Coriún Aharonián (4 August 1940 – 8 October 2017; born in
Montevideo
Montevideo () is the capital and largest city of Uruguay. According to the 2011 census, the city proper has a population of 1,319,108 (about one-third of the country's total population) in an area of . Montevideo is situated on the southern ...
) was an
Uruguay
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an composer and musicologist of
Armenian
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* Something of, from, or related to Armenia, a country in the South Caucasus region of Eurasia
* Armenians, the national people of Armenia, or people of Armenian descent
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ethnicity.
He was a pupil of
Luigi Nono
Luigi Nono (; 29 January 1924 – 8 May 1990) was an Italian avant-garde composer of classical music.
Biography
Early years
Nono, born in Venice, was a member of a wealthy artistic family; his grandfather was a notable painter. Nono b ...
,
Héctor Tosar,
Lauro Ayestarán
Lauro Ayestarán (Montevideo, 9 July 1913 – 22 July 1966, Montevideo) was a Uruguayan musicologist.
Selected works
*''Doménico Zipoli. El gran compositor y organista romano del 1700 en el Río de la Plata.'' (Museo Histórico Nacional. 1941 ...
,
Gerardo Gandini,
Vinko Globokar
Vinko Globokar (born 7 July 1934) is a French-Slovenian avant-garde composer and trombonist.
Globokar's music uses unconventional and extended techniques, places great emphasis on spontaneity and creativity, and often relies on improvisation. ...
,
György Ligeti
György Sándor Ligeti (; ; 28 May 1923 – 12 June 2006) was a Hungarian-Austrian composer of contemporary classical music. He has been described as "one of the most important avant-garde composers in the latter half of the twentieth century" ...
,
Gordon Mumma
Gordon Mumma (born March 30, 1935, in Framingham, Massachusetts) is an American composer. He is known most for his work with electronics, many devices of which he builds himself, and for his performances on horn.
Biography
Mumma entered the Unive ...
,
Folke Rabe,
Fernando von Reichenbach,
Christian Wolff, and
Iannis Xenakis
Giannis Klearchou Xenakis (also spelled for professional purposes as Yannis or Iannis Xenakis; el, Γιάννης "Ιωάννης" Κλέαρχου Ξενάκης, ; 29 May 1922 – 4 February 2001) was a Romanian-born Greek-French avant-garde ...
.
In 2004 he was awarded a
Guggenheim Fellowship
Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...
.
He was married to musicologist
Graciela Paraskevaídis.
Books
*''Introducción a la música'' (Tacuabé, Montevideo, 2002. Reeditado en 2008 y 2012)
*''Músicas populares del Uruguay'' (Universidad de la República, Montevideo, 2007. Reeditado por Tacuabé, Montevideo, 2010 y 2014)
*''Educación, arte, música'' (Tacuabé, Montevideo, 2004. Reeditado en 2013)
*''Conversaciones sobre música, cultura e identidad'' (Ombú, Montevideo, 1992. Reeditado por Tacuabé en 2000, 2005 y 2012)
*''Hacer música en América Latina'' (Tacuabé, Montevideo, 2012. Reeditado en 2014)
*''
Héctor Tosar, compositor uruguayo'' (Trilce, Montevideo, 1991)
References
1940 births
2017 deaths
Uruguayan people of Armenian descent
Musicians from Montevideo
Uruguayan composers
Male composers
Uruguayan musicologists
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