Guillermo Graetzer

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Guillermo Graetzer ( Wilhelm Graetzer , born September 5, 1914 in Vienna , † January 22, 1993 in Buenos Aires ) was an Argentine composer, music teacher and musicologist of Austrian origin.

Graetzer studied in Berlin with Ernst-Lothar von Knorr and Paul Hindemith and in Vienna with Paul Amadeus Pisk . In 1939 he emigrated to Argentina and took on Argentine citizenship.

He led the choir Asociación Amigos de la Música de Buenos Aires and founded the Collegium Musicum de Buenos Aires in 1946 , which was dedicated to the general education of music based on the model of adult education centers , but also offered seminars and classes for composers and dancers. Graetzer was artistic director of the Collegium until 1976. In addition, he paid special attention to the music education of children, and he created a South American version of the Orff school work . He was also professor of composition, instrumentation and choral conducting at the Universidad de La Plata for thirty years and a founding member and vice-president of the Sociedad Argentina de Educación Musical .

Together with musicians such as Julián Bautista , José María Castro , Juan José Castro , Washington Castro , Roberto García Morillo , Luis Gianneo , Alberto Ginastera and Pía Sebastiani , he founded the Liga de Compositores de la Argentina in 1947 . He was u. a. awarded the City of Buenos Aires Prize, the Polish Henryk Wieniawski Prize , the Italian Guido d'Arezzo Prize and the Premio a la Trayectoria Artística des Fondo Nacional de las Artes . The Sociedad Argentina de Educación Musical awarded him the title Educador más importante .

Works

  • Primer cuaderno de Lieder (texts by Hermann Hesse , Rainer Maria Rilke , Klabund , Hans Bethge ), 1935–37
  • Vöglein Schwermut for five-part mixed choir (text by Christian Morgenstern ), 1936
  • Variaciones fáciles for piano, 1936
  • Sonata en si bemol for piano, 1936.
  • Sonatina for flute and piano, 1937
  • Dos piezas for piano, 1937–38
  • Tres toccatas for piano, 1937–38
  • Salmo 44 for soloists, choir and string orchestra, 1938
  • Concierto para orquesta , 1939
  • Segundo cuaderno de Lieder (texts by Hans Bethge, Peter Wille , Friedrich Nietzsche , Rainer Maria Rilke), 1939–40.
  • Danzas antiguas de la corte española for orchestra, 1940
  • Siete princesas muy desdichadas , ballet, 1940
  • 25 canciones hebreas , 1940
  • Variaciones y final sobre un tema de Salamone Rossi , 1941
  • Cuarteto de cuerdas en un movimiento , 1941
  • Adagio for violin and piano, 1941
  • Rapsodia para violín y orquesta , 1941-43
  • Danza de la muerte y de la niña for chamber orchestra, 1942
  • Danzas populares yugoeslavas for chamber orchestra, 1942
  • Jerusalem eterna , cantata for soloists, mixed choir, children's choir and guitar, 1942
  • Dos baladas for piano, 1943
  • 5 bagatelas for piano, 1943
  • Dos coros sobre textos bíblicos for four-part mixed choir, 1943
  • Dios mio, (Psalmo XLII / 6) for three-part female choir (after Hans Denk ), 1943
  • Divertimento for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and horn, 1943–45
  • Bar Cojbah , cantata for soloists and chamber orchestra, 1944
  • Grave for violin solo, 1945
  • Sonatina for piano, 1945
  • Amarás a tu prójimo for four-part mixed choir, 1945
  • Fantasía, variaciones y final for organ, 1945–46
  • Anah Adonai for four-part mixed choir, 1946
  • La Parábola for orchestra, 1946–47
  • Sinfonietta Nº 1 for string orchestra, 1947
  • Rondó para niños for piano, 1947
  • Trio for violin, viola and cello, 1948–51
  • Para Susana for piano, 1950
  • A dream is our life for four-part mixed choir (text by Friedrich Hebbel ), 1950
  • Sinfonietta Nº 2 "Sinfonía breve" for string orchestra, 1951
  • Concierto para fagot y orquesta , 1952-53
  • Concierto de cámara Nº1 , 1953
  • Sonata para orquesta de cuerdas , 1953
  • Tres cantos de la eternidad for quartet or mixed choir and piano (texts by Friedrich Nietzsche , Friedrich Hebbel ), 1953
  • Los burgueses de Calais, "a los mártires de todos los tiempos" for male choir and orchestra 1954–55
  • Concierto para Violoncello y orquesta , 1955–57
  • Variaciones y final for two pianos, 1955
  • Duo for flute and clarinet, 1956
  • De la Sabiduría for four-part mixed choir, 1957
  • Preámbulo para el Popol Vuh de los mayas for eight-part mixed choir, 1962–63
  • Tres coros sobre rimas tradicionales , 1964
  • "Cosa y cosa ¿que será?", Ciclo de coros infantiles basados ​​en adivinanzas , 1964
  • El todo interno for four choirs (text by Juan Ramón Jiménez ), 1964
  • De sol a sol for choir and guitar, (texts by Rafael Alberti , Federico García Lorca , Juan Ramón Jimenez), 1967
  • Huesped de las tinieblas for seven-part mixed choir (text by Rafael Alberti ), 1970–71
  • Elogio al canto , cantata for mixed choir, children's choir, soloists and orchestra, 1971
  • Dos coros for mixed choir (text by Juana de Ibarbourou ), 1971
  • Los rehenes for mixed choir (after Max Frisch ), 1972
  • Penélope for flute quintet, 1974
  • Quodlibet de canciones infantiles argentinas for children's choir, 1974
  • 16 canciones para coro de niños con o sin instrumentos , 1975
  • Cuatro invenciones para órgano , 1975-80
  • Sestina for violin and piano, 1976
  • Santa es la tierra del Mayab , cantata for soloists, mixed choir and orchestra (text by Antonio Mediz Bolio ), 1977
  • Triludium for string orchestra, 1978
  • Tankas for medium voice, clarinet, violin, cello and piano (based on poems by Jorge Luis Borges ), 1978
  • Liberación for orchestra, 1978–79
  • Tres coros sobre poesías africanas for mixed choir, 1979
  • Creatio for mixed choir (after Ovid ), 1980
  • Piedras preciosas for organ, 1980
  • Concertino para XIV cuerdas , 1981
  • Epitafio para JJ Castro for clarinet and piano, 1982
  • Quinteto for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano, 1983
  • Piedras preciosas for orchestra, 1986
  • Cuarteto para cuerdas Nº 2 , 1986-87
  • Música para la juventud, 17 estudios orquestales de expresión, estilo y técnica para orquestas juveniles for chamber orchestra, 1987
  • Concierto de cámara Nº 2 , 1988
  • La creación según el "Pop wuj maya" , oratorio-ballet for soloists, speakers, mixed choir, orchestra and dancers, 1989
  • ... Y el avión de la Panamerican vuela sobre la pirámide. . . for speaker and chamber orchestra (based on poems by Ernesto Cardenal ), 1992

Fonts

  • La ejecucion de los ornamentos en las obras de Bach (Buenos Aires, 1958–59)
  • Introducion al metodo Orff (Buenos Aires, 1963)
  • La musica contemporanea: Guia pratica a la composicion e improvisacion instrumental (Buenos Aires, 1980)

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personal data
SURNAME Graetzer, Guillermo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Graetzer, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentine composer
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH January 22, 1993
Place of death Buenos Aires