Alejandro Núñez Allauca
Alejandro Núñez Allauca (born April 18, 1943 in Moquegua , Peru ) is a Peruvian composer .
Núñez Allauca began performing as an accordion soloist at the age of nine . In 1955 he received his first training from Manuel Cabrera Guerra , the organist of the Lima Cathedral . In 1961 he won the Peruvian Accordion Competition.
From 1961 to 1966 he studied cello at the Lima Conservatory and completed his training with Andrés Sas Orchassal ( harmony and counterpoint ) and in Buenos Aires with Francisco Kröpfl , Gabriel Brnčić and Gerardo Gandini . From 1972 to 1973 he lived in the USA , where he gave accordion concerts. He is a freelance composer in Lima.
Núñez Allauca developed an " ornament theory " ( La composición musical ornamental , 1978), according to which identical or unequal ornaments are contrapuntally and harmoniously connected.
Works
- El Alba for mixed choir, 1965
- Koribeni Suite , 1967
- Moto ornamental e perpetuo for piano, 1970
- Oh, mi seilor for mixed choir and piano, 1972, world premiere: Westminster Tabernacle Choir of Detroit, 1973
- String Quartet , 1975–76, 2nd prize at the Latin American Composition Competition in Santiago de Chile, 1979
- Huatyacuri , ballet music, 1982
- Concierto ornamental for piano and orchestra, world premiere in 1982
- A Bolivar , cantata, 1983
- Rapsodia and Serenata for harp, 1988
- Aleluya del Alba for tenor solo , mixed choir and orchestra, 1989, first performance 1992 in Chișinău ( Moldova )
- Wiesbaden Concerto for piano and orchestra, first performance 1994 in Chișinău (Moldova)
- Sonrisa de Jesús , first performance at the Christmas concert in the Vatican in 1995
- El Hijo del Sol , first performance 1997
- Flor de Nieve for vocal duet and orchestra, world premiere in 1997
- Missa Andina for soloists, choir, organ and orchestra, 1997–98
- La montaña de Luz for vocal trio and orchestra, 1998
- Variables for six instruments and tape
- Sinfonia ornamental
- 100th Psalm for four-part and eight-part choir
- Diferencials I and Diferenciales II for piano
- Gravitación humana for tape
- Koribeni para guitarra sola
Web links
- Works by and about Alejandro Núñez Allauca in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Núñez Allauca, Alejandro |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Peruvian composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 18, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Moquegua , Peru |