Alejandro Núñez Allauca (born April 18, 1943) is a

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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 Prov ...

, Peru on April 18, 1943, and first performed on the radio in

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as a soloist on accordion at the age of nine. In 1955, he moved to

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, 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

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with Francisco Kröpfl, 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 Argentine New Music of the second half of the 20th century. H ...

. Between 1972 and 1973, he was a concert accordionist in the U.S. Since 1987, he has lived in

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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

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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 ...

ism. Later, his work began to include

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in a neo-

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style. His works exhibit a personal

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, incorporating elements of traditional

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as well as echoes of neo-

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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'',

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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

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