Juan Blanco
Juan Blanco (born June 29, 1919 in Mariel , † 2008 in Havana ) was a Cuban composer .
Live and act
Blanco studied at the Havana Conservatory with Harold Gramatges and José Ardévol . He was president of the Symphonic Society of Havana and was considered a pioneer and most important representative of electronic music in Cuba. He composed the music for the Cuban pavilions at the World's Fair in Canada and the World's Fair in Japan . The room music performed in Tokyo worked with light effects, several loudspeaker groups, tape, ten actors, instrumental groups, guitar and alto saxophone.
Since 1979 he has headed a small electronic music studio, the ICAP, which was renamed Laboratorio Nacional de Música Electroacústica in the 1990s . Here he trained many Cuban composers. In the 1980s he also directed the Primavera en Varadero International Electroacoustic Music Festival .
In addition to a symphony , chamber music works, choral music, piano pieces, stage and film music, Blanco composed mainly electroacoustic pieces, often using the theremin .
Works
- Música para danza , 1961
- Estudios I y II , 1961-62
- Ensamble V , 1962-63
- Interludio con Máquinas , 1963
- Ensamble VI , 1963
- Texturas , 1963-64
- Música para el Quinto Desfile Gimnástico Deportivo , 1965
- Poema Espacial No. 1 (Las Lomas) , 1967
- Poema Espacial No. 2 , 1967
- Poema Espacial No. 3 (Dai Viet) , 1968
- Ambientación Sonora , 1968
- Contrapunto Espacial No 2 (Erotofonías I) , 1968
- Contrapunto Espacial No 3 , 1960
- Poema Espacial No. 4 (26 de julio) , 1969
- Poema Espacial No. 5 (Vietnam) , 1970
- Imprecación , 1970
- Suite Erótica , 1979-86
- Tañidos , 1983
- Cirkus Toccata , 1984
- Suite de los Niños , 1984
- Espacios II , 1986
- Contrastes I , 1992
- Paisaje , 1992
- Variantes I , 1992
- Treno por las Víctimas del Estrecho de la Florida , 1992
- Contrastes II , 1993
- Cinco Epitafios , 1993
- Loops , 1993
- Para Enterrar la Esperanza , 1994
- Variantes II , 1994
- Espacios IX , 1999-2000
- Microtonales , 2000
- Microtonales II , 2001
- Tecnotrónicas , 2002
literature
- Torsten Eßer, Patrick Frölicher (Ed.): "Everything in my existence is music ..." Cuban music from rumba to tecno. 2004, ISBN 3-86527-164-2 (with an interview with Juan Blanco).
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Blanco, Juan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Cuban composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 29, 1919 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mariel |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2008 |
| Place of death | Havana |