Carlos López Buchardo

Carlos López Buchardo (born October 12, 1881 in Buenos Aires ; † April 21, 1948 there ) was an Argentine composer, pianist and music teacher.

López Buchardo had first lessons from his mother, the pianist María Filomena Buchardo, and then became a piano student of Héctor Belluci . He continued his piano training with Alphonse Thibaud , a student of Camille Saint-Saëns ' during his stay in Argentina, and studied harmony, counterpoint and composition with Louis Forino . During a stay in Paris in 1909, he continued his composition studies with Vincent d'Indy at the Schola Cantorum .

After his return to Argentina in 1914 the premiere of his opera Il Sogno Di Alma took place at the Teatro Colón under the direction of Tulio Serafín ; Lucrezia Bori sang the title role . In 1920 his only symphonic work, Escenas Argentinas, was performed at the Teatro Coliseo under the direction of Felix Weingartner . Conductors such as Erich Kleiber , Fritz Busch , Victor de Sabata and Wilhelm Furtwängler added the work to their repertoire. He also appeared as a composer of songs such as the Seis Canciones argentinas al estilo popular based on texts by Leopoldo Lugones , Gustavo Caraballo and González López, for which he received the Premio Municipal de Música of the city of Buenos Aires in 1925 .

He was head of the music school of the Teatro Colón for a time , became director of the Escuela de Bellas Artes of the Universidad de La Plata in 1923 and founding director of the Conservatorio Nacional de Música y Arte Escénico , which bears his name today. He was also a member of the board of directors of the Teatro Colón, president of the Sociedad Nacional de Música and director of the Asociación Wagneriana for more than thirty years . With his wife, the soprano Brígida Frías de López Buchardo , he gave concerts in Buenos Aires and all of Argentina.

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• Gabriel Castagna, conductor: Carlos López Buchardo (1881-1948)
• Buscabiografías - Carlos López Buchardo
• Todo Argentino - López Buchardo, Carlos (1881-1948)