses organized by ISCM at the Teatro
General San Martín of Buenos Aires,
Works: Tres piezas, str orch (1968); Homenaje, nar, orch (1971); Texturas,
chamb orch (1972); De Thanatos a Eros, orch (1974); Serenata, gtr, str orch
(1977); Microformas, chamb ens (1979); Oda a Picasso, nar, chamb ens
(1985); Secuencias concertantes, gtr, orch (1986); Tres poemas, voc, chamb
ens (1987); Cuadruplum, chamb ens (1988); Latinoamericano, voc, chamb
ch, instr ens (1991); Triplum, fl, cl, bsn (1992); Termópolis, mixed ch
(1993); Canto al hombre de mi tierra, voc, str orch. Chamb, ch, voc music.
Sources: DMEH, DMM, ISC

Tucci, Terig, Argentine violinist, pianist, mandolinist, orchestrator,

composer, conductor, b.23 Jun 1897, Buenos Aires, Argentina; d.28 Feb
1973, Forest Hills, New York. He studied violin with Luis Vívoli and
theory and harmony with Alfonso de María in the Inst. Musical Cesi de
Buenos Aires. He played violin in theaters and cinemas and performed with
a chorus and orchestra he organized (1919-23). He moved to the United
States (1923) and after non-musical jobs began orchestrating and arranging
Latin American music. He worked at NBC with directors and performers
(1930-41), orchestrated, composed, and conducted the orchestra of
International General Electric in Schenectady, New York (1931-40),
composed for radio shows and movies, commercial firms (Bayer, 1936-40),
and worked as musical director for the Latin American Exposition for
Macy’s (1942). He arranged and directed Latin American radio programs
for CBS, ABC, for Channel for the Americas (1941-47), composed for
films, documentaries, and radio programs for the United Nations (1953-57).
Musical director for the Latin American division of La Voz de América
(1951-59), he supervised Latin American recordings for companies
including RCA Victor (1932-64), Colombia, Decca, Estudiantina
Colombiana, the Estudiantina Tucci, the Orquesta Colombiana Victor. He
conducted for Paramount, formed the Trío Albéniz with the Catalan
Antonio Francés (laud) and the Colombian Adolfo Mejía (guitar). He
invented the laudarpa, a cross between the laud and harp.
Works: Cariños de madre, operetta (1917); Almafuerte, orch (1919); Flor
incaica, chamb orch; Cuesta abajo, film.
Sources: DMEH

Tudón Toledo, Raúl, Mexican composer, percussionist; b.3 Jul 1961,

Mexico City, Mexico. Self-taught in composition, he studied percussion at
the Escuela Nacional de Música of UNAM, Mexico City.
Works: Tolteca (1986); Double concerto, marimba, vibraphone (1993);
Khantrha (Jardín de nubes), perc (1996); Trece danzas para enfrentar la
muerte, marimba (1996); Templos, perc (1996-97); Siempre es conveniente
andar por los seneros que llevan al valle del silencio, y aprender los
misterios del día y de la noche, marimba, orch (1997). Chamb, ch,
electroacoustic, computer music.
Sources: DCMMC, DMEH, GP

Tuxen-Bang, Carlos, Argentine composer and pianist; b.24 May 1933,

Santiago del Estero, Prov. of Santiago del Estero, Argentina. He began
music studies at the Cons. Manuel Gómez Carrillo of Santiago del Estero.
He entered the Cons. Nacional de Música Carlos López Buchardo of
Buenos Aires (1950) where he studied piano with Rafael González,
counterpoint and orchestration with José Torre Bertucci and Floro Ugarte,
and composition with Athos Palma and Alberto Ginastera. After graduating
(1953), with a scholarship from the French government (1958) he studied in
Paris, France, with René Leibowitz, Eugène Bigot, and Olivier Messiaen.
He taught at the Cons. Nacional de Música Carlos López Buchardo (1955),
and substitute conducted at the Teatro Colón, both of Buenos Aires., He
settled in France (1958), where he worked as a piano accompanist.
Works: 2 str qts (1951, 1958); Tres motetes, ch a cappella (1951); Balada
sinfónica, orch (1952); Variaciones Lauda Sion Salvatorem, pn (1952);
Concerto, tpt, str (1955); Coral, interludio, y fuga, pn (1957); Canciones de
San Juan de la Cruz, ch a cappella (1957); Nocturnos, voc, pn (1957);
Variaciones, orch (1959); Quince Robaiyat de Omar Khayam, bar, pn
(1959-64); Abyssus, 4 pieces, orch (1966).
Sources: CA, DMEH, EMA
 U
Ubeda, Friar José Manuel, Uruguayan composer of Spanish origin;
b.ca.1760, Valencia, Spain; d.4 May 1823, Porongos, Uruguay. He went to
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (1800), and settled in Montevideo, Uruguay (1801).
Works: Misa para el día de los difuntos, 4 voc, instr (1802).
Sources: BHMCU, DMEH, MU

Ubieta, Enrique, Cuban composer and conductor; b.13 Aug 1934, Havana,
Cuba. He studied composition, harmony, and orchestration and at the Cons.
Municipal de La Habana (later Amadeo Roldán), theory with Dolores
Acosta, sight-reading with Mario O’Hallorans, and piano with Francisco
Villafañe, graduating in 1933. He composed for the Teatro de Bellas Artes,
film, radio, television, and collaborated on articles about Cuban folklore in
the newspaper, El Mundo. After the Cuban Revolution (1959) he composed
music for the official hymn of the agrarian reform. Later he created music
for Realengo 18, the first feature-length film of the Instituto Cubano del
Arte e Industria Cinematográficos (ICAIC), and was among the founding
composers of its music dept. After 1964 he settled in Paris then moved to
the United States (1965). He worked for the American Counsel for Emigres
in the Professions (1968), cofounded and conducted at the theater of the
Americas.
Works: Adagio a un adagio, str orch; Canon over Hanon, vn, vc, p; Ensayo
típico no.1, str orch; Ensayo tipico no.2, str orch; Ensayo tipico no.3, str
orch; Himno agrario, voc, orch (1959); Three Symphonic Pictures (Plaza de
last res culturas; Tango del quinto paso; Tierra de la eternal primavera),
orch, choreographic movement; Variaciones sobre una angustia, vc. Voc,
film, radio music.
Sources: CW, DMEH

Ugarte [Hugarte], Floro M., Argentine composer; b.15 Sep 1884, Buenos
Aires, Argentina; d.11 Jun 1975, Buenos Aires. He studied violin with
Hércules Galvani, and harmony with Cayetano Troiani in Buenos Aires.
Later he studied harmony with Emil Pesard and Albert Lavignac, and
counterpoint, composition, instrumentation with Félix Fourdrain at the
Cons. National de Musique of Paris, France. He returned to Argentina
(1913). Prof. and Dir. of the Cons. Nacional de Música Carlos López
Buchardo, at various times music Dir. of the Teatro Colón, and Dir. of the
Cons. Superior de Música Manuel de Falla, all of Buenos Aires. Also Prof.
at the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes of the Univ. of La Plata, Prov. of
Buenos Aires, Argentina. President of the Sociedad Nacional de Música and
member of the Comisión Nacional de Cultura.
Works: Paisaje de estío, orch (1912); Cortejo chino, orch (1913); Escenas
infantiles, orch (1915); Saika, operatic fairy tale (1920); El junco, ballet
(1955); Entre las montañas, symph poem (1922); De mi tierra, 2 symph
suites (1923, 1934); La barca, poem, voc, orch (1925); La rebelión del
agua, symph poem (1931); Symphony in A (1947); Tango (1951); Vn
concerto (1964). Chamb, pn, voc, bandonion music.
Books: Manual de Armonía (1920); Elementos de Acústica (1930).
Sources: BB, CA, CTA1, DM, DMEH, EMA, GDM, MLA, MMLA

Ugarte, José Benigno [Avoquini, Etragu], Peruvian composer and critic;

b.13 Feb 1857, Arequipa, Peru; d.29 Dec 1919, Lima, Peru. He studied law
at the Univ. de San Marcos in Lima, worked as a lawyer and teacher.
Mostly self-taught as a composer he wrote music and often text for
operettas, band and salon music. A music critic for El Comercio he wrote
under the pseudonyms Avoquini and Etragu. He founded and directed the
journals La Armonía (1900-02) and El Timón. He was author of didactic
texts.
Works: Minué, pn (1888); Noble pueblo, ch, orch (1888); El incendio, band,
whistles, sirens, bells (1898); Preludio, orch (1900); Canción normalista,
voc, pn (1911); El trabajo, ch, orch (1918).
Books: Lecciones de música, 2 vols. (Lima, Rosay, 1906); Tratado de
harmonía.
Sources: DMEH

Uguccioni, Alejandro, Spanish violinist and composer; b.1841, Barcelona,

Spain; d.29 Apr 1895, Montevideo, Uruguay. Brother of José, he studied
with his father, violinist José [Guiseppe] Uguccioni, and performed at the
age of 5 in the Teatro de la Victoria in Buenos Aires. The family moved to
Brazil then returned to Uruguay (1859) where he became concertmaster in
the orchestra of Teatro Solís (1859 until he died). He performed as a soloist
and after August 1884 played in the Cuarteto de Cuerdas of the Cons.
Musical La Lira.
Works: Une nuit a Cadix el vals, pn; pn, salon music
Sources: DMEH

Uguccioni, José, Uruguayan pianist and composer of Spanish birth; b.19th

century, Barcelona, Spain; d.? Montevideo, Uruguay. Son of violinist José
[Guiseppe] Uguccioni, brother of Alejandro, though not as virtuosic, he
gave recitals and performed in chamber ensembles.
Works: Marcia fúnebre; Una lágrima; La priere d’un ange; pn, voc music.
Sources: DMEH

Ulloa Barrenechea, Ricardo, Costa Rican composer, teacher, painter, poet,

writer, art crtic; b.15 Apr 1928, San Jose, Costa Rica. He began studying
music with Guillermo Aguilar Machado in the Cons. Nacional and later
took private classes with Carlos Enrique Vargas. He transferred (1953) and
graduated from the Real Cons. de Madrid and also studied painting and
aesthetics in Spain. On his return to San Jose he taught at the Cons. de
Castella, the Univ. Autónoma de Centro América, and at conferences at the
Univ. de Costa Rica. He won awards in music, poetry, and painting in
Spain, Costa Rica, and Italy.
Works: Soledad y tierra, voc, pn (1962); Andante y allegro, 2 pn (1975);
Pieza para violin y piano, vn, pn (1981); Pieza para flauta y piano, fl, pn
(1987).
Books: Pintores de Costa Rica (ed. Costa Rica, 1975) La música y su
secretos (two editions, Ed. Costa Rica, 1978, 1979).
Sources: DMEH

Umaña Santamaría, Carlos, Colombian composer; b.1862, Bogotá,

Colombia; d.1917, Bogotá. He began to study piano in Colombia, and
completed his studies in Rome, Italy, where he was also ordained a priest at
the Colegio Pío Latino. Choirmaster at the Cathedral of Bogotá.
Works: Himno Latino, ch, org, orch; Mass; Cuento árabe, pn; Estudios y
valses, pn.
Sources: DMEH, MMLA
Ureña Morales, José Joaquín de Jesus, Costa Rican composer; b.2 Jan
1905, Desamparados, Costa Rica; d.? He studied with Julio Fonseca and
later with Carlos Enrique Vargas.
Works: Caminito del maizal, voc; school songs.
Sources: DMEH

Uribe, Horacio, Mexican composer; b.17 May 1970, Mexico City. He

studied at the Moscow P. I. Tchaikovsky Cons. in Russia. Research prof. at
the Univ. Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo and the Cons. de las
Rosas in Morelia, Michoacan.
Works: Horizontes, symph poem (1995); Concerto, pic, fl, bass fl (2005);
Canto a Nezahualcóyotl (2010); String Trio no.2.
Sources: GP

Uribe Bueno, Luis, Colombian composer, conductor, arranger,

instrumentalist, and educator; b.7 Mar 1917, Salazar de las Palmas,
Northern Santander, Colombia; d.10 Jul 2000, Medellín, Colombia. He
began his musical training with Luis Morttolly and the priest Lorenzo
Rivera. He played string instruments, including guitar. He taught in
secondary schools and academies of music in Cúcuta (1938). He was in the
vocal/instrumental trio Los Norteños, the orchestra of Anastasio Bolívar,
and the ensemble of Luis A. Calvo. He joined the orchestra of Lucho
Bermúdez (1948) and began conducting the group at the beginning of the
1950s when he settled in Medellin. Recognized on the national level for his
educational works he won the competition Concurso Fabricato de Música
Nacional four times (1948-51). He worked as an artistic director, arranger,
and producer for the recording company Sonolux (1952-70). Representing
traditional indigenous music of Colombia he traveled throughout Latin
America and worked in the Dirección de Extensión Cultural of the
department of Antioquia.
Works: El silletero, orch; Pequeño suite antioqueña, orch; Tierra
antioqueña, orch; Padrenuestra, ch; Dolor profundo, voc; Tristeza, voc; El
cisne negro, qnt; Cuarteto en miniature, str qt.
Sources: DMEH

Uribe Holguín, Guillermo, Colombian composer, violinist; b.17 Mar

1880, Bogotá, Colombia; d.26 Jun 1971, Bogotá. He studied violin with
Ricardo Figueroa, harmony with Santos Cifuentes, and counterpoint with
Augusto Azzali at the Acad. Nacional de Música of Bogotá. He also studied
violin with Narciso Garay. He went to Paris, France (1907), where he
studied violin with Armand Parent, and composition with Vincent d’Indy at
the Schola Cantorum. Later, he took violin lessons with César Thompson
and Emile Chaumont in Brussels, Belgium. He returned to Colombia
(1910), became Dir. of the newly reorganized Cons. Nacional of Bogotá,
previously the Acad. Nacional de Música of Bogotá, resigned (1935) but
was reappointed Dir. (1942-47).
Works: Furatena, opera; Prometheus vinctus, incidental music; Sinfonía del
terruño, orch (1924); Tres danzas, orch (1927); Marcha festiva (1928);
Serenata (1928); Carnavalesca (1929); Cantares (1929); Villanesca (1930);
Bajo su ventana (1930); Suite típica (1932); Concierto a la manera antigua,
pn (1939); Bochica (1940); 11 symphonies (1910-1950); Conquistadores
(1959); 2 vn concertos; Va concerto; 10 str qts; 2 pn trios; 7 vn sonatas; Vc
sonata; Va sonata; Pn qt; 2 pn qnts. Ch, sacred, voc music.
Books: Vida de un Músico Colombiano, Bogotá, 1941 (autobiography).
Bibl.: F.C. Lange, Guillermo Uribe Holguín, Boletín Latino-Americano de
Música, Vol.4, Bogotá, 1938. L.A. Escobar, El Maestro Guillermo Uribe
Holguín: Un Precursor de la Música en Colombia, Lámpara, Vol.4., 1957.
G.G. Randón, Maestros de la Música: Guillermo Uribe Holguín (1880-
1971), Música, Havana, 1971.
Sources: BB, CTA1, DM, DMEH, GDM, MLA, MMLA

Uribe Vélez, Iván, Colombian pianist, conductor, and composer; b.22 Feb
1928, Medellin, Colombia. He studied theory, piano and harmony at the
Joaquín Fuster academy. He performed at the Conjunto Gonzalo Vidal,
directed by Emilio Velásquez, and later worked with orchestras of Arturo
Salazar, Pablo Orozco, and Antonio María Peñaloza. He moved to Bogotá
(1949) to perform as a pianist in the orchestras of Mario Maurano, Juanito
López, and Alex Tobar, the ensembles Oriol Rangel and Francisco
Cristancho, and in the radio station Nuevo Mundo. He conducted the
orchestra and the radio station La Voz de Colombia. He was an arranger and
conductor of the Orquesta Sonolux de Medellin then became a piano
technician.
Works: Concierto atemático, pn, orch; Cuarteto de cuerdas, str qt;
Fantasía, pn.
Sources: DMEH

Urquieta, Felipe Lino, Peruvian composer; b.1898, Arequipa, Peru; d.? He

studied in Spain and possibly in France, then settled in Barcelona where he
collaborated on the Enciclopedia Espasa Calpe. His writings show that he
was an enthusiastic defender of the search for a proper American musical
language, defending Gottschalk as one of the founders.
Works: Cuento macabro: música futurista, pn (1919); Pastoral, pn (1920);
Cor-al-ca non, ob vn, tpt vc (1921); Preludio, 2 vn, vc (1921).
Sources: DMEH

Urreta (Urrueta) Arroyo, Alicia, Mexican pianist, teacher, and composer;

b.12 Oct 1930, Veracruz, Mexico; d.20 Dec 1986, Mexico City, Mexico.
She studied piano with Joaquín Amparán, and harmony with Rodolfo
Halffter in Mexico City (1948-54). She also studied with Eduardo
Hernández Moncada, León Mariscal, and Sandor Roth. She studied with
Jean-Etienne Marie at the Schola Cantorum of Paris, France (1969) and
piano privately with Alfred Brendel and Alicia de Larrocha. Instructor in
acoustics at the Inst. Politécnico Nacional of Mexico City. Full-time pianist
at the Orq. Sinfónica Nacional of Mexico. Founder of the Camerata de
México.
Works: Romance de Doña Balada, opera (1973); Teogónica mexica (1975);
Arcana, amplified pn (1981); Esferas noéticas (1982); El espejo encantado,
salsópera (1985). Chamb, ch, pn, electroacoustic, computer music.
Sources: BB, DCMMC, DMEH, GP, NGDWC

Urrutia Blondel, Jorge, Chilean composer and musicologist; b.17 Sep

1905, La Serena, Chile; d.7 May 1981, Santiago de Chile, Chile. He studied
piano with Raúl Hügel, and composition with Pedro Humberto Allende and
Domingo Santa Cruz in Chile. He traveled to Europe (1928) where he
studied with Charles Koechlin, Paul Dukas, and Nadia Boulanger in Paris,
France, and with Paul Hindemith and Hans Mersmann in Berlin, Germany.
When he returned to Chile he taught theory, harmony, and composition at
the Cons. Nacional of Chile in Santiago de Chile. Secretary and acting dean
of the Facultad de Ciencias y Artes Musicales of the Univ. of Chile and
researcher at the Inst. de Investigaciones Musicales, both in Santiago de
Chile.
Works: La guitarra del diablo, ballet (1942), from which he extracted 2
symph suites; Música para un cuento de antaño, orch (1948); Pn concerto
(1950); Pn trio (1933); Concertino, harp, gtr (1943); Str qt (1944); Vn
sonata (1954). Ch, pn, voc music.
Bibl.: V. Salas Viú, La Creación Musical en Chile, 1900-1951, Santiago de
Chile, 1952.
Sources: BB, CTA14, DM, DMEH, GDM, HMC, MLA, MMLA

Urteaga, Irma Graciela, Argentine composer and conductor; b.7 Mar

1929, San Nicolás, Prov. of Buenos Aires, Argentina. She started music
studies in Paraná, Prov. of Entre Ríos, Argentina. Later, she studied in
Buenos Aires, Argentina, first at the Cons. Nacional de Música Carlos
López Buchardo with Roberto Caamaño, Valdo Sciammarella, Roberto
García Morillo, Carlos Suffern, and Alicia Terzian, and then, at the Inst.
Superior de Arte del Teatro Colón of Buenos Aires with Jacobo Ficher,
Enrique Sivieri, Jorge Fontenla, and Carlos Malloyer. She also studied
piano with María Lucrecia Madariaga de Gilardi, Josefa Hernandorena, and
Jorge Fanelli, and harmony with Beatriz Hernandorena and Gilardo Gilardi.
She took private lessons with Isaac Weinstein and Roberto Kinsky. Prof. at
the Cons. Nacional de Música Carlos López Buchardo and the Inst.
Superior de Arte of the Teatro Colón. Assistant conductor at the Teatro
Colón (1974-77). Secretary of the Consejo Argentino de la Música.
Member of the Compositores Unidos de la Argentina. Vice-president of the
Asociación Argentina de Compositores.
Works: Ámbitos, orch (1970); Paolo y Francesca, sop, tn, perc, chamb orch
(1971); L’inferno, mixed ch (1971); La maldolida, opera (1987); El mundo
del ser, mez sop (1989); Concerto, marimba (1994). Chamb, pn, voc, ch
music.
Sources: DMEH, ISC, NGDWC, VMA

Urzúa, Armando, Chilean composer; b.1903, Curicó, Chile; d.1941,

Panama City, Panama. He studied humanities at the Acad. in Curicó and
began musical studies with González Mendez. He moved to Santiago
(1921) and entered the Cons. Nacional de Música where he studied piano
with Hügel, and harmony and counterpoint with Pedro Humberto Allende.
He received an award in the Concurso de Música Religiosa from the
newspaper, El Mercurio (1931). He was a founder of the Asociación
Nacional de Compositores de Chile (1936) then hired by the Panamanian
government to teach piano, harmony, and composition at the Escuela de
Música in Santiago de Veragua (May 1938).
Works: Ave Maria, ch, str orch (1931); Motetes, mixed voc (1931-32);
Miniaturas, pn (1934).
Sources: DMEH, HMC

Uvalle Castillo, Vicente, Mexican composer, guitarist, violinist, arranger,

and teacher; b.5 Apr 1900, Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico; d.9 Dec 1996, Alvero
Obregón, Distrito Federal, Mexico. At the age of 14 he composed songs
with his own text. In 1916 he entered the Cons. de Mérida and the Escuela
de Bellas Artes where he studied painting. He gave violin recitals during his
time in the conservatory. He used the Yucatán ballad form and composed
songs and instrumental works in the genre. He settled in Mexico City
(1929) to play in a quintet organized by Ricardo Palmerín, work in the radio
stations XEB and XEW, and teach performers. His group Vicente Uvalle y
sus Estrellas (1940) played in theaters and on radio shows. He became
arranger for the Orch. Típica de la Ciudad de Mexico (1950) and for the
Orch. Clásica de Mexico (1974). He edited an album of Yucatan songs with
Antonio Mendoza (1967) then he was honored (1990) at the Festival
Musical de Mayo Vicente Uvalle Castillo. He taught at the Escuela Normal
de Maestros (1960-1980).
Works: Al mar, voc; Iberia, orch; Presentación, pn; Suite española, orch;
Tarde primaveral, voc.
Sources: DMEH

Uzcátegui, Redescal, Venezuelan pianist and composer; b.4 Aug 1871,

Caracas, Venezuela; d.9 May 1943, Caracas, Venezuela. He began studying
the piano with Silverio Talavera and Jesús María Suárez. With an award
from the government of Juan Pablo Rojas Paul he moved to France (1888)
and entered the Cons. of Paris (1889) where he took courses in harmony
and composition with M. Duprato and in composition with T. Dubois. He
also studied with Beriot, Thomé, and Marmontel. He returned to Venezuela
(1893), auditioned for a position in Caracas and later in the Teatro
Municipal after which he retired from music.
Works: Primereros acordes. Capricho para piano, op.1, pn (1888); Sonata
en Mo bemol, pn (1892); Recuerdos, pn (1893); Vuelta al hogar, pn (1893).
Sources: DMEH

Uzielli, Alberto, German composer, singer, and professor; b.25 Jul 1896,
Germany; d.23 Sep 1973, Tucumán, Argentina. He studied harmony and
counterpoint with Hindemith and composition with Berhard Sekles and
performed as a singer in a chamber group in Germany. He moved to
Argentina (1936) and taught song and technical courses in the Acad. de
Bellas Artes de Tucumán until 1948 then song and music history at the
Escuela Superior de Música of the Univ. Nacional.
Works: Stabat Mater, solo, ch, orch (1946); Passacaglia y fuga para
orquesta, orch (1949); Cuarteto, fl, cl, vc, pn (1942); Quinteto de cuerdas,
str qt (1953); 2 masses, pn, voc ch music.
Sources: DMEH
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Vaggione, Horacio, Argentine composer; b.1940/1943, Moldes, Prov. of
Córdoba, Argentina. He studied at the Escuela de Artes of the Univ.
Nacional of Córdoba, Córdoba, Prov. of Córdoba. He received scholarships
from the Inst. de Cultura Hispánica of Madrid, Spain (1964) and the USA
government (1966). Founding member of the Centro de Música
Experimental of the Escuela de Artes and Dir. of its Laboratorio de Música
Electrónica.
Works: Música electrónica I (1960); Sonata, pn (1960); Cantata, electronic
(1961); Cálimo 0, vocs, pn (1962); Hierro y espacio, electronic (1963);
Diafonía, orch (1963); Secuencias, pn, 5 instr (1963); Música ceremonial,
electronic (1963); Ananke, electronic (1963-64); Cálimo I, spatial music,
instr, electronic tape (1963-64); Salmo, electronic (1964); Espacios
transformables, any sound source (1964); Proposiciones I, orch (1964);
Sonata II, pn, electronic sounds (1965); Sonata III, pn, fl, ob, tpt,vc (1965);
Sonata IV, pn, electronic sounds (1965); Proposiciones II, str orch;
Untitled, musical theater, actions, lights (1965); Verticales I, 4 fls, pn, perc
(1965); Verticales II, 4 fls, mandolin, banjo, gtr, pn, perc (1965); Faust,
incidental music, orch, electronic tape (1966); Sonata de Weston, nylon
balloons (1966); Piano total, 4-h pn (1966); Cuatro expresiones, figurative
graphics without sound (1966); Tierratierra, electronic (1966); Tres piezas
electrónicas (1966); Cálimo II, electronic (1966); Pieza para el
osciloscopio, film (1967); Música para cromoplásticos, electronic (1967);
Suite, magnetic tape (1967); Sonata V, pn, str orch (1967); Electrata,
electronic sounds (1967); Ceremonia para dos pianistas (1967); Página de
album, score with pictures of any instrument (1967); Qt, 4 vc (1967-68);
Serenata, orch (1968).
Sources: DMEH, EMA

Valcárcel Arze, Édgar, Peruvian composer and pianist; b.4 Dec 1932,
Puno, Peru; 10 Mar 2010, Lima, Peru. Nephew of Teodoro Valcárcel. He
studied composition with Andrés Sas at the Cons. Nacional of Lima, Peru,
and with Donald Lybbert at Hunter College, New York, NY, USA. Later in
Buenos Aires, Argentina, he took composition lessons with Alberto
Ginastera. Then he studied with Olivier Messiaen in Paris, France, and with
Riccardo Malipiero, Bruno Maderna, and Luigi Dallapiccola in Italy. He
also joined the Electronic Music Center of Columbia-Princeton Univ., New
York, and worked with Vladimir Ussachev-sky. Taught piano, harmony at
the Cons. Nacional of Lima.
Works: Sinfonietta, orch (1956); 2 str qts (1962, 1963); Espectros I, fl, va,
pn (1964); Concerto, cl, str (1966); Queña (Quenua) (1965); Dicotomías
III, 12 instr (1966); Fisiones, 10 instr (1967); Hiwana Uru, 11 instr (1967);
Aleaciones, orch (1967); Pn concerto (1968); Espectros II, hn, vc, pn
(1968); Trio, amplified vn, trb, cl (1968); Poema, amplified vn, voc, pn,
perc (1969); Checán I, 6 instr (1969); Checán II (1970); Ma’karabotasaq
Hachana (1971); Checán III, 19 instr (1971); Montage 59, str qt, cl, pn,
lights (1971); Sajra (1974); Checán V, str (1974). Pn, electronic,
multimedia, ch, electronic sounds and light music.
Sources: BB, CTA17, DCM, GDM

Valcárcel Caballero, Teodoro (Theodoro), Peruvian composer and

pianist; b.17 Oct 1900, Puno, Peru; d.20 Mar 1942, Lima, Peru. Uncle of
Edgar Valcárcel. He studied, first with his mother, and at age 14 was sent to
Europe to study with Vincenzo Appiani and Schieppatti at the Cons. Reale
di Musica of Milan, Italy, and with Felipe Pedrell in Barcelona, Spain. In
1920, he settled in Lima, and in 1928, he was awarded a gold medal by the
municipality of Lima for his studies on Peruvian folk music. Researcher
and promoter of Peruvian folklore. In 1934, he became Dir. and conservator
of musical folklore of Peru.
Works: K’Antuta, opera; Suray-Surita, singing ballet; Ckori Kancha, ballet;
Concierto indio, concerto, vn, orch (1939); 2 symph suites (1939); En las
ruinas del templo del sol, symph poem (1940); Tres ensayos, native inst;
Fiestas andinas, pn; Suite autóctona, vn, pn; 30 Cantos de alma
vernacular; 4 Canciones incaicas; 25 Romances de costa y sierra peruana;
180 Melodías del folklore.
Bibl.: R. Holzmann, Catálogo de las Obras de Theodoro Valcárcel, Boletín
Bibliográfico de la Univ. Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Vol.12, Lima,
1942. R. Holzmann, Ensayo Analítico de la Obra Musical del Compositor
Peruano The-odoro Valcárcel, Revista Eco Musical, Buenos Aires, 1943.
Sources: ADBM, BB, DM, DMEH, GDM, GMP, MLA, MMLA

Valderrama, Carlos, Peruvian composer and pianist; b.4 Sep 1887,

Trujillo, Peru; d.1 Aug 1950, Lima, Peru. He studied piano with Ricardo
Tejada, and composition with Daniel Hoyle in Trujillo. Later he received a
degree in electrical engineering from Cornell Univ., New York, NY, USA,
then decided to devote himself to music and attended the Musical Inst.
Frank Damrosch of New York, where he studied with Pietro Albini and
Rudolph Ganz.
Works: Inty Raymi (La fiesta del sol), opera (1935); In memoriam, symph
poem; La campana de María Angola, fantasia; Los Funerales del inca,
funeral march. Music based on old Inca themes.
Sources: BB, DMEH, GMP, MLA, MMLA

Valdés, Gilberto, Cuban composer and conductor; b.21 May 1905,

Matanzas, Cuba; d.May 1972, New York, NY, USA. He studied in Havana,
Cuba, with Pedro Sanjuán. Guest conductor of the Orq. Sinfónica of
Havana, and the CBS orch. in New York, NY. He became a naturalized
USA citizen in 1954.
Works: Danza de los braceros (Estampas coloniales), orch; Rumba abierta,
orch; Oggere, orch; Rapsodia de pregones, orch; Liko Ta Tumbe, orch
Sources: DM, DMEH

Valdés Aguilar, Benjamin, Mexican pianist, promoter, and composer; b.31

Aug 1935, Mexico City, Mexico; d.12 Feb 1998, Mexico City, Mexico. He
studied piano with Juan Valle and theory and composition with Pedro
Michaca and later with Ersilia Tipo-Cavallo in Naples and Ivonne Lefebure
in Paris. He gave his first performance when he was 12 then continued
performing in Mexico and Europe. He was a music critic and concert
coordinator for the Organismo de Promoción Internacional de la Cultura,
the Teatro de la Paz de la Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores de Mexico
and founded civil societies to cultivate music. He founded the Orquesta de
Cámara de la Univ. Autónoma de Querétaro.
Works: 4 Canciones mexicanas, voc, pn (1957); Serenata para cuerdas “al
estillo de Mozart, str (1958); Suite, vc (1991).
Sources: DMEH 635-6
Valdés Costa, Mario, Cuban composer, violinist, and teacher; b.11 Oct
1898, Villa Clara, Cuba; d.16 May 1930, New York, United States. He
began studying music at the age of 9 in Sagua la Grande with Neno and
Ventura Costa. He went to Havana with his father (1914) to study violin at
the Cons. de Música Peyrellade then he joined the Opera Italiana de Brocale
(1916) while he was concert master of Quinito Valverde in the Teatro
Payret. He received a degree in theory (1916) and began giving private
violin classes. He studied harmony with composer Manuel Ponce and
received a degree in violin from the Cons. de Música y Declamación de
Peyrellade (1917). A member of the Sociedad de Conciertos Populares, he
was concertmaster of the Orq. Sinfónica conducted by Modesto Fraga. He
traveled to the USA (1918) to study violin with Charles Hasselbring,
Frankz Kuisel, and Mario Frosali, and harmony, composition,
instrumentation, and counterpoint with composer Eduardo Trucco. He
joined a string trio in New York City (1920), began teaching (1923),
established a music Academy, and became concertmaster of the New
Rochelle Symphony Orchestra (1928).
Works: Andante sostenuto, vn, va, vc, pn; Scherzo, vn, pn; Dúos para violin
solo, vn (1917); Club América, orch (1920); Álbum no.1, pn (1920); Álbum
no.2, pn (1921); Fugo a cuatro sujetos o fuga cuádruple, ch (1921);
Cuarteto de cuerdas en Fa# menor, str qt (1924); Fantasía tropical, orch
(1928); Preludio sinfónico, orch; Str qt; Mirian, capricho cubano;
Rapsodia cubana, vn, pn; Suite, fl, vn, vc.
Sources: DMC2, DMEH, MMLA

Valdés González, Marta Emilia, Cuban composer, guitarist; b.6 Jul 1934,
Havana, Cuba. She studied at the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras of the Univ.
of Havana. She studied harmony and composition with Harold Gramatges,
Francisqueta Vallalta, and Leopoldina Nuñez. Vice-president of the
Sociedad Cubana de Compositores.
Works: En la imaginación, voc; Tú dominas, voc; No es preciso, voc; Tú no
sospechas, voc; Si vuelves, voc; Hay mil formas, voc; Toma esta flor;
Canción de la plaza vieja; Llora; Canción difícil; Aida. Theater music.
Sources: DMC2, DMEH, IEW

Valdivieso, Rafael E., Ecuadorian composer; active in the 19th and 20th
centuries, Ecuador. Born in Quito, some of his music won international
awards.
Works: Ave María, 4 voc; Ave verum, 3 voc; Salve 4 voc.
Sources: DMEH

Vale, Francisco Magalhães, Brazilian composer, pianist, and conductor;

b.20 Mar 1869, Juis de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brazil; d.10 Oct 1906, Juis de
Fora. He studied theory and solfeggio with his father Manuel Marcelino do
Vale, piano with Elisa Schmidt and Wilhelm Bickerle. He went to Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil (1885), to study piano with Alfredo Bevilacqua and
harmony with Miguel Cardoso then to the Cons. National de Musique of
Paris, France (1887), to study piano with Charles-Wilfrid de Bériot, organ
with Charles-Marie Widor, composition and fugue with César Franck at the
Schola Cantorum of Paris. Honorary member of the board of INM of Rio de
Janeiro.
Works: Depois da guerra, symph poem; Bailado na roça, symph suite;
Pastoral, orch; Telémaco, symph poem; Valsa scherzo, orch; Suite, sextet;
Octet minuet; Sonata in C minor, pn. Pn, ch music.
Sources: EMB2, MMLA

Valencia Chacón, Américo, Peruvian musicologist and composer; b.12

Oct 1946, Puno, Peru. He attended the Cons. Nacional de Música, studied
ethnomu-sicology and electronic music at the State Univ. of Florida and
received a Masters degree (1987). He studied and wrote about the siku and
the use of traditional Andean instruments in education and composition.
Works: 13 Sikuris, 2, 3, 4 voc, chromatic sikus, (1992); Colección de 13
danzas altiplánicas para piano, pn (1992).
Sources: DMEH

Valencia Courbis, Pedro, Chilean composer, pianist, and choirmaster; b.6

Feb 1892, MMLA (1880, HMC), San Felipe, Prov. of Aconcagua, Chile;
d.1961, Santiago de Chile, Chile. He started his music studies with Enrique
Soro at the Cons. Nacional of Chile, Santiago de Chile, while studying
humanities and religion at the Seminario Pontificio of Santiago de Chile.
He was ordained a priest then studied harmony and organ with Mattoni,
Remigio Renzi, Pietro Mascagni, and Lorenzo Perosi, and Gregorian chant
with Monsignor Rella and Giulio Bas in Rome, Italy. He continued at the
Hochschule für Heilig Musik, Ratisbon, Germany, with Fran Xaver Haberl,
Michael Haller, Josef Renner, and Peter Griesbacher. He studied at the
Schola Cantorum of Paris, France, with Vincent d’Indy (1916). Prof. of
liturgic chant at the Seminario Pontificio of Santiago de Chile. In 1921, he
founded the Cons. Católico of Santiago de Chile, and was its first Dir.
Works: Colección selecta de cánticos sagrados populares; Pregiera
religiosa, soloist, ch, orch Pn, voc music.
Books: La Música, su Origen, Base, y Elementos Constitutivos; Beethoven,
biography; Lecciones de Cultura Musical.
Sources: HMC, MMLA

Valencia Zamorano, Antonio María, Colombian composer and pianist;

b.10 Nov 1902, Cali, Colombia; d.22 Jul 1952, Cali. He started his music
studies with his father, Julio Valencia Belmonte, then attended the Cons. de
Música of Bogotá, Colombia, to study piano with Alarcón. He entered the
Schola Cantorum in Paris, France (1923), to study piano with Paul Braud,
harmony with Leon Saint-Requier, counterpoint with Paul Le Flem,
chamber music with Gabriel Pierné, orchestration with Manuel de Falla,
and composition and conducting with Vincent d’Indy. He returned to
Colombia (1930) and founded the Cons. Cali de Música, where he was Dir.
until his death. He also was Dir. of the Cons. de Música of Bogotá.
Works: Chirimia y bambuco sotareño, orch (1942); Égloga incaica, fl, ob,
cl, bsn (1935); Emociones caucanas, pn, vn, vc (1938); Requiem (1943).
Pn, sacred, voc, ch music.
Bibl.: A.P. Tovar, Antonio María Valencia, Artista Integral, Cali, 1958.
Sources: BB, CTA17, DMEH, GDM, ZCCC

Valenciano, Rosendo de J., Costa Rican composer; b.1871, San Juan de

Tibás, Costa Rica; d.? Ordained a priest (1894) he served in the church La
Merced de San José.
Works: Masses, motets, hymns, marches, songs.
Sources: DMEH

Valenti Costa, Pedro, Argentine composer, choral conductor; b.13 Nov

1905, Buenos Aires, Argentina; d.24 Jan 1974, Buenos Aires. He studied in
Buenos Aires with Francisco Corbani, P. Tabanelli, Raúl Espoile, Julio
Perceval, and Gilardo Gilardi. With a scholarship from the Comisión
Nacional de Cultura of Argentina (1938) he went to Europe to study organ
with Leonce de Saint Martin, Gregorian chant with Amédée de
Vallambrosa, and orchestration with Roland Manuel. In Buenos Aires he
conducted the choirs of the Cons. Nacional de Música Carlos López
Buchardo (1942-54), Asociación Filarmónica (1944-47), Asociación
Wagneriana (1944-48), and Radio Nacional (1954-55). Organist at the
Church La Piedad (1930-37) and the Basílica Nuestra Señora de la Merced
(1937-39), both in Buenos Aires. In 1940 he became asst. conductor, Dir. of
the choir school, Dir. of the opera school, artistic Dir., and general Dir. at
Teatro Colón of Buenos Aires. Prof. at the Escuela de Bellas Artes of the
Univ. Nacional of La Plata, Prov. of Buenos Aires, Argentina (1947-54).
Works: San Agustín, oratorium, soloists, ch, orch; Campo, poem, tnr
(1936); Preludio y fuga, F minor (1937); Coral y fuga, A minor (1937);
Misa de gloria, org, ch (1939); Estampas, dyptic, str (1949); Canto
elegíaco, Psalm VI, bar (1958); Las horas de Bómbolo, symph suite (1959);
Movimiento sinfónico (1959). Ch, chamb, pn, voc music.
Sources: CA, DM, DMEH, DMM, EMA

Valenzuela, Arturo, Mexican composer; b.1962.

