Lucas José Estrada Abadía

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Lucas José Estrada Abadia (also: Lucas Estrada; born May 8, 1938 in La Unión (Valle de Cauca) , Colombia ; † August 24, 1981 in New York City , United States ) was a Colombian composer.

Life

Lucas José Estrada Abadia studied at an early age at the Conservatorio Antonio María Valencia in Cali . From 1956 to 1963 he studied at the Conservatorio Nacional in Bogotá . He studied piano with Lucía Peréz, art history and musical form with Andrés Pardo Tovar , counterpoint with Fabio González Zuleta and composition with Roberto Pineda Duque . In 1964 he went to New York City to study with Carlos Suriñach (1915–1997) and Julián Borbon . He also studied at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena with Franco Donatoni and Luigi Dallapiccola .

Works (selection)

A program from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia from 2011 and Latin American Classical Composers: A Biographical Dictionary from 2016 list the following works.

Trilogy of chamber operas with Christian content

  • La muerte no es un cuento de hadas [Death is not a fairy tale], 1968
  • El gran viaje [The Great Journey], 1968
  • Esteban

Ballets

  • La consagración de la nada [The Consecration of Nothing], ballet , 1962
  • Balada de los dos abuelos [Ballad of the two grandparents], ballet

Drama music

  • Homenaje a García Lorca [Homage to García Lorca]

Film music

Chamber music

  • Quartet for violin, viola, violoncello and piano, composed in New York in 1964

Piano music

  • Tres piezas para piano. I Allegrocon brio II Andante moderato III Allegro vivace ( Bambuco ). The pieces were written between 1962 and 1964 in Bogotá and New York City. There are two known manuscripts with different tempo markings. The first time they were performed in their entirety by Rolf Daniel Kolz probably in 1975 at a concert of the composers' circle of the Turtle Bay School of Music in New York. In Europe, the last piece, Bambuco, was performed several times by Francesca Maggini, including in Rhodes and Florence.

Organ music

literature

  • Estrada Abadia, Lucas José : In: Martha Furman Schleifer, Gary Galván: Latin American Classical Composers: A Biographical dictionary. P. 199. Rowan & Littlefield, 2016 ISBN 978-0-8108-8871-5
  • Program booklet Nuestra música para el mundo. Universidad nacional de Colombia, Sede Medellin, 2011

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Martha Furman Schleifer, Gary Galván: Latin American Classical Composers: A Biographical Dictionary . Rowman & Littlefield, 2016, ISBN 978-0-8108-8871-5 , pp. 199 (English, google.de [accessed October 26, 2017]).
  2. ↑ a b c Universidad nacional de Colombia, Sede Medellin (ed.): Nuestra musica para elmundo . Medellin 2011 (Spanish, edu.co [PDF]).
personal data
SURNAME Estrada Abadía, Lucas José
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Estrada Abadia, Lucas José; Estrada, Lucas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Colombian composer
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH La Unión (Valle de Cauca) , Colombia
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 1981
Place of death New York City , United States