Antonio Estévez

Antonio Estévez ( born January 1, 1916 in Calabozo / Guárico, † November 26, 1988 in Caracas ) was a Venezuelan composer.

Estévez graduated from 1923 to 1925 a musical education in Caracas, after his return to Calabozo he played from 1926 in the chapel of the urban flugelhorn. From 1930 he studied at the Escuela de Música y Vicente Emilio Sojo at Declamación composition and clarinet at Miguel Gallo. In 1932 he became a member of the military band of Caracas under Pedro Elías Gutiérrez.

1934 Estévez became second oboist in the Orquesta Sinfónica de Venezuela. In 1943 he founded the University Choir of the Universidad Central de Venezuela. From 1945 he continued his musical studies with a scholarship of the Ministry of Education in Europe and the United States. In 1949 he was awarded the National Music Prize, 1954 the Premio Anual de Sinfónicas.

Since 1961, Estévez held in England, in 1963 in Paris, where he worked at the Office de Radio - Télévision Française under Pierre Schaeffer. In 1971 he returned to Venezuela, where he founded the Instituto de fonologia Musical, which he directed until 1979. In 1987 he was again awarded with the National Prize of Music and was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Universidad de Los Andes.

Works

• Rocío
• El Jazminero estrellado
• Concierto para orquesta
• Cantata criolla after a poem by Alberto Arvelo Torrealba (1954 )
• Cromovibrafonía (1967) and Cromovibrafonía múltiple (1972 ), multimedia works by Jesús Rafael Soto

• Composer of classical music ( 20th century)
• Venezuelan
• Born 1916
• Died in 1988
• Man