Julio César Brero ''(also spelled'' Giulio Cesare; 20 December 1908
Milan
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– 8 December 1973
Milan
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) was an Italian-born Argentine composer, music educator, and lawyer.
Education
He earned his law degree from
University of Milan
The University of Milan ( it, Università degli Studi di Milano; la, Universitas Studiorum Mediolanensis), known colloquially as UniMi or Statale, is a public research university in Milan, Italy. It is one of the largest universities in Europe ...
in 1932. In 1935, he earned a piano teaching diploma from the
Philharmonic Academy of Bologna
The Accademia Filarmonica di Bologna ("philharmonic academy of Bologna"; sometimes known in English as the Bologna Academy of Music) is a music education institution in Bologna, Italy.
The Accademia de' Filarmonici was founded as an associ ...
and a diploma in composition from
École Normale de Musique de Paris
The École Normale de Musique de Paris "Alfred Cortot" (ENMP) is a leading conservatoire located in Paris, Île-de-France, France. At the time of the school's foundation in 1919 by Auguste Mangeot, Alfred Cortot. The term ''école normale'' (Engl ...
.
Career
He was professor of choral singing at the Bossi Academy of Music, Milan. Brero lived fifteen years in Argentina (beginning in the 1940s), where he became prolific in the field of music, in particular, as a teacher of harmony and counterpoint at the
National Conservatory of Buenos Aires.
Selected works
* "Lyrics", for piano and voice / and for piano and orchestra (1933)
* "Concerto for String Orchestra" (1933);
* "Suite", for cello (1935)
* "Lyrics", for voice and piano (1936)
* "Melodies", for voice and piano (1946)
* "Toccata", for piano (1945)
* "Concertino", for cello and small orchestra (1947)
* "38 Songs of Italian folklore", for voice and piano (1949);
* "Trio" (1949)
* "Divertimento" in Bâ™ for flute, clarinet and bassoon (1955);
* "Variaciones sobre un tema italiano" (1955), dedicated to cellist
Adolfo Odnoposoff
Adolfo Odnoposoff (Buenos Aires, 22 February 1917 – Denton, Texas, 13 March 1992) was an Argentine-born-and-raised cellist of Russian ancestry who performed in concerts for 5 decades in South, Central, and North America, the Caribbean, Europe ...
;
* "7 Preludes," for piano (1954);
Opera
* ''Novella'' (1953);
Filmography
* ''
Camino del infierno
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Plot
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'' (1946), composer
Awards
: 1935 — Paris: Prix International de la "Revue Musicale," for "Trio for wind instrument"
: 1949 — Buenos Aires: Carlos López Buchardo Award by the Wagnerian Association of Buenos Aires for "String Quartet No. 2
References
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1908 births
1973 deaths
Argentine composers
20th-century composers
Italian emigrants to Argentina