Emil Hartmann - Piano Sonata Op.17 fyrexianoff 2022-02-22 | Cathrine Penderup - Piano00:00 Allegro02:33 Cantilene04:40 RondoEmil Hartmann (1836-1898) was a Danish Composer. Emil Hartmann got his first education from his father Johan Peter Emilius and brother-in-law Niels Gade. His piano teachers were Niels Ravnkilde (1823-1890) and Anton Rée (1820-1886). Letters from Hans Christian Andersen show that he was composing even before he could talk properly.Emil Hartmann was a prolific composer who wrote seven symphonies, concertos for respectively violin, cello and piano, several ouvertures, a symphonic poem (Hakon Jarl), orchestral suites, serenades, ballets, operas and singspiels, incidental music and cantatas. He was also the author of multiple works of chamber music (nonet, piano quintet, string quartets, clarinet quartets, piano trios, serenade for clarinet, cello and piano, sonatas for violin and piano, etc), songs and piano music.Emil Hartmann was a gifted conductor and went yearly on tour to Germany and elsewhere to conduct his works in the major cities, always to great acclaim. Following the decease of Niels W. Gade, he became his successor at the head of the Copenhagen Musikforeningen for a brief period but had to resign for health reasons.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Please support this channelpatreon.com/fyrexia
Felix Blumenfeld - Selected Works for Piano (Reloaded) fyrexianoff 2022-02-13 | 00:00 2 Pieces Op.37 No.1 "Elegiaco" (Jonathan Powell)03:50 2 Pieces Op.37 No.2 "Patetico"07:33 2 Pieces Op.53 No.1 "Dance"09:03 2 Pieces Op.53 No.2 "Postludium"11:06 Etude Op.54 (David Blumenthal)13:12 Sur Mer Etude 18:14 Waltz Etude Op.423:05 2 Impromptus Op.13 (Philip Thomson)28:14 2 Impromptus Op.13 No.230:14 Les Cloches (Vestard Shimkus)--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Please support this channelpatreon.com/fyrexia
Rued Langgaard - Afgrundsmusik BVN 169 fyrexianoff 2022-02-09 | Bengt Johnsson - Piano00:00 Tanker fødes - iværksættes (Thoughts are born - initiated)08:05 og skaber nyt liv (and creates new life)Rued Langgaard (1893-1952) was a Danish Composer. He was the only son of composer and Royal Chamber musician Siegfried Langgaard (1852–1914) and Emma Langgaard (née Foss, 1861–1926), both of whom were pianists.Langgaard's first compositions, 2 piano pieces and 2 songs, were published when he was 13, and around that time he was taught counterpoint by the celebrated composer Carl Nielsen for about a month. At 18, Langgaard served as assistant organist at the Frederikskirken (Marmorkirken) in Copenhagen. Although Langgaard was given a state grant from the age of 30, his works and job applications were almost continually rejected by the establishment. Only at the age of 46 did he manage to obtain a permanent job, as the organist at the cathedral in Ribe, the oldest town in Denmark, situated in southwest Jutland. Just shy of his 59th birthday, Rued Langgaard died in Ribe, still unrecognized as a composer.Music of the Spheres is his best-known and most radical work. It is a symphonic work of great complexity, calling for a large orchestra including organ and a piano on which the strings are played directly rather than via the keys, choir, and a supporting (distant) orchestra including a soprano voice.[3] It was composed during World War I, but only performed twice (in Germany in 1921–1922) during Langgaard's lifetime and lay dormant for almost 50 years before being rediscovered. When it was rediscovered in the late 1960s, it was considered remarkably modern and reflective of the pathfinding style in which Langgaard composed. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Please support this channelpatreon.com/fyrexia
Emil von Reznicek - 2 Symphonic Dances, for Piano fyrexianoff 2022-02-04 | Hilde Findeisen - Piano00:00 Csárdás08:29 TarantellaEmil von Reznicek (1860-1945) was an Austrian Composer. He began piano lessons in 1871; his first compositions date from 1876–78, when he was a student in Graz. He also studied in Leipzig with Carl Reinecke and Salomon Jadassohn.He would see his greatest triumph with the premiere of Donna Diana on December 16, 1894. That success opened up his career as conductor; he briefly ran for the succession of Eduard Lassen at Weimar and was Hofkapellmeister at Manheim in 1896–1899.In Berlin, Reznicek enjoyed a good start with the premiere of his first symphony and a revival of Till Eulenspiegel at the Court-opera. But he subsequently distanced himself from the circle of Emperor Wilhelm II. 1911 proved to be a decisive year. Reznicek's wife Berta fell seriously ill and was in critical condition for a month, and the composer's autobiography of 1940 indicates that he seriously considered suicide at the time. Instead, he condensed his feelings in the confessional tone poem Schlemihl (1912). Schlemihl met with immediate success and launched a new phase in Reznicek's career as a composer, becoming the first instalment of a trilogy that also included Der Sieger (1913) and Frieden - Eine Vision (1914).When the Nazi Party came to power in 1933, Reznicek (who was not interested in politics) had a problem: his wife Berta was of Jewish origin (although she had been raised as a Calvinist). Soon there were threats to blackmail the family. Berta only in the very last moment was prevented from suicide. She retired completely from public life and died early in 1939 of a heart attack. Reznicek's daughter Felicitas attempted to leave Germany for Switzerland, but received no permit to work there. Therefore, she remained in Berlin, where she entered the German resistance movement as early as 1934. Later, she also collaborated with the British MI6, becoming one of its most important informants. (Winston Churchill bestowed on her British citizenship in 1951). She had a personal relationship with Hitler's Adjudant Fritz Wiedemann and therefore access to the innermost circles of the Nazi regime. On the other hand, Emil-Ludwig (1898–1940), Reznicek's youngest son, was a fervent Nazi sympathiser even before 1933, joining the party and the SS. When he appeared in Nazi uniform in 1933, Reznicek was outraged and a complete split of the family was prevented only with the promise never to discuss politics. In 1934, Reznicek accepted Strauss's invitation to become the German delegate at the ständige Rat für die Internationale Zusammenarbeit der Komponisten.Contrary to the opinion promulgated by Ernst Krenek, this was not a Nazi-organisation but an invention of Richard Strauss tolerated by the Nazi-Propaganda.Reznicek was a friend of Richard Strauss, but relations between the two were ambivalent. Reznicek's symphonic poem Schlemihl (1912) has been seen as a parody of Strauss' A Hero's Life, though in his autobiography Reznicek rejected this interpretation. By his own account, his greatest influence was, in fact, Gustav Mahler. Sardonic humour features in much of Reznicek's music, from the prankster Till Eulenspiegel and the jibbering Blaubart of Ritter Blaubart to the Dance around the Golden Calf in Der Sieger and the expressionist Tarantella movement of the Dance Symphony (No. 5, 1925).--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Please support this channelpatreon.com/fyrexia
S.Coleridge-Taylor - Piano Quintet in G minor Op.1 fyrexianoff 2022-02-01 | Catalyst Quartet & Stewart Goodyear - Piano00:00 Allegro con moto09:16 Larghetto16:05 Scherzo20:32 Allegro moltoSamuel Coleridge- Taylor (1875-1912) was an English Composer. He was born to an English woman (Alice Hare Martin), and Dr. Daniel Peter Hughes Taylor, a Krio from Sierra Leone who had studied medicine in the capital. His mother named him Samuel Coleridge Taylor after the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. His father went back to Africa without knowing his mother was pregnant. The family arranged for Taylor to study at the Royal College of Music, beginning at the age of 15. He changed from violin to composition, working under professor Charles Villiers Stanford. In 1894, his father was appointed coroner for the British Empire in the Province of Senegambia. Coleridge-Taylor's greatest success was undoubtedly his cantata Hiawatha's Wedding Feast, which was widely performed by choral groups in England during Coleridge-Taylor's lifetime and in the decades after his death. Its popularity was rivalled only by the choral standards Handel's Messiah and Mendelssohn's Elijah. Of mixed race birth, Coleridge-Taylor achieved such success that he was referred to by white New York musicians as the "African Mahler" when he had three tours of the United States in the early 1900s. Coleridge-Taylor also composed chamber music, anthems, and the African Dances for violin, among other works. The Petite Suite de Concert is still regularly played. Coleridge-Taylor composed a violin concerto for the American violinist Maud Powell. Coleridge-Taylor was 37 when he died of pneumonia. His death is often attributed to the stress of his financial situation.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Please support this channelpatreon.com/fyrexia
Abram Chasins plays Weinberger/Chasins - Schwanda Fantasy fyrexianoff 2022-01-22 | Abram Chasins - PianoAbram Chasins (1903-1987) was an American Composer. Chasins' career as a pianist lasted from 1927 until 1947. He gave many solo recitals and performed with major orchestras in the United States, Canada, South America and Europe. On January 1, 1929, he made his debut playing his Piano Concerto No 1 with the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Ossip Gabrilowitsch. He also gave the premiere performance of his Second Piano Concerto in March 1933, again with the Philadelphia Orchestra, this time conducted by Leopold Stokowski.He studied piano with Ernest Hutcheson and Bertha Tapper, and composition with Rubin Goldmark at the Juilliard School of Music before proceeding to the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia where he undertook further piano studies with Józef Hofmann. In 1931 he studied music analysis with Sir Donald Tovey in London. In 1949 he married Constance Keene, a pianist and former student of his, with whom he performed and recorded piano duos. In 1972 he joined the University of Southern California as musician-in-residence, and reorganized the student-run radio station KUSC into a channel for classical and modern music. He retired in 1977, and died of cancer at his home in Manhattan on June 21, 1987.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Please support this channelpatreon.com/fyrexia
