Alberto Ginastera

Emerging on the international music scene in the late 1940s, Alberto Ginastera established himself as one of the mid-20th century's most distinctive compositional figures. Although he eventually borrowed sonorities and procedures from the serialist and experimentalist movements of the ensuing decades, he did so selectively and undogmatically, synthesizing with ever-increasing sophistication and discretion the echoes of his native Argentina with the expanding compositional palette of the avant-garde. Ginastera was born in Buenos Aires in 1916, and even in his childhood showed...