Juan Carlos Paz (composer)
Juan Carlos Paz (born August 5, 1897 in Buenos Aires , † August 25, 1972 ibid) is considered the most important Argentine composer of the 20th century.
Life
Constantino Gaito's student founded the Grupo Renovación in Buenos Aires in 1929 to promote contemporary music, and in 1937 the Agrupación Nueva Música . He worked as a composer, composition teacher and music critic. As the author of music history essays, he advocated avant-garde endeavors in contemporary music. His early compositions were influenced by the late Romantic period. Through polytonal structures he came to dodecaphony , from which he broke away in the 1950s in favor of a freer personal style.
Paz composed orchestral works, concerts for various instruments, trios and duos in various scoring, sonatas, sonatinas and pieces for piano, pieces for the organ and film music, for example for the 1957 film Das Haus des Engels .
Paz was an actor in the 1969 film Invasión directed by Hugo Santiago.
Fonts
- Arnold Schönberg o el fin de la era tonal
- Introducción a la musica de nuestro tiempo
- La música en los Estados Unidos
Filmography (selection)
- 1957: The Angel's House (La casa del ángel)
- 1958: Those who are left to their own devices (El secuestrador)
- 1960: The party is over (Fin de fiesta)
Web links
- Juan Carlos Paz in the Internet Movie Database (English)
literature
- Alfred Baumgartner: Propylaea World of Music - The Composers - A lexicon in five volumes . tape 4 . Propylaen Verlag, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-549-07830-7 , pp. 274 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Paz, Juan Carlos |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Argentine composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 5, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Buenos Aires |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 25, 1972 |
| Place of death | Buenos Aires |