Rosita Bal - Preludio, for Piano fyrexianoff 2022-01-18 | Paula Ríos - PianoRosa García Ascot (1902-2002) was a Spanish Composer. She was the only woman in the famed Group of Eight, whose members also included Julián Bautista, Ernesto Halffter and his brother Rodolfo, Juan José Mantecón, Fernando Remacha, Salvador Bacarisse and Jesús Bal y Gay. She married Bal y Gay in 1933. Her more notable compositions include Suite para orquesta (Suite for orchestra), Preludio (Prelude), and the Concierto para piano y orquesta (Concerto for piano and orchestra). García Ascot was an exponent of Manuel de Falla's music as a concert pianist and is also considered the latter's last disciple. Before studying with de Falla in Madrid, she was a pupil of Felipe Pedrell, and later studied with Enrique Granados. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Please support this channelpatreon.com/fyrexia
Horatio Parker - 4 Sketches for Piano Op.19 fyrexianoff 2022-01-14 | 00:00 Romanza03:16 Scherzino04:54 Etude Melodieuse07:32 NocturneHoratio Parker (1863-1919) was an American Composer. His earliest lessons were with his mother. He then studied in Boston with George Whitefield Chadwick, Stephen A. Emery and John Orth. He finished his formal education in Europe, a common destination for a young American composer in the 1880s, where he studied in Munich with Josef Rheinberger.In Munich Parker composed his first significant works, including a symphony and a dramatic cantata. He also premiered Joseph Rheinberger's Organ Concerto No. 1 in F Major from 1884 there.He was a central figure in musical life in New Haven, Connecticut in the late 19th century, and is best remembered as the undergraduate teacher of Charles Ives while the composer attended Yale University.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Please support this channelpatreon.com/fyrexia
Julio Ituarte - La Ausencia, a song without words fyrexianoff 2022-01-12 | Cyprien Katsaris - PianoJulio Ituarte (1845-1905) was a Mexican Composer. He studied at the piano academy of Tomás León, later with the composer Melesio Morales, with whom he perfected harmony and counterpoint.Ituarte left for Havana when he was twenty-one years old. In this city he gave concerts, with works by Franz Liszt, Frédéric Chopin and Sigismund Thalberg. Upon his return, he became a piano teacher at the Conservatory of the Mexican Philharmonic Society, from 1868 to 1885, and later, from 1897 to 1905. As an arranger, he transcribed numerous operas for piano by composers such as Arrieta, Bizet, Campana, Morales, Petrella and Verdi, which were published in H. Nagel, and in A. Wagner and Levien, established in Mexico City. He was a prolific composer, writing zarzuelas, such as Sustos y gustos (1887) and Gato por hare. He composed various works for piano, some with a virtuosic style and melodic wit. His work Ecos de México (1880), cataloged as a 'mosaic of national airs' was recognized in Europe and applauded in the places where it was performed; This piece is about a nationalist work that takes up traditional Mexican melodies with a romanticist rhetoric.Among his pupils were Ricardo Castro, Fernando Fierro y Vicente Lucio.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Please support this channelpatreon.com/fyrexia
Cesar Cortinas - Violin Sonata No.1 fyrexianoff 2022-01-10 | Mario Bresciani (vl) /Hugo Balzo (pno)00:00 Moderato05:11 Adagio ma non troppo08:23 FinaleCesar Cortinas (1892-1918) was a Uruguayan Composer.His musical studies began in 1905 when his father was elected deputy for the department of San José and the family had to move to Montevideo. There he begins to take lessons with the teacher Camilo Giucci (grandfather of the composer Carlos Giucci).At thirteen he began to write his first compositions. His first works belong to this period of his studies in Montevideo with Camilo Giucci, among them Ballade, Printemps and an Ave Maria for three voices.In 1909, at the age of 17, he went to Europe and passed the admission test to study at the Berlin High School of Music directed by Max Bruch, becoming the only South American student that the teacher had.The climate of northern Europe makes him sick with pulmonary tuberculosis and he comes to the brink of death, forcing him to move to Switzerland to be treated. In 1911 he was discharged and returned to Montevideo to dedicate himself to his compositional activity. His second trip to Europe took place in 1912. During his stay there he wrote for Uruguayan newspapers about European musical life, but when the First World War broke out he was forced to return to Montevideo in November 1914, already very broken. of health. To take care of his health, he goes to the country house of his sister María Cortinas, where he composes the Poem for piano and string quartet.He died at age 26.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Please support this channelpatreon.com/fyrexia
Blas Galindo - Cello Sonata fyrexianoff 2022-01-06 | Cristian Guandique (cl) / Laura Castro (pno)00:00 Allegro06:33 Lento12:12 AllegroBlas Galindo (1910-1993) was a Mexican Composer. Galindo studied intermittently from 1931 to 1944 at the National Conservatory in Mexico City, studying with Carlos Chávez (composition), Candelario Huizar, José Rolón, and Manuel Rodríguez Vizcarra (piano). In 1934, he formed the Grupo de los cuatro with fellow composers Daniel Ayala, Salvador Contreras, and José Pablo Moncayo, seeking to use indigenous Mexican musical materials in art-music compositions. In 1941, he was an assistant at the Berkshire Music Festival at Tanglewood, and studied under Aaron Copland at the Berkshire Music Center in 1941 and again in 1942, when his orchestral suite Arroyos was performed there. In September 1947, Chávez named him Director of the National Conservatory of Music, a title he maintained until 1961. Before this appointment he began as a student at the Conservatory, later becoming a professor of many subjects including "harmony, counterpoint, musical analysis, history of music and composition." While at the Conservatory, Galindo also conducted the student orchestra, reformed the bylaws and built a new building. In August 1949, he was invited to be an adjudicator at the fourth Chopin piano competition in Warsaw. During this visit to Europe he travelled to seven countries to officially inspect schools of music.Galindo retired in 1965 and dedicated himself to his composition, writing some for pleasure and others for "commission". To do this, he would frequently "retreat from Mexico City to a house in the country for weeks at a time in order to immerse himself fully." In July 1974, Galindo accompanied the President of Mexico with "a number of other intellectuals" to South America.Galindo "constantly [fought] the problem of trying to have [his works] performed more than just once and the financial problems of having them published". R.P. Conant wrote of Galindo, "He would, however, like to write an opera or even a cycle of operas dealing with the life of Mexico, the agitated life of Mexico from the Aztec leader Cuauhtémoc through the leaders of Mexican independence like Morelos, Juárez, Zapata, and Cardenas"--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Please support this channelpatreon.com/fyrexia
Enrique Soro - Cello Sonata fyrexianoff 2022-01-03 | Katharina Paslawski (cl) / Luis Alberto Latorre (pno)00:00 Allegro con brio07:45 Scherzando13:18 Andante20:07 Allegro finaleEnrique Soro Barriga (1884-1954) was a Chilean Composer and Pianist. Considered one of the first Chilean symphonists, Enrique Soro Barriga made his first studies in Concepción, with Clotilde de la Barra (piano) and Domingo Brescia (harmony and counterpoint). With a scholarship from the Chilean Senate, he left from Talcahuano port, in 1898, to study in Italy, at the Royal Conservatory of Milan, one of the most important in the world at that time. His most important teachers were Luigi Mapelli (counterpoint and fugue) and Gaetano Coronaro (Composition).Upon graduating from the Milan Conservatory at the end of July 1904, Soro received the Only Grand Prize that this institution awarded to the best student of his generation. Encouraged by his good results and with the title of master composer, he organized a tour of several Italian cities and Paris, in order to make himself known. An important milestone was the concert with his works held on December 16, 1904 at the Grande Salle Pleyel in Paris.Despite the job offers in Italy, Soro wanted to return to Chile to contribute to the development of a broader, deeper musical environment that included the creation of audiences, in today's words.The summer of 1908 was very productive for Soro: in addition to composing more than 20 short works for piano, he began the composition of the “Sonata in C minor, for piano” (completed in 1912) and the “Concerto in D major, for piano and orchestra ”(completed in 1918). Also that same summer he composed "Lyrical Impressions, for strings and piano", a work that aligns with the "Quintet in B minor, for strings and piano" (1911) and his Concerto in D major.On August 9, 1915, the newspaper El Mercurio de Santiago commented on an act in honor of the teacher Soro who was preparing to travel to the United States. He was invited to show his music in different rooms, and he befriended the Mexican musician Julián Carrillo, with whom he managed to give a concert with his works at Carnegie Hall in New York.He also recorded piano rolls for the Aeolian Company and also managed to get his works published by G Schirmer NY, with whom he had a deal from 1916 to 1938. The summer of 1922 was spent by Soro in Concepción and was very fruitful in works for piano where he composed “Memories of Concepción”, “Sonata n ° 3 in D major”, and also completed the fantastic etudes. After a political regime change in the country, Soro was destituted from the conservatory under pure political means, in 1928. So he dedicated mostly to composing (fantastic dances, Cello Sonatas). In 1931 he was invited to the Barcelona International Fair and presented his Piano Concerto in D major. Here he met Pablo Casals and also able to meet again after 25 years Alfredo Casella. Recognized as a great improviser on the piano, his life was linked with great personalities of the time, such as Pau Casals, Vincent D’Indy, Pietro Mascagni, Ignacy Paderewski, Giacomo Puccini, Maurice Ravel and Camille Saint-Saëns, among others.With a new regime change in 1938, he was back at teaching and was honored for his 50 years of composition. He was a teacher of: Domingo Santa Cruz, Juan Allende-Blin, Nino Marcelli, Héctor Melo, Juan Casanova Vicuña and Roberto Puelma, all relevant personalities of the Chilean musical world who survived him.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Please support this channelpatreon.com/fyrexia
