Acario Cotapos - Preliminary Symphony to the Mockingbird (Sinfonia Preliminar de El Pajaro Burlón)

Описание: Victor Tevah / Chile SO
Acario Cotapos (1889-1969) was a Chilean Composer. He and his family were exiled to Argentina, after the Chilean Civil War, that led to the fall and eventual suicide of then (1890's) president Jose Manuel Balmaceda.
Having spent a good part of his childhood in Argentina, he moved with his family to Santiago in 1902 and, in the 1910's, began to participate in the national artistic life. He befriended characters from the musical world, including Alfonso Leng, Alberto García Guerrero and Carlos Lavín.
During these years, he also joined the Los Diez group, where he met important national personalities, such as Pedro Humberto Allende, Alberto Ried, Enrique Soro, Armando Carvajal and Eustaquio Guzmán, among others.

His training was self-taught, although he received private piano and bassoon lessons, as well as multiple tips from his composer and artist friends, including Edgar Varèse, H. Honneger, André Jolivet, Olivier Messiaen, E. Klaiber and Celibidache. He was inserted into the artistic-literary cenacle of the time, displaying a surprising histrionics and establishing relationships with characters such as Federico García Lorca, Vicente Huidobro, Pablo Neruda, Pablo Picasso, Tristan Tzara and Ramón del Valle-Inclán, with what he nurtured his libertarian spirit of experimentalism unleashed his exuberant imagination and practiced a transcendental and expressive composition based on the subject and not on style. Its form of creation denied all stylistic schools and recognized only the work of one individual, as can be seen in many of his works, for example in Soledad del hombre (1930) and, especially, in the Dionisyos String Quartet (c. 1925) .
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