Works: Obertura festiva Alma mater (2003, rev.2007); Elegía del niño Guy
(2007); Plenitud y ofrenda (2013).
Sources: GP

Valenzuela, Cynthia, Mexican composer and harpist; b.23 Aug 1963,

Mexico City, Mexico. She started music studies with Ulises Goñi and Alicia
Urreta Arroyo then studied with Katherine Murdock and Donald Graham at
the Texas Univ., TX, USA. She received Licentiate and Master’s degrees in
composition from the California Arts School of Music, CA, USA, where
she studied with Leonard Stein, Stephen Mosko, Morton Subotnick, and
Mel Powel. She also took courses with Luciano Berio, John Cage, and
Milton Babbit. Taught at the California Arts School of Music and at El
Colegio de la Ciudad de México, Mexico City.
Works: Danzas silvestres, soloists, Aztec fl, gtr, orch (1990). Harp, chamb,
ch, electroacoustic, computer music.
Sources: DCMMC

Valera Chamizo, Roberto, Cuban composer; b.21 Dec 1938, Havana,

Cuba. He studied at the Cons. Municipal of Havana (today Cons. Amadeo
Roldán) with Leo Brouwer, José Ardévol, and Edgardo Martín. He
graduated from the Univ. of Havana with a Doctorate in pedagogy. He went
to Poland (1952) to study at the Superior School of Music of Warsaw. When
he returned to Cuba he became deputy Dir. at the Cons. García Caturla in
Havana and Prof. of harmony and contemporary techniques at the Escuela
Nacional de Arte in Havana (1968).
Works: Siete piezas para piano, pn (1962-65); Cuarteto de cuerdas, str
(1966); Conjuro, sop, instr (1967); Devenir, orch (1969); Vocalizo, voc, pn
(1978); Movimiento concertante, gtr, wind orch, perc (1980); Lágrimas
barrocas, ch (1989); Ajiaco, synth, computer, sequencer (1989); Recuerdo,
voc, pn (1993); Yugo y Estrella, mixed ch, sop, bar, orch (1995); Hic et
Nunc, electronic (1996). Orch, chamb, ch, music.
Sources: DMC, DMEH

Valle, Antonio, Mexican composer, violinist; b.1825, Mexico City, Mexico;

d.1876, Mexico City. Brother of Octaviano Valle. He studied violin with
Manuel Covarrubias, and harmony and composition with Cenobio Paniagua
and Saberio Sanelli. He played the violin in opera company orchestras.
Works: Zarzuelas: Tribulaciones; De Ceuta a Marruecos. Religious
compositions: Large and small masses; responses; motets; Responsories; Te
Deum; matins.
Bibl.: M.G. Revilla, Obras, Vol.I: Biografías de Artistas, Mexico, 1908.
Sources: DMEH, MMLA

Valle, Octaviano, Mexican composer; fl.2nd half of the 19th century.

Brother of Antonio Valle. He studied music with Cenobio Paniagua.
Works: Clotilde de Cosenza, opera; Fantasia, 2 pn.
Bibl.: M.G. Revilla, Obras, Vol.I: Biografías de Artistas, Mexico, 1908.
Sources: DMEH, MMLA

Valle (Vale), Raúl do, Brazilian composer and teacher; b.27 Mar 1936,
Leme, São Paulo, Brazil. He studied composition and conducting with
Camargo Mozart Guarnieri at the Cons. Musical of Santos, São Paulo. He
studied harmony, counterpoint, fugue, and music analysis with Osvaldo
Lacerda (1962-64) and again with Camargo Mozart Guarnieri (1962-73).
He went to the Cons. de Musique of Fontainebleu, France (1974), for
classes in composition, conducting, and analysis with Nadia Boulanger and
music perception with Annette Dieudonné. He also studied with Alberto
Ginastera, Olivier Messiaen, Pierre Boulez, Iannis Xenakis, and
electroacoustic music with Guy Reibel and Pierre Schaeffer at the Groupe
de Recherches Musicales, Paris, France. Prof. of music at the Univ. Católica
Pontificia and Univ. Estadual, both of Campinas, São Paulo. Member of the
Acad. Brasileira de Música.
Works: Entretenimento, Divertimento, cl, str (1968); Suite No.1, str (1968);
Variations (1969); Suite (1973); Contextura (1980); Episodios (1982);
Alternâncias, va (1983); “…Os ventos quentes,” voc, electromagnetic tape
(1984); Bleublancrouge, voc (1989); Cantata cênica – Ser tão dentro da
gente. Chamb, pn, ch, solo instr, film, television, film music.
Sources: EMB2, ISC

Valle Riestra, José María, Peruvian composer; b.9 Nov 1859, Lima, Peru;
d.25 Jan 1925, Lima. As a child he studied in London, England, then later
in Paris, France (1895-97), harmony, counterpoint, orchestration with
André Gédalge. Prof. at the Acad. Nacional de Música in Lima.
Works: Ollanta, opera (1900); Las rosas de Jamaica, opera; Atahualpa,
opera; Misa de Requiem, ch, orch (1913); En oriente, orch; Elegía, str orch.
Ch, pn, voc music.
Books: Compendio de Teoría Musical.
Bibl.: R. Barbacci, Revista Musical Peruana, Lima, 1940.
Sources: ADBM, BB, DM, DMEH, MLA, MMLA

Vallejo Ruiz, Oscar, Bolivian composer; b.1930, Potosí, Bolivia. He

studied string instruments with José Sandi, and harmony and composition
with Father José Díaz Gáinza in Potosí. He completed his education at the
Acad. de Bellas Artes of Potosí, where he conducted the choir. He also
conducted the orchestra and choir of the Univ. of Sucre, Bolivia. He created
the Sistema Décimo Tonal based on pentatonic scales.
Works: El hijo pródigo, oratorium; 2 concertos, vn, orch; 2 symphonies;
Preludes, pn; Str trio. Sonatas, instr, choral-symph music.
Sources: CB, DMEH

Valverde, Gabriel, Argentine composer; b.1957, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

He studied composition with Manuel Juárez. In France, he studied
musicology at the Univ. of Poitiers and electroacoustic music in Bourgers.
Co-founder of the Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Música
Contemporánea of Buenos Aires.
Works: Escenas introspectivas (1980-81); Overstrung (1984-85);
Reverberancias (1987); Confines (1988); Y una línea de luz… (1990);
Fragmentaciones (1990-91); Espacios inasibles (1991); Terra incógnita
(1991-92); 5000 Voces (1994-95); El silencio ya no es silencio (1996).
Sources: DMEH, DMM

Vanegas, Marco Aurelio, Colombian composer, teacher, and critic; b.9 Sep
1942, Bogotá, Colombia; d.30 Mar 1984, Sibaté, Colombia. He studied at
the Instituto Nacional para Ciegos and after 1955 studied harmony,
counterpoint, composition and instrumentation at the Cons. Nacional de
Música in Bogotá. With a scholarship he studied with Alberto Ginastera at
the Centro Latinoamericano de Altos Estudios Musicales Torcuato di Tella
de Buenos Aires (1963). He returned to Colombia, wrote for the Revista del
Cons., performed, arranged for orchestras, taught, and composed using
dodecaphonism and atonality.
Works: Capricho, fl, pn; Concierto para piano y orquesta, pn, orch; Poemo
elegíaco, voc, accomp; Variaciones liédicas, voc, accomp; Tres piezas, ob,
pn; Intermezzo, pn (1955); Sonata, vn, pn (1962); Preludio, interludio, y
final, orch (1965).
Sources: DMEH

Varela, Marta Inés, Argentine composer, teacher, and pianist; b.20 Apr
1943, Rosario, Prov. of Santa Fe, Argentina. She studied piano with
Antonio de Raco, chamber music with Simón Blech, composition and
orchestration with Virtú Maragno and Francisco Kröpfl. She graduated
from the Escuela de Música of the Facultad de Humanidades y Artes of the
Univ. Nacional of Rosario with a degree in harmony and composition. Dir.
and Prof. at the same Escuela de Música.
Works: Sonata, pn; Ensayo, perc inst; Cuatro piezas, pn; Variaciones, cl, vc,
pn; Fantasia, pn; Los nueve monstruos, cantata, soloists, ch, orch, perc;
Proyecciones, concertino, 2 pn, orch, perc. Songs.
Sources: CAMR

Varela Borjas, Fernando, Honduran composer, double-bass player; b.31

May 1895, Tegucigalpa, Honduras; d.? Self-taught in theory and
instruments including double-bass. He organized orchestral ensembles
(1912) and his own, named Rossini (1914). Taught solfeggio and school
songs at the Escuela Normal de Varones (1916). Conductor of the military
band of San Pedro Sula, Mexico.
Works: Himno a la Exposición Nacional, for the celebration of the
centenary of the Honduran independence (1921). Tangos; waltzes; hymns;
school songs; foxtrots.
Sources: MMLA

Varela Molina, Lisandro, Colombian composer, instrumentalist, and

conductor; b.11 Aug 1913, Bolívar, Valle del Cauca, Colombia; d.ca.1975,
Riopaila, Colombia. He began studying with Joaquín Arias, conductor of
the town band in Zarzal, then continued in Cali with Álvaro Romero
Sánchez and Plinio Herrera Timarán. He played the mandolin in the student
bands Ecos de Colombia and Luz de Colombia and founded and conducted
the student band Melodias de Colombia. In 1965 he settled in the town of
Riopaila where he conducted a music ensemble with workers of the local
sugarcane plantations.
Works: Helechos; Mary y Añoro.
Souurces: DMEH

Varela Rojas, Víctor Raúl, Venezuelan composer, teacher, and sociologist;

b.20 Dec 1955, Caracas, Venezuela. He began music study with Antonio
Roperti (1972) then entered the Cons. Nacional de Música Juan José
Landaeta, where he studied solfeggio and music theory with Violeta Lárez
and Federico Ruíz, music history and aesthetics with Rházes Hernández
López, counterpoint with Primo Casale, electronic music with Eduardo
Kusnir, and composition and analysis with Antonio Mastrogiovanni. He
graduated as a composer (1987). He also studied piano with Rebeca Matos
at the Escuela de Música Juan Manuel Olivares, 20th century music with
Alfredo Rugeles at the Cons. Nacional Simón Bolívar, conducting with
Pablo Castellanos at the Cons. Italiano de Música, all in Caracas. He taught
in all of the above mentioned music schools. In 1988, he settled in
Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Works: El cántico de Kronos, orch; Canto negro, mixed ch; Coreografía,
10 wind inst; Binomial I, marimba, sax; Una flor para el desierto, cl, bsn,
harp, perc; Str qt; Procesador I, electromagnetic tape.
Sources: DMEH, EMV

Vargas, Carlos Enrique, Costa Rican composer, teacher, and pianist; b.25
Jul 1919, San José, Costa Rica; 14 Jul 1998, San José. He began music
studies with his father, José Joaquín Vargas. He also studied science and
literature at the Liceo de Costa Rica. In Rome, Italy (1938-39), he studied
piano with Carlo Zecchi, harmony and composition with Cesare Dobici,
organ and Gregorian chant with Rev. A. Santini at the Istituto Pontificio di
Musica Sacra and the Cons. Reale di Musica Santa Cecilia. He returned to
Costa Rica, taught music, and played the piano.
Works: Concerto, pn, orch (1944); Symphony (1943). Pn, voc, ch music.
Sources: MMLA

Vargas, Erin, Venezuelan teacher and composer of Spanish origin; b.15

Nov 1954, Barcelona, Spain. He studied solfeggio and harmony with
Violeta Lárez, counterpoint with Francisco Rodrigo, analysis with
Humberto Sagredo, guitar with Manuel Enrique Pérez Díaz, composition
with William Banch, and pedagogy with Flor Roffé Estévez in Caracas,
Venezuela. Later, he obtained a Licentiate degree in composition from the
Kansas City Univ., Kansas City, MO, USA. When he returned to Venezuela,
he became Dir. of the Escuela de Pedagogía Musical of CONAC, and Prof.
at the Cons. Nacional de Música Juan José Landaeta, both in Caracas.
Works: Dos impresiones corales latinoamericanas: Canción de cuna y
coplas, mixed ch, orch (1986). Chamb, pn, electromagnetic tape music.
Sources: DMEH, EMV

Vargas, Temístocles, Colombian composer, director, teacher; b.18 Oct

1886; d.Jan 1950. He studied with Pedro S. Mejía then continued at the
Acad. Nacional de Música de Bogatá with Justiniano Perea (theory,
solfeggio), Julio Quevedo Arvelo (composition), Honorio Alarcón (fugue,
harmony, piano), graduating in 1882. At the Colegio San Simón de Ibagué
he taught and conducted the orchestra. He directed the Banda de Música de
Cali, was music director, and taught at the seminary of San Pedro y de San
Francisco (1895-1906) then directed the choir and band at the cathedral in
Manizales (1906-40).
Works: Diez himnos al Santísimo; Misa de Gloria a Santa Cecilia:
Motetes; Acordes disonantes, band; Vida espiritual, band; Tres variaciones,
pn.
Source: DMEH

Vargas Calvo, José Joaquín, Costa Rican composer, organist, and teacher;
b.19 Aug 1871, San José, Costa Rica; d.13 Sep 1956, San José, Costa Rica.
Father of Carlos Enrique Vargas, he graduated from the Liceo de Costa Rica
(1888), studied music with Jesús Núñez and organ with Alejandro
Monestel. He taught theory and was secretary at the Escuela Nacional de
Música then with Alejandro Monestel founded the Escuela de Música Santa
Cecilia (1894). He traveled to the United States and Europe (1904) and
while in Paris edited Cantos escolares containing his music and that of
other Costa Rican composers. Inspector general of music at the Ministerio
de Educación Pública (1907-27), founding director of a student operetta
company, organist in the Cathedral San José, Consul of Costa Rica, Detroit,
Michigan (1927-33), and Rome (1938-39).
Works: Saludo a la bandera de Costa Rica, La Saboyana; La Nochebuena;
school songs.
Sources: DMEH

Vargas Candia, Teófilo, Bolivian composer and folklorist; b.3 Nov 1868,
DM (1886, CB), Cochabamba, Bolivia; d.3 Feb 1961, Cochabamba,
Bolivia. Self-taught in music. Choir master at the Cathedral of Cochabamba
(1892-1938).
Works: Niño Dios, mass, ch, orch; La coronilla, symph overture; El
huérfano; Suspiros; Idilio; Ecos del litoral; Aires nacionales de Bolivia, a
series of Bolivian folk songs (1940).
Sources: CB, DM, DMEH, MLA

Vargas Méndez, Carlos Enrique, Costa Rican pianist, composer,

conductor, and teacher; b.25 Jul 1919, San José, Costa Rica; d.15 Jul 1998,
San José, Costa Rica. He began studying theory, piano, and organ with his
father, José Joaquín Calvo Vargas, continued in Detroit, Michigan, USA,
then at the Real Cons. de Música Santa Cecilia and in the Instituto
Pontificio de Música Sacra in Rome (1938) where he studied piano, organ,
harmony, composition, and Gregorian chant graduating in 1939. He taught
at Colegio Superior de Señoritas (1942-58), was music director at the
Cathedral of San Jose (1951-54), a delegate for Costa Rica in the Consejo
Internacional de Música (1952-68), and musical assessor for the Asociación
Pro-Música. He became director of the Escuela de Música Santa Cecilia in
San José (1956), succeeding his father, and after 1957 taught at the Univ. de
Costa Rica where he founded and conducted the Coro Universitario (until
retirement, 1969). He studied conducting in Munich, Germany, with
Lessing in the Staatsliche Hochshule für Musik (1958-59). Working for the
Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional (1967-70) he organized, archived, and
programmed new and varied works, promoted concerts and Costa Rican
music.
Works: Concierto para piano, pn, orch (1944); Sinfonía en Mi menor, orch
(1945); Música para la “Antígona”de Sófocles, (1961). Pn, chamb, org, ch
music.
Sources: DMEH

Vargas Wallis, Darwin Horacio, Chilean composer, choral conductor; b.8

Mar 1925, Talagante, Chile; d.8 Apr 1988, Santiago de Chile. He studied
with Domingo Santa Cruz, Jorge Urrutia Blondel, and Juan Orrego Salas at
the Cons. de Música of Santiago de Chile, Chile. Asst. cond. of the choir of
the Univ. Católica of Chile in Santiago de Chile. Music teacher at the
Seminario Talagante, the Acad. González, the Univ. Católica of Chile, all in
Santiago de Chile, and the Escuela Naval in Valparaiso, Chile.
Works: Chamb Cantata, soloists, orch (1954); Obertura para los tiempos
de adviento (1958); Cantos del hombre, bar, orch (1959-60); Rapsodia para
días de duelo y esperanza, gtr, orch (1961-62); Responso para un músico,
soloists, ch, orch (1965); Meditación, symphony (1965). Chamb, sacred, pn,
ch, voc music.
Sources: CTA17, DMEH, GDM, HMC, NMLA

Varona, Calixto, Cuban clarinetist and composer; b.? Camagüey, Cuba;

d.end of 19th century, Santiago, Cuba. He settled in Santiago de Cuba,
played the clarinet and composed.
Works: Salve Regina, voc, pn; Adriano, waltz; A Cuba, voc; Danza, pn;
Marcha, band.
Sources: DMEH

Vasconcelos Correia, Sérgio Oliveira de, Brazilian composer, pianist,

conductor, and teacher; b.16 Jul 1934, São Paulo, Brazil. Started music
studies with Ilíria Serato (1946) then entered the Cons. Dramático e
Musical of São Paulo (1951) to study piano with Ubelina Reggiani de
Aguiar. He studied harmony, composition, and choral singing with Martin
Braunwieser (1954-55) then composition with Camargo Mozart Guarnieri.
With other students of Guarnieri he founded the Sociedade Pró-Música
Brasileira (1961) where he was vice-president and then president. Music
editor of the journal, Folha da Tarde. Vice-Dir., and later Dir., at the Dept.
de Música of UNESP. Member of the Acad. Brasileira de Música.
Works: Suite piratiningana, orch (1962); Concertino, tpt (1967);
Concertino, pn (1968); Pn concerto (1981); Concerto do agreste, gtr
(1992). Chamb, instr, voc, electroacoustic music.
Sources: EMB2

Vázquez, Antonio José, Venezuelan flutist and composer; b.20 Jun 1956,
Caracas, Venezuela. He began studying piano and violin at the Escuela José
Ángel Lamas (1967), played in the orchestra conducted by E. Castellanos,
and attended theory workshops with V.E. Sojo. He began studying flute
with Ángel Briceño in the Escuela Lino Gallardo and violin with Mario
Mescoli and J.F del Castillo (1970). With a scholarship from CONAC he
studied in North Dakota with Mary Wilson (1975), then at the École de
Musique with Madame Riviére in Paris and Jean-Pierre Rampal (1978). As
a soloist he performed with orchestras and chamber groups and since 1982
has been in the Orquesta Típica Nacional de Caracas, the Orquesta
Filarmónica Nacional, and Trio Arpegio de Caracas.
Works: La tristeza de Bolívar; Bolívar en los círculos de Dante.
Sources: DMEH

Vásquez, Harold, Colombian composer, conductor, educator, and

percussionist; b.1 Jan 1964, Cali, Colombia. He became a technician in
systems programming at the Instituto de Carreras Intermedias (1985), was a
percussionist in the Orch. Symph. del Valle (1989-92), and graduated from
the Univ. del Valle in composition (1990). He was asst. conductor in the
Banda Departamental del Valle (1991-92), taught theory in the Cons. de
Cali and the Univ. del Valle. He studied percussion at the Cons. of Geneva,
Switzerland, and took classes with composers including Edison Denison,
George Benjamin, Marco Stroppa, Tristan Murail, Jean-Claude Risset, Eric
Gaudibert, and Ranier Boersch (electroacoustic music). He attended the
Institute de Recherche et de Coordination Acoustique/Musique in Paris to
study composition and musical information (1997-98). He returned to
Colombia (1999) and taught at the Univ. Javeriana de Bogotá in the
composition and electroacoustic music department.
Works: Obertura para un final, 8 instr (1991); Homenaje a la muerte de E.
Varèse, tape (1994); Miniatur-Ura, fl (1995); Evolutiva II, voc, 3 perc
(1995-96); Primitiva, tape (1995-96); Evolutive II, 3 perc, voc (1996);
Amazonas-evolutiva III, marimba, str orch (1996-97); Trance voudu, vn, 3
fl (1997).
Sources: DMEH

Vásquez, José Antonio, Salvadorian violinist, singer, educator, and

composer; b.10 May 1891, Mejicanos, El Salvador; d.11 Oct 1977,
Mejicanos, El Salvador. He taught many players in the Orch. Symph. del
Ejército, helped found the Sociedad Coral Salvadoreña, wrote school songs,
and taught music in Mejicanos.
Works: ¿Por qué tanto sufrir?, waltz. Sacred music.
Sources: DMEH

Vásquez, Rafael, Guatemalan composer, musicographer, conductor, and

pianist; b.3 May 1885, Guatemala; d.24 Aug 1941, Guatemala. He studied
piano and composition with Luis Felipe Arias in the Cons. Nacional. He
traveled to the United States (1914) to study theory and musicology. After
returning to Guatamala (1916) he conducted the orchestra of the Inés Beruti
company in the Teatro Variedades. He moved to Quetzaltenango (1920),
conducted the military and police bands, then returned to the capital and
published didactic methods for 10 years. He founded the Unión Musical,
organized the Orch. de la Unión Musical, and composed music for the first
documentary about Guatemala (1917).
Works: Invitación a la polonesa, pn; Vals de concierto, pn; Berceuse, pn;
Minueto y Romanza, pn; Cincucuenta cantos, mixed ch; Belice Redenta, ch,
orch; Oda a la independencia orch (1940).
Sources: DMEH, HMG

Vasquez, Illescas, María Elvira, Peruvian composer; active in 19th-20th

centuries.
Works: Amor patrio, march, pn (1921); El centenario, pn.
Sources: DMEH

Vásquez Cano, José Francisco, Mexican conductor and composer; b.4 Oct
1895/1896, Guadalajara, State of Jalisco, Mexico; d.20 Dec 1961, Mexico
City, Mexico. He studied piano with Ignacio and César del Castillo, cello
with Horacio Avila, and composition with Rafael J. Tello and Julián
Carrillo at the Cons. Nacional de Música in Mexico City. Dir. of the Univ.
Radio. Prof. at the Cons. Nacional de Música and the Facultad de Música of
the Univ. Nacional in Mexico City, where he also conducted the symphony
orch.
Works: Los mineros, opera; El mandarin, opera; El Rajah, opera; Citlali,
opera; Ultimo sueño, opera; Nuñez de Balboa, opera; Tríptico sinfónico,
orch; Misa de Requiem; Fantasía, vn (1915); 4 symphonies (1915, 1919-20,
1925, 1936); Marcha nupcial (1918); 3 pn concertos (1920, 1925, 1936);
Vn concerto (1921); Suite romantic, str (1926); Tres acuarelas de viaje
(1928-29); La Ofrenda, ballet (1931); 2 symph poems. Chamb, pn, voc
music.
Sources: DM, DMEH, GMM, GP, MLA, MMLA

Vásquez Grille, Isidoro, Chilean lawyer and composer; b.21 Jun 1864,
Talca, Chile; d.18 Sep 1926, Santiago, Chile. Amateur musician and prolific
composer, his father gave him piano lessons then Luis Valk taught him
piano, theory, harmony, and composition. In Santiago he entered the
Escuela de Leyes and became a lawyer (1887). He was undersecretary of
finance and interim undersecretary of war in the government of President
Balmaceda. After 1891 he started composing piano music, published by
Casa Cadot under the pseudonym P. Pinochet.
Works: Perlas y flores, op.3, p (1876); Otoño, op.6, p (1877); Fragmento,
S, Bar, voc, ch, p (1880); Llanto y gloria, cantata, voc, ch, orch (1882);
Paso de Venus, op.1, p (1882); Orfandad, voc, ch, orch (1884); Don Cleto,
operetta (1886); La cinta roja, pn (1891); La Revolución de 1891, pn
(1891).
Sources: DMEH, HMC

Vásquez Larrazábal, Jorge, Guatemalan composer and educator; b.19

century, Guatemala. He was manager at the Sociedad Filarmónica del
Sagrado Corazón de Jesús, founded 1813 by composer José Eulalio
Samayoa. He copied and prepared Samayoa’s Sinfonía no.7 to celebrate the
centenary of the founding of the Filarmónica.
Works: Responsorio solemne (1925); 3 Tangos, 6 Foxtrots, y Sones, pn;
Canto a América; Fulgores, cl, pn; Plegaria a la bandera de la raza;
Zarabanda indígena; salon, dance music.
Sources: DMEH

Vásquez Muñoz, Edmundo, Chilean composer, guitarist, and educator;

b.11 Jul 1938, Ancud, Chile. He studied music at the Escuela Normal of
Ancud, continued at the Escuela Normal José A. Núñez de Santiago then at
the Cons. de la Sociedad Sinfónica de Concepción with Miguel Aguilar and
in Santiago with Lucila Céspedes and guitar with Arturo González
Quintana. At the Cons. Nacional (1967-70) he studied composition with
Gustavo Becerra, Celso Garrido-Lecca, and Alfonso Letelier. In France he
continued at the École Informatique del Institute de la Recherche in
Informatique Automatique de Versalles with Max Mathews, J. Claude
Risset, Iannis Xenakis, Pierre Barbaud, and J. Showing. He taught music
education at the Escuela Normal de Ancud (196162), guitar at the Liceo
Experimental de Concepción and at the Escuela Superior de Arte Escénico
del Ministerio de Educación in Santiago (1962-64), harmony and
counterpoint at the Cons. Nacional de Música (1968-72), music education
in the Centro de Perfeccionamiento, CPEIP, in the department of
educational technology, radio, and television (1970-74). He began teaching
guitar at the École Nationale de Musique et de Danse de la Vallée de
l’Yerres, Paris (1977).
Works: Tres canciones populares, voc (1965); Dos canciones corales, ch
(1969); Tres piezas, str qt (1969); Danza no.2, hp (1970); Represión,
magnetic tape (1974); Suite transitorial, gtr (1977); La Harpe et l’Ombre,
str qt (1980); Contacts, 8 fls, magnetic tape (1981); Carnaval. Impréssions
des Andes, str orch (1987); Tonadas, 8 gtr (1987); Temps de pluie, fl, va, vc,
p (1994);
Sources: DMEH

Vásquez Pedrero, Aurelio, Colombian composer and educator; b.21 Sep

1889, Bogotá, Colombia; d.1965?, Barranquilla, Colombia. He began his
musical training with Luis Figueroa and continued at the Academia
Nacional de Música with Enrique Silva Rey, Eliseo Honorio Alarcón,
Guillermo Uribe Holguín, and Andrés Martínez Montoya. He taught piano
and theory at the Cons. de Tolima and music and song in Cartagena, Ibagué,
and Barranquilla.
Works: Ósculo, Ilusión; No lo creas; Yo soy; Caprichos no.1, 2, Cántico en
loor de la Santísima Virgen.
Sources: DMEH

Vaz Ferreira, María Eugenia, Uruguayan poet, pianist, and composer;

b.13 Jul 1875, Montevideo, Uruguay; d.20 May 1924, Montevideo,
Uruguay. She studied music with her uncle, composer León Julio Alfredo
Ribeiro, and performed as a pianist.
Works: Dulce misiva, symphonic poem, orch (1912).
Sources: DMEH

Vázquez, Alida, American composer of Mexican birth; b.ca. 1931, Mexico

City, Mexico. She attended the Cons. Nacional de Música (1941-47) where
she studied piano with Esperanza Cruz de Vasconcelos and theory with
Julián Carrillo. She moved to New York (1948) to attend Diller-Quaile
Music School and she also studied with Mario Davidovsky at City College.
She studied journalism at Columbia Univ. School of Journalism then
worked as a music therapist and began teaching music at the Bank Street
College of Education (1976).
Works: Acuarelas de México, song cycle, voc (1970); Pieza para clarinet y,
cl, pn (1971); Música para siete instrumentos, wind qnt, tpt, va (1974);
Electronic Moods and Piano Sounds, electroacoustic, pn (1977). Solo instr,
chamb, electronic, electroacoustic music.
Sources: NGDWC

Vázquez, Carlos Alberto, Puerto Rican composer; b.9 Mar 1952,

Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. He studied music at the Univ. of Puerto Rico and
received a Master’s degree in composition from the Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA,
USA. He also studied at The City Univ. of New York, New York City, NY,
USA, and at the Sorbonne Univ. in Paris, France. He studied composition
with Rafael Aponte Ledée, Frank McCarty, and Bruce Saylor. Prof. at the
Dept. de Música and Dir. of the Laboratorio de Música Electroacústica of
the Univ. of Puerto Rico. Founding member and first president of the
Asociación Nacional de Compositores of Puerto Rico.
Works: Flamboyán, orch (1982); Brisas del Caribe, symph suite (1986);
Ecua-Jey, concerto, pn, orch (1986); El encanto de la noche tropical I: El
yunque (1993). Chamb, voc, pn, solo instr, electronic music.
Sources: CDMC, CPR, DMEH

Vázquez, Genaro V., Mexican lawyer and composer; b.10 Jul 1892, Santa
Cruz Xoxocotlán, Oaxaca; d.22 May 1967, Mexico City.
Works: Vals de las flores; Viva Oaxaca.
Sources: GP

