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Juan Carlos Paz
12+ albums
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Juan Carlos Paz (5 August 1901 – 25 August 1972) was an Argentine composer and music theorist.Paz was born in Buenos Aires, where he studied piano with Roberto Nery and composition with Constantino Gaito and Fornarini. He also studied organ with Jules Beyer, and then travelled to Paris to work with Vincent d'Indy at the Schola Cantorum (Salgado 2001).On 22 October 1929, a shared enthusiasm for new musical developments caused him, together with Juan José Castro and José María Castro, Gilardo Gilardi, and Jacobo Ficher, to form the Grupo renovación, with the aim of promoting the cause of modern music in Argentina. In 1936, Paz left the group to found his own concert series, the Conciertos de la Nueva Música (Slonimsky 1945, 80–81).Paz was firmly opposed to the folkloristic approach to music that widespread in Latin America in the 1930s, and 1940s (Slonimsky 1945, 97). Opinions differ about his earliest compositional styles. According to one authority, in the 1920s and early 1930s, his music was post-Romantic, with influences from César Franck and Richard Strauss (Salgado 2001); another writer describes this same period (1920–27) as characterized by neoclassical polyphony (Slonimsky 1945, 97). The former author regards Igor Stravinsky's neoclassicism and jazz as Paz's focus in the 1930s, whereas the latter describes his second period (1927–1934) as "marked by atonal melodic idiom and polytonal harmony" (Slonimsky 1945, 97). Both authors agree that in the 1930s he was investing t
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Rítmica Ostinata, para Orquesta
1192Tercera Composición en Doce Tonos, para Clarinete Solo: Tema de Giga
163Tercera Composición en Doce Tonos, para Clarinete Solo: Toccata
154II. Spleen
155Tercera Composición en Doce Tonos, para Clarinete Solo: Canción
146III. Paseo por el bosque
147Núcleos, 1a serie: I
118II. Andante con transformaciones
119Tres movimientos de jazz, I. De profundis
1110Musica
11albums
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Panorama de la Música Argentina, Compositores Nacidos Entre 1890 - 1897
Inicios de la vanguardia musical en argentina
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Juan Carlos Paz: Dédalus / Invención / Núcleos / Concreción
New Music from the Americas, Vol. 2 - The Extended Piano
Inicios de la vanguardia musical en la Argentina
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Paz: Dédalus / Invención / Núcleos / Concreción
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Works for Solo Violin by Argentine Composers
Dédalus / Invención / Núcleos / Concreción
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Dédalus | Invención | Núcleos | Concreción
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Inicios de la Vanguardia Argentina
Raras Partituras 8: Homenaje A Juan Carlos Paz
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