Luis H. Salgado
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Luis Humberto Salgado Ecuadorian composer regarded as one of the most influential and prolific of his country.
(who championed Nationalism in Chile and Ecuador before permanently settling down in the USA. Salgado himself was never a student of Brescia's.
During the 1920s, Luis Humberto Salgado made a living as a pianist for silent movies in Quito. He later he worked as a critic, teacher, choir and orchestra conductor. He also acted as director of the Conservatorio Nacional de Música.
In his essay Música vernácula ecuatoriana (Microestudio), published in 1952 by Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, he expresses his thoughts about the creation of a national form. For example he replaced the classical symphonic pattern (Allegro - Larghetto - Allegretto Scherzo - Allegro Vivace) with a sequence of Ecuadorian folk dances:
"Luis Humberto Salgado was the leading figure of his generation. His symphonic suite Atahualpa (1933), his Suite coreográfica (1946), the ballets El amaño (1947), and El Dios Tumbal (1952) and other works show strong nationalistic feeling. Salgado also wrote two operas, Cumandá (1940, rev. 1954); Eunice (1956-7) that were never produced. Salgado was not an exclusively nationalist composer, as the varied style of his eight symphonies shows. In his later years, he even relied on atonality and tried his hand at 12-note composition"
Though only two of his operas are mentioned in most music literature, he composed another two, together with nine symphonies, several concertos, several ballets. "Salgado was a prolific composer". He was both a nationalist and a modernist composer. As early as 1944, he wrote Sanjuanito Futurista for piano, using the rhythm of a traditional Ecuadorian dance within the dodecaphonic writing. He was in his early forties when he started experimenting with new techniques but was not acknowledged as a modernist until later in his life.
Souvenir de l'Amérique du Sud (CD) (piano, Marcelo Ortiz, works by: Gerardo Guevara
, Sixto María Durán y Miguel Ángel Casares)
Biography
Was taught by his father the composer Francisco Salgado, a former student of the Italian composer Domenico BresciaDomenico Brescia
Domenico Brescia was an Italian composer who taught in Chile and Ecuador, then became known in the United States for writing chamber music as well as musical accompaniment for dramatic performances. Brescia led the Music Theory department at Mills College.Brescia was born in Pirano, near Trieste...
(who championed Nationalism in Chile and Ecuador before permanently settling down in the USA. Salgado himself was never a student of Brescia's.
During the 1920s, Luis Humberto Salgado made a living as a pianist for silent movies in Quito. He later he worked as a critic, teacher, choir and orchestra conductor. He also acted as director of the Conservatorio Nacional de Música.
In his essay Música vernácula ecuatoriana (Microestudio), published in 1952 by Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, he expresses his thoughts about the creation of a national form. For example he replaced the classical symphonic pattern (Allegro - Larghetto - Allegretto Scherzo - Allegro Vivace) with a sequence of Ecuadorian folk dances:
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- Ecuadorian Symphony
- I Sanjuanito
- II Yaraví
- III Danzante
- IV Albazo, Aire típico or Alza
"Luis Humberto Salgado was the leading figure of his generation. His symphonic suite Atahualpa (1933), his Suite coreográfica (1946), the ballets El amaño (1947), and El Dios Tumbal (1952) and other works show strong nationalistic feeling. Salgado also wrote two operas, Cumandá (1940, rev. 1954); Eunice (1956-7) that were never produced. Salgado was not an exclusively nationalist composer, as the varied style of his eight symphonies shows. In his later years, he even relied on atonality and tried his hand at 12-note composition"
Though only two of his operas are mentioned in most music literature, he composed another two, together with nine symphonies, several concertos, several ballets. "Salgado was a prolific composer". He was both a nationalist and a modernist composer. As early as 1944, he wrote Sanjuanito Futurista for piano, using the rhythm of a traditional Ecuadorian dance within the dodecaphonic writing. He was in his early forties when he started experimenting with new techniques but was not acknowledged as a modernist until later in his life.