Vázquez, Hebert, Mexican composer, guitarist of Uruguayan origin; b.14

Oct 1963, Montevideo, Uruguay. He became a Mexican citizen and
received a Licentiate degree at the Cons. Nacional de Música of INBA,
where he studied with Mario Lavista and José Suárez. He received a
Master’s degree at Carnegie-Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA, USA, where he
studied with Leonardo Balada, Lukas Foss, and Reza Vali. He took
composition courses with Vincent Plush, Istvan Lang, and Franco Donatoni.
Taught at the Cons. de Música of the State of Mexico.
Works: Variantes nocturnas, gtr, orch (1987); Imágenes del laberinto
(1989); Symphony (1991); Vc concerto (1994-95); 3 Quod libet (1996);
Music, fl, vn, chamb orch (1997-98); Déjà Vu (1999); Obertura fanfárrica
siglo XXI (2001); Las nostálgicas mutaciones del núcleo, amplified gtr,
orch (2003); Requiem maritime, Homenaje a Vicente Huidobro (2004).
Chamb, gtr, voc, electroacoustic, computer music.
Sources: DMEH, DCMMC, GP

Vázquez Kuntze, Lilia Margarita, Mexican composer, pianist, bassoonist;

b.16 Ap 1955. She began her studies at the Cons. Nacional de Música as a
piano student of Andreg Acosta then continued with Guadalupe Parrondo at
the Escuela de Perfeccionamiento Vida y Movimiento. Her teachers in
Mexico included Mario Lavista, Héctor Quintanar, and Federico Ibarra at
the composition workshop of CENDIM (1980-82). She took composition
courses with Leo Brouwer, Rodolfo Halffter, Alcides Lanza, Wlodzimierz
Kotonoski, and electronic music with Raúl Pavón. From 1986-88 she
worked as an editor for Barenretier de Kassel music publisher and from
1988-92. She continued studies in Europe with Iannis Xenakis, Franco
Donatoni, and Diego Feinstein at the Musikakdemis in Kassel, Germany,
receiving degrees in Music Theory and Composition. She participated as a
composer-in-residence in Minnesota schools through the VocEssence
¡Cantaré! program (2010-11).
Works: Serie bitonal para piano, pn (1981); Relatos, fl, vc (1982); Donde
habite el olvido, ch (1982); Encuentros, orch (1982); Ondina, mez sop, pn,
perc (1989); Tres piezas para dos guitarras, 2 gtr (1990); El vuelo de
Quetzalcóatl (1997); Viento y lluvia (2001); Tierra de fuego (2010). Orch,
choral, chamb, pn
Sources: DMEH, GP, IEW

Veerhoff, Carlos Heinrich, Argentine composer; b.3 Jun 1926, Buenos

Aires, Argentina; d.18 Feb 2011, Murnau, Germany. He studied with
Hermann Grabner (1943-44) and Boris Blacher (1952) at the Hochschule
für Musik in Berlin, Germany. He taught in the city of Tucumán, Prov. of
Tucumán, Argentina, then moved to Germany (1951) where he was asst. to
Ferenc Fricsay in Berlin (1951-52) before settling in Munich.
Works: Prólogo Sinfónico, orch (1951); Symph Movement (1952); Pavane
royale, ballet (1953); 4 symphonies (1953, 1956, 1966, 1974); Targusis,
opera (1958); Mirages, orch (1961); El porquerizo del rey, ballet (1963);
Gesänge auf dem Wege, bar, orch (1964); Akróasis, 24 wind instr, perc
(1966); Ut omnes unum sint, chamb cantata (1967); Die goldene Maske,
opera (1968); Textur, str orch (1969); Der Grune, opera (1972); Es Gibt
doch Zebrastreifen, opera (1972); Sinotrauc, orch (1973); Torso, orch
(1974). Chamb music.
Sources: BB, DMEH, EMA

Vega, Augusto, Dominican composer; b.10 Oct 1885, Puerto Plata,

Dominican Republic; d.? He studied in Mérida, Mexico, with José María
Rodríguez Arresón, and later, with Arturo Cosgaya y Caballero.
Works: Indígena, opera; Folklore sinfónico, orch suite; Duarte, overture.
Sources: DM

Vega, Aurelio de la, Cuban composer; b.28 Nov 1925, Havana, Cuba. He
studied law at the Univ. of Havana, and music with Frederick Kramer
(1942-46). He went to the USA (1947) and studied with Ernest Toch in Los
Angeles, CA. Returning to Cuba he studied composition with Harold
Gramatges at the Inst. Musical Ada Iglesias in Havana (1950-55) and was
dean of the Escuela de Música of the Univ. de Oriente in Santiago de Cuba,
Cuba (1953-59). He settled in California (1959), taught at the San Fernando
Valley State College, and was Dir. of the Electronic Music Studio and
composer-in-residence at the California State Univ. at Northridge, CA.
Works: Obertura a una farsa seria, orch (1950); Débora y Traulio, ballet
(1951); Introducción y episodio, orch (1952); Elegía, str (1954);
Divertimento, vn, vc, pn, str (1956); Cantata, 2 sop, mez sop, 21 instr
(1958); Sinfonía en 4 Partes (1961); Analigus (1966); Intrata (1972); Adiós
(1978). Structures, pn, str qt (1962); Coordinates, magnetic tape (1963);
Olep ed Arudamot, different versions (1974); Septicilium,cl, instr ensemble
(1975); Inflorescence, sop, bcl, tape (1976); The Infinite Square, any
combination of any instruments and/or vocs (1977); Undici colori, bsn,
stamping right foot, slide projections (1981); Galandiacoa, cl, gtr (1982).
Chamb, pn, voc music.
Books: Arnold Schoenberg and the Atonalists, Havana, 1947; The Negative
Emotion, Havana, 1950; The New Romanticism, Havana, 1951.
Bibl.: J.R. Schortt, Aurelio de la Vega, un Compositor de las Américas,
Revista Musical Chilena, 1963.
Sources: BB, CTA7, DCM, DMEH, GDM

Vega, Ramón, Mexican composer; b.19th century, Mexico. His operas

were performed in Mexico City (1835).
Works: Adelaida y Comingio, opera; La reina de León, opera.
Sources: DMEH

Vega Caso, Rafael, Cuban composer and teacher; b.1901, Gibara, Cuba;
d.? He studied in Madrid, Spain, with Conrado del Campo.
Works: Symph poems; Cantata; Cuban traditional music.
Sources: DMC

Vega Matus, Alejandro, Nicaraguan composer, orch. conductor; b.17 Aug

1875, Masaya, Nicaragua; d.26 Nov 1937, Masaya. Son of Pablo Vega y
Raudes. He started music studies with Don Carmen in Nicaragua, and
continued harmony, counterpoint, and fugue in Guatemala with Giovanni
Aberle. After returning to Nicaragua he founded his own orchestra which
he conducted until his death.
Works: Fuga; 4 symph poems; 2 str qnts; 3 operettas; 10 zarzuelas; 5
overtures; 107 funeral marches; 9 intermezzos. Religious music; waltzes;
marches; songs.
Sources: MMLA

Vega y Raudes, Pablo, Nicaraguan composer and cellist; b.1 Apr 1850,
Masaya, Nicaragua; d.May 1919, Masaya. Father of Alejandro Vega Matus.
He studied counterpoint, fugue, and composition with Father Góñez. In
León, Nicaragua, he founded the first Escuela de Música. Choirmaster at
the Metropolitan Cathedral of León.
Works: Religious music; Canciones Mareñas; Waltzes; Polkas; Mazurkas.
Books: Cartilla de Música; La Teoría de la Música.
Sources: BNBD

Veiga Oliveira, Sofia Helena de, 20th century Brazilian composer.

Works: Murmurios de um regato, mez sop, pn.
Sources: IEW

Velasco González, Jerónimo, Colombian composer and conductor; b.20

Sep 1885, Cali, Colombia; d.11 Jun 1963, Bogotá, Colombia. He began
training with his parents, studied with José Viteri and Agustín Payán, then
attended Hermanos Maristas and Santa Librada in Cali. He went to Bogotá
(1906), entered the Academia Nacional de Música, and joined the military
band conducted by Italian Maestro, Manuel Conti. He formed Arpa
Nacional, later Estudiantina Murillo with E. Murillo, A. Patiño, and A.
Wills and a quintet that played traditional music (1909). He taught and
studied at the Cons. Nacional and organized the Orquesta Velasco (1920).
Cultural Ambassador in Leticia (Amazon) (1931), he conducted the
national police band (1938), joined the departmental band of Valle del
Cauca, Cali (1939). He returned to Bogotá (1941) and taught at the Cons.
Nacional de Música. Cofounder of SAYCO (1946) he became president
(195657) then honorary lifelong president.
Works: El puñado de rosas, waltz (1907); Romanza en Sol, chamb, vn, pn
(1909); Gavota, chamb (1922); Bella Argentina, chamb orch (1927);
Sevilla, chamb orch (1927); Navidad Caucana, orch (1927); Oración a la
Virgen, sop or tnr, org (1929); Fantasía sobre temas boyacenses, orch
(1939); Pequeña suite, orch (1960).
Sources: DMEH

Velasco Llanos, Santiago, Colombian composer; b.28 Jan 1915, Cali,

Colombia; 15 May 1996, Cali, Colombia. He studied with Antonio María
Valencia in Cali, and later, with Domingo Santa Cruz and Pedro Humberto
Allende in Santiago de Chile, Chile. Dir. of the Cons. of Cali.
Works: Sinfonía breve (1947); Sinfonietta (1966); Bambuco Jocoso, orch
(1967); 2 str qts. Pn, ch, voc music.
Sources: BB, DMEH

Velasco Maidana, José María, Bolivian composer and conductor; b.4 Jul
1899, BB (1901, GDM), Sucre, Bolivia; d.4 Dec1989, New York, New
York. He studied in Buenos Aires, Argentina, with José María Vásquez and
Domingo García Silva at the Cons. Fontova. Founder of the Orq. Sinfónica
Nacional of Bolivia, which he conducted for several seasons. Taught at the
Cons. Nacional de Música in La Paz, Bolivia, then moved to Houston,
Texas (1950).
Works: Cuento brujo, symph poem (1935); Los Khuzillos, symph poem
(1936); Danza del viento, symph poem (1936); Los hijos del sol, symph
overture (1938); Amerindia, ballet (1938); Incario, ballet (1938); Estampas
de mi tierra, symph suite (1939); Los mineros, ballet (1942); Vida de
cóndores (1942); Los guacos (1942); Altiplano, symph poem (1942).
Chamb, ch, voc music.
Sources: BB, CTA11, DM, DMEH, GDM, MLA, MMLA

Velásquez, Glauco, Brazilian composer of Italian origin; b.23 Mar 1884,

Naples, Italy, GDM (Paquetá Island, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, EMB2); d.21
Jun 1914, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He began studying music in Italy, and
moved to Brazil (1897) to study harmony and choral singing with Frederico
Nascimento and João Rodrigues Cortes, music theory with Arnaud Gouveia
at the Inst. Profissional Masculino of Rio de Janeiro. He entered the Inst.
Nacional de Música of Rio de Janeiro (1903) where he studied harmony
with Frederico Nascimento and counterpoint, fugue, and composition with
Francisco Braga.
Works: Soeur Beatrix, unfinished opera; 4 trios; 2 str qts; Sonata, vn, pn.
Chamb, pn, voc music.
Sources: EMB2, GDM, HMB, MLA, MMLA
Velásquez (Velásques, Velázquez), José Francisco Teodosio de Jesús, Jr.,
Venezuelan composer; b.23 Mar 1781, Caracas, Venezuela; d.24 Jul 1822,
Caracas. He studied music with his father, José Francisco Velásquez, Sr.,
and with Juan Manuel Olivares. He held positions in churches in Caracas,
Venezuela.
Works: Tonos; Stabat Mater; Oficio de difuntos; 4 masses; Te Deum; Salve;
3 Lamentations, graduals, offertories.
Sources: DEMH, EMV, GDM, MLA, MMLA

Velásquez (Velásques, Velázquez), José Francisco de las Llegas [El

Viejo], Sr., Venezuelan composer; b.15 Sep 1735, Caracas, Venezuela; d.24
Dec 1805, Caracas. Father of José Francisco Velásquez, Jr. He taught in the
Batallón de Pardos de los Valles de Aragua and was involved in the
movement of composers from the school of Chacao, Venezuela.
Works: Masses; Magnificat; Tonos; Te Deum. Sacred music.
Sources: DMEH, EMV

Velásquez, José María, Venezuelan composer, choir singer, and viola

player; b.? Caracas, Venezuela; d.? He played in the Sociedad Filarmónica
de Caracas in the 1830s and formed a group called “the popular
Philharmonic.” He also played in string quartets, sang in churches, and
wrote religious works. The archives of the Escuela Superior de Música José
Ángel Lamas and Biblioteca Nacional (National library), both in Caracas,
contain music attributed to this Velásquez family.
Works: Gradual y ofertorio; Lamentación 3a del profeta Jeremías para el
Jueves Santo en Fa mayor; Lamentación 3a del Viernes Santo; Misa a 4
voces en Mi bemol; Misa a canto solo y órgano; Misa a dos voces; Misa en
Mi menor; Misa en Re menor; Oficio de difuntos, 3 voc; Trisagio, voc,
orch.
Sources: DMEH

Velázquez Olguín, Higinio, Mexican violinist and composer; b.11 Jan

1926, Guadalajara, Mexico. He studied composition with Bernal Jiménez
and Rodolfo Halffter. Violinist at the Orq. Sinfónica Nacional in Mexico
City, Mexico. In 1969, he joined the string quartet of the Inst. Nacional Inst.
de Bellas Artes in Mexico City.
Works: Vivencias, orch (1958); Cacique, overture (1958); Juárez, brief
symphony (1961); Revolución, symph poem (1963); Elegía, ob, pn (1969);
Estructuras, pn (1969); Sonatina, vc (1970); Str qt (1970); Andante atonal,
str (1971).
Sources: BB

Velázquez Pedraza, Father José Guadalupe, Mexican religious composer

and choirmaster; b.12 Dec 1856, Pueblito, Querétaro, Mexico; d.18 Feb
1920, Mexico City, Mexico. Ordained a priest (1886) he had an ecclesiastic
career at the Colegio Apostólico de la Santa Cruz and the Seminario
Conciliar, both in Querétaro. He studied at the Hochschule für Heilig Musik
in Ratisbon, Germany, and when he returned to Mexico he became Dir. of
the Escuela de Música Sagrada of Querétaro (1890). In Mexico City he
taught at the Seminario Colegial and the Cons. Nacional de Música, and
was chapelmaster at several churches.
Works: Religious music.
Bibl.: Presb. E. de la Isla, El Padre J. Guadalupe Velázquez, Revista
Musical Mexicana, Mexico, February 21, 1942.
Sources: DMEH, MMLA

Velázquez Valle, Leonardo, Mexican composer; b.6 Nov 1935, Oaxaca,

State of Oaxaca, Mexico; 20 Jul 2004, Cuba. He studied at the Cons.
Nacional de Música of INBA, Mexico City, Mexico, and at the Los Angeles
Cons., Los Angeles, CA, USA, with Blas Galindo Dimas, Rodolfo Halffter,
Morris H. Ruger, and Carlos Jiménez Mabarak. He also studied conducting
with José Pablo Moncayo and Jean Giardino. Dir. of the Dept. de Música
and of Actividades Musicales of UNAM. Member of the Acad. de Bellas
Artes of Mexico.
Works: (1951, rev.1997); Divertimento, orch (1958); El brazo fuerte, orch
(1959); Cuauahtémoc, symph poem (1960); Tres juguetes mexicanos, ballet
(1960); Las voces antes del alba, ballet (1966); Suite Choral and Variations
(1962); Santa Juana (1963); Ronda, perc (1967); Danzas del fuego nuevo
(1968); Adagio y scherzo, str (1971); Toccata (1974); Gorgonio Esparza,
ballet (1975); Concerto, pn, metals, perc (1976); Menestral (1977);
Symphony No.1, Antares (1982); Pn concerto (1982); Señor del Génesis y el
viento (1985); Sones y jarabes mixes (1988); Bartolomé de las Casas, sop,
gtr, orch (1990); Tema y variaciones para orq. juvenil (1991); Airapí, pn,
orch (1991); Ciudad (1992); Suite Nickelodeón (1993); Cinco ciudades
mayas (1994); El abandon, ballet (1999); Variaciones sobre “La tortolita
cantadora” (2003). Chamb, solo instr, voc, ch music.
Sources: DCMMC, DMEH, GP, KTL

Veloz, Julián, Argentine pianist, organist, and composer; b.?; d.1868,

Argentina. He studied with Juan Pedro Esnaola.
Works: El deseo, published in El Cancionero Argentino of 1838; El
desconsuelo; Mi sueño; La súplica Zilia. Pn music.
Sources: DMEH, EMA

Ventimilla, José Ignacio de, Ecuadorian composer and pianist; b.?; d.1938,
Quito, Ecuador. He studied in Italy.
Works: Impromptu en Fa menor; El búho, vc, pn (1922); Romanza, voc, pn;
Patria, waltz; Majestic, waltz; Postal, waltz; Limeñas, waltz; Himno a la
ciencia.
Sources: DMEH

Ventura de Buligovich, Rita [Rebeca], Argentine composer of Bulgarian

birth; b.13 Feb 1929, Ruschuk, Bulgaria. She became an Argentinian citizen
(1947), studied at the Cons. Nacional Carlos López Buchardo, graduating
with a degree in piano (1971) and composition (1978). She studied piano
with Noemí de Posse, composition with Héctor Iglesias Villoud, Alicia
Terzián, Virtú Maragno, and Roberto García Morillo. A member of
Sociedad Argentina de Compositores and Ars Contemporánea.
Works: Tres preludios, pn (1973); Siete cancionillas infantiles, sop, fl, pn,
perc (1974); Variaciones paraquinteto de vientos, wind qnt (1974);
Cuarteto de cuerdas no.1, str qt (1975); Cuatro baladas amarillas, ch
(1976); Martirio, orch, ch (1978); Gráfico de la Petenera, cantata, text by
García Lorca, sop, orch (1977); Tres poemas gallegos (1982); Cuarteto de
cuerdas no.2 – Danzas, str qt (1990).
Sources: DMEH, VMA

Vera, Saúl, Venezuelan performer and composer; b.2 Oct 1959, Caracas,
Venezuela. He began playing the cuatro and mandolin as a child and studied
at the Escuela José Lorenzo Llamozas. He learned to play traditional
Venezuelan string instruments, but preferred mandolin. He founded the
Ensamble Raúl Bera (1986) that played traditional Venezuelan music he
arranged. The group included flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, double
bass, maracas, cuatro, and mandolin. He performs and teaches at the
Fundación Padre Sojo, the Escuela J. L. Llamozas, the Talleres de Fundarte,
and the Escuela de Música La Clavija.
Works: Seis más cinco (1985); Seis con requisito (1986); Dicotomías
(1988); Serenatas no dadas (1990).
Books: Método para el aprendizaje de la bandola llanera.
Sources: DMEH

Vera Ayala, Pedro Pablo, Paraguayan conductor and composer; b.2 July
1953, Concepción, Paraguay. He trained in his native city and later in
Asunción. In 1973 he entered the Coro del Ateneo Paraguayo, which he
conducted.
Works: Sacred, ch music.
Sources: DMEH

Vera Rivera, Santiago, Chilean composer, educator and promoter; b.2 Nov
1950, Santiago, Chile. He studied humanities at the Escuela Normal José
Abelardo Núñez (1963-68) receiving a degree in education and social
sciences. He entered the Facultad de Ciencias y Artes Musicales de la Univ.
de Chile (1970) received a degree in music education (1974), then studied
composition with Carlos Botto (1974). He continued studying composition
in the same school (197781), received a degree (1984), then after 1989
completed a doctoral program in Spain in the Facultad de Geografía e
Historia de la Univ. de Oviedo. He wrote about the Chilean composer,
Alfonso Letelier; teaches at the Univ. Metropolitana de Ciencias de la
Educación, has lectured internationally, and collaborated in didactic
publications and manuals. Former president of the Asociación Nacional de
Compositores de Chile he cofounded the Sociedad Chilena del Derecho de
Autor and founded the label SVR which records contemporary Chilean
music.
Works: Refracciones, gtr (1977); Rotación, 4 perc (1978); Villancico
espacial, ch (1979); Salve Regina, ch, org (1982); Tres acuareskas, 2 pn
(1985); Poesía para un niño, sop, pn (1986); Apokalíptika I, vn, pn (1987);
Arkana II, fl dulces qt (1995).
Sources: DMEH
Veramendi [Beramendi], Carlos, Peruvian composer; active in 18th-19th
centuries.
Works: El sacrificio de Ysac, sacred oratory, incomplete (1805).
Sources: DMEH

Veray Torregrosa, Amaury, Puerto Rican composer; b.14 Jun 1922,

Yauco, Puerto Rico; 30 Oct 1995, San Juan, Puerto Rico. He began his
musical studies with Olimpia Morel Campos then studied piano with Emilio
Baco Pasarell. He graduated from the Univ. of Puerto Rico and the New
England Cons. of Music, Boston, MA, USA. He continued postgraduate
studies at the Accademia di Musica Santa Cecilia in Rome, Italy, under
Ildebrando Pizzetti, and at the Manhattan School of Music in New York
City, NY, USA. Dir. of the dept. of music theory and composition and Prof.
at the Cons. de Música of Puerto Rico. Musical advisor for the Inst.
Puertorriqueño de Cultura. Member of the Acad. de Artes and Ciencias of
Puerto Rico.
Works: El Puente, orch (1953); Doña Julia, orch (1954); El de los Cabos
Blancos, orch (1955); La encantada, ballet (1958); Canto a Fili-Mele, orch
(1959); Cuando las mujeres…, scenes of ballet, orch (1964); Fantasía para
orquesta (1965); Jolgorio en la jacana, Estampas yaucanas, orch (1965);
Oda seráfica a San Francisco de Asís, orch (1972); Díptico, 17 perc instr,
pn (1973); La sombra de una huella, orch (1982). Chamb, stage, pn, voc
music.
Sources: CPR, DMEH

Verdié, Adriana Estela, Argentine composer; b.4 Oct 1958, Mendoza,

Argentina. She received her Masters in composition from the College of
Arts, the State Univ. of California (1995), then studied with Georges
Crumb. Her work has been widely performed in the USA.
Works: Voc, instr, electroacoustic music.
Sources: DMEH

Verneuil, Raoul de, Peruvian composer; b.9 Apr 1899, Lima, Peru; d.Sep
1975, Palma, Mallorca, Spain. He studied with Father Villalba Muñoz,
continuing his studies at the Conservatoire de Paris in France with André
Bloch, Henri Dallier. He lived in Paris and Madrid, Spain, for many years
then returned to Lima (1940).
Works: Las llamas, ballet (1936); qt (1930); Trio; Wind qnt; Danza
peruana, orch; Inca Legend, voc, 8 inst; Ritmos del sol, 12-part ch. Pn
music.
Sources: BB, DM, DMEH

Viana, José Araújo, Brazilian composer and conductor; b.10 Feb 1871,
Pôrto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil; d.2 Nov 1916, Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil. At age 10 he began music study with Grünewald and at age 12 went
to Italy to study piano with Tomás Legori and voice with Pedro Pedotti. He
returned to Italy (1893) to study at the Reale Cons. di Musica of Milan with
Arturo Buzzi-Peccia, Amintore Galli, and Vincenzo Ferroni. He cofounded
the Clube Haydn in Pôrto Alegre. Dir. of the Cons. de Música of Pôrto
Alegre
Works: Carmela, opera (1901); O Rei Galaor, opera (1913); Hino do Acre,
orch; Marcha da exposição (1913). Chamb, pn, voc music.
Sources: EMB2

Vianna (Viana), Fructuoso (Frutuoso) de Lima, Brazilian composer and

pianist; b.6 Sep 1896, Itajubá, Minas Gerais, Brazil; d.22 Apr, 1976, Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil. He studied music with his father then piano with Henrique
Oswald, harmony and composition with Agnelo França and Arnaud
Gouveia at the Escola Livre de Música of Rio de Janeiro (1912). He went to
Europe (1923) to study piano with Rudolf Hanschild in Berlin, Germany,
Arthur de Greef in Brussels, Belgium, and Blanche Selva in Paris, France.
He also studied the Dalcroze method of eurhythmics. When he returned to
Brazil, he taught at the Cons. de Música of Belo Horizonte and the Cons.
Dramático e Musical of São Paulo, both in Brazil, and was Dir. of the Coral
Paulistano of the Cons. of São Paulo. Prof. of choral singing at the Escola
Técnica Nacional, and piano at Colégio Bennet, both in Rio de Janeiro.
Works: Serenata espanhola (1923); Variaçôes sôbre un tema popular
(1923); Dança dos negros (1924); Sete miniaturas (1924); Acalanto (1924);
Valsas (waltzes with Brazilian flavor); Toadas (melodic romances);
Tanguinhos (little Brazilian tangos). Chamb, ch, voc music.
Sources: BB, CTA4, DM, EMB2, GDM, MLA, MMLA

Vicente, José Guerra, Brazilian composer and cellist of Portuguese origin;

b.12 Mar 1907, Almofala, Portugal; d.6 May 1976, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
In 1918, he settled in Brazil. He studied cello with Alfredo Gomes,
harmony with Agnelo França, counterpoint and fugue with Paulo Silva,
composition with João Otaviano, conducting with Francisco Mignone, and
form with Newton Pádua at the Inst. Nacional de Música of Rio de Janeiro.
Later he continued with Oscar da Silva and Albert Wolff. Cellist at the Orq.
Sinfônica do Teatro Municipal of Rio de Janeiro. Member of the Sociedade
Brasileira de Música Contemporânea and of the Sociedade Internacional de
Música Contemporânea. Taught harmony and form at the Inst. Villa-Lobos
of Rio de Janeiro.
Works: 3 symphonies; Tríptico sinfônico (1961-65); Trumpet concerto
(1963); Carnaval carioca (1964-67); Vc concerto (1966); Abertura
sinfônica (1968); Miragem (1974). Chamb, instr, pn music.
Sources: EMB2

Vicente Gascón, León, Spanish educator, composer and guitarist; b.18 Jul
1896, Orrio, San Sebastián, Spain; d.Jan 1962, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He
moved to Argentina when he was young and studied guitar with Antonio
Sinopoli, Domingo Prat, and María Luisa Anido, composition with Alejo
Abutcov and Pedro Rubbione. He founded a guitar academy, taught, and
composed only for guitar.
Works: Variaciones sobre una canción, voc, gtr; Minueto no.1, gtr (1927);
Homenaje a Fernando Sor, gtr (1939); Suite argentina, gtr (1943); La
oración del gaucho, gtr (1950); Ronda baturra, gtr (1958); Rumores del
Plata, gtr (1961).
Sources: DMEH

Victorio, Roberto, Brazilian composer, conductor, teacher, guitarist; b.19

Dec 1959, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He studied composition, conducting,
guitar at UFRJ. Prof. at the Dept. de Artes e Pós-Graduaçâo em Música
Brasileira at the Univ. Federal of Mato Grosso. Member of the Sociedade
Brasileira de Música Contemporânea.
Works: Suite No.3 (1985); Uxmac, orch (1987); Codex Troano, 10 perc
(1987); Arcaeus, brass instr (1993); Canto dos elementais. Chamb, pn
music.
Sources: EMB2
Vidal, Francisco Javier [Patojo], Colombian composer, violinist, guitarist,
double bass player, and educator; b.3 Dec 1834, Popayán, Colombia; d.17
Dec 1886, Medellin, Colombia. Brother of Pedro José Vidal and José Maria
Vidal, he studied with his father and Tiburcio S. Hortúa. He was self-taught
in violin, guitar, and mandolin. He entered the Colegio Nacional (Univ. del
Cauca) (1851) to study agriculture. He left Popayán and settled in the
Department of Tolima, where he performed as a musician and was a
silversmith. In 1860 he enrolled in the Armed Forces and fought in the
Colombian civil wars. He settled in Medellin (1874), worked for the
government, taught, composed, and performed. He founded the Compañía
Infantil de Zarzuelas with Lino R. Ospina (1884). Many of his compositions
and arrangements were dedicated to the church of La Candelario where his
brother, Pedro José Vidal, was music director. Most of his music is lost.
Works: Stabat Mater, ch, small orch; Cinco de Abril, march (1877);
Pasodoble, pn; Pasillo, pn; dances, voc music.
Sources: DMEH

Vidal, José María, Colombian organist, choral singer, and composer; b.8
Sep 1844, Popayán, Colombia; d.5 Apr 1910, Popayán, Colombia. Brother
of Pedro José Vidal and Francisco Javier Vidal, he studied with his father
and replaced him as an organist in the Cathedral of Popayán. He performed
in choruses in the churches of San Francisco San Agustín.
Works: Sacred music.
Sources: DMEH

Vidal, Pedro, Argentine composer, teacher, violinist of Spanish origin;

b.1893, Spain; d.1971, Rosario, Prov. of Santa Fe, Argentina. He studied at
the Escuela Municipal of Barcelona, Spain, and at the Royal Cons. of
Brussels, Belgium. He settled in Rosario in 1914. Inspector of music in the
Prov. of Santa Fe education system.
Works: Gran Misa; Canción de cuna. Vn, pn music.
Sources: CAMR

Vidal, Pedro José, Colombian conductor, violinist, music director,

composer, and educator; b.29 Jun 1833, Popayán, Cauca, Colombia; d.16
Apr 1915, Popayán, Colombia. Brother of Francisco Javier Vidal and José
Maria Vidal, he received his musical training from his father and Tiburcio
S. Hortúa. He and his brother Francisco Javier directed the music
department at the Seminario of Popayán. He taught at the Colegio Mayor
(later the Univ. del Cauca). As a violinist he traveled to Bogotá with an
opera company then moved with his children to join his brother, Francisco
Javier Vidal, in Medellin (1876). He taught violin, was music director of La
Candelaria (1877-89), and founder and first director of the Escuela de
Música Santa Cecilia (1888). In 1889 he returned to Popayán to join the
Filarmónica orchestra and teach.
Works: A la Santísima Virgen; Al Sagrado Corazón; A San Francisco de
Asís; Marcha a Palonegro; masses, motets, hymns, songs, funeral marches,
dances.
Sources: DMEH

Vidal Pacheco, [Clemente] Gonzalo, Colombian composer, conductor,

teacher, instrumentalist; b.23 Nov 1863, Popayán, Cauca, Colombia; d.21
Sep 1946, Bogotá, Colombia. He started music studies in Popayán with his
father, and then, continued with his uncle Francisco Javier Vidal, Daniel
Salazar Velásquez, and María Luisa Uribe de Uribe. Prof. at the Escuela de
Música Santa Cecilia, Medellín, Colombia. In 1901, he founded the journal
Revista Musical.
Works: Three overtures, orch, band (1892); 2 Requiem Masses (1895 and
1913); Stabat Mater, soloists, choir, organ, orch (1896); María, zarzuela
(1903); Missa pro Defunctis, in memory of his daughter María; Sonata in E
minor, pn; Sonata in E major, pn; Suite: Preludio Fugado, Romanza sin
Palabras, Serenata, Soliloquio, Miniatura, Súplica de Amor, Ensoñación.
Voc, pn, chamb, sacred music.
Sources: DMEH, LCRA, MMLA

Vidales, Francisco de, Mexican organist and composer; b.ca.1630, Mexico

City, Mexico; d.before 2 Jun 1702, Puebla, Mexico. Nephew of Fabián
Ximeno, music director in Mexico (1648-54). He worked as an assistant
organist in the Cathedral of Mexico City (1654-56) under the guidance of
Francisco López Capillas. During festivals he played the organ while López
Capillas conducted. After 1656 until his death he worked as organist in the
Cathedral of Puebla.
Works: Domine memento mei, 4 voc; Missa super Exultate cum 8 vocibus,
ch; Non est species, 4 voc, ch; Tenebrae factae sunt, 4 voc.
Sources: DMEH

Vidales, Pedro, Peruvian composer; b.18th century, Peru. His music is

conserved in the archives of the Seminario de San Antonio Abad de Cuzco.
He was a music director.
Works: Miserere mei Deus, 4 voc, continuo.
Sources: DMEH

Vidaurreta y Monreal, José Luis, Cuban musicologist and composer; b.25

May 1912, Havana, Cuba; 9 Dec 1975, Havana. He studied violin and viola
with Fernando Gómez Aday, and composition, music aesthetics, and
conducting with Fernando Carnicer at the Escuela Municipal de Música and
the Cons. Carnicer, both of Havana. Prof. of music theory, solfeggio,
harmony, and composition at the Escuela Municipal de Música and the
Cons. Nacional de Música, both of Havana. Associate conductor of the Orq.
Sinfónica of Havana. Became full member of the Acad. Nacional de Artes y
Letras (1940).
Works: Preludio y fuga, orch; Plenitud del héroe, symph poem; Música, str
orch; Boceto sinfónico, orch; Veni Domine, male ch, orch; Tres
contrapuntos, essays of atonalism and polytonalism; Amor, incidental
music; Himno. Chamb, voc music.
Books: El Compositor y el Pianista Nicolás Ruíz Espadero; Ensayo sobre
la Música Cubana; Música Popular del Continente; Panorama de la
Cultura Musical Cubana.
Sources: DM, MMLA

Vidaurri, Aréchiga, Carlos, Mexican composer and educator; b.30 Jul

1961, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. He studied music in the Escuela de
Música de la Univ. de Guanajuato, in the Univ. de Guadalajara, and in the
Escuela de Música Sacra de Guadalajara. His teachers were Domingo
Lobato, Guillermo Pinto Reyes, and Ricardo Zohn. He taught at the Escuela
de la Univ. de Guanajauto since 1989.
Works: Muda la luna, ch (1986); Apuntes, gtr (1984); Dodoitzu, fl (1991);
El próximo en la línea, fl, electronic (1993); Divertimento, cl, vn, pn, vc
(1994).
Sources: DMEH
Vieco Ortiz, Carlos, Colombian composer, performer, conductor and
teacher; b.14 Mar 1900, Medellin, Colombia; d.13 Sep 1979, Medellin,
Colombia. He first learned about music in his family’s piano workshop then
studied music with Germán Posada, Jesús Arriola, and Eusebio Ochoa in
piano, musical theory, harmony, composition, and double bass in the
Escuela Santa Cecilia, later the Instituto de Bellas Artes. He also studied
with Gonzalo Vidal. He formed the orchestra Los Vieco with his brothers in
Medellin (1920s-30s). His music was recorded by RCA Victor and had
wide distribution. He taught and conducted chamber ensembles and choirs
including the Conjunto Tejicondor which was invited to Washington, DC
(1958), to play for Pan-American week.
Works: San Agustín, operetta (1924); Echen pa’l morro (1924); Romance
esclavao, zarzuela (1947); Musical, orch; Tres canciones corales, ch; Una
flauta en la montaña, 2 voc, pn; Gavota en La, vn, pn; Invierno y
primavera; Triste y lejano; El canto marcial; sacred, dance music.
Sources: DMEH