Robert Fleming - Piano Sonatina fyrexianoff 2021-12-31 | Elaine Keillor - Piano00:00 Lyrically and Freely03:43 Quickly and with SpiritRobert Fleming (1921-1976) was a Canadian Composer. At a young age his family settled in Saskatoon where he first studied with his mother. Between 1937 and 1939 he studied under Arthur Benjamin, and Herbert Howells in England at the RCM.When he returned to Saskatoon he taught piano before making his formal debut in 1940 at Darke Hall in Regina and later toured Saskatchewan as a recitalist. While studying piano with Lyell Gustin in 1941-2 he became the assistant organist at the Church of St Alban the Martyr in Saskatoon. In 1941 and 1945 he attended The Royal Conservatory of Music (RCM), to which in later years he contributed music.While at RCM he studied under Healey Willan for composition, Norman Wilks for piano, Ettore Mazzoleni for conducting, and John Weatherseed and Frederick Silvester for Organ. Between 1945 and 1946 he taught at Upper Canada College before joining the National Film Board, where he worked in Ottawa and Montreal as a staff composer between 1946 and 1958 before becoming music director between 1958 and 1970.Through his career Robert contributed music to well over 200 film scores including the Canada at War series and the Oscar-nominated 1953 short documentary, Herring Hunt.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Please support this channelpatreon.com/fyrexia
B.Itiberê da Cunha - Selected Pieces for Piano fyrexianoff 2021-12-30 | Giséle Rizental - Piano00:00 Étude Concert, d'après C.P.E. Bach, Op. 3304:51 Mazurka Op.1213:07 Poeme D'amour Fantasie22:25 Gavotte28:54 Mazurka (no.6) Op.3133:29 Serenade Op.3440:28 A Sertaneja, Fantasia caracteristica sobre temas brasileirosBrasílio Itiberê da Cunha (1846-1913) was a Brazilian Composr. He was born in the coastal city of Paranaguá, the son of John Manuel da Cunha and Maria Munoz Lourenço da Cunha. He attended primary school in his homeland and his musical initiation was at the piano, learning at his parents' home.Already renowned as a pianist in his youth he moved to São Paulo to attend the Faculty of Law at the Largo of São Francisco, performing several concerts in this city. After obtaining a BA in Law he joined the diplomatic service in the diplomatic corps serving in Italy, Peru, Belgium, Paraguay and Germany.Without leaving music aside, Brasílio maintained friendly relations with some of the greatest pianists of his time such as Anton Rubinstein, Sgambati and Liszt.Considered to be one of the forerunners of Brazilian nationalistic music Itiberê drew early inspiration from popular motifs and his work and style are distinctly Brazilian.He composed chamber and choral music and works for piano solo. His rhapsody A Sertaneja was popularized by the famous song "Balaio, meu bem, Balaio.".--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Please support this channelpatreon.com/fyrexia
Radamés Gnattali - Alma Brasileira (Etude no 6), for piano fyrexianoff 2021-12-29 | Arthur Moreira Lima - PianoRadamés Gnattali (1906-1988) was a Brazilian Composer. In 1920, at the age of 14, he entered the School of Fine Arts at the University of Rio Grande do Sul, where he studied with the musicologist and piano teacher Guilherme Fontainha (a student of Vianna da Motta), eventually winning a gold medal for piano playing in 1924. He then moved to Rio de Janeiro, where he gave a series of successful piano recitals, while also studying at the National Music Institute. His lifelong association with Ernesto Nazareth, the renowned composer of Brazilian national music dates from this period.[5] Back in Porto Alegre due to lack of money, Gnattali founded the Quarteto Henrique Oswald, in which he played first as a pianist and then as a violinist.A 1929 performance as soloist in Tchaikovsky's B-flat piano concerto, played with the orchestra of the Teatro Municipal in Rio de Janeiro, was praised in the press but did not lead to a long-term career as a concert pianist.Instead, Gnattali began a career in Rio as a successful conductor and arranger of popular music—activities which tended to divert his attention from other genres. Financial needs led him to work for radio stations and record companies as a pianist, conductor and arranger of popular music. His background music for radio serials and his clever arrangements of the tunes and dances of the day made him a successful figure. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Please support this channelpatreon.com/fyrexia
Luiz Cosme - Canção do tio Bernabé, for piano fyrexianoff 2021-12-28 | Marcello Cazarré - PianoLuiz Cosme (1908-1965) was a Brazilian Composer. Son of José Pereira Cosme, connected to the arts, in his house he met the first modernist generation of intellectuals from Porto Alegre, such as Augusto Meyer, Theodomiro Tostes, Athos Damasceno, Armando Albuquerque and Radamés Gnatalli. He was the brother of artist and violinist Sotero Cosme.He began his musical studies at the age of eight at the Conservatory of the Instituto de Bellas-Artes, being a student of Assuero Garritano and Oscar Simm. He worked in cinemas as a violinist in the silent film era. He received a scholarship to study at the Ohio Conservatory in the United States, improving his violin skills. In that country he became a concertmaster for the Cincinnati Conservatory Orchestra. After two years, he went to Paris, where he remained for a short time, but came into contact with the Parisian musical avant-garde.Returning to Porto Alegre in 1930, he began teaching at the Instituto Musical de Porto Alegre and at Colégio Metodista Americano. At that time he began to compose, debuting his first works in 1931, a group of songs and chamber pieces.In the 1940s Luiz Cosme took over the organization of radio programs on the Ministry of Education and Culture Radio, while his compositions were already broadcast in Europe and the United States through concerts and recordings, but he did not compose anything new between 1938 and 1946, making only transcriptions of old works. Returning to composing, he joined dodecaphonism, but at that time he had already manifested a progressive neurological disease that would lead to his death. In the 1960s he was already a notorious name, but he dedicated himself only to writing essays and music books, abandoning composition.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Please support this channelpatreon.com/fyrexia
Eduardo Dutra - Prelude Op.32 for piano (1940) fyrexianoff 2021-12-27 | Daniel Inamorato - PianoEduardo Dutra (1908-1963) was a Brazilian Composer. Little is known about this composer. Most of his works were published privately and destroyed. It is established that Dutra was a part-time composer, implying that he depended on an occupation other than composing for his livelihood. Unfortunately, there is no listing, not even a partial one, of his works. His scores were not published by the music publishing houses of his day, and only private printings were made. Following Dutra’s death most of his manuscripts and existing printed scores were apparently either lost or destroyed. Thus finding copies of his scores now is extremely difficult. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Please support this channelpatreon.com/fyrexia
Luis A. Calvo - 4 Intermezzi for Piano fyrexianoff 2021-12-26 | 00:00 No.1 (Oriol Rangel)03:59 No.2 "lejano azul" (Helvia Mendoza)08:41 No.3 (Teresita Gomez)14:02 No.4 (Teresita Gomez)Luis Antonio Calvo (1882-1945) was a Colombian Composer. Calvo as a child began piano studies with maestro Tomás Posada. He also studied violin and was a member of a local band. In order to seek a better economic situation, his family moved to Bogotá, arriving in the capital on May 11, 1905.Calvo tried to obtain a scholarship to study at the Academy of Music that the government granted to all members of a musical band, but he could not get it because he did not have the necessary recommendations.Two years later Calvo finally was invited to belong to the music academy, with which he was able to complete his musical education adequately. There he was able to meet maestro Guillermo Uribe Holguín, who instructed him in the interpretation of the cello. On October 14, 1916 Luis Antonio Calvo discovered, through the medical attention of Dr. Carlos Tirado Macías, that he suffered from Hansen's disease, leprosy, for which he had to be admitted to the Agua de Dios lazaretto, where later would compose most of his works. A tribute was paid to him at the Colón Theater as a farewell, and on May 12, 1916 he was confined in Agua de Dios, where the Salesian parents, directors of the lazaretto, provided him with all kinds of comforts by giving Calvo and his family a house. Shortly after his confinement, he was presented with a piano by the citizens of Bogotá. Because of that, Calvo devoted himself almost entirely to this instrument. Luis Antonio Calvo died on April 22, 1945 at 3 o'clock in the afternoon at the Agua de Dios Sanatorium, due to an attack of uremia. Various sources indicate that possibly his leprosy had been cured from time before the moment of his death; It is impossible, however, to confirm or refute these theories because the musician's medical record was destroyed, along with several of his works.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Please support this channelpatreon.com/fyrexia
Pedro Morales Pino - Selected Pieces for Piano fyrexianoff 2021-12-20 | Claudia Calderón - Piano00:00 Lejanía (pasillo)05:49 El Chato (pasillo)08:20 Andina (danza)15:14 La Catalana (polka)17:45 Lejos de la patria (pasillo)23:10 Fusagasugueño (bambuco)26:19 Intimo (pasillo)31:38 Chizpazo (pasillo)34:42 Penumbra (danza)Pedro Morales Pino (1863-1926) was a Colombian Composer. His parents, were very humble people and due to this condition he had to sell sweets from a very young age, a circumstance that directly related him to street musicians and troubadours. This proximity aroused his interest in music. The mother of the future interpreter, realizing his aptitude, gave him a Colombian tiple and a course taught by maestro José Hoyos. At the age of 13 he traveled with his family to Ibagué where he began a career as a painter; As he also excelled in this field, he got a scholarship to study in Bogotá at the Alberto Urdaneta Drawing Academy.In 1890, Pedro Morales Pino decided to make compositions based on Colombian folklore and oral musical tradition using the techniques of academic musical composition. A year earlier, on July 22, 1889, he received a tribute for his contribution to national music. Next, he traveled to Medellín where he was commissioned to create the Lira Antioqueña group. While in Guatemala with his group, he falls in love with the pianist Francisca Llerena whom he married in 1905. His wife died and Pedro Morales Pino returned to Guatemala trying to recover from this loss and where he lived until 1917 when he decided to return to Colombia due to the earthquake that it hit the Central American country. One year before his death, he wins the National Music Competition. His health was weakening and his financial situation was deficient, to the point of having to sell the decorations that he had received throughout his musical career. Finally, seriously ill, he was admitted by his children, due to lack of resources, in the charity room of the "Hospital San José" in Bogotá, where two of his friends, found him. When they learned of his seriousness, they installed him in a medical center with better conditions, but his health did not improve, which is why he died two days after the transfer, on March 4, 1926.It is not only as a composer that he receives the influences of Colombian folklore, but his work as a musician made it possible to publicize and expand Colombian musical genres such as bambuco, pasillos and dance in other territories, in addition to incorporating European music in typical groups which allowed the people to have access to it. Also, he perfected some instruments such as the Colombian Andean bandola or bandolin to which he added five more strings, creating the 16-string variant of such instrument. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Please support this channelpatreon.com/fyrexia
