Abel Carlevaro

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Abel Julio Carlevaro Casal (born December 16, 1916 in Montevideo , Uruguay , † July 17, 2001 in Berlin , Germany ) was a Uruguayan composer and guitarist .

Life

Like his brother Agustín Carlevaro , Carlevaro came into contact with the guitar as a child: his father, a doctor, built his first instrument for him, and his mother impressed him musically with her piano playing. At the age of 20 Abel Carlevaro met Andrés Segovia , who influenced him as much as Heitor Villa-Lobos , Manuel María Ponce and Kurt Lange. On the advice of Segovia, Carlevaro finished his engineering studies and devoted himself entirely to music. In 1948 Carlevaro went on a European tour, but returned to Uruguay in 1951 without the success he had hoped for. From 1958 to 1980 he taught at the Municipal Conservatory in Montevideo and wrote his series didacta para guitarra until 1973 and the Escuela de la guitarra in 1979 , based among other things on a new sitting posture according to anatomical principles: “The basis of Carlevaro's method is the inclusion of the whole Body in his instrumental theory, which is based on his observations of natural motion sequences ”. Carlevaros describes this briefly as "The fingers begin in the arm, the arm in the head".

In Argentina he led an international guitar seminar in Buenos Aires from 1980 , the Seminario international de Guitarra organized by the Guitarra artística de Buenos Aires (GABA) organization founded in 1979 . From 1993 until his death, Carlevaro led the “master class for guitar with Abel Carlevaro” in Erlbach in the Vogtland region . He died shortly before the Erlbach Summer Course 2001 in Berlin, the course was continued by his student Eduardo Fernández . Carlevaro's students also include Álvaro Pierri (* 1952) and Baltazar Benítez (* 1944).

Works

Compositions

  • Cronomias , premiered in 1974
  • Introduction and Capriccio. / Introducción y capricho Chanterelle-Verlag, Heidelberg, 1983
  • Arenguay Chanterelle-Verlag, Heidelberg, 1986
  • Aires de vidalita sobre un tema de E. Cotelo Chanterelle-Verlag, Heidelberg, 1994
  • Abel Carlevaro - his last works Chanterelle-Verlag, Heidelberg, 2005
  • Milonga oriental Chanterelle-Verlag, Heidelberg
  • Microestudios Chanterelle-Verlag, Heidelberg
  • Abel Carlevaro guitar masterpieces Chanterelle-Verlag, Heidelberg

Publications

  • School of the Guitar - Presentation of the Instrumental Theory. Translated from the Spanish by Rüdiger Scherping, Chanterelle, 1998.
  • Carlevaro Masterclass . 4 volumes with practice and execution aids for solo pieces by Fernando Sor ("10 studies"), Heitor Villa-Lobos (5 Preludes and Choro No. 1, 12 Etudes) and Johann Sebastian Bach (Chaconne BWV 1004). Chanterelle, 1985-1989

Discography (selection)

  • Preludios americanos.
  • Suite de antiguas danzas españolas.

literature

  • Wolf Moser : It's all a matter of logic! Conversation with Abel Carlevaro in Buenos Aires. In: Guitar & Laute 3, 1981, 6, pp. 14-20.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical information comes mainly from: Timo Jouko Herrmann: "Abel Carlevaro on the 10th anniversary of his death." In: Guitar current , Volume 32, No. 112, Hamburg 2011, pp. 12–15
  2. ↑ Wolf Moser (1981), p. 17
  3. ↑ Book review on gitarrehamburg.de , accessed on July 21, 2011
  4. ↑ Angela Lehner-Wieterik: Why it doesn't squeak when changing position or that “something different” about Abel Carlevaro's technology. In Guitar & Laute 10, 1988, 2, pp. 43-48
  5. ↑ Wolf Moser : 1st International Guitar Seminar from August 25 to August 30, 1980 in Buenos Aires. In: Guitar & Lute , Volume 2, Issue 6, 1980, p. 55 f.
  6. ↑ Andreas Stevens: "It is rather the music that dictates which technique is to be used at which moment". Interview with Baltazar Benítez. (Translation: Burkhard Barancyk) In: Guitar & Laute 7, 1985, Heft 6, pp. 8-11.
  7. ↑ Peter Päffgen: Carlevaro plays Carlevaro. In: Guitar & Laute 10, 1988, 2, p. 54

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personal data
SURNAME Carlevaro, Abel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Carlevaro Casal, Abel Julio (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Uruguayan guitarist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Montevideo , Uruguay
DATE OF DEATH July 17, 2001
Place of death Berlin , Germany