Carlos Guastavino

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Carlos Guastavino (born April 5, 1912 in Santa Fe , † October 28, 2000 ) was an Argentine composer.

Carlos Guastavino

Guastavino had piano lessons in Santa Fe with Esperanza Lothringer and Dominga Iaffei , which he continued in Buenos Aires with Germán de Elizalde . There he also took composition lessons from Athos Palma . On a grant from the British Council , he stayed in London from 1947 to 1949. He recorded his own piano works for the BBC , and the BBC Symphony Orchestra premiered the orchestral version of the Tres Romances Argentinos under the direction of Walter Goehr .

Guastavino's works include more than 150 songs based on texts by Rafael Alberti , Leon Benaros , Hamlet Lima Quintana , Atahualpa Yupanqui , Pablo Neruda , Gabriela Mistral , Jorge Luis Borges and others. Commissioned by Colonel Wassily de Basil , he composed the ballet fue una vez ... , which was premiered by his original Ballet Russe in 1942 at the Teatro Colón . His Suite Argentina has been performed by Isabel Lopez ' Ballet Espanol in London, Paris, Barcelona and Havana. Guastavino also composed numerous piano works (outstandingly the 10 Cantilenas Argentinas , 1956–58), three sonatas for guitar, other chamber music works, choral music and other orchestral works, as well as numerous arrangements of his own works.

It was u. a. Awarded prizes from the City of Buenos Aires, the Organization of American States, and the Inter-American Music Council . In contrast to his contemporary Alberto Ginastera , Guastavino showed himself to be unaffected by the musical avant-garde. With his romantic tonal language, he had a great influence on the Argentine folk and popular music of the 1960s.

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