Fernando García (born July 4, 1930 in

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) is a Chilean composer. Active since 1956 he has done orchestral music, chamber music, etc. He studied with

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and

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, among others. His style is strongly influenced by serialism and aleatoric procedures. He also played a role in the beginnings of

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in Chile, after a trip he made to France in the early 1950s where he heard ''musique concrete''. He worked for the Instituto de Extensión Musical of the

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, and in 1962 he premiered his most important piece, the cantata ''América Insurrecta'', which won an award at the Chilean Music Festival. After the Chilean coup-d'état, he was forced into exile, first in Perú (1973-1979), and then in Cuba (1979-1990). He returned to his country in 1989 and joined the Faculty of Arts of the

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where he taught musicology until 2009. In 2002, he received the National Prize for Musical Arts. And in 2013 was recognized by the Sociedad Chilena del Derecho de Autor (SCD) as one of the Fundamental figures of Chilean music.

Selected works

*''Variaciones'' for orchestra, 1959 *''Sinfonía'', 1960 *''América Insurrecta'', for speaker, chorus and orchestra, text by

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, 1962 *''Quimera'', theater piece after

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, 1965 *''La arena traicionada (11 de marzo de 1966)'', 1967 *''Firmamento sumergido'', 1968 *''Las raíces de la ira (En recuerdo de

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)'', 1976 *''Meditaciones'', 1977 *''Temblor de cielo'', 1979 *''Despertar de octubre (1917-1967)'', 1981 *''Puntos cardinales'' for strings, 1984 *''El reposo del guerrero'', 1989 *''Navegaciones'' for flute, harp and strings, 1990 *''Crónicas americanas'', 1992 *''Se unen la tierra y el hombre'' for tape (voice of

) and orchestra, 1992 *''Zonas eriales'' for clarinet and chamber orchestra, 1995 *''Tres miradas'' for strings, 1996 *''Dos paisajes urbanos'', 1997 *''Misterios'', 1998 *''Tres cantos materiales'' for cello and strings, 1999 *''Díptico sinfónico'', 1999 *''Rincones sordos'' for strings, 2001 *''Nacerá la aurora'' (Hommage to Charles Ives), 2001 *''Dura elegía (En recuerdo de Jorge Peña)'', 2002 *''Dos temas de discusión'' for strings, 2003 *''Luces y sombras'', 2003 *''Juegos'' for percussion and strings, 2003 *''Nuevos juegos'' for percussion and strings, 2003 *''Obertura concertante'' for percussion and orchestra, 2005 *''Homenaje a

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, for orchestra, 2005 *''Implicaciones sonoras'', for orchestra, 2005 *''Imágenes siderales'', 2006 *''Signos de otoño'', for string orchestra, 2011 *''Tinieblas y Destellos'', for string quartet, 2012 *''De Norte a Sur'', for drum kit and orchestra, 2013 *''Detenidos Desaparecidos'', for orchestra, 2014 *''Sinergia'', for orchestra, 2015

References

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