Roberto Garcia Morillo
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Roberto García Morillo (January 22, 1911 – October 26, 2003) 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
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

, musicologist, music professor and music critic
Critic
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.

Biography

Morillo was born in Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires
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. He studied at the Escuela Argentina de Música (with Julián Aguirre, Ricardo Rodríguez, Rafael González, and Juan José Castro), at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música (with José André, Floro M. Ugarte, José Gil, and Constantino Gaito), and in Paris
Paris
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 studied piano with Yves Nat
Yves Nat
Yves Nat was a French pianist and composer.-Biography:Yves Nat was born in Béziers and showed an early aptitude for both piano and composition. By the age of seven he was allowed to improvise each Sunday at the organ of Béziers' cathedral during mass...

 (Salgado 2001). Morillo died on October 26, 2003.

He worked as a music critic for La Nación starting in 1938, and subsequently published in many Argentine and North American periodicals. He was appointed to joint positions as professor of composition in both the national and the municipal conservatories in Buenos Aires in 1942 (Salgado 2001).

Curriculum :
  • Director of the Conservatorio Nacional de Música (1972-79)
  • Professor of Composition at the Conservatorio Municipal de Música and at the Antiguo Conservatorio Beethoven
  • Music critic of the newspaper La Nación (1938-79)
  • Member of the Comisión de Música Sinfónica y de Cámara de SADAIC
  • Vicepresident of the Asociación Argentina de Compositores
  • President of the Unión Compositores de la Argentina
  • Member of the Senato Académico del Centro Internazionale di Studi Musicali (Rome
    Rome
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    ), Sociedad Internacional de Musicología and Internationale Gesellschaft für Urheberrecht (INTERCU) of Munich
    Munich
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  • Jury member of several national and international competitions (Rio de Janeiro
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    , Taormina
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    , Montevideo
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    , etc.).

Works

In his first works, influences from Scriabin
Alexander Scriabin
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 and Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky ; 6 April 1971) was a Russian, later naturalized French, and then naturalized American composer, pianist, and conductor....

 can be noticed, as well as coincidences with the French Impressionism
Impressionism
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 and 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....

. His compositional style was never nationalistic, though most of his works from 1939 onward display the influence of Spanish culture (Salgado 2001). He received award
Award
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s from the Comisión Nacional de Cultura, Municipalidad de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Asociación Wagneriana, SADAIC, Rotary Club and the Dante Alighieri Scholarship (1952).

His works have been commissioned by:
  • Radio Nacional
  • Asociación de Conciertos de Cámara
  • Asociación Amigos de la Música
  • Festival de Música de Tucumán
  • Asociación El Piano
  • Asociación Argentina de Compositores
  • Fabien Scvitzky (Tchaikowsky Festival, 1959)
  • Municipalidad de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires
  • Teatro Colón
  • Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales
  • Asociación Amigos del Coro Nacional de Niños
  • IV Festival Interamericano de Música (Washington).

Sources

  • Salgado, Susana. 2001. "García Morillo, Roberto". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie
    Stanley Sadie
    Stanley Sadie CBE was a leading British musicologist, music critic, and editor. He was editor of the sixth edition of the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians , which was published as the first edition of the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.Sadie was educated at St Paul's School,...

     and John Tyrrell
    John Tyrrell (professor of music)
    John Tyrrell was born in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia in 1942. He studied at the universities of Cape Town, Oxford and Brno. In 2000 he was appointed Research Professor at Cardiff University....

    . London: Macmillan Publishers.
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