Occupation(s) Composer Name Osvaldo Golijov | Genres Classical music | |
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Born December 5, 1960Mar del Plata, Argentina ( 1960-12-05 ) Role Composer · osvaldogolijov.com Awards Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Classical Composition Compositions Ainadamar, Ainadamar, La Pasion segun San Marcos, La Pasion segun San Marcos, Mariel, Mariel, Kuai Le, Kuai Le, How Slow the Wind, How Slow the Wind, Night of the Flying Horses, Night of the Flying Horses, Oceana: IV Second Call, Oceana: IV Second Call, The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind: Postlude: Lento, The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind: Postlude: Lento, The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind: III Calmo - Sospeso, The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind: III Calmo - Sospeso, Tenebrae, Tenebrae, The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind: II Teneramente, The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind: II Teneramente, Oceana: II First Wave: "Oceana nupcial - cadera de las islas", Oceana: II First Wave: "Oceana nupcial - cadera de las islas", Omaramor, Omaramor, Desde mi ventana from Ainadamar, Desde mi ventana from Ainadamar, Lua descolorida, Lua descolorida, Ayre: I Mananita de San Juan, Ayre: I Mananita de San Juan, Oceana: III Second Wave: "Quiero oir lo invisible", Oceana: III Second Wave: "Quiero oir lo invisible", Oceana: I Call, Oceana: I Call, Oceana: V Third Wave: "Oceana - reclina tu noche en el castillo", Oceana: V Third Wave: "Oceana - reclina tu noche en el castillo", Tenebrae: II, Tenebrae: II, Oceana: VI Aria: "Tengo hambre de no ser sino piedra marina", Oceana: VI Aria: "Tengo hambre de no ser sino piedra marina", Tenebrae: I, Tenebrae: I, Ayre: II Una madre comio asado, Ayre: II Una madre comio asado, The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind: Prelude: Calmo - Sospeso, The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind: Prelude: Calmo - Sospeso, The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind: I Agitato, The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind: I Agitato, K'vakarat, K'vakarat, Oceana: VII Chorale of the Reef: "Oceana - dame las conchas del arricife", Oceana: VII Chorale of the Reef: "Oceana - dame las conchas del arricife", Ayre: V Nanni, Ayre: V Nanni Similar People | ||
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Osvaldo Noé Golijov ([ˈɡolixof]) (born December 5, 1960) is an Argentinian composer of classical music and music professor, known for his vocal and orchestral work.
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- O golijov azul for cello obbligato group and orchestra live
- Tetro osvaldo golijov music born from the film
- Life and career
- Golijovs music
- Deadline and plagiarism controversies
- Works
- Awards and appointments
- Selected discography
- References
Tetro osvaldo golijov music born from the film
Life and career
Golijov was born in and grew up in La Plata, Argentina, in a Jewish family that emigrated to Argentina from Romania. His mother was a piano teacher, and his father was a physician. He studied piano in La Plata and studied composition with Gerardo Gandini.
In 1983, Golijov moved to Israel, where he studied with Mark Kopytman at the Jerusalem Rubin Academy. Three years later, he studied with George Crumb at the University of Pennsylvania before receiving his doctorate. In 1991, Golijov joined the faculty of the College of the Holy Cross at Worcester, Massachusetts, where he was named Loyola Professor of Music in 2007. For the 2012-13 season, he held the Richard and Barbara Debs Composer's Chair at Carnegie Hall. As of 2016 he lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.
Golijov was married twice. He had three children with his first wife, Silvia. He married architect and designer Neri Oxman in 2011.
Golijov's music
Golijov grew up listening to chamber music, Jewish liturgical and klezmer music, and the tango of Ástor Piazzolla. His Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind was inspired by the writings and teachings of Rabbi Yitzhak Saggi Nehor.
In 1996, his work Oceana was premiered at the Oregon Bach Festival. He composed La Pasión según San Marcos for the Passion 2000 project in commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the death of Johann Sebastian Bach. In 2010, he composed Sidereus for a consortium of 35 American orchestras, to commemorate Galileo.
Golijov had a long working relationship with soprano Dawn Upshaw, who he called his muse. She premiered some of his works, often written specifically for her. These included Three Songs for Soprano and Orchestra, and his popular opera, Ainadamar, which premiered at Tanglewood in 2003.
Starting in 2000, Golijov composed movie soundtracks for documentaries and other films, including The Man Who Cried, Youth Without Youth, Tetro and Twixt. He also composed and arranged chamber music, including for the Kronos Quartet and the St. Lawrence String Quartet.
Deadline and plagiarism controversies
Golijov faced several controversies around his work, including missed deadlines and accusations of plagiarism. He came under scrutiny in 2011 for a series of high-profile commissions that were either delayed or cancelled. A violin concerto written for the Los Angeles Philharmonic was not completed in time, Golijov missed a second deadline the following year in Berlin, and a third delay followed in November 2012, and missed its January 2013 premiere at Disney Hall.
This followed a similar cancellation in 2010, when a scheduled song cycle had to be removed from the program when it was not complete in time. The March 2011 premiere of a new string quartet for the St. Lawrence Quartet was also delayed due to a missed deadline, though the work, Qohelet, was completed later that year and premiered by the quartet in October 2011.
Golijov received a commission from the Metropolitan Opera for an opera that was to be performed in 2018; however in 2017, this was cancelled for lack of progress.
Questions of musical plagiarism were leveled at Golijov after Tom Manoff, a composer and critic, and Brian McWhorter, a trumpeter, alleged that Sidereus consisted mainly of music from the Michael Ward-Bergeman composition Barbeich. Alex Ross of The New Yorker reviewed both scores and wrote, "To put it bluntly, 'Sidereus' is 'Barbeich' with additional material attached". Ross added that Ward-Bergeman was aware of Golijov's borrowings. A consortium of thirty-five orchestras had paid Golijov $75,000 to write a 20-minute work; a fee supplemented by a $50,000 grant approved by the then board of the League of American Orchestras. The final work that Golijov produced and gave to the consortium of orchestras was a 9-minute work. Golijov also used that same musical material in his 2009 composition Radio.
Golijov responded to these questions by explaining that he composed the original musical material jointly with Ward-Bergeman for a film score which in the end did not include the material, and that he used it by agreement with Ward-Bergeman, who did not comment publicly on the matter. Golijov cited Monteverdi, Schubert and Mahler as other composers who used existing musical material to create new music.
Works
Some of Golijov's notable works include:
Awards and appointments
Awards
Appointments
Selected discography
Film soundtracks
Voice, chamber music and orchestral