Vieira, José Carlos do Amaral, Brazilian composer, pianist, teacher, and

musicologist; b.2 Mar 1952, São Paulo, Brazil. He studied piano with João
de Souza Lima and harmony, counterpoint, and composition with Artur
Hartmann. He was awarded scholarships by the governments of France
(1967), Germany (1969), England (1974 and 1976). In Paris, France, he
studied at the Cons. National Superieur de Musique, piano with Lucette
Descaves, composition with Olivier Messiaen, and counterpoint with
Christian Manen. In Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, he studied at the
Staaliche Hochschule für Musik, piano with Carl Seeman, composition with
Konrad Lechner, chamber music with Ramón Walter, and modern music
with Peter Förtig. In London, England, he studied with Louis Kentner. He
returned to Brazil in 1977. President of the Sociedade Brasileira de
Musicología.
Works: Song of Youth, orch (1995); Canção da juventude, orch (1996). Pn,
voc music.
Sources: EMB2

Vieira Brandão, José, Brazilian composer, pianist, choral conductor; b.26

Sep 1911, Cambuquira, Minas Gerais, Brazil; d.18 Oct 2002, Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil. In 1924, he entered the Inst. Nacional de Música of Rio de
Janeiro to study theory and solfeggio with Roberta Gonçalves de Sousa
Pinto, Raimundo da Silva, and Alfredo Richard, counterpoint and fugue
with Paulo Silva, piano with Custódio Fernandes Góis. He continued piano
with Marguérite Long (1932). In 1933 he completed a course on choral
singing and founded Madrigal Vox, a choral group that he conducted for ten
years. Prof. at the Cons. Nacional de Canto Orfeónico and Prof. of piano at
the Escola Nacional de Música, both in Rio de Janeiro. Artistic adviser at
the Secretaria General de Educação e Cultura of Rio de Janeiro. Founding
member of the Acad. Brasileira de Música.
Works: Máscaras, opera (1956-59); Fantasia concertante, pn (1937-59);
Máscaras, dance (1959). 2 str qts (1944, 1960); Pn trio (1962-63); Wind qnt
(1968). Chamb, voc music.
Sources: EMB2, HMB, MMLA

Viera, Julio Martín, Argentine composer; b.1943, Buenos Aires,

Argentina. He studied at the Univ. Católica Argentina with Francisco
Kröpfl and electroacoustic music at LIPM. Dir. of LIPM, and secretary at
FARME and at Agrupación Nueva Música.
Works: Mutación, electronic music (1973-74); Skolyon, electronic music
(1975); Str qt (1976); Música, pn, 5 perc (1982-83); Trio, harp, fl, va
(1982); Match, pn, fl, cl, perc (1984); Relato, ch, instr ensemble (1984);
Tres piezas, harp, fl, va, vibraphone (1985); Divertimento I, tape, pn, 5 perc
(1986); Divertimento II, El reloj, electronic music, (1988); Música
nocturna, recorded orch, tape (1990).
Sources: DMEH, DMM

Viggiano Esain, Julio, Argentine musicologist, violinist, and composer;

b.10 Aug 1899, Tandil, Argentina; d.17 Jul 1977. A student of Juan Bautista
Massa, Augusto Maurage, and Ernesto Drangosch, he settled in Córdoba
and researched Argentine folklore. He founded the musicology and folklore
departments at the Instituto de Antropología de la Univ. Nacional de
Córdoba. He also performed and was concertmaster in the Conjunto del
Profeserado Orquestal e Rosario.
Works: Orch, chamb music.
Sources: DMEH
Vila Castro, Cirilo, Chilean pianist, composer, conductor, and teacher;
b.1937, Santiago de Chile, Chile. He studied piano at the Cons. Nacional de
Música of Santiago de la Univ. de Chile with María Arias and Cristina
Herrera and composition with Alfonso Letelier (1954-58) and Gustavo
Becerra (1960-61). With a scholarship from the Italian government he
studied conducting at the Cons. Santa Cecilia de Roma with Franco Ferrara.
He continued with Pierre Dervaux at the École Normale de Paris (1962-64)
then with a scholarship from the French government (1964-67) he
continued studying conducting with Manuel Rosenthal while at the Cons.
Superior of Music of Paris. He returned to Chile (1970) and taught
composition and musicology in the music dept. at the Univ. de Chile.
Works: Sonata para flauta, fl (1958); Tonada allendista, voc, pn (1958);
Tres canciones corales, ch (1960); Secuencia, 2 vn, va, vc (1964); La
cabra, women’s ch (1979); El fugitive, tnr, pn (1979); Tonada del
transeúnte, cl (1980); Canto a Jerusalem, mez sop, cl, vc, pn (1984);
Recuerdo el mar, tnr, pn (1984); Invocación, vn, pn (1985); Germinal, orch
(1989); Sonata, pn; Cantata de cámara; Fantasia, pn.
Sources: DMEH, HMC

Villa Rojo, Jesús, Mexican composer, clarinetist, and teacher; b.24 Feb
1940, Brihuega, Guadalajara, Mexico. He studied harmony, counterpoint,
fugue, clarinet, violin, piano, and composition in the Real Cons. Superior de
Música de Madrid with G. Gombo, Calés Otero, and C. Halffter graduating
in 1967. He moved to Rome (1969), worked at the Academia Española de
Bellas Artes de Roma, studied with Boris Porena at the Academia Chigiana
de Siena, electroacoustic music with Franco Evangelisti and composition
with Goffredo Petrassi. He participated in the Venice Biennale (1969-72) as
a music critic. In 1970 he taught at the Academia Español de Bellas Artes
de Roma, organized and performed with the group Nuovo Forme Sonore
with Giancarlo Schiaffini and Bruno Tommaso. He was a member of the
Grupo de Improvisación, and joined the Roman musical society Nuova
Consonanza. He collaborated with composer-performers including Ennio
Morricone, Franco Evangelisti, Walter Branchi, Egisto Macchi, and
Giovanni Piazza.
Works: Tres Salmos de David, sop, tnr, ch, orch (1967); Cuatro
movimientos, wind qnt (1967); Tiempos, str qt (1970); Obtener variants,
indeterminate instr (1970); Formas planas, str orch (1972); Concerto
grosso I, ob, cl, fg, str (1975); Espaciado rítmico, vn, va, vc, pn (1975);
Ellos, voc, fl, tbn, vc, perc (1976); Concierto I, vn, orch (1977); Continuo,
orch (1979); Temples, gtr (1981); Eclipse, sax (1982); Historias en el aire,
vn, cl, vc, pn, magnetic tape (1988); Caminando por el sonido, magnetic
tape (1991); Concierto para clarinete, cl, orch (1991); Sonatina, gtr (1992);
Variantes tímbricas, cl, electronic (1993); Septeto, cl, fg, tp, tbn, vn, vc, cb
(1997).
Sources: DMEH

Villalba Muñoz, Alberto, Argentine pianist, organist, choral conductor,

and composer of Spanish origin; b.10 Nov 1878, Valladolid, Spain; d.? He
studied piano and voice with his father, Alvaro Villalba, and harmony and
composition with Felipe Pedrell in Spain. Conductor of the Orq. Sinfónica
of Lima, Peru. Prof. of music at the Colegio Nacional San Luis in Tarija,
Bolivia. Dir. of the Cons. Clementi in the city of Jujuy, Prov. of Jujuy,
Argentina.
Works: Misa de Requiem, ch, org; Yaraví, ch; Los Andes, symph poem; Seis
caprichos, pn; Inspiradas, pn; El poema del sol, pn; La leyenda del zorro
del Río Xingu, pn; Scherzetto, pn.
Sources: DM, MLA, MMLA

Villa-Lobos, Heitor, Brazilian composer; b.5 Mar 1887, Rio de Janeiro,

Brazil; d.17 Nov 1959, Rio de Janeiro. He studied cello with his father,
Raúl Villa-Lobos, and later, with Benno Niederberger. He entered the Inst.
Nacional de Música in Rio de Janeiro (1907), where he studied with
Frederico Nascimento, Agnelo França, and Francisco Braga. He was active
in music education in São Paulo, Brazil, and Rio de Janeiro. In 1942, he
founded a cons. under the auspices of the Ministério de Educação, and
introduced many important innovations into the national program in music
education, with emphasis on the cultural resources of Brazil. He established
the Acad. Brasileira de Música in Rio de Janeiro (1945), and was its
president until his death. He also founded the Cons. Nacional de Canto
Orfeónico.
Works: Izaht, opera (1912-14); Dansas africanas, orch (1914); 2 vc
concertos (1915, 1953); 12 symphonies (1916-57); 2 sinfoniettas (1916,
1947); Uirapuru, ballet (1917); Amazonas, orch (1917); 15 chôros (1920-
29); Fantasy of Mixed Movements, vn (1922); Possessão, ballet (1929);
Momoprecoce, pn (1929); Caixinha de boãs festas (1932); 9 bachianas
brasileiras (1932-44); Ciranda das sete notes, bsn, str orch (1933); Pedra
Bonita, ballet (1933); 3 suites entitled Descobrimento do Brasil (1937); The
New York Skyline (1939); Dança da terra, ballet (1939); Rudepoema
(1942); Madona, tone poem (1945); 5 pn concertos (1945-54); Fantasia, vc
(1945); Magdalena, opera (1947); Fantasia, sop, sax, two horns, str orch
(1948); Erosion, or The Origin of the Amazon River (1951); Gtr concerto
(1951); Rudá, ballet (1951); Harp concerto (1953); Odyssey of a Race,
symph poem (1953); Dawn in a Tropical Forest (1953); Harmonica
concerto (1955); Izi, symph poem (1957); Yerma, opera (1953-56); Génesis,
ballet (1954); Emperor Jones, ballet (1955); A menina das nuvens, opera
(1957-58); 18 symph poems; 16 str qts. Chamb, ch, pn, voc music.
Bibl.: F.C. Lange, Villa-Lobos, un Pedagogo Creador, Boletín Latino-
Americano de Música, Vol.1, 1935. A. Muricy, Villa-Lobos, Bulletin of the
Pan American Union, 1945. C. Sprague Smith, H. Villa-Lobos (1889-1959),
Inter-American Musical Bulletin, 1960. J. Orrego Salas, Heitor Villa-Lobos:
Man, Work, and Style, Inter-American Musical Bulletin, 1966.
Sources: BB, CTA3, DCM, DM, GDM, HMB, MLA, MMLA

Villalobos, Jorge, Costa Rican composer and teacher; b.1921, San Isidro de
Heredia, Costa Rica; d.2000, San José, Costa Rica. He studied piano with
Miguel Angel Quesada in the Cons. Nacional de Música and received
certification to teach music in primary schools and a degree in music
(1953). He studied in the Real Cons. Superior de Música de Madrid (1972)
with Enrique Massó Ribot. He taught music and was a music director in
churches.
Works: 2 masses (1967); sacred music.
Sources: DMEH

Villalobos Ibarra, Paz, Mexican pianist, singer, and composer; b.3 Feb
1912, Encarnación de Díaz, Jalisco, Mexico; d.24 Oct 1991, Mexico City,
Mexico. She studied music with her parents then her family moved to
Mexico City (1922) and she attended the Cons. Nacional de Música and
studied with Julián Carillo and Estanislao Mejía. Later she studied with
José Rocabruna, Manuel M. Ponce, Ana María Charles, and Luis G. Salmoa
and song with Sonia Verbitsky. She performed as a pianist with Silvestre
Revueltas and Carlos Chavez and as a singer conducted by José Iturbi. She
organized a jazz orchestra of women (1932) then studied voice, speech, and
music therapy. She and her husband founded the Instituto Mexicano de la
Audición y el Lenguaje (1951).
Works: 25 Canciones románticas, voc (1935-67); 6 Canciones religiosas,
voc, pn (1940-60); Pupée qui dance, pn (1949); Álbum de mis hijos, pn
(1951-55); 10 Canciones para niños sordos (1953).
Sources: DMEH

Villalpando, Fernando, Mexican violinist, teacher, composer and

conductor; b.30 May 1844, Zacatecas, Mexico; d.21 Dec 1902, Zacatecas,
Mexico. As a child he played horn in the Banda de Música del 2° Batallón
in Zacatecas. He became first violin in the orchestra of a Mexican opera
company (1857) and accompanied the orchestra on a tour before returning
to Zacatecas where he became conductor of the municipal band (1870). He
founded the Academia de Música Zacatecana (1874) then organized Sunday
schools that taught choral music in primary schools (1880). He organized
the Banda del Estado in the state of Aguascalientes (1887) and conducted
the Academia de Música del Estado until 1891 when he returned to
Zacatecas.
Works: Salutación Americana exposition, band? (1893); México, overture,
orch; El niño jugando, ch; La tarde de febrero, voc, pn; Himno Vexilia
Regis; Misa solemne (1895); Ch, dance, sacred, pn music.
Sources: DMEH, MMLA

Villalpando Buitrago, Alberto, Bolivian composer; b.21 Nov 1940, La

Paz, Bolivia. He started music studies with Santiago Velázquez and Rev.
José Díaz Gáinza. In 1957, he went to Buenos Aires, Argentina, to study at
the Cons. Nacional de Música Carlos López Buchardo with Abraham
Jurafsky, Ricardo Rodríguez, Roberto Castro, and Roberto García Morillo.
In 1963, with a scholarship from the Inst. Di Tella of Buenos Aires he
studied with Alberto Ginastera, Aaron Copland, Riccardo Malipiero, José
Vicente Asuar, Bruno Maderna, Olivier Messiaen, and Luigi Dallapiccola.
When he returned to Bolivia, he became national Dir. of music at the
Ministerio de Cultura y Educación until 1973. Prof. at the Univ. Católica
Boliviana and the Cons. Nacional de Música, both of La Paz.
Works: Cuatro juegos fantásticos, cl, vc, pn, perc; Str qt; Cantata solar,
soloists, ch, chamb orch (1964); Liturgias fantásticas, pn, orch; Concertino
semplice, fl, orch (1965); Del amor, del miedo, y del silencio, pn, chamb
orch (1967); Danzas para una imagen perdida, ballet (1970).
Sources: CB, DCM, DMEH, GDM

Villanueva, María Cecilia, Argentine composer and pianist; b.4 Sep 1964,
La Plata, Prov. of Buenos Aires, Argentina. She studied piano with Leticia
Corral and Elizabeth Westerkamp, and composition with Mariano Etkin at
the Facultad de Bellas Artes of the Univ. of La Plata, Prov. of Buenos Aires,
Argentina. Teacher at the Dept. de Instrumentación y Orchestration at the
Facultad de Bellas Artes of the Univ. of La Plata.
Works: Erosiones, orch (1987-88); Birlibirloque, fl, cl, trumpet, trb, pn, 2
vn, va, vc, cb (1988); Escenario, pn, orch (1989); Música descalza, fl, ob,
cl, perc, pn, vn, va, vc (1989). Chamb music.
Sources: DMEH, ISC

Villanueva, Mariana, Mexican composer; b.8 Apr 1964, Mexico City,

Mexico. She started music studies with María Antonieta Lozano. Took
classes in composition with Mario Lavista at the Cons. Nacional de Música
of INBA, Mexico City, and received Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees of
fine arts at the Carnegie-Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA, USA, where she
studied with Leonardo Balada, Reza Vali, and Lukas Foss.
Works: Anabacoa, orch (1992); Ritual, orch (1995); Santo Luzbel, orch
(1998). Chamb, solo instr, voc, electroacoustic, computer music.
Sources: DCMMC, DMEH, GP

Villanueva Galeano, Ignacio, Honduran composer; b.1 Feb 1885,

Esperanza, Dept. of Intibucá, Honduras; d.? He studied solfeggio and music
theory with Ladislao López, and clarinet with Camilo Rivera at the Escuela
de Música of his native town. In 1907, he became conductor of the Banda
Militar of Valladolid, today Comayagua, Honduras, and later, he occupied a
similar position in military bands of other towns in Honduras, El Salvador,
and Bolivia.
Works: La isla del Tigre, overture, orch; Primer centenario, symph poem.
Concert waltzes; marches; polkas; tangos; gavottes; intermezzos;
capriccios.
Sources: MLA, MMLA
Villanueva Gutiérrez, Felipe, Mexican pianist and composer; b.5 Feb
1862, Santa Cruz Tecamac, Mexico; d.28 May 1893, Mexico City, Mexico.
He first studied violin with his brother, Luis, piano with his cousin, Carmen
Villanueva, then he went to Mexico City, where he studied piano at the
Cons. Nacional de Música, and privately with Antonio Valle and Julio
Ituarte. He was self-taught in composition. Taught piano and music in
schools. In 1887, he founded a musical school with other Mexican
composers, Ricardo Castro, Gustavo E. Campa, and Juan Hernández
Acevedo, and in 1892, together with Gustavo E. Campa and Carlos J.
Meneses, he founded the Sociedad Anónima de Conciertos. He created the
danza mexicana, based on the contradanza habanera of Manuel Saumell and
Ignacio Cervantes.
Works: Keofar, comic opera; La casa de locos, zarzuela; Seis danzas
humorísticas; Cupido; Venus; La pedrada; Vals amor; Vals causerie; Vals
poético; Idolina. Mazurkas; nocturnes.
Sources: DM, DMEH, GMM, GP, MMLA

Villarini, Awilda, Puerto Rican composer, pianist, and musicologist; b.6

Feb 1940, Patillas, Puerto Rico. She studied piano in San Juan with
Carmelina Figueroa, with Jeanne-Marie Darré (Cons. of Paris), M. Munz
(Peabody Cons., Baltimore MD), Sascha Gorodnittzki (The Juilliard
School, New York), and Dieter Weber (Hochschule für Music, Vienna). She
received a DMA from New York Univ. and researched Puerto Rican dance.
As a pianist she performed in Puerto Rico, Europe, and the United States.
She received funding for composition studies from the Univ. of Puerto
Rico, the Ford Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Works: Tres piezas fantásticas, cl, pn (1977); Suite portorricense, orch
(1982); Tres preludios, pn (1985); Sonata para flauta y piano, fl, pn (1987);
La leyenda del indio, orch (1992); Sonata para cuatro trombones, suite, tbn
(1992); Cuartet de cuerdas, str qt (1997); Portraits of Greenwich Village,
vc (1997); Concerto, pn, orch; La muerte no entrará en palacio, incidental
music; Plena, orch; La muerte no entrará en palacio, magnetic tape.
Chamb, pn, electroacoustic, multi media music.
Sources: CPR, DMEH

Villarreal, Sergio, Mexican composer; b.24 Mar 1955, Culiacán, Mexico.

He studied music at the Univ. Autónoma of Sinaloa, Mexico, at the Univ. of
Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA, and at the Univ. of Western Ontario, England.
Among his teachers were Margarita Corona, John Gibson, Jack Behrens,
and David Miska. He worked mainly in the field of computing systems
applied to music at the Escuela de Música of the Univ. Autónoma of
Sinaloa.
Works: El lobo estepario, orch (1990); Rhapsody, orch (1993). Chamb,
electroacoustic, computer music.
Sources: DCMMC

Villaseñor, Jesús, Mexican composer; b.25 Oct 1936, Uruapan, State of

Michoacan, Mexico. He studied at the Cons. Nacional de Música of INBA,
Mexico City, Mexico, with Rosalío Gutiérrez, José Pablo Moncayo, and
Jesús Estrada. He entered the Taller de Composición Musical of Carlos
Chávez and Julián Orbón (1960-65) and took a course in music analysis
with Rodolfo Halffter. Assistant Dir. of the Sección de Investigaciones
Musicales of INBA and of the Dept. de Música of UNAM, Mexico City.
Teacher at the Cons. Nacional de Música of INBA. Member of the Liga de
Compositores de Música de Concierto of Mexico.
Works: Brand, symph poem (1963); Symphony No.1 (1964); Tú eres la
exaltación, cantata (1974); Misa solemne para la Inauguración de la Nueva
Basílica de Santa María de Guadalupe, sop, nar, organ, children’s ch,
mixed ch (1976); Tres piezas breves y un fugato (1977); Altiplanos (1978);
Introducción y rondó (1978); En tierra fértil (1980); Apocalipsis 21, 2
(1981); Cauces siderales (1981); La Nueva Jerusalén (1981); Divertimento
(1982); Toccata (1982); Guía sin fin (1983); Tlayolan III (1986); Pneuma
(1987); Los devas están allí, symph poem (1990); Jhasua (1990); Por
regiones, str (1996); América nueva, Symphony no.2 (1997); Paisaje 1957
(1998); Sinfonía tríptica (1997); Sinfonía concertante a tres (1998);
Pirámides (2000); Xilitla I, org, orch (2000); Laberinto en congrejo 2002
(2002); Astrea (2003); Tres etapas (2003); Symphony no.9, vn (2004);
Symphony no.11 (2004); Andar los campos, Symphony no.13 (2005);
Symphony no.14 (2006); Toccata y fantasia (2007); Parhelio, Symphony
no.16 (2009); Symphony no.17 (2010); Symphony no.18 (2011); Arco iris,
Symphony no. 19 (2011); El tren de mi tierra (2011). Chamb, pn, org, ch,
voc music.
Sources: DCMMC, DMEH, GP
Villasmil Romany, Alberto, Venezuelan conductor, composer, teacher, and
instrumentalist; b.23 Oct 1925, Maracaibo, Venezuela; d.2 Dec 1991,
Maracaibo, Venezuela. A brass player, he conducted the Banda Municipal
Rafael Urdaneta de Maracaibo and the Banda del Estado, which became the
Banda de Conciertos Simón Bolívar (1965). He taught at the Cons. José
Luis Paz de Maracaibo, conducted the orch. Synph. de Venezuela in
Maracaibo and Radio Caracas Televisión, the bands Zulia, Trujillo, Táchira,
Municipal Urdaneta de Maracaibo y Mérida, and the Banda Marcial de
Caracas.
Works: Olga, waltz (1948); La princesa, contradance (1952); Linda
perijanera, dance (1961); Puente sobre el lago, contradance (1961); El
saladillo, waltz (1961); Ave María (1966); Responso (1976); Yajaira,
contradance; Escalas para trompeta, didactic work, tpt.
Sources: DMEH

Villate, Gaspar, Cuban composer; b.27 Jan 1851, Havana, Cuba; d.9 Oct
1891, Paris, France. He studied in Cuba with Nicolás Ruiz Espadero. He
moved to the USA (1868) then went to Paris, where he studied with
François E.J. Bazin, Adolphe L. Danhauser, and Victorin de Joncières at the
Cons. National de Musique of Paris.
Works: Angelo, tirano de Padua, opera (1867); Las primeras armas de
Richelieu, opera (1871); Contradanzas, pn (1873); Eight waltzes, pn;
Soirées cubaines, pn; Adiós a Cuba, pn (1876); Serenade havanaise, sop y
pn (1876); Zilia, opera (1877); Marche des petites pompiers, orch (1878);
La czarina, opera (1879); Baltazar, opera (1885); Cristóforo Colombo,
opera (1884-86); Lucifer, opera (1887-89); Misa solemne, soloists, ch, orch;
Serenata cubana, orch
Bibl.: O. Martínez, Programa de la orch Filarmónica de Havana, 10
February, 1946. A. Carpentier, La Música en Cuba, Mexico City, 1946.
Sources: DM, GDM, MMLA

Villavicencio Grossmann, Jorge, Peruvian composer; b.1973. His family

immigrated to Brazil where he studied violin and composition. He earned a
degree in violin performance from Faculdade Santa Marcelina and a
master’s degree in composition at Florida International Univ. He studied
composition with John Harbison and Lukas Foss at Boston Univ. and
earned a doctorate in composition (2004). He was assst. Prof. of
theory/composition at the Univ. of Nevada, Las Vegas (2004-10), where he
founded and co-dir. N.E.O.N., Nevada Encounters of New Music. He joined
the faculty at Ithaca College as asst. Prof. of composition (2010) and
directed áltavoz, a Latin American composer consortium.
Works: Tres Danzas Peruanas, gtr (1987); Piano Sonata, pn (1993);
Prelude and Toccata, pn (1997); O Quam Suavis (1997); Concerto
Elegiaco, pn concerto no.1, pn, str (2002 rev. 2006); Sinfonietta, 14 instr,
sop (2004); Yoshitada Songs (2010); Wayra, timpani, 2 perc, harp, str
(2011); Fantasia, bass viol, harpischord (2011); Anemoi, triptych, orch perc,
2 harps, str (2011-12); Whistling Vessels, ob/eh, cl/bcl, vn, vc, pn, perc, 4
whistling vessels, electronics (2013); Trois Cadences et Trois Épisodes, ob,
cl, vn, vc, pn, perc, electronics (2013); Mosoq, vn, str octet (3 vn, 2 va, 2
vc, 1 cb), electronics (2013); Latitudes, cl, str trio (2014).
Sources: CW, NMLA

Villegas Maldonado, Guillermo, Mexican composer and educator; b.9

Dec 1932, Mexico City, Mexico. He studied composition at the Nacional de
Música (1951-57). Conductor of the Compañia de Teatro Clásico el INBA
(1963-64), he taught at the cons. of UNAM (1970).
Works: Un día con otro.
Sources: DMEH

Villena Welsh, Federico S., Venezuelan composer, chapelmaster, organist,

violinist, cellist, pianist, teacher, and conductor; b.May 1835, Turmero,
Aragua. Venezuela; d.17 Jul 1899, Caracas, Venezuela. Self-taught in
music. Chapelmaster at the church in Turmero, he settled in Ciudad Bolívar
(1865) and became chapelmaster and organist at the Cathedral, conductor of
the military band, and taught at the Escuela de Música.
Works: Las dos deshonras, zarzuela; Ave Maria, 3 voc, 6 instr sextet; Misa
in E flat, sop, mez sop, tn, bs, ch, orch. Hymns; romances; overtures;
masses; fantasias, elegies; vn, pn, vc, voc, sacred music.
Sources: DMEH, EMV, MMLA

Villoldo, Ángel Gregorio, Argentine composer, guitarist, journalists,

theatrical writer, singer, and dancer; b.16 Feb 1861, Buenos Aires,
Argentina; d.14 Oct 1919, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He played the piano,
guitar, and harmonica. Although there is no record of formal music study he
composed many tangos and introduced the tango to Europe in 1905. After
returning to Argentina he recorded for Victor, Zonofono, Odeón, and
Colombia.
Works: Tango: El porteñito (1903); El esquinazo (1903); El Choclo (1905);
Mentira (1918); La Cumparsita (with Gerardo Matos Rodríguez). Cantar
eterno, voc (1916); songs.
Sources: DMEH

Viloni, José, Argentine composer of Italian origin; b.4 Sep 1895,

Catanzaro, Italy; d.1950, Buenos Aires. He settled in Argentina and studied
in Buenos Aires, violin with Darío Grassi, and harmony and composition
with Gilardo Gilardi. President of the Asociación Coral Bonaerense, Prov.
of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Works: Preludio y danza, orch; Soledad en la puna, orch; Fiesta en la
pampa, orch; Serie argentina, str; Moto perpetuo (1926); Gitana (1927);
Orientale (1931); Andante religioso (1931). Pn, voc music.
Books: Moderna Teoría de la Música, Buenos Aires, 1925.
Sources: DM

Vincenti, Benedetto de, Bolivian composer of Italian origin; b.1815, Italy;

d.1914, Bolivia. He studied at the Academia de San Vitale then traveled to
Paris to study with Halevy. He sailed to Valparaiso, Chile, and organized
and conducted bands. After two years he was hired by the president of
Bolivia to organize and compose for the military bands in Bolivia.
Performed in the Teatro Municipal of La Paz.
Works: Bolivian National Anthem (c.1842); Canción patriótica (1845);
Mass, mixed ch, orch.
Sources: DM, DMEH

Viscarra Monje, Humberto, Bolivian composer; b.30 Mar 1898, Sorata,

Dept. of La Paz, Bolivia; d.2 Sep 1971, La Paz. He studied at the Cons.
Nacional of Bolivia in La Paz, with Pietro Bruno, then he studied piano and
composition with Giovanini in Italy and with Camille Decreus in Paris,
France. He returned to Bolivia and served as Dir. of the Cons. of La Paz,
1930-32, and 1950-68. Dir. of the Acad. de Bellas Artes in Cochabamba,
Bolivia.
Works: Andante para coro y orquesta, ch, orch; Alleretto scherzando, pn;
Andante, Canción, Minueto romántico, Rondino, pn, based on Bolivian
themes.
Sources: BB, DM, DMEH, MMLA

Vistel Columbié, Daniel, Cuban pianist, trumpet player, composer,

conductor, and teacher; b.5 Sep 1948, Santiago, Cuba. Brother of Orlando
Columbié Vistel, he studied with his father then entered the Cons. Esteban
Salas. He began his career as a trumpet player at age 12 in his father’s
orchestra. Later he played trumpet and was asst. conductor in the Orquesta
de Música Moderna de Oriente.
Works: Orch, instr, voc music.
Sources: DMEH

Vistel Columbié, Orlando, Cuban pianist, composer, conductor and

teacher; b.24 Apr 1954, Santiago, Cuba. Brother of Daniel Columbié Vistel,
he studied with his father then entered the Cons. Esteban Salas. At the age
of 12 he moved to Havana to study at the Escuela Nacional de Música. He
studied composition at the ISA with teachers including Armando Romeu,
Frank Emilio, Harold Gramatges, Carlos Fariñas, and Roberto Valera. He
taught theory, harmony, polyphony, counterpoint, history, and piano at ISA
and the Escuela Nacional de Música and played in many groups.
Works: Chamb, ch, symph, popular music.
Sources: DMEH

Vitacco, Mariano [Pablo], Argentine composer; b.29 Nov 1964, Buenos

Aires, Argentina. He received a degree in composition from the Univ.
Católica de Argentina (1989) where he studied with Roberto Caamaño and
Marta Lambertini. He graduated from the Univ. de Buenos Aires (1991)
then with a scholarship from the Agencia Española de Cooperación
Internacional he completed a postgraduate degree with Antón García Abril
at the Real Cons. Superior de Música de Madrid (1996-97). He took
seminars with Cristóbal Halffter (Spain: 1994, 1997), Krzysztof Penderecki
(Spain: 1997), and Gerardo Gandini (Argentina).
Works: Imágenes caleidescópicas, orch (1989); Sin cruzar el Manzanares,
gtr (1996-97); Eufomías, tres piezas breves para orquesta, orch (1996-97);
Missa brevis Santa Cecilia, sop, mez sop, tnr, bar, mixed ch, str qut, org
(1998-99); Volar Damunt Laigua, fl, pn (1998); Taleas, gtr, chamb orch
(1999-2000); Jesu Dulcis, mixed ch, orch (2001); Misa de las campanas, 2
tnr, bar, bs, mixed ch, tubular chimes (2002).
Sources: DMEH

Vitier, José María, Cuban composer and pianist; b.7 Jan 1954, Havana,
Cuba. Brother of Sergio Vitier, he studied piano with Cecilia Echeverría
then continued at the Cons. Amadeo Roldán with Margot Rojas and César
López (1975). He also took courses in composition at the Instituto Superior
de Arte with José Ardévol. He worked at the Escuela Provincial de Música
de Matanzas and taught piano in the Escuela Nacional de Música de La
Habana (1977). He founded Grupo de José María Vitier (1983) with piano,
string quartet, saxophone, flute, electric bass, drum, Cuban percussion
instruments, and synthesizers. They played with choirs, orchestras, and with
Sergio Vitier’s Grupo Oru. In 1986 his group performed in the Festival
Latino in New York and the Festival Cervantino de México.
Works: Destiempos, pn; Zonas con algo de son, fl; Nacimientovida,
magnetic tape; Danzaria, voc, fl, ob, cl, sax, gtr, pn, b, drum, perc (1970);
Pequeña session de ritmo, 11 Cuban perc instr (1975); Bibliotecas
infantiles, documentary (1975); Desprendimientos, orch (1976); Suite de
canciones infantiles n°1, vn, pn (1977); Suite de canciones infantiles n°2,
vn, pn (1983); Rondó, orch (1990); Contradanza festiva, fl, pn, orch (1995);
Caleidoscopio, pn, perc. (1996 version).
Sources: DMEH

Vitier, Sergio, Cuban composer and guitarist; b.18 Jan 1948, Havana,
Cuba. Brother of José Maria Vitier, he studied guitar with Isaac Nicola at
the Cons. Amadeo Roldán and composition, orchestration, and conducting
with Leo Brouwer, Federico Smith, José Ardévol, Félix Guerrero, José
Loyola, and Roberto Valera. He performed with the group Los Armónicos
of Felipe Dulzaides (1964-66), the Orch. Cubana de Música Moderna
(1967-69), and the Grupo de Experimentación Sonora del Instituto Cubano
del Arte e Industria Cinematográficos (ICAIC) in 1969. He conducted the
Conjunto de Danza Moderna and Complejo Cultural del Teatro Mella
(1980-90) and recorded with the experimental group at ICAIC. He
performed with the National Symph. Orchestra and the Conjunto
Instrumental Nuestro Tiempo.
Works: Destiempos, pn; Zonas con algo de son, fl; Nacimientovida,
magnetic tape; Danzaria, voc, fl, ob, cl, sax, gtr, pn, b, drum, perc (1970);
Pequeña session de ritmo, 11 Cuban perc instr (1975); Desprendimientos,
orch (1976); film, ballet, theater music.
Sources: DMEH

Vivado Orsini, Ida, Chilean composer and pianist; b.30 Aug 1908, Tacna,
Chile; d.23 Oct 1989, Santiago, Chile. She studied piano with E. Castrillón
and A. Spikin Howard, and composition with Domingo Santa Cruz and
Free Focke. President of the Asociación Nacional de Compositores (1981-
87).
Works: Tres poemas y una canción, voc, pn (1952); Ay Huasa,
divertimento, voc, orch (1972); Picaresca, mez sop, orch (1977). Pn, voc
music.
Sources: DMEH, IBCC, IEW, NGDWC

