Julio César Brero (also spelled Giulio Cesare; 20 December 1908 Milan – 8 December 1973 Milan) was an Italian-born Argentine composer, music educator, and lawyer.[1]

Education

He earned his law degree from University of Milan in 1932. In 1935, he earned a piano teaching diploma from the Philharmonic Academy of Bologna and a diploma in composition from École Normale de Musique de Paris.[2]

Career

He was professor of choral singing at the Bossi Academy of Music, Milan. Brero lived fifteen years in Argentina (beginning in the 1940s), where he became prolific in the field of music, in particular, as a teacher of harmony and counterpoint at the National Conservatory of Buenos Aires.

Selected works

• "Lyrics", for piano and voice / and for piano and orchestra (1933)
• "Concerto for String Orchestra" (1933); OCLC 