María Luisa Sepúlveda

María Luisa Sepúlveda Maira (born August 14, 1892 in Chillán , † April 4, 1958 in Santiago de Chile ) was a Chilean composer and music teacher .

Life

Sepúlveda studied piano with Bindo Paoli , violin with José Varalla and harmony , counterpoint and composition with Luigi Stefano Giarda and Domingo Brescia at the Conservatorio de Música in Santiago . From 1912 to 1931 she was a professor of piano at the Conservatory and she also taught harmony and folk music at the Escuela Vocacional de Educación Artística de Santiago .

In 1916 she founded a successful women's orchestra made up of female students from the Conservatorio National . In the same year she won first prize in the composition competition of the magazine Zig-Zag with the composition Bourrée (for piano), submitted under the pseudonym Alfonso y Corbalán . In 1918 she became the first woman in Chile to graduate as a composer before a commission consisting of Enrique Soro , Giarda and Raúl Hügel . In 1919 she also received a diploma as a singer.

In her compositions Sepúlveda combined South American folklore with elements of the romantic salon music of the 19th century. The Cancionero chileno , a collection of traditional Chilean songs, and La voz del pasado: pregones santiaguinos antiguos y otros temas folklóricos , a work in which she drew on the tradition of the pregonero (crier), testify to her interest in Chilean music history . She also published a collection of folk songs from the 19th century.

In addition to songs and piano works, Sepúlveda also composed works for the harp and for the guitar as well as orchestral works such as La Canción de las Corhuilas and La Trutruca . She has also published several textbooks, including Nuevo método de guitarra: para aprender a tocar por cifra y por música sin maestro , El amigo del niño, método para la enseñanza del piano and Cantos escolares . For the latter she received a prize from the Universidad de Chile .

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