Celestino Piaggio - Piano Sonata in C Sharp Minor fyrexianoff 2021-12-17 | Elsa Piaggio - Piano00:00 Animado06:03 Andando10:02 Scherzo13:24 RondóCelestino Piaggio (1886-1931) was an Argentine Composer. He belonged to a family of musicians in which his brother, Leonidas (cello; 1887-1942) and his sister, Elsa Piaggio de Tarelli (piano; 1906-1993) stood out. Like these, Celestino began his studies of piano and violin under the guidance of his father, Víctor. The solid preparation acquired from him allowed him, at the age of ten, to begin his career as a violinist in the orchestra of one of the many Italian opera companies that toured the interior of the country.In 1900 he settled with his family in the Argentine capital, enrolling in the Buenos Aires Conservatory of Music. After being examined by the founder and director of this house of studies, Alberto Williams, he entered the upper classes dictated by Julián Aguirre (piano), Andrés Gaos (violin), Carlos Marchal (ensemble) and Williams himself (harmony, counterpoint , composition and orchestral conducting).In 1908 he travelled go Paris under a scholarship.There he entered the Schola Cantorum studying harmony with Saint Reguier, counterpoint with Groz, composition with Vincent d'Indy, organ with Cinand and Décaux and Gregorian chant with Gastoué.On vacation in 1914 he traveled to Romania. The outbreak of the First World War turns the short holiday trip into a forced five-year residence in Bucharest. This hazardous situation forces him to integrate into the new community and seek a place in it. Piaggio began to give music lessons for a living, as he had lost the benefits of the scholarship corresponding to the European Grand Prix. Thanks to his conditions, he did not take long to awaken the interest and admiration of the artistic environment of the place. He gave recitals and was appointed a pianist of the Royal Court, a member of the jury of the Bucharest Conservatory and founded both the Critical Teatrala, Muzicala, Literara si Artistica (1918) and the Asociatiei Generale Muzicala din România orchestra for the Amicii Orbilor society (1918).In 1919, he went back to Paris to finish his studies with d'Indy. And the year after also to finish his studies of directing with Artur Nikisch in Germany. After graduating, he received numerous offers from Bucharest so he could eventually stay there, but Alberto Williams started offering him a position at the Conservatorio Nacional. On February 23, 1921, he arrived in Argentina starting a rich and fruitful activity not only as a teacher and interpreter, but also in the organization and management of events in the discipline. As a teacher, on March 1, 1921, he took over the chairs of piano, harmony, counterpoint, and composition at the Buenos Aires Conservatory of Music. In 1924, after signing the contract promised by Williams, he became deputy director of the institute and participated in the profits of the institute. This contractual relationship remained in force until 1931, the year of Piaggio's death.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Please support this channelpatreon.com/fyrexia
Juan Morel Campos - 4 Puerto Rican Danzas for Piano fyrexianoff 2021-12-15 | Elías López Sobá - Piano00:00 Alma Sublime03:27 Felices Dias07:09 Influencia del arte10:23 Buen Humor!Juan Morel Campos (1857-1897) was a Puerto Rican Composer. Morel Campos was a student of Puerto Rican composer and pianist Gonzalo de J. Núñez (1850 - 1915), whose students also included the internationally known musicians and composers Manuel Gregorio Tavárez and Arístides Chavier Arévalo. Morel Campos learned to play practically every brass instrument and eventually became one of the founders and directors of the "Ponce Firemen's Band" (La Banda de Bomberos del Parque de Bombas de Ponce). The legendary band was later renamed the Ponce Municipal Band.Later, Morel Campos became a student of the composer Manuel Gregorio Tavárez, "The Father of the Danza". Campos' first danza composition was called "Sopapos". The influence of Tavárez, plus the particular style developed by Morel Campos can be listened to in his music today.Morel Campos had his own dance orchestra, "La Lira Ponceña." Most of his danzas were written for dancing. He modified his compositions so that they may also be played on piano. Morel Campos is best known for his danza compositions, but he also composed waltzes, operas, symphonies, marches and overtures.He composed over 550 musical works before he died unexpectedly at age 38.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Please support this channelpatreon.com/fyrexia
M.A. Hamelin plays Radamés Gnattali - Negaceando, for Piano fyrexianoff 2021-12-12 | Radamés Gnattali (1906-1988) was a Brazilian Composer. In 1920, at the age of 14, he entered the School of Fine Arts at the University of Rio Grande do Sul, where he studied with the musicologist and piano teacher Guilherme Fontainha (a student of Vianna da Motta), eventually winning a gold medal for piano playing in 1924. He then moved to Rio de Janeiro, where he gave a series of successful piano recitals, while also studying at the National Music Institute. His lifelong association with Ernesto Nazareth, the renowned composer of Brazilian national music dates from this period.[5] Back in Porto Alegre due to lack of money, Gnattali founded the Quarteto Henrique Oswald, in which he played first as a pianist and then as a violinist.A 1929 performance as soloist in Tchaikovsky's B-flat piano concerto, played with the orchestra of the Teatro Municipal in Rio de Janeiro, was praised in the press but did not lead to a long-term career as a concert pianist.Instead, Gnattali began a career in Rio as a successful conductor and arranger of popular music—activities which tended to divert his attention from other genres. Financial needs led him to work for radio stations and record companies as a pianist, conductor and arranger of popular music. His background music for radio serials and his clever arrangements of the tunes and dances of the day made him a successful figure. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Please support this channelpatreon.com/fyrexia
R.Delgado Palacios - Valse Lucila, for Piano fyrexianoff 2021-12-11 | Josu Gallastegui - PianoRamón Delgado Palacios (1863-1902) was a Venezuelan Composer. He dedicated himself to the composition of lounge music, 45 works for piano, made up of dance pieces in the Venezuelan style, especially his waltzes - the most revealing work of his style - always shown wrapped in a painful and nostalgic halo. His melodies of great charm and delicacy are almost always written in a minor key, as if he sought in this way to create an atmosphere of melancholy and sadness, on a surface of genuinely Venezuelan colors.His influence reaches as Antonio Lauro, María Teresa Rodríguez (teacher of Juan Vicente Lecuna) and William Bolcom, among others.In 1905, his widow, the composer and pianist Rosario Silva Simonovis, published three of his waltzes.Pianists such as Evencio Castellanos, Davis Ascanio, Juan Francisco Sans, Elizabeth Guerrero, Carmencita Moleiro, Giomar Narváez, Monique Duphil, Juan Vicente Torres, who have performed and recorded some of their waltzes and merengue dances on disk.Of all of them, it is perhaps Guiomar Narváez who communicates a genuine Venezuelan feeling to his interpretations, characterized in the lightness of his phrasing and the lyricism that emanates from his interpretations.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Please support this channelpatreon.com/fyrexia
Acario Cotapos - Balmaceda, for Narrator and Orchestra fyrexianoff 2021-12-09 | Roberto Parrada (Narr.)/ Chile SO / Victor Tevah (no score after 10 minutes...)"Balmaceda" is a musical story for narrator and orchestra that Cotapos began to compose in 1956, the year of the 65th anniversary of the 1891 revolution, which ended with the death of President José Manuel Balmaceda. Presidential authoritarianism had clashed with parliamentarianism on various occasions. Balmaceda approved the nation's budget without the signature of Congress. This act caused the outbreak of war. The army was divided, with the Navy joining the congressmen starting a military campaign from Iquique against the presidential army, which was eventually defeated.When the revolutionary forces entered Santiago launching themselves into all kinds of excesses and looting, Balmaceda took refuge in the Argentine legation. On September 19, 1891, he committed suicide when he verified the damage that he had caused.The script for Cotapos's work is a personal adaptation of the historical events that occurred between August 29 and September 18, 1891, which synthesizes them as the last day of the President's life. After its premiere in Chile in 1958 the work was presented in Paris where the composer Olivier Messiaen wrote the following phrases: Cotapos is a true revolutionary in music. Not only is his language new, but even the images he suggests and the emotional content of him come from a different inner world.Acario Cotapos (1889-1969) was a Chilean Composer. He and his family were exiled to Argentina, after the Chilean Civil War, that led to the fall and eventual suicide of then (1890's) president Jose Manuel Balmaceda. Having spent a good part of his childhood in Argentina, he moved with his family to Santiago in 1902 and, in the 1910's, began to participate in the national artistic life. He befriended characters from the musical world, including Alfonso Leng, Alberto García Guerrero and Carlos Lavín. During these years, he also joined the Los Diez group, where he met important national personalities, such as Pedro Humberto Allende, Alberto Ried, Enrique Soro, Armando Carvajal and Eustaquio Guzmán, among others. His training was self-taught, although he received private piano and bassoon lessons, as well as multiple tips from his composer and artist friends, including Edgar Varèse, H. Honneger, André Jolivet, Olivier Messiaen, E. Klaiber and Celibidache. He was inserted into the artistic-literary cenacle of the time, displaying a surprising histrionics and establishing relationships with characters such as Federico García Lorca, Vicente Huidobro, Pablo Neruda, Pablo Picasso, Tristan Tzara and Ramón del Valle-Inclán, with what he nurtured his libertarian spirit of experimentalism unleashed his exuberant imagination and practiced a transcendental and expressive composition based on the subject and not on style. Its form of creation denied all stylistic schools and recognized only the work of one individual, as can be seen in many of his works, for example in Soledad del hombre (1930) and, especially, in the Dionisyos String Quartet (c. 1925) .--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Please support this channelpatreon.com/fyrexia
