- Juan José Castro
Juan José Castro (
Avellaneda ,March 7 ,1895 -Buenos Aires ,September 3 ,1968 ) was an Argentinian composer and conductor.Castro studied piano and violin under
Manuel Posadas and composition underEduarno Fornarini in Buenos Aires. In the 1920s he was awarded theEuropa Prize , and then went on to study inParis at theSchola Cantorum underVincent D'Indy andEdouard Risler . Returning to Buenos Aires in 1925, he was named conductor of the Renacimiento Chamber Orchestra in 1928 and the Teatro Colón in 1930. From 1939 to 1943 he was a professor at the Buenos Aires Conservatory.Castro's international career began in the 1940s; he conducted the
Havana Philharmonic in 1947, theSodre Orchestra inUruguay in 1949, theVictorian Symphony inMelbourne in 1952, and the National Symphony in Buenos Aires from 1956-1960. From 1960 to 1964, he was director of thePuerto Rico Conservatory .Castro's brothers,
José María Castro andWashington Castro , were also both composers.Works
"Note:this list is incomplete"
*"Violin Sonata", 1914
*"Cello Sonata", 1916
*"Piano Sonata No. 1", 1917
*"A una madre", 1925
*"Symphony No. 1", 1931
*"Biblical Symphony", 1932
*"Mekhano",ballet , 1934
*"Sinfonia Argentina", 1934
*"Symphony No. 3", 1936
*"Symphony No. 4", 1939
*"Piano Sonata No. 2", 1939
*"Offenbachiana", ballet, 1940
*"Piano Concerto", 1941
*"String Quartet", 1942
*"La zapatera prodigosa"opera afterFederico Garcia Lorca , 1943
*"Martin Fierro",cantata , 1944
*"El Llanto de las Sierras", 1947
*"Corales Criollos No. 1 & 2", piano, 1947
*"Proserpina y el extranjero" (Proserpina and the Foreigner), opera afterOmar del Carlo , 1951
*"Bodas de sangre" (Marriage of Blood), opera after Lorca, 1952
*"Corales Criollos No. 3", orchestra, 1953
*"Symphony No. 5", 1956
*"Epitafio en ritmos y sonidos", chorus and orchestra, 1961References
*
Don Randel , "The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music". Harvard, 1996, p. 144.
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