Mark Morris’s Guide to Twentieth Century Composers

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ECUADOR

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Ecuador's main 20th-century composer has been Luis Salgado (born 1903), who developed a nationalistic idiom using native themes and pentatonic scales, and Ecuadorian history as subject-matter. His major works include seven symphonies, two ballets (El Amaʼno, 1947, and El Dios Tumbal, 1952), a symphonic suite Atahualpa o El Ocaso de un imperio, and three operas including Cumandá (1940, revised 1954), set in the Amazon with a native theme. He taught at Quito University from 1934 to 1968.

 

 

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