Oscar Edelstein

Quick Facts

Full Name	Oscar Edelstein
Occupation	Composer
Date Of Birth	Jun 12, 1953(1953-06-12)
Age	71
Birthplace	La Plata
Country	Argentina
Birth City	Buenos Aires
Horoscope	Gemini

Oscar Edelstein Biography

Oscar Edelstein is one of the most popular and richest Composer who was born on June 12, 1953 in La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Edelstein’s work as a composer is characterized by his ability to break new boundaries. He has directed numerous chamber groups of music improvisation and theatre, often exploring the interaction between theatre and music and has won numerous national and international prizes for his chamber and electronic performances. He is renowned for his technical expertise in composition, his unique techniques of composition and direction of improvisation, as well as his librettos. As a young and renowned Argentine composer, the musician struck by the strong impression from the many famous composers he had the pleasure of meeting like Pierre Boulez, Mauricio Kagel, Gyorgy Ligeti, Krzysztof Penderecki, Mario Davidovsky, and John Chowning. He also has helped bring many composers from all over the globe to Argentina and has also introduced Francisco Guerrero from Spain (1951-1997). But it was along with Luigi Nono, who visited Buenos Aires in 1985, that there was a unique and mutual understanding.

His teachers prior to Kropfl were the renowned Argentine composers of a different style and school Mariano Etkin and Jose Maranzano. Then, during the turbulent periods in the country’s “Dirty War” (1976-78), Edelstein left the country and spent the next three years studying and traveling. The time spent traveling included two years spent in France and a stay near Paris as well as visiting the Abbaye of Solesmes. He also visited museums, libraries, and monasteries to learn more about medieval music.

Edelstein also held a scholarship in Science and Technology from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) to work on several different projects related to music analysis and production with computers at the Centro de Investigación Musical (CIM-UBA), in the University of Buenos Aires. This centre was founded and directed by Edelstein, from 1985–1992, working with a team of professors; Pablo Di Liscia, Daniel Montes, Horacio Gutman, and Pablo Cetta. The CIM was a pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence as applied to music analysis, and the projects they developed were the first to be formally registered in Argentina.

In 1991, he continued his efforts to develop Argentina’s infrastructure for disseminating ideas and theories of contemporary music in Argentina, by co- founding and editing a specialist music magazine, Lulú: Revista de Teorías y Técnicas Musicales[1] with Carla Fonseca and Federico Monjeau. It was the first journal in Latin America to be dedicated to the contemporary arts and in the editorial committee were Argentina’s most important composers, musicologists, painters and writers.

Between 1974 between 1974 and 1977 Edelstein had been a scholar in the Centro de Investigaciones en Ciencia, Material, Arte y Tecnologia (C.I.C.M.A.T – the former Instituto Di Tella), and in the years 1985-86, Edelstein was among the trio of young performers chosen to be employed in the Laboratorio de Investigacion y Produccion Musical (L.I.P.M.) This is where was the composer of one of the compositions for which he is the best well-known, Viril Occidente I. Another of the projects he worked on in L.I.P.M. was Estudio y Aplicacion de los medios digitales en la Composicion Musical (1989-1991), supported by a scholarship of the Fundacion Antorchas, and used by Edelstein to compose Viril Occidente II (the overture to El Telescopio).

Oscar Edelstein Net Worth

Oscar Edelstein is one of the richest Composer from Argentina. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Oscar Edelstein 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Oscar Edelstein (born 12 June 1953) is a composer of the present from Argentina. He is renowned for his creativity and ingenuity often he is described as the most influential Latin American avant-garde. Also, he’s a conductor, pianist and researcher.

In 1972, it was because of Ortiz the influence of Ortiz that Edelstein decided to take the plunge of making the move into the capital to study. He made his way to Buenos Aires with a recommendation from Ortiz to attend a class in the company of Juan Carlos Paz but Paz passed away a few days before his arrival (a tale that Edelstein honors in his book “El Hecho”) . Edelstein was a resident of Buenos Aires and it was the opposite of what he expected, that it was in 1979 when he began to connect with Francisco Kropfl, considered the greatest student of Paz. He was able to complete his studies in composition after receiving the most crucial instrument – ability to control pitch. This helped Edelstein appreciate the world that was Arnold Schoenberg and the Second Vienna School which was a universe that Paz introduced to Spanish natives of other Spanish-speaking nations.

Edelstein was also a member of Nueva Música, the group of composers and teachers founded by Paz and continued by Kröpfl, until four years later in 1984, when Edelstein decided to create a new group with eleven composers of his generation, all from different schools and aesthetics, called Otras Músicas. As an association of composers, Otras Músicas was dedicated to the diffusion of contemporary music in the continent.

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In 2006, C.E.T.C., the experimental wing of Buenos Aires’ opera house, Teatro Colón, commissioned and produced his opera Eterna Flotación-Los monstruito[8] As often is the case in his works, the libretto was written by Edelstein, this time adapting poems from Lo Dado by Rodolfo Enrique Fogwill. The Clarín reviewed it as “Original, innovative – some pieces are like from the anthology of opera.” It was the first musical work to speak about the presidency of Carlos Menem. In the middle of scenes depicting the incredible decadence that Argentina fell into, Edelstein has a murga – a street-musical group common in Uruguay and Argentina often present at political protests – erupt into the theatre, cutting across conventional lines of opera as a “high” art. The final aria of the work is Edelstein’s setting of “El Rio,” a poem by Juan L. Ortiz, that he uses to make a contrast with the scenes of decadence and decay.

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Oscar Ranked on the list of most popular Composer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Argentina. Oscar Edelstein celebrates birthday on June 12 of every year.

His album in 2006 Dos Improntuswith renowned accordionist, Raúl Barboza, was a meeting of different musical worlds. Edelstein’s intention was that through playing together in a process of composition in the moment (rather than formally writing) he would create a new kind of synthesis of the Argentine experience and history of music. The disc has caused much discussion and is influencing musical culture in Argentina and Latin America, including becoming sited in various research works.