Hector Zeoli

Héctor Zeoli (born September 5, 1919 in Rosario / Santa Fe ; † August 16, 1993 ) was an Argentine organist , composer and music teacher.

Zeoli was a student of Richard Engelbrecht , Hermes Forti , Juan Francisco Giacobbe and Guillermo Graetzer . Cardinal Antonio Caggiano appointed him organist at the cathedral in his hometown. A series of eight concerts given in Buenos Aires in 1946 led to the establishment of the city's Collegium Musicum .

He traveled to the USA with a version of his concert series expanded to include lectures by Ernesto Epstein . He graduated from the Juilliard School of Music as an organ soloist and accompanist and in choral conducting. His international organist career began with a concert on the large Aeolian Skinner organ of Ascension Church , where he played works by Arnold Schönberg and Darius Milhaud .

In 1954 he returned to Argentina, where he taught at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música "Carlos López Buchardo" and the Escuela Superior de Arte of the Universidad Nacional de La Plata and from 1957 to 1992 at the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires . In a weekly concert cycle at Radio Nacional 1950–60 he performed the entire organ works by Johann Sebastian Bach and César Franck , as well as works by Olivier Messiaen and Paul Hindemith , Juan Francisco Giacobbe and Francesco Marigo as well as his own compositions and improvisations.

Concert tours have taken Zeoli to Germany, Spain, France, Great Britain, Italy and the USA. In addition to several records with organ music, he also recorded the album Mujeres Argentinas with Mercedes Sosa and Ariel Ramírez . Under his direction the organ at the Colegio Nacional in Buenos Aires was restored. Here he performed his own compositions in several concert series, including La Natividad , the Oratorio de Pascua and the biblical poem La ciudad del mañana based on texts by Leónidas Barrera Oro , which he composed for the 300th anniversary of the founding of the Basílica de Santo Domingo . In 1989 he was awarded an honorary diploma from Fundacion Konex .

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SURNAME	Zeoli, Héctor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Argentine organist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH	September 5, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rosario (Santa Fe)
DATE OF DEATH	August 16, 1993