Vivanco, Moisés, Peruvian composer, conductor, and arranger; b.7 Feb

1918, Ayacucho, Peru; d.20 Sep 1998, Madrid, Spain. He began composing
as a child and at age 11 was honored by the governments of Mexico and
Peru for his music based on ancient Incan culture. At age 16 his works were
performed in Paris by Kleiber, Falla and Casals. He conducted the
Compañía Peruana de Radioemisoras and founded the Compañía Peruana
de Arte with 46 Incan dancers, singers, and 40 musicians. He studied
harmony, composition, and counterpoint with Falla in Argentina. He lived
in Hollywood, CA, for 50 years performing and composing and in 1950
created the Gran Compañía de Conciertos which performed over 240
concerts internationally.
Works: Las pampas de Amaçaes (1927); Temas Incas, orch (1928);
Pachama, Kon Tiki Wiracocha (3 movimeintos de danza india, orch (1957);
Adoracíon, orch; Andean Symphony no.13, orch; Vientos del Ande (Winds of
the Andes), orch; Passionis Christus; Lament, orch; Taita Inty, orch;
Witalia, orch; Danse le vent, instr ensemble; Magical Indian Flute, instr
ensemble; Amor indio; Zana; chamb, voc music.
Sources: DMEH

Vives Serra, Santiago, Uruguayan composer, pianist, and organist; b.2

May 1940, Montevideo, Uruguay. He studied piano with Maria Celia
Guala, Miguel Gil Álvarez, Domingo Dente, and Guillermo Kolischer,
organ, harmony, and composition with Angelo Turriziani, folklore with
Alberto Soriano, song with Gloria de León, and attended seminars taught by
Hector Tosar. He also studied organ in Spain with Jordi Figueras. From
1966 on he performed as a pianist and organist. He spoke about Uruguayan
musicians in Montevideo and the interior of Uruguay in France and Sweden
(1989). He was organist at the Primera Iglesia Científica de Cristo until
1969 and after 1975 he was organist in the parish of San Francisco de Asís.
He founded the Centro de Investigaciones Musicológicas with Neffer
Kroger in Montevideo (c. 1979) and he founded and conducted the Coro de
la Asociación Cristiana de Jóvenes (1992).
Works: Els segadors, ch (1892); Fulla d’album, qt (1892); Sanctus, ch, orch
(1892); La cançó de les Palles, ch (1893); Himno al Apostolado de la
Oración, ch (1904); Converte nos Domine, ch (1909); El rosario, voc, pn
(1928).
Sources: DMEH

Vizcaíno, Fausto, Dominican composer and performer; b.14 Dec 1924,

Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. He began his music studies at the
Academia de Música del Cuerpo de Bomberos where he studied clarinet
with Daniel Díaz. Later he entered the Cons. Nacional and studied piano,
viola, and composition with Manuel Simó receiving a degree in
composition (1973). He conducted the Banda del Cuerpo de Bomberos, and
was solo clarinetist in the Banda Militar Escuela Naval, and second
clarinetist in the Orquesta Sinfónica. He taught in the Escuela Elemental,
taught analysis and counterpoint at the Cons. Nacional, and harmony in the
Liceo Musical de San Cristóbal. A philosophy major, he received a
doctorate in law (1960) and worked as a lawyer in addition to his musical
activities.
Works: Capricho cíclico, orch (1983); Dicen que me casé yo, fugue, 4 voc;
Trío, fl, cl, pn; Estudio dodecafónico, str qt; Sonatina en Sol, pn; Tres
respuestas, orch. Chamb, orch, band, pn, ch music.
Sources: DMEH

Vizcaíno Treviño, Rafael, Mexican composer and conductor; b.22 Jun

1927, Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico; d.25 Jun 1982, Mexico City. He
attended the Cons. De Música de la Ciudad de Puebla, La Escuela Superior
de Música, Cons. Nacional de Música, and the Escuela Nacional de Música
of UNAM. He conducted research in acoustics and theories involving
intonation.
Works: Fuga para metals (1968).
Sources: GP
 W
Wagner, Werner, Argentine composer and music manager of German
origin; b.3 Dec 1927; d.2 Nov 2002. Cologne, Germany. He settled in
Buenos Aires, Argentina (1937), and studied piano with Berta Sujovolsky,
harmony, counterpoint, fugue, orchestration, and composition with Jacobo
Ficher. President of the Asociación de Jóvenes Compositores (1965-66),
member of the Unión de Compositores de la Argentina and of the Consejo
Argentino de la Música. Co-founder and president of the Editorial
Argentina de Compositores.
Works: Suite No.1, str orch (1953); Poema, vn (1953); Suite No.2 (1954);
Obertura de concierto (1961); Rapsodia argentina (1962); Pn concerto
(1965); Concierto de cámara (1968); Lamentaciones (1968); Música a 12
(1968); Suite para niños, str orch (1970); Improvisación sinfónica (1970);
Rapsodia, vc (1972-73); Música concertante, hn, str (1974); Capricho
(1984); La tierra es mía, ch (1985); Cánticos, sop (1992); Réquiem para
asombro (1992); Las apariciones (1994). Chamb, ch, voc, pn music.
Sources: CTA15, DMEH, DMM, EMA, ISC, VMA

Waller, González Ariel, Mexican composer; b.23 Oct 1946, Mexico City,
Mexico. He studied composition with Filiberto Ramírez Franco at the
Escuela Nacional de Música of UNAM, Mexico City. He studied
conducting with Enrique Ribo, René Defossez, and León Barzin. Teacher at
the Escuela Nacional de Música of UNAM. Conductor of Camerata San
Angel.
Works: ¡Es verdad!, symph poem, bar, mixed ch (1974); Cuirava, suite, str
(1976); Concertino, str (1993); Oda a Alfonso Reyes, mixed ch (1996);
Xicohtzingo, symph poem (1998); Fantasía con temas navideños (2003).
Chamb, pn, voc, ch music.
Sources: DCMMC, DMEH, GP

Wang, Patricio, Chilean composer and performer; b.Dec 1952, Santiago,

Chile. He studied in the Inst. Nacional de Santiago then entered the Univ.
de Chile and studied sound technology (1969-71), flute (1971), architecture
(1971-70), composition (1970-73). He cofounded, toured, and recorded
with Barroco Andino (1973-76), then settled in Holland. He entered the
Cons. Real of La Haya to study classical guitar and composition, graduating
in 1983. In Europe he founded and conducted the group Amankay (1976-
81), performed and recorded with Hoketus founded by Dutch composer
Louis Andriessen (1977-86).
Works: Oficio de tinieblas por Galileo Galilei, Cant, voc, ch, quena,
zampaña, 3 gtr, charango, tiple, electric bc, perc, pn (1981-82); Alter ego 2
tpt (1983); Dialecto de pájaros, 3 gtr, tiple, charango, electric bc, perc, pn,
l, voc (1987); Sinfonía de los tres tiempos de América (1988); Patricio
Wang, Music for Films, CD (1990); Smyrna, ch, clave (1992); Suite para
Violeta (2000).
Sources: DMEH

Weingarten, Alicia, Argentine composer and pianist; b.14 Dec 1953,

Buenos Aires, Argentina. She studied at the Cons. Municipal de Música
Manuel de Falla, piano with Antonio de Raco and Manuel Rego (graduated
1976) then composition with Teodoro Fuchs and Juan Francisco Giacobbe
(graduated 1979). With the Austrian embassy’s support she performed as a
soloist and in chamber ensembles in Uruguay and Argentina. She became a
dual citizen of Austria and Argentina (1989) and studied at the Gutenberg
Univ., Mainz, Germany, and the Franz Schubert Cons. in Vienna, Austria.
Works: Five Preludes, pn (1974); Choral and Variations in tribute to the
great masters, pn (1975, rev. 1994); Renaissance Suite for harpsichord or
piano, (1979); Prelude, 2 fl (1977); Suite for alto flute, in memoriam
Johann Sebastian Bach (1974, rev. 1990); Reveries, 11 sonic moments, orch
(1974, 1987); String Quartet, str qt (1977); Motet II, 8 voc mixed ch
(1979); Suite, org (1980); Choral Living (Alicia Carbone poetry), 4 voc
mixed ch (1994).
Sources: DMEH

White Laffita, José Silvestre, Cuban violinist and composer; b.17 Jan
1836, Matanzas, Cuba; d.15 Mar 1918, Paris, France. He started music
studies with his father then continued with José M. Román and Pedro
Lecerf and in Paris with Jean D. Alard at the Cons. National de Musique.
He returned to Havana, Cuba (1875), then went to Brazil where he served
as a court musician for the Emperor Pedro II Dir. of the Cons. Imperial. In
Brazil he founded the Sociedad de Conciertos Clásicos with Arthur
Napoleao. In 1889, he settled in Paris.
Works: Mass, 2 voc, orch; Vn concerto; Qnt, fl, 2 vn, va, cb; Str qt; Duo, 2
vn, pn; Seis estudios brillantes, vn; Bolero, vn, orch; Marcha cubana;
Danzas, pn; Variaciones sobre un tema original, harpsichord, orch; La bella
cubana. Sacred music.
Bibl.: J.M. Troter, Music and Some Highly Musical People, Boston, 1880.
Sources: BB, DM, DMEH, DMC, DMC2

Widmer, Ernst, Brazilian composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher of

Swiss origin; b.25 Apr 1927, Aurau, Switzerland; d.3 Jan 1990, Salvador,
Bahía, Brazil. He studied at the Cons. of Zurich, Switzerland, composition
with Willy Burkhard, piano with Walter Frey, and other music subjects with
Paul Müller, graduating in 1950. He settled in Salvador in 1956, at the
invitation of Hans Joachim Koellreutter. Prof. at the Escola de Música of
the Univ. Federal da Bahia, where he also conducted the Grupo Madrigal,
and in 1963, became chief composition Prof., Vice-Dir., and later Dir., of
the same school.
Works: Hommages à Stravinsky, Frank Martin, and Bela Bartok, ob, orch
(1960); Quasars, orch (1970); Prismas, pn, orch (1971); ENTROncamentos
SONoros, pn, 5 trbs, strs, tape (1972); Convergencias, str qt (1973);
Trilema, voc sextet; Catalise, chamb orch; Concerto de cámara, vn, str
orch; Opus 127, vn, pn; Opus 129, 2 fl, chamb orch; Opus 130, str qt. Ch,
voc, chamb music.
Bibl.: L. Biriotti, Grupo de Compositores de Bahía, Montevideo, 1971.
Sources: EMB2, GDM, HMB

Wilde, Eduardo Guillermo, Argentine composer and teacher; b.30 Nov

1942, Remedios de Escalada, Prov. of Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied
composition, orchestration with Roberto Caamaño, harmony and
contemporary techniques in composition with Gerardo Gandini,
counterpoint with Pedro Sáenz, music history with Carlos Suffern and Juan
Francisco Giacobbe, instrumentation with Juan Emilio Martini at the
Facultad de Música of the Univ. Católica Argentina of Buenos Aires. He
also studied composition with Francisco Kröpfl. Taught at the Facultad de
Música of the Univ. Católica Argentina, the Cons. Prov. of Banfield, Prov.
of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and the Facultad de Bellas Artes of the Univ.
Nacional of La Plata, Prov. of Buenos Aires.
Works: Tres movimientos, pn (1974); Concerto, 2 pn (1975); Esquemas, str
(1980); Sectores, (1983). Chamb, pn, ch, voc music.
Sources: DMEH, ISC, VMA

Wilensky, Osías, Argentine pianist, photographer, and composer; b.1933,

Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied piano with Vicente Scaramuzza in
Buenos Aires. With a scholarship from the Williams Foundation, he studied
piano in the USA with Simon Barer at The Juilliard School of Music in
New York City, NY.
Works: Concerto, pn, orch.
Sources: EMA

Wilkes, Josué Teófilo, Argentine musicologist and composer; b.8 Jan 1883,
Buenos Aires, Argentina; d.10 Jan 1968, Buenos Aires. He studied harmony
and composition with Alberto Williams, cello with Carlos Marchal at the
Cons. Nacional de Música Carlos López Buchardo of Buenos Aires. Later
he studied with Sergei Liapunov in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and with
Vincent d’Indy at the Schola Cantorum in Paris, France. He returned to
Buenos Aires (1914), taught music in elementary schools, then at a school
in Quilmes, Prov. of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and at the Univ. Nacional of
Litoral, Rosario, Prov. of Santa Fe, Argentina. He was particularly
interested in Gregorian chant, colonial, and indigenous music.
Works: Humahuaca, symph trilogy (1911-14); Noche persa, opera (1916-
20); Por el cetro y la corona, opera (1924); El horóscopo, opera (1926-27).
La cautiva, secular oratorio (1930); Str octet. Chamb, voc music. Cincuenta
Canciones Populares Cuyanas, arranged and harmonized; Cancionero
Musical Rioplatense, Argentine dances.
Books: Danzas Patrióticas Anónimas, Buenos Aires, 1945; Formas
Musicales Rioplatenses, Buenos Aires 1946; Génesis Hispánica del
Cancionero Musical Rioplatense, Buenos Aires, 1947; Los Senderos
Sonoros de la Música Argentina, Popular y Culta, Barcelona, 1948.
Sources: BB, DM, DMEH, EMA, GDM

Williams, Alberto, Argentine composer, conductor, pianist, and teacher;

b.23 Nov 1862, Buenos Aires, Argentina; d.17 Jun 1952, Buenos Aires.
Father of Irma Williams, he began piano studies with Pedro Beck then
entered the Escuela de Música of the Prov. of Buenos Aires, Argentina, to
study harmony with Nicolás Bassi, piano with Luis Bernasconi. With a
scholarship from the Argentine government he studied piano with Georges
Mathías, harmony with Auguste Durand, counterpoint, ensembles with
Benjamin Godard and Ernest Guiraud, composition with César Franck and
Charles de Bériot at the Cons. de Musique of Paris, France. In 1889 he
returned to Buenos Aires and founded the Cons. Williams (1893). President
and vice-president of the Comisión Nacional de Bellas Artes, president of
the Asociación Argentina de Conciertos, and member of the Acad. Nacional
de Bellas Artes, all in Buenos Aires. He founded a music publishing
company, La Quena, and also a magazine with the same name.
Works: 9 symphonies (1907-1939); 2 concerto overtures (1889, 1892);
Poema de las campanas, symph poem (1913); Poema de los mares
australes, symph poem (1933); Las milongas de la orch (1938); Poema del
Iguazú, symph poem (1942). Chamb, pn, ch, voc music.
Books: Teoría de la Música, Buenos Aires.
Bibl.: Z.R. Lacoigne, Alberto Williams: Músico Argentino, Buenos Aires,
1942. Homenajes a A. Williams, Containing Messages and Opinions of
Musicians on his 80th birthday, Buenos Aires, 1942. N. Slonimsky, Alberto
Williams: Father of Argentinian Music, Musical America, 1942. V.A.
Risolía, A. Williams, Curriculum Vitae, Buenos Aires, 1944.
Sources: BB, CA, CTA2, DM, DMEH, DMM, EMA, GDM, MLA, MMLA

Williams Paats, Irma, Argentine pianist and composer; b.after 1910,

Buenos Aires, Argentina; d.? Daughter of Alberto Williams, she studied
with him at the Cons. de Música of Buenos Aires. Prof. at the Cons. de
Música of Buenos Aires.
Works: Pn, vn music.
Sources: DM

Wistuba Álvarez, Vladimir, Chilean composer, guitarist, and

musicologist; b.17 Aug 1956, Santiago, Chile. He studied guitar at the
Cons. Nacional de Música and painting at the Academia Juan Francisco
González. He settled in Finland (1977) and studied musicology at the Univ.
of Helsinki. Active in the Centro Cultural Latinoamericano de Helsinki, the
Ethnomusicology Society of Finland, and the Nordic Association for
Research on Latin America.
Works: Canción de Joaquín Murieta, fl gtr (1981-83); En ti la tierra, voc,
gtr (1981-87); Tiento para noches de lluvia y distancia, gtr (1986); Séptimo
canto de los ríos, nar, 2 gtr, magnetic tape (1988); Deshielaciones lacustres,
gtr (1989); Natsakar Aunis, voc, gtr (1990); The Rain, gtr nar, cuatro
(1990); Partita, 16 gtr (1990-91); Impromtum, gtr (1991); Miniatura
religiosa, vn, pn (1991); Jondo, gtr (1992); Balada de ensueño, male ch
(1995); Kathrina. Tres variaciones (1995); Semievanescencia de la noche,
gtr (1996).
Sources: DMEH
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Xarau, Jaime, Argentine organist, bassoonist, and composer of Spanish
origin; b.1843, Caldas de Montbúy, Catalonia, Spain; d.1918, Buenos Aires,
Argentina. He studied at the Monasterio of Montserrat, Spain. He settled in
Buenos Aires (1865) and became organist at the Metropolitan Cathedral of
Buenos Aires (1873).
Works: Te Deum (1887); Lanceros del Club Social de Córdoba, salon
music. Habaneras, tangos.
Sources: EMA

Ximenes de Cisneros [Zisneros], Nicólas, Mexican Kapellmeister;

b.before 3 Feb 1747, Puebla, Mexico; d.? He became asst. music dir. at the
Cathedral of Puebla (1725), dir. 1726-30. Twenty of his works are
conserved in the Cathedral of Puebla.
Works: Maytines solemnes de la Purificación (1730); Gozos de Nuestra
Señora (1730); En la Puebla: por la Viuda de Miguel de Ortega, en el
Portal de las Flores (1735); Responsorio Segundo del Espíritu Santo
Repleti sunt omnes, 6 voc, vn, accomp; Responsorio Descendit Jesús-Fecit
me dominus, 3 voc (1739); Sancti tui Domineflorebunt, 4 voc.
Sources: DMEH
 Y
Yampolschi, Roseane, Brazilian pianist, singer, and composer; b.18 Jul
1956, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She studied stage direction and composition at
the Univ. Federal of Rio de Janeiro, voice privately with Ghyta Taghy. She
earned a DMA from the Univ. of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.
Works: Chamb, voc music.
Sources: IEW

Yentzen, Adolfo, German composer, conductor, and pianist; b.19th century,

Germany; d.27 May 1889, Valparaíso, Chile. Active in Valparaiso he
participated in presentations by Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1866). He
programmed for the Sociedad Musical and conducted concerts after 1881.
Works: Arturo, opera (before 1869); Misa de graciasi, ch, orch (1869);
Himno a O’Higgins (1876); Nachtlied, (1901); Wenn die Reb’m safte
schwillt (1901); Himno a la Escuadra Libertadora; Dos canciones, op.28,
mixed ch.
Sources: DMEH

Yepes Londoño, Gustavo, Colombian teacher, conductor, researcher,

arranger, and pianist; b.19 Nov 1945, Yarumal, Antioquia, Colombia. He
took conducting courses at the Mozarteum in Salzburg (1974, 1980), the
Cons. of Vienna (1981). He graduated from the Univ. del Valle (1984) in
music education, studied conducting at the Univ. of South Carolina (1986),
and received a master of arts in conducting from Carnegie Mellon Univ. in
Pittsburgh, PA (1987). He taught at the Univ. de Antioquia (1968-79) and
was dean there (1996-2001), taught at the Univ. de Valle, Cali (1979-85),
the Cons. de la Univ. Nacional de Colombia (1987-94), the Univ. de los
Andes where he was head of the music dept. (1994-95) and the Escuela de
Administración, Finanzas, and Tecnologías de Medellín since 2002. He
conducted operas, choruses, and the orchestras of Antioquia, Valle, the
Univ. Nacional de Colombia, Symph. de Colombia (1974-75 and 1983),
Phil. de Bogotá (1983 and 1988), Didasáclida de Bogotá (1988), and Phil.
de Medellín. He was an accompanist and arranger of traditional Colombian
Andean music. President of the Consejo Nacional de la Música and member
of the Consejo Nacional de Cultura de Colombia.
Works: Réquiemtrío, vn, pn, bs; Del Big Bang al triunfó de la entropía,
orch, 2 nar; 10 Canciones corales, text by Luis Carlos López, ch; Álbum
para piano; Pre y postvariaciones sobre Chaflán, pn.
Sources: DMEH
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Zamora, Juan Carlos, Mexican composer, b.1966.
Works: Imagen y semejanza, str orch (1994).
Sources: GP

Zamudio, Daniel, Colombian composer, organist, conductor, and folklorist;

b.28 Aug 1887, Bogotá, Colombia; d.3 Jul 1952, Bogotá, Colombia. He
started music studies with his father, Daniel Zamudio Torres, then studied
piano with Honorario Alarcón, and theory with Santos Cifuentes. Organist
at the Iglesia de la Candelaria, in Bogotá (1920), he founded the Inst.
Musical in Cartagena, Colombia (1926), and the Orfeón del Centro de
Cultura Social, in Bogotá (1936). Dir. of the Cons. of Tolima in Ibagué,
Colombia (1936).
Works: Marcha triunfal, orch; Danza oriental, orch; Canción de cuna,,vc,
pn; Romanza, vn, pn; Vesperal, 8 mixed voc; Stabat Mater, 4 mixed voc;
Misa de Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria (1941); Impresiones en
Zipaquirá, pn. Salon, voc music.
Bibl.: A. Pardo Tovar, La Vida Ignorada y Fecunda de Daniel Zamudio,
Micro, Medellín, January 1944.
Sources: DMEH, GDM, MMLA

Zanni, Rodolfo, Argentine conductor, music critic, and composer; b.1906,

Buenos Aires, Argentina; d.1927, Buenos Aires. Self-taught musician.
Music critic for the daily papers, Crítica of Buenos Aires, and El Orden of
Tucumán, Prov. of Tucumán, Argentina.
Works: Rosmunda, opera; A la aurora, symph poem; L’Uragano, symph
poem; En la selva, symph poem; Las ninfas, ballet; Obertura dramática,
orch; Nerón, overture, orch; Cleopatra, overture, orch; Julio César,
overture, orch. Chamb music.
Sources: EMA

Zanolli, Uberto, Mexican composer and conductor of Italian origin; b.7

May 1917, Verona, Italy; d.20 Dec 1994, Mexico City, Mexico. He settled
in Mexico (1953) and became a citizen (1957). He studied at the Cons. of
Verona, Bolzano, and Milan, Italy, and received a Doctorate in art history.
Conductor of the Orq. de la Acad. de la Opera of INBA, Mexico City, the
Coro de Bellas Artes, and the Orq. del Teatro de Bellas Artes of Mexico.
Teacher at the Reale Cons. di Musica of Milan, at the Cons. Nacional de
Música of INBA and of ENP. Member of Liga de Compositores de Música
de Concierto, of Mexico.
Works: Impressione, 2 harps (1939); Due caricature, orch (1946); Tres
danzas antiguas, orch (1973); Elegía a un hombre, sop (1973); Cantata
gímnica, mixed ch (1973); Retablo romántico (1973); Cabalgata (1978);
Prelude and Fugue R-7 (1979); Suite No.1 (1984); Suite No.2 (1988);
France eternelle, mixed ch (1989); Tríptico (1989); Imagen (1989); Espera,
mixed ch (1990); Leyenda (1991); Evocación jalisciense (1992); Siete
miniaturas del Mayab (1992); Oda académica, mixed ch (1992); Canción a
Fray Sol (1993); El cántico del hermoso sol, mixed ch (1993); Pensieri
adriarmonnici. Chamb, voc, pn music.
Sources: DCMMC, DMEH, GP

Zapata, Alberto, Mexican composer; b.1952.

Works: Aloe (1991).
Sources: GP

Zapata, Francisco, Mexican composer; b.18th century, Puebla, Mexico.

His mass is conserved in the cathedral of Puebla.
Works: Misa en Sol mayor, 8 voc, vn, ob, tpt, cb.
Sources: DMEH

Zapata, León, Venezuelan composer and teacher; b.9 Feb 1955, Caracas,
Venezuela. He started his music studies with Eduardo Serrano Torres at the
Dirección de Cultura of the Univ. Central of Venezuela then studied at the
music schools Lino Gallardo and Pedro Nolasco Colón, all in Caracas. He
studied composition with Lev Koloduv at the Tchaikovsky Cons. of Kiev,
Ukraine (1984) then graduated as a composer from the Cons. Nacional de
Música Juan José Landaeta (1992), where he later taught music theory and
solfeggio.
Works: Sonámbulos, gtr, orch (1991). Ch, chamb, gtr music.
Sources: DMEH, EMV
Zapata Bello, Francisco, Venezuelan composer, guitarist, choral
conductor; b.10 Sep 1948, Caracas, Venezuela. He began music studies
with his grandfather then entered the Escuela de Música José Angel Lamas
to study with Inocente Carreño, Modesta Bor, Raimundo Pereira, Eduardo
Plaza, and Francisco Rodrigo. He studied guitar with Manuel Enrique Pérez
Díaz in Caracas, with Regino Sainz de la Maya at the Cons. Real Superior
de Música of Madrid, Spain, and with Baltazar Benítez at the Bravants
Cons. of Tilburg, Netherlands. He also studied composition in Caracas with
Yannis Ioannidis, Héctor Tosar Errecart, and Antonio Mastrogiovanni,
conducting with Michel Eustache and Alberto Grau. Conductor of several
choirs in Venezuela. Taught guitar at the Escuela de Música Prudencio
Esáa.
Works: Densidades: Tres estudios breves, orch (1987); El secuestro de la
mujer de Antonio, mixed ch, nar, dancer (1989); Cinco momentos en la luna
de Fausto, (1995). Chamb, ch music.
Sources: EMV

Zapata Espina, Esteban, Peruvian composer; b.17th century, Lima, Peru;

d.1736, Lima, Peru. A Presbyterian, he played the dulcian (reed woodwind
instrument, predecessor of bassoon) in the music chapel in the Cathedral of
Lima (1706-30) then became a cantor there. His work in the cathedral is
documented until 1736.
Works: Songs, in Toribio José del Campo’s “Carta sobre la música" (1791);
Dixit Dominus; Laudate Dominium omnes gentes, 2 ch, orch (1736); 3
Christmas carols; En tanto que los zagales; Hoy el sol y el aire, 4 voc, vn,
bc; Corderito.
Sources: DMEH

Zapiola Cortés, José, Chilean musicologist and composer; b.beginning of

19th century, 1807?, Chile; d.1885, Chile. In 1820 he became first
clarinetist in the orchestra conducted by Manuel Robles. He worked gratis
in the music chapel of the Cathedral of Santiago (1822), taught and
conducted the Banda del Batallón no.7, then moved to Buenos Aires with
Manuel Robles (1824). He studied cello with Carlos Drewetche and also
played the violin. He returned to Santiago (1826), rejoined the battalion
band, moved to Peru until 1842 then returned to Santiago. With Isidora
Zegers and Francisco Oliva he founded the El Semanario Musical, the first
weekly paper dealing with the development and dissemination of Chile’s
musical culture (1852). Prof., vice-dir., and dir. of the Cons. Nacional de
Música of Chile in Santiago de Chile.
Works: 2 Ad Domine adjuvandum (1835); Misa de requiem a la muerte de
Portales (1837); Contradanzas (1837); Chriustus, oratorio (1839); Como a
las orillas del Ebro (1840); Himno a San Martin (1864); Himno
completamente improvisado (1879); Missa, 3 voc; Domine ad Adjuvandum
me; Himno a Yungay; Canción a la Bandera de Chile; Stabat Mater, re
menor, 3 voc, org, accomp.
Sources: DM, DMEH, MMLA

Zarama Rodríguez, Julio, Colombian conductor and composer; b. 15 Jul

1885, Pasto, Nariño, Colombia; d. 20 Feb 1939, Pasto, Colombia. He
studied at the Colegio de los Hermanos Maristas then with Ismael Solís in
the Banda del Batallón Boyacá, where he played the bass drum. He also
learned horn and later baritone saxophone. He was director of Banda del
Batallón Boyacá (1915-28), directed the Banda de La Unión until 1930
when military bands ceased to exist then head of the band department
created by the town of Nariño until 1935.
Works: Berta, waltz (1931); Himno al fundador de la Congrecación del
Oratorio de San Felipe Neri de Pasto (1939); Seré tuya, dance; A las
armas, hymn; Marco Fidel Suárez, march.
Sources: DMEH

Zárate, Vicente Ortiz de, Mexican music director and composer, b. 18th
century, Morelia?, Mexico. Two of his works are conserved in the cathedral
of Durango and there is orchestral music conserved in the Cathedral of
Morelia attributed to “Zárate” and “Ortiz Zárate.”
Works: Ave María Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe (1750); Misa, 4 voc
(1750?); Pasiones solemnes para el Domingo de Ramos, 4 voc org (1830
copy); Misa, 4 voc, inst; 4 Misas, 4 voc, org.
Sources: DMEH

Zarzoza, Jesús, Mexican composer and pianist; b.16 Dec 1919, San Luis
Potosí, Mexico; d.? Son of a musician, he worked as a radio announcer,
played the piano, and took private classes. He studied theory, harmony,
counterpoint, fugue, composition, and instrumentation with Juan León
Mariscal. He wrote and arranged for RCA Victor, for films, and conducted
concerts of Latin American music in Los Angeles and New York.
Works: Cuarteto, str qt (1992); Tributo a Canadá, orch (1994). Film music.
Sources: DMEH

Zavala, Pedro P., Peruvian composer, performer, and professor; b.19th

century, Peru. In 1840 his name was mentioned as a musician in Lima. He
taught and played various instruments.
Works: Domine en furore, psalm (1857); Misa; overtures.
Sources: DMEH

Zavalía, Salustiano, Argentine composer, guitarist, lawyer, and statesman;

b.8 Jun 1808, Tucumán, Prov. of Tucumán, Argentina; d.16 Jan 1873,
Tucumán. He attended school in Catamarca and later at the Univ. of
Córdoba where he received a doctorate in law (1829) and studied music
with J.M. Cambeses. A deputy senator (1853), he became governor of
Tucumán in 1856.
Works: Salon, pn, gtr, fl music.
Sources: DMEH, EMA, MMLA

Zayas Pérez, Armando, Mexican conductor, teacher, ethnomusicologist,

and composer; b.11 Feb 1930, Mexico City, Mexico. He studied at UNAM
with Luis G. Saloma, José Rocabruna, Juan D. Tercero, José F. Vásquez,
Ramón Serratos, and Estanislao Mejía. He also studied at the Cons.
Nacional de Música with Rodolfo Halffter, Blas Galindo, José Pablo
Moncayo, and Carlos Jiménez Mabarak, and double bass with José Luis
Hernández. He played in orchestras including the Cámara de Bellas Artes
and the Opera of INBA. He studied conducting with Luis Herrera de la
Fuente, Jean Giardino, Ígor Markevich, and Sergiu Celibidache in Mexico
(1958-59), conducting and composition in Brussels and Paris. He was asst.
conductor of the National Symphonic Orchestra (195-962), conductor of the
Compañia de Danza Mexicana (1961-62), taught at CNM (1962-64), asst.
Dir. of the music dept. at UNAM (1966-68), dir. radio UNAM (1972-73),
conductor at the Ballet Folklórico de México (1970-73), asst. conductor of
the Philharmonic Orchestra of UNAM (1966-69), and associate conductor
of the same institution (1973-86).
Works: La madre de Máximo Gorki, ballet. Symph, chamb music.
Sources: DMEH

Zegers [Rojas Zegers], Jorge Rojas, Chilean guitarist and composer; b.10
Apr 1957, Santiago, Chile. Nephew of Isidora Zegers y Montenegro, at 14
he entered the Cons. Nacional to study guitar with Liliana Pérez, chamber
music with Arnaldo Tapia Caballero, composition with Darwin Vargas and
Roberto Escobar, graduating in 1972. He received a medical degree in
1974. He performed as a guitarist in Chile, Europe, and the United States,
emphasizing Chilean works and archived Latin American and Spanish
music. His works are in early Baroque style.
Works: Misa a la criolla chilena, op.2, voc, ch, gtr (1964-65); Oratorio
Evangelio, op. 4, voc, fl dulce, fl, cl gtr, vibraphone, perc (1975); Misa para
una guitarra y viz, op.7, voc, ch, gtr (1976); Subida al Monte Carmelo, op.
17,ch, 3 gtr (1987); En la plenitude del amor, op.21, oratorio, ch, 3 gtr
(1992).
Sources: DMEH

Zegers y Montenegro, Isidora, Chilean composer of Spanish origin; b.1

Jan 1803, Madrid, Spain; d.14 Jul 1869, Santiago de Chile, Chile. Aunt of
Jorge Rojas Zegers, she studied voice with Federico Massimino in Paris,
France, as well as piano, harp, guitar, harmony, and composition. Founder
of the Sociedad Filarmónica, center of the artistic movement in Chile.
Honorary Dir. of the Cons. Nacional de Música of Chile in Santiago de
Chile. Together with José Zapiola and Francisco Oliva she founded El
Semanario Musical, a weekly paper and the first to deal with the
development and dissemination of Chile’s musical culture.
Works: Minuets and contredanses, pn: La Flora; La capricieuse; La
Mercedes; La Penélope; La Badlam; La Pomone; La Madeleinette; La
Clochette; La Adraste; La Tancreda; La Camille; Le Calife de Bagdad.
Romances: voc, pn: La coquette Fixée; Les regrets d’une bergère;
L’absence; Les tombeaux violés; Canción.

Books: El Origen de la Opera en Francia.

