Celestino Piaggio

Celestino Piaggio (born December 20, 1886 in Concordia , † October 26, 1931 in Buenos Aires ) was an Argentine composer , conductor and pianist of Italian descent.

Piaggio came from a family of musicians. In addition to his father Victor (io) Piaggio , a conductor, his siblings Leonidas , Amelia , Leonor and Elsa Piaggio became known as musicians and music teachers. He had his first piano and violin lessons from his father before studying with Alberto Williams (composition), Julián Aguirre (piano), Andrés Gaos (violin) and Carlos Marchal at the Buenos Aires Conservatory from 1900 .

He taught piano himself from 1904 to 1908 and received a gold medal in this subject in 1905 and the Premio Ortiz y Cussó in 1906 . Winning the Gran Premio Europa in 1908 enabled him to study at the Paris Schola Cantorum with Léon Saint-Réquier (harmony), Albert Groz (counterpoint), Vincent d'Indy (composition), Abel Decaux (organ) and Amédée Gastoué (Gregorian singing) ). He also took private piano lessons with Ricardo Viñes .

In the summer of 1914 he traveled to Romania, where the outbreak of the First World War kept him until 1919. During this time he worked in Bucharest as a pianist at the royal court and juror of the conservatory and in 1918 founded the magazine Revista Critică Teatrală, Muzicală, Literară și Artistică and the orchestra of the Asociația Generală Muzicală din România .

In 1919 he continued his training with d'Indy at the Schola Cantorum, the following year he studied orchestral conducting with Arthur Nikisch at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig . In 1921 he returned to Argentina and became a lecturer for piano, harmony, counterpoint and composition at the Conservatorio de Música de Buenos Aires , from 1924 also vice director. He also taught at the Instituto Nacional de Ciegos from 1922 to 1931 .

In 1921 he became a member of the Sociedad Nacional de Música and the Comisión Nacional de Bellas Artes and artistic director of the Sociedad Argentina de Música de Cámara y Sinfónica . In Buenos Aires he founded the Asociación Sinfónica de Buenos Aires , the city's first permanent symphony orchestra, with which he made his debut in 1922 with works by Carlos López Buchardo . In addition to international literature, he also played numerous world premieres of works by contemporary compatriots with the orchestra. He also worked as a conductor at the Teatro Colón .

Works

• Minuetto en mi bemol for piano, 1901.
• Los días, 7 miniaturas for piano, 1902.
• Miniatura for string orchestra, 1903.
• Hoja de álbum for violin and string orchestra, 1903.
• Andantino for string orchestra, 1904.
• Gavotta for string orchestra, 1904.
• Miniatura for piano, 1904.
• Página gris for piano, 1904.
• Bagatela for piano, 1904.
• Humorística for piano, 1904.
• Arabescos for piano, 1905.
• La urna , song, text by Alberto Williams , 1905
• Yo no lo sé , song, 1905.
• Danza for string orchestra, 1905.
• Madrigal for voice and piano, 1905.
• Trois mélodies for voice and piano, texts by Tristan Klingsor , Jacques Normand and Sully Prudhomme , 1907
• Taisons-nous , song, 1907.
• Les marionnettes , song, text by Tristán Klingsor, 1908.
• Chanson des belles , text by Tristán Klingsor, 1911.
• Sonata en do sostenido menor for piano, 1912–13
• Obertura en do menor for orchestra, 1913-14
• Sinfonia , 1915.
• Tonada for piano, 1915.
• Trois mélodies for voice and piano, texts by André Suarès , 1915–17
• Lourde, lourde était mon âme , song, text by André Suarés, 1916.
• Stella matutina , song, text by André Suarés, 1918.
• Homenaje a Julián Aguirre for piano, 1925.

Web links

• Música Cláscia Argentina - Celestino Piaggio (biography and works)