Eduardo Cáceres - Entrelunas, for cello and piano fyrexianoff 2021-12-07 | Angela Acuña (cello) / Karina Glasinovic (pno)00:0002:0704:31Eduardo Cáceres (b.1955) is a Chilean Composer. He was a student Cirilo Vila.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Please support this channelpatreon.com/fyrexia
Carlos Riesco - Symphony No.1 De Profundis fyrexianoff 2021-12-06 | Rosario Cristi, contralto/ Chile SO / Juan Carlos Zorzi00:0008:23Carlos Riesco (1925-2007) was a Chilean Composer. He studied composition at the University of Chile with the teacher Pedro Humberto Allende. He then continued his training in the United States, where he trained with David Diamond in composition; Rafael Da Silva on piano and Philip James on instrumentation and composition. He then he participated in the Tanglewood Composition Seminars, taught by Aaron Copland and Olivier Messiaen, respectively.His first works belong to his university stage: "Cuatro Poemas de Amor", on texts by Pablo Neruda, as well as several short pieces for piano, a suite for string orchestra and the "Semblanzas Chilenas" for piano.In 1951 he moved to Mexico City, where he studied with the composer Rodolfo Halffter and between 1952 and 1955 he studied in Paris, France, with Nadia Boulanger.He worked at the Instituto de Investigaciones Folklóricas of the University of Chile, to later develop musical studies in the United States. He was linked to the activities of the International Society of Contemporary Music.In 1954, the Ballet de France, directed by Janine Charrat, commissioned him to compose a ballet for this group. Thus was born "Candelaria", a work premiered in Spain at the Santander International Festival and which was also presented in Yugoslavia and at the Municipal Theater of Santiago, in 1963, where it was incorporated as a repertoire piece.He also composed a Piano Concerto, Violin Concerto and a Symphony. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Please support this channelpatreon.com/fyrexia
Jorge Urrutia Blondel - Pastoral de Alhué (Homenaje a Ravel) fyrexianoff 2021-12-04 | Victor Tevah/Chile SOJorge Urrutia Blondel (1905-1981) was a Chilean Composer. Urrutia Blondel carried out his humanistic studies at the National Institute of Santiago and later entered a law degree at the University of Chile. In parallel and privately, he studied with the teachers Andrés Steinfort (Music Theory and Harmony), Raúl Hügel (Piano), Pedro Humberto Allende (Harmony and Composition) and Domingo Santa Cruz (Counterpoint).In 1924 he actively participated in the work of the Bach Society, encouraged by Domingo Santa Cruz with other musicians. Urrutia Blondel was part of the Board of Directors, as well as critic and editor of the magazine "Marsyas", published by the same institution. Four years later he was appointed secretary of the National Conservatory of Music, when the reform of this center took place. This same year he received a scholarship from the Government to study in Europe, where he met Charles Koechlin, Vincent d'Indy, Paul Dukas and Nadia Boulanger, at the École Normale in Paris, as well as Paul Hindemith and Hans Mersmann at the Hochschule für Musik de Berlin (1928-1931). Upon returning to Chile he was appointed Professor of Harmony and Composition at the Conservatory.As a teacher he had among his students Juan Amenábar, José Vicente Asuar, Darwin Vargas Wallis and Miguel Aguilar.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Please support this channelpatreon.com/fyrexia
Acario Cotapos - Preliminary Symphony to the Mockingbird (Sinfonia Preliminar de El Pajaro Burlón) fyrexianoff 2021-12-02 | Victor Tevah / Chile SOAcario Cotapos (1889-1969) was a Chilean Composer. He and his family were exiled to Argentina, after the Chilean Civil War, that led to the fall and eventual suicide of then (1890's) president Jose Manuel Balmaceda. Having spent a good part of his childhood in Argentina, he moved with his family to Santiago in 1902 and, in the 1910's, began to participate in the national artistic life. He befriended characters from the musical world, including Alfonso Leng, Alberto García Guerrero and Carlos Lavín. During these years, he also joined the Los Diez group, where he met important national personalities, such as Pedro Humberto Allende, Alberto Ried, Enrique Soro, Armando Carvajal and Eustaquio Guzmán, among others. His training was self-taught, although he received private piano and bassoon lessons, as well as multiple tips from his composer and artist friends, including Edgar Varèse, H. Honneger, André Jolivet, Olivier Messiaen, E. Klaiber and Celibidache. He was inserted into the artistic-literary cenacle of the time, displaying a surprising histrionics and establishing relationships with characters such as Federico García Lorca, Vicente Huidobro, Pablo Neruda, Pablo Picasso, Tristan Tzara and Ramón del Valle-Inclán, with what he nurtured his libertarian spirit of experimentalism unleashed his exuberant imagination and practiced a transcendental and expressive composition based on the subject and not on style. Its form of creation denied all stylistic schools and recognized only the work of one individual, as can be seen in many of his works, for example in Soledad del hombre (1930) and, especially, in the Dionisyos String Quartet (c. 1925) .--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Please support this channelpatreon.com/fyrexia
Alfonso Leng - 2 Preludes for Orchestra fyrexianoff 2021-12-01 | Fernando Rosas/Chile SO00:00 Andante05:13 AndanteAlfonso Leng (1884-1974) was a Chilean Composer. Self-taught, he did not carry out systematic music studies, but only attended for a brief period during 1905 the harmony and composition courses taught by maestro Enrique Soro at the National Conservatory of Music. However, his premature artistic interests led him from a very young age to join some of the private musical institutions that operated in Santiago in the first decades of the 20th century. Among them, groups such as Los Diez, the Ortiz de Zárate Academy and the Bach Society, which brought together specialist and amateur musicians around the common search for a modern and progressive aesthetic. In 1909, he obtained the title of dentist, then founding the university chairs of Parodontia and Physiological Chemistry, to finally be appointed first dean of the Faculty of Dentistry of the University of Chile in 1945. He was also a member of scientific institutions in the United States, England and Italy, and integrated the faculties of Dentistry of Cuba, Argentina and Peru.Alfonso Leng had an active participation in the bustling academic music scene in Chile during the first half of the 20th century. He intervened in the reform of the National Conservatory of Music and in the creation of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Chile and participated in the Institute of Musical Extension of this house of studies, collaborating in the design of the Chilean Music Festivals that were developed from 1948 onwards.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Please support this channelpatreon.com/fyrexia
Rodolfo Arizaga - Música para Cristóbal Colón fyrexianoff 2021-11-30 | 00:00 Preámbulo04:01 Ostinato05:38 Tránsito08:55 Tempestad14:07 Visión17:32 EpílogoRodolfo Arizaga (1926-1985) was an Argentine Composer. He studied at the National Conservatory with Alberto Williams, José Gil, Luis Gianneo and Teodoro Fuchs. He toured Spain and France, and in 1954, in Paris, he studied with Nadia Boulanger and Olivier Messiaen. He experimented with the Ondas Martenot, returning to Argentina in 1960. He also excelled as a music critic and author of essays and biographies.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Please support this channelpatreon.com/fyrexia
Malinee Peris plays Carlos Chavez - Valses Intimos No.2 (a Otilia) fyrexianoff 2021-11-29 | Malinee Jayasinghe Peris (b.1929) is a Sri Lankan Pianist. Peris studied piano with Lance Dossor at the Royal College of Music. She continued violin with Isolde Menges at the Royal College, chamber music with Arthur Jacobs, and history and composition with Dr. Herbert Howells.In 1955 she competed at the Chopin International Piano Competition in Warsaw, Poland where she won an Honorable Mention.In 1958, Peris was on the program of the premiere of the Symphony Orchestra of Sri Lanka’s debut performance where she performed Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto, Op. 58. During her career she has collaborated with many contemporary composers. She gave the North American debut of Ned Rorem’s’ 3rd Sonata at a recital at Expo 67 in Montreal, Canada. She has played works by Alan Hovhaness in concert in Germany. She has worked with Paul Ben-Haim in Israel and Zoltán Kodály in Hungary and played their compositions.Carlos Chavez (1899-1978) was a Mexican Composer. Carlos had his first piano lessons from his brother Manuel, and later on he was taught piano by Asunción Parra, Manuel Ponce, and Pedro Luis Ozagón, and harmony by Juan Fuentes. After the Mexican Revolution and the installation of a democratically elected president, Álvaro Obregón, Chávez became one of the first exponents of Mexican nationalist music with ballets on Aztec themes. In December 1928, Chávez was appointed director of Mexico's National Conservatory of Music—a position he held for a total of five years (until March 1933, and again for eight months in 1934). In that capacity, Chávez spearheaded three academias de investigación, two concerned with collecting and cataloguing indigenous music and its literature, and the third to study the uses of old and new scales.During his time in New York City between 1924 and 1928, Chávez acquired a taste for the then-fashionable abstract and quasi-scientific music, as is reflected in the titles of many of his compositions written between 1923 and 1934: Polígonos for piano (Polygons, 1923), Exágonos for voice and piano (Hexagons, 1924), 36 for piano (1925), Energía for nine instruments (Energy, 1925), Espiral for violin and piano (Spiral, 1934), and an unfinished orchestral score titled Pirámides (Pyramids).In 1938, he conducted a series of concerts with the NBC Symphony Orchestra, during a period of absence by the orchestra's regular conductor, Arturo Toscanini.In 1940 he produced concerts at New York's Museum of Modern Art, and by 1945, Chávez had come to be regarded as the foremost Mexican composer and conductor. Of his six symphonies, the second, or Sinfonía india, which uses native Yaqui percussion instruments, is probably the most popular.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Please support this channelpatreon.com/fyrexia
