Andrés Gaos

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Andrés Gaos Berea (born March 31, 1874 in La Coruña , † March 13, 1959 in Mar del Plata ) was a Spanish composer and violinist.

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Andrés Gaos began playing the violin at the age of six and studied from 1885 to 1888 with the violinist Jesus Monasterio at the Madrid Conservatory. He also took piano lessons and studied counterpoint and harmony. In 1889 he was a violin student of Charles Dancla at the Paris Conservatory , the following year he took violin lessons with Eugène Ysaÿe and composition lessons with François-Auguste Gevaert at the Brussels Conservatory .

In 1891 Gaos went on a concert tour through France, Belgium, Portugal and Spain. In 1894 his composition Aragonese Jota for violin and piano appeared in print. In the same year he visited Havana and appeared in a circus show in Mexico as the "future Sarasate". In 1895 he went to Buenos Aires, where he became violin professor at Alberto Williams ' Conservatorio de Música de Buenos Aires . He performed Robert Schumann's Trio opus 63 with Williams and the cello professor Carlos Marchal .

In 1896 he married the violinist and singer América Montenegro in Montevideo , and both began to teach at the La Lira Conservatory .

In 1898 they both returned to Buenos Aires, where they again taught at Williams' Conservatory. Up until their divorce in 1917, both of them made several concert tours through Europe. In a competition for the 100th birthday of Justo José de Urquiza to compose a Himno a Urquiza based on a text by Horacio Rodríguez , Gaos took second place behind Franco Paolantonio . Gaos later founded his own conservatory in Buenos Aires and taught at various state music schools. He was also employed by the Ministry of Education as a speaker for music lessons.

Many of Gáo's compositions remained unknown during his lifetime. His second symphony was premiered in 1974, his first in 2005. His opera, written around 1915, has still not been performed. A violin concerto, the first movement of which was premiered in 1901, remained unfinished.

Works

  • Muiñeira para violín y piano , 1891
  • Premier printemps , 1891
  • Jota aragonesa for violin and piano, 1894
  • Polonesa for piano, 1894
  • Romanza for piano, 1894
  • Habanera for violin and piano, 1896
  • Miniaturas , piano suite, 1896 (later as Suite a la antigua for string orchestra)
  • Fantasía para violín y orquesta , 1896–1903
  • 100 Ejercicios Técnicos Progresivos for violin solo, 1899
  • 2 Aires Criollos for violin and piano, 1899
  • Concierto para violín y orquesta (unfinished 1901, published as Fantasía para violín y orquesta 1933 by Joam Trillo )
  • Amor Vedado , opera, around 1915
  • Granada, Un atardecer en la Alhambra , symphonic poem, 1916
  • Sinfonia N ° 1, 1916
  • Sinfonía N ° 2 En las montañas de Galicia , 1917-19
  • Impresión Nocturna , symphonic poem for string orchestra, 1937
  • Aires gallegos , piano suite
  • Nuevos aires gallegos , piano suite
  • Hispánica , piano suite

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personal data
SURNAME Gaos, Andrés
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gaos Berea, Andrés (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish violinist, composer and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH La Coruña
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 1959
Place of death Mar del Plata