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

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

Versos de himnos y canciones con música de Bottiroli

Belgrano Marcha-canción B-7

Si mi pueblo te nombra, Belgrano, su palabra se torna color y en el aire se pinta un emblema: cielo y nube, abrochados de sol.

Eres prócer-insignia, Belgrano. Ciudadano-soldado sin par Y en la historia argentina, arquetipo de patriota en la guerra y la paz.

En Rosario no diste, Belgrano. la bandera que el pueblo juró defender hasta darle la vida si lo exigen su gloria y honor.

Veneramos tu nombre, Belgrano Y en el verso de nuestro cantar hay acento de gloria y recuerdo con ritmo de marcha triunfal.

E. A. Sanchez Queirolo

Canción Escuela Crisol B-15

En nuestra escuela te quedas luz que llegas y te vas, somos la arena del tiempo el péndulo de tu edad, por ti los dedos del fuego con nuestras manos están, tornando el alma en alma en artífice en orfebre nuestro ideal, aquí encastamos el símbolo, de tu arco iris de paz, en filigrana de anillos, en impactos de cristal, mira tu rosa del aire la hemos grabado en metal, mira tu coro de pájaros, en nuestros labios están, carillón de estrellas dobles, el tuyo el de nuestro afán, cantas tu mitad de estrellas, nosotros la otra mitad, Crisol tu escuela agradece, todo el amor que nos das, ¡Con nuestros brazos, te abrazan los brazos de la ciudad!.

Himno de la Escuela Antonio MarÍa Gianelli B-19

Repican tus campanas como nunca, como nunca te canta el corazón, cinco lustros que coronan ya tu vida de lucida labor, tú que llevas el nombre Gianelli, el humilde del santo protector, con un libro y Cádiz por bandera avanzas prodigando tu calor, sigue, sigue escuelita tu camino, pues la Virgen te da su Bendición, y el plumón de tus aulas se hace nido para tierno y sencillo corazón, sigue, sigue escuelita de Gianelli, firme te guía el fundador, creciendo en el alma de los años, ilumina tu senda con amor!

Minerva Marchiori de Bruno Rosario 21/IX/1963

Cámara Oscura

La calle de la amargura nos ve llevar nuestra cruz, pero en la cámara oscura penetra un rayo de luz, En la mía no da el cielo un solo rayo de luz, La mía tiene un tapiz de fúnebre terciopelo. Tiene la tuya del día espléndido irradiar, de la noche el sollozar es lo que tiene la mía. Ve cómo es la suerte rara; juntas dicha y desventura, la tuya cámara clara; la mía cámara oscura.

Rubén Darío

References

1 Otero, Ana, Diccionario de la Música Española e Hispanoamericana. Sociedad General de Autores y Editores (SGAE), 1999, p 661

2 Cozzi Daniel, La Creación musical en Rosario, UNR Editora, Colección Académica. Rosario, Argentina, 2007.

3 La Capital, 11 August 1948, El Rotary Club entregará disticiones a estudiantes, Rosario, Argentina.

4 Acceptance Speech of José Antonio Bottiroli to Rotary Club, written in Rosario, 15 December 1948, Family Bottiroli Estate.

5 La Capital, 18 June 1950, Actuó ayer con éxito el Sexteto Loreley, Rosario, Argentina.

6 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.

7 José Antonio Bottiroli, Belgrano Marcha Canción, lyrics by Ernesto A. Sánchez Queirolo, Buenos Aires: Ricordi, 1961.

8 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.

9 Consejo General de Educación, Santa Fe, decree signed by Delamar Caselli, 15 June sess., 1960, file 636-I-960.

10 Raúl Frete, Belgrano: Nuestros niños cantarán a coro tu nombre, La Tribuna, 24 Mayo, 1960, Rosario, Argentina.

11 La Nación, 7 Julio 1960, Marcha, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

12 La Capital, 1960, Fue adoptada por la municipalidad una marcha a Belgrano, Rosario, Argentina.

13 Daniel Cozzi, La única marcha canción dedicada al prócer, Revista "Rosario" su Historia y Región. Nº 82. Pag. 4, Febrero 2010

14 El Litoral, 12 May 1962, Ayer por primera vez se ejecutó y cantó la marcha a Belgrano, Santa Fe, Argentina

15 La Capital, 11 July 1950, Recital de viola por Oscar Costa, Rosario, Argentina.

16 La Capital, 22 July 1948, Recital en el Museo Juan B. Castganino, Rosario, Argentina.

17 Rotary Club Newsletter, May - June 1949, Recordarase el natalicio de Goethe en acto cultural, Rosario, Argentina.

18 La Capital, 28 Augut 1949, Cantará Graciela Moner en el Museo de B. Artes, Rosario, Argentina.

19 La Capital, 18 November 1950, Realizase esta tarde en recital de canto en la Dante Alighieri, Rosario, Argentina

20 La Capital, 10 May 1982, Dúo de pianos en Amigos del Arte, Rosario, Argentina.

21 Crónica, 4 Octobre, 1951, El Maestro J. Bottiroli dirigirá dos estrenos, Rosario, Argentina.

22 Gregorio Marañón, Director del Instituto de Cultura Hispánica, Certifíca (declaration), 3 February 1970, Madrid, Spain.

23 La Capital, 1970, Viaja a Europa el Prof. José Antonio Bottiroli, Rosario, Argentina.

24 José Antonio Bottiroli, Obras Musicales 1949-1989, Original Works, Family Bottiroli Estate, Rosario, Argentina.

25 José Antonio Bottiroli, Poemas, Original Works, Family Bottiroli Estate, Rosario, Argentina.

External links

• Fabio Banegas y los checos a través de los siglos
• Quieren que Rosario tenga su museo musical
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• Bloque Encuentro por Rosario