Carmela Mackenna Subercaseaux (1879-1962) was a Chilean

Chile

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 pianist and composer. She was born in Santiago

Santiago

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, Chile

Chile

Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...

, the granddaughter of Chilean hero Juan Mackenna

Juan Mackenna

Brigadier Juan Mackenna was an Irish-born, Chilean military officer and hero of the Chilean War of Independence. He is considered to have been the creator of the Corps of Military Engineers of the Chilean Army....

, and aunt of composer Alfonso Leng

Alfonso Leng

Alfonso Leng was a post-romantic composer of classical music and dentist. He was born in Santiago, Chile. He wrote the first important symphonic work in Chilean tradition, "La Muerte de Alcino", a symphonic poem inspired by the novel of Pedro Prado...

. She studied music theory with Bindo Paoli in Santiago and continued her studies in piano and composition with Konrad Ansorge and Hans Mersmann in Berlin

Berlin

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She was successful as both a pianist and composer in Europe, and 1936 won an award for her Mass for mixed chorus a cappella in the International Competition of Church Music held in Frankfurt

Frankfurt

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. The mass was performed by the choir of the Munich Frauenkirche

Munich Frauenkirche

The Frauenkirche is a church in the Bavarian city of Munich that serves as the cathedral of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising and seat of its Archbishop. It is a landmark and is considered a symbol of the Bavarian capital city.The church towers are widely visible because of local height...

 Cathedral in Munich

Munich

Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...

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Works

Selected works include:

• Concerto for piano and orchestra
• Trio for Strings
• Variations and Prelude for solo piano
• Mass for mixed chorus a cappella
• Violin Sonata