Santoro, Claudio
Santoro, Claudio
Santoro, Claudio, distinguished Brazilian composer, conductor, and teacher; b. Maná, Nov. 23, 1919; d. Brasília, March 27, 1989. He studied at the Rio de Janeiro Cons. and received training from Guerra and Koellreutter. In 1946 he held a Guggenheim fellowship. In 1947 he received a French scholarship and pursued his studies in Paris with Boulanger and Eugène Bigot. He was awarded the Lili Boulanger Prize in 1948. In 1965 he held a Ford Foundation scholarship and was active in Berlin. From 1970 to 1978 he taught at the Univ. of Heidelberg-Mannheim. In 1979 he settled in Brasília, where he was a conductor at the Univ. and of the orch. of the National Theater until his death. He also appeared as a guest conductor in South America and Europe. In his earliest works, he composed mainly in the 12-tone manner. After a period in which he wrote in an accessible style, he returned to advanced techniques, including aleatory.
Works
DRAMATIC: Ballet : Afábrica (1947); Anticocos (1951); O café (1953); Icamiabas (1959); Zuimaaluti (1960); Prelúdios (1962). ORCH .: 14 syms.: No. 1 (1940), No. 2 (1945), No. 3 (Rio de Janeiro, Dec. 20, 1949), No. 4, Da paz (Rio de Janeiro, Oct. 30, 1945), No. 5 (Rio de Janeiro, March 28, 1956), No. 6 (Paris, May 1, 1963), No. 7, Brasília (1960), No. 8 (1963), No. 9 (1982), No. 10 (1982), No. 11 (1984), No. 12 (1985), No. 13 (1986), and No. 14 (1987); Variations on a 12- tone Row (1945); Ponteio for Strings (Rio de Janeiro, June 19, 1945); 2 violin concertos (1951, 1958); Chôro for Saxophone and Orch. (Rio de Janeiro, June 20, 1952); 3 piano concertos (1953, 1959, 1960); Abertura tragica (1958); Cello Concerto (1961; Washington, D.C., May 12, 1965); Asymptotic Interactions (1969). CHAMBER : 5 violin sonatas (1940–57); String Trio (1941); Flute Sonata (1941); 7 string quartets (1943–65); 4 cello sonatas (1943–63); Oboe Sonata (1943); Trumpet Sonata (1946); Diagramtnas cíclicos for Piano and Percussion (1966); Mutations I-VI for Various Instruments (1968–72); Antistruktur for Harp and Cello (1970). Piano : 25 preludes (1957–63). VOCAL : Ode to Stalingrad for Chorus and Orch. (1947); Berlin, 13 de agôsto for Narrator, Chorus, and Orch. (1962); Agrupamento a 10 for Voice and Chorusand Orch. (1966).
Bibliography
V. Mariz, C. S. (Rio de Janeiro, 1994).
—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire