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José Antonio Bottiroli José Antonio Bottiroli (January 1, 1920 – March 15, 1990) was an argentine classical musician and poet.
Biography
José Antonio Bottiroli was born in Rosario, Argentina on 1 January 1920 and died in Rosario on 15 March 1990. From the time he was a young child and until the end of his life, he lived alternately in Rosario and in Los Cocos, a hill town retreat located in Córdoba Province, Argentina. He studied with Nicolás Alfredo Alessio (1919-1985). In 1948 he graduated from the School of Professors No. 2 Juan María Gutiérrez of the National University of the Littoral with a Professorship Degree in music and received the Rotary Club Award for the best music student.
He was the director of the Vocal Women’s Sextet Juan María Gutiérrez, later Vocal Sextet Loreley, with which he conducted performances in the City of Rosario, Radio LR1 El Mundo and at the Cervantes Theater in Buenos Aires. He composed Belgrano March – Song with lyrics by Ernesto Aturo Sánchez Queirolo. In 1960 Belgrano March – Song was approved by decree of the National Board of Education and the General Board of Education of the Province of Santa Fe to be incorporated in the music repertoire of the schools of the Argentine Republic and those of the Province of Santa Fe. Also, by municipal decree of the City of Rosario, Belgrano March-Song was declared the official song of the City, to be sung in ceremonies at the National Flag Memorial in commemoration of the creation of the Argentinean Flag and in memory of General Don Manuel Belgrano. Belgrano March-Song is the only musical work dedicated to General Manuel Belgrano, creator of the Argentine flag. It was premiered on 11 May 1962 by the Military Institute Choir and the Infantry Regiment No. 12 General Arenales’s brass band conducted by Captain Antonio Rabuffetti. As a pianist, Bottiroli performed in solo recitals and in chamber music duets with violist Oscar Costa, cellist Pedro Farruggia, soprano Gabriela Moner, contralto Azucena Racca de Deseta, and in piano duets with Jacinto Terán Fernández and Nicolás A. Alessio.
On 4 October 1951 he conducted the Rosario Symphony Orchestra at El Circulo Theater on which occasion he gave the American premier of Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra by Nicólas A. Alessio and the Festive Mass Opus 154 by Alexandre Gretchaninov. In 1962 Bottiroli was awarded the Crisol Music Competition Award of Rosario and in 1963 created the A. M. Gianelli School Hymn with lyrics by Minerva Marchiori de Bruno. He received a scholarship from The Hispanic Cultural Institute in 1970 to study in Europe, first in Madrid, later in Barcelona, Spain, and finally in Rome, Italy, where two of his chamber music compositions were premiered: Trio for Wing Instruments and String Quartet. José Antonio Bottiroli was the Dean of the Normal School of Teachers No. 3 and College Commerce General Belgrano of Rosario. In addition to teaching music at the National College No.1, the Sagrado Corazón College in Rosario, he taught music to the inmates at the prison of the City of Rosario. José Antonio Bottiroli composed 112 works of music: 69 piano works, 23 chamber music works, 8 choral works and 12 symphonic works. His complete works were compiled and catalogued in 2011 by Fabio Banegas. In addition to his musical output he composed 76 poems and diverse poetic writings.
Music
After an initial nationalistic period in which he composed works infuenced by Argentine folk music, such as his Pequeña Suite Norteña B-2 for orchestra and Carnavalito B-4 and Vidalita B-14 for choir, José Antonio Bottiroli’s music adhered to the Romantic and late Romantic traditions. For his piano output he adopted as a main formal structure the Romantic microform in which he expressed his own subjectivity within the context of three-part compositions. His piano repertoire is distinguished by its improvisational character and hand extension while his orchestral works follow the symphonic poem narrative established by Franz Liszt. Harmonically, his music ventures into the rich late Romantic textures and the atmospheric colors of Impressionism. The musical production of José Antonio Bottiroli must be viewed within the context of his complete collected artistic output, which includes an extensive number of poems and writings.