Carlos Guastavino - Piano Sonata fyrexianoff 2021-11-28 | Lilia Salsano - Piano00:00 Allegretto Intimo03:59 Scherzo Molto Vivace06:54 Recitativo - Lento09:52 Fuga y final - AllegroCarlos Guastavino (1912-2000) was an Argentine Composer. He studied music in Santa Fe with Esperanza Lothringer and Dominga Iaffei, and in Buenos Aires with Athos Palma.His production amounted to over 500 works, most of them songs for piano and voice, many still unpublished. His style was quite conservative, always tonal and lushly romantic. His compositions were clearly influenced by Argentine folk music. His reputation was based almost entirely on his songs, and Guastavino has sometimes been called "the Schubert of the Pampas". --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Please support this channelpatreon.com/fyrexia
Oscar Levant - Sonatina fyrexianoff 2021-11-27 | Raffi Besalyan -Piano00:00 Con ritmo03:29 Andantino poco mosso07:48 Allegro decisoOscar Levant (1906-1972) was an American Composer. He was the child of Russian Jewish immigrants. Oscar Levant moved to New York in 1922, following the death of his father. He began studying under Zygmunt Stojowski, a well-established piano pedagogue.In 1928, Levant traveled to Hollywood, where his career took a turn for the better. During his stay, he met and befriended George Gershwin. From 1929 to 1948, he composed the music for more than twenty movies.Around 1932, Levant began composing seriously. He studied under Arnold Schoenberg and impressed him sufficiently to be offered an assistantship (which he turned down, considering himself unqualified).His formal studies led to a request by Aaron Copland to play at the Yaddo Festival of contemporary American music on April 30 of that year. Successful, Levant began composing a new orchestral work, a sinfonietta.From the 1920s through the mid-1950s, Levant appeared in a number of feature films, often playing a pianist or composer.From 1958 to 1960, Levant hosted a talk show on KCOP-TV in Los Angeles, The Oscar Levant Show, which was later syndicated. It featured his piano playing along with monologues and interviews with guests such as Fred Astaire and Linus Pauling.In 1960, Levant was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in recognition of his recording career.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Please support this channelpatreon.com/fyrexia
Moisés Moleiro - Joropo, for Piano fyrexianoff 2021-11-25 | Josu Gallastegui - Piano (visit his channel for more Venezuelan little delights - youtube.com/channel/UC4FJ3udVdFmUDbmXNLaYLCw)The joropo is a musical genre and traditional dance from Venezuela and Colombia. The origin of the joropo is Spanish fandango and Arabic melismatic music (group of notes sung on the same syllable).According to the musicologist and researcher of Venezuelan and Caribbean music Rafael Salazar, consider that the fandango is a black-African fertile dance, originating from Guinea, which arrived in the Antilles from the dispersal of the slaves forcibly brought to America for the harsh tasks of agriculture and mining. The first fandangos arrived in Caracas at the beginning of the seventeenth century, they were played in the evenings of the great cacaos in the capital's haciendas and were performed with instruments such as the bandurria, the harpsichord and the bandola.Moisés Moleiro (1905-1979) was a Venezuelan Composer. He began his piano studies in his hometown. Moved to Caracas in 1922, he enrolled in the School of Music and Declamation in the classes of Salvador Llamozas and Vicente Emilio Sojo. His progress was so important that, in 1927, he won the first prize for piano performance. Since then he began his career as a soloist. He was one of the founders of the Lamas choir (1930), to which he continued to give valuable cooperation as a singer, sheet music copyist and composer. He was a member of the list of founding musicians of the Venezuela Symphony Orchestra, the Venezuelan Concert Association, the Caracas Athenaeum and the Venezuelan Association of Authors and Composers.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Please support this channelpatreon.com/fyrexia
Antonio Estevez - 17 Pieces for Children (piezas infantiles) fyrexianoff 2021-11-24 | Sylvia Constantinidis - Piano00:00 1 - 3 (Ancestros)06:07 4 - La huerta de Doñana07:07 5 - El trompo07:50 Cancion con tarde y con niños09:01 Cancion opara dormir una muñeca11:30 La candelita12:11 Florentino cuando era becerro14:15 El Cuento del gallo pelon16:45 El cuento de la abuelita18:35 Angelito negro20:06 El Pajarito23:15 La zaranda24:32 Platero25:50 El pilon29:06 ToccatinaAntonio Estevez (1916-1988) was a Venezuelan Composer. He began his musical studies in Caracas in 1923, but continued them in his hometown in 1925. In 1930 he returned to Caracas, where he continued with his general musical studies and clarinet at the School of Music and Declamation of Caracas. He joined the Caracas Martial Band in 1932 and the Venezuela Symphony Orchestra in 1934, playing as a second oboe. He worked and studied under the tutelage of Pedro Elías Gutiérrez and Vicente Emilio Sojo, his composition teacher.He graduated as an oboe player in 1942 and founded the Orfeón Universitario de la Universidad Central de Venezuela in 1943. In 1944 he graduated as a composer. In 1945 he obtained a scholarship to continue his studies in the United States and Europe.When Estévez arrived in the United States, in mid-1945, the musician had a great disappointment since Igor Stravinsky would not be teaching courses at Columbia University, and the possibilities of private studies were unthinkable both for the economic factor and for the fact that Stravinsky lived in Los Angeles.He returns to Caracas in 1948, where he develops a nationalist style of music along with other composers such as Ángel Sauce, Evencio Castellanos, Inocente Carreño, and Gonzalo Castellanos Yumar.Apart from his musical life, Estévez was a member of the Communist Party of Venezuela. He was a political prisoner during the Marcos Pérez Jiménez dictatorship under the charge of conspiracy. His best known work is the Cantata Criolla, premiered on July 25, 1954, winning the National Music Prize and is perhaps the most important Venezuelan nationalist work of the 20th century. Other well-known works are Mediodia en el Llano, Cromovibrafonía and Cromovibrafonía multiple that he composed for the exhibition of Jesus Soto's works in Montreal and the Museum of Modern Art in Ciudad Bolívar.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Please support this channelpatreon.com/fyrexia
Rodolfo Halffter - 3 Album Leaves for Piano (Hoja de album) fyrexianoff 2021-11-23 | Edison Quintana - Piano00:00 Adagio04:26 Scherzo06:43 Allegro MarzialeRodolfo Halffter (1900-1987) was a Spanish and Mexican Composer. Rodolfo Hallfter was self-taught as a composer and in the 1930s took part in the intellectual environment of Madrid, particularly in the composers' society "Grupo de los Ocho" or "Grupo de Madrid". This group was influenced by Spanish musician Adolfo Salazar (1890-1958), who encouraged them to innovate and introduced them to the avant-garde music of the time, including the works of Debussy, Schoenberg, Ravel and Bartók. It was in this period that Halffter wrote the majority of his most important works, and at the same time he worked as a music critic in La Voz as well as in the propaganda ministry of the Republican government (as compared to his brother Ernesto, who supported Franco). Because of this relationship, he went into exile in Mexico at the end of the Spanish Civil War.In Mexico he taught in the National Conservatory and was director of Ediciones Mexicanas de Música. He never quit composing and always kept the influence of the "Grupo de los Ocho". His works tend to develop in a free polytonality with a classicism in a Scarlatti style. It is believed that Rodolfo Halffter brought serialism to Mexico.Halffter returned to Spain on many occasions after 1963, teaching in Granada and Santiago de Compostela and taking part in music festivals.He was awarded Spain's highest award for composition, the Premio Nacional de Música, in 1986.He died in Mexico.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Please support this channelpatreon.com/fyrexia
Ignacio Cervantes - Selected Cuban Dances for Piano fyrexianoff 2021-11-22 | Jorge Luis Prats - Piano00:00 Soledad01:23 Intima02:05 Cortesana03:07 Adiós a Cuba04:27 Mensaje05:16 El velorio06:10 Invitación06:55 Los tres golpes07:39 Siempre sí08:23 Los delirios de rositaIgnacio Cervantes(1847-1905) was a Cuban Composer. A child prodigy, he was taught by pianist Juan Miguel Jval, later by composer and tutor Nicolás Ruiz Espadero in 1859, and by the visiting American composer Louis Moreau Gottschalk. Gottschalk encouraged Cervantes to study at the Conservatoire de Paris (1866–1870) under Antoine François Marmontel and Charles-Valentin Alkan, where he was awarded first prizes in composition (1866) and harmony (1867). He also performed with Christina Nilsson and Adelina Patti.In 1875 Cervantes and José White left Cuba when warned by the Governor-General: he had found out that they had been giving concerts all over the country to raise money for the rebel cause in the Ten Years' War. In the United States and Mexico ,Cervantes continued to raise money by giving concerts until the Pact of Zanjón brought a lull in conflict. He returned in 1878 and left again in 1895 when the Cuban War of Independence started.Cervantes wrote one opera (Maledetto, 1895), various chamber pieces (Scherzo cappricioso, 1885), zarzuelas, and the famous forty-one Danzas Cubanas. He also conducted for the Opera company at Havana's Payret Theater. His Fusión de Almas was written to his daughter, María Cervantes (1885–1981), who became a well-known pianist, composer and singer.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Please support this channelpatreon.com/fyrexia
