Carlos Guastavino

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Carlos Vicente Guastavino (Santa Fe, May 5, 1912 - ibidem, October 29, 2000) was an Argentine composer and pianist.

Biography

He was born and died in Santa Fe, capital city of the homonymous Argentine province. From there he left, with the characteristic vigor of provincial youth overshadowed by the disturbing cultural and economic activity of Buenos Aires. There he returned, already an old man, to share the last years of his existence with his homeland and rest definitively in the nearby town of San José del Rincón, the one that is so intensely evoked in his song 'Pueblito, mi pueblo'. 3. 4;.

His childhood was spent in a family that, like many at the beginning of the XX century, was fond of music. Her parents, Amadeo and Josefina, played the guitar and mandolin respectively. Her uncle Pedro improvised on the clarinet and her older brother, José Amadeo, on the piano. Spontaneity and musical intuition were the first recreational experiences of Carlos, the third of those six brothers, who barely four years old, being a disciple of the pianist Esperanza Lothringer, debuted at the Municipal Theater in the interpretation of a small composition for a duet of violin and piano written by her.

He learned rural popular music spontaneously, feeling especially impacted by the cielito and the triste. Even as an old man, he remembered by heart and with special affection those couplets that his uncle Pedro, a country man from the province of Buenos Aires, used to sing on his visits to Santa Fe.

Attracted by the Exact Sciences since adolescence, after finishing high school, he pursued a degree in Chemical Engineering at the National University of the Litoral without, however, abandoning his activity as a concert pianist. In 1937, he made contact with Héctor Ruiz Díaz, the experience of working on two pianos with him being key to his decision to dedicate himself exclusively to music. With a scholarship from the Ministry of Public Instruction of his province, he continued further studies in the Argentine capital.

Already established in Buenos Aires, after a brief stay of a few months at the National Conservatory of Music, he continued his studies privately with the composer and pedagogue Athos Palma. With it he systematized, in an intensely short period of time, his baggage of previous empirical knowledge, especially in the disciplines of harmony, morphology and counterpoint.

A life of travel and intense artistic experiences was what he led during the 40's and 50's. Itineraries through countries bordering Argentina, two stays in London – one, as part of a European tour that included other cities and another, thanks to a scholarship from the British Council – and also, a few months of touring the Soviet Union and China in 1956., were cementing his fame as an outstanding composer-pianist in the field of his own chamber vocal and piano repertoire of a nationalist nature.

The possibility from the beginning of accessing the publication of his compositions in Editorial Ricordi was certainly not a minor issue: this opened an immense avenue of circulation in the international arena that allowed a vast dissemination of his music. His production is extensive in the field of chamber and solo repertoire: it includes vocal pieces with piano, a cappella choral works, for instrumental groups, piano and guitar. Some achieved such widespread circulation that they needed to be repeatedly reissued (the cases of the songs "Pueblito, mi pueblo" and "Se equivocó la paloma" and the "Bailecito para piano" were and continue to be the most notable in this regard).

Recognised classical and popular performers such as Concepción Badía, Victoria de los Ángeles, Joan Manuel Serrat, Alfredo Kraus, José Carreras, María José Montiel, Teresa Berganza, Jorge Chaminé, John Williams, Miguel Ángel Girollet, Mercedes Sosa, José Cura, Rudolf Firkušný, Víctor Villadangos, Marcos Fink, Eduardo Falú, Gerard Souzay, Cecilia Pillado among many others, have addressed his music in concerts and recordings throughout the century XX. His discography is very extensive and currently continues to grow without pause. Some songs have been translated into other languages and are heard in Indonesia, Japan, Australia, apart from Europe and the United States.

After a period of 12 years away from public life and without making new compositions, Guastavino returned to producing, motivated by a new personal relationship established with the musician Carlos Vilo, to whom he especially dedicated 16 compositions. Faced with this new creative moment, Guastavino continued composing until he died in 2000.

