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Identification

Type:

Person

Preferred form:

Elizalde, Germán de (1885-1967)Other forms

Fechas de existencia:

1885 - 1967

History:

Argentinian pianist, singing teacher, musicologist, and composer born in 1885.

Son of the politician and diplomat Rufino de Elizalde, Chancellor of President Bartolomé Mitre. He married Andrea Bruel, a singer and pianist.

He was a known admirer of the Richard Wagner's music. He ran into figures such as Manuel de Falla and Ricardo Viñes in Paris and kept a close relationship with Arturo Rubinstein and Rafael González in Buenos Aires. He sent Falla the work of Carlos Guastavino, awakening the interest of Cadiz's artist regarding this author. As a regular pianist accompanying the soprano Esther Plotkin, he performed recitals in Montevideo, Buenos Aires, and other cities in the interior of Argentina. The Argentinian composer José Luis Padula dedicated a tango titled "Germán de Elizalde" to him. He wrote the manual "Principios y medios para el estudio de las artes y los oficios vocales: los secretos del canto en una lección" (1936). He died in 1967.