Luis H. Salgado
Luis Humberto Salgado (1903 Cayambe – 1977 Quito) was an Ecuadorian composer. He was regarded as one of the most influential and prolific composers of his country.
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Luis H. Salgado
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- Born
- 1903 · Cayambe.
- Died
- 1977 · Quito.
- Nationality
- Ecuador
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- composer · pianist · musician
- Languages
- Spanish
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He was taught by his father, the composer Francisco Salgado, a former student of the Italian composer Domenico Brescia (who championed nationalism in Chile and Ecuador before permanently settling down in the USA). During the 1920s, Salgado made a living as a pianist for silent films in Quito. He later he worked as a critic, teacher, and choir and orchestra conductor; he also was director of the National Conservatory of Music in Quito. In his essay Música vernácula ecuatoriana (Microestudio), published in 1952 in 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. – Béhague, Gerard. 2001. "Ecuador. Art Music" Though only two of his operas are mentioned in most music literature, he composed another two, together with nine symphonies, several concertos, several ballets. 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 style. 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.
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1903
Luis H. Salgado born at Cayambe.
1977
Luis H. Salgado died at Quito.
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List • Year || Work || Description • 1933 — Atahualpa o el ocaso de un Imperio (symphonic band) — orchestra • 1934 — Ensueño de amor — operetta • 1936 — Canto de Libertad — ballet • 1937 — Andante for violin & orchestra — orchestra • 1940 (rev. 1954) — Cumandá — opera • 1941 — La consagración de las vírgenes del sol - Concerto for piano & orchestra — orchestra • 1944 — Sanjuanito futurista (micro dance for piano) — solo (piano) • 1944 — Cantata amerindia — vocal • 1945 — Alma nativa — vocal • 1947 — El Páramo (Preludio Andino-Ecuatoriano) • 1947 — Alejandría la pagana, melodrama — orchestra • 1946 — Suite coreográfica — ballet • 1947 — El Amaño — ballet • 1947 — Qué lindo es el cariño (sanjuanito) — song • 1947 — Quiteño de Quito (pasacalle) — song • 1948 — Concierto fantasía en estilo nacional for piano & orchestra — orchestra • 1948 — Variaciones en estilo folclórico — orchestra • 1949 — Día de Corpus — opera-ballet • 1949 — Symphony No. 1, "Andina" in G minor (revised in 1972 and renamed Sinfonía de ritmos vernaculares) — orchestra • 1949 — Sismo (symphonic poem) — orchestra • 1950 — Pieza característica — orchestra • 1952 — El Dios Tumbal — ballet • 1953 — Concierto para violín y orquesta in E Major — orchestra • 1953 — Symphony No. 2, "Sintética (No. 1)"", in D minor — orchestra • 1955 — Symphony No. 3, "Sobre un Tema Rococó: A-D-H-G-E", in D Major — orchestra • 1955 — Danzas ecuatorianas for flute and orchestra — flute and orchestra • 1957 — Symphony No. 4, "Ecuatoriana", in D Major — orchestra • 1957 — Eunice — opera • 1958 — Symphony No. 5, "Neo-Romántica" — orchestra • 1959 — Homenaje a la danza criolla (symphonic poem) — orchestra • 1961 — Aidita — vocal • 1961 — El Centurión — opera • 1963 — Concerto for Piano and Harp Obbligato — orchestra • 1966 — Misa Solemne in D major (in five movements) — choir & orchestra • 1966 — Misa Solemne (in four movements — choir & orchestra • 1968 — Symphony No. 6 — string orchestra and timpani • 1968 — Concerto for French Horn and Orchestra — orchestra • 1969 — Suite ecuatoriana — orchestra • 1969 — Ferviente anhelo (pasillo) — song • 1970 — Symphony No. 7 in E minor (dedicated to the bicentennial of Beethoven’s birth) — orchestra • 1971 — El Tribuno — opera • 1972 — Symphony No. 8, in E minor (dedicated to the sesquicentennial of the Battle of Pichincha — orchestra • 1975 — Concerto for Cello and Orchestra — orchestra • 1976 — Ecuadorian Concerto for guitar and orchestra — orchestra • 1977 — Symphony No. 9, "Sintética (No. 2)", in D Major — orchestra
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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• The nine symphonies (3 CDs) by the Cuenca Symphony orchestra conducted by Michael Meissner • Piano Music by Ecuadorian Composers CD. Piano: [Alex Alarcon Fabre], • Brindis por la peaña (alza) (Luis Humberto Salgado) • Nocturnal (pasillo) (Luis Humberto Salgado) • Other works by: Gerardo Guevara, Corsino Duran, Claudio Aizaga, Juan Pablo Muñoz Sanz Souvenir de l'Amérique du Sud (CD) (piano, Marcelo Ortiz, works by: Gerardo Guevara, Sixto María Durán and 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
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