Luis Antonio Escobar

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Luis Antonio Escobar (born July 14, 1925 in Villapinzón , Cundinamarca , † September 11, 1993 in Miami ) was a Colombian composer and musicologist.

Life

Escobar attended the Franciscan College of San Joaquín in Cali and then studied at the Conservatory of the University of Bogotá with Pedro Villá , Egisto Giovannetti , Gustavo Escobar Larrazábal and Lucía Pérez , at the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore with Nicolas Nabokov , at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and at the University for music in Berlin with Boris Blacher .

In 1954 he returned to Colombia, where he taught music history, harmony, counterpoint, composition and instrumentation at the Conservatory of the Universidad National and art history at the Universidad Javeriana and the Universidad Los Andes .

In 1957 he went to the USA on a grant from the Guggenheim Foundation to perfect his education. After his return to Colombia, he co-founded the Orquesta Filarmónica de Bogotá and became president of the Colombian Composers Association. By founding Clubes de Estudiantes Cantores , he made a significant contribution to improving singing lessons in Colombia. He also worked as Colombia's consul in Bonn and as cultural attaché in the USA.

In 1976 Escobar began working with the pianist Amparo Ángel (his later second wife), to whom he dedicated several works. With the poet Andrés Holguín he founded El Muro Blanco , an institution that organized conferences and seminars on cultural topics. He organized events such as the Colombian University Choir Festivals and the first Congress of Ethnic Music in Cartagena .

Works

  • Serenata para Orquesta
  • Dos Preludios de Navidad
  • Divertimento No.1 (dedicated to Boris Blacher)
  • Concertino for flute and orchestra
  • Sonatina for violin and piano
  • Pequeña Suite for flute, oboe and bassoon
  • Sonata for violin and
  • La Princesa y la Arveja , children's opera
  • Preludios para Percusión , ballet
  • Los Hampones , opera
  • Juramento a Bolívar , symphonic poem with texts by Jorge Rojas
  • Symphony O.
  • La Curuba , quintet
  • Concierto for harpsichord
  • Cantata Campesina No. 1
  • Cántica de Cantas Colombianas
  • Apuntes para Orquesta ,
  • Pequeña Sinfonia No.2
  • Matrimonio del Tío Sapo , show for children
  • La Fosforerita , ballet (composed for the ballerina Gloria Castro )
  • Concierto Grosso with obligatory violin and piano
  • Ballada for piano and orchestra
  • Concierto for violin and orchestra
  • Concierto for clarinet
  • Concierto for guitar
  • Doce Preludios for guitar
  • La Visita de la Ballena
  • Seis Bambuquerías for oboe and piano
  • Bambuquerías for piano four hands
  • Segunda serie de Bambuquerías
  • Danzas en el Sentimiento Andino for symphony orchestra
  • Manuelita Saenz , ballet
  • Poema Sinfónico al General Santander with texts by Jorge Rojas

Fonts

  • La música precolombina
  • La music in Cartagena de Indias
  • La música en Santafé de Bogotá
  • La Música en la Catedral de Bogotá
  • Obras polifónicas de autores colombianos
  • La obra de José Cascante
  • La herencia del Quetzal