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Alberto Ginastera
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Alberto Ginastera occupied a leading position in the musical world of Argentina, where he exercised a strong influence over a younger generation of composers. He founded the centre for Advanced Musical Studies in Buenos Aires and became its director in 1963. He later spent much time in Europe, settling in Geneva. His style of writing developed from naive nationalistic influences to a mature grasp of serialist techniques proposed by Schoenberg.
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| The ballet Estancia is evocatively Argentinian with its echoes of gaucho life. The opera Don Rodrigo, based on a twelve-note series, makes original use of special effects, while the operas Bomarzo and Beatrix Cenci draw also on Renaissance forms, set, as they are, in Renaissance Italy. Ginastera's orchestral music includes a concerto for harp, two concertos for piano and concertos for violin and for cello. MIDI FILE - from Piano Sonata No.2: 1th Mov. (2'20'') Ollantay, three symphonic movements, Pampeana n.3, a symphonic pastoral, and Overture to a Criollo Faust, have strongly Latin American elements. His chamber music includes the first two Pampeanas, for violin and piano and for cello and piano respectively, in addition to string quartets, the third with a soprano and texts by Lorca, Alberti and Jiménez.
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