Juan Bautista Massa

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Juan Bautista Massa (born October 29, 1885 in Buenos Aires , † March 7, 1938 in Rosario ) was an Argentine composer, conductor and musician.

Massa studied in Buenos Aires and Italy and founded a private conservatory in Rosario. The city music school was named after Massa in honor of the city. He also taught at various institutions and was a member of various institutions, including a. he was director of the Asociación Coral Argentina .

Massa composed various works, including ballets, musical comedies, operas, operettas, zarzuelas, orchestral and chamber music pieces. He also wrote several tangos in the 1920s. His most famous works include:

  • L'evaso (Opera), 1922
  • Tucumán (Opera), 1922
  • El ruiseñor y la rosa (Opera), 1926; Based on a play by Oscar Wilde , premiered in 1926 at the Teatro Colón (Buenos Aires)
  • Zoraida (Opera), 1929
  • La Magdalena (Biblical Opera in Four Acts); Libretto by Ernesto Trucchi ; First performance at the Teatro Colón November 9, 1929
  • El cometa (ballet); First performance at the Teatro Colón on November 8, 1932; Massa conducted the performance himself
  • La muerte del inca (symphonic poem)
  • Tres canciones indígenas

literature

  • Alfred Baumgartner: Propylaea world of music: the composers . Volume 3. Propylaea, Berlin and Frankfurt 1989, ISBN 3-549-07833-1 , p. 579

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ MusicaClasicaArgentina.com .
  2. ↑ Venta de la partitura ( Memento of the original of June 12, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.masoportunidades.com.ar
personal data
SURNAME Massa, Juan Bautista
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentine composer
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Buenos Aires
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 1938
Place of death Rosario (Santa Fe)