Juan Bautista Massa
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
- ↑ MusicaClasicaArgentina.com .
- ↑ 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.
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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) |