Bibl.: E. Pereira Salas, Los Orígenes del Arte Musical en Chile, Santiago,
1941.
Sources: DMEH, HMC, MMLA, NGDWC
Zeoli, Héctor, Argentine organist, composer and teacher; b.5 Apr 1919,
Rosario, Argentina; d. 16 Aug 1993, Rosario, Argentina. He studied piano
in Rosario with Manuel Cuevas and harmony and counterpoint with
Ricardo Engelbrecht. With a scholarship from the Fundación Santamarina
(1944) he studied Gregorian chant with Juan F. Giacobbe, counterpoint with
G. Graetzer, and organ with Hermes Forti in Buenos Aires. He received a
scholarship from the Comisión Nacional de Cultura (1947) to study organ
with Vernon de Tar at The Julliard School in New York, USA. Performed in
Europe, the United States, and Argentina and taught at the Colegio
Nacional de Santo Domingo.
Works: Sonata para órgano, org (196 2); Malvinas, voc, tpt, org, synth
(1986).
Sources: DMEH

Zilli, Luís Elógio, Brazilian composer, violinist, and conductor; b.16 Aug
1907, Morretes, Paraná, Brazil; d.16 Aug 1990, Curitiba, Paraná. He
entered the Cons. de Música of Paraná (1921) to study violin with Ludovico
Seyer, and music theory and solfeggio with Caetano Barletta. Later he
studied harmony with Bento Moçurunga, choral conducting and choral
singing with Ernani Braga. Prof. of choral singing at the Escola de Música e
Belas Artes of Paraná. Founder of the Associação Orfeônica of Curitiba.
Works: Hino de Guaratb, orch; Hino de Tiradentes, orch; Tangará, march
(1922). Instr, voc music.
Sources: EMB2

Zimbaldo Vitelli, Daniel Amadeo, Argentine composer; b.5 Dec 1955,

Rosario, Prov. of Santa Fe, Argentina. He graduated from the Escuela de
Música of the Facultad de Humanidades y Artes of the Univ. Nacional of
Rosario with a degree in composition. He also studied acoustics, analysis,
and composition with Dante Grela, Virtú Maragno, Luis De Pablo, and
electronic music with Roger Cochini. He studied music therapy at the Univ.
del País Vasco, Inst. Música, Arte y Proceso de Vitorio, and the Fundación
Rudolf Steiner de Madrid. He worked in France at the Groupe de Musique
Electroacustique in Bourges, and in Austria at the Inst. für Elektroakustik
and Experimentalle Musik in Vienna. Taught counterpoint and form at the
Cons. de Música de la Comunidad Autónoma of Madrid, Spain.
Works: Tres composiciones, 2 performers, fl (1975); Dos canciones, tnr, pn,
magnetic tape (1976); A los que llaman, fl, ob, cl, bsn, hn, vn, va, vc, org,
synth; El casamiento de la esponja, fl (1978); La isla de los muertos, vn, fl,
pn, perc, magnetic tape (1980); Composición en desnudo, fl, vc, pn, synth
(1981); Variaciones sobre dos personajes de Aldous B. Peil, orch (1983);
La incertidumbre del silencio, gtr, pn (1983); Naturaleza muerta,
electroacoustic music (1985); Introspección, magnetic tape, instr group
(1985); Silencios y densidades, pn, perc (1987); Omaggio a L.
Dallapiccola, chamb orch (1988); La llave de cristal, pn, electronic sounds
(1989); Vietnam, el país del sur, music for a documentary series (1989).
Sources: CMR, DMEH, ISC

Zipoli, Domenico, Argentine organist and composer of Italian origin; b.15

Oct 1688, Prato da Toscana, Italy; d.2 Jan 1725, EAM (1726, DM),
Córdoba, Prov. of Córdoba, Argentina. He studied music in Prato da
Toscana with Giovanni Battista Becatelli, then in Florence (1707) with
Giovanni Maria Casini, and later, in Naples with Lavinio Vanucci, and in
Rome with Bernardo Pasquini. Organist at the Jesuit Church of Rome in
1716. In the same year, he entered the Compañía de Jesús in Seville, Spain.
He came to Buenos Aires (1717) then went to Córdoba where he was
ordained a priest. Later he became choirmaster at the Jesuit Church of
Córdoba.
Works: Vísperas y Misa de San Carlos, ch, accomp (1710, 1712, 1713);
Mass, 3 voc ch, soloists, 2 vn, org, continuo; Delle Offese a Vendicarmi,
cantata, sop, continuo; Credo, ch; Sonate d’Involatura per Organo o
Cimbalo (1716); Sant’Antonio, oratorium; Santa Caterina Vergine e
Martire, oratorium; Sonata para vn y continuo. Ch, sacred music.
Books: Principia seu Elementa ad Bene Pulsandum Organum et Cimbalum
(1716).
Bibl.: L. Ayestarán, Domenico Zipoli, el Gran Compositor y Organista
Romano del 1700 en el Río de la Plata, Montevideo 1941.
Sources: DM, DMEH, DMM, EMA, MMLA

Zohn-Muldoon, Ricardo, Mexican composer; b.1962, Guadalajara,

Mexico. He received a degree in guitar and composition from the Univ. of
California, San Diego, and Masters and Ph.D. in composition from the
Univ. of Pennsylvania where he studied with George Crumb, Jay Reise,
Franco Donatoni, Keith Humble, and Jean Charles François. He received
award and honors including being named 2011 Pulitzer Prize finalist, the
2011 Lillian Fairchild Award, and fellowships from the Guggenheim
Foundation, Tanglewood Music Center (Omar del Carlo Foundation),
Camargo Foundation, Fondazione William Walton, Endowment for Culture
and the Arts of Mexico, and the Embassy of Austria in México (Mozart
Medal). He taught at the School of Music, Univ. of Guanajuato, Mexico
(1993-95), and the College-Cons. of Music, Univ. of Cincinnati (1997-
2002) before joining the faculty of the Eastman School of Music, Univ. of
Rochester, NY in 2002. His music has been performed internationally.
Works: Fantasía, cl, pn (1988); Arullo, ob (1990); Danza nocturna I, vc, pn
(1992); Flores del viento II, mez sop, fl de pico, vn, perc (1993); Pajarera,
conj instr, chamb, electroacoustic instr (1993); La tibieza del tiempo (1993);
Candelabra III, perc, pn, bcl, str orch (2002); Niñopolilla, 3 voc, chamb
orch (2003); Hebras, sop, ob, perc, pn, cb (2003).
Sources: DMEH, GP

Zorzi, Juan Carlos, Argentine conductor and composer; b.11 Nov 1935,
Buenos Aires, Argentina; d.21 Aug 1999, Buenos Aires. He studied with
Gilardo Gilardi, Alberto Ginastera, Floro Ugarte, and Juan Francisco
Giacobbe at the Cons. Nacional de Música Carlos López Buchardo of
Buenos Aires. He also studied with Teodoro Fuchs and Erwin Leuchter, and
in the Facultad de Música of the Univ. of La Plata, Prov. of Buenos Aires,
Argentina, he took conducting lessons with Mariano Drago. He went to
Italy where he studied with Goffredo Petrassi and Franco Ferrara at the
Accademia di Musica Santa Cecilia of Rome, and the Accademia Chigiana
of Siena. He conducted major symph. orch. in different Argentine cities. He
taught conducting at the Inst. Superior de Arte of the Teatro Colón of
Buenos Aires in 1970, and later, he became permanent conductor of the
Orq. Sinfónica of Chile in Santiago de Chile. Artistic Dir. of the Teatro
Argentino of La Plata, 1974-75.
Works: Danza para ahuyentar la pena, ballet (1956); Requiem, soloists, ch,
orch (1957); Adagio elegíaco, str (1964); Variaciones enigmáticas, orch
(1965); Ludus, 6 instr groups (1966); El timbre, opera (1970); Antígona
Vélez, opera (1991); Réquiem para Camila (1983); Gtr concerto (1984);
Magnificat, ch, orch (1988); Qnt, pn, str; Concerto, orch; Fantasia, vc, orch
Chamb, pn, voc music.
Sources: DMEH, DMM, EMA, VMA

Zorzoli, Miguel Angel, Argentine composer; b.13 Apr 1959, Rosario,

Province of Santa Fe, Argentina. He received a degree in composition from
the Escuela de Música of the Facultad de Humanidades y Artes of the Univ.
Nacional of Rosario where he studied with Dante Grela, Mariano Etkin,
Alcides Lanza, and Carmelo Saitta. Founding member of the Asociación
Santafesina de Compositores and member of the Grupo Klank-Música
Contemporánea of Rosario. Prof. at the Escuela Nacional de Música of
Rosario, and at the Cons. Provincial de Música of Lincoln, and at the Cons.
Provincial de Música of Junín, both in the Prov. of Buenos Aires,
Argentina.
Works: A-Tema y variaciones, pn (1983); Artificios, cl, va, synth, perc
(1984); La naranja mecánica, fl (1985); Delirios celestes, fl, va (1986);
Laberinto de espejos, tnr sax, hn, va, electric gtr or vn, vibraphone, pn
(1988); Lejanía de niveles, orch (1988); Destemple para un músico y una
gtrra (1990).
Sources: CMR

Zozaya, Carlos, Mexican pianist, conductor, and composer; b.28 Jul 1893,
San Luis de Potosí, Mexico; d.Buenos Aires, Argentina. He started music
studies with his mother, continued to study piano with Joaquín Villalobos,
then entered the Cons. Nacional de Música of Mexico in Mexico City
(1990) where he studied piano with Carlos Meneses, harmony with Gustavo
Campa, and counterpoint with Rafael J. Tello. In Paris, France (1912), he
studied harmony with Emile Pessard, counterpoint and fugue with Goupil,
piano with Isidor Philipp, and in Brussels, Belgium, composition with
Joseph Jongen. He later settled in Buenos Aires, and taught piano, harmony,
counterpoint, and composition.
Works: Divertimento, fl, ob, cl, hn, bsn (1935); 2 sonatas, pn (1936);
Concerto, pn, orch (1937); Str qt No.1 (1938); Niobe, ballet (1943);
Prometheus, symph. poem; Symphony.
Sources: DM, DMEH, MMLA

Zubeldía Inda, Emiliana de, composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher;

b.6 Dec 1888, Salinas de Oro, Navarra, Spain; d.26 May 1987, Hermosillo,
Sonora, Mexico. She began studying the piano in Pamplona as a child, first
with José Ezkurra then at the Acad. Municipal de Música de Pamplona with
Joaquín Maya. She attended the Cons. Nacional de Madrid (1904) and two
years later studied composition with Vincent d’Indy and piano with Blanche
Selva at the Schola Cantorum of Paris. She returned to Pamplona (1909),
started a music academy, and toured as a performer in Latin America,
Europe, and the United States. In 1937 she moved to Mexico and became a
citizen. She began conducting Univ. choruses at Univ. de Sonora (1947).
Works: Adiós, Rosina, Asturiana, voc, pn (1926); Sinfonía elegíaca (1956);
Cuatro canciones, voc, pn (1963); Escena de “La Maya,” voc, pn (1947);
Alleluya vasco, ch; Divertimento para orquesta, alla turca, orch; Concierto
para piano y orquesta, pn, orch; Sonata oara viola y piano, va, pn; Trio
España, vn, vc, cb; Caprichom basko, gtr.
Sources: DMEH, NGDWC

Zubillaga, Luis, Argentine composer; b.21 Jun 1928, Buenos Aires,

Argentina; d.8 Oct 1995. He studied composition with Juan Carlos Paz,
piano, composition with Cayetano Marcoli, trumpet with Bernardo Barbera.
He began teaching at the Inst. Pedagógico Experimental de Formación
Docente and the Inst. de Arte Contemporáneo in Caracas, Venezuela
(1960). He taught at the Escuela Superior de Música of the Univ. Nacional
of Tucumán, Prov. of Tucumán, Argentina, 1964-68, and at public
institutions in the Prov. of Buenos Aires. He received a scholarship from the
Centro Latinoamericano de Alts Estudios Musicales of Buenos Aires
(1969). Founder and president of CULTRUM Compositores Asociados in
1989.
Works: Haiku, pn (1961); Música para Elda, orch (1966); Ongilash, orch
(1968); Nadas vacías, voc, pn, perc (1962); Música para 10 instr (1963);
Tres piezas, 2 pn (1965); Direccionales, str qt (1966); Unidades II, 11 instr
(1966); Noches, 6 instr, improvising ens (1970); Todos los días…, ninguno,
14 instr (1978); Escena, 28 instr (1982); Oct.90, 5 instr (1990); Trompetas
en septiembre, 3 tpt, perc (1991); Una Vez, 5 instr (1992); BUE.93 (1993).
Chamb, pn music.
Sources: DMEH, DMM, EMA, ISC

Zulategi y Huarte, Luis Miguel de, Colombian organist, composer,

teacher, musicologist, and music critic of Spanish origin; b.5 Jul 1898,
Iruña, Pamplona, Spain; d.1 Sep 1970, Medellín, Colombia. Although he
lived in Colombia (1926-70) he retained his Spanish citizenship. He began
music studies in 1904 at the Acad. de Música of Pamplona. He entered the
religious organization Carmelitas Descalzas (1911) where he studied piano
and harmony with Father José Domingo Ugartetxea de Santa Teresa and
Father Jesús Gorosarri. In 1928, he became music critic of the newspaper,
El Colombiano of Bogotá, Colombia. Teacher at the Acad. de Bellas Artes
of Medellín, and later, Dir. of that inst.
Works: Fantasía colombiana, orch (1941); Coctel colombiano, pn (1945);
Las mirlas, Mi ranchito, and Cuatro preguntas, ch (1945); Los de
Cachipay, fantasia on Colombian themes (1949); Caribianas, cumbia
(1951); Invitación al bambuco, scherzo (1953). Chamb, org, pn, voc music.
Bibl.: F. de Abrisqueta, Luis Miguel de Zulategi: Vasco y Antioqueño,
Medellín, 1970; Luis Carlos Rodríguez Alvarez, Luis Miguel de Zulategi:
Piezas para Pn, Medellín, 1996.
Sources: DMEH, LCRA

Zumaqué Gómez, Francisco, Colombian composer; b.18 Jul 1945,

Montería Cereté, Córdoba, Colombia. Musically active from 9, he began
composing for his father’s porro group at 12. He studied instrumentation,
band, conducting, counterpoint, fugue, and composition with José Rozo
Contreras, Olav Roots, and Fabio González Zuleta at the Cons. Nacional de
Música of Bogotá, Colombia. With a scholarship from the Colombian
government, he studied composition with Nadia Boulanger, Annette
Dieudonné, and Michel Philippot in Paris, France.
Works: Danza sinfónica, orch (1971); Zynuth, suite, orch (1972); Le grand
diseur, ballet (1973). Chamb, pn, voc music.
Sources: CTA19, DMEH

Zúñiga Sánchez, José Paulino Julián, Mexican composer, organist; b.19

Jun 1893, Querétaro, Mexico; d.1971, Mexico City, Mexico. He studied
organ and composition at the Escuela de Música Sagrada of Querétaro with
Agustín González. Then in the USA he continued with Lucius Lescale. In
1906, he was choirmaster at the Church La Merced of Querétaro. He taught
at the Escuela de Musica de Querétaro and at the Univ. de México, became
organist of the Insigne Basílica de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe in Mexico
City (1921) and served there until his death.
Works: Misa en honor de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe (1931); Motet, 3
voc (1931); Sonata, org (1931); 31 Misterios de la Virgen, 2 collections
(1931, 1937); 30 Misterios al Sagrado Corazón (1931); 12 Cánticos para la
Navidad (1933); Guadalupana, poem, org (1934); Missa pro Defunctis, 2
vocs, org (1940); Missa Beataes, 4 mixed vocs (1943); 30 Preludios, org or
harmonium (1943).
Sources: DM, DMEH, MMLA

Zyman, Samuel, Mexican composer; b.21 Jun 1956, Mexico City, Mexico.
He moved to the USA in 1981. Studied music at the Cons. Nacional de
Música of INBA, Mexico City, and at the Juilliard School of Music, New
York, NY, USA, with Francisco Savín, Eduardo Díaz Muñoz, Stanley
Wolfe, Roger Sessions, David Diamond, and Humberto Hernández
Medrano. Faculty member of the Dept. of Literature and Musical Materials
of the Juilliard School of Music.
Works: Soliloquio, orch (1982); Sonata concertante, vn, orch (1986);
Symphony No.1 (1987); Scherzo and fugue (1987); Pn concerto (1988); Vc
concerto (1990); Fl concerto (1991); Encuentros (1992); A Little Trip
through Mexico, opera (1993); Harp concerto (1994); Symphony No.2 “La
recuparación del orgullo” (1996); Gtr concerto (1999); Concertino, vn, pn,
wind ens (2001); Concerto, fl, harp, orch (2001); Cycles (2004); Fantasía
mexicana, 2 fls, orch (2004); Diálogos flamencos, gtr, chamb orch (2007);
Concierto de minaría, fl (2008); Tres laberintos concertantes (2010); Triple
concerto, vn, vc, pn (2006); Albanicos (2012). Chamb, pn, gtr, voc music.
Sources: DCMMC, DMEH, GP
 COMPOSERS BY COUNTRY
ARGENTINA

Abad Antón, Andrés

Adamo, Gabriel Salvador
Advinent, Ulises
Aguayo Alonso, Cándido
Agüero, Constante José
Aguirre, Julián Antonio Tomás
Aguirre Lizaola, Avelino de
Ajubita, Marcelo
Alais, Juan
Albano, Enrique
Albarellos, Nicanor
Alberdi, Juan Bautista
Alboni, Avelina
Albornoz, Pedro
Alchourrón, Rodolfo
Alcorta, Amancio
Alemann, Eduardo Armando
Alessio, Nicolas Alfredo
Allica, Alfredo
Almouhian, Jean
Alonso-Crespo, Eduardo
Alsina, Carlos Roqué
Alsuyet, Claudio Alberto
Alvarez, Ignacio
Amat, José Zapata y
Amavet, Francisco
Amelong, Juan Enrique
Amicola, Víctor Juan Carlos
André, José
Andrés, Alfredo
Angelis, Arturo de
Anido, María Luisa [Isabel]
Anton, Susana
Arandia Navarro, Jorge
Arena, José
Aretz de Ramón y Rivera, Isabel
Arias, Luis
Arizaga, José Tomás
Arizaga, Rodolfo Bernardo
Arnedo, Leónidas
Aromatori, Eduardo
Aschero, Sergio
Asenjo, Florencio González
Astuni, Silvia
Aure, Fernando
Auzzani, Ángel [Angiolo]
Axenfeld, Salvador
Azurica, Ignácio

Balzanelli, Alberto
Bandoni, Alfredo
Barceló, Jaime Alberto
Barletta, Alejandro
Barón Superville, Susana
Barraquero, Carlos Washington
Bassi, Nicolás
Bautista, Julián
Bazán, Oscar
Belloc, Enrique
Bemberg, Hermann
Benavente, Regina María
Benzacry, Esteban
Bernasconi, Luis José
Berón, Saturnino Filomeno
Berrini, José Francisco
Bértola, Eduardo
Berutti, Arturo
Berutti, Pablo María
Bimboni, Oreste
Biondo, Juan Carlos
Blamey Lafone, Ricardo Q.
Blarduni, Jorge
Blasco, Rubén
Boero, Felipe
Bologna, Nora
Bottiroli, José
Bringuer, Estela
Bronfman, Benjamín
Buiani, Elena
Bungs, Sergio
Burger, Carlos Reinaldo

Caamaño, Roberto
Cabero, Telésforo
Cabrera, Ana Schneider de (pseud. Anastasio Leiva)
Calabró, Domingo S.
Calandra, Matilde Tettamanti de
Calandrelli, Jorge
Calcagno, Elsa
Calligaris, Sergio
Calzadilla, Santiago
Calzón, Miguel Angel
Campana, José Luis
Campmany, Montserrat
Camps, Pompeyo
Cancián, Germán Gabriel
Cárcano Bernasconi, Inocente Bernardino
Cardoso, Daniel Carlos
Carrique, Ana
Casanova, Fermina
Castillo, Graciela
Castro, José María
Castro, Juan José
Castro, Sergio de
Castro, Washington
Cattelani, Ferruccio
Cerana, Carlos
Cervantes, Daniel Sergio
Cetta, Pablo Cristián
Chab, Gustavo
Chavarri, Norberto
Checchi, Eduardo Julio
Chimenti, Armando
Cimaglia Espinosa, Lía
Cipriota, Adolfo
Clemente, Joaquín
Clérice, Justino
Cocchetti, Daniel
Colabella, Angel Victorino
Coronel, Marcelo
Corretjer, Leopoldo
Cortés López, Joaquín
Cosentino, Iván René
Costa, Dalmiro
Costanzo, Miguel Angel
Couper, Mildred
Cozzi, Daniel Alberto
Cromberg, Teodoro Pedro
Cucinotta, Olga
Curubeto Godoy, María Isabel

d’Agnillo, Corradino
Dal Farra, Ricardo L.
Daluisio, Rodolfo
d’Astoli, Bruno
Davidovsky (Davidowsky), Mario
De Angelis, Marcelo Juan Carlos
Del Cioppo, Crisanto
Del Giúdice, Rafael
Del Hoyo, Faustino
Della Costa, Héctor
Delli Quadri, Juan Carlos
Delorenzi, Jorge Ricardo
Del Ponte, Clementino
De Nito, Humberto
De Nito, José
De Pedro, Roque
De Rogatis, Pascual
De Rubertis, Víctor (Vittorio)
D’Espósito, Arnaldo
Devoto, Alberto
Devoto, Daniel
Dianda, Hilda
Dirié, Gerardo Enrique
Di Rito, Elvio Daniel
Donizetti, Alfredom
Drangosch, Ernesto
Dublanc, Emilio

Edelstein, Oscar
Eisenstein, Silvia
Eitler, Esteban
Engelbrecht, Richard
Escola, Héctor Jorge
Esnaola, Juan Pedro
Espel, Guillo [Guillermo]
Espinosa, Federico
Espoile, Raúl H.
Etkin, Mariano

Fabre, Cristina
Faleni, Arturo
Fasetti, Gustavo Enrique
Fernández, Guillermo Juan
Ferrari, Claudio A.
Ferrari, Jorge Luis
Ferrero, Stelvio Santiago
Ferreyra, Beatriz
Ficher, Jacobo L.
Fidemraizer, Sergio Oscar
Figueroa Mañas, Adriana Isabel
Filippi, Lionel
Floriani, Carlos
Fontenla, Jorge
Forte, Vicente
Forti, Hermes
Fossati, Florencio D.
Fracassi, Américo Romeo
Fracassi, Elmérico
Fracassi, Salvador
Francese, Miguel
Franchisena, César Mario
Francia, Fioravante
Franze, Juan Pedro
Franzetti, Carlos
Frega, Ana Lucía

Gaito, Constantino
Gallac, Héctor
Gallardo, José León
Galuzo, Alfonso
Gandini, Gerardo
Gaos, Andrés
García Acevedo, Mario
García Cánepa, Julio César
García Estrada, Juan Agustín
García Mansilla, Eduardo
García Morillo, Roberto
García Muñoz, Carmen
García Robson, Magdalena
Garzón, Eleazar
Gaviola, Nahuel Gastón
Gennero, Segundo
Gerardi, Enrique
Giacobbe, Juan Francisco
Gianneo, Luis
Gil, José
Gil Marchex, Henri
Gilardi, Gilardo
Giménez Noble, Javier
Ginastera, Alberto Evaristo
Giudice, Alberto Oscar Toscano
Giuliani, Juan José
Goldberg, Lucio
Golijov, Osvaldo
Gómez Carrillo, Manuel
Gómez Carrillo, María Inés
González, Luis Jorge
González Casellas, Fernando
Graetzer, Carlos
Graetzer, Guillermo
Granda, Juan Manuel
Grande Castelli, Santiago
Grela Herrera, Dante Gerardo
Greppi, Clemente
Grippa, Jorge
Grisolía, Pascual
Guastavino, Carlos
Guidi, Francisco G.
Guidi Drei, Claudio
Guiliani, Juan José
Gutiérrez, Hipólito Felipe
Gutiérrez, Juan
Gutiérrez del Barrio, Alejandro
Gutiérrez del Barrio, Ramón

Halac, José Eduardo

Hargreaves, Francisco A.
Hartmann, Federico Guillermo
Heredia, Juan
Herrera, Hilda Nora
Herzfeld, Conrado
Hobert, Egon
Horst, Jorge
Hoyo, Faustino del
Hualpa, Sergio

Iglesias Rossi, Alejandro

Iglesias Villoud, Héctor
Illario, Bernardo E.
Imbroisi, Juan
Inzaurraga, Alejandro
Izcovich, Ezequiel

Jackson, Eleazar
Jones, Clydwyn Ap Aeron
Juárez, Manuel [Manolo]
Jurado, Inés
Jurafsky, Abraham
Justel, Elsa

Kagel, Mauricio Raúl

Keller, Damián
Kersenbaum, Sylvia Haydée
Koc, Marcelo
Kohan de Scher, Celina
Kotzarew, Oleg
Krieger, Armando
Kröpfl, Francisco
Kubik, Rodolfo Francisco
Kühn, Víctor
Kumok, Jorge
Kusnir, Eduardo

Lado, Norma
Lafinur, Juan Crisóstomo
Lambertini, Marta Beatriz
Lamuraglia, Nicolás J.
Landazábal Garagalza, Germán
Lanza, Alcides
Lasala, Angel E.
La Salvia, Antonio Santos
Lébano, Félix
Le Bellot, Luis
Lens Viera, Enrique
Lichius, Father Santiago
Lluán, Claudio
Lombardi, Enrique
López Buchardo, Carlos
López Buchardo, Próspero
López de la Rosa, Horacio
López Lezcano, Fernando
Lopszyc, Eva Irene
Luc, María Eugenia
Luengo, María Teresa
Luna, Adolfo Victoriano
Luzzatti, Arturo

Machado, Alberto José

Machado, Luis Ángel
Macridimas, Dimitri
Madina Igarzábal, Francisco de
Maglia, Fernando
Maiztegui, Isidro
Mambretti, Mabel
Mañanes, Rolando Alvaro
Mansilla de Rosas de García, Eduarda Damasia
Maragno, Virtú
Maranzano, José Ramón
Marchal, Carlos
Marotta, Alejandro
Martí Llorca, José
Martínez, Luis María
Martini, Juan Emilio
Martinoli, Carlos
Massa, Juan Bautista
Massini, Esteban
Mastronardi, Ernesto
Maurage, Augusto
Mell, Eidylia Rosa Lía
Miceli, Antonino
Michans, Carlos Eduardo
Mihovilcevic, Luis
Milici, Luis
Milstein, Sylvina [née Mendzylewski]
Mindlin, Adolfo
Miyara, Federico
Moncho, Vicente
Montero, Claudia
Moreno Montes de Oca, Hilarión Domingo
Moretto, Nelly
Mucillo, Luis
Mussolino, Rodolfo Rubens

Nannetti, Augusto
Naón, Luis
Napoleão [Napoleón] dos Santos, Alfredo
Napolitano, Emilio Ángel
Núñez, Enrique

Ogando, Eduardo
Olazábal, Tirso de
Oliva, Roberto Luis
Olivares, Carlos Alberto
Ortíz, José Antonio (Cristóbal Pirioby)
Ortíz, Pablo
Ortiz de Zárate, Juan
Ortíz y San Pelayo, Félix
Otero, Higinio Nicolás

Pahissa, Jaime
Palacio, Pedro Antonio
Palazuelo, José María
Palazuelo, José María, Jr.
Pallemaerts, Edmundo
Palma, Athos
Panizza, Héctor (Ettore)
Panizza, Juan Grazioso
Paolantonio, Franco
Parera (Perera or Pereda), Blas
Parotti, Sergio
Parpart, Gunter
Pascual Navas, María Esperanza
Pasqués, Víctor A.
Patiño Andrade de Copes, Graciela
Pavia, Marcela
Payá, Francisco
Paz, Juan Carlos
Paz Hermo, Egidio
Peacan del Sar, Rafael
Pedro, Roque de
Pedrolini, Aquiles
Pelaia, Emilio
Pelazza, Juan Bautista
Pemberton, Carlos
Perales, Stella
Perceval, Julio Miguel Adolfo
Percuoco, Carlos
Perini, Mario
Perusso, Mario
Piaggio, Celestino
Piantino, Eduardo
Piazzini, Edmundo
Piazzolla, Astor Pantaleón
Picchi, Silvano
Pickenhayn, Jorge Oscar
Pignoni, Remo
Pinto, Alejandro
Pinto, Alfredo A.
Pitari, Jorge Alberto
Pozzati, Guillermo Daniel
Quaratino, Pascual

Radamés, Apóstol
Ramírez, Ariel
Ramos, Juan José
Ranieri, Salvador
Rapp, Jorge
Rattenbach, Augusto Benjamín
Renta, Beatriz
Restano, Antonio
Reynoso Compuesto, Antonio
Rimaudo Banegas, Salvador
Rivero, Demetrio
Rodríguez, Laureano
Rodríguez, Ricardo
Rodríguez Arenas, Mario
Rodríguez Fauré, José
Rojas, Miguel
Rolón, Zenón
Romaniello, Luis
Rondano, Miguel Ángel
Rosaenz, Elifio Eduardo
Rose, Mario de
Rosquellas, Mariano Pablo
Rosseger, Mario
Rossi Rossi, Alfredo
Rotter, Jorge
Rud, Diana Elena
Russo, Antonio María
Rutty, Alejandro
Saccaggio, Adelina Luisa Nicasia
Sáenz Amadeo, Pedro Alejo
Sagreras, Gaspar
Sagreras, Julio Salvador
Saitta, Carmelo
Sammartino, Luis Rafael Dionisio
Sánchez, Manuela Cornejo de
Santaolalla, Gustavo
Satalía, Agustín
Scalese, Lorenzo
Scaramuzza, Vincenzo
Scheller Zembrano, María
Schemper, Raúl
Schianca, Arturo C.
Schifrin, Boris Claudio (Lalo)
Schiuma, Alfredo Luis
Schiuma, Armando
Schiuma, Rafael
Schmilovich, Sergio Daniel
Schulkin, Claudio Bernardo
Sciammarella, Senivaldo Ricardo
Sebastiani, Pía
Senanes, Gabriel
Serpentini, Juan
Serra, Luis María
Serrallach, Lorenzo
Serrano Redonnet, Ana
Siccardi, Honorio
Siciliani, José
Silva, Cayetano Alberto
Silva, Eloísa María Dolores Juana de la Santísima Trinidad d’Herbil de
Silveira [Silveyra], Guillermo [Rodolfo Guillermo]
Simoniello, Juan Pablo
Sinópoli, Antonio
Soderini, Domingo
Sofía, Pedro
Solare, Juan María
Solomonoff, Natalia
Somellera, Josefa
Somellera de Espinosa y de Pino, Candelaria
Soriano Thebas, Alberto
Spena, Lita
Spena, Lorenzo
Spreáfico, Federico
Spreáfico, Juan Carlos
Steiger, María Susana
Stiattesi, César Alberto
Strigelli, José
Suffern, Carlos
Sugo, Miguel Ángel

Tada Paz, Herberto di

Tauriello, Antonio
Tejeda, Eduardo Esteban
Teruggi, Daniel
Terzián, Alicia
Teseo, René
Thibaud, Alfonso
Thompson, Casildo
Thompson, Casildo Gervasio
Torrá, Celia
Torre Bertucci, José
Torrens Boqué, Eduardo
Toscano Giudice, Alberto Oscar
Tosco, Virgilio
Troiani, Cayetano
Tsilicas, Jorge
Tucci, Terig
Tuxen-Bang, Carlos

Ugarte [Hugarte], Floro M.

Urteaga, Irma Graciela
Uzielli, Alberto

Vaggione, Horacio
Valenti Costa, Pedro
Valverde, Gabriel
Varela, Marta Inés
Veerhoff, Carlos Heinrich
Veloz, Julián
Ventura de Buligovich, Rita [Rebeca]
Verdié, Adriana Estela,
Vicente Gascón, León
Vidal, Pedro
Viera, Julio Martín
Viggiano Esain, Julio
Villalba Muñoz, Alberto
Villanueva, María Cecilia
Villoldo, Ángel Gregorio
Viloni, José
Vitacco, Mariano [Pablo]

Wagner, Werner
Weingarten, Alicia
Wilde, Eduardo Guillermo
Wilensky, Osías
Wilkes, Josué Teófilo
Williams, Alberto
Williams Paats, Irma

Xarau, Jaime

Zanni, Rodolfo
Zavalía, Salustiano
Zeoli, Héctor
Zimbaldo Vitelli, Daniel Amadeo
Zipoli, Domenico
Zorzi, Juan Carlos
Zorzoli, Miguel Angel
Zubillaga, Luis

BOLIVIA

Alandia Canipa, Edgar

Anaya Arze, Franklin
Araújo, Juan
Arce Revilla, Luis Felipe
Auza Ledé (León), Atiliano
Ballivian, Adolfo
Benavente, Manuel José
Bustillos, Freddy

Caba, Eduardo

Díaz Gainza, José

Fernández Naranjo, Nicolás

Fernández Sánchez, Agustín
Flores Barrientos, Víctor

García Guzman, Óscar

González Bravo, Antonio
Gutiérrez Illanes, Emilio
Gutiérrez Rico, Nicasio

Hochmann, Emilio
Ibañez Rodríguez, Antonio
Iporre Salinas, Humberto
Iturri González, Wálter

Jiménez García, Víctor

Luna, Manuel Norberto

Maldonado, Juan Antonio

Mancilla, Mauricio
Mendoza Nava, Jaime
Molina, Francisco J.

