Juan Blanco

Juan Blanco ( born June 29, 1919 in Mariel, † 2008 in Havana ) was a Cuban composer.

Life and work

Blanco studied at the Conservatory of Havana in Harold Gramatges and José Ardèvol. He was president of the Symphony Society of Havana and was considered a pioneer and preeminent representative of Electronic Music in Cuba. He composed the music for the Cuban Pavilion at the World's Fairs in Canada and Japan. The chamber music performed in Tokyo, worked with lighting effects, several groups of speakers, tape, ten performers, instrumental groups, guitar and alto saxophone.

Since 1979, he led a small electronic music studio, the ICAP, which was renamed in the 1990s in Laboratorio Nacional de Música Electroacustica. Here he trained many Cuban composers. In the 1980s, he headed the International Electroacoustic Music Festival Primavera en Varadero.

In addition to a symphony, chamber music works, choral music, piano pieces, stage and film music, Blanco composed mainly electroacoustic pieces, often using the Theremin.

Works

• Música para danza, 1961
• Estudios I y II, 1961-62
• Ensamble V, 1962-63
• Interludio con Máquinas, 1963
• Ensamble VI, 1963
• Texturas, 1963-64
• Música para el Quinto Desfile gimnástico Deportivo, 1965
• Poema No Espacial. 1 (Las Lomas ), 1967
• Poema No Espacial. 2, 1967
• Poema No Espacial. 3 ( Dai Viet ), 1968
• Ambientación Sonora, 1968
• Contrapunto Espacial No. 2 ( Erotofonías I ), 1968
• Contrapunto Espacial No. 3, 1960
• Poema No Espacial. 4 ( 26 de julio ), 1969
• Poema No Espacial. 5 ( Viet Nam ), 1970
• Imprecación, 1970
• Suite Erótica, 1979-86
• Tañidos, 1983
• Cirkus Toccata, 1984
• Suite de los Ninos, 1984
• Espacios II, 1986
• Contrastes I, 1992
• Paisaje, 1992
• Variantes I, 1992
• Treno por las Victimas del Estrecho de la Florida, 1992
• Contrastes II, 1993
• Cinco Epitaph, 1993
• Loops, 1993
• Enterrar Para la Esperanza, 1994
• Variantes II, 1994
• Espacios IX, 1999-2000
• Micro tonal, 2000
• Micro tonal II, 2001
• Tecnotrónicas, 2002