Works
Piano
1. Waltz in G-Major. B-22
2. Waltz in E-minor True. B-26
3. Theme and Variations in G-Major. B-27
4. Waltz in F-minor Chopin. B-29
5. Strange. B-30
6. Image. B -31
7. Kirigami. B-32
8. Eros. B-33
9. Forgotten Doll. B-34
10. Memento. B-35
11. Etopeya Waltz in G-Flat Major Mario. B-36
12. Poem in D-Mayor. B-37
13. Capriccio in D Major. B-41
14. Microwaltzes. B-42
15. Waltz in D Major. B-43
16. Capriccio in E-Flat minor. B-44
17. Album leaf I in G-Flat Mayor. B-45
18. Waltz in D minor Inspired. B-46
19. Album leaf II in D Major. B-47
20. Album leaf III in D minor. B-48
21. Album leaf IV in F Major. B-49
22. Minute. B-50
23. Etude 7. B-51
24. Toccata en E minor. B-52
25. Sad. B-53
26. Intimate. B-54
27. Album leaf V in B minor Nocturnalia. B-55
28. Album leaf VI in F minor. B-56
29. Nocturne in G-Flat minor. B-58
30. Monologue. B-59
31. Waltz in G minor. B-60
32. Prelude in F minor. B-61
33. Waltz in D-Flat Major. B-62
34. Waltz in B minor. B-63
35. Piruchín (Leaf). B-64
36. Andante ¾ Malinconico. B-65
37. Waltz in F Major. B-66
38. 5 Microfilms. B-67
39. Invisible Bird Crespín. B-68
40. How is it? . . . B-69
41. Reply I (a“How is it”). B-70
42. Reply II (“Nocturne . . .”). B-71
43. Waltz Test in A-Flat Major. B-72
44. Improvisation Autumn. B-74
45. Album Leaf. B-75
46. 6 Piano Pieces. B-76
47. Untitled – Adagio. B-77
48. New. B-78
49. Old. B-79
50. Allegro risoluto, andante, mesto, aninato. B-80
51. Waltz in G-Flat Mayor. B-86
52. Allegro II. B-88
53. Clowns. B-89
54. Paraphrase on a Theme by A. Arensky. B-90
55. Theme and Variations in F-Sharp minor. B-91
56. Theme and Variations II in E-minor. B-92
57. Waltz in E-Flat minor Comodo. B-93
58. Waltz in E-Flat minor. B-94
59. Nocturne in G-Flat Mayor. B-95
60. Microsadness I in D minor Andromeda. B-96
61. Vespers. B-97
62. Untitled – Lento in E-Flat Major. B-98
63. Prelude in C minor. B-99
64. Painful. B-100
65. Waltz in E-Flat Major. B-101
66. Variation on a Theme by Haydn. B-103
67. Absence I. B-106
68. Absence II. B-107
69. Angel’s Milonga. B-111
Chamber/instrumental
1. Belgrano – March Song (piano and voice). B-7
2. Duet for Two Oboes. B-15
3. Crisol School Song (piano and voice). B-16
4. Trio for Two Oboes and English Horn on a Popular Melody. B-17
5. Atonal. On a theme of J.A. Bottiroli by N.A. Alessio (string quartet). B-18
6. Saint Anthony Maria Gianelli School’s Anthem (song). B-19
7. Trio for Two Oboes and English Horn. B-20
8. Untitled – Religious Text (piano and voice). B-21
9. Waltz in G Major for Two Pianos (2 pianos). B-23
10. Dark Chamber (song). B-24
11. Martial - String Quartet. B-28
12. Allegro in G minor (movement) (4 hands piano). B-38
13. Untitled (4 hands piano). B-39
14. Image (traverse flute quartet). B-81
15. Nocturne (traverse flute quartet). B-82
16. Adiós Nonino (4 hands piano). B-83
17. Angel’s Milonga (4 hands piano). B-84
18. Angel’s Milonga (2 pianos). B-85
19. Nocturnalia (4 traverse flutes and string orchestra). B-87
20. Melody / Memento (flute and piano). B-102
21. Vision (traverse flute quartet). B-108
22. La ultima curda (tango) (traverse flute quartet). B-109
23. Parapeto the Cat / Circle (piano and canto). B110
Chamber/instrumental by instrument groups
Piano and Voice
1. (1) Belgrano – March Song. B-7
2. (3) Crisol School Song. B-16
3. (6) Saint Anthony Maria Gianelli School’s Anthem. B-19
4. (8) Untitled – Religious Text. B-21
5. (10) Dark Chamber. B-24
6. (22) Parapeto the Cat / Circle. B-109
Duets
7. (2) Duet for Two Oboes. B-20
8. (20) Melody / Memento for flute and piano. B-21
4 Hands Piano
(12) Allegro in G minor (movement). B-23
9. (13) Untitled (4 hands piano). B-24
10. (16) Adiós Nonino. B-83
11. (17) Angel’s Milonga. B-84
Piano Duets
13. (9) Waltz in G Major for Two Pianos. B-23
14. (18) Angel’s Milonga. B-85
Trios
15. (4) Trio for Two Oboes and English Horn on a Popular Melody. B-16
16. (7) Trio for Two Oboes and English Horn. B-20
String Quartets
24. (5) Atonal. On a theme of J.A. Bottiroli by N.A. Alessio. B-18
25. (11) Martial - String Quartet. B-28
Traverse Flute Quartets
26. (14) Image. B-81
27. (15) Nocturne B-82
28. (21) Vision for 4 traverse flutes. B-108
29. (22) La ultima curda (tango). B-109
Traverse Flute Quartet and String Orchestra.
