Rodolfo Arízaga was an Argentine

Argentina

Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

 composer.

Arízaga was born in Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...

, where he studied composition at the National Conservatory under Alberto Williams

Alberto Williams

Alberto Williams was an Argentine symphonic composer and conductor.-Life and work:Alberto Williams was born to in Buenos Aires, in 1862. A maternal grandfather, Amancio Jacinto Alcorta, had been a respected government and banking policy-maker, as well as a well-known composer of sacred music...

, José Gil, Luis Gianneo, and Teodoro Fuchs; he also studied philosophy

Philosophy

Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational...

 at the National Universeity. After touring Spain

Spain

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 in 1950, he went to Paris in 1954 and studied under Nadia Boulanger

Nadia Boulanger

Nadia Boulanger was a French composer, conductor and teacher who taught many composers and performers of the 20th century.From a musical family, she achieved early honours as a student at the Paris Conservatoire, but believing that her talent as a composer was inferior to that of her younger...

 and Olivier Messiaen

Olivier Messiaen

Olivier Messiaen was a French composer, organist and ornithologist, one of the major composers of the 20th century. His music is rhythmically complex ; harmonically and melodically it is based on modes of limited transposition, which he abstracted from his early compositions and improvisations...

. Here, he also began experimenting with the Ondes Martenot

Ondes Martenot

The ondes Martenot , also known as the ondium Martenot, Martenot and ondes musicales, is an early electronic musical instrument invented in 1928 by Maurice Martenot. The original design was similar in sound to the theremin...

, and composed several works for the instrument. Returning to Argentina in 1960, he taught at Buenos Aires University and wrote music criticism for journals and newspapers. He died in Buenos Aires.

Works

• Poema de invierno for violin and piano, 1944
• Sonatina for piano, 1944-45
• Jaquinot, Ballet, 1945
• Dos corales, 1945
• Suite para piano, 1945
• Sonata for piano, 1946
• Toccata for piano, 1947
• Pequeño vals en tono gris, 1948
• Sonatina for piano, 1948
• Bailable Real for orchestra, 1948
• Délires, Cantata, 1954-57; rev. 1970
• Serranillas de la infanzona for piano, 1957
• Sonata Breve for piano and Ondes Martenot, 1958
• El organillo for Ondes Martenot, 1958
• Piezas epigramáticas for piano, 1961
• Prometeo 45, Poema Dramático, 1962
• Concierto para piano, 1963
• Tientos para Santa María, 1965
• Música para Cristóbal Colón for orchestra, 1968
• String Quartet No. 1, 1968
• Ciaccona for viola solo, 1969
• El ombligo de los limbos, la momia y una encuesta, 1969
• String Quartet No. 2

Writings

• Manuel de Falla
  Manuel de Falla
  Manuel de Falla y Matheu was a Spanish Andalusian composer of classical music. With Isaac Albéniz, Enrique Granados and Joaquín Turina he is one of Spain's most important musicians of the first half of the 20th century....
  
  , 1961
• Juan José Castro
  Juan José Castro
  Juan José Castro was an Argentine composer and conductor.Born in Avellaneda, Castro studied piano and violin under Manuel Posadas and composition under Eduarno Fornarini, in Buenos Aires. In the 1920s he was awarded the Europa Prize, and then went on to study in Paris at the Schola Cantorum under...
  
  , 1963
• Enciclopedia de la Música Argentina, 1971
• R. Arizaga, Pompeyo Camps, Historia de la Música en la Argentina, 1990, ISBN 950-22-0304-6