Williams Alberto (1862-1952)
Argentina
Composer, pianist, and teacher.
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(1862-1952)
Argentinean composer, pianist, and teacher. At an early age, he played works by Paer and Liszt at the Teatro Colón. In 1881, he published his first work, the mazurka Ensueño de juventud. A scholarship took him to the Paris Conservatoire in 1882, where he was a pupil of Georges Mathias (piano), Emile Durand (harmony), and Benjamin Godard (instrumental ensemble). Williams also studied composition with César Franck. His piano piece El rancho abandonado (1890) is considered the beginning of Argentinean music nationalism. He had a decisive influence on musical education, particularly in the adoption of the teaching methods he had learned in Europe, which still shape music education in Argentina today. In 1900 he returned to Europe and conducted the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in a concert of his works. Williams was the first New World composer, other than the American composer of German-Bohemian birth, Anthony Philip Heinrich (1781-1861), to write as many as nine symphonies.
(Tesi Hernan Mouro)
Argentinean composer, pianist, and teacher. At an early age, he played works by Paer and Liszt at the Teatro Colón. In 1881, he published his first work, the mazurka Ensueño de juventud. A scholarship took him to the Paris Conservatoire in 1882, where he was a pupil of Georges Mathias (piano), Emile Durand (harmony), and Benjamin Godard (instrumental ensemble). Williams also studied composition with César Franck. His piano piece El rancho abandonado (1890) is considered the beginning of Argentinean music nationalism. He had a decisive influence on musical education, particularly in the adoption of the teaching methods he had learned in Europe, which still shape music education in Argentina today. In 1900 he returned to Europe and conducted the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in a concert of his works. Williams was the first New World composer, other than the American composer of German-Bohemian birth, Anthony Philip Heinrich (1781-1861), to write as many as nine symphonies.
(Tesi Hernan Mouro)