Mario Davidovsky

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Mario Davidovsky (born March 4, 1934 in Médanos ; † August 23, 2019 ) was an Argentine composer .

He studied with Guillermo Graetzer , Teodoro Fuchs , Ernesto Epstein and Erwin Leuchter in Buenos Aires , and later with Aaron Copland and Milton Babbitt at the Berkshire Music Center in Lenox , Massachusetts . In 1959 he received the BMI Student Composer Awards . At first he taught music in Buenos Aires, later at the University of Lansing / Michigan . He then became Professor of Composition at the Manhattan School of Music and Vice Director of the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center in New York City . In 1971 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. In 1989 he received the SEAMUS Lifetime Achievement Award . The American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences accepted him as a member in 2004.

In addition to orchestral and chamber music, Davidovsky mainly composed electronic music .

Works

  • String Quartet No. 1 (1951)
  • Concertino for percussion and string orchestra (1954)
  • Quintet for clarinet and strings (1955)
  • Suite Sinfonica Para “El Payaso” (1955),
  • Three pieces for woodwind quartet (1956)
  • Nonette for nine instruments (1956)
  • String Quartet No. 2 (1958)
  • Series Sinfonica 1959 (1959)
  • Contrastes No. 1 (1960)
  • Electronic Study No. 1 (1961)
  • Piano 1961 (1961)
  • Electronic Study No. 2 (1962)
  • Synchronisms No. 1 (1962)
  • Trio for clarinet, trumpet and viola (1962)
  • Synchronisms No. 2 (1964)
  • Synchronisms No. 3 (1964)
  • Electronic Study No. 3 (1965)
  • Inflexions (1965)
  • Junctures (1966)
  • Synchronisms No. 4 (1966)
  • Music for solo violin (1968)
  • Synchronisms No. 5 (1969)
  • Synchronisms No. 6 (1970)
  • Chacona (1971)
  • Transients (1972)
  • Synchronisms No. 7 (1974)
  • Synchronisms No. 8 (1974)
  • Scenes from Shir ha-Shirim (1975)
  • String Quartet No. 3 (1976)
  • Pennplay (1979)
  • Consorts (1980)
  • String Quartet No. 4 (1980)
  • String Trio (1982)
  • Romancero (1983)
  • Divertimento (1984)
  • Capriccio (1985)
  • Salvos (1986)
  • Quartetto (1987)
  • Synchronisms No. 9 (1988)
  • Biblical Songs (1990)
  • Concertante (1990)
  • Simple Dances (1991)
  • Synchronisms No. 10 (1992)
  • Shulamit's Dream (1993)
  • Festino (1994)
  • Concertino (1995)
  • Flashbacks (1995)
  • Quartetto No. 2 (1996)
  • String Quartet No. 5 (1998)
  • Quartetto No. 3 (2000)
  • Cantione Sine Textu (2001)
  • Sefarad: Four Spanish-Ladino Folkscenes
  • Divertimento for 8 'Ambiguous Symmetries' (2015)

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personal data
SURNAME Davidovsky, Mario
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentine composer
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Médanos (Buenos Aires), Argentina
DATE OF DEATH 23 August 2019