Andrés Delgado Pardo

Andrés Delgado Pardo

Works for Cello

Meditación sobre preludio de J. S. Bach, for cello, piano and organ, not edited.

Mirando al mar (Melodía dramática), for cello and piano, not edited.

Sources:

Furman Schleifer, M., and Galván, G (2016). Latin American Classical Composers, A Biographical Dictionary. London: Rowman & Littlefield.

García, Z (2008). Revista Akademos Vol 10, No 2 (2008). La enseñanza de la composición musical en Venezuela (antes, durante y después de Vicente Emilio Sojo). Akademos, 10 (2). http://190.169.30.98/ojs/index.php/rev_ak/article/view/1186

Sánchez P, J. M (2008). Estudio de los rasgos estilísticos en la música para piano de Andrés Delgado Pardo (1870-1940). Musicaenclave, 2 (1). https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=6972559

Andrés Delgado Pardo

Venezuelan composer, pianist, and director, born March 14, 1870, died April 8, 1940.

Pianist, director, and composer Andrés Delgado Pardo was born on March 14, 1870 in Caracas, Venezuela. He studied piano under Carlos A. Serrano and music with Luis Velásquez. At the age of 16, Delgado Pardo performed a concert at Carnegie Hall in New York. He received a scholarship from the Venezuelan government, led at the time by Joaquín Crespo, to study at the Milan Conservatory (now known as the GiuseppeVerdi Conservatory) from 1896 to 1904. 

Delgado Pardo taught impressionist techniques Ravel followed and the latest European developments of the time, and taught harmony and counterpoint at the Escuela de Música y Declamación de Caracas. Some of his pupils were Vicente Emilio Sojo, Augusto Brandt, José Antonio Ríos Reyna, José Antonio Escobar Saluzzo, and Miguel Ángel Espinel. Delgado Pardo was one of the few composers that wrote operas in Venezuela during this period; he also directed the Escuela de Música of the State of Lara, Venezuela, and was an honorary member of the Unión Musical Venezolana. Delgado Pardo passed away on April 8, 1940, in Caracas.