Roberto García Morillo


Roberto García Morillo was an Argentine composer, musicologist, music professor and music critic.

Biography

García Morillo was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he studied at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música "Carlos López Buchardo", and in Paris studied piano with Yves Nat. Morillo died on October 26, 2003.
He worked as a music critic for the newspaper La Nación starting in 1938, and subsequently published in many Argentine and North American periodicals. He was appointed to joint positions as professor of composition in both the national and the municipal conservatories in Buenos Aires in 1942.
Curriculum:
Morillo's pupils included Regina Benavente

Works

His compositional style was never nationalistic, though most of his works from 1939 onward display the influence of Spanish culture. He received awards from the Comisión Nacional de Cultura, Municipalidad de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Asociación Wagneriana, SADAIC, Rotary Club, and the Dante Alighieri Scholarship.
His works have been commissioned by: