Alfredo Rossi y Rossi

Alfredo Rossi y Rossi (born October 8, 1920 in Olavarría ) is an Argentine composer .

Rossi had piano lessons as a child and later performed as a pianist and bandoneonist. He did not study composition until the 1950s with Alberto Ginastera , José Martí Llorca , Gerardo Gandini and later with Jorge Pítari . From 1968 to 1985 he was professor of harmony, counterpoint and fugue at the Conservatorio Provincial y Nacional de Música and conductor of the Orquesta Sinfónica y de Cuerdas in his hometown. For this he was awarded the Golden Baton by the Personajes de mi ciudad company in 1998.

In addition to a ballet, Rossi composed orchestral works, chamber music, pieces for solo instruments and choral works. His compositions were u. a. Performed at the Teatro Colón and Teatro Coliseo in Buenos Aires, in other Argentine cities and in Europe. Rossi was u. a. awarded the Premio del fondo Nacional de las Artes (1989) and several times the prize of the Argentine Composers Association.

Works

• Estudio (octavas) for piano, 1940
• Preludio Fantasía for piano, 1941
• Vals for piano, 1942
• Recuerdo de amor for piano, 1943
• Fantasía, Recuerdos de mi juventud for piano, string orchestra and timpani, 1943; 1975
• Zamba fantasía for piano, 1944
• Como pude hacerte mal, tango for piano, 1963
• Preludio y malambo for orchestra, 1965
• Almacén de campaña , 1966
• Sonata para violín y piano , 1967
• Malambo Nº 1 for orchestra, 1969
• La magia de la noche for soprano, contralto and piano, text by Ana María Rossi , 1969
• Preludio Nº 1 for piano, 1969
• El escondido for string quartet, 1970
• El ave , song, 1970
• Preludio for guitar, 1970
• Perplejo elemental Nº 7 for soprano, contralto and piano, 1970
• Variaciones y fuga for piano, 1971
• Poema Sinfónico Martín Fierro for orchestra, 1972
• El ruego for female choir, 1973
• Rima-60 for choir, text by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer , 1973
• Ciclo de 5 canciones , text by Baldomero Fernández Moreno , 1976
• Cinco piezas for string quartet, 1977
• Dos movimientos sinfónicos , 1978
• Elegía a mi padre for string orchestra, 1980
• Nos guía una estrella for choir and string orchestra, text by Susana Rossi , 1980
• Eso eres tu for choir, 1980
• Nueve variaciones (tango 9 de Julio de Miguel Padula ) for string orchestra, 1985
• Dos piezas atonales for piano, 1985
• Tres tangos atonales for piano, 1985
• Improvisación y meditación for guitar, 1985
• Para Rubén, Preludio for piano, 1986
• Rondó infantil for choir, 1987
• Malambo Nº 2 for percussion and string orchestra, 1987
• Concierto para piano y orquesta , 1987
• XI Variaciones, Tema Coral for piano and string orchestra, 1988
• * Vuelta a la infancia for piano, 1988
• Tango Nº 1 for string quartet, 1988
• Tango Nº 2 for bandoneon and string quartet, 1988
• Despertar de un dulce sentimiento for flute and piano, 1988
• Nueve Variaciones (tema Zamba de Vargas ) for piano and string orchestra, 1990
• Tres tangos dodecafónicos for piano, 1990
• Suite for guitar quartet, 1990
• Suite (Preludio, Zamba, Tango, Malambo) for guitar, 1990
• Nueve variaciones (Zamba de Vargas) for flute, 1991
• Trío Argentina Nº 1 for violin, cello and piano, 1991
• Concierto para guitarra amplificada y orquesta , 1991
• Ocho variaciones, fuga y final (Zamba de Vargas) for piano and string orchestra, 1991
• Memoria de mar, esperanza y vida, Poema de cámara for tenor, speaker, string quartet and piano, 1992
• El gran pianista , 1993
• Tango cuassi Fantasia (Fantasía en Tango) for piano, violin, bandoneon and symphony orchestra, 1993
• Malambo Nº 3 for string orchestra, 1993
• Malambo Nº 4 for string orchestra, 1993
• Argentina III, Concierto para violonchelo y orquesta sinfónica , 1994
• Trío Argentina N ° 2 , 1995
• Marcha fúnebre for orchestra, 1996
• 8 variaciones sobre el tema "Himno a la Música" e Herman Possi for string orchestra, 1998
• El pintoresco malambo. Danza del folklore argentino for string orchestra, 2000

source

• Música Clásica Argentina - Alfredo Rossi y Rossi , biography, works