Floro Ugarte

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Floro Ugarte

Floro Meliton Ugarte (born September 15, 1884 in Buenos Aires , † June 11, 1975 ibid) was an Argentine composer .

Ugarte studied in Paris with Albert Lavignac , Émil Louis Fortuné Pessard and Félix Fourdrain . From 1913 to 1955 he taught composition at the Buenos Aires Conservatory. He also taught at the University of La Plata from 1948 to 1955 and directed the Teatro Colón for several years .

He composed an opera and a dance legend, a symphony and a symphonic poem , an orchestral suite, a violin concerto, chamber music works and songs .

His brother Manuel Ugarte became known as a writer.