Name Roberto Morillo | Role Composer | |
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Died October 26, 2003, Buenos Aires, Argentina | ||
Aya ginastera s tribute to roberto garcia morillo
Roberto García Morillo (January 22, 1911 – October 26, 2003) was an Argentine composer, musicologist, music professor and music critic.
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- Aya ginastera s tribute to roberto garcia morillo
- Roberto garcia morillo romances del amor y la muerte
- Biography
- Works
- Roberto garc a morillo canci n triste y danza alegre
- References
Roberto garcia morillo romances del amor y la muerte
Biography
García Morillo was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he studied at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música "Carlos López Buchardo" (with José André, Floro M. Ugarte, José Gil, and Constantino Gaito), and in Paris studied piano with Yves Nat (Salgado 2001). Morillo died on October 26, 2003.
He worked as a music critic for the newspaper La Nación starting in 1938, and subsequently published in many Argentine and North American periodicals. He was appointed to joint positions as professor of composition in both the national and the municipal conservatories in Buenos Aires in 1942 (Salgado 2001).
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Works
His compositional style was never nationalistic, though most of his works from 1939 onward display the influence of Spanish culture (Salgado 2001). He received awards from the Comisión Nacional de Cultura, Municipalidad de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Asociación Wagneriana, SADAIC, Rotary Club, and the Dante Alighieri Scholarship (1952).
His works have been commissioned by: