Antonio Estévez

Antonio Estévez (born January 1, 1916 in Calabozo / Guárico , † November 26, 1988 in Caracas ) was a Venezuelan composer.

Life

Estévez completed a musical training in Caracas from 1923 to 1925, after his return to Calabozo he played the flugelhorn in the town band from 1926. From 1930 he studied at the Escuela de Música y Declamación composition with Vicente Emilio Sojo and clarinet with Miguel Gallo . In 1932 he became a member of the Caracas military band under Pedro Elías Gutiérrez.

In 1934 Estévez became second oboist with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Venezuela. In 1943 he founded the university choir of the Universidad Central de Venezuela . From 1945 he continued his musical studies with a scholarship from the Ministry of Education in Europe and the USA. In 1949 he received the National Prize for Music and in 1954 the Premio Anual de Sinfónicas .

From 1961 Estévez stayed in England, from 1963 in Paris, where he worked at the Office de Radio-Télévision Française under Pierre Schaeffer . In 1971 he returned to Venezuela and founded the Instituto de Fonología Musical there , which he directed until 1979. In 1987 he was again awarded the National Prize for Music and received an honorary doctorate from the Universidad de Los Andes .

Works

• Rocío
• El Jazminero estrellado
• Concierto para orquesta
• Cantata criolla based on a poem by Alberto Arvelo Torrealba , (1954)
• 17 piezas infantiles for piano (1956)
• Cromovibrafonía (1967) and Cromovibrafonía múltiple (1972), multimedia works with Jesús Rafael Soto