Mario davidovsky short biography

Biography.
A longtime resident and citizen of the United States and very much an American composer, Mario Davidovsky was born in Médanos, Buenos Aires province.
A Jew born in Médanos, Buenos Aires, Argentina on March 4, 1934 to Polish and Russian parents, Davidovsky was one of the pioneers of electro-.

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Mario Davidovsky Memorial

Good afternoon everyone. It is an honor to be here to celebrate the life of a great man. Matías and Adriana, please allow me to dedicate my words to you.

October of 2001. There was Mario. He had been invited to a new music festival in a University of a little town in the Gulf of Mexico. He attended a couple of concerts where his music was performed, gave also a couple of lectures, and met individually with many composition students.

October of 2001. There was me. One of those many composition students that met briefly with Mario. Trying to make the most of what I thought it was going to be the only opportunity in my entire life that I will interact with a figure of such caliber. It was only Mario, me, and a little upright piano in a very tiny practice room. The room looked even tinier for him. He would almost touch the ceiling with his head. Only the two of us for about 25 minutes. I showed enthusiasm at all times, played on the piano a couple of my most recent solo pieces, but mostly

made him a lot of questions, and tried to listen carefully an

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Davidovsky, Mario (1934–)

Mario Davidovsky (b. 4 March 1934), Argentine composer who became a naturalized U.S. citizen. Born in Médanos, province of Buenos Aires, he was a composition student of Guillermo Graetzer in Buenos Aires, where he developed an atonal, abstract lyricism in his compositions, such as String Quartet no. 1 (1954), Noneto (1957), and Pequeño concierto (1957). He then moved to the United States under a Guggenheim Fellowship and studied with Varèse, Babbitt, Ussachevsky, Luening, and Sessions. He was associated with the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center in New York from its inception and was an assistant director from 1965 to 1980. He became director in 1981. Davidovsky has been particularly interested in the combination of acoustic instruments and electronically produced sounds on tape. He is celebrated for his series of Synchronisms, including no. 1 for flute and tape (1963), no. 2 for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, and tape (1964), which was commissioned by the Fromm Foundation for the Tanglewood Festival, and no. 3 for cello and tape (1965).

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Mario Davidovsky

Argentine-American composer (1934–2019)

Mario Davidovsky (March 4, 1934 – August 23, 2019)^[1] was an Argentine-American composer. Born in Argentina, he emigrated in 1960 to the United States, where he lived for the remainder of his life. He is best known for his series of compositions called Synchronisms, which in live performance incorporate both acoustic instruments and electroacoustic sounds played from a tape.

Biography

Davidovsky was born in Médanos, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, a town nearly 600 km southwest of the city of Buenos Aires and close to the seaport of Bahía Blanca. Aged seven, he began his musical studies on the violin. At thirteen he began composing. He studied composition and theory under Guillermo Graetzer [es] at the University of Buenos Aires, from which he graduated.

In 1958, he studied with Aaron Copland and Milton Babbitt at the Berkshire Music Center (now the Tanglewood Music Center) in Lenox, Massachusetts. Through Babbitt, who worked at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center