Carlos Teppa
Carlos Teppa (born June 4, 1923 in Caracas ) is a Venezuelan cellist and composer .
Life
Teppa studied music from 1931 at the Instituto de Bellas Artes , later at the Escuela de Música José Miguel Lamas in Caracas. During a stay in New York he continued his cello training. In 1948 he gave a series of concerts in Mexico. In 1952 he studied composition with Paul Hindemith in Zurich, later he was a cello student of Gaspar Cassadó and Georges Enesco at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena . In 1956 he returned to Venezuela and became a cellist with the Orquesta Sinfónica Venezuela .
In addition to five symphonies, two symphonic poems and a symphonic ballet, he composed three violin and two cello concertos, chamber music works and vocal music. In 1969 he received the Teresa Carreño National Prize for the suite fantasia infantil , and in 1985 the Premio Municipal de Música for the Sexteto de invierno .
literature
- Alfred Baumgärtner: Propylaea world of music. The composers. Volume 5, 1989, ISBN 3-549-07835-8 , p. 311.
- Indiana University Bloomington - Latin American Music Center: Carlos Teppa
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Teppa, Carlos |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Venezuelan composer and cellist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 4, 1923 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Caracas |