Florencio Ruck Pozadas Cordero (1939-1968) was a

percussionist A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Ex ...

and

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pioneer of the electroacoustic music, and post serial composition techniques in

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Biography

Pozadas was born in

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. He was a violin student at the ''Academia de Bellas Artes'' in the

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of Potosi, and studies in

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at the Conservatorio Municipal Manuel de Falla. Later he studied composition under

Gerardo Gandini Gerardo Gandini (Buenos Aires (Argentina), October 16, 1936 – Buenos Aires, March 22, 2013) was a pianist, composer, and music director, who became one of the most relevant figures of Argentine New Music of the second half of the 20th century. H ...

and won a Scholarship from 1967 to 1968 for postgraduate studies at the CLAEM (''Centro Latinoamericano de Altos Estudios Musicales del Instituto Torcuato Di Tella'') with Luigi Nono, Cristobal Halfter, Vladimir Ussachevsky, and Roman Haubenstock-Ramati. He was member of the percussion ensemble Ritmus conducted by Antonio Yepes and The National Philharmonic Orchestra of Buenos Aires. His work for choir ''Tres coros bolivianos'' won in 1965 the first prize of the contest Luzmila Patiño in

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, Bolivia. Died in a traffic accident in 1968 near Buenos Aires.

Recording

* Pozadas as percussionis

Principal works

* Pieces for piano. Premiere: Gerardo Gandini. Recent interpretations: Mariana Alandia in Bolivi

in Ital

* ''Dos Canciones'' for tenor and orchestra. Text: Giuseppe Ungaretti * ''Quinsa Arawis'' for soprano di coloratura and ensemble. Premiere: ''Solistas de Música Contemporanea de Buenos Aires'', Armando Krieger (cond.), Marta Carrizo (sopran) * CM 1 for tape and percussion

References

* Mariana Alandia, ALANDIA, Mariana y Parrado, Javier. 2003 "A la vera del Piano": T'inzakos, Revista Boliviana de Ciencias Sociales cuatrimestral del Programa de Investigación de Estratégica Bolivien (PIEB). Número 14 Juni 200

*Centro Latinoamericano de Altos Estudios Musicales del Instituto Torcuato Di Tella :es:Instituto Di Tella de Artes

External links

* http://www.musiquecontemporaine.fr/fr/browse?index=13&sortId=&recordsPage=25 * Alberto Villalpando'

contemporaneo de Florencio Pozadas. Artículo de prens

remembrances of Florencio Pozada

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