Marta Inés Varela (born April 20, 1943) is an

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composer, pianist, and teacher. Born in

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, Varela studied piano under , chamber music under , and composition and orchestration under and

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 ...

. She is a graduate of the music school at the

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, from which she received a degree to teach harmony and composition; she has since served as director and professor at the same school. With Emma Garmendia, she was the developer of the ' pedagogical method. As a composer she has written works for a variety of instruments, including chamber pieces and larger-scale works for orchestra.

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