Jacobo Ficher

Jacobo Ficher (Russian Яков ( Хакобо ) Фишер; born January 15, 1896 in Odessa, † September 9, 1978 in Buenos Aires ) was an Argentine composer, violinist and conductor of Russian origin.

Ficher was a violin pupil of Piotr Stoliarsky and studied from 1912 at the Conservatory of St. Petersburg with Sergei Korgujew and Leopold Auer Violin, next to music theory, orchestration and composition with Vassily Kalafati, Maximilian Steinberg, Nikolai Tcherepnin and Nikolai Sokoloff.

In 1923 he moved to Buenos Aires, where he worked as a composer and orchestra conductor. In 1939 he became director of the Symphony Orchestra of the Asociación General de Músicos de la Argentina, 1947, he was among the founders of the Argentinean Society of Composers. In 1969 he became a member of the Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes.

Works

  • First String Quartet, 1929
  • Exodus - Obertura patetica, 1929
  • La sulamita, symphonic poem, 1931
  • Colombina de hoy, Ballet, 1933
  • Los invitados, Ballet, 1933
  • Tres Bocetos, 1934
  • Melchor, Ballet, 1938-39
  • Los afincaos, Film Music, 1941
  • Gaucho, Film Music, 1942
  • Ponnchos azules, Film Music, 1942
  • Golondrina, Ballet, 1942
  • Así hablo Isaías, Symphony, 1948
  • El oso, chamber opera based on Anton Chekhov, 1952
  • Salmo de Alegría, cantata, 1952
  • Tres piezas ( Three Pieces ) for viola and piano, Op.76, 1953
  • Sonata for Viola and Piano, Op.80, 1953
  • Pelido de mano, chamber opera based on Anton Chekhov, 1955-56
  • Saxophone Quartet, 1957
  • Epopeya de Mayo, Symphony, 1960
  • Composer of classical music ( 20th century)
  • Argentine composer
  • Born 1896
  • Died in 1978
  • Man
  • Person (Odessa )
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