Alberto Villalpando

Alberto Villalpando (born November 21, 1940 in La Paz ) is a Bolivian composer .

Villalpando began his musical training in Potosí with Santiago Velásquez and Padre José Díaz Gainza . From 1958 he studied at the Buenos Aires Conservatory with Alberto Ginastera , Pedro Sáenz , Abraham Jurafsky and Roberto García Morillo and from 1963–64 at the Latin American Center for Higher Musical Studies (CLAEM) in Buenos Aires with Olivier Messiaen , Riccardo Malipiero , Luigi Dallapiccola , Alberto Ginastera, Bruno Maderna and Aaron Copland . A sound installation for an exhibition by the painter Carlos Squirru and the piece La Muerte for tape were created here in collaboration with Miguel Angel Rondano .

In 1964 he became director of the Bolivian State Film Institute, and in 1967 director of the music department of the Bolivian Ministry of Culture. He also worked as a composition professor and director of the National Conservatory of La Paz and the music seminar of the Universidad Católica Boliviana and was Bolivian cultural attaché in France. In 1998 he received the Bolivian National Prize for Culture.

In addition to orchestral works such as the Fantastic Liturgy , the Structures for piano and orchestra and Von der Liebe, der Furcht und dem Schweigen for piano and chamber orchestra, he composed ballet and film music, chamber music works and Sonnengesang for solos, choir and orchestra. Already during his student days he was interested in electroacoustic music and initially worked with tape. In 1973, Leo Küpper's recording studio created Bolivianos ...! . Later he also used electroacoustic sounds and the technical possibilities of MIDI .

Works

• La Muerte for tape, 1964
• Mística No. 3 for double string quartet, horn, flute, double bass and tape, 1970
• Mística No. 4 for string quartet, piano and tape, 1970
• Bolivianos ...! for tape 1973
• Yamar y Armor , ballet music for voice, tape and orchestra based on texts by Blanca Wiethüchter , 1975
• Desde el Jardín de Morador for MIDI, 1990
• De los Elementos for MIDI, 1991
• Manchaypuytu , Opera, 1995
• Qantatai for choir, narrator and electronic sounds, 1996
• La Lagarta , ballet for narrators and electroacoustic sounds based on texts by Blanca Wiethüchter, 2002
• Piano 3 for piano and two piano synthesizers, 2002
• Mística 10 , Viola Profonda & Piano, 2009
• Los diálogos de Tunupa , Viola Profonda & String Orchestra , 2011

Web links

• La fondation Daniel Langlois - Alberto Villalpando
• Colegio de Compositores Latinoamericanos de Música de Arte - Alberto Villalpando