Navarre Viscarra, Gustavo

Olmos Molina, Néstor

Palmero Nava, Armando

Posadas [Pozadas], Florencio
Pozadas, Willy
Prudencio B., Cergio
Rojas Enríquez, Gilberto
Roncal, Simeón

Sandi Espinoza, Marvin

Sanz Guerrero, Fernando

Tardío de Guzmán, Blas

Vallejo Ruiz, Oscar
Vargas Candia, Teófilo
Velasco Maidana, José María
Villalpando Buitrago, Alberto
Vincenti, Benedetto de
Viscarra Monje, Humberto

BRAZIL

Aguiar, Ernâni Henrique Chaves

Albuquerque, Armando Amorin
Alencar Pinto, Aloisio de
Alimonda, Heitor
Almeida, Antônio José de
Almeida, Carlos Viana de
Almeida, Laurindo
Almeida, Waldemar de
Almeida Neto, Cussy de
Almeida Prado, José Antonio Resende de
Alvares Lobo, Elías
Alvares Pinto, Luiz
Antunes, Jorge (Jorge de Freitas Antunes)
Araguari, [Erich Kropsch] “Nelson”
Araújo, Damião Barbosa de
Araújo, João Gomes de
Araújo, Gina de (Araujo Regis d’Oliveira)
Araújo Porto Alegre, Ignacio Francisco de

Baptista, Raphael
Barbosa, Sérgio de Sousa
Barbosa, Cacilda Campos Borges
Barreto, Homero da Sá
Barros Marcarián, Nadile de
Barroso Neto, Joaquím Antônio
Bastos, Hernani
Bauer, Guilherme Carneiro da Cunha
Benedictis, Savino de
Bevilacqua, Francisco Alfredo
Biase Bidart, Lycia de
Blauth, Brenno
Bocchino, Alceu Ariosto
Bosmans, Arthur
Braga, Ernani Costa
Braga, Francisco Antonio
Braga, Henrique

Cabrera Berg, Silvia María Pires

Caesar, Rodolfo
Cameu de Cordoville, Helza
Caminha, Alda
Campos, Otavio Meneleu
Campos, Carlos de
Campos, Lina Pires de
Campos, Joaquina de Araujo
Campos Calda, Olavo de
Cantú, Agostino
Cardoso, Lindembergue Rocha
Cardoso, Miguel de Jesús
Carneiro Pinto, João Paulo
Carvalho, Eleazar de
Carvalho, Joaquim Torres Delgado de
Carvalho, Reginaldo de
Carvalho Muricy, Dinorah Gontijo de
Casabona, Francisco
Castro, Aloisio de
Castro, Pedro de
Catunda (Katunda), Eunice de Monte Lima
Cavalcanti, Nestor de Hollanda
Cerqueira, Fernando
Chagas, Paulo César
Chaves, Paulino Lins de Vasconcelos
Cicchelli Velloso, Rodrigo
Cleto, Marcelino
Coehlo de Souza, Rodolfo Nogueira
Coelho Neto, Marcos
Cortés, Edmundo Villani
Cosme, Luiz
Costa, Alberto
Costa Lima, Paulo
Cozzella, Damiano
Cruz, Carlos Viana
Csekö, Luis Carlos
Cunha, Milton Antônio da

Dimas de Melo Pimenta, Emanuel

Duprat, Rogerio

Eggers, Roberto
Elisio, Flavio (Alfred d’Escragnello-Taunay, Viscount of Taunay)
Ellmerich, Luis
Escalante, Eduardo Alberto
Escobar Silva, Ailton

Faulhaber, Manuel Porto Alegre

Fernandes, Maria Helena Rosas
Fernandez, Helen Lorenzo
Fernández, Oscar Lorenzo
Fernández Goes, Custodio
Ferreira, Domingo José
Ficarelli, Mário
Florence, Paulo
Flores, Francisco José
Fonseca, Euclides Aquino da
França, Agnelo
Franceschini, Furio
Freire, Sérgio
Freitas Castro, Enio de
Frôes, Sylvio Deolindo
Furtado, Murilo

Gallet, Luciano
Gandelman, Henrique
Garritano, Assuero José
Gnattali, Radamés
Gomes, André da Silva
Gomes, Carlos Antônio
Gomes, Joâo, Jr.
Gomes, José Pedro de Santana
Gomes, Manuel José
Gomes da Rocha, Francisco
Gomes de Araújo, Joâo
Gonçalves, João Octaviano
Gonzaga, Francisca Edwiges Neves ("Chiquinha")
Gregori, Nininha
Guaritano, Assuero
Guarnieri, Camargo Mozart
Guerra Peixe, César
Gurjao, Henrique Eulálio

Henrique da Costa Pereira, Valdemar

Hollanda, Cirlei Moreira de

Iberê de Lemos, Artur

Itiberê, Brasílio da Cunha Luz
Itiberê da Cunha, Brasílio
Itiberê da Cunha, Joâo

Jabor Maia de Carvalho, Najla

Jatobá, Pedro Ireneu
Jolles, Henry (Heinz)
Juliâo, João Batista

Kiefer, Bruno
Kinsman, Benjamín Roberto Jope
Koellreutter, Hans Joachim
Korenchendler, Henrique Davi
Krieger, Edino
Lacerda, Osvaldo Costa de
Lamego, Carlinda J.
Lara, Felipe
Leite, Vânia Dantas
Leite Dias Batista, Clarisse
Leonardo, Luisa
Levy, Alexandre
Levy, Luis Henrique
Lima, Florêncio de Almeida
Lombardi, Nilson
López Marín, Jorge
Luz, Father Fernando Inácio da

Macedo, Manuel Joaquín

Macedo, Nelson Batista de
Maciel, Argentina Barbosa Viana
Mahle, Ernst
Mahle, Maria Apparecida Romera Pinto
Malcher, José Cándido da Gama
Mannis, José Augusto
Manzolli, Jonatas
Marques, Fernandina Lagos
Marqués, Maria Adelaide D.
Marx, Walter Burle
Matos, A. de
Matos [Mattos] Priolli, María Luisa de
Maul, Otávio Batista
Mauricio Junior, José (José Gonçalves de Godoi Mauricio Junior)
Melgaço, Luis Gonzaga
Mello, Luis Francisco G. O. “Chico”
Mendes, Gilberto Ambrósio García
Menezes, Flo
Mesquita, Carlos Marciano de
Mesquita, Henrique Alves de
Mesquita, José Joaquím Emérico Lôbo de
Migliori, Gabriel
Mignone, Francisco Paulo
Míguez, Leopoldo Américo
Miranda, Ronaldo
Moçurunga, Bento João de Albuquerque Moçurunga
Moçurunga, Domingos da Rocha Viana
Morozowicz, Zbigniew Henrique (Henrique de Curitiba)

Napoleão dos Santos, Artur

Nascimento, Adelmo Francisco de
Nascimento, Antônio da Costa
Nascimento, Elviro do
Nazareth (Nazaré), Ernesto Júlio de
Nepomuceno, Alberto
Nirenberg, Henrique
Nobre de Almeida, Marlos
Nogueira, Ilza María Costa
Nogueira, Teodoro Ascendino
Nunes, Francisco
Nunes, João Sebastião Rodrigues
Nunes García, José Mauricio

Oliveira, Alda de Jesús

Oliveira, Jailton Teixeira de
Oliveira, Jamary de
Oliveira, Jocy de
Oliveira, Manuel Dias de
Oliveira, Sophie Marcondes de Mello
Oliveira, Valdemar de
Oliveira, Willy Corrêa de
Oliveira, Idalba “Babi” Leite de
Oswald (Ochswald), Henrique José Pedro María Carlos Luis
Ovalle (Ovale), Jaime (Jaime Rojas de Aragón y Ovalle)

Pacheco, Assis (Francisco de Assis Pacheco)

Pádua, Newton de Menezes
Parreiras Neves, Inácio
Peixoto Alcoforado, Mário Guedes
Pereira, Antônio Leal de Sá
Pereira, Artur
Pereira, Elpidio de Brito
Pereira da Silva, Adelaide
Pinto, Octavio
Pires de Campos, Lina
Pires de Lima D. Maria Clementina
Pires dos Reis, Hilda
Polonio, Cinira
Portugal, Marcos Antônio da Fonseca

Ramos Junior, Ezequiel

Rayol, Antônio Carlos dos Reis
Rayol, Leocadio dos Reis
Rebelo, Arnaldo Alfonso
Rebouças, José Pereira
Reis, Julio César do Lago
Republicano, Antônio de Assis
Rescala, Tim
Rezende, Marisa
Ribeiro, Agnaldo
Ribeiro Neves, Vítor
Richter, Frederico
Ripper, Joâo Guilherme
Rocha, Pérsio Moreira da
Rosas Fernandes, María Helena
Rosato, Clorinda
Rossi, Rinaldo

Salgado Fiuza, Virginia

Santoro, Cláudio Franco de Sá
Santos, Murilo Tertuliano dos
Santos Barreto, Adelina
Savio, Isaías
Schleder, Grizelda Lazzaro
Schnorrenberg, Roberto
Scliar Cabral, Esther
Sepe, Joâo
Setti de Castro Lima, Kilza
Silva, Alipio César Pinto da
Silva, Francisco Manuel da
Silva, José Paulo
Siqueira, João Baptista
Siqueira, Joâo de Lima
Soares, Hostilio de Almeida
Soares Gómes dos Santos, Milton
Soares Netto, Calimerio Augusto
Sodré, Joanídia Nuñez
Sousa, Alvaro Corcoroca de
Sousa, José Brasilício de
Sousa, Rodolfo Coelho de
Souza, Antonio Miguel de
Souza Coutinho, Joâo Francisco de
Souza Lima, Joáo de

Tacuchian, Ricardo
Tagliaferro, Pablo Pedro
Tavares, Hekel (Heckel)
Tavares, Mário
Tavares de Lacerda, Lucas
Terraza Gayán, Emilio José
Toni, Olivier George

Vale, Francisco Magalhães

Valle (Vale), Raúl do
Vasconcelos Correia, Sérgio Oliveira de
Veiga Oliveira, Sofia Helena de
Velásquez, Glauco
Viana, José Araújo
Vianna (Viana), Fructuoso (Frutuoso) de Lima
Vicente, José Guerra
Victorio, Roberto
Vieira, José Carlos de Amaral
Vieira Brandáo, José
Villa-Lobos, Heitor

Widmer, Ernst

Yampolschi, Roseane

Zilli, Luís Elógio

CHILE

Acevedo Guajardo, Remigio

Acevedo Raposo, Remigio Segundo
Advis, Luis
Aguilar Ahumada, Miguel
Alcalde Cordero, Andrés
Alexander, Leni
Alexander Bodenhöfer, Andreas
Allende Blin, Juan
Allende Sarón, Adolfo
Allende Sarón, Humberto Pedro
Alzamora R., Eduardo
Amenábar Ruíz, Juan
Amengual Astaburuaga, René
Antireno Consolaro, Fernando
Arancibia Bastarrica, Enrique
Arriagada, Jorge
Asuar, José Vicente

Becerra Schmidt, Gustavo

Bianchi Alarcón, Vicente
Bisquertt Prado, Próspero
Botto Vallarino, Carlos
Brncic Isaza, Gabriel Oliverio

Cabezas Espinosa, Estela

Cáceres, Eduardo
Calderón, Francisco A.
Campbell Batista, Ramón
Canales Pizarro, Marta
Candiani Herrera, Salvador
Carvajal Quirós, Armando
Casanova Vicuña, Juan
Claro Valdés, Samuel
Cordero Simunovic, Cecilia
Cori Traverso, Rolando
Cotapos Baeza, Acario

Délano Thayer, Pablo

Dussuel Díaz, Francisco

Errázuriz Rodríguez, Sebastián

Escobar Budge, Roberto

Falabella Correa, Roberto

Fraser, Norman
Frick, Guillermo

García Arancibia, Fernando

García Guerrero, Alberto
Garrido Vargas, Pablo
Giarda, Luigi Stephano
Gómez-Vignes, Mario
González, Jose Antonio
González Morales, Sergio
González Piña, Luis Jaime
Guarello Finlay, Alejandro
Guzmán Frías, Eustaquio [Segundo]
Guzmán Frías, Federico

Heinlein, Federico
Heitz, Santiago, Jr.
Herrera, Emilio
Hurtado Aguilar, Ángel
Isamitt Alarcón, Carlos

Junge Eskuche, Wilfred

Lavín Acevedo, Carlos

Lefever Chatterton, Tomás
Lemann Cazabón, Juan
Leng Haygus, Alfonso
Letelier Llona, Alfonso
Letelier Valdés, Miguel Francisco

Mackenna Subercaseaux, Carmela

Madux, Fray
Mahler Pick, Roberto
Marcelli, Nino
Maturana, Eduardo
Melo Cruz, Carlos
Melo Gorigoytía, Héctor
Montecino Montalva, Alfonso

Negrete Woolcock, Samuel

Nuñez Navarrete, Pedro

Ohlsen Vázquez, Óscar

Orrego Salas, Juan Antonio
Ortega Alvarado, Sergio
Ortiz, Emma Wachter de
Ortíz de Zárate, Eliodoro

Peña Hen, Jorge

Pereira Lecaros, Celerino
Pereira Montes, Celerino
Petris y Gigli, Fabio
Pey Casado, Diana
Puelma Francini, Roberto

Quintano Santorsola, Giuseppe

Quinteros Figueroa, Abelardo
Ramírez Ávila, Hernán
Rengifo Gallardo, Javier
Ried, Aquinas
Riesco Grez, Carlos
Rifo Suárez, Guillermo
Rivera Bonizovich, Enrique
Robles Gutiérrez, Manuel

Salinas Álvarez, Horacio

Sang[h]üesa Inostroza, Iris
Santa Cruz Wilson, Domingo
Schidlowsky Gaete, León
Sepúlveda, Maira María Luisa
Serendero Proust, David
Soro Barriga, Enrique
Soto León, Jaime
Soublette Asmussen, Sylvia (Sylvia Soublette de Valdés)
Spies Heilbronn, Claudio
Stefaniani, Emeric
Steinfort Mulsow, Andrés

Urrutia Blondel, Jorge

Urzúa, Armando

Valencia Courbis, Pedro

Vargas, Darwin
Vargas Wallis, Darwin Horacio
Vásquez Grille, Isidoro
Vásquez Muñoz, Edmundo
Vera Rivera, Santiago
Vila Castro, Cirilo
Vivado Orsini, Ida

Wang, Patricio
Wistuba Álvarez, Vladimir

Yentzen, Adolfo
Zapiola Cortés, José
Zegers, Jorge Rojas
Zegers y Montenegro, Isidora

COLOMBIA

Abrajim Elcure, José E., Jr.

Aconcha Acosta, Leandro
Acosta, Rodolfo
Acosta de Barón, Josefina
Alarcón Pérez, Honorio
Aragón Guerrero, Carlos Alfred
Arango Gallo, Sixto
Arroyave de la Calle, Fabio
Atehortúa, Blas Emilio

Barrera Morales, Euclides

Bechara, Mauricio
Bejarano, Mauricio
Benavides Cuéllar, Manuel José
Bermúdez Silva, Jesús
Borda Camacho, Germán
Builes Gómes, Monsignor Miguel Angel

Calderón Sáenz, Claudia

Calvo, Luis Antonio
Cárdenas Ramírez, Gabriel
Cardona García, Ramón
Carrizosa Navarro, Eduardo
Castilla, Alberto
Cifuentes Rodríguez, Santos
Cuéllar, Juan Antonio

Escobar, Luis Antonio

Escobar Larrazábal, Gustavo
Espinosa Fernández, Luis Carlos
Estrada Abadía, Lucas José
Figueroa Sierra, Luis Carlos
Fuentes, Fabio Miguel

García, Roberto
García Piedrahita, Roberto
Gaviria, Guillermo
Giovannetti, Egisto
González Zuleta, Fabio
Guarín, José Joaquín
Guillén Martínez, Jaime
Gutiérrez Galindo, Alberto
Guzmán Naranjo, Alberto

Haro López, Wilson Orlando

Hasler, Johann Friedrich Wolfgang Alexander
Hermann, Juan Ignacio
Herrera y Chumacero, Juan de
Hinestrosa de Rosero, Maruja
Hoz Ariza, Manuel Ezequiel de la

Jaramillo Jurado, Ramón

Lambuley Alférez, Nestor

Lara Paz, Gustavo Adolfo
Ledesma Aragón, Rodolfo
León Ferro, Jaime
Lima, Emirto de
Lozano Riveros, Mauricio

Mejía Navarro, Adolfo

Mesa Saldarriaga, Sergio
Morales Pino, Pedro

Nasi, Mauricio
Navas, Marcos de
Neuman del Castillo, Hans Federico (Johan Friedrich Neuman del Castillo)
Nova Sondag, Jacqueline
Ochoa Cárdenas, Héctor
Ossorio, Miguel

Pardo Tovar, Andrés

Parra, Gustavo
Paz R., Marceliano
Peralta Cáceres, Catalina Leonor
Pérez González, Rodolfo
Pineda Duque, Roberto
Pinzón, Jorge Humberto
Pinzón Urrea, Cecilia
Pinzón Urrea, Jesús
Ponce de León Ramírez, José María
Posada Amador, Carlos
Posada Saldarriaga, Andrés
Potes Cortés, Alba Lucía
Pulido Hurtado, Luis

Quevedo Arvelo, Julio

Quevedo Zornoza, Guillermo

Ramírez Sierra, Alvaro

Rendón García, Guillermo
Rodríguez Cubillos, José Antonio
Rojas M., Amadeo
Rojas Restrepo, Darío
Romano Gómez, Ana Mária
Roots Pähn, Olav
Rosa, Andrés
Rozo Contreras, José
Rubiano Trimiño, Jorge

Schutmaat, James
Simar, Léon J.
Sindici, Oreste
Suárez, Marco Antonio

Tobar [Tovar], Alejandro Wolfano [Alex]

Toro Pérez, Germán
Torres, Carlos M
Torres, Juan de Dios
Torres Donneys, Jaime
Torres Zulueta, Luis

Umaña Santamaría, Carlos

Uribe Bueno, Luis
Uribe Holguín, Guillermo
Uribe Vélez, Iván

Valencia Zamorano, Antonio María

Vanegas, Marco Aurelio
Varela Molina, Lisandro
Vargas, Temístocles
Vásquez, Harold
Vásquez Pedrero, Aurelio
Velasco González, Jerónimo
Velasco Llanos, Santiago
Vidal, Francisco Javier [Patojo]
Vidal, José María
Vidal, Pedro José
Vidal Pacheco, [Clemente] Gonzalo
Vieco Ortiz, Carlos

Yepes Londoño, Gustavo

Zamudio, Daniel
Zarama Rodríguez, Julio
Zulategi y Huarte, Luis Miguel de
Zumaqué Gómez, Francisco

COSTA RICA

Acevedo Vargas, Jorge Luís

Alfagüell [Alfaro Güell], Mario Victor de los Angeles
Argüello Montero, Antonio
Bonilla Chavarría, Jesús

Campabadal Calvet, José

Campabadal Garro, Roberto
Cantillano Vindas, Roberto
Cardona Ducas, Alejandro
Cardona Llorens, Alejandro
Cárdona Valverde, Ismael
Castegnaro Catellani, Dolores “Lola”
Castro Mora, Carlos José
Castro Solano, Otto

Flores Zeller, Bernal

Fonseca Gutiérrez, Julio

González Castro, J. Francisco

Gutiérrez, Manuel María
Gutiérrez Gamboa, Carlos
Gutiérrez Jiménez, Benjamín
Gutiérrez Rodríguez, Carlos María

Herra Rodríguez, Luis Diego

Herrera, Mariano

Jiménez Núñez, Enrique

Jiménez Solís, Pilar

Mata Oreamuno, Julio

Monestel, Alejandro

Nieto Casabo, César

Pauly, Mauricio
Porras González, William
Prado Quesada, Alcides

Quesada, José
Quesada Aguilar, Marco Antonio
Sanz, Rocío (Carmen Rocío Sanz Quirós)
Soto Uríbe, Elías Mauricio

Troyo Pacheco, Rafel Ángel

Ulloa Barrenechea, Ricardo

Ureña Morales, José Joaquín de Jesus

Valenciano, Rosendo de J
Vargas Calvo, José Joaquín
Vargas Méndez, Carlos Enrique
Villalobos, Jorge

CUBA

Adam de Aróstegui, Maria de las Mercedes

Agüero y Barreras, Gaspar
Alea, Mara Matilde
Alén Rodriguez, Andrés
Alvarez Fernández, Calixto César
Alvarez Ríos, María
Alvarez Sanabria, Carlos
Amador Piñero, Efrain
Anckermann, Carlos
Anckermann, Jorge
Angulo, Héctor
Ardévol, José
Arguiz Romo, Dagoberto
Ariziti, Fernando
Arizti Sobrino, Cecilia
Avilés, Danilo

Báez de Silva, Blanca

Barroso, Sergio
Berroa, Jorge
Berroa, Catalina
Blanck, Hubert de
Blanck, Olga de
Blanco, Juan
Bolet, Alberto
Borbolla Téllez, Carlo (Carlos)
Botet Dubois, María Emma
Boudet, Pedro
Boudet, Silvano
Brooks, Alfredo
Brouwer, Leo

Cámara, Juan Antonio

Carnicer Fernández, Fernando
Carvajal Gómez, Ailem
Casamitjana Alsin, Juan
Casas Romero, Luis
Caturla, Alejandro García
Cervantes, María
Cervantes Kawanag, Ignacio
Chaviano Jiménez, Flores Melquíades
Comellas, José
Corona Rodíguez, Beatriz del Carmen

Delfín, Carmelina
Diez Nieto, Alfredo

Edesio Alejandro [Edesio Alejandro Rodríguez Salvá]

Fariñas Cantero, Carlos

Fernández, Frank
Fernandez, Terresita
Fernández Barroso, Sergio
Figueredo Cisneros, Pedro
Figueroa Morales, Antonio
Figueroa Morales, Ramón
Fleites, Virginia
Fragoso, Guillermo
Fuentes Matons, Laureano
Fuentes Pérez, Laureano
Galán, Natalio
García, Miguel
García, Orlando Jacinto
García Oliva, Miguel
García Ruda, Julio
Garciaporruá, Jorge
Gavira Rondón, Joaquín
González del Valle y González Carvajal, Anselmo
González Iñíguez, Hilario
González Mantici, Enrique
Gramatges, Harold
Grimal Olmos, Rafael
Guerra Sardá, Cratilio
Guerrero Díaz, Félix
Guzmán González, Adolfo

Hernández, Rodolfo
Hernández Balaguer, Pablo
Hernández Gonzalo, Gisela
Hernández Zurbarán, José
Herrera, Florentino
Hierrezuelo, Francisco José

Iglesias Alfonso, Raúl

Jiménez Berroa, José Manuel

Landa Calvet, Fabio

Lecuona, Ernesto
Lecuona Casado, Ernestina
León, Argeliers
León, Tania Justina
Lopez Rovirosa, María Isabel
López-Gavilán, Guido
Loyola Fernández, José

Malcolm, Carlos
Marín Varona, José
Márquez Lacasa, Juan
Martín, Edgardo
Martínez, Odaline de la
Martínez Acosta, Orlando
Martínez Corres, Cristóbal
Martínez de la Torre y Shelton, Emma
Mauri, José

Nicuesa, Diego de
Nin Culmell, Joaquín
Nin y Castellanos, Joaquín
Niño Rivera, Andrés Echevarría Callava
Núñez Lacret, Leopoldina

Odero, Florencio Joseph Waldetrudis

Ojangurren Lejarreturi, Justo
Orbón de Soto, Julián
Orozco Alemán, Keyla María
Ortega Irusta, Jesús

Palau, Felipe
Palau León, Rafael
Pardo Fuentes, Enrique
París, Juan
Pedreiras Rodríguez, Martín
Peramo, Tulio
Pérez Puentes, José Ángel
Pérez Sentenat, César
Pérez Velázquez, Ileana
Perón Hernández, Alain
Peyrellade Zaldivar, Carlos Alfredo
Peyrellade Zaldivar, Eduardo
Piñera, Juan
Prada García, Juan Antonio
Prats Llorens, Rodrigo Ricardo
Pro Guardiola, Serafín
Puig Hatem, Carlos
Raffelin, Antonio
Rafols, Félix
Ramírez, Serafín
Reyes Camejo, Angel
Rodríguez, Esther
Rodríguez, Nilo
Rodríguez Ferrer, José Antonio
Roig Lobo, Gonzalo Elías
Roldán Gardes, Amadeo
Rollof Reyes-Gavilán, Julio
Ruíz Castellanos, Pablo
Ruíz Espadero, Nicolás
Ruíz Lastres, Magaly

Salas y Castro, Esteban [Salas Montes de Oca]

Salcedo de las Cuevas, Rafael Pascual
Sánchez de Fuentes, Eduardo
Sánchez Ferrer, Roberto Matías
Sanjuán Nortes, Pedro Eugenio
Saumell Robredo, Manuel
Sicouret Destruge, Angelina
Silva Gainza, Electo
Smith, Federico [Anthony]
Sosa López, Jorge Luis
Sudupe Osinalde, Estanislao de

Tieles Soler, Evelio

Tomás, Guillermo M.
Tomás Clovet, Tomás
Torres Barrós, Dolores Lorenza
Trespuentes, José [Vetusto Claro]

Ubieta, Enrique

Valdés, Gilberto
Valdés Costa, Mario
Valdés González, Marta Emilia
Valera, Roberto
Varona, Calixto
Vega, Aurelio de la
Vega Caso, Rafael
Vidaurreta y Monreal, José Luis
Villate, Gaspar
Vistel Columbié, Daniel
Vistel Columbié, Orlando
Vitier, José María
Vitier, Sergio

White Laffita, José Silvestre

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

Alberti, Luis Felipe

Alfonseca de Baris, Juan Bautista
Arredondo, José María
Arredondo Miura, Clodomiro

Casal Chapí, Enrique

Castillo, Gabriel del
Cerón, José Dolores
Claudio, Pablo

Díaz, Ramón

García, Juan Francisco

García Vila, José Ovidio
Gines, Teodora (Ma Teodora)

Hernández, Julio Alberto

Ignacio, Rafael

José, Alejandro

Lapeiretta de Brower, Ninón

Luna de Espaillat, Margarita
Marchena Dujarric, Enrique de
Mejía Arredondo, Enrique
Mena, Luis E.
Miniño, Manuel Martino
Molina, José Antonio
Morel (Morell) Guzmán, Antonio

Orbe, Gabriel del

Peña Morel, Esteban

Peralta, Ramón Emilio
Pichardo Vicioso, Miguel

Ravelo, José de Jesús

Reyes, José
Rivera González, Luis
Rosario Ceballos, Aura Marina del

Silfa, Ana Margarita

Simó, Manuel

Vega, Augusto
Vizcaíno, Fausto

ECUADOR

Aizaga Yerovi, Claudio

Alberdi, Father Francisco María
Allende, Juan José
Almeyda, Manuel de
Altuna Fray, Antonio
Arias Arias, Gerardo

Baca, Mariano
Baldeón, Agustín
Bonilla Chávez, Carlos Galo
Bueno Arévalo, Julio Fernando
Bustamante Celi, Salvadore
Campoverde Quezada, Juan
Cañar Cárdenas, Julio César
Canelos Morales, José Ignacio
Castro, Crisanto
Cueva Negrete, Néstor Luis

Durán Cárdenas, Sixto María

Durán Carrión, Corsino

Espín Yépez, Enrique

Estevéz, Milton

Freire Camacho, Jacinto

Freire Camacho, Pablo

Gabela, Efrán
Godoy Aguirre, Mario Gonzalo
Granja, Eduardo
Guerrero Toro, Juan Agustín
Guevara Viteri, Luis Gerardo

Humana, Alfonso [Alonso]

Jijón Rojas de Fernández Salvador, Inés

Jiménez Zambrano, Leonardo Segundo

Larrea Dávalos, Fernando de Jesús

Luzuriaga Arias, Diego

Maiguashca Guevara, Mesías

Moreno, Alberto
Moreno Andrade, Segundo Luis
Muñoz Sanz, Juan Pablo

Naranja Caravajo, Jaime Efraín

Neumane Marco, Antonio
Nieto, Antonio
Olivares, Francisco José
Oquendo Silva, Victor Hugo
Ordóñez González, Aurelio
Ortega Salinas, Carlos
Ortiz Peña, Julián

Palacios, Edgar Augusto

Parral de Velasco Ibarra, Corina
Pastor Marco, Segundo
Patiño, Lucía
Pauta, Ascencio
Pazmiño Trota, Terry Shyry
Peña Ponce, Belisario
Pradas, Santiago

Rodas Dávila, Arturo

Ruano Guerrón, Marcelo

Salazar, Paulino
Salgado Ayala, Francisco
Salgado Torres, Gustavo Enrique
Salgado Torres, Luis Humberto
Santos Tejada, César Augusto

Traversari Salazar, Pedro Pablo

Valdivieso, Rafael E
Ventimilla, José Ignacio de

EL SALVADOR

Aberle, Juan
Alas, Ciriaco Jesús
Andrade Rodríguez, Ricardo Margarito

Baratta, María Mendoza de

Cáceres, Germán Gustavo

López Guzmán, Víctor Manuel

Olmedo, Rafael
Orellana, Gilberto, Sr.
Orellana Castro, Andrés Gilberto, Jr.

Panameño, Fermín Antonio

Quintero, Rafael Daniel

Rodríguez, José Napoleón

Rodríguez Payés, Carlos

Santos, Domingo
Sibrián, Gonzalo

Vásquez, José Antonio

GUATEMALA

Alvarado, Paulo Renato

Alvarez, Rafael
Andrino, José Escolástico
Anleu Díaz, Enrique
Arévalo Guerra, José
Arias López, Luis Felipe
Asturias, Rodrigo
Ayestas, J. Humberto

Castañeda Medinilla, José

Castillo, Jesús
Castillo, Ricardo
Castro, Indalecio

De Gandarias, Igor
De Gandarias, David

Fernández, Juan de Jesús

Figueroa, Víctor Manuel
Gandarias, David de
Gandarias, Igor de
González, Julián

Herrarte, Manuel

Ippisch, Franz
Iriarte, Salvador

Juárez Castellanos, Rafael

Lafuente, Valentín
Lehnhoff, Dieter
Ley, Salvador

Maselli, Renato
Mendoza, José Alberto
Molina Pinillo, José
Moraga, Manuel E.
Morales, Lorenzo

Navas Quevado, Marcos de las

Orellana Mejía, Joaquín

Ortega Iriarte, Felipe de Jesús

Paniagua, Francisco Apolinaro

Paniagua, Lucas
Paniagua, Raúl Fuentes
Paniagua Martínez, Julián
Pascual, Tomás

Quezada, Vinicio
Quiroz, Francisco
Quiroz, Manuel Joseph de

Sáenz, Benedicto
Sáenz, Francisco de Paulo Isaac
Sáenz Álvarez, José Benedicto
Samayoa, José Eulalio
Sandoval Cabrera, Miguel Angel
Sarmientos de León, Jorge Álvaro
Siliézar Ramos, Felipe B.
Solares Echeverría, Enrique

Vásquez, Rafael
Vásquez Larrazábal, Jorge

HAITI

Elie, Justin

Jeanty, Occide

Lamothe, Ludovic

HONDURAS

Adalid y Gamero, Manuel de

Díaz Zelaya, Francisco R.

Haertling, Carlos Guillermo

Haertling, Guadalupe

Reyes, José Trinidad

Suazo Lang, Sergio

Varela Borjas, Fernando

Villanueva Galeano, Ignacio

MEXICO

Adame Gómez, Rafael

Adomián, Lan
Agudelo Murguía, Graciela Josefina Eugenia
Alamo, Lázaro de
Alcaraz, José Antonio
Alcázar, Miguel
Aldana, José Manuel
Alonso, Julia
Alva, Alfredo
Alvarado López, Alberto M.
Alvarez Ovalle, Javier
Alvarez, Lucía
Alvarez del Toro, Federico
Amaya, Alberto
Amozurrutia, José
Andrade, Ángela Tercero Elizade de
Angulo, Eduardo
Antúnez, Alfredo
Anzures Polo, Manuel
Aranda Pedraza, Fernando Alexis
Araújo, Teófilo
Areán, Juan Carlos
Arenzana, Manuel
Arévalo, Luis Hilario
Arévalo, Miguel Santiago
Arias Luna, Emmanuel
Armijo Torres, Leticia
Atienza y Pineda, Francisco de
Awad, Emil
Ayala Pérez, Daniel

Baca Elorriaga, Luis

Baca Lobera, Ignacio
Baena Solís, Federico
Baeza Saavedra, Juan de
Bal y Gay, Jesús
Bal y Gay, Rosa de
Bañuelos, Roberto
Baqueiro Foster, Gerónimo
Barboza, Pedro
Bárcenas, Juan José
Barreiro, Tomás
Barrios Morales, Aurilio
Baruch Maldonado, René
Berea, Adolfo
Beristáin, Joaquín
Berlioz, Sergio
Bernal Jiménez, Miguel
Blengio, Rafael
Bordás, Jaime
Borges, Joaquín
Boríslova, Nadezhda “Nadia” Borislavovna
Bravo Bernard, Héctor
Bustamante, José María

Camino, Xavier
Campa, Gustavo E.
Campusano, Maria Francisca de los Dolores
Cancino de Cuevas, Sofía
Carballeda González, Salvador
Cárdenas, Gerardo
Cárdenas, Sergio
Carrasco Candil, Alfredo
Carrasco González, José María
Carrasco Narro, María Teresa
Carrillo, Gerardo
Carrillo, Villareal Gonzalo
Carrillo Trujillo, Julián Antonio
Carrión Zamarripa, Rafael
Casale, Primo
Castillo, Fructos del
Castillo Ponce, Gonzalo
Castro Herrera, Ricardo
Catán Porteny, Daniel
Cataño, Fernando
Cataño, Manuel
Chaires Villanueava, Austreberto
Chapela, Enrico
Chávez y Ramírez, Carlos Antonio de Pádua
Cintas, Ricardo
Cobarrubias [Cobarruvias], José Loreto
Codina, Genaro
Contreras, Alma Siria
Contreras, Juan Pablo
Contreras Sánchez, Salvador
Coral, Leonardo
Córdoba Valencia, Jorge
Cornejo, José María
Cortés, Raúl
Cortés Álvarez, José Francisco
Cortés Aráoz, Antonio
Cortez Mendez, Luis Jaime
Costa Horts, Narciso
Cruzalaegui [Cruzaley, Cruzealaegui, Cruzelagui], Martín Francisco de
Cuen, Leticia
Curiel Barba, Gonzalo

Dájer, Jorge
Dallo y Lana, Miguel Mateo de
Daniels Torres, Charles Philip
Dávalos, Guillermo
Delgado, Eugenio
Delgado, Francisco Eusebio
Delgado Pardo, Gustavo
Derbez Roque, Georgina
Díazmuñoz, Eduardo
Domínguez, Alberto
Durán, Juan Fernando

Echevarría [Chavarría], Juan José

Echevarrieta Carrera, José María [Pepe Carrera]
Eckstein, Sergio
Elías, Alfonso de
Elías, Graciela Morales de
Elías, Manuel Jorge de
Elízaga Prado, José Mariano
Elizondo, Rafael
Elorduy Medina, Ernesto
Enriquez, Gina
Enríquez Salazar, Manuel
Esbri, Alejandro
Escobedo de Santiago, Julio
Escuer, Alejandro
Espinosa Garay, Leandro
Espinoza Gallardo, Felipe
Esteva Loyola, Carlos
Estrada, José Jesús
Estrada, Julio
Euroza Sifri, Leticia

Feldman, Bernardo
Fernandes (Fernández), Gaspar
Fernández Esperón, Ignacio
Fernández Ros, Antonio
Flores Jiménez, Carlos
Flores Méndez, Guillermo
Franco, Hernando
Frisch Guajardo, Uwe
Fuchs, Arno
Fuentes, Juan Bautista

Gaete, Marcelo
Galindo Dimas, Blas
Gamboa, Eduardo
Gamboa Gamboa, Gilberto Francisco
García Castells, Federico
García de León, Ernesto
García Renart, Marta
Gavino Leal, José [Joseph Gabriel Gavino Díaz y Leal]
Gómez, José Antonio
Gómez Barrera, Carlos
Gómez Pinzón, Ulises
Gómez Villagómez, Alejandro
Gomezanda, Antonio
González, Agustín
González, Arturo Xavier
González, José Luis
González Ávila, Jorge
González Christen, Francisco
González Compeán, Francisco
González Flores, Alberto Antonio
González Gómez, José Luis
González Medina, Enrique
González Meléndez, Gabriel
González Orduña, Federico
González Pichardo, Xavier
González Prieto, Jorge Isaac
González Quiñones, Jaime
González Tescucano, Javier
González Torre, Salvador
Granillo González, María
Grever, María
Grüb Geschwindt, Laura
Guerra, Ramiro Luis
Guillén Barrios-Gómez, Virginia
Guraieb Kuri, Rosa
Gutiérrez Heras, Joaquín
Guzmán Arredondo, Édgar
Guzmán Bravo, José Antonio

Halffter Escriche, Rodolfo

Haro y Tamariz, Jesús
Helguera Villa, Juan
Hernández, Hermilio
Hernández, Marcelo
Hernández Acevedo, Juan
Hernández Gama, José
Hernández Medrano, Humberto
Hernández Moncada, Eduardo
Herrejón, Juan Cuauhtémoc
Herrera, José María
Herrera Álvarez, Manuel
Herrera de la Fuente, Luis
Herrera y Ogazon, Alba
Herrerías Guerra, Claudia
Huízar García de la Cadena, Candelario
Hurtado Rueles, José-Luis

Ibarra Cárdenas, Víctor

Ibarra Groth, Federico
Ibarra Zambrano, Daniel
Ituarte, Julio
Iturralde, Carlos A.

