#ClassicsaDay #HispanicHeritage Week 4

 September 15 kicks off Hispanic Heritage Month. The Classics a Day team has also made it their theme for September. The challenge is to post video performances of Hispanic composers. The posts can be on any social media platform you choose. 

We recently completed a month of posts featuring Mexican composers. This month, I'm sharing music by Hispanic composers further south. Here are my posts for the fourth and final week of #HispanicHeritage.

09/25/23 Marcos Coelho Neto (1763–1823): Maria Mater Gratiae

Neto was the son of a former enslaved person. His talent as a trumpeter and composer took him far. At age 23 he oversaw the production of three operas for the royal wedding of João VI and Carlota Joaquina.

09/26/23 Augustin Barrios Mangore: Prelude in A minor

Paraguayan Barrios is considered to be one of the greatest guitarists of all time. He wrote over 100 original works for the guitar and over 300 transcriptions. Virtually all his music is regularly performed.

09/27/23 Teresa Tanco Cordovez: Serenata para orquesta de curedas

Columbian pianist Cordovez had a successful career concertizing in Europe. Her compositions were mostly inspired by the music of her native land.

09/28/23 Ernesto Lacuona: La Comparsa

In a sense, Lacuona was the George Gershwin of Cuba. He was equally at home writing popular and classical music. He was immensely popular as a performer and composer in both North and South America.

09/29/23 Gisela Hernandez: Two Cuban Dances

Cuban composer Hernandez founded Ediciones de Blanck Publishing and was a member of the Grupo Minorista. Her music draws on Afro-Cuban music traditions.

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#ClassicsaDay #HispanicHeritage Week 3

 September 15 kicks off Hispanic Heritage Month. The Classics a Day team has also made it their theme for September. The challenge is to post video performances of Hispanic composers. The posts can be on any social media platform you choose. 

We recently completed a month of posts featuring Mexican composers. This month, I'm sharing music by Hispanic composers further south. Here are my posts for the third week of #HispanicHeritage.

09/18/23 André da Silva Gomes (1752–1844): Missa em Sol maior

Gomes is one of the earliest native Brazilian classical composers. Most of his music was written for the church. He wrote over 130 works, although many were lost over time.

09/19/23 Juan Manuel Olivares (1760-1797): Stabat Mater

Oliveres was one of the first native Venezuelan composers. He's credited with composing the first chamber music in the country. Most of his major works were written for the church, like the Stabat Mater.

09/20/23 Enrique Iturriaga (1918-2019): Sinfonia Junin y Ayachucho: 1824

Peruvian composer had a career in popular music before turning the classical compositon. He studied with Arthur Honegger. Iturriaga was director of the National School of Music and later the National Conservatory of Music in Peru.

09/21/23 Jacqueline Nova (1935-1975): Asimetrias for flute and percussion

Nova pioneered electroacoustic music in Columbia. She hosted a contemporary music radio program, and established an ensemble to perform works by living composers.

09/24/23 Luis Humberto Salgado (1903-1977): Sinfonia No. 1 Andina

Salgad strove to incorporate Ecuadorian music into his classical works. He even developed a four-movement symphonic form based on Ecuadoran folk dances. This is the form he used for his first symphony.

#ClassicsaDay #HispanicHeritage Week 1

 September 15 kicks off Hispanic Heritage Month. The Classics a Day team has also made it their theme for September. The challenge is to post video performances of Hispanic composers. The posts can be on any social media platform you choose. 

We recently completed a month of posts featuring Mexican composers. So this month, I'm sharing music by Hispanic composers further south. Here are my posts for the first week of #HispanicHeritage.

09/04/23 José Joaquim Emerico Lobo de Mesquita (1746–1805) Brazil: Mass in F minor

Emerico was a virtuoso organist and skilled improvisor. He took orders in 1776. Virtually all of his music is written for the church, including at least seven masses.

09/05/23 Teresa Carreño (1853-1917) Venezuela: La falsa nota, Op. 39

Carreño enjoyed an international concert career as a virtuoso pianist and conductor. She was known as the "Valkyrie of the Piano." As a soprano, she appeared in productions at the Met. Although most of her compositions are for piano, she also wrote chamber and orchestral music.

09/06/23 Jose Maria Valle Riestra (1959-1925) Peru: En Oriente

Riestra studied in London and Paris before beginning his music career in Peru. His three operas are all based on Incan stories, and incorporate Incan melodies.

09/07/23 Guillermo Uribe Holguin (1880-1971) Columbia

Holguin was a violinist and prolific composer. He founded the National Symphony Orchestra of Columbia. His catalog includes 13 symphonies, 10 string quartets, and 2 violin concertos.

09/08/23 José Maurício Nunes Garcia (1767–1830) Brazil: Te Deum

Garcia was one of the most important Brazilian composers of the Classical Era. He wrote over 400 works, most for the church. Being of mixed race, the church had to formally declare him free of "any color defect" before he could take orders. They did and he did in 1792.