Guastavino is one of the few exponents of Argentine musical nationalism who enjoys international recognition. This is how he was interpreted in 1987 by the Organization of American States (OAS) and the Inter-American Music Council (CIDEM), which honored him with the highest distinction of that organization. He also received the "National Consecration Award" from the Ministry of Culture of the Nation (1992), a distinction from the "Association of Musical Critics of Argentina" (1993), the recognition of the Buenos Aires town of San Pedro as "Illustrious Citizen" (1993) for the song El Sanpedrino (in collaboration with León Benarós) and the declaration as "Emeritus Personality of Argentine Culture" by the Presidency of the Nation (1999). In 2009 he was awarded the Konex Honor Award, as a relevant musical personality who died in the previous decade.

Works

I am surprised that in my catalogue there are about three hundred fifty works. (Carlos Guastavino, 1992)

His vast work is divided into works for piano, guitar, chamber music for various groups, works for orchestra, a cappella choir or with piano and an enormous number of songs for voice and accompaniment. Furthermore, the number of arrangements of existing works for other groups is notable.

A vast majority of his work is meant to be sung. Guastavino loved the voice, and he loved to sing. That is why even when he wrote for piano he did so in a “choral” way, polyphonically.

Orchestra

Ballet "It was once" (lost) - 1942
Suite Argentina - Ballet

1. Gato

2. The pigeon was wrong.

3. Zamba

4. Malambo

Farewell - Song for choir, baritone soloist and orchestra - 1972
Romance de Santa Fe - for piano and orchestra
Three Argentine Romances

1. Girls

2. Jujeño boy

3. Dance in Cuyo

Piano

Piano solo

Dancer - 1940

Cat - 1940

Cute Earth - 1940

Ten popular songs - 1974

The Girls - 1953

Ten Argentinean Cantilenas - 1953-1958

1....Santa Fe to cry

2. Adolescence

3. Jacarandá

4. The ceibo

5. Abelarda Olmos

6. Juanita

7. Herbert

8. Santa Fe ancient

9. Trébol

10. The house

Ten Preludes (on popular Argentinean melodies) - 1952

1. The lady

2. The flower of reed

3. Rimoron

4. Margarita

5. Embroidery for the queen

6. A pretty girl

7. How many stars!

8. A Sunday day

9. The tower

10. In a car goes the girl

Sonata - 1947

1. Allegro Íntimo

2. Scherzo. Molto Vivace

3. Recitative. Slow

4. Run and finish. (the issue of the escape is based on the popular melody of riojana "Viniendo de Chilecito")

Sonatina - 1945

1. Allegretto

2. Very expressive red

3. Budget

Three Sonatinas on rhythms of the popular Argentine way - 1949

1. Movement

2. Retama

3. Dance

The afternoon in Rincón - 1952
El Sampedrino - 1992
Pueblito, mi Pueblo (Canción Argentina) - June 1957
The girls - dedicated to Haydée Giordano - 1953
Romance de Cuyo (La Zamacueca) - 1953
Pampeano - 1952
Popular fashion style - 1952
Presences (the names of this series are imaginative)

No. 1 "Loduvina" - 1960

N° 2 "Ortega" - 1960

N° 3 "Federico Ignacio Céspedes Villega" - 1961

N° 4 "Mariana" - November 14, 1961

No. 5 "Horacio Lavalle" - December 16, 1961

(there are four more Presences: No. 6 "Jeromita Linares" for string and guitar orchestra, No. 7 "Rosita Iglesias" for violin and piano, Presence No. 8 "Luis Alberto" for oboe, clarinet, trompa, fagot and piano and No. 9 for English and piano corn)

Suite Argentina - Ballet (Piano reduction, Ballet essay version) - 1953

1. Gato

2. The dove was wrong (Rafael Alberti) - piano, voice and choir

3. Zamba

4. Malambo

My friends (Music portraits for young pianists) - 1966

1. Luisito, from Concordia Street

2. Nelly, Rio Fourth Street

3. Ismael, Teodoro García Street

4. Pablo, Aeroparque

5. Fermina, Aranguren Street

6. Gabriel, from Andonaegui Street

7. Alberto, de la calle Posadas

8. Casandra, from Galileo Street

9. Damían, from Malabia Street

10. Alina, Lacroze Street

Three new Romances - 1954

1. La Niña del Río Dulce

2. The boy who came from the South

3. (the third romance does not exist)

