Luis Abraham Delgadillo

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Luis Abraham Delgadillo

Luis Abraham Delgadillo (born August 29, 1887 in Managua , † December 20, 1961 there ) was a Nicaraguan composer.

Delgadillo had music lessons in Managua from Maria Teresa Muñoz de Campari , Alberto Selva and Manuel Silva Guerrero . With a state scholarship he studied from 1906 at the Conservatory of Milan with Miguel Saladino , Héctor Pozzoli , Vincento Appiani and Pablo Delachi . At the outbreak of World War I , he returned to Nicaragua, where he worked until 1921 as "Director General of Musical Culture. 1918 composed he Salve a ti, Nicaragua , in 1938 with a new text by Salomon Ibarra Mayorga by a decree of the dictator Anastasio Somoza García to From 1921 to 1925 Delgadillo was Professor of Music Theory at the State Conservatory of Mexico, where he founded the male choir Orfeón popular .

In 1932 he founded the Escola nacional de música and a symphony orchestra in Managua . Between 1943 and 1945 he was Professor of Composition and Musical Aesthetics at the Panama Conservatory . He composed two operas , four operettas , several programmatic symphonies and twelve short symphonies, two piano concertos, a guitar concert, chamber music works and piano music. In addition, he also emerged as an author of music theoretical works.

Works

  • El final de Norma , opera, 1913
  • Obertura Indiana , 1915
  • Sinfonia indígena , 1921
  • Sinfonia Incaica , 1926
  • Diciembre em Havana , 1929
  • Cantos escolares (based on poems by Arturo Duarte Carrión ), 1932
  • En el templo de Agat , 1937
  • Teotihuacan , 1941
  • Mabaltayán , opera (libretto by Arana Sanoigo ), 1942
  • La rosa del paraiso , opera, 1942
  • La Cabeza del Rawi , ballet, 1942
  • Tertulia de Correos , Opera, 1945
  • Panchito y la rana , Opera, 1946
  • Diciembre , suite
  • Sinfonia Serrana

Fonts

  • Comentarios a los consejos de Schumann , 1919
  • El caso Nietzsche
  • Consideraciones generales sobre musica en Nicaragua
  • Teoría sintética y moderna de la musica
  • Mi odisea musical en América Hispánica

source

  1. ↑ www.classical-composers.org: Luís Abraham Delgadillo , here online ; last accessed on 25 Feb 2009
personal data
SURNAME Delgadillo, Luis Abraham
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nicaraguan composer
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Managua
DATE OF DEATH December 20, 1961
Place of death Managua