Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt

Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt (born August 25, 1925 in Temuco , Cautín ; † January 3, 2010 in Oldenburg , Germany ) was a Chilean composer and music teacher.

Life

Becerra-Schmidt studied composition with Pedro Humberto Allende Sarón , violin with Ernesto Ledermann , piano with Alberto Spikin and choral and orchestral conducting with Armando Carvajal at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música in Santiago. Since 1942 he has taught composition here himself.

After studying musicology and composition at the Universidad de Chile , he stayed in Europe from 1954 to 1956, where he perfected his education and taught as a visiting professor at conservatories in Italy, Austria, Germany, France and Spain. During this time, the music theory work Crisis de la Enseñanza de la Composición en Occidente was written , which appeared in several editions of the Revista Musical Chilena in 1959 .

From 1958 to 1961 Becerra-Schmidt was director of the Instituto de Extensión Musical and from 1968 to 1970 secretary of the Facultad de Ciencias y Artes Musicales y Escénicas of the Universidad de Chile. His students included Luis Advis , Carlos Botto Vallarino , Gabriel Brnčić , Roberto Falabella , Fernando García , Melikof Karaian , Sergio Ortega , Hernán Ramírez , David Serendero , Edmundo Vásquez and Cirilo Vila Castro as well as the musicologists Raquel Bustos and Luis Merino .

In 1970 Becerra-Schmidt became cultural attaché at the Chilean embassy in Bonn. After the military coup in 1973 he lost his diplomatic status and his rank at the Universidad de Chile and applied for political asylum in the Federal Republic of Germany. Since 1974 he has been teaching composition, analysis and music theory at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg in Oldenburg . Since 1993 he has been teaching again in Santiago.

Becerra-Schmidt composed three symphonies, concerts and sonatas, chamber music works, operas and drama music, songs, cantatas and oratorios. The best known is the Carl von Ossietzky Oratorio, which premiered in 1985. In 1968 he became a member of the Academia de Bellas Artes of the Instituto de Chile ; In 1971 he was awarded the Premio Nacional de Arte . On February 26, 2008, Becerra-Schmidt opened the "open source" project at the University of Oldenburg, making all of his works available online free of charge.

Works

During his studies until 1954

• Sonata nº 1 for violin and piano
• Sonata for piano
• Concierto for violin and orchestra
• Cuarteto de cuerdas nº 1
• Primera Sonata for violin, cello and piano
• Trío Sonatina for flute, violin and viola

During his stay in Europe 1954–56

• Sinfonía nº 1
• Divertimento for orchestra
• Cuarteto de cuerdas nº 2
• Segunda Sonata for cello and piano
• Sonata nº 1 for double bass and piano
• Cuarteto de cuerdas nº 3 (Del Viejo Mundo)
• Sonata for guitar

Until exile in 1973

• La muerte de don Rodrigo , opera
• Parsifae , opera
• Historia de una provocación , opera
• Sinfonía nº 2
• Symphony nº 3
• Cuartetos de cuerdas nº3 , 4, 5, 6 and 7
• 3 Conciertos para guitarra
• La Araucana , oratorio
• Macchu Picchu , oratorio
• Lord Cochrane de Chile , oratorio
• Elegía a la muerte de Lenin , oratorio
• Canciones de Altacopa , oratorio

1973-74

• Corvalán , cantata
• Ossietsky song
• Chile 1973
• Estructura Cuadridimensional (composition and film)

As a composition teacher in Oldenburg

• Paths to music, progressions , multimedia work
• Diez trozos for eight soloists
• Trio for violin, horn and piano
• Concierto for two guitars and orchestra
• Américas , cantata
• Allende , cantata
• Memento , singing
• Revolución , Fuga ricercata on five themes
• Exposición concertante , multimedia work with 11 synthesizers
• Oratorio menor para Silvestre Revueltas
• Concierto for percussion and orchestra
• The birth of the day, Nicaragua Aeterna
• The silence, interior for computers

Web links

• Archive with all works

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.Becerra-Schmidt-Archiv.de