Eduardo Fabini - Fantasia for Violin and Orchestra fyrexianoff 2021-11-21 | Jorge Risi/Orquesta Sinfonica de SODRE /Jacques BodmerEduardo Fabini (1882-1950) was a Uruguayan Composer. He made his studies in Montevideo, at the Conservatory "The Lyre" (from 9 to 13 years) with teachers Romeo Massi and Italo Casellas, and later with Scarabelli and Ferroni. On the advice of the teacher Perez Badia, Fabini won a scholarship in 1899 at age 17 that allowed him to travel to Europe and enter the music conservatory in Brussels, where he studied with teachers deloc and Thomson, and harmony with the teacher Brouk. He returned to Uruguay in 1903, becoming known as soloist in various presentations made at the Teatro Solís of Montevideo, which aroused admiration. After another trip to Europe, to Spain in 1905 where he remained two years, he returned to Montevideo in 1907.He participated with other national musicians in founding the Musical Conservatory of Uruguay (1907).He composed "Campo", his first symphonic poem, which was first performed in public at the Teatro Albéniz in Montevideo on April 29, 1922. "Campo" obtained immediately widespread recognition of his musical values, being also enshrined in Buenos Aires - where it was performed in 1925 at the Teatro Colón by the Vienna Philharmonic - and soon in New York, Washington, Madrid, Barcelona, Berlin, Moscow, Valencia, Rio de Janeiro and other major music cities such as Vienna, where was performed by the Philharmonic in that city, under the baton of the great Richard Strauss.Encouraged by this success, Fabini continued intense activity in the composition of works that evoke the sounds and atmospheres of the Uruguayan countryside; presenting soon after his other symphonic poem, entitled "The Island of ceibos". Among his works are numerous songs, school choirs, and fantasy for violin and orchestra; between one other piece of ballet on the subject of a work of Fernán Silva Valdés entitled "Mburucuyá" symphonic picture "Molga", and childrens ballet "Mañana de Reyes".In 1927, he was appointed Artistic Added at the Embassy of Uruguay in the US, can move to the city of New York where "Campo" and "The Island of ceibos" were recorded in recordings made by the Philharmonic Orchestra, edited by Company Victor Records.Fabini, along with Alfonso Broqua, Luis Cluzeau Mortet and Vicente Ascone, was representative of the nationalist tendency that emerged in Uruguayan music in the 1910s and 20s.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Please support this channelpatreon.com/fyrexia
Darwin Vargas - Obertura para tiempos de adviento fyrexianoff 2021-11-20 | Victor Tevah / Chile SODarwin Vargas Wallis (1925-1988) was a Chilean Composer. He studied at the Conservatory of Santiago with Domingo Santa Cruz, Jorge Urrutia Blondel and Juan Orrego-Salas. He was simultaneously gaining experience as a choir director and in 1956 he was appointed assistant director of the Catholic University Choir in Santiago. In his more than 60 creations, for the most diverse instrumental, solistic or symphonic groups, the expression of a profound religious experience appears as an essential part of his vocabulary.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Please support this channelpatreon.com/fyrexia
Jorge Urrutia Blondel - 2 Symphonic Dances from the Suite from the ballet La Guitarra del diablo fyrexianoff 2021-11-19 | Victor Tevah / Chile SO00:00 Danza de la súplica07:52 Danza del diablo vuelto sapoJorge Urrutia Blondel (1905-1981) was A Chilean Composer. Urrutia Blondel carried out his humanistic studies at the National Institute of Santiago and later entered a law degree at the University of Chile. In parallel and privately, he studied with the teachers Andrés Steinfort (Music Theory and Harmony), Raúl Hügel (Piano), Pedro Humberto Allende (Harmony and Composition) and Domingo Santa Cruz (Counterpoint).In 1924 he actively participated in the work of the Bach Society, encouraged by Domingo Santa Cruz with other musicians. Urrutia Blondel was part of the Board of Directors, as well as critic and editor of the magazine "Marsyas", published by the same institution. Four years later he was appointed secretary of the National Conservatory of Music, when the reform of this center took place. This same year he received a scholarship from the Government to study in Europe, where he met Charles Koechlin, Vincent d'Indy, Paul Dukas and Nadia Boulanger, at the École Normale in Paris, as well as Paul Hindemith and Hans Mersmann at the Hochschule für Musik de Berlin (1928-1931). Upon returning to Chile he was appointed Professor of Harmony and Composition at the Conservatory.As a teacher he had among his students Juan Amenábar, José Vicente Asuar, Darwin Vargas Wallis and Miguel Aguilar.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Please support this channelpatreon.com/fyrexia
Roberto Falabella - Estudios Emocionales fyrexianoff 2021-11-18 | Georg Ludwig Jochum/Chile SO00:00 I01:34 II03:31 III05:24 IV05:46 V06:09 VI08:31 VIIRoberto Falabella (1926-1958) was a Chilean Composer. Called the “Chilean Mozart”, Roberto Falabella was born with Little's disease, which put him in a wheelchair all his life. All his teaching was carried out in the country with various teachers, slowly gaining the fame of a solid man in his musical training and the born leader of his generation. His great culture and his interest in social problems led him to join the Communist Party of Chile, of which he was an active militant. He began his music studies with Lucila Césped in 1945. In 1947 he received harmony classes with Julia López; Between 1948 and 1949, María Ester Grebe educated him in musical notation (sound-spelling relationship) and then, between 1948 and 1949, Alfonso Letelier taught him about other aspects of harmony. In 1952 he began his formal studies with Gustavo Becerra Schmidt , of whom he was, in the long run, a personal friend.His interest in improvement -which lasted all his life- led him to take classes in 1954 with Fré Focke (a Dutch serialist composer who arrived in the country) and to establish fruitful dialogues with Miguel Aguilar and Esteban Eitler on matters of analysis and instrumentation. All this career, which is almost the whole of his life, earned him the formal consideration of maestro docente, so he soon taught, having among his students outstanding musicians, among whom there are Hugo Pavicic and Sergio Ortega.Falabella wrote an article that caused the interest of many of the composers of the time, due to his educational and intellectual approaches. It is entitled "Stylistic problems of the young composer in Latin America and Chile" and it was published in two parts: Revista Musical Chilena, XII, 1958, pp. 41-49 and Revista Musical Chilena, XII, 1958, pp. 77-93.In these two texts Falabella raised what he considered his three basic principles, with which he was totally consistent: the role of folk-popular tradition in music, the influence of technique on music and the need for music to reflect the social event of the moment.Among his most significant symphonic works are Symphony No. 1, The Lamp on Earth, with a text by Pablo Neruda and Estudios Emocionales (with folk elements taken from the Fiesta de la Tirana). He also wrote two ballets: Andacollo and El peine de oro.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Please support this channelpatreon.com/fyrexia
Alfonso Letelier - Vitrales de la anunciación, for chamber orchestra, female choir and female voice fyrexianoff 2021-11-16 | Orquesta Filarmónica del Teatro Municipal de SantiagoCoro Orquesta Filarmónica del Teatro Municipal de Santiago0:00 Vitral I El ángel del señor anuncio a María 4:59 II He aquí la esclava del señor8:00 III Villancico a la virgen10:19 IV Ante el nacimiento de Jesús 15:53 Vitral V y el verbo se hizo carneAlfonso Letelier (1912-1994) was a Chilean Composer. He studied piano with Raúl Hügel and harmony and composition with Pedro Humberto Allende, later graduating as a composer at the National Conservatory of Music. He simultaneously studied Agronomy at the Catholic University of Chile, graduating in 1934. His life in the country context was a permanent source of inspiration for his music. Later he would train with Conrado del Campo in Madrid, one of the most important composers and teachers in the history of Spain. He held many important positions during his academic life at the University of Chile, only comparable to those held by Domingo Santa Cruz. He was President of the National Association of Composers (1950-1956), member of the board of the Musical Research Institute (1951 and following), three times Dean of the Faculty of Musical Arts and Sciences of the University of Chile (1952-1962). Likewise, he collaborated in the creation of the Modern School of Music and Dance (1940), together with René Amengual, Juan Orrego Salas and Elena Waiss.All his abundant production moves with versatility between various styles, both traditional and modern; the impressionist of great timbral richness and colorful orchestration, as in "Aculeu" (1955); the neoclassical style, less common and closer to the classic-romantic tradition, as in "Divertimento" (1955); and the contemporary style, which includes some procedures such as the twelve-tone, as in "Preludios vegetales" (1967-1968), with certain technical freedoms; and also the serial techniques as in "The carpet of life" (1968), among many others. His music evolved from nationalism to Wagnerian-style romanticism and expressionism. He composed stage and symphonic works, chamber and vocal music, and piano pieces within this style. However, despite his stylistic diversity, Letelier was essentially a composer of expressionist aesthetics, always close to drama, depth, anguish and the deep and tormented vision of life that emanates from the metaphysics of man and of the same depth of nature.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Please support this channelpatreon.com/fyrexia
Domingo Santa Cruz - from Canciones del Mar Op.29, for Voice and Piano fyrexianoff 2021-11-15 | Carmen Luisa Letelier / Elvira Savi (pno)00:00 Balada de la animita (ballade of the memorial stone)03:27 Plenilunio (fullmoon)07:04 Ante el mar (before the sea)Domingo Santa Cruz Wilson (1899-1987) was a Chilean Composer. He entered the Law School of the University of Chile and received his law degree in 1921 with the thesis "El Derecho de Patronato before the modern criterion ". At the same time, he studied composition with Enrique Soro.In 1917 he founded, together with a group of friends, the Bach Society, a choral entity that played a fundamental role in Chilean cultural life, until its dissolution in 1932.He entered the diplomatic service (1921-1926) and traveled as Second Secretary of the Legation of Chile in Spain, where he studied composition with Conrado del Campo. In 1928 he took part in the reform of the National Conservatory of Music, where he taught history and composition classes until 1953, and in 1929 he participated in the creation of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Chile, of which he was appointed Dean in property in 1932. The main achievements of this period were the creation of the Secondary Institute of Fine Arts (1933), University Art and Broadcasting Magazine (1934), National Association of Composers (1935), National Association of Symphonic Concerts (1931-1938) and Institute of Musical Extension (1940), integrated into the University of Chile in 1942. During his tenure, the Chilean Symphony Orchestra, the Choir of the University of Chile and the National Ballet became a dependency of the Institute; and the Folk Research Institute (1944), which two years later became the Music Research Institute.To his teaching work in various musical disciplines, Santa Cruz added a qualified contribution as a composer, exerting a decisive influence over his students. He published pedagogical works and specialized articles in the press and foreign and national music magazines, opening the doors to Chilean musicology.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Please support this channelpatreon.com/fyrexia
