Celso Garrido Lecca
Celso Garrido Lecca (born March 9, 1926 in Lima ) is a Peruvian composer.
Garrido Lecca studied at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música de Lima with Rodolfo Holzmann and continued his studies in 1950 in Santiago de Chile , where he under the influence of artists such as Domingo Santa Cruz Wilson and Fré Focke the atonal music and dodecaphony met.
From 1954 he worked as a composer for the Instituto del Teatro of the Universidad de Chile , where he also worked with Víctor Jara . In 1964 he went to Tanglewood , where he was a student of Aaron Copland . From 1965 he taught at the Departamento de Composición of the Universidad de Chile and later became its director.
In 1973 he took over a chair for composition at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música in Lima, of which he became director six years later. With Manuel de Elías he founded the Colegio de Compositores Latinoamericanos de Música de Arte in Lima .
Works
- Order for piano, 1953
- Laudes I and II
- Elegía a Machu Picchu 1965
- Intihuatana , 1967
- Antaras for double string quartet, 1968
- Sonata-Fantasía for cello and orchestra
- Estudio Nº 1 for tape, 1971
- El movimiento y el sueño for two storytellers, double choir and orchestra, 1972
- Retablos Sinfónicos
- El Movimiento y el Sueño
- Concierto para guitarra y orquesta
- Trío para un nuevo tiempo for violin, cello and piano, 1985
- Cuarteto de cuerdas Núm. 2 1988
- Encuentros y Homenajes (String Quartet No. 3)
- Epitafio Encendido for narrator and orchestra based on texts by Pablo Neruda
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Garrido Lecca, Celso |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Peruvian composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 9, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lima |