VIOLETA PARRA - CHILE
BORN 04 OCTOBER
Violeta del Carmen Parra Sandoval was a Chilean composer, singer-songwriter, folklorist, ethnomusicologist and visual artist. She pioneered the Nueva Canción Chilena (The Chilean New Song), a renewal and a reinvention of Chilean folk music that would extend its sphere of influence outside Chile. Parra is acknowledged as "the Mother of Latin American folk".
Her best-known song, “Gracias a la Vida” (“Thanks to Life”), endures throughout the West as a beloved and poignant folk song.
Embracing a broad spectrum of musical styles, Nueva Canción stood as an emblem of the socially, economically, and politically marginalized peoples of Latin America and their struggle for social justice. Parra’s music and art often served as a critique of the wealthy landowning elite of Chilean society as well as of the church and the military, all of whom she held responsible for the social and economic plight of Chile’s disenfranchised poor.
Her birthdate (4 October) was chosen "Chilean Musicians' Day". In 2011, Andrés Wood directed a biopic about her, titled Violeta Went to Heaven (Spanish: Violeta se fue a los cielos).
Source: Wikipedia & Britanicca
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Gracias a la vida by Violeta Parra
VARVARA ADRIANOVA GAIGEROVA - RUSSIA
BORN 04 OCTOBER
She died in Moscow on April 6, 1944, shortly before her 41st birthday. Not much can be found on her biographically.
BORN 04 OCTOBER
Varvara Adrianovna Gaigerova was a Russian composer and pianist.
Gaigerova studied composition under Georgy Catoire and Nikolai Myaskovsky and piano under Heinrich Neuhaus at Moscow Conservatory, where she graduated in 1927. At the Bolshoi Theatre she worked as "concertmistress" from 1936 to 1944.
Gaigerova was interested in the musical folklore of the southeastern people of Soviet Russia. In her compositions she uses folk music of various regions like Kalmykia, Buryatia, Kazakhstan, Turkestan, and Uzbekistan.
Source: Wikipedia and AfriClassical
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Suite for viola & piano by Varvara Adrianovna Gaigerova
Suite for viola & piano by Varvara Adrianovna Gaigerova
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