Juan Carlos Paz

Juan Carlos Paz (5 August 1897 – 26 August 1972) was an Argentine composer and music theorist.

Paz was born in Buenos Aires, either in 1897 or in 1901, where he studied piano with Roberto Nery and composition with Constantino Gaito and Eduardo Fornarini. He also studied organ with Jules Beyer, and then travelled to Paris to work with Vincent d'Indy at the Schola Cantorum.

On 22 October 1929, a shared enthusiasm for new musical developments caused him, together with Juan José Castro and José María Castro, Gilardo Gilardi, and Jacobo Ficher, to form the Grupo renovación, with the aim of promoting the cause of modern music in Argentina. In 1936, Paz left the group to found his own concert series, the Conciertos de la Nueva Música.

Paz was firmly opposed to the folkloristic approach to music that was widespread in Latin America in the 1930s and 1940s. Opinions differ about his earliest compositional styles. According to one authority, in the 1920s and early 1930s, his music was post-Romantic, with influences from César Franck and Richard Strauss; another writer describes this same period (1920–27) as characterized by neoclassical polyphony. The former author regards Igor Stravinsky's neoclassicism and jazz as Paz's focus in the 1930s, whereas the latter describes his second period (1927–1934) as "marked by atonal melodic idiom and polytonal harmony". Both authors agree that in the 1930s he was investing the diverse styles and techniques prevalent worldwide at that time, and particularly Arnold Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique, which Paz introduced to Argentina. He was particularly attracted by Anton Webern's music, and from 1934 adopted twelve-tone writing, which he continued to use until 1950. Though he continued to maintain that Schoenberg's methods deserved to be better-known and understood, publishing in 1954 a book ''Arnold Schoenberg, o el fin de la era tonal'', he abandoned the technique in his own compositions, evolving a new experimental, highly structured idiom. In the mid-1960s, however, he gave up composing altogether.

Paz's pupils included Susana Barón Superville who, like him, was a member of the Agrupación Nueva Música. Provided by Wikipedia
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    Introducción a la música de nuestro tiempo / by Paz, Juan Carlos

    Published 1955
    Book
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    La música en los Estados Unidos. by Paz, Juan Carlos

    Published 1952
    Book
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    Tres invenciones a dos voces / by Paz, Juan Carlos, 1897-1972

    Published 1982
    Musical Score Book
  4. 4

    Música 1946 : para piano / by Paz, Juan Carlos, 1897-1972

    Published 1955
    Musical Score Book
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    Alturas, tensiones, ataques, intensidades : memorias / by Paz, Juan Carlos, 1897-1972

    Published 1972
    Book
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    Sonatina, no. 3, op. 25 para piano / by Paz, Juan Carlos, 1897-1972

    Published 1974
    Musical Score Book
  7. 7

    Arnold Schönberg o el fin de la era tonal / by Paz, Juan Carlos, 1897-1972

    Published 1958
    Book
  8. 8

    Dedalus, 1950 / by Paz, Juan Carlos, 1897-1972

    Published 1964
    Musical Score Book
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    Inicios de la vanguardia musical en al Argentina / by Paz, Juan Carlos, 1897-1972

    Published 1998
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    Audio
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    Introducción a la música de nuestro tiempo / by Paz, Juan Carlos, 1897-1972

    Published 1971
    Book
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    La música en los Estados Unidos / by Paz, Juan Carlos, 1897-1972

    Published 1952
    Book
  12. 12

    Introducción a la música de nuestro tiempo / by Paz, Juan Carlos, 1897-1972

    Published 1971
    Book
  13. 13

    La música en los Estados Unidos / by Paz, Juan Carlos, 1897-1972

    Published 1952
    Book
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    Alturas, tensiones, ataques, intensidades : memorias / by Paz, Juan Carlos, 1897-1972

    Published 1972
    Book
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    XV Congreso Latinoamericano, VII Iberoamericano y XI Nacional de derecho penal y criminología : penas alternativas y principio de oportunidad / by Paz, Marta

    Other Authors: “…Rawson Paz, Juan Carlos…”
    Article
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    Música / by Stephan, Rudolf‏, 1925-

    Published 1964
    Other Authors: “…Paz, Juan Carlos, 1897-1972…”
    Book
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    Agrupación Nueva Música 3.

    Published 1991
    Other Authors: “…Paz, Juan Carlos, 1897-1972…”
    Audio
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    Fin de fiesta /

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    Agrupación Nueva Música 1.

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    Agrupación Nueva Música 2.

    Published 1989
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