Silvia Eisenstein

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Silvia Eisenstein (born January 5, 1917 in Buenos Aires , † August 15, 1986 in Caracas ) was an Argentine-Venezuelan pianist, composer and conductor, music teacher and ethnologist.

Life

Eisenstein had piano lessons with Ernesto Drangosch and Esperanza Lothringer and gave her first piano concerto at the age of nine. She continued her education at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música y Arte Escénico and studied piano with Jorge de Lalewicz . After studying at the Conservatoire de Paris, she worked as a concert pianist in South America.

From 1938 she taught at the music institute headed by Carlos Vega (later Instituto Nacional de Musicologia ). Between 1945 and 1955 she toured various provinces of Argentina and recorded documentary recordings of traditional music there. She founded the Orquesta Argentina de Cuerdas , the Orquesta Argentina de Cámaras , the Conjunto Vocal Argentino (1947) and the Coro de la Asociación de Compositores Argentinos and made various recordings with the ensembles for the Odeon label .

In 1963 she went on a concert tour to Venezuela, where she decided to stay in that country. She taught choral conducting at the Collegium Musicum Gonzalo Castellanos Yumar and piano at the Escuela de Música Lino Gallardo and founded a chamber choir at the Universidad Central de Venezuela . For many years she directed the Madrigalistas de Aragua .

In collaboration with Carlos Vega, arrangements of Indian and Creole music for chamber and string orchestras were created. She wrote arrangements of traditional music for orchestra and for choir and published the Cantos de la Argentina . Her best-known work is the ballet Supay , which premiered in 1954 at the Teatro Colón .

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SURNAME Eisenstein, Silvia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentinian-Venezuelan composer, pianist, conductor and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH January 5, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Buenos Aires
DATE OF DEATH August 15, 1986
Place of death Caracas