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ALBERTO GINASTERA (EVARISTO)

11thApril 1916 --- 25thJune 1983

Alberto Ginastera (Evaristo)(born 1916, Buenos Aires--died 1983, Geneva), 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 1946-47.

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.)  and aleatoric,  or chance
music as well as older established forms. Ginastera's  Piano Concerto and Cantata para América  mágicawon great acclaim at
the 1961 Interamerican Music Festival. His first opera Don Rodrigo (1964), unsuccessful in its premiere in Buenos Aires, was
hailed as a triumph in New York City in 1966.

Ginastera's masterpiece is the chamber opera Bomarzo (1967), which established him as one of the leading opera composers
of the 20th century.  This highly dissonant score  is a reworking  of a cantata  of the same name for narrator,  male voice, and
chamber orchestra, commissioned by the E.S.  Coolidge Foundation at  the Library of Congress (1964).  In Bomarzo Ginastera
made use of novel and complex compositional techniques but preserved the  traditional opera format of arias  and recitatives
in its 15 scenes.  He further developed this style  in his final opera, Beatrix Cenci,  which had its debut in 1971 in Washington

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(2437)"Danza Final from his ballet, Estancia". Sequenced by George Pollen.

Thanks to Daniel Mateos Moreno for the music below. Email (danielm@mx3.redestb.es)

(1870)"Suite danzas criollas". Sequenced by Daniel Mateos Moreno

(663)"Suite danzas criollas, Danza 3". Sequenced by Daniel Mateos Moreno

(25)"Piano Sonata No.1, Mov.2,(Info Gary K Allen)". Sequnced by Suzannie Ciani

Thanks to Gary Goldberg for music below.

(457)"Piano Sonata No.1, Mov.1, In G.M format". Sequenced by Gary Goldberg

(456)"Piano Sonata No.1, Mov.4". Sequenced by Gary Goldberg

(1867)"No.6". Sequencer Unknown

(1868)"No.7". Sequencer Unknown

(1869)"Unknown". Sequencer Unknown

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