Rodolfo Holzmann

Rodolfo Holzmann born Rudolf Holzmann (born November 27, 1910 in Breslau ; † April 3, 1992 in Lima ) was a Peruvian composer, music teacher and musicologist of German origin.

Holzmann studied composition with Wladimir Vogel , piano with Winfried Wolf and orchestral direction with Robert Robitschek in Berlin . He later took a conducting course with Hermann Scherchen in Brussels. During his stay in Europe he wrote works such as Due Movimenti , the Suite a tre temi , which was performed at the 12th Festival of the International Society for Contemporary Music in Florence in 1934, and the septet for horn, flute, clarinet, bassoon, violin, viola and cello , which received the Henry le Boeuf Prize of the Philharmonic Society of Brussels in 1936 and was premiered in the same year by members of the orchestra under Hermann Scherchen.

In 1938 Holzmann came to Peru, where he became professor of oboe and later of composition at the Academia Nacional de Música Alcedo (later the Conservatorio Nacional ). He joined the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional , founded at the end of the year, as a violinist, and in 1945 he became deputy head of the orchestra.

In 1957 Holzmann received the composition prize 4 de julio , which enabled him to study for a year in the USA. After his return he worked at the Casa de la Cultura del Perú and at the Escuela Nacional de Música y Danzas Folklóricas .

Since his arrival in Peru, Holzmann has dealt intensively with the country's music. 1942 published the catalog raisonné of the composer Theodoro Valcárcel , followed the next year by the catalog raisonné of Daniel Alomía Robles , Alfonso de Silva and Vicente Stea . Since his time at the Escuela Nacional he has dealt with traditional folk music of Peru. The result was an album of folk dances and songs (with a foreword by José María Arguedas ) and several musicological publications.

As a composer he moved away from the neoclassical style and was most recently strongly influenced by dodecaphony. In many of his works there are echoes of Peruvian music, such as the Pequeña Suite Peruana , the Sinfonía del Tercer Mundo , the Suite Arequipeña and the Concierto para la Ciudad Blanca .

In the last years of his life, Holzmann lived in Huánuco , where he worked as a choirmaster and as professor and director of the Escuela Regional de Música "Daniel Alomía Robles" .

Fonts

• De la trifonía a la heptafonia en la musica tradicional peruana
• Q'ero, pueblo y música, Introducción a la Etnomusicología
• El cóndor pasa (dedicated to the memory of Daniel Alomía Robles )
• La expresión nacional en la música culta contemporánea de América Latina
• Panorama de la musica tradicional del Perú .