Luis Antonio Escobar (July 14, 1925 in Villapinzón, Cundinamarca – September 11, 1993 in

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) was a Colombian composer and musicologist. He studied at the Bogota Conservatory and then at the

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in Maryland. Afterward he studied in Europe with

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. Escobar was the Colombian

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, from 1967 to 1970 and was cultural attache to the consulate in

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in 1993.Stevenson/Duque. "Luis Antonio Escobar". ''

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'' online. He is survived by his wife, pianist and composer Amparo Ángel. He was the author, among other works, of Cántica de cantas colombianas (1960), for choir and orchestra, the opera for children La princesa y la arveja (1958), the opera Los hampones (1961), the ballet Avirama (1956) and Epitafio a Jorge Gaitán (1962). Other well known works by Escobar are his Piano Concerti 2 and 3, and Bambuquerías y Preludios. In 1973 he co-founded ''El Muro Blanco'', a cultural learning center in Bogota, with Andres Holguín. He won the national music prize awarded by Banco de Colombia in 1974. He has been recorded by Colombian ensembles. His work at times incorporated folk and

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of Colombia.Review by Tim Page of the New York Times
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