Alberto Guerrero
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Toronto, Ontario , Canada |
Antonio Alberto García Guerrero (February 6, 1886 – November 7, 1959) was a
Biography
Born in
García introduced Chilean audiences to the modern music of his day, including works by Debussy, Ravel, Cyril Scott, Scriabin, and Schoenberg. He founded and conducted Santiago's first symphony orchestra and was active in founding the Sociedad Bach in 1917.
In 1918, during a honeymoon trip to New York City, García came in contact with members of the Hambourg family, who invited him to teach at the recently established Hambourg Conservatory in Toronto. García accepted this position and emigrated to Canada with his wife and daughter the following year.
In Toronto, García performed for a few years with the
In 1922, García left the Hambourg Conservatory and joined the Toronto Conservatory of Music (
García was known to be quiet and focused.[1] His near self-effacement instead gave rise to the most prominent Canadian musicians of the late 20th century. He had a decisive technical and aesthetic influence on Glenn Gould, whom he mentored for 10 years, even though Gould would later claim to be self-taught. García was also known for his keen intellect and eloquence vis-à-vis painting, poetry, and philosophy (Comte, Husserl, Sartre). "He was one of the few musicians from whom a student would get a vista of ideas beyond music," recalls composer R. Murray Schafer,[2] who composed In Memoriam Alberto Guerrero a few months after his teacher's death.
Compositions
García had been known as a versatile composer in
Students
As a prominent member of the music circles in
- William Aide
- John Beckwith
- Joan Bell
- Helmut Blume
- Gwendoly Duchemin
- Ray Dudley
- Jeanette Fujarczuk
- Dorothy Sandler Glick
- Glenn Gould
- Myrtle Rose Guerrero (2nd wife)
- Stuart Hamilton
- Paul Helmer
- Horace Lapp
- Edward Laufer8
- Patricio Pizarro
- Gordana Lazarevich
- Pierrette LePage
- Jean Lyons
- Edward Magee
- Ursula Malkin
- Bruce Mather
- John McIntyre
- Gordon McLean
- Gerald Moore
- Oscar Morawetz
- Laurence Morton
- Arthur Ozolins
- George Ross
- Domingo Santa Cruz Wilson
- R. Murray Schafer
- Oleg Telizyn
- Malcolm Troup
- Neil Van Allen
- Ruth Watson Henderson
- Grace Irene Hunt McDonald
- Gayle Sharlene Brown
Recordings
Glenn Gould: His First Recordings (1947–1952). Video Artists International 1198 (2001).
Notes
- ^ a b Beckwith, John. "Alberto Guerrero." Encyclopedia of Music in Canada Archived 2012-09-27 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ Schafer, R. Murray (2007). Program Notes (PDF).
Bibliography
- Beckwith, John (2006). In Search of Alberto Guerrero. Wilfrid Laurier University Press. ISBN 0-88920-496-9. The only book-length biography of Guerrero.
- Aide, William (1998). Starting from Porcupine. Oberon Press. ISBN 0-7780-1047-3.
- Archive collection
An archive collection of Guerrero's manuscripts and papers is located at the University of Toronto Music Library.
External links
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- Encyclopedia of Music in Canada article Archived 2012-09-27 at the Wayback Machine
- Schafer, R. Murray (2007). Program Notes (PDF).
- Glenn Gould Archives at Library and Archives Canada
- Description of ‘The Music Teacher’, a documentary by filmmaker Patricia Fogliato
- Site dedicated to Beckwith's biography In Search of Alberto Guerrero
- Archival papers held at University of Toronto Music Library