Leni Alexander
Leni Alexander (8 June 1924 – 7 August 2005) was a German-Chilean composer.
Biography
Helene Alexander Pollak was born in
Rene Leibowitz, and Olivier Messiaen. In Europe she became a friend of Bruno Maderna and Pierre Boulez. Between 1963 and 1968, she also studied electronic music and wrote a number of electronic pieces. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1969 and lived for several years in Paris and Cologne.[1]
Besides new music classical compositions and musical theater, Alexander was active in composition for television soundtracks and composed for soap opera. In her later years, she composed several "hörspiel" pieces, or "plays for listening", several of them for the WDR Radio of Cologne.
She married in Chile and had two sons and a daughter. On August the 7th, 2005, Alexander died in
Works
Alexander's compositions were mainly instrumental and were performed by orchestras in countries including Chile, Italy, France and the United States.
Selected works include:
- String Quartet (1957)
- Cantata of death in the morning (1960)
- Aulicio[2]
- Aulicio II
- Méralo for guitar (1972) (dedicated and premiered by Leo Brouwer)
- Ellos se perdieron en el espacio estrellado for orchestra (1975)
- Chacabuco: Ciudades fantasmas, hörspiel (1994)
- Cuando aún no conocía tu nombre (1996)
Discography
- Jezira Santiago de Chile: Proyecto FONDART 2000.[1]
- Homenaje Santiago de Chile: Proyecto FONDART 2009.
References
- ^ a b "Leni Alexander". Archived from the original on 19 July 2011. Retrieved 5 October 2010.
- ^ a b "Muere en Santiago la compositora Leni Alexander". El Mercurio. August 15, 2005. Retrieved 5 October 2010.
- ISBN 9780393034875. Retrieved 4 October 2010.
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