“How strange it is to travel with Astor, me, the cultured person who knows everything, the composer of works in which the popular does not enter. I’ve always known that popular and ‘cultured’ music can play parallel but not together. But here I am as a pianist; not as a composer; I’ve always loved certain popular music; I know how not to mix the many…the act of improvising, my most important function in the group, excludes the characteristic reflection of composing”, writes Gerardo Gandini in Travel diary (with Piazzolla)memory of his participation as pianist in the Astor Piazzolla sextet.

The text integrates a selection of various writings by the musician in the recent publication of Gourmet Musical, At the end of that endless summerwith a preface by Ricardo Piglia.

They are about to be made 10 years after the departure of Gerardo Gandini. The musician died in Buenos Aires on March 22, 2013, and the tributes are multiplying. In addition to a book with his writings, the scores of his postangos and his works are programmed in the Borges Cultural Center, in the National Auditorium of the CCK, in the main hall of the Teatro Colón and in the CETC.

an indispensable artist

Gandini was born in the city of Buenos Aires in 1936. Impossible to think of Argentine music without their participation.

He was a seminal figure who served as a pianist, composer, conductor, taught composition and played an essential role in the dissemination of contemporary music in Argentina.

His unique talent is felt in what he has composed for a variety of genres, including music for stage, orchestra, choir, assorted instrumental ensembles, soloists and songs.

In his complete catalog of over one hundred and thirty works, the works the restless house, the absent city AND Liederkreis (on Schumann).

The piano occupies a special place in his compositions.as a solo instrument or in chamber ensembles and with orchestra… will be, imaginary music, eusebiusThey late sonatas (Sonata No. 2, dedicated to Federico Monjeau), his tangos and postangos for instrumental ensembles, among many others.

Alberto Ginastera began teaching him at the Latin American Center for Advanced Musical Studies of the Di Tella Institute in the 1960s. He has also worked as a teacher at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the National University of La Plata, at the Catholic University of Argentina, at the Juilliard School of Music in New York.

He was artistic director of the Buenos Aires Philharmonic Orchestra, founded the Sinfonietta Omega and he created and directed the Opera and Ballet Experimentation Center of the Teatro Colón (currently ETC).

In recent years, at the request of fit country He arranged national rock songs for string orchestra and conducted them himself on an American tour. Before he died he was working on an opera project about Erik Satie.

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Kirchner Cultural Center: With symphonic variations The tributes to Gerardo Gandini begin on Wednesday 15 at 20:00 in the CCK National Auditorium, with the National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Mariano Chiacchiarini.