Roberto Escobar Budge

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Roberto Escobar Budge (born May 11, 1926 in Santiago de Chile , † 2011 ) was a Chilean composer and philosopher .

Life

René Amengual Astaburuaga's pupil had a. a. Professor at the Institute for Political Science of the Universidad de Chile , the Universidad Católica de Valparaíso and the University of Missouri and was President of the Sociedad Chilena de Filosofía and the Asociación Nacional de Compositores .

He composed, among other things, a chamber suite, a wind quintet, a piece for percussion and voices, piano pieces, cantatas and film music. He has also written musicological and philosophical essays and books, including Creadores Musicales Chilenos (1969), Músicos sin pasado (1971), La filosofía en Chile (1976), and El vuelo de los búhos. Actividad filosófica en Chile de 1810 a 2010 .