Luis Advis

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Luis Advis Vitaglich (born February 10, 1935 in Iquique ; † September 9, 2004 in Santiago de Chile ) was a Chilean composer and philosopher specializing in aesthetics.

Life

Luis Advis grew up in a musical family. His father was a merchant and musician and his mother played the piano and sang. On recordings he got to know the works of many important composers, such as Wagner, Mahler, Chopin and Tchaikovsky. His parents were particularly fond of opera. He completed his school days at the Liceo de Hombres de Iquique. In 1953 he began to study law at the Universidad de Chile in Santiago de Chile . He also studied philosophy with a degree. He studied piano at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música in Santiago de Chile with Alberto Spikin Howard and composition with Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt . Jaime Silva commissioned him in 1958 to play the children's game La Princesa Panchita, which marked the beginning of his career as a theater musician. He began in the early 1960s for the music in the novels of Mario Vargas Llosa , Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Sr. Ernesto Cortazar to care. He dealt with mambo , tango and milonga . He met the musician Margot Loyola (1918–2015), who brought him closer to the music of Violeta Parra . Knowing this South American music, he developed his own musical style in his compositions. In this way he combined elements of popular South American music with the forms and instruments of traditional European music. In this way he shaped the musical form of the cantata popular, which other contemporary composers adopted.

Between 1961 and 1981 he was professor at the chair for aesthetics at the Universidad de Chile and taught at the faculties of philosophy and education, natural sciences and music, fine arts and architecture, and urban planning. From 1962 he led the seminar at the Facultad de Artes Musicales of the Universidad de Chile. In 1972 he took over the chair for aesthetics at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile . In 1979 he published the book Displacer y trascendencia en el Arte [Displeasure and Transcendence in Art].

He worked as a professor of aesthetics of sculpture at the Facultad de Bellas Artes and for aesthetics of theater and art history at the Facultad de Ciencias y Artes Musicales at the Universidad de Chile .

In 1987 he was a founding member of the Sociedad Chilena del Derecho de Autor, the Chilean collecting society , of which he was president from 1993.

Works (selection)

As a composer, Luis Advis has created orchestral works, chamber music, piano works, vocal music as well as stage and television music.

  • 1965: Preludes for piano
  • 1972: Music for the television series La Sal del Desierto
  • 1974: Oratorio 1850
  • 1987: Los tres tiempos de América, symphony
  • 1993: Murales Extremeños, cantata

The Biblioteca Nacional de Chile owns various works by the composer Luis Advis:

  • Wind quintet I Allegro II Andante III Allegro
  • Divertimento for violine, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon and piano
  • 15 variations on a theme by Joseph Haydn for wind quintet
  • Preludes for piano, 1960
  • Cosas [things], song cycle for mezzo-soprano and piano, 1963 Text: Gabriela Mistral
  • La princesa Panchita, comedy in two acts, published in 1963 by Eds. de la Revista Mapocho, Santiago
  • In 1969 he composed the famous "Cantata de Santa María de Iquique", which commemorates the 1907 Iquique massacre . I Pregón II Preludio Instrumental III Canción IV Interludio Instrumental V Relato VI Canción VII Interludio instrumental VIII Relato IX Interludio cantado X Relato XI Canción Letanía XII Canción XIII Pregón XIV Canción Final. The work was recorded on LP in 1970 on the Chilean label Dicap.
  • Canto para una semilla, LP by the Chilean band Inti-Illimani . Luis Advis wrote the numbers El compromiso and Epilogo
  • Canción del poder popular [Song of the power of the people] The song was recorded in 1973 on the LP Viva Chile! recorded by the Chilean band Inti-Illimani.
  • Suite Latinoamericana, 1976/78, I Preludio II Milonga III Tonada IV Interludio IV Vals Peruano VI Conga VII Interludio II VIII. Marcha-Rancho

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  • Advis, Luis . In: Carl Dahlhaus (Ed.): Riemann Musiklexikon . 12th, completely revised edition. Personal section: A – K , supplementary volume. Schott, Mainz 1972, p. 7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Luis Advis Vitaglich (1935-2004). In: Memoria Chilena. Biblioteca Nacional de Chile, accessed on August 26, 2020 (Spanish).
  2. ↑ a b Riemann Musiklexikon, 1972.
  3. ↑ www.santiagoamil.cl: QUILAPAYÚN - LA CANTATA SANTA MARÍA DE IQUIQUE, 50 AÑOS , accessed on June 26, 2020
  4. ↑ Archivo Nacional de Chile: Matanza de la Escuela de Santa María de Iquique en 1907 , accessed on June 23, 2020
  5. ↑ Homepage Luis Avids: Cantata de Santa María de Iquique , accessed on June 24, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Advis, Luis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Advis Vitaglich, Luis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chilean composer and philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Iquique
DATE OF DEATH September 9, 2004
Place of death Santiago de Chile