Alejandro Enrique Planchart

Alejandro Enrique Planchart

Alejandro Enrique Planchart (born July 29, 1935 in Caracas - † April 28, 2019 ) was an American musicologist , conductor and composer .

Life

Planchart studied composition, piano and harpsichord at Yale University until 1960 . Here he founded the early music ensemble Cappella Cordina in 1963 , which he directed until he left in 1975. In addition, he completed a doctoral thesis at Harvard University until 1971 .

From 1967 to 1975 he taught music history and theory at the University of Victoria , after which he was Professor of Music History of the Middle Ages, the Classical Era and the 20th Century at the University of California at Santa Barbara until his retirement in 2002 . He also led an ensemble for medieval music, a motet choir and a baroque orchestra, with which he performed six to seven programs a year with music from the pre-Renaissance to Mozart and Haydn .

Planchart has published articles and books on Cristóbal de Morales , Clemens non Papa , Guillaume Du Fay and other Renaissance musicians, Latin American music and music of the 20th century. For the book The Repertory of Tropes at Winchester , he was awarded the Gustav Arlt Prize of the Council of Graduate Schools in the United States in 1979 . With the Cappella Cordina he made a number of exemplary recordings of music from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

Planchart composed more than a hundred works, including symphonies , songs , chamber music and pieces for solo instruments.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Death notification of Alejandro Enrique Planchart