Hector Tosar

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Hector Tosar

Héctor Alberto Tosar Errecart (born July 18, 1923 in Montevideo ; † January 11 or January 17, 2002 there ) was a Uruguayan composer, conductor and pianist.

Tosar studied piano with Guillermo Kolischer , composition and instrumentation with Lamberto Baldi and harmony with T. Mujica. In 1946 he went to the USA on a grant from the Guggenheim Foundation, where he studied composition with Aaron Copland , Arthur Honegger and Darius Milhaud and studied orchestral conducting with Serge Koussevitzky . From 1948 to 1950 he continued his studies with Honegger and Milhaud and the conductors Eugene Bigot and Jean Fournet in Paris.

As a pianist, Tosar has performed throughout Latin America and the United States. In 1966 he went on a concert tour through India and Japan at the invitation of UNESCO . He taught at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música Uruguaya and after the abolition of democratic rights in Uruguay at the Conservatorio de Música de Puerto Rico , the Instituto Venezolano de Música in Caracas and the University of Indiana .

After the end of the military dictatorship in Uruguay in 1985, he became artistic director of the Servicio Oficial de Difusión Radiotelevisión y Espectáculos ( SODRE ), professor and director of the Conservatorio Universitario de Música and director of the Núcleo de Música Nueva , the Sociedad Uruguaya de Música de Música of the Contemporudánesea and Musicales del Uruguay . In 1992 he was recognized by the Uruguayan Ministry of Education for his life's work.

To Tosars pupils included Juan José Iturriberry , Daniel Viglietti , Conrado Silva , Ariel Martínez , Miguel Marozzi , Carlos da Silveira , Jorge Lazaroff , Eduardo Fernández , Elbio Rodríguez Barilari , Ulises Ferretti , Fernando Condon , Daniel Maggiolo , Álvaro Méndez , Álvaro Carlevaro , Felipe Silveira , Jorge Camiruaga , Luis Jure and Fernando Ulivi .

Works

  • Toccata for piano, 1940
  • Danza criolla for piano, 1940
  • Salmo 102 for soprano, mixed choir and orchestra, 1944, 1957
  • Sinfonía para cuerdas , 1950–51
  • Divertimento for wind quintet, 1957
  • Te Deum for bass, mixed choir and orchestra, 1960
  • Cuatro piezas para piano , 1961, 1963
  • Aves errantes , 1963
  • Tres piezas para piano , 1976
  • Nómoi y Ecos , 1977
  • Concierto para piano y orquesta , 1979
  • Cadencias for orchestra, 1979
  • Sul re for piano, 1981
  • Cinco piezas concertantes for violin and orchestra, 1986–87
  • Passacaglia (version for trombone and tuba 1993, for organ 1994)

Fonts

  • Los Grupos de Sonidos , 1990

Web links

Commons : Héctor Tosar  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ biography on artediciones.com
  2. ↑ Obituary on scielo.cl
personal data
SURNAME Tosar, Héctor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tosar Errecart, Héctor Alberto (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Uruguayan composer
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Montevideo
DATE OF DEATH January 17, 2002
Place of death Montevideo