Luis H. Salgado

Luis Humberto Salgado (Cayambe 1903-Quito 1977) Ecuadorian composer regarded as one of the most influential and prolific of his country.

Contents 1 Biography 2 some compositions 3 Discography 4 References 5 Writings 6 Bibliography 7 Notes 8 External links

Biography

Was taught by his father the composer Francisco Salgado, a former student of the Italian composer Domenico Brescia (who championed Nationalism ^[1] in Chile and Ecuador before permanently settling down in the USA. Salgado himself was never a student of Brescia's.

During the 1920s, Luis Humberto Salgado made a living as a pianist for silent movies in Quito.^[2] He later he worked as a critic, teacher, choir and orchestra conductor. He also acted as director of the Conservatorio Nacional de Música.

In his essay Música vernácula ecuatoriana (Microestudio), published in 1952 by 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 ^[3]

"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" ^[4]

Though only two of his operas are mentioned in most music literature, he composed another two, together with nine symphonies, several concertos, several ballets. "Salgado was a prolific composer".^[5] 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. 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.

some compositions

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 Coregráfica	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	First Symphony, "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	Second Symphony, "Sintética N. 1", in D minor	orchestra
1955	Third Symphony, "Sobre un Tema Rococó: A-D-H-G-E", in D Major	orchestra
1957	Fourth Symphony, "Ecuatoriana", in D Major	orchestra
1957	Eunice	opera
1958	Fifth Symphony, "Neo-Romántica"	orchestra
1959	Homenaje a la danza criolla (symphonic poem)	orchestra
1961	Aidita	vocal
1961	El Centurión	opera
1963	Concierto para piano y obligado de arpa	orchestra
1966	Misa Solemne en Re Mayor (in five movements)	choir & orchestra
1966	Misa Solemne (in four movements	choir & orchestra
1968	Sixth Symphony, Para cuerdas y timbales	orchestra
1968	Concierto para corno y orquesta	orchestra
1969	Suite ecuatoriana	orchestra
1969	Ferviente anhelo (pasillo)	song
1970	Seventh Symphony, dedicated to Beethoven, in E minor	orchestra
1971	El Tribuno	opera
1972	Eighth Symphony, in E minor, dedicated to the Sesquicentenario de la Batalla de Pichincha	orchestra
1975	Concierto para violoncello y orquesta	orchestra
1976	Concierto ecuatoriano para guitarra y orquesta	orchestra
1977	Ninth Symphony, "Sintética N. 2", in D Major	orchestra

Discography

• Piano Music by Ecuadorian Composers CD. Piano: [Alex Alarcon Fabre], [1]

Rapsodia N 3 (Luis Humberto Salgado)

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 y 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

References

• Apel, Willi. Harvard Dictionary of Music, Harvard University Press, 1969, p. 253.
• Béhague, Gerard. 2001. "Ecuador. Art Music". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan Publishers; New York: Grove's Dictionaries of Music.

• Bull, Storm Index to biographies of contemporary composers. New York: Scarecrow Press, 1964, p. 405
• Composers of the Americas Biographical data and catalog of their works Volume 4. Washington, D.C.: Secretaria General, organizacion de los Estados Americanos, 1958.
• Chronological catalog of the works of the Ecuadorian composer Luis H. Salgado Boletin interam. mus., no.1 (Sep 1957), p. 45-50
• Diccionario de la música española e hispanoamericana (DMEH). Published by Sociedad General de Autores y Editores (SGAE) and Instituto Nacional de las Artes Escénicas y de la Música (INAEM) from the Spanish Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte.

• Pérez Pimentel, Rodolfo. In: Diccionario Biográfico del Ecuador, Guayaquil 1987.
• Robijns, Jozef; Zijlstra, Miep. Algemene muziek encyclopedie hoofdred., J. Robijns en Miep Zijlstra. Haarlem: De Haan, [1979]-1984
• Rosner, Helmut; Bulling, Burchard; Frank, Paul; Noetzel, Florian. Kurzgefasstes Tonkunstler Lexikon Fortfuhrt von Burchard Bulling, Florian Noetzel, Helmut Rosner Wilhelmshaven: Heinrichshofen, 1974. Note: Zweiter Teil: Erganzungen und Erweiterungen seit 1937
• Slonimsky, Nicolas. Music of Latin America. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1945, p. 374.
• Walker, John L. "The Younger Generation of Ecuadorian Composers", Latin American Music Review" University of Texas- Volumen 22, Número 2, Fall 2001.
• Morris, Mark. The Pimlico Dictionary of Twentieth Century Composers. Pimlico, 1999.
• Stevenson, Robert. "Quito". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition.

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.

Bibliography

• Opus, no. 31. Issue dedicated to Luis H. Salgado. Edited by Arturo Rodas. Central Bank of Ecuador . Quito, January 1989.
• Luis H. Salgado in Grandes Compositores Ecuatorianos, edited by Pablo Guerrero G. CONMUSICA. Quito. January 2001.
• Wong Cruz, Ketty. Luis H. Salgado, un Quijote de la música. Central Bank of Ecuador & Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana Benjamín Carrión. 2004. ISBN 9978-62-315-9

Notes

External links

• Edufuturo In Spanish
• Museos y Biblioteca Virtuales Central Bank of Ecuador
• 20th-century composers by birth date
• List of symphony composers
• La Música en el Ecuador Mario Godoy Aguirre

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Name	Salgado, Luis H.
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Date of birth	1903
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Date of death	1977
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