Carlos Suffern

Carlos Suffern (born September 25, 1901 in Luján , † May 31, 1991 in Buenos Aires ) was an Argentine composer.

Suffern had piano lessons with César Stiattesi at the Conservatorio Santa Cecilia in Buenos Aires and continued his education in 1924 at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música y Declamación with Ernesto Drangosch (piano), Athos Palma , José André and Constantino Gaito . He was co-founder of the Mozarteum Argentino and twice (1949–1950 and 1970–1972) artistic director of the Teatro Colón . From 1953 he taught music history at the Conservatorio Nacional, whose vice rector he was 1964-1965.

As head of the music department of the Dirección General de Cultura de la Nación (1950–1954), he organized the performance of works by contemporary Argentine composers such as Roberto Caamaño , Rodolfo Arizaga , Marcelo Koc , Virtú Maragno , Antonio Tauriello and Carlos Tuxen-Bang . From 1964 to 1966 and from 1970 to 1980 he was President of the Argentine Composers Association, from 1972 to 1977 he was also President of the Consejo Argentino de la Música (CAMU) and from 1973 to 1977 of the Comité Latino Americano para la Música (CLAM).

Works

• Quinteto op 1 , piano quintet, 1928
• Les orientales for contralto, bass and orchestra, 1928
• Mandolin , song, text by Paul Verlaine , 1928
• Cipreses de jardín , song, text by Enrique Banchs , 1928
• Luna , song, text by Luis Franco , 1928
• Deux estampes japonaises for mezzo-soprano and piano, 1928
• Mañana de enero , song, text by Luis Franco, 1928
• Canción (“Los astros son rondas de niños”) , song, text by Gabriela Mistral , 1928
• Dame la mano , song, text by Gabriela Mistral, 1928
• Silencio , song, text by Leopoldo Lugones , 1929
• Seis canciones de cuna para Natacha , songs, texts by Juana de Ibarbourou , 1929
• Juego de niños for piano, 1929
• Meciéndote for piano, 1930
• Mereciéndote for violin and piano, 1930
• Interludio para el Salmo VI for cello and harp, 1932
• Dos bocetos sinfónicos for orchestra, 1932
• Cuentos de niños , Suite for piano, 1932
• La nostalgia for piano, 1934
• Danza for piano, 1934
• Canción de la Virgen , text by González Carvalho , 1934
• La burla del unicornio for two pianos, 1934–1938
• Leyenda de flores for piano, 1936
• Apsaras for piano, 1936
• Ocho preludios for piano, 1937–1938
• Sonata for piano, 1938
• Aire con diferencias for string orchestra, 1938
• Erakles , song, text by André Chénier , 1939
• Trois Poémes d´ André Gide , Songs, 1940
• La lavandera , song, text by Fernán Silva Valdés , 1940–1943
• Danza de cabras for oboe and harp, 1941
• La noche , symphonic poem based on the Aeneid by Virgil , 1942
• Pastorella for two equal voices, harp and viola, 1942
• En mi soledad , song, text by Frida Schulz de Mantovani , 1945
• Tres Villancicos de Navidad for voice, oboe and harpsichord, text by Fryda Schulz de Mantovani, 1945
• 3 baladas de Liliencron , 1946
• La urna , for voice and string quartet, text: Enrique Banchs , 1946
• Cinco romances viejos for flute, viola, harp, timba and percussion, 1946
• Melopea para el viejo pastor de Sicilia for violin or flute, 1948
• Piezas para violín y piano , 1950
• Trigo for voice, oboe and piano, text by Frida Schulz de Mantovani, 1952
• Piezas para cuarteto de arcos , 1954
• Con el alba en las manos , songs, texts by Antonio Requeni , 1956–1966
• Sonata for violin and piano, 1959
• Once canciones provenzales for a cappella choir, text by Thibaud de Champagne , 1960
• Obertura para el Rey Lear , 1961
• Minnelied Tagewise , 1963
• Binnesegemen , Lied, 1964
• Fantasía for flute and piano, 1965
• Tres cantigas de Alfonso el Sabio , 1968
• Cuarteto , 1969
• Incidental music for Savonarola by Agustín Pérez Pardella , 1970
• Ciclo de la noche , songs based on their own texts, 1970

source

• Música Clásica Argentina - Carlos Suffern , biography and works

literature

• Wilibald Gurlitt , Carl Dahlhaus (ed.): Riemann Music Lexicon. In three volumes and two supplementary volumes. Suffern, Carlos. 12th completely revised edition. 4. Person part L – ZB Schotts-Söhne, Mainz 1975, p. 737 (first edition: 1882).