Ariel RamÃrez
Ariel Ramírez ( born September 4, 1921 in Santa Fe, † February 18, 2010 in Monte Grande) was an Argentine composer.
Life
From a young age to Ramírez was interested in the Indian and Creole folk music of his native country. On the advice of the poet Atahualpa Yupanqui, he traveled 1941 the provinces Tucumán, Salta and Jujuy Humahuaca and learned in the musicians and connoisseurs of national culture Justiniano Torres Aparicio know.
Since 1943 he appeared as pianist with a huge repertoire of South American folklore BASED pieces, one of which in 1946 he recorded a number on record. From 1950 to 1954 he lived in Europe. In 1954 he settled in Lima, in the following year he returned to Argentina where he founded the Compañía de Folklore Ariel Ramírez. With the ensemble he undertook in 1957 a trip through the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, and Poland. In addition, he completed his training by studying composition with Erwin Leuchter.
In 1964 his most famous work, the Misa Criolla ( German: " Creole show," list of trade shows ), which he performed in the following years in Latin America and in 1967 in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and Switzerland. He also composed several cantatas and other vocal works, often based on texts by the poet Félix Luna.
Ramírez was head of the Sociedad Argentina de Autores y Compositores and in 1988 the first Latin American elected President of the International Confederation of Authors and Composers Societies ( CISAC ) selected.
Works
- La tristecita, Samba, 1945
- Agua y sol del Paraná
- Misa Criolla, choral mass, 1964
- Navidad Nuestra, 1964
- Navidad en Verano, 1964
- Los caudillos, cantata, 1965
- Mujeres argentinas, cantata, 1969
- Cantata Sudamericana, cantata, 1972
- Tríptico Mocoví, 1980
- La perdida hermanita, 1980
- Misa por la paz y la justicia ( on texts of Pope John Paul II ), 1980
- Alfonsina y el mar