Alejandro Tobar

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Wolfano Alejandro Tobar García (also Alex Tobar , born May 24, 1907 in Bogotá , † February 23, 1975 ) was a Colombian composer and violinist.

Life

Tobar studied violin with Leopoldo Carreño and Guillermo Uribe Holguín and then perfected his training in Bonn . He then worked as a violinist with the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra . In 1929 he returned to Colombia, where he became a member of a jazz band founded by Anastasio Bolívar . With a string quartet also founded by Bolívar, to which Leopoldo Carreño and Gregorio Silva also belonged, he performed chamber music works on the radio in 1931. In 1936 he became a member of the Orquesta Colombiana under Efraín Orozco .

Tobar lived in Argentina until 1942, from where he traveled all over Latin America and the USA. From 1945 to 1950 he was a member of the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional ; later he founded the orchestra Alex Tobar y su Orquesta , with which he performed light music, including numerous compositions of his own, in Bogotá. In 1946 he was one of the founding members of the Sociedad de Autores y Compositores de Colombia (SAYCO) alongside Antonio Álvarez Lleras , José Benito Barros , Bernardo Romero Lozano and Lucho Bermúdez .

Since 1949 Tovar has belonged to the violinists Jaime Guillén , Gerhardt Rothstein and Frank Preuss , the viola player Gabriel Hernández and the cellist Miguel Uribe in a chamber music ensemble that produced recordings for a radio series.

After conducting an orchestra in Medellín , he conducted the first television orchestra ( Orquesta Pielroja ) in Colombia in 1955 . In 1959 he joined the Orquesta Sinfónica de Colombia under Olav Roots , of which he was a member until 1974.

Works

  • Kalamary, Paráfrasis Sobre Temas de Lucho Bermúdez for orchestra
  • Atardecer en Patiasao, Escena Campestre for clarinet and orchestra
  • Canción de Cuna , text: Ricardo Castillo
  • Hoy He Visto Unos Ojos , text: Teodoro Gutiérrez Calderón
  • Poco a Poco , text: Ivonne Argentina Ramírez Garrido
  • Serenata en Málaga for string quartet
  • Serenata en Chocontá for string quartet
  • Pasillo en Sol Mayor for violin and piano
  • Popayán, Hada Madrina for string quintet
  • Wed Marido es Soltero , musical comedy, libretto Mariano San Ildefonso
  • Agua Sagrada 'Vichatá' for flute and orchestra
personal data
SURNAME Tobar, Alejandro
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tobar García, Wolfano Alejandro; Tobar, Alex
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Colombian composer and violinist
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Bogotá
DATE OF DEATH 23rd February 1975