Maria Teresa Luengo

Maria Teresa Luengo (born 25 November 1940) is an Argentine composer and musicologist.

Life

Luengo was born in Quilmes, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and graduated from the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina in Buenos Aires in 1969, where she studied with Alberto Ginastera, Luis Gianneo, Juan Francisco Giacobbe, Roberto Caamaño and Gerardo Gandini.^[1]^[2] In 1973 she was awarded a scholarship that allowed her to continue her studies in electro-acoustic music with Francisco Krópfl, Gerardo Gandini, Femando Von Reichenbach, Gabriel Bmcyc, and Peter Maxwell Davies at the Center of Art and Communication (CAYC). During this time she was invited to participate in a year-long seminar on contemporary music during which she composed The Book of Mirrors.

From 1974 to 1975 she taught at the University of El Salvador, and in 1984 began teaching composition at the National University of La Plata. From 1972 to 1993, she also taught at the Municipal School of Fine Arts Carlos Morel of Quilmes. In 1990 she designed the curriculum for study in Electroacoustic Music at the National University of Quilmes and worked as director and professor of composition within the program.^[3]

Honors and awards

First prize in Composition from Musical Promotions, 1971
First prize in Composition from the City of Buenos Aires, 1973
Scholarship in Composition from Argentina's National Endowment for the Arts
Prize in Composition from the National University of La Plata, 1983
Special Mention from the National Endowment for the Arts in the Juan Carlos Paz Competition
The National Endowment for the Arts recognition for composers under thirty-five years, 1988
Her work Presences was selected and interpreted in the third conference of Contemporary Latin American Music Composers, 1989 ^[3]
Her music for the film Taumanía from the filmmaker Pablo Delfini on the Tau Ricardo drawings won First Prize of the National Endowment for the Arts, 1987.^[4]

Works

Selected works include:

Sonata for Piano, 1965
Heptatonic for flute, clarinet, string quartet and piano, 1970
Seis Preludios Para Cuarteto de Cuerdas for string quartet, 1968
Alcances for string quartet and piano, 1971
Dueto, for violin and piano, 1972
Cuatro Soles for flute, oboe, cello, piano and percussion, 1973
Absolum electronic work, about 1973
El Museo Imaginario, for violin, viola, cello, piano and instruments of persecution, 1975
Mailenanas three pieces for piano, 1976
El Libro de los Espejos, stopped flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello, piano and percussion, 1976
Seis Imágenes Mágicas, for flute, clarinet, cello and percussion, 1978
Presencias, trio for flute, violin and piano, 1980
Navegante for piano and six percussionists, 1983
Nao for wind quintet, 1983
Ecos por Tupac trio in G for flute, bass clarinet, cello, 1984
Las Aguas de la Luz for two flutes in C, bass clarinet, violin and cello, 1989
Saltos Transparentes for piano, 1990
Music for the film Taumanía, 1987^[4]

References

^ Ficher, Miguel; Schleifer, Martha Furman; Furman, John M. (1996). Latin American classical composers: a biographical dictionary. ISBN 9780810831858.
^ Sadie, Julie Anne; Samuel, Rhian (1994). The Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers. ISBN 9780393034875. Retrieved 5 January 2011.
^ ^a ^b "Maria Teresa Luengo". Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 6 January 2011.
^ ^a ^b "Maria Teresa Luengo". Archived from the original on 29 December 2012. Retrieved 5 January 2011.

[1] Ficher, Miguel; Schleifer, Martha Furman; Furman, John M. (1996). Latin American classical composers: a biographical dictionary. ISBN 9780810831858.

[2] Sadie, Julie Anne; Samuel, Rhian (1994). The Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers. ISBN 9780393034875. Retrieved 5 January 2011.

[bio-3] "Maria Teresa Luengo". Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 6 January 2011.

[works-4] "Maria Teresa Luengo". Archived from the original on 29 December 2012. Retrieved 5 January 2011.

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