Siesta (three preludes) - 1952

1. The Patio

2. The Sauce

3. Gorrions

Piano four hands

Romance del Plata - Sonatina - 1987

1. Allegro Cantabile

2. Andante Cantabile Sereno

3. Rondo

Two pianos

Romance de Santa Fe (reduction of the orchestra for a second piano by Guastavino)
Three Argentine Romances

1. The Girls of Santa Fe

2. Jujeño boy

3. Dance in Cuyo

Compositions to two pianos (transcripciones de Guastavino)

Little dance

Cat (to the popular way)

Plain

The dove was wrong (free version)

Guitar

Sonata n.o 1 dedicated to José Amadeo Guastavino- 1967

1. Allegro Decision

2. And

3. Allegro Spiritoso

Sonata n.o 2 dedicated to Roberto Lara - 1969

1. Allegretto intimo ed espressivo

2. Andante sustainuto

3. Budget

Sonata n.o 3 dedicated to Horacio Ceballos - 1973

1. Accurate and rhythmic integrity

2. Adagio

3. Allegro

Dancer (N°33 transcript of the piano composer) - 1967
Little Mine - Transcription of the play for singing and piano - 1960
La Tarde in Rincón (n°18 transcription of the piano composer) - 1958
Trébol (N.o 9 transcription of Ten Argentinian Cantilenas for piano)
El Ceibo (transcription of No. 4 of Ten Argentinian Cantilenas for piano)
Santa Fe to cry
Santa Fe Antiguo (transcription of the No. 8 of Ten Argentinian Cantilenas for piano) - 1953

Camera

Presence No. 6 "Jeromita Linares" for string quartet and guitar - July 22, 1965
"The rose and willow" for cello and piano (transcript for cello and piano by Aurora Nátola Ginastera)
Sonata for trombón or trompa and piano - 1973

1. Comfortable walking. Allegro

2. Andante cantabile

3. Rondo. Allegro giusto

Sonata for clarinet and piano
Tonada and cueca, for clarinet and piano.
Introduction and allegro, for flute (or sweet flute) and piano.
Sonetos del Ruiseñor, para soprano, flauta, clarinet, violonchelo and piano (Lorenzo Varela) - March 15, 1988
Music for four trombones or four cornos - 1971

1. March

2. Popular Song

3. Interlude

4. Final

Three Argentine and Final Cantilenas for strings

1. The house (n. 10)

2. Juanita (No. 6)

3. Ceibo (N. 4)

4. Final, romance in Colastiné

Arch Quartet (1948), world premiered in the year of the centenary of its birth by the Gianneo Quartet.

Violin and piano

"Llanura" transcription by composer No. 4 - 1950
Sonata, in a movement - 1953
"People, my people..." transcription No.17 of the composer of the work for two voices and piano - 1957
Presence No. 7 "Rosita Iglesias" - 1965

Chorus

A cappella choir

The dove was mistaken, for choir to four mixed voices (Rafael Alberti) - 1941
The dove was wrong, for female choir (Rafael Alberti)
Arroyito Serrano
Oh, that the soul... for double choir to seven voices (Leon Benarós) - April 8, 1973
Christmas Song
My song
Ombú (for male choir)
Canciones Populares Argentinas (Recollected and harmonized by Guastavino)