23. (19) Nocturnalia. B-87
III Choral Music
1. Moonlight / Claire de lune – Debussy / Bottiroli (women’s vocal sextet). B-1
2. The Humahuaqueño / Carnavalito – Zaldivar / Bottiroli (women’s vocal sextet). B-4
3. Smoke in your Eyes – Kern / Bottiroli (women’s vocal sextet). B-5
4. Pala – Pala (women’s vocal sextet). B-6
5. Vidalita (4 mixed voices) B-14
6. Adiós Nonino – Piazzola / Bottiroli (4 mixed voices). B-25
7. Adiós Nonino – Piazzola / Bottiroli (4 equal voices). B-104
8. Choral Work – unfinished. B-105
IV Symphonic Music
1. Small Northerner Suite. I Serenate. B-2
2. Small Northerner Suite. II Gato. B-3
3. Small Overture on Themes by Mario Tarenghi (with soloist piano). B-8
4. Concert Waltzes from “The Gentleman of the Rose.” B-9
5. Brief Poem. B-10
6. Marcelino pan i vino – Sorozábal / Bottiroli. B-11
7. Panis Angelicus – Franck / Bottiroli. B-12
8. Carnavalito – Abalos / Bottiroli. 13
9. Poem I. B-40
10. Nocturnalia. B-57
11. Ulises (Homero). B-73
12. Symphony (unfinished). B-111
V Poems
1 My Little House
2 Our Mother Celebrated Fifty Years
3 Fog
4 Life
5 Already
6 Hunger and Thirst
7 Enough!
8 Waiting
9 The Pond
10 Nocturne
11 Landscape
12 Perhaps
13 Poem
14 Of the Strong Tree
15 Come
16 I Don’t Know
17 Ressresxit
18 No
19 Yes
20 Solitude
21 Red Verbena
22 City
23 Three microsorrows to my City: I The Port, II Alem. III The Lake
24 Departure (for my mother)
25 Eternal Song
26 My Song
27 Rain
28 Sound
29 Grandfather
30 Christmas Eve
31 Bach
32 Poem (to my piano)
33 Polino (my cat)
34 Foreword. To Orlando Calgano and his starting point
35 Cold
36 Where
37 Time
38 Holograph
39 My Love Has a Request
40 Vision
41 Journey (boy)
42 How is it?
43 Sonnet
44 Return
45 A Kiss
46 Rose
47 From Yesterday
48 Poem
49 Salutation to the Teachers of the Normal School No. 2 Year 1969. Message
50 Absence’s Day (3rd Sunday of October)
51 Woman
52 Greeting to a Friend
53 Without title (Greeting to a Friend)
54 Without title. To Orlanda Alessio
55 They Let You Go
56 Why!
57 The Wall
58 The Prayer
59 Insincere Shelter of the Hopelessness
60 Twenty Years
61 Order (The poem of a murderer)
62 Claim
63 Fifteen Years
64 Today
65 Jealousy
66 There in the Void
67 Return
68 The Forest (Fiat lux)
69 Look, my Love, the Ocean
70 Are You Sad, my Love, this Easter?
71 Question
72 Disenchantment
73 Sentence
74 Water, Bridge, Green
75 Autumn
76 Moon
References
1 Cozzi Daniel, La Creación musical en Rosario, UNR Editora, Colección Académica. Rosario, Argentina, 2007.
2 La Capital, 11 August 1948, El Rotary Club entregará disticiones a estudiantes, Rosario, Argentina.
