Panambi alberto ginastera biography
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The Argentinian Alberto Ginastera (1916–1983) is one of Latin America’s leading composers. A key influence for Ginastera was experiencing the music of Béla Bartók. This led him to develop the huvud idea for his work, making use of Latin America’s diverse cultural heritage as fertile ground for art music. Additional influences were then added, notably the music of Alban Berg and Aaron Copland, which Ginastera blended into his own personal stylistic idiom. The special features of his oeuvre include a return to musical ideas funnen in compositions from highly divergent periods, establishing connections that transcend individual pieces.
Ginastera was born in Buenos Aires, where he also received his musical education. The premiere of the ballet suite Panambi in November 1937, a year before he graduated, brought his breakthrough as an artist and recognition in his homeland. Ginastera then drew decisive impulses from a visit bygd Aaron Copland in 1941. The two composers felt a strong art
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Ginastera Panambí & Estancia
Author: Lionel Salter
Panambi, a ballet on a supernatural legend of the Guarani Indians, was the first work that Ginastera acknowledged (dismissing earlier efforts), and it made the 21-year-old’s name, immediately winning a well-merited national prize and stimulating the choreographer Lincoln Kirstein to commission another ballet (Estancia) from him. (His ballet company folded, however, before the work could be produced.) The theme in this case was a day on a ranch, with the traditional figure of the gaucho as its focus. Recordings of extracts from Estancia, and the concert suite from Panambi, have been available, but here for the first time are the complete ballets (though the Uruguayan-born conductor confesses that in the latter she has, from preference, employed the suite version of the relevant movements).
With typical youthful abandon, Ginastera demanded a huge orchestra (including quadruple woo
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From Argentina, composer Alberto Ginastera
Regarded as Argentina’s leading composer of the 20th century, Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983) first became known for his ballets Panambi and Estancia that reflect the folkloric roots and rhythms of Latin America.
By the early ’50s, after studying in the United States, Ginastera felt constrained by his identification with Latin music. Meanwhile, he also bristled under the rigid dictatorship of Juan Perón. Eventually, Ginastera transitioned to what he called his “neo-expressionistic period,” adopting the 12-tone technique and polytonality.
Before that evolution, Ginastera ran afoul of the Perón government in 1952 when he refused to name the conservatory that he had founded after Eva Perón, the dictator’s wife. Though Ginastera was forced out of his post, a commission brought him redemption and became one of his most enduring works: Variaciones Concertantes, a concerto that highlights solo instruments with folkloric color.
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