Enrique Soro: Recuerdo (Tiempo de Vals)

Enrique Soro Barriga (1884 -1954 ) was a Chilean pianist , teacher and composer.
Considered one of the first Chilean symphonists, Enrique Soro Barriga did his first studies in Concepción , with Clotilde de la Barra ( piano ) and Domingo Brescia ( harmony and counterpoint ). With a scholarship from the Chilean Senate , he left in 1898 to study in Italy , at the Royal Conservatory of Milan , one of the most important in the world at the time. From this place he graduated in 1904 , the year in which he began a recognized and extensive career as a pianist of works from the universal repertoire, in addition to his own.

Together with the musician Luigi Stefano Giarda , he soon became professor of harmony and counterpoint at the National Conservatory of Music of Chile , where he quickly became its deputy director ( 1907 ) and then director , composition professor and piano professor ( 1919 ), remaining linked to this institution for almost two decades. He was a teacher of: Domingo Santa Cruz , Juan Allende-Blin , Nino Marcelli , Héctor Melo , Juan Casanova Vicuñaand Roberto Puelma , all relevant personalities from the Chilean musical world who survived him.

He premiered and presented his works in Europe , the United States and Latin America ; she recorded master rolls for the Aeolian Company, records for Columbia , and went on to land a 50-year contract with the Schirmer publishing house .

Recognized as a great improviser on the piano , his life was linked to great personalities of the time, such as Pau Casals , Vincent D'Indy , Pietro Mascagni , Ignacy Paderewski , Giacomo Puccini , Maurice Ravel and Camille Saint-Saëns , among others.

From a musical point of view, his work is rooted in the classical-romantic tradition, with a recognized style immersed in classical forms, full of a spontaneous lyrical sense. The researcher Raquel Bustos recognizes two periods in his work: from his beginnings to 1911 (beginning period), and, later, from 1911 until her death (maturity period). He wrote few works with vernacular material in a natural state, the most performed being Tres aires chilenos , from 1942 .

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