'''Alberto Evaristo Ginastera''' (April_11, 1916 – June_25, 1983) was an Argentinian Composer of classical music. He is considered one of the most important Latin_American classical composers.
Ginastera was born in Buenos_Aires to a Catalan father and an Italian mother. He preferred to pronounce his surname in its Catalan pronunciation, with a soft "G" (i.e. JEE'-nah-STEH-rah rather than the Castilian Spanish KHEE'-nah-STEH-rah).
He studied at the conservatory in Buenos Aires, graduating in 1938. After a visit to the United_States_of_America in 1945–47, where he studied with Aaron_Copland at Tanglewood, he returned to Buenos Aires and co-founded the League of Composers. He held a number of teaching posts. He moved back to the USA in 1968 and from 1970 lived in Europe. He died in Geneva.
Among his works are Operas (''Don_Rodrigo'' (1964), ''Bomarzo'' (1967), banned for obscenity) and ''Beatrix_Cenci'' (1971)), two Concertos for piano, two for cello, one for violin and one for harp, other orchestral works, music for chorus or solo voice with orchestra (including a cantata also entitled ''Bomarzo'', but described as "distinct from the opera" by the ''Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music''), ballet music (including ''Panambí'' (1940 and ''Estancia'' 1941, often-played suite written the same year)), Chamber_music including a Piano_quintet, three String_quartets and a Cello_sonata — though perhaps the first two of the three ''Pampeanas'' (the third is his third symphony), the first for violin and the second for cello with piano, are more often played. He also wrote a number of pieces for Piano, of which the first of three Piano_sonatas has received a number of recordings. Ginastera grouped his music into three periods: "objective nationalism", "subjective nationalism", and "neo-expressionism".
Ginastera became known outside of modern classical music circles when the Progressive_rock group Emerson_Lake_and_Palmer adapted the fourth movement of his first piano concerto and recorded it on their popular album Brain_Salad_Surgery under the title Toccata. They recorded the piece not only with Ginastera's permission, but with his endorsement. In 1973, when they were recording the album, the band met with Ginastera at his home in Switzerland and played a recording of their arrangement for him. Ginastera is reported to have said, "Diabolic! No one has been able to capture my music like that before! It's exactly the way I hear it myself!"
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==External links==
*Sonata, Alberto Ginastera, http://www.musica.ufrn.br/gravacoes/escudeiro230703/index.htm