Roberto García Morillo

For other people named Roberto García, see Roberto García (disambiguation).

Roberto García Morillo (January 22, 1911 – October 26, 2003) was an Argentine composer, musicologist, music professor and music critic.

Biography

Morillo was born in Buenos Aires. He studied at the Escuela Argentina de Música (with Julián Aguirre, Ricardo Rodríguez, Rafael González, and Juan José Castro)^{[citation needed]}, at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música (with José André, Floro M. Ugarte, José Gil, and Constantino Gaito), and in Paris studied piano with Yves Nat (Salgado 2001). Morillo died on October 26, 2003.

He worked as a music critic for La Nación starting in 1938, and subsequently published in many Argentine and North American periodicals. He was appointed to joint positions as professor of composition in both the national and the municipal conservatories in Buenos Aires in 1942 (Salgado 2001).

Curriculum :

• Director of the Conservatorio Nacional de Música (1972-79)
• Professor of Composition at the Conservatorio Municipal de Música and at the Antiguo Conservatorio Beethoven
• Music critic of the newspaper La Nación (1938-79)
• Member of the Comisión de Música Sinfónica y de Cámara de SADAIC
• Vicepresident of the Asociación Argentina de Compositores
• President of the Unión Compositores de la Argentina
• Member of the Senato Académico del Centro Internazionale di Studi Musicali (Rome), Sociedad Internacional de Musicología and Internationale Gesellschaft für Urheberrecht (INTERCU) of Munich
• Jury member of several national and international competitions (Rio de Janeiro, Taormina, Montevideo, etc.).

Works

In his first works, influences from Scriabin and Stravinsky can be noticed, as well as coincidences with the French Impressionism and Manuel de Falla.^{[citation needed]} His compositional style was never nationalistic, though most of his works from 1939 onward display the influence of Spanish culture (Salgado 2001). He received awards from the Comisión Nacional de Cultura, Municipalidad de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Asociación Wagneriana, SADAIC, Rotary Club and the Dante Alighieri Scholarship (1952).

His works have been commissioned by:

• Radio Nacional
• Asociación de Conciertos de Cámara
• Asociación Amigos de la Música
• Festival de Música de Tucumán
• Asociación El Piano
• Asociación Argentina de Compositores
• Fabien Scvitzky (Tchaikowsky Festival, 1959)
• Municipalidad de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires
• Teatro Colón
• Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales
• Asociación Amigos del Coro Nacional de Niños
• IV Festival Interamericano de Música (Washington).

Sources

• Salgado, Susana. 2001. "García Morillo, Roberto". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan Publishers.