Coriún Aharonián (4 August 1940 – 8 October 2017; born in

Montevideo Montevideo () is the capital and largest city of Uruguay. According to the 2011 census, the city proper has a population of 1,319,108 (about one-third of the country's total population) in an area of . Montevideo is situated on the southern co ...

) was an

Uruguay Uruguay (; ), officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay ( es, República Oriental del Uruguay), is a country in South America. It shares borders with Argentina to its west and southwest and Brazil to its north and northeast; while bordering ...

an composer and musicologist of Armenian ethnicity. He was a pupil of

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Héctor Tosar Héctor Alberto Tosar Errecart (Montevideo, Uruguay Uruguay (; ), officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay ( es, República Oriental del Uruguay), is a country in South America. It shares borders with Argentina to its west and southwest a ...

, Lauro Ayestarán,

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 ...

Vinko Globokar Vinko Globokar (born 7 July 1934) is a French-Slovenian avant-garde composer and trombonist. Globokar's music uses unconventional and extended techniques, places great emphasis on spontaneity and creativity, and often relies on improvisation. Hi ...

György Ligeti György Sándor Ligeti (; ; 28 May 1923 – 12 June 2006) was a Hungarian-Austrian composer of contemporary classical music. He has been described as "one of the most important avant-garde composers in the latter half of the twentieth century ...

, Gordon Mumma,

Folke Rabe Folke Rabe (28 October 1935 – 25 September 2017) was a Swedish composer. He was born in Stockholm and studied at the Royal College of Music, Stockholm, where his teachers included Karl-Birger Blomdahl, Ingvar Lidholm, György Ligeti and o ...

, Fernando von Reichenbach, Christian Wolff, and

Iannis Xenakis Giannis Klearchou Xenakis (also spelled for professional purposes as Yannis or Iannis Xenakis; el, Γιάννης "Ιωάννης" Κλέαρχου Ξενάκης, ; 29 May 1922 – 4 February 2001) was a Romanian-born Greek-French avant-garde c ...

. In 2004 he was awarded a

Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the art ...

. He was married to musicologist Graciela Paraskevaídis.

Books

*''Introducción a la música'' (Tacuabé, Montevideo, 2002. Reeditado en 2008 y 2012) *''Músicas populares del Uruguay'' (Universidad de la República, Montevideo, 2007. Reeditado por Tacuabé, Montevideo, 2010 y 2014) *''Educación, arte, música'' (Tacuabé, Montevideo, 2004. Reeditado en 2013) *''Conversaciones sobre música, cultura e identidad'' (Ombú, Montevideo, 1992. Reeditado por Tacuabé en 2000, 2005 y 2012) *''Hacer música en América Latina'' (Tacuabé, Montevideo, 2012. Reeditado en 2014) *''

, compositor uruguayo'' (Trilce, Montevideo, 1991)

References

1940 births 2017 deaths Uruguayan people of Armenian descent Musicians from Montevideo Uruguayan composers Male composers Uruguayan musicologists {{musicologist-stub