Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt

Gustavo Becerra -Schmidt ( born August 25, 1925 in Temuco, Cautín; † January 3, 2010 in Oldenburg ( Oldenburg), Germany ) was a Chilean composer and music educator.

Life

Becerra -Schmidt studied composition with Pedro Humberto Allende Sarón, violin with Ernesto Ledermann, piano with Alberto spikin and choral and orchestral conducting with Armando Carvajal at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música in Santiago. Since 1942, he taught himself composition here.

After a musicology and composition studies at the Universidad de Chile he stayed from 1954 to 1956 in Europe, where he completed his training and taught as a visiting professor at conservatories in Italy, Austria, Germany, France and Spain. During this time the music theory font Crisis de la Enseñanza de la Composición de Occidente, which in several issues of the Revista Musical Chilena was published in 1959.

From 1958 to 1961, Becerra -Schmidt Director of the Instituto de Musical Extension and 1968-1970 Secretary of the Facultad de Ciencias y Artes Musicales y Escénicas the Universidad de Chile. Among his pupils were Luis Advis, Carlos Botto Vallarino, Gabriel Brnčić, Roberto Falabella, Fernando García, Melikof Karaian, Sergio Ortega, Hernán Ramírez, David Serendero, Edmundo Vásquez and Cirilo Vila Castro and the musicologist Raquel Bustos and Luis Merino.

1970 Becerra -Schmidt cultural attaché at the Chilean Embassy in Bonn. After the military coup in 1973, he lost his diplomatic status and his rank at the Universidad de Chile and asked for political asylum in the Federal Republic of Germany. Since 1974 he taught composition, analysis and music theory at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg in Oldenburg. Since 1993 he has also taught back in Santiago.

Becerra -Schmidt composed three symphonies, concertos and sonatas, chamber music, opera and theater music, songs, cantatas and oratorios. The most famous is the Carl-von- Ossietzky - oratory, which was premiered in 1985. He became a member of the Academia de Bellas Artes of the Instituto de Chile, 1968; In 1971 he was awarded the Premio Nacional de Arte.

Works

During the study period to 1954

• Sonata n º 1 for Violin and Piano
• Sonata for Piano
• Concierto for Violin and Orchestra
• Cuarteto de cuerdas n º 1
• Primera Sonata for Violin, Cello and Piano
• Trío Sonatina for Flute, Violin and Viola

During the 1954-56 European stay

• Sinfonia n º 1
• Divertimento for Orchestra
• Cuarteto de cuerdas n º 2
• Segunda Sonata for Cello and Piano
• Sonata n º 1 for double bass and piano
• Cuarteto de cuerdas n º 3 ( Del Viejo Mundo )
• Sonata for Guitar

Up to exile in 1973

• La muerte de don Rodrigo, opera
• Parsifae, opera
• Historia de una provocación, opera
• Sinfonia n º 2
• Sinfonia n º 3
• Cuartetos de cuerdas n º 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7
• 3 Conciertos para guitarra
• La Araucana, oratorio
• Macchu Picchu, oratorio
• Lord Cochrane de Chile, oratorio
• Elegía a la muerte de Lenin, oratorio
• Canciones de Altacopa, oratorio

1973-74

• Corvalán, cantata
• Ossietsky song
• Chile in 1973
• Estructura Cuadridimensional (composition and film)

As a composition teacher in Oldenburg

• Ways to music, Progresiones, multimedia work
• Diez Trozos for eight soloists
• Trío for Violin, Horn and Piano
• Concierto for two guitars and orchestra
• Américas, cantata
• Allende, cantata
• Memento, song
• Revolución, Fuga ricercata five topics
• Exposicià concertante, multimedia work with synthesizers 11
• Oratorio menor para Silvestre Revueltas
• Concierto for percussion and orchestra
• The birth of the day, Nicaragua Aeterna
• The silence Interior for computer

• Cultural Attaché
• Composer of classical music ( 20th century)
• Chilean composer
• Music teacher
• University teachers (Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg)
• Musicians (Lower Saxony)
• Chilean
• Born in 1925
• Died in 2010
• Man