Jaramillo, Silvino
Jaso López, Enrique
Jebe, Halfdan
Jerusalem, Ignacio
Jiménez, Arturo
Jiménez Mabarak, Carlos
Jiménez Ruanova, Alex
Jordá Rossell, Luis Gonzaga
Juanas, Antonio
Juárez Frías, Ernesto
Jurado, Nicasio
Jurado, Novelli

Kostakowsky, Jacobo
Kuri Aldana, Mario

Ladrón de Guevara, Raúl

Lagos, Adolfo
Lara Zavala, Ana
Larios, Felipe
Lavalle García, Armando
Lavista Camacho, Mario
Lavista Peimbert, Raúl
Lazzeri del Sordo, Jorge
León, Tomás
León-Mariscal Canseco, Juan
León-Mariscal Canseco, Manuel
Lienas, Juan de
Lifchitz, Marcos
Lifchitz, Max
Loarca Castillo, Eduardo
Lobato, Domingo
Lomán Bueno, Juan Sebastián
López, Fernando Javier
López Capillas, Francisco
López Moreno, Jesús
López Rico, Antonio
López Verdejo [Berdejo], Ezequiel
Loreto, Juan Nepomuceno
Luna Ponce, Armando
Luque Ancona, Sergio
Luzuriaga, Manuel

Machorro, Aurelio
Macías Andere, Gonzalo
Madrigal Gil, Delfino
Mariscal Canseco, Juan León
Márquez, Arturo
Martínez, Ernesto
Martínez, Ricardo
Mata, Eduardo
Medeles, Víctor Manuel
Medina, Juan Pablo
Medina Hernández, Cecilia
Medina Valenzuela, Rogelio
Mejía Castro, Estanislao
Mendía, Guillermo de
Mendoza Gutiérrez, Vicente Teódulo
Meneses, Miguel
Meza, Miguel C.
Michaca Valenzuela, Pedro
Miramontes, Arnulfo
Moncayo García, José Pablo
Monroy, José María
Montes de Oca, Ramón
Montiel, Javier
Montiel Olvera, Armando
Mora, Manuel
Moral, Jorge del
Morales, Melesio
Morales, Roberto
Morales García, Marcial
Moreno Manzano, Salvador
Moya, Patricia
Muench, Gerhart

Nancarrow, Samuel Conlon

Nandayapa Balda, Zeferino
Navarro, Antonio
Navarro, Juan
Niño, Ricardo
Noble Olivares, Ramón
Nobre de Almeida, Marlos
Noriega, Guillermo
Noriega de la Vega, Isaías
Nuñez, Francisco
Núñez Montes, Francisco
Nunó Roca, Jaime

Ochando, Tomás
Ochoa, Miguel Thadeo de
Odgers, Alejandra
Olaya, José
Olea Nader, Óscar Humberto
Oliva, Julio César
Oliva Oliva, Mateo
Olmedo y Lama, María Guadalupe
Olvera, Rafael
Ordóñez, Rafael
Orta Velázquez, Guillermo
Ortega Carrillo, Armando
Ortega del Villar, Aniceto
Ortíz, Gabriela
Ortíz, Sergio
Ortiz Bobadilla, Sergio
Otey, Orlando

Palacios, Rafael
Palma y Meza Espinoza, Hernán
Paniagua, Manuel M.
Paniagua y Vásques (Vázquez), Cenobio
Paredes Pacho, Hilda
Paredes Perez, Paulino
Pareyón, Gabriel
Pastor Farill, Luis Gonzaga
Pavón Sarrelangue, Raúl
Paz, Jorge
Pazos, Carlos
Pedraza, Francisco
Peña, Víctor Manuel
Peralta Castera, Angela
Perches Porrás, José
Pérez Cámara, Efraín
Pérez Ximeno, Fabián
Pinto Reyes, Guillermo
Pomar, José
Ponce Cuéllar, Manuel María
Prieto y Fernández de la Llana, María T.
Pulido Cejudo, Ignacio

Quezadas Luna, Arturo

Quintanar Prieto, Héctor
Ramírez, Ulises
Ramírez Franco, Filiberto
Ramírez Ruiz, Rodolfo
Rasgado Flores, Víctor Dagoberto
Renart, Marta Garcia
Revueltas Retes, Román
Revueltas Sánchez, Silvestre
Reyes Meave, Manuel
Rico, Horacio
Risco Cortés, Ricardo
Ritter, Jorge
Robles Girón, Héctor
Rocha Iturbide, Manuel
Rodrigues, Maria Joachina
Rodriguez, Arturo
Rodríguez, Marcela
Rodríguez, Zolio Joel
Rojas, Bonifacio
Rojas Ruiz, Edgar Omar
Rojo Cama, Vicente
Rolón Alcaraz, José
Romero Armendáriz, Ventura
Romero Pacheco, Germán
Rosado Rodríguez, Juan Antonio
Rosales, Hugo
Rosas, Juventino [José Juventino Rosas Cadenas]
Rubin, Marcel
Ruíz Armengol, Mario
Russek Martínez, Antonio Raúl
Ruvalcaba Romero, Higinio

Salazar, Adolfo
Salazar (Zalazar), Antonio de
Saldívar, René
Salinas, Arturo
Salomón, Carlos R.
Samper Marqués, Baltasar
Sánchez de la Barquera Gutiérrez, Daniel
Sánchez del Carpio, Hilario
Sánchez del Carpio, Hilario
Sánchez Gutierrez, Carlos Daniel
Sandi Meneses, Luis
Sandoval, Carlos
Santillán Alcocer, Ana Paola
Santos Mazal, Enrique
Saucedo García, José Carmen
Savín Vázquez, Francisco
Sierra, Tonatiuh de la
Sigal Sefchovich, Jorge Rodrigo
Soto Millán, Eduardo
Stern Feitler, Mario
Sumaya (Zumaya), Manuel de
Syrse Valdés Rosada, Diana

Taibo García, Luis

Talavera Andrade, Mario
Tamez, Gerardo
Tamez, Nicandro E.
Tamez, Omar
Tapia, Verónica
Tapia Colmán, Simón
Tapia Mendoza, Gloria
Tellez Oropeza, Roberto
Tello Malpartida, Aurelio
Tello Rojas, Rafael J.
Tercero, Juan Domingo
Tichavsky, Radko
Tollis (Tolis) de la Roca, Matheo
Torre, Salvador
Torre Suárez, Benigno de la
Torre Suárez, Luis de la
Torres, José de
Torres, René
Torres Maldonado, Javier
Torres Sáenz, Jorge
Tort Oropeza, César
Toussaint Uhthoff, Eugenio
Treviño Tapia, José Guadalupe
Triegeque, José Ygnacio
Trigos, Juan
Tudón Toledo, Raúl

Uribe, Horacio
Urreta (Urrueta) Arroyo, Alicia
Uvalle Castillo, Vicente

Valdés Aguilar, Benjamin

Valenzuela, Arturo
Valenzuela, Cynthia
Valle, Antonio
Valle, Octaviano
Vásquez Cano, José Francisco
Vázquez, Alida
Vázquez, Genaro V.
Vázquez, Hebert
Vázquez Kuntze, Lilia Margarita
Vega, Ramón
Velázquez Olguín, Higinio
Velázquez Valle, Leonardo
Vidales, Francisco de
Vidaurri Aréchiga, Carlos
Villa Rojo, Jesús
Villalobos Ibarra, Paz
Villalpando, Fernando
Villanueva, Mariana
Villanueva Gutiérrez, Felipe
Villarreal, Sergio
Villaseñor, Jesús
Villegas Maldonado, Guillermo
Vizcaíno Treviño, Rafael
Waller, González Ariel

Ximenes de Cisneros [Zisneros], Nicólas

Zamora, Juan Carlos

Zanolli, Uberto
Zapata, Alberto
Zapata, Francisco
Zárate, Vicente Ortiz de
Zarzoza, Jesús
Zayas Pérez, Armando
Zohn-Muldoon, Ricardo
Zozaya, Carlos
Zubeldía Inda, Emiliana de
Zúñiga Sánchez, José Paulino Julián
Zyman, Samuel

NICARAGUA

Buitrago, Félix Pedro

Buitrago Molina, Pablo

Delgadillo, Luis

Luna Jiménez, Fernando

Mena Moreno, Juan Manuel

Vega Matus, Alejandro

Vega y Raudes, Pablo

PANAMA

Arias Quintero, Carlos Efraín

Cajar Escala, José Luis

Castillo Restrepo, Néstor Javier
Castro, Herbert de
Charpentier de Castro, Eduardo
Cordero, Roque

Galimany, Alberto
Garay, Narciso

Jaén Arosemena, Agustín

Jaén Fernández, Néstor Darío
Jaén Guardia, Laurencio
Jorge Amatriain, Santos

Rebolledo, Pedro

Saiz Salazar, Marina

PARAGUAY

Barrios, Agustín Pío

Boettner, Juan Max

Flores, José Asunción

Giménez, Florentín
Giménez, Herminio
Giménez, Remberto

Lara Bareiro, Carlos

Moreno González, Juan Carlos

Pérez González, Nicolás

Szarán, Luis

Vera Ayala, Pedro Pablo

PERU

Aguilar, Cipriano
Aguilar, Luis David
Aguirre, Manuel
Alcedo (Alzedo), José Bernardo
Alomía Robles, Daniel
Álvarez Álvarez, Teófilo
Álvarez Dávila, Teófilo
Ampuero, Joaquín de
Araújo, Juan
Asato, Pedro Seiji

Ballón Farfán, Benigno

Bañón, Manuel Olmedo
Barbacci, Rodolfo
Bermudes (Bermúdez), Pedro
Bolaños, César
Bracesco, Renzo

Caballero Farfán, Policarpo

Campos, José Carlos
Carpio Valdés, Roberto
Casas Napán, Walter Bernardino
Castañeda Garrido, Benjamin
Ceruti, Roque
Chávez Aguilar, Pablo
Cueto Keenan, Daniel

Dávalos Chauca, Manuel [de Ávalos]

Duncker Lavalle, Luis

Escobedo, Manuel F.

Fava Ninci, Enrique

Fernández Hidalgo, Gutierre
Ferrer Soria, Ramón
Filomeno Cueva, Bartolomé [Bartolo]
Filomeno Cueva, José María
Francia, Francisco de Paula

Garrido Lecca Seminario, Celso

Gerdes, Federico
González, Bernadino
González, Gerónimo
González Gamarra, Francisco
Granda, María Isabel “Chabuca”
Guevara Ochoa, Armando
Guillem, Basilio

Herrera, Tomás de
Holzmann, Rodolfo

Iturriaga, Enrique

Jara, José Manuel

Junchaya, Rafael Leonardo
Junchaya Gómez, Rafael

Kuapil [Kwapil] Urbane, José

La Rosa, Leopoldo
Lombardi, Enrique
López, Manuel I.
López, María Luisa R. de
López Mindreau, Ernesto
Lóritga, José

Maffezoli, Napoleone
Malpica Hernández, Pedro R.
Malsio Montoya, José

Núñez Allauca, Alejandro

Ojeda Álvarez, Mariano

Ojeda Campana, Roberto
Oliveira, Elvira
Olivera Silva, Pío Wenceslao
Olivera Vidal, José Manuel
Orejón y Aparicio, José de
Ortiz de Zevallos de Raborg, Rosa

Pacheco de Céspedes, Luis

Panizo, Manuel de la Cruz
Pérez de Bocanegra, Juan
Pinilla Sánchez-Concha, Enrique
Plasencia, Ubaida
Ponce de León, Esteban
Pozzi Escot, Olga
Pulgar Vidal, Francisco Bernardo

Quispe, Ignacio

Ramos, Eudocia
Rebagliati, Claudio
Rebagliati, Reynaldo
Rivera, Eusebia
Rivera Vera, Manuel Alfredo

Sánchez Málaga, Armando

Sánchez Málaga, Carlos
Sas Orchassal, Andrés
Seiji Asato, Pedro
Sierra, Manuel
Sosaya Wekselman, José Roberto
Stea, Vicente
Stubbs, Walter
Stubbs du Perron, Walter Eduardo

Tapia y Zegarra, Melchor

Tarnawiecki, Douglas
Tena, Juan Bautista
Tirado, Pedro Ziménez Abril
Toro, Tomás de
Torrejón y Velasco, Tomás de
Tristán de Tillit, Joaquina

Ugarte, José Benigno [Avoquini, Etragu]

Urquieta, Felipe Lino

Valcárcel Arze, Édgar

Valcárcel Caballero, Teodoro (Theodoro)
Valderrama, Carlos
Valencia Chacón, Américo
Valle Riestra, José María
Vasquez Illescas, María Elvira
Veramendi [Beramendi], Carlos
Verneuil, Raoul de
Vidales, Pedro
Villavicencio Grossmann, Jorge
Vivanco, Moisés

Zapata Espina, Esteban

Zavala, Pedro P.

PUERTO RICO

Alejandro de León, Esther

Alvarez, Luis Manuel
Andino, Julián
Aponte Ledée, Rafael
Aranzamendi, Genaro de
Arcílagos, Pedro Luis

Busto, Angel de

Cabrer, Carlos
Campos Parsi, Héctor
Cordero, Ernesto
Cortés González, Francisco Pedro
Cubano, Miguel

Delano, Jack
Delgado Gómez, Domingo Crisanto
Deliz, Monserrate
Dueño Colón, Braulio
Escabí Agostini, Pedro Carlos

Febo Ortíz, Félix

Ferrer Otero, Monsita Monserrate
Figueroa Iriarte, Jesús
Figueroa Sanabia, Guillermo
Figueroa Sanabia, Narciso
Figueroa Sanabia von Ellinger, Carmen

González, Manuel B.
Gutiérrez Espinosa, Felipe

Martínez, José Daniel

Montalvo, José A.
Morales, Carlos O.
Morales Nieva, Ignacio
Morel Campos, Juan

Nuñez Rivera, Gonzalo

Ortíz Alvarado, William

Otero Hernández, Ana

Pedreira, José Enrique

Peña Plaza, Ángel [Lito]
Peña Reyes, Juan
Pericás Díaz, Jaime

Quintón del Rosario, José Ignacio

Ramírez, Luis Antonio

Ramos Buensot, Federico
Rivera, Graciela
Rodríguez Alvira, José
Rodríguez Amador, Augusto Alejandro
Rodríguez Arreson, José María

Schwartz, Francis
Sicardó Iser, Ramona
Sierra, Roberto

Tavárez, Manuel Gregorio

Torres Santos, Raymond

Vázquez, Carlos Alberto

Veray Torregrosa, Amaury
Villarini, Awilda

URUGUAY

Águila, Miguel del

Aharonián, Coriún
Alzola, Facundo
Aranaz, Antonio de
Ascone, Vicente

Baranda Reyes, Santiago

Barceló Abeijón, Ricardo Iván
Barradas, Carmen (María del Carmen Pérez Giménez)
Biriotti, León
Broqua, Alfonso

Cabrera, Fernando
Calcavecchia, Benone
Camirauga, Jorge
Campadónico, Luis Ricardo
Carlevaro, Abel
Carvelero, Álvaro
Casella, Enrique Mario
Cervetti Guigou, Sergio
Cluzeau Mortet, Luis
Cordero, Fernando Cruz
Correa Luna, María Celia
Cortinas, César

Debali, Francisco José

Dente, Domingo
De Pate, Elisabetta

Estrada, Carlos

Fabini, Eduardo Félix

Ferretti Martinez, Ulises Dardo

García Vigil, Federico

Gilardoni, Eduardo
Giribaldi, Tomás
Giucci, Carlos
Grasso, Gerardo
Gutiérrez Cortinas, Héctor

Ipuche Riva, Pedro L.

Iturribery Fraga, Juan José

Jure, Luis

Kellner, Hiltrud I.

Lagarmilla, Roberto
Lamarque Pons, Jaurés
Legrand, Diego
Luna, Carmen

Maggiolo, Daniel
Martínez Oyanguren, Julio
Mastrogiovanni, Antonio
Matos Rodríguez, Gerardo
Mondino, Luis Pedro
Mujica, José Tomás

Nicastro, Oscar

Paraskevaídis, Graciela
Pedrell, Carlos
Pereyra Lizaso, Nydia
Pfeiffer, Oscar
Pietrafresa Bonnet, Renée

Repetto Espinosa, Amelia

Ribeiro, León Julio Alfredo
Rodríguez Socas, Ramón
Ronchi, Apolo

Sáenz, Antonio
Salvo, Francisco de
Sambucetti, Luis [Nicolás]
Santórsola, Guido
Scaffo Roldríguez, Nibia Aída
Serebrier, José
Seroussi, Edwin
Sotuyo Blanco, Pablo
Storm, Ricardo

Tosar Errecart, Héctor Alberto

Ubeda, Friar José Manuel

Uguccioni, Alejandro
Uguccioni, José

Vaz Ferreira, María Eugenia

Vives Serra, Santiago

VENEZUELA

Abita, Víctor
Abreu, José Antonio
Acosta Gadea, Cecilio
Adames, Vinicio
Adames Pinedo, José Vinicio
Adrianza, Alfredo Marcano
Akl Jáuregui, Corín
Alcócer, Rafael
Alfonzo, Pedro Antero
Alfonzo Peyre, Rubén Rolando
Almenare Núñez de Arreaza, Josefa Victoria
Alterio, Ricardo
Alvarez, Jesús
Araque Reyes, Virgilio
Arellano, Lino María
Arencibia, María Luisa
Arias, Casimiro
Arismendi, Diana
Arto, Francisco Rodrigo
Astor, Miguel Eduardo
Atilano, María Eugenia
Azpurúa, Manuel

Barrios, Arturo
Barrios Gallípoli, Andrés Humberto
Bello Montero, Atanasio
Benedetti Punceles, Josefina de
Berti Soteldo, Alexander
Bilbao, Beatriz
Billings, Leopoldo
Bor, Modesta
Boruszko Formañuk, Samuel
Brandt Totolero, Augusto Félix
Bustamante, Ignacio

Calcano Arcila, Miguel Ángel

Calcaño Calcaño, José Antonio
Calcaño Díaz, Luis
Calcaño y Panizza, Eduardo
Calderón, Vidal
Calderón Ramón, Jesús Antonio
Canónico, Benito
Caraballo, Rogerio
Caro de Boesi, José Antonio
Carreño, Alejandro [Adrián]
Carreño, Ambrosio
Carreño, Francisco
Carreño, Inocente
Carreño, Juan Bautista
Carreño, Manuel Antonio
Carreño García de Sena, María Teresa
Carreño Muñoz, José Cayetano
Casas Augé, Miguel
Castellanos, Pablo
Castellanos Yumar, Gonzalo
Castillo, Jorge
Castillo Olivari, Arcángel
Cedeño, Rubén
Cedeño Laya, Roberto Antonio
Cisneros, Armando Jaime
Cisneros de Toro, Margoth
Colón, Eric
Cordero Saldivia, Alvaro

Delgado Pardo, Andrés

Del Mónaco, Alfredo
De Pool, Adolfo
Desenne, Paul
Duarte, Carlos

Echevarría Lozano, Sebastián

Esaa Tablante, Prudencio
Escobar, María Luisa
Espino, Rómulo
Estévez Aponte, Antonio
Estrella de Mescoli, Blanca

Figueredo, Carlos

Gómez Cardiel, José María

González Fernández, Alejandro
Gornés, Cristóbal [Cristóbal Gerardo Colón García]
Goyarrola, Aitor
Grau, Alberto
Guadalajara, Manuel
Gutiérrez, Pedro Elías

Hahn Echenagucia, Reynaldo

Hernández, Manuel E.
Hernández, Rafael María
Hernández López, Rhazés

Igarza, Leopoldo
Isaza, José Maria
Isaza, Rafael
Isaza, Román
Isturriaga, Francisco
Izarra, Adina Margarita

Lamas, José Angel

Landaeta, Juan José
Lara, Neily Mele
Lares (Lárez), Violeta
Larrazábal, Felipe
Larrazábal, Manuel María
Lauro, Antonio
Laya Morales, José Clemente
Lecuna Lander, Juan Vicente
León, Francisco
Lira, José Agustín
Llamozas, Salvador Narciso
Lockhart Genta, Beatriz
López Maya, Juan de Dios
Lorenz Abreu, Ricardo
Lozano, Sebastián
Luciani de Bustamante, Itala Rosa
Lupi, Luis

Magdaleno, Francisco de Paula

Magliano Ungaro, Ernesto Mario
Marín, Servio Tulio
Marturet, Eduardo
Matamoros, Gustavo
Mendoza Guardia, Emilio
Meserón, Juan Francisco Pascual
Moleiro, Moisés
Montero, José Angel
Muñoz, José Luis

Nolasco Colón, Pedro

Noya, Francisco
Nuñez, Juan Carlos
Nuñez Romberg, José Gabriel

Ojeda, Juan Ramón

Olaizola, Carlos
Olivares, Juan Manuel
Osorio, José María
Ostos, Ovidio
Otero, Mercedes

Palacios de Sans, Mariantonia

Palacios y Sojo y Gil Arratia, Father Pedro, called El Padre Sojo
Párraga Paredes, Manuel María
Paz, José Luis
Peñin, José
Pereira, Raimundo
Pérez, Delfín
Pérez Monagas, Ariel
Planchart, Alejandro Enrique
Plaza Alfonzo, Eduardo
Plaza Alfonzo, Juan Bautista

Quintanilla, Alba
Quintero, Joaquín

Rago, Alexis
Ramos, Antonio José
Ramos Barrios, Manuel
Ramos Rangel, Víctor Guillermo
Rengifo, Rafael
Rico, Régulo Ramón del Carmen
Rodríguez Legendere, Fidel Luis
Rojas, René
Romero Zerpa, Aldemaro
Rugeles, Alfredo
Rugeles, Ana Mercedes Azuaje de
Ruiz Gallegos, Margarita
Ruíz Hurtado, Federico Alberto

Salicrup, Narciso L.
Salvetti, Renzo
Sandoval Yanes, Andrés Avelino
Sans Moreira, Juan Andrés
Sans Moreira, Juan Francisco
Sauce, Ángel
Schreiber Rosenthal, Jacky
Segnini Sequera, Rodrigo
Silva, Antonio Jesús
Silva Silva, Diego Rafael
Silva-Díaz, Joaquín
Sojo, Vicente Emilio
Suárez, Jesús María

Tejera, Francisco Manuel

Tenreiro Vidal, Alfonso
Teppa Abad, Carlos
Teruel Levitsky, Ricardo
Torrealba, José Antonio
Torrealba, José Eligio
Torrealba, Juan Vicente
Tortolero Leanivis, Numa
Troya, Luis

Uzcátegui, Redescal

Varela Rojas, Víctor Raúl

Vargas, Erin
Vásquez, Antonio José
Velásquez, José María
Velásquez (Velásques, Velázquez), José Francisco de las Llagas [El Viejo],
Sr.
Velásquez (Velásques, Velázquez), José Francisco Teodosio de Jesús, Jr.
Velázquez Pedraza, Father José Guadalupe
Vera, Saúl
Villasmil Romany, Alberto
Villena Welsh, Federico S.

Zapata, León
Zapata Bello, Francisco
 WOMEN COMPOSERS
OF LATIN AMERICA

Acosta de Barón, Joséfina

Adam de Aróstegui, Maria de las Mercedes
Agudelo Murguía, Graciela Josefina Eugenia
Akl Jáuregui, Corín
Alboni, Avelina
Alea Fernández, María Matilde
Alejandro de León, Esther
Alexander, Leni
Almenare Núñez de Arreaza, Josefa Victoria
Alonso, Julia
Alvarez, Lucía
Alvarez Ríos, María
Andrade, Ángela Tercero Elizade de
Anido, María Luisa [Isabel]
Antón, Susana
Araújo, Gina de (Araujo Regis d’Oliveira)
Arencibia, María Luisa
Aretz de Ramón y Rivera, Isabel
Arismendi, Diana
Arizti Sobrino, Cecilia
Armijo Torres, Leticia
Astuni, Silvia
Atilano, María Eugenia

Báez de Silva, Blanca

Bal y Gay, Rosa de
Baratta, María Mendoza de
Barbosa, Cacilda Campos Borges
Barón Superville, Susana
Barradas, Carmen (María del Carmen Pérez Giménez)
Benavente, Regina María
Benedetti Punceles, Josefina de
Berroa, Catalina
Biase Bidart, Lycia de
Bilbao, Beatriz
Blanck, Olga de
Bologna, Nora
Bor, Modesta
Boríslova, Nadezhda “Nadia” Borislavovna
Botet Dubois, María Enma
Bringuer, María Estela
Buiani, Elena

Cabezas Espinoza, Estela

Cabrera, Ana Schneider de [pseud. Anastasio Leiva]
Cabrera Berg, Silvia María Pires
Calandra, Matilde Tettamanti de
Calcagno, Elsa
Calderón Sáenz, Claudia
Cameu de Cordoville, Helza
Caminha, Alda
Campmany, Montserrat
Campos, Joaquina de Araújo
Campos, Lina Pires de
Campusano, Maria Francisca de los Dolores
Canales Pizarro, Marta
Cancino de Cuevas, Sofía
Carrasco Narro, María Teresa
Carreño García de Sena, María Teresa
Carrique, Ana
Carvajal Gómez, Ailem
Carvalho Muricy, Dinorah Gontijo de
Casanova, Fermina
Castegnaro Catellani, Dolores “Lola”
Castillo, Graciela
Catunda (Katunda), Eunice do Monte Lima
Cervantes, María
Cimaglia Espinosa, Lía
Cisneros de Toro, Margoth
Contreras, Alma Siria
Cordero Simunovic, Cecilia
Corona Rodíguez, Beatriz del Carmen
Correa Luna, María Celia
Couper, Mildred
Cucinotta, Olga
Cuen, Leticia
Curubeto Godoy, María Isabel

Delfín, Carmelina
Deliz, Monserrate
De Pate, Elisabetta
Derbez Roque, Georgina
Dianda, Hilda
Durán Cárdenas, Sixto María

Eisenstein, Silvia
Elías, Graciela Morales de
Enríquez, Gina
Escobar, María Luisa
Estrella de Mescoli, Blanca
Euroza Sifri, Leticia

F
Fabre, Cristina
Fernandes, Maria Helena Rosas
Fernandez, Helen Lorenzo
Fernandez, Terresita
Ferrer Otero, Monsita Monserrate
Ferreyra, Beatriz
Figueroa Mañas, Adriana Isabel
Figueroa Sanabia von Ellinger, Carmen
Fleites, Virginia
Francia, Francisco de Paula
Frega, Ana Lucía

García Muñoz, Carmen

García Renart, Marta
García Robson, Magdalena
Gines, Teodora (Ma Teodora)
Gonzaga, Francisca Edwiges Neves (Chiquinha Gonzaga)
Granda Larco, María Isabel “Chabuca”
Granillo González, María
Gregori, Nininha
Grever, María
Grüb Geschwindt, Laura
Guillén Barrios-Gómez, Virginia
Guraieb Kuri, Rosa

Haertling, Guadalupe
Hernández Gonzalo, Gisela
Herrera, Hilda Nora
Herrera y Ogazon, Alba
Herrerías Guerra, Claudia
Hinestrosa de Rosero, Maruja
Hollanda, Cirlei Moreira de

I
Izarra, Adina Margarita

Jabor Maia de Carvalho, Najla

Jijón Rojas de Fernández Salvador, Inés
Jurado, Inés
Justel, Elsa

Kellner, Hiltrud I.
Kersenbaum, Sylvia Haydée
Kohan de Scher, Celina

Lado, Norma
Lambertini, Marta Beatriz
Lamego, Carlinda Jouvin
Lapeiretta de Brouwer, Ninón
Lara, Nelly Mele
Lara Zavala, Ana
Lares (Lárez), Violeta
Lecuona Casado, Ernestina
Leite, Vãnia Dantas
Leite Dias Batista, Clarisse
León, Tania Justina
Leonardo, Luisa
Lockhart Genta, Beatriz
López, María Luisa R. de
López Rovirosa, María Isabel
Lopszyc, Eva Irene
Luc, María Eugenia
Luciani de Bustamante, Itala Rosa
Luengo, María Teresa
Luna, Carmen
Luna de Espaillat, Margarita
 M

Maciel, Argentina Barbosa Viana

Mackenna Subercaseaux, Carmela
Mahle, Maria Apparecida Romera Pinto
Mambretti, Mabel
Marqués, Fernandina Lagos
Marques, Maria Adelaide D.
Martínez, Odaline de la
Martínez de la Torre y Shelton, Emma
Matos [Mattos] Priolli, María Luisa de
Medina Hernández, Cecilia
Mell, Eidylia Rosa Lía
Milstein, Sylvina [née Mendzylewski]
Montero, Claudia
Moretto, Nelly
Moya, Patricia

Nogueira, Ilza María Costa

Nova Sondag, Jacqueline
Núñez Lacret, Leopoldina

Odgers, Alejandra
Oliveira, Alda de Jesús
Oliveira, Elvira
Oliveira, Idalba “Babi” Leite de
Oliveira, Jamary de
Oliveira, Jocy de
Oliveira, Sophie Marcondes de Mello
Olmedo y Lama, María Guadalupe
Orozco Alemán, Keyla María
Ortiz, Emma Wachter de
Ortíz, Gabriela
Ortiz de Zevallos García de Raborg, Rosa
Otero, Mercedes
Otero Hernández, Ana

Palacios de Sans, Mariantonia

Paraskevaídis, Graciela
Paredes Pacho, Hilda
Parral de Velasco Ibarra, Corina
Pascual Navas, María Esperanza
Patiño, Lucía
Patiño Andrade de Copes, Graciela
Pavia, Marcela
Perales, Stella
Peralta Cáceres, Catalina Leonor
Peralta Castera, Ángela
Pereira da Silva, Adelaide
Pereyra Lizaso, Nydia
Pérez Monagas, Ariel
Pérez Velázquez, Ileana
Pey Casado, Diana
Pietrafresa Bonnet, Renée
Pinzón Urrea, Cecilia
Pires de Campos, Lina
Pires de Lima, D. Maria Clementina
Pires dos Reis, Hilda
Plasencia, Ubaida
Polonio, Cinira
Potes Cortés, Alba Lucía
Pozzi Escot, Olga
Prieto y Fernández de la Llana, María Teresa

Quintanilla, Alba

R
Ramírez, Ariel
Ramos, Eudocia
Renart, Marta Garcia
Renta, Beatriz
Repetto Espinosa, Amelia
Rezende, Marisa
Rivera, Eusebia
Rivera, Graciela
Rodrigues, Maria Joachina
Rodríguez, Esther
Rodríguez, Marcela
Romano Gómez, Ana Mária
Rosario Ceballos, Aura Marina del
Rosas Fernandes, María Helena
Rosato, Clorinda
Rud, Diana Elena
Rugeles, Ana Mercedes Azuaje de
Ruiz Gallegos, Margarita
Ruíz Lastres, Magaly

Saccaggio, Adelina Luisa Nicasia

Saiz Salazar, Marina
Salgado Fiúza, Virginia
Sánchez, Manuela Cornejo de
Sang[h]üesa Inostroza, Iris
Santillán Alcocer, Ana Paola
Santos Barreto, Adelina
Sanz, Rocio (Carmen Rocío Sanz Quirós)
Santos Barreto, Adelina
Scaffo Roldríguez, Nibia Aída
Scheller Zembrano, María
Schleder, Grizelda Lazzaro
Scliar Cabral, Esther
Sebastiani, Pía
Sepúlveda Maira, María Luisa
Serrano Redonnet, Ana
Setti, Kilza (Kilza Setti de Castro Lima)
Sicardó Iser, Ramona
Sicouret Destruge, Angelina
Silfa, Ana Margarita
Silva, Eloísa María Dolores Juana de la Santísima Trinidad d’Herbil de
Sodré, Joanídia Núñez
Solomonoff, Natalia
Somellera, Josefa
Somellera de Espinosa y de Pino, Candelaria
Soublette Asmussen, Sylvia (Sylvia Soublette de Valdés)
Spena, Lita
Steiger, María Susana
Syrse Valdés Rosada, Diana

Tapia, Verónica
Tapia Mendoza, Gloria
Terzián, Alicia
Torrá, Celia
Torres Barrós, Dolores Lorenza
Tristán de Tillit, Joaquina

Urreta (Urrueta) Arroyo, Alicia,

Urteaga, Irma Graciela

Valdés González, Marta Emilia

Valenzuela, Cynthia
Varela, Marta Inés
Vasquez Illescas, María Elvira
Vaz Ferreira, María Eugenia
Vázquez, Alida
Vázquez Kuntze, Lilia Margarita
Veiga Oliveira, Sofia Helena de
Ventura de Buligovich, Rita [Rebeca]
Verdié, Adriana Estela
Villalobos Ibarra, Paz
Villanueva, María Cecilia
Villanueva, Mariana
Villarini, Awilda
Vivado Orsini, Ida

Weingarten, Alicia
Williams Paats, Irma

Yampolschi, Roseane

Zegers y Montenegro, Isidora

Zubeldía Inda, Emiliana de
 ABOUT THE AUTHORS

MARTHA FURMAN SCHLEIFER taught at Temple University and was

senior editor of the Hildegard Publishing Co. She coedited the first and
second editions of Latin American Composers: A Biographical Dictionary
along with Women Composers: Music Through the Ages (8 volumes) and
Three Centuries of American Music (12 volumes). As author of many books
and articles on women and American composers, she has contributed to The
New Grove Dictionary of Women Composers and The Grove Dictionary of
Music and Musicians.

GARY GALVÁN is curator for the Edwin A. Fleisher Collection of

Orchestral Music at the Free Library of Philadelphia, the largest collection
of circulating orchestral performance materials in the world. He has
lectured and written extensively on classical and Latin American music,
contributing to publications such as The New Grove Dictionary of American
Music and presenting his research around the globe. A jazz and classical
guitarist by training, he has performed at the Moulin d’Ande in Normandy
and with the University of Florida’s Jacaré Brazil. He also teaches a wide
variety of music topics at La Salle University.