3 Acceptance Speech of José Antonio Bottiroli to Rotary Club, written in Rosario, 15 December 1948, Family Bottiroli Estate.
4 La Capital, 18 June 1950, Actuó ayer con éxito el Sexteto Loreley, Rosario, Argentina.
5 María Julia Correa de Pereda, Dir. School of Professors No. 2, Rosario, Argentina, to J. A. Bottiroli, Rosario, 8 November 1948, Family Bottiroli Estate, Rosario, Argentina.
6 José Antonio Bottiroli, Belgrano Marcha Canción, lyrics by Ernesto A. Sánchez Queirolo, Buenos Aires: Ricordi, 1961.
7 Consejo Nacional de Educación, decree signed by Rosa Clotilde Sabattini de Baron Biza, Presidenta del Consejo National de Educación, 28 April sess., 1960, file 6582/60.
8 Consejo General de Educación, Santa Fe, decree signed by Delamar Caselli, 15 June sess., 1960, file 636-I-960.
9 Raúl Frete, Belgrano: Nuestros niños cantarán a coro tu nombre, La Tribuna, 24 Mayo, 1960, Rosario, Argentina.
10 La Nación, 7 Julio 1960, Marcha, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
11 La Capital, 1960, Fue adoptada por la municipalidad una marcha a Belgrano, Rosario, Argentina.
12 Daniel Cozzi, La única marcha canción dedicada al prócer, Revista "Rosario" su Historia y Región. Nº 82. Pag. 4, Febrero 2010
13 El Litoral, 12 May 1962, Ayer por primera vez se ejecutó y cantó la marcha a Belgrano, Santa Fe, Argentina
14 La Capital, 11 July 1950, Recital de viola por Oscar Costa, Rosario, Argentina.
15 La Capital, 22 July 1948, Recital en el Museo Juan B. Castganino, Rosario, Argentina.
16 Rotary Club Newsletter, May - June 1949, Recordarase el natalicio de Goethe en acto cultural, Rosario, Argentina.
17 La Capital, 28 Augut 1949, Cantará Graciela Moner en el Museo de B. Artes, Rosario, Argentina.
18 La Capital, 18 November 1950, Realizase esta tarde en recital de canto en la Dante Alighieri, Rosario, Argentina
19 La Capital, 10 May 1982, Dúo de pianos en Amigos del Arte, Rosario, Argentina.
20 Crónica, 4 Octobre, 1951, El Maestro J. Bottiroli dirigirá dos estrenos, Rosario, Argentina.
21 Gregorio Marañón, Director del Instituto de Cultura Hispánica, Certifíca (declaration), 3 February 1970, Madrid, Spain.
22 La Capital, 1970, Viaja a Europa el Prof. José Antonio Bottiroli, Rosario, Argentina.
23 José Antonio Bottiroli, Obras Musicales 1949-1989, Original Works, Family Bottiroli Estate, Rosario, Argentina.
24 José Antonio Bottiroli, Poemas, Original Works, Family Bottiroli Estate, Rosario, Argentina.
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