1. Since I met you - 1960

2. Coming from Chilecito - 1960

3. In the furrows of love - 1960

4. My throat - 1960

5. Whoever loved you is already leaving - melody taken to Eduardo Falú - June 13, 1960

6. Cañaveral - melody taken to Eduardo Falú - July 1960

7. Ciego would have been - melody taken to Eduardo Falú - June 1960

8. La Cuartelera - melody taken to Eduardo Falú - July 1960

9. I will cry - melody taken to Eduardo Falú - July 1960

10. A penalty again - melody taken to Eduardo Falú - August 1960

11. Margarita - melody taken from her mother - 1960

12. What a mistake will be - melody taken to Eduardo Falú - September 1960

13. I'd better be dead - September 1960

14. Oh, Pajarillo - melody taken to Eduardo Falú - October 1960

15. Look at her as she goes - melody taken to Eduardo Falú - October 1960

16. In the river of love - melody taken to Eduardo Falú - November 1960

17. You can't, you can't - melody taken to Eduardo Falú - November 1960

18. From Camargo...

19. I'm leaving - melody taken to Eduardo Falú - December 1960

20. The Tower in Guard - melody learned from her mother - December 1960

21. Severa Villafañe (León Benarós) - 1964

22. Zamba del Want (Inés Malinow) - June 21, 1964

23. Rice with milk - melody learned from her mother - July 14, 1964

24. Jacaranda (Osiris Rodríguez Castillos) Music by Eduardo Falú - July 7, 1964

25. Oh, that the soul... for choir to four voices (Leon Benarós) - April 4, 1965

26. Romance de José Cubas (León Benarós) - January 1965

27. Lucida sees the branch - Madrigal (León Benarós) - April 21, 1965

Mixed choir and piano

Indianas No. 1 for mixed choir (or vocal quartet) and piano

1. Gala of the day (Arturo Vázquez) - October 28, 1967

2. Who was like the Jasmine (Leon Benarós) - November 1, 1967

3. Chañarcito, chañarcito... (León Benarós) - November 15, 1967

4. North Wind (Guiche Aizemberg) - November 1967

5. To the court of your chest... (Leon Benarós) - December 2, 1967

6. One of two (John Ferreyra Basso) - December 12, 1967

Dismissed - Cantatata for choir, baritone soloist and piano - poetry of León Benarós (reduction of the orchestra performed by Guastavino) - 1972
Romance of absences for choir and two pianos (Ricardo Rojas) - December 6, 1963
The age of wonder, for children's choir to one voice and piano (Hamlet Lima Quintana)

1- The Awesome

a. The Day

b. La Noche - August 16, 1968

c. El Sueño - 21 August 1968

2- The Beings -

a. The Tree - August 27, 1968

b. The Birds - August 30, 1968

c. El Amigo - 4 de septiembre de 1968 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0ZG8xmVKZU

3- La Frontera

a. It was a rainy day - September 18, 1968

b. In the dream of the street - September 30, 1968

c. Behind the Wall - September 27, 1968

Male choir and piano

Indianas No. 2 for male choir and piano

1. Eduardo Belgrano (Edgardo Apesteguía) - 5 May 1968 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kesegJX37Gk

2. The afternoon (Ana María Chouhy Aguirre) - May 16, 1968.- Watch video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bI8c8Vp0Hyw

3. Goodbye, heart of almond (Leon Benarós) - April 26, 1968

4. Sino (Juan Ferreyra Basso) - May 26, 1968

"Who was a granaderito!", poetry by Leon Benarós; transcription n.o 59 by the composer of No. 11 of 15 school songs for singing and piano - 1990
Romance de la Delfina, poem by Guiche Aizemberg, transcription n.o 55 of the composer, of the work for singing and piano - 1988

