Margarita Luna García

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Ana Margarita Luna García (born July 31, 1921 in Santiago de los Caballeros , † 2016 ) was a Dominican pianist and composer.

Luna had piano lessons from Juan Francisco García from the age of ten . She graduated as a maestra in piano at the Liceo Musical in Santo Domingo and then attended courses in piano technique and interpretation with Paul Marx and Manuel Rueda . In addition, she was assistant to Manuel Simós in his classes for counterpoint, music analysis and harmony.

In 1953 she founded the Liceo Musical José Oviedo García , which she directed for ten years. In the mid-1960s she went to the United States and attended courses in composition and instrumentation at Hall Overton , which resulted in his composing a string quartet. In 1969 her piece Cambiantes for cello and orchestra was premiered in the Palacio de Bellas Artes under the direction of Manuel Simó. In her compositions Luna took up serial music and took up contemporary compositional techniques such as dodecaphony and aleatoric .

Ana Margarita Luna García died in Canada in 2016 at the age of 94, where she had lived for more than 20 years.

Works

  • Cambiantes for cello and orchestra, 1969
  • Epitafio en el aire for choir, symphony orchestra and narrator, 1971
  • Vigilia eterna , oratorio for soloist, narrator, choir and orchestra, 1972
  • Parámetros for string quartet and five wind instruments, 1974
  • Fantasía for violin and piano
  • Tres canciones for soprano and clarinet
  • Diferencias for cello, piano, clarinet and percussion
  • Abstracciones for violin and piano

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Composer of the month: Margarita Luna (1921-2016) In: polymnia.webnode.com. , June 21, 2018, accessed November 7, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Luna García, Margarita
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Luna García, Ana Margarita
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dominican pianist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Santiago de los Caballeros
DATE OF DEATH 2016
Place of death Canada