Carlos Fariñas
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Carlos Fariñas (Cienfuegos, 1934 - La Habana, 2002) was a Cuban composer. He was known for to be one of the most important masters of the Cuban avant-garde in the 1960s along with Leo Brouwer and Juan Blanco.[citation needed]
After that ,he moved to La Habana, Cuba city and was a disciple of the masters Jose Ardevol, Harold Gramatges and Enrique Gonzales Mántici.[citation needed] In 1956 he attended to the courses taught by Aaron Copland on the Tanglewood Music Center in the United States.[citation needed] Between 1961 and 1963, he studied at the Moscow Conservatory. [citation needed]
Fariñas also composed in several modern techniches and styles from traditional symphonic music to computer music. In 1989 he created the Electroacoustic and Computer Music Laboratory at the Art Superior Institute in La Habana, Cuba.[citation needed]
Notable works
- Muros, rejas y vitrales para orquesta (Walls, fences and windows for orchestra)
- Atanos y Tres sones sencillos para piano
- Oda a Camilo Cienfuegos (Ode to Camilo Cienfuegos)
- Despertar (Wake), a ballet
- Sonata for violin and cello
- String Quartet
- Tientos
- Diálogos (Dialogues)
- Relieves (Relieves)
- Hecho historia (Made History), a (ballet)
- In Rerum Natura
- El Bosque ha echado a andar (The Forest has begun to walk)
- Punto y Tonadas, para orquesta de cuerdas (Point and tunes, for string orchestra)