Luis Antonio Escobar (composer)
Luis Antonio Escobar (July 14, 1925 in Villapinzón, Cundinamarca – September 11, 1993 in Miami, Florida) was a Colombian composer and musicologist. He studied at the Bogota Conservatory and then at the Peabody Institute in Maryland. Afterward he studied in Europe with Boris Blacher.[1] Escobar was the Colombian consul in Bonn, West Germany, from 1967 to 1970 and was cultural attache to the consulate in Miami in 1993.[2] He is survived by his wife, pianist and composer Amparo Ángel.
In 1973 he co-founded El Muro Blanco, a cultural learning center in Bogota, with . He won the national music prize awarded by in 1974. He has been recorded by Colombian ensembles. His work at times incorporated folk and traditional music of Colombia.[3]
Web sources[]
- ^ Five Centuries of Keyboard Music by John Gillespie
- ^ Stevenson/Duque. "Luis Antonio Escobar". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians online.
- ^ Review by Tim Page of the New York Times
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