Alejandro Núñez Allauca (born April 18, 1943)
is a
Peru
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vian composer and accordionist who performed outside of his native country.
Biography
He was born in
Moquegua
Moquegua (, founded by the Spanish colonists as Villa de Santa Catalina de Guadalcázar del Valle de Moquegua) is a city in southern Peru, located in the Department of Moquegua, of which it is the capital. It is also capital of Mariscal Nieto Pr ...
, Peru on April 18, 1943, and first performed on the radio in
Cerro de Pasco
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as a soloist on accordion at the age of nine.
In 1955, he moved to
Lima
Lima ( ; ), originally founded as Ciudad de Los Reyes (City of The Kings) is the capital and the largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón River, Chillón, Rímac River, Rímac and Lurín Rivers, in the desert zone of t ...
, where he studied music theory under the organist
Manuel Cabrera Guerra. He studied cello in the National Conservatory of Music and at the
Instituto Torcuato di Tella in
Buenos Aires
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with
Francisco Kröpfl
Francisco Kröpfl (26 February 1931 – 15 December 2021) was an Argentinian composer and music theorist.
Kröpfl was born in Timișoara, Romania into a family of Danube Swabians. He studied with Juan Carlos Paz.
In the decade of the 1950s he ...
,
Gabriel Brncic and
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 contemporary Argentine music of the second half of the 20th ...
. Between 1972 and 1973, he was a concert accordionist in the U.S. Since 1987, he has lived in
Milan
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,
Italy
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, and may be better known in Europe than in his own country. His 1995 piece, ''Sonrisa de Jesus'', was performed at a Christmas concert in the
Vatican
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The Holy See
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.
His style was initially tonal, then moved toward pointillistic
atonal
Atonality in its broadest sense is music that lacks a tonal center, or key. ''Atonality'', in this sense, usually describes compositions written from about the early 20th-century to the present day, where a hierarchy of harmonies focusing on a s ...
ism. Later, his work began to include
ornamentation
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Ornament may also refer to:
Decoration
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*Biological ornament, a characteristic of animals that appear to serve on ...
in a neo-
Baroque
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style. His works exhibit a personal
nationalism
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, incorporating elements of traditional
Andean music
Andean music is a group of styles of music from the Andes region in South America.
Original chants and melodies come from the general area inhabited by Quechuas (originally from Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Chile), Aymaras (originally from Bolivia), a ...
as well as echoes of neo-
Romanticism
Romanticism (also known as the Romantic movement or Romantic era) was an artistic, literary, musical, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century, and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate ...
.
Works
*''Suite Koribeni'' for orchestra.
*''Fisuras'' for two flutes.
*''Salmo 100'' for chorus.
*''Trío para vientos'' (flute, oboe, bassoon).
*''Salmo 100'' for 8 soloists.
*''Gravitación humana'' for magnetic tape.
*''String quartet''.
*''El alba'' for chorus (1965).
*''Diferenciales I y II'' for piano (1967).
*''Variables'' for 6 and magnetic tape (1967).
*''Cuarteto de cuerda nº 1'' (1970).
*''Concierto para orquesta'' (1970).
*''Moto ornamentale e perpetuo'' for piano (1970).
*''Sinfonía ornamental'' (1972).
*''Ornamenti per 3 flauti e pianoforto Op. 3'' (1973-7).
*''Invention I, II, III and IV'' for orchestra (1978).
*''Ornamentos'' for piano (1979).
*''Movimiento ornamental'' for guitar (1980).
*''Concierto ornamental'' for orchestra (1981).
*''Cuarteto peruano'' (1981).
*''Huatyacuri'',
ballet
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(1982)
*''Cantata
Bolívar'' for soloists, choir, and orchestra (1983)
*''Rapsodia y Serenata'' for harp (1988)
*''Aleluya del Alba'' for tenor, mixed chorus, and orchestra (1989)
*''Wiesbaden Konzert'' for piano and orchestra
*''Sonrisa de Jesús''
*''El Hijo del Sol'' (1997)
*''Flor de Nieve'' for two singers and orchestra (1997)
*''
Missa Andina'' for soloists, choir, organ and orchestra (1997–98)
*''Omaggio a Piazzolla'' (Milano, V - 1998)
*''Canción del alma'' (1999, orchestrated 2003)
*''La montaña de Luz'' for three singers and orchestra (1998)
*''Koribeni'' for solo guitar
References
UNESCO Knowledge PortalAlejandro Núñez Allauca to present Concert to Machu Picchu in Lima Andina website.
Coro Hispano Americano website (Spanish)
Alejandro Nunez AllaucaKlassic-Heute website (German)
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Peruvian composers
Peruvian male composers
20th-century classical composers
1943 births
Living people
Male classical composers
20th-century male musicians