Edgar Valcárcel
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Edgar Valcárcel (December 4, 1932 - March 10, 2010) was a Peruvian composer and pianist.
A native of Puno, Valcárcel was the nephew of Teodoro Valcárcel. He studied composition at the National Conservatory of Music in Lima under ; further study followed with at Hunter College in New York. In Buenos Aires he worked with Alberto Ginastera; during his career he also studied in Paris, with Olivier Messiaen, and in Italy, with Riccardo Malipiero, Bruno Maderna, and Luigi Dallapiccola. At the he worked with Vladimir Ussachevsky; he later returned to Peru, teaching piano and harmony at the conservatory in Lima.[1] Valcárcel received two Guggenheim Fellowships for composition, in 1965 and again in 1967.[2] His music combines serial and aleatory techniques.[1] He died in Lima.[3]
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- ^ Jump up to: a b Nicolas Slonimsky (1988). The Concise Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians. Schirmer Books. p. 1285. ISBN 978-0-02-872411-9.
- ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Edgar Valcárcel". Retrieved Mar 12, 2021.
- ^ "EDGAR VALCARCEL - Forced Exposure". www.forcedexposure.com. Retrieved Mar 12, 2021.
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