some compositions
| Year | Work | Description |
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| 1933 | Atahualpa o el ocaso de un Imperio (symphonic band) | orchestra |
| 1934 | Ensueño de amor | operetta |
| 1936 | Canto de Libertad | ballet |
| 1937 | Andante for violin & orchestra | orchestra |
| 1940 (rev. 1954) | Cumandá | opera |
| 1941 | La consagración de las vírgenes del Sol - Concerto for piano & orchestra | orchestra |
| 1944 | Sanjuanito Futurista (micro dance for piano) | solo (piano) |
| 1944 | Cantata amerindia | vocal |
| 1945 | Alma nativa | vocal |
| 1947 | El Páramo (Preludio Andino-Ecuatoriano) | |
| 1947 | Alejandría la pagana, melodrama | orchestra |
| 1946 | Suite Coregráfica | ballet |
| 1947 | El Amaño | ballet |
| 1947 | Qué lindo es el cariño (sanjuanito) | song |
| 1947 | Quiteño de Quito' (pasacalle) | song |
| 1948 | Concierto fantasía en estilo nacional for piano & orchestra | orchestra |
| 1948 | Variaciones en estilo folclórico | orchestra |
| 1949 | Día de Corpus | opera-ballet |
| 1949 | First Symphony, "Andina" in G minor (revised in 1972 and renamed Sinfonía de Ritmos Vernaculares) | orchestra |
| 1949 | Sismo (symphonic poem) | orchestra |
| 1950 | Pieza característica | orchestra |
| 1952 | El Dios Tumbal | ballet |
| 1953 | Concierto para violín y orquesta in E Major | orchestra |
| 1953 | Second Symphony, "Sintética N. 1", in D minor | orchestra |
| 1955 | Third Symphony, "Sobre un Tema Rococó: A-D-H-G-E", in D Major | orchestra |
| 1957 | Fourth Symphony, "Ecuatoriana", in D Major | orchestra |
| 1957 | Eunice | opera |
| 1958 | Fifth Symphony, "Neo-Romántica" | orchestra |
| 1959 | Homenaje a la danza criolla (symphonic poem) | orchestra |
| 1961 | Aidita | vocal |
| 1961 | El Centurión | opera |
| 1963 | Concierto para piano y obligado de arpa | orchestra |
| 1966 | Misa Solemne en Re Mayor (in five movements) | choir & orchestra |
| 1966 | Misa Solemne (in four movements | choir & orchestra |
| 1968 | Sixth Symphony, Para cuerdas y timbales | orchestra |
| 1968 | Concierto para corno y orquesta | orchestra |
| 1969 | Suite ecuatoriana | orchestra |
| 1969 | Ferviente anhelo (pasillo) | song |
| 1970 | Seventh Symphony, dedicated to Beethoven, in E minor | orchestra |
| 1971 | El Tribuno | opera |
| 1972 | Eighth Symphony, in E minor, dedicated to the Sesquicentenario de la Batalla de Pichincha | orchestra |
| 1975 | Concierto para violoncello y orquesta | orchestra |
| 1976 | Concierto ecuatoriano para guitarra y orquesta | orchestra |
| 1977 | Ninth Symphony, "Sintética N. 2", in D Major | orchestra |
Discography
- Piano Music by Ecuadorian Composers CD. Piano: [Alex Alarcon Fabre], http://www.alexalarconfabre.com
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- Rapsodia N 3 (Luis Humberto Salgado)
- Brindis por la peaña (alza) (Luis Humberto Salgado)
- Nocturnal (pasillo) (Luis Humberto Salgado)
- Other works by:Gerardo GuevaraGerardo GuevaraGerardo Guevara, Ecuadorian composer born in Quito, 1930 is one of the key composers in Ecuador. His work combines native music with contemporary techniques.-Biography:Gerardo Guevara showed music ability at an early age...
, Corsino Duran, Claudio Aizaga, Juan Pablo Muñoz Sanz
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Souvenir de l'Amérique du Sud (CD) (piano, Marcelo Ortiz, works by: Gerardo Guevara
Gerardo Guevara
Gerardo Guevara, Ecuadorian composer born in Quito, 1930 is one of the key composers in Ecuador. His work combines native music with contemporary techniques.-Biography:Gerardo Guevara showed music ability at an early age...
, Sixto María Durán y Miguel Ángel Casares)
- I. Amanecer de trasnochada (pasillo) - Luis H. Salgado
- Brindis al pasado (pasillo) - Luis H. Salgado
- II. Romance nativo (sanjuanito) - Luis H. Salgado
- VI. Nocturnal (pasillo) - Luis H. Salgado
Writings
- Salgado, Luis H. Música vernácula ecuatoriana (Microestudio), published in 1952 by Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana
- Salgado, Luis H. Proyecciones de la música contemporánea, published in September 1960 by Ritmo, Madrid, Spain.
External links
- Edufuturo In Spanish
- Museos y Biblioteca Virtuales Central Bank of Ecuador
- 20th-century composers by birth date
- List of symphony composers
- La Música en el Ecuador Mario Godoy Aguirre