Carlos Stella (born 1961 in

Buenos Aires Buenos Aires, controlled by the government of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Argentina. It is located on the southwest of the Río de la Plata. Buenos Aires is classified as an Alpha− glob ...

) is an Argentine composer. Self-taught in composition, Stella studied piano at the Buenos Aires National Conservatory of Music and in 1985 he was invited by

Krzysztof Penderecki Krzysztof Eugeniusz Penderecki (; 23 November 1933 – 29 March 2020) was a Polish composer and conductor. His best-known works include '' Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima'', Symphony No. 3, his '' St Luke Passion'', '' Polish Requiem'', '' ...

to the Cracow Academy of Music. Back in Buenos Aires he received other scholarships from the Fondo Nacional de las Artes and the Fundación Antorchas and began to work for the Teatro del Sur with director

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. He lives in

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, Germany, since 1999. His style is notable for combining multiple elements of heterogeneous musical traditions like

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, Noh and

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and tropes, ragam thanam pallavi,

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and

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, kebyar, military bands, Thai piphat, circus music,

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, organa,

tango Tango is a partner dance and social dance that originated in the 1880s along the Río de la Plata, the natural border between Argentina and Uruguay. The tango was born in the impoverished port areas of these countries from a combination of Arge ...

, Tibetan ritual music, etc. and for exploring the possibilities of variation,

imitation Imitation (from Latin ''imitatio'', "a copying, imitation") is a behavior whereby an individual observes and replicates another's behavior. Imitation is also a form of learning that leads to the "development of traditions, and ultimately our cu ...

parody A parody is a creative work designed to imitate, comment on, and/or mock its subject by means of satire, satirical or irony, ironic imitation. Often its subject is an Originality, original work or some aspect of it (theme/content, author, style, e ...

, montage, transcription, copy,

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, trope and recurrence. Typical is also his use of ideas like

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and

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Works

* ''the frog, the moon, buddha and I'', after

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by Basho, Issa, Buson and Shiki, for female voice and piano * ''transformation of an own theme in another one by

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'' for three horns * ''pieces for orchestra with mirrors and a countertenor'' * ''trio: or, commedia'' for oboe, bass trumpet and tuba * ''quartet: pastiches, parodies and variations on two themes by stravinsky and berio'' for piccolo clarinet, trombone, xylorimba and vibraphone * ''sinfonia containing various themes which may or may not be recognized by the listener; with many parodies, imitations, variations and mere repetitions affecting them'' for 31 players * ''duetto: a parody, a transcript and an imitation of beckett'' for bassoon and cello * ''hockney's choclo: 10 variations, imitations and paraphrases on piazzolla's arrangement of the tango '

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' after a picture by

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'' for accordion, piano, violin, electric guitar and bass * ''adieu à venise'', after a poem by

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, for female voice and accordion * ''klavierstück in form eines aus mehreren ab- und umwandlungen, übertragungen und nachahmungen bekannter und unbekannter motive zusammengesetzten mosaiks'' for piano * ''the Indian post: a piece for wind orchestra based on a march by sousa after a south Indian form'' * ''15 movements from la muerte en marcha'' for orchestra * '' brahms im spiegelkabinett'', for piccolo, violoncello and piano * ''warum rauchst du so viel, lili?'' based on a play by

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, for accordion and piano * ''after all, vinnie, I am your mother! (a piece for two soloists and continuo, a string trio and kagebayashi)'', for English horn, trumpet, guitar, violin, viola, violoncello, countertenor and piano * ''antigonai, an oper based on fragments by

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and hölderlin for three choirs and a women's trio'' * ''30 lieder a cappella für eugenia visconti''

Music for theatre, film and video

* ''tango varsoviano'' and ''en los zaguanes ángeles muertos'' by

* ''europa y el toro'' by Tulio Stella directed by Alberto * ''tres obras breves y modernas'' by Tulio Stella * ''dos piezas breves de samuel beckett'' by César Repetto * ''tríptico de exilio'' by Sergio de Loof * ''clowns'' by Daniel Gentile * ''la pasión según san juan'' by Narcisa Hirsch * ''mañana'' by Lilian Morello * ''billard um halb zehn'' by Manfred Dörner

References

* Trio IAM

* Ensemble Saitenblick

* Berliner Cappell

* Matt Rubenstei

* Silke Lang

* IMD

External links

Official website
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