Alejandro Planchart

Alejandro Enrique Planchart ( born July 29, 1935 in Caracas ) is an American musicologist, conductor and composer.

Life

Planchart studied until 1960 composition, piano and harpsichord at Yale University. Here he founded in 1963 the early music ensemble Cappella Cordina, which he directed until his retirement in 1975. In addition, he completed a dissertation to 1971 studied at Harvard University.

From 1967 to 1975 he taught music history and theory at the University of Victoria, after he was until his retirement in 2002, Professor of Music History of the Middle Ages, the classical era and the 20th century at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He also served here a medieval music ensemble, a choir motets and a baroque orchestra, with which he performed every year six to seven channels with music from the pre-Renaissance to Mozart and Haydn.

Planchart published articles and books on Cristóbal de Morales, Clemens non Papa, you Guillaume Fay and other Renaissance musicians, Latin American music and music of the 20th century. For the book The Repertory of Tropes at Winchester in 1979 he was awarded the Gustav Arlt Award of the Council of Graduate Schools in the United States. With the Cappella Cordina he played a series of exemplary recordings of music of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

Planchart composed more than one hundred works, including symphonies, songs, chamber music and works for solo instruments.

• Composer of classical music ( 20th century)
• American composer
• Conductor
• Person (Caracas )
• Americans
• Born in 1935
• Man