Alfonso Montecino

Alfonso Montecino (born October 28, 1924 in Osorno , Chile , † August 15, 2015 in Bloomington , Indiana , United States ) was a Chilean pianist, composer and music teacher.

Montecino studied at the Conservatory of the Universidad de Chile and was a piano student of Claudio Arrau . He studied composition with Randall Thompson at Princeton University , with Bohuslav Martinů at Mannes College of Music , with Roger Sessions at the Juilliard School of Music and with Edgar Varèse at Columbia University .

As a pianist he has performed in Europe, Asia and America. His performances of the entire Well-Tempered Clavier by Bach , which he played more than thirty times, and all 32 piano sonatas by Beethoven became famous . In addition, he worked until his retirement as a professor of piano at the Indiana University Music School in Bloomington .

Montecino composed more than fifty works, including a piano concerto, the world premiere of which he played himself at the Festival Latinoamericano de Música de Caracas , other works for piano and orchestra, two string quartets, a saxophone quartet, a trio for piano, violin and cello, a cantata, chamber music and choral works, piano pieces and songs.

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1. ^ Alfonso Montecino .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Obituary on pdcfuneralchapel.com of August 15, 2015 (accessed August 20, 2015).