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Artist
César Bolaños
12+ albums
electroacousticcontemporary classicalcomposerexperimentalearly electronic
about
César Bolaños is one of the leading artists of the Latin American avant-garde of the mid 20th century. Born in Lima, Peru in 1931, he was part of an astonishing generation of Peruvian composers: Edgar Valcárcel, Olga Pozzi-Escot, Alejandro Núñez Allauca, Leopoldo La Rosa, Enrique Pinilla and Celso Garrido-Lecca, among others. After studying piano at the National Conservatory in Lima, and following classes with the Belgian composer Andrés Sas (who after leaving Europe settles in Peru), he would join the group "Renovación" (together with Valcárcel, Pozzi-Escot, Pulgar Vidal and Sas); with them Bolaños began a series of presentations and edited a music magazine. He had already composed brief pieces for piano and music for a chamber orchestra. At that time Bolaños is interested in the work of Stravinsky, Bartók and Schoenberg. But he's still far from the sound radicalism that he would reach in the future. In 1957 he traveled to New York City to study composition at the Manhattan School of Music and electronics at RCA. He met the Argentine composer Alberto Ginastera, who offered him a scholarship to study at the Latin-American Center of High Musical Studies (CLAEM) in Buenos Aires, Argentina. On his arrival in 1963, Bolaños became involved in the design and development of the electronic music laboratory of the CLAEM. There he composed his first electronic piece and the first work generated in the above laboratory: "Intensity and Height" (1964), inspired by a poem of César Vallejo.
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Peruvian Electroacoustic & Experimental Music (1964-1970)
Peruvian Electroacoustic and Experimental Music (1964-1970)
Tensions at the Vanguard: New Music From Peru (1948-1979)
Tránsitos Sónicos: Música electrónica y para cinta de compositores peruanos (1964-1984)
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Peruvian Electroacoustic and Experimental Music (1964-1970): César Bolaños
New Music From South America For Chamber Orchestra
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Peruvian Electroacoustic Experimental Music (1964-1970)
Música Electrónica Latinoamericana
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Música Nueva Latinoamericana • Diez Composiciones Electroacusticas Y Tres Composiciones Instrumentales
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Cantos e instrumentos aguarunas
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Discos Siglo Veinte; Música Electrónica Latinoamericana, Mauricio Kagel
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Cuatro Composiciones Electroacusticas