Luis Antonio Escobar (composer)
Luis Antonio Escobar (* July 14, 1925 in Villapinzón, Cundinamarca, † September 11, 1993 in Miami) was a Colombian composer and musicologist.
Life
Escobar attended the Franciscan College of San Joaquín in Cali and then studied at the Conservatory of the University of Bogotá at Pedro Villá, Egisto Giovannetti, Gustavo Escobar Larrazábal and Lucía Pérez, at the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore in Nicolas Nabokov, at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and at the University of Music in Berlin with Boris Blacher.
In 1954 he returned to Columbia, where he taught art history at the Universidad National Conservatory of music history, harmony, counterpoint, composition and orchestration as well as at the Universidad Javeriana and the Universidad Los Andes.
In 1957 he went with a grant from the Guggenheim Foundation in the U.S. to complete his education. After his return to Colombia, he was co-founder of the Orquesta Filarmónica de Bogotá and became president of the Colombian Society of Composers. By establishing Clubes de Estudiantes Cantores he contributed significantly to the improvement of singing lessons in Colombia. In addition, he served as Consul of Colombia in Bonn and as a cultural attaché in the United States.
In 1976 Escobar's collaboration with pianist Amparo Ángel ( later his second wife), to whom he dedicated several works. With the poet Andrés Holguín, he founded El Muro Blanco, a device which conferences and seminars organized on cultural topics. He organized events such as the Festival of Colombian university choirs and the first Congress for Ethnomusicology in Cartagena.
Works
- Serenata para Orquesta
- Dos Preludios de Navidad
- Divertimento No.1 ( Boris Blacher dedicated )
- Concertino for Flute and Orchestra
- Sonatina for Violin and Piano
- Pequeña Suite for Flute, Oboe and Bassoon
- Sonata for Violin and
- La Princesa y la arveja, children's opera
- Preludios para Percusión, Ballet
- Los Hampones, opera
- Juramento a Bolívar, symphonic poem with texts by Jorge Rojas
- Sinfonía O
- La Curuba, quintet
- Concierto for Harpsichord
- Cantata No. Campesina. 1
- Cantica de Cantas Colombianas
- Apuntes para Orquesta,
- Pequeña Sinfonia No.2
- Matrimonio del Tío Sapo show for children
- La Fosforerita, ballet (composed for the ballerina Gloria Castro)
- Concierto Grosso with obbligato violin and piano
- Ballada for Piano and Orchestra
- Concierto for Violin and Orchestra
- Concierto for Clarinet
- Concierto for Guitar
- Doce Preludios for Guitar
- La Visita de la Ballena
- Seis Bambuquerías for Oboe and Piano
- Bambuquerías for piano four hands
- Segunda serie de Bambuquerías
- Danzas en el Sentimiento Andino for symphony orchestra
- Manuelita Saenz, Ballet
- Poema al Sinfonico General Santander with texts by Jorge Rojas
Writings
- La música precolombina
- La música en Cartagena de Indias
- La música en Santafe de Bogota
- La Música en la Catedral de Bogotá
- Obras de autores polifónicas colombianos
- La obra de José Cascante
- La herencia del Quetzal
- Composer of classical music ( 20th century)
- Musicologist
- Music teacher
- Cultural Attaché
- Colombian composer
- University teachers (Bogotá )
- Born in 1925
- Died in 1993
- Man