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Alberto Ginastera
Alberto Ginastera, in full Alberto Evaristo Ginastera, (born April 11, , Buenos Aires, Arg.—died June 25, , Geneva, Switz.), a leading 20th-century Latin-American composer, known for his use of local and national musical idioms in his compositions. Ginastera was musically talented as a child and studied in Buenos Aires at the Conservatorio Williams and the National Conservatory. He received a Guggenheim award and lived in the United States in –
Ginastera’s music marks him as a traditionalist, despite his advanced musical vocabulary, which owes much to the great musical figures of the early 20th century. His synthesis of techniques is unique and eclectic, and he makes use of microtones (smaller than half tones), serial procedures (basing works on selected series of pitches, rhythms, etc.), and aleatory, or chance, music as well as older established forms.
Ginastera’s Piano Concerto and Cantata para América mágica won great acclaim at the Interamerican Music Fest
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Alberto Evaristo Ginastera (April 11, Buenos Aires - June 25, Geneva) was an Argentinian master composer of European classical music as well as a prolific nationalistic musician who preserved many of the folk elements of Argentina in lively compositions.
Ginastera won great acclaim for his masterful juxtaposing of traditional Argentine folk elements with Western classical conventions. In so doing he demonstrated the ability to unify seemingly diverse musical styles into a harmonious and highly evocative musical expression. This was accomplished not by merely integrating existing folk melodies into his music, but was far more elemental, in that he would construct original thematic material, rhythmic patterns and harmonic progressions that were predicated on the intervalic, rhythmic and harmonic properties of actual Latin folk music. He was one of several important South American composers to achieve international prominence.
Biography
Ginastera was born in Buenos Aires to a C
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Alberto Ginastera
Argentine composer (–)
Alberto Ginastera | |
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| Born | Alberto Evaristo Ginastera ()April 11, Buenos Aires |
| Died | June 25, () (aged&#;67) Geneva |
| Era | 20th Century |
Alberto Evaristo Ginastera (Catalan pronunciation:[alˈβeɾtoeβaˈɾistodʒinaˈsteɾa]; April 11, &#;&#; June 25, ) was an Argentine composer of classical music. He is considered to be one of the most important 20th-century classical composers of the Americas.[1]
Biography
[edit]Ginastera was born in Buenos Aires to a Spanish father and an Italian mother. During his later years, he preferred to use the Catalan and Italian pronunciation of his surname – IPA:[dʒinaˈsteːra], with an initial soft 'G' like that of English 'George' – rather than with a Spanish 'J' sound (IPA:[xinaˈsteɾa]).[2]
Ginastera studied at the Williams Conservatory in Buenos Aires, graduating in As a young professor, he taught at the Liceo Militar General San