Maria del Carmen Perez Jimenez Barradas (18 March 1888 – 12 May 1963) was a Uruguayan

Uruguay

Uruguay ,officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay,sometimes the Eastern Republic of Uruguay; ) is a country in the southeastern part of South America. It is home to some 3.5 million people, of whom 1.8 million live in the capital Montevideo and its metropolitan area...

 pianist, composer, and choral teacher. She used the stage name Carmen Barradas.

Life

Maria del Carmen Pérez Jiménez was born in Montevideo

Montevideo

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 and studied with Antonio Fran, Aurora Pablo and M. Lopes Vicente. In 1916 her family moved to Spain

Spain

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, where she gave a concert of her own works in 1917. She lived and composed in Spain until 1922, then returned to Montevideo in 1928 and took a position teaching at the Institutos Normales. Her works pioneered the use of non-traditional graphic notation and experimental techniques.

Barradas produced her own works at the Teatro Solís in 1934 and stopped composing in 1949. She died in Montevideo.

Works

Selected works include:

• Fabricación, 1922
• Andaluza, la niña de la mantilla blanca