Marta Canales

Marta Canales

Marta Canales Pizarro (17 July 1893 – 6 December 1986) was a Chilean violinist, choral conductor and composer. She was born in Santiago and made her debut as a violinist at age eleven playing Mendelssohn's "Concerto". With her brothers, she founded a chamber ensemble that was active from 1916-1920. After her performing career ended, she studied composition with Luis Esteban Giard, and then worked as a composer and choral conductor. She died in Santiago.[1][2]

Works

Selected works include:

  • "Marta y María", oratorio for soloists, chorus, organ and string orchestra (1929)
  • "Misa de Eucaristía" for four mixed voices, chorus and string orchestra (1930)
  • "Misa de Navidad" for mixed chorus of four voices and orchestra (1930)
  • "Misa en estilo gregoriano" for voice and organ (1933)
  • "Madrigales Teresianos", collection of twelve chorals, four mixed voices on the poetry of St. Teresa of Jesus (1933)
  • "Himnos y cantos sacros en estilo gregoriano" for voice and organ (1936–1940)
  • "Elevación", poem for organ, harp and string orchestra
  • "Cuatro canciones de cuna" for four voice choirs
  • "Dos canciones" for four equal voices
  • "Cantares Chilenos", collection of ten tunes, harmonized choruses equal voices, drawn from folklore (1946)
  • "Villancicos", collection of fifty traditional Christmas songs from the folklore or tradition of different nations with harmonized choruses for four equal voices (1946)[3]

References

  1. ^ Sadie, Julie Anne; Samuel, Rhian (1994) (Digitized online by GoogleBooks). The Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers. http://books.google.com/books?id=IvoQQU1QL_QC&pg=PA101&lpg=PA101&dq=Canales+(Pizarro),+Marta+(b+Santiago,+17+July+1893;+d+Santiago,+6+Dec+1986).+...&source=bl&ots=iHyttKLsp7&sig=k9YGPftsTV1WSgAMUPheIdR9K2U&hl=en&ei=6CM1TePEHYP98Abj5fztCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBcQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Canales%20(Pizarro)%2C%20Marta%20(b%20Santiago%2C%2017%20July%201893%3B%20d%20Santiago%2C%206%20Dec%201986).%20...&f=false. Retrieved 17 January 2010. 
  2. ^ Sadie, Stanley; Tyrrell, John (2001). The new Grove dictionary of music and musicians: Volume 2. 
  3. ^ "Canales Pizarro, Marta". http://mazinger.sisib.uchile.cl/repositorio/lb/uchile/salasv01/compositores/09.html. Retrieved 18 January 2011. 
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