Singing and accompaniment

Singing and piano

The pigeon was wrong (Rafael Alberti)
The rose and the willow (Francisco Silva)
Pueblito, my village (Francisco Silva)
This church does not have (Pablo Neruda)
Anhelo (Domingo Zerpa)
Cita (Lorenzo Varela)
La Palomita (José Iglesias de la Casa)
Piececitos.
The Prisoner (Anonymous)
Campanas (Francisco Silva)
Severa Villafañe (León Benarós)
Siesta (Francisco Silva)
Santa Fe Nights (Guiche Aizemberg)
(Mistral Gabriel)
Romance de José Cubas (León Benarós)
Through the green fields (Juana de Ibarbourou)
The farmer and the poor (Anonymous of the Romancer)
Sonnet to Harmony (Ana María Chouhy Aguirre) - January 1, 1962
Lost days - Soneto (Ana María Chouhy Aguirre) - June 1961
Landscape (Francisco Silva)
The only way (Hamlet Lima Quintana)
Elegía para un gorrión (Alma García)
Milonga de los dos hermanos (Jorge Luis Borges)
Popular Songs - 1967

01. Nice willow branch - Song (Arturo Vázquez)

02. El sampedrino - Canción pampeana (León Benarós)

03. The unevents - Song of the Litoral (Guiche Aizenberg)

04. I'd like to be for a while.

05. Vidala del secadal - Vidala (León Benarós)

06. Pampamapa - Air of Huella (Hamlet Lima Quintana)

07. Abismo de sed - Zamba (Alma García)

08. Pampa sola - Canción del Sur (Guiche Aizenberg)

09. The stranger - Song (Atahualpa Yupanqui)

10. Always alive - Song of the Litoral (Arturo Vázquez)

11. Brother - South Song (Hamlet Lima Quintana)

12. My vineyard of Chapanay - Cueca (León Benarós)

Birds (Leon Benarós) No. 2 is transcribed for vocal sextet and piano (No. 1 of the Triptych, transcription No.56). No. 7 is transcribed by the composer for male choir (transcription No.42) - 1973

1. Benteveo

2. Torcacita

3. Hornero

4. Tacuarita

5. Alférez

6. Pirincho

7. Chingolo

8. Gorrion

9. Teru-Teru

10. Leñatero

Three Songs about Luis Cernuda Poetry

1. Violet

2. Dead bird

3. Where the oblivion dwells - poem IX

Las Nubes - Three Songs (Luis Cernuda)

1. Ancient Garden

2. Wish

3. Joy of solitude

Six Cuna Songs (Mistral Gabriel) - 1945

1. Ablemish

2. Attached to me

3. Charming

4. Corderito.

5. Rocío

6. Meaning

Canciones del alba (León Benarós)

1. The weeps of the dawn

2. The hill was silver.

3. The Pass of the Stars

4. The albeador

Four Quevedo Sonnets

1. Soneto I - Those who blind see me crying

2. Sonnet II - Artificent flower, rich and beautiful

3. Soneto III - After burning always

4. Sonnet IV - That pink and blue color

Four colonial songs (Leon Benarós)

1. When it just rained - September 3, 1965

2. - May 31, 1965

3. I'm leaving now - May 24, 1965

4. Morning doors - May 23, 1965

Seven Songs on Poetry by Rafael Alberti - 1946

1. The Bride

2. Physical Geography - "El Paraíso", Sierras de Córdoba, 1946

3. Elegía

4. Nana of the bad child

5. To the swallow bridge!

6. Fly!

7. Garden of Love - May 1946

Four Argentine Songs (Melodies 1, 3 and 4 were dictated by Ms. Yolanda Pérez de Careno, in the city of Jujuy on August 16, 1941; the number 2 was collected in Anillaco, Province of La Rioja, Argentina, to a group of young people in March 1940.

1. Since I met you

2. Coming from Chilecito

3. In the furrows of love

4. My throat

Argentina Flowers (León Benarós)

