María Luisa Anido

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Isabel María Luisa Anido González , called Mimita (born January 26, 1907 in Morón , Argentina , † June 4, 1996 in Tarragona , Spain ) was an Argentine guitarist , composer and music teacher . She was considered the grande dame of the Latin American guitar .

Life

Miguel Llobet , Emilio Pujol , Juan Carlos Anido, María Luisa Anido and Domingo Prat in the Anido house, 1919

Anido was born the daughter of the guitarist Juan Carlos Anido († 1933), who was also the editor of a guitar magazine, and his wife Betilda González Rigaud († 1950). Her family moved to Buenos Aires when she was a child . Musicians like Emilio Pujol , Regino Sáinz de la Maza , Miguel Llobet and Josefina Robledo frequented the family home . She was considered a musical child prodigy and at the age of 10 she was already playing the Etude No. 22 in A minor by Napoléon Coste . She studied guitar with the Tárrega students Domingo Prat and Miguel Llobet.

In 1925 she toured Latin America with Llobet and set duets with him in 1927. The music critic Robert Jean Vidal (1925–2002) described it as the first guitar duo of the 20th century. Further concerts took her to several European countries, including a. to Russia , where it gained great popularity. In 1952 she gave her solo concert at Wigmore Hall in London. In the 50s and 60s she then lived in Spain and Italy. In addition to classical guitar literature , she played contemporary Latin American composers such as Heitor Villa-Lobos , Carlos Guastavino , Julián Aguirre and Fernández Esperón . She was also an important Tárrega interpreter.

She worked for more than fifty years as a professor at the Conservatory of Music in Buenos Aires and taught numerous Argentinian guitar virtuosos. In 1987 she taught in Havana, whereupon the University of Havana awarded her an honorary doctorate. The Spanish master Andrés Segovia was on friendly terms with her.

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literature

  • Maurice J. Summerfield: The Classical Guitar. Its Evolution, Players and Personalities Since 1800 . 5th Edition, Ashley Mark Publishing Company, Blaydon-on-Tyne 2002, ISBN 1-872639-51-8 , p. 35.
  • Wolf Moser : "The society of the world, instead of my family". Conversation with María Luisa Anido in Barcelona. In: Guitar & Laute 1, 1979, 5, pp. 4-9.
  • Domingo Prat: Diccionario de Guitarristas. Buenoa Aires 1934, p. 30.

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