Luis H. Salgado
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Luis Humberto Salgado Ecuadorian composer regarded as one of the most influential and prolific of his country.

Biography

Was taught by his father the composer Francisco Salgado, a former student of the Italian composer Domenico Brescia
Domenico 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:
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


Discography

Rapsodia N 3 (Luis Humberto Salgado)
Brindis por la peaña (alza) (Luis Humberto Salgado)
Nocturnal (pasillo) (Luis Humberto Salgado)
Other 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...

, Corsino Duran, Claudio Aizaga, Juan Pablo Muñoz Sanz


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.

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