1. Shortcut - October 9, 1969

2. The White Air Keyboard - October 13, 1969

3. Campanilla, where are you going?

4. The purple vinagrillo - October 24, 1969

5. What a lovely mother-in-law!

6. The Macachin Flowers - October 31, 1969

7. The Colored Hoods - November 4, 1969

8. Jasmine of the country; how cute! - November 7, 1969

9. Aromito, turkish flower...

10. The flower of the waterpe - November 13, 1969

11. Ay, aljaba, chilco flower - November 16, 1969

12. Ceibo, ceibo, zuiñandí - November 18, 1969

Discography

2020- 2023 - Complete Work for Piano by Lilia Salsano - Discographic Seal: Shagrada Medra Digital - Engraved in the Symphony Room of the Kirchner Cultural Center of Buenos Aires - National INAMU Grants 2015 and 2022 - Álbum 1 "Poesía" (2020), Album 2 "Presents" (2022), Album 3 "Paisajess" (2023)
Piano Music / Hector Moreno, Norberto Capelli / Marco Polo, 8-223462
Guitar Music of Argentina, volume 2 / Victor Villandagos (guitar) / Naxos Classical, 8-557658
Guitar Music of Argentina, volume 1 / Victor Villandagos (guitar) / Naxos Classical, 8-555058
Flores Argentinas - Patricia Neme sings to Guastavino / Patricia Neme, mezzosoprano; Carlos Koffman and Valentina Díaz Frenot, piano - Cosentino
1964 - Popular songs of Argentina/ Juan Carlos Taborda, accompanied by Carlos Guastavino - ANTAR, 1964
1971 - Camerata Bariloche and Eduardo Falú / Jeromita Linares, Eduardo Falú, guitar - reissued in 1984 - Cosentino
1984 - South American Songs / Teresa Berganza (mezzo-soprano), Juan-Antonio Álvarez-Parejo (piano) / Claves, CD 50-8401.
1987 - Argentinian Songs / Raúl Giménez (tenor), Nina Walker (piano) / Nimbus Records, NI 5107.
1990 - Classics of the Americas, volume 2 / Margot Pares-Reyna (soprano), Georges Rabol (piano) / Opus 111, PAHO 30-9002.
1995 - Mélodies (1995) / Jorge Chaminé (baritone), Marie-Françoise Bucquet (piano) / Lyrinx 149 (882 149).
1996 - Flores Argentinas / Marcos Fink (bass-baritone), Luis Ascot (piano) / Cascavelle, VEL1059.
1997 - Integral work for piano solo / Group of pianistic studies Alberto Ginastera (Dora de Marinis, Mauricio Lövfall, Marcela González, Fernando Viani, Julio Ogas, Elena Dabul, Alejandro Cremaschi, Martín Bucki) - Cosentino
1998 - Tango Malambo: Argentine Piano Music vol. 1, Cecilia Pillado, piano. Berlin Classics, 0011802BC (TaMa 261219301). Contains of Guastavino: Romance de Cuyo (La Zamacueca)
1999 - How many Stars!: Argentine Piano Music vol. 2, Cecilia Pillado, piano. Berlin Classics, 0011852BC (TaMa 261219302). Guastavino Contains: Ten Preludes (on popular Argentinean melodies)
1999 - The pigeon was wrong.... Jesus Suaste, (bariton), Alberto Cruzprieto (piano), Mexico: Quindecim (non. catalog: QPO36).
2002 - Amatorias Songs / Bernarda Fink (mezzo-soprano), Roger Vignoles (piano) / Hyperion, CDA 67186.
2002 - Vai Azulão / Agathe Martel (soprano), Marc Bourdeau (piano) / Marquis Classic, MAR 285.
2006 - Canciones Argentinas / Bernarda Fink (mezzo-soprano), Marcos Fink (bass-baritone), Carmen Piazzini (piano) / Harmonia Mundi, HMC 901892.
2007 - Flores Argentinas: Canciones de Ginastera y Guastavino / Inca Rose Duo: Annelise Skovmand, canto; Pablo González Jazey, guitar. Cleo Productions, Cleo Prod 1002.
2008 - Complete Piano Music / Martin Jones, piano - Nimbus Records
2008 - Carlos Guastavino Canciones / Víctor Torres (barítono), Dora Castro (piano) / Universidad Nacional del Litoral, IRCO Video S.R.L 2008
2010-Carlos Guastavino/Obras para guitarra y música de cámara/ María Isabel Siewers-guitarra- Stamic Quartet, Acqua Records

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