Carlos Estrada (composer)

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Carlos Estrada (born September 15, 1909 in Montevideo ; † May 7, 1970 ibid) was a Uruguayan composer, conductor and music teacher.

Estrada studied solfège and piano with Adelina Pérez Montero and violin with Carlos Correa Luna and then studied composition with Manuel Fernández Espiro . He studied Gregorian singing with Padre Ochoa . After all, at the Conservatoire de Paris he was a student of Noël Gallon (counterpoint), Wolff Gaubert y Paray (orchestra direction) and Jean Roger-Ducasse and Henri Busser (composition).

In 1936 Estrada founded the Orquesta de Cámara de Montevideo . In 1948 he became an employee of the Uruguayan radio (SODRE), later musical director of the Centro Cultural de Música and conductor of the radio orchestra (OSSODRE), with which he performed works by Berlioz , Debussy and Ravel , Mozart and Beethoven .

In 1959 he founded the Orquesta Municipal , which was mainly dedicated to the performance of baroque composers. Estrada u. a. with the Orchestra of the Teatro Municipal de Río de Janeiro , the French Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Orchester Colonne , the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra.

Estrada was professor of harmony and counterpoint at the University of Montevideo and founder of the Conservatorio Nacional de Música , which he took over in 1953 . Here he was able to win teachers like Wilhelm Kolischer and Hugo Balzo (piano) and Rodolfo Battesini (double bass). His students included u. a. Pedro Ipuche , José Serebrier , Hugo López , Sergio Cervetti , Antonio Mastrogiovanni , Yolanda Rizzardini , Tulio Belardi and Beatriz Lockhart .

Erstada composed two symphonies, two suites, an oratorio, five quartets and other vocal, instrumental and chamber music works.

Works

  • Rocío , 1930
  • Studio for piano
  • Preludio, minué y final , 1936
  • Suite N ° 1 , 1937
  • Les unes et les autres (Overture to the comedy of the same name by Paul Verlaine ), 1937
  • Daniel (oratorio), 1938–42
  • Suite Nª 2 , 1942
  • L'annonce faite a María , scenic music for children's voice, soprano, children's choir, women's choir, men's choir and orchestra, 1943
  • Concertino para piano y orquesta de cuerdas , 1944
  • Scene Pastorale (ballet), 1947
  • Sinfonía N ° l , 1951
  • L'Illiade , ballet music, 1957
  • Cuarteto de cuerdas , WP 1957
personal data
SURNAME Estrada, Carlos
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Uruguayan composer, conductor and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Montevideo
DATE OF DEATH May 7, 1970
Place of death Montevideo