Ricardo Castillo - Poème Pastoral, for Piano fyrexianoff 2021-11-14 | Massimiliano Damerini - Piano00:00 Sous le bois02:39 Le vent a mis les arbres en fête05:05 Nuages08:08 Jeux09:19 Claire de lune12:19 SouvenirRicardo Castillo (1891-1966) was a Guatemalan Composer. After starting in Quetzaltenango, Ricardo Castillo had the opportunity to study violin and composition at the Paris Conservatory. His talent for composition was soon noted, and his first piano pieces were published in Paris by the publishing houses of E. Gallet and J. Gamelle. In 1918 he married the young French pianist Georgette Contoux, with whom he settled in Guatemala City in 1922. From that year to 1960, Castillo was a professor at the National Conservatory, in charge of statistics for the history chairs of Music, Harmony, Counterpoint, Composition and Orchestration. As a composer he valued the indigenous heritage of Guatemala, a position he shared with his brother Jesús Castillo. His works are often based on Mayan mythology, with a very personal musical style that presents elements of French impressionism and neoclassicism of his time. He composed the music for the hymn to Central America--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Please support this channelpatreon.com/fyrexia
Ricardo Castillo - 8 Preludes for Piano fyrexianoff 2021-11-13 | Massimiliano Damerini - Piano00:00 Presto00:43 Lento02:01 Moderato03:00 Andante con moto03:44 Molto moderato04:55 Allegretto05:41 Giusto06:40 ModeratoRicardo Castillo (1891-1966) was a Guatemalan Composer. After starting in Quetzaltenango, Ricardo Castillo had the opportunity to study violin and composition at the Paris Conservatory. His talent for composition was soon noted, and his first piano pieces were published in Paris by the publishing houses of E. Gallet and J. Gamelle. In 1918 he married the young French pianist Georgette Contoux, with whom he settled in Guatemala City in 1922. From that year to 1960, Castillo was a professor at the National Conservatory, in charge of statistics for the history chairs of Music, Harmony, Counterpoint, Composition and Orchestration. As a composer he valued the indigenous heritage of Guatemala, a position he shared with his brother Jesús Castillo. His works are often based on Mayan mythology, with a very personal musical style that presents elements of French impressionism and neoclassicism of his time. He composed the music for the hymn to Central America--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Please support this channelpatreon.com/fyrexia
Remo Pignoni - Selected Pieces for Piano fyrexianoff 2021-11-12 | Remo Pignoni - Piano00:00 Pa' la dorita (gato)01:34 Triunfo nochero I y II 03:57 Por el sur (huella)06:20 Pa' que mas (chacarera)08:02 Mi que te llama (bailecito)10:42 Llegandome a ella12:10 De angora (gato)13:43 Pa' la lilucha (gato)14:45 Como queriendo (zamba)18:10 Pa' su apero (gato)19:32 Coyita mia21:32 En septima (chacarera)23:18 Herencia (cancion pampeana)28:14 Chumbeao (gato)Remo Pignoni (1915-1988) was an Argentine Composer. He studied with the Italian teacher Luis Ricci. Pignoni is closely linked to the city of Rafaela, where he spent his entire life; composed the anthem of the city, "City of Rafaela" with lyrics by the poet Mario Vecchioli, the Anthem of the Adult Schools with lyrics by Alfonsina Storni and the Albiceleste sports march of the Rafaela Athletic Club, the Municipal School of Music is baptized with its name and even in 1991 the elected mayor of the city had used his Hueya "Por el sur" as a sound column for his electoral campaign. In 1998 the Municipal Council of Rafaela approved Ordinance No. 3013 that declared the month May of each year of cultural and educational interest to spread the life and work of Remo Pignoni. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Please support this channelpatreon.com/fyrexia
E. Lopez Mindreau - Marinera y tondero for Piano fyrexianoff 2021-11-11 | Elsa Pulgar Vidal - PianoErnesto Lopez Mindreau (1892-1972) was a Peruvian Composer. He was born in Chiclayo. At the age of seven he made his first music studies with his father, Christian C. López. In 1910 he continued in Trujillo and finally in Lima, where he was a disciple of the professors of the National Academy Federico Gerdes and José María Valle Riestra.1 In 1919 he worked as a piano teacher at the Conservatory of Panama and founded a music academy in Balboa. He studied in New York with Sergei Rachmaninoff and Zygmunt Stojowski. He traveled to Berlin on a scholarship from the Peruvian government to study piano at the Hochschule für Musik with Xavier Scharwenka and composition and orchestration with Hugo Leichtentritt. There he made his debut in April 1921 as a pianist at the Blüthner Saal.He returned to Peru where he premiered his Fantasia for piano and orchestra, and traveled to Paris where he studied with Professor Guerin (violin) and Mlle. Chardin (song). There he made presentations at the Sala Gaveau and on July 5, 1926 at the halls of the Association Paris-Amérique Latine, where he presented fragments of his opera Nueva Castilla with favorable reviews.1 In 1928 he definitively returned to Lima.In 1930 he was awarded for his Choquehuanca overture, in 1931 he obtained a mention from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Venezuela, in 1951 and in 1966 the Luis Duncker Lavalle Prize for the Promotion of Culture, and in 1961 the Magisterial Palms in the rank of Commander for provision of the Ministry of Education.His music has been linked to the movements of modernism and nationalism, typical of the late nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century, it also has the influence of Andean music as well as popular music from his native land, on the coast, North of Peru, with rhythms and melodies that reach a very important academic level.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Please support this channelpatreon.com/fyrexia
Próspero Bisquertt - 1945, a Symphonic Poem fyrexianoff 2021-11-10 | Victor Tevah / Chile SOPróspero Bisquertt (1881-1959) was a Chilean Composer.Before becoming involved with music professionally, Bisquertt had studied engineering at the University of Chile and also became famous as a painter of certain prestige, exhibiting some of his canvases in the Salon de Santiago. After graduating as a civil engineer from the University of Chile, he began his work activities as an official of the General Directorate of Internal Taxes, an institution where he worked between 1913 and 1923. Later, he devoted himself to freely exercising his profession, investing his capital in money related to mining associated with Don Ricardo Lyon in tin mines in Bolivia.Prospero Bisquertt had no academic musical training, since he learned in a self-taught way, which does not detract from any merit. In fact, his first public foray into music was the premiere of his opera Sayeda in 1929; It was so successful that the government headed by then President Carlos Ibáñez del Campo granted him financing, with the purpose of perfecting his knowledge and promoting his creations in Paris, France.He was one of the founders of the National Association of Composers, established in 1936. His compositions encompass a plurality of musical genres, which made him the recipient of the National Art Prize, in 1954.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Please support this channelpatreon.com/fyrexia
Manuel Ponce - Two Etudes for Piano fyrexianoff 2021-11-09 | Hector Rojas - Piano00:00 Allegretto mosso ma espressivo01:51 Allegro non troppoManuel Ponce (1882-1948) was a Mexican Composer. In 1901 Ponce entered the National Conservatory of Music, already with a certain prestige as a pianist and composer. There he remained until 1903, the year in which he returned to the city of Aguascalientes. This was only the beginning of his travels. In 1904 he traveled to Italy for advanced musical studies at the Conservatorio Giovanni Battista Martini in Bologna.He studied in Germany as a pupil of Martin Krause at the Stern conservatory in Berlin between 1906 and 1908.After his years abroad, Ponce returned to Mexico to teach piano and music history at the National Conservatory of Music from 1909 to 1915 and from 1917 to 1922. He spent the intervening years of 1915 to 1917 in Havana, Cuba.An important group of Ponce's works were previously unknown to the public, as self-proclaimed heir Carlos Vázquez, a Mexican piano performer and educator who studied with Ponce, kept most of the original manuscripts in his possession. Most of them were finally donated to the National School of Music (UNAM) in Mexico City, as an analytic catalogue of his works could still be published.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Please support this channelpatreon.com/fyrexia
Dana Suesse - Jazz Nocturne for Piano fyrexianoff 2021-11-08 | Dana Suesse - PianoDana Suesse (1911-1987) was an American Composer. She was born in Kansas, Missouri but moved with her mom to New York when she was 15. While in New York, Suesse studied piano under Alexander Siloti, Franz Liszt's last surviving pupil. She studied composition under Rubin Goldmark, one of George Gershwin's teachers, and spent three years studying with Nadia Boulanger after World War II. In 1931, bandleader Paul Whiteman (following Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue) commissioned her to write "Concerto in Three Rhythms."On December 11, 1974, Suesse and her husband produced a symphony concert at Carnegie Hall, devoted exclusively to her compositions. (In the 1990s, Robert Stern produced a CD of the concert using masters from Voice Of America.) On July 31, 1975, the Newport Music Festival (Rhode Island) presented four of her works in their concert series. A year after the Carnegie Hall concert, Suesse and her husband moved to the U.S. Virgin Islands.After her husband's death in 1981, Suesse moved back to New York, the city where she had spent her most creative years. She took two apartments in the Gramercy Park Hotel and continued to write plays and songs for the theatre. Just before her death from a stroke on October 16, 1987, she was writing a new musical, putting the finishing touches on Mr. Sycamore, which had been optioned for off-Broadway, and was looking for a New York home for a straight play, Nemesis.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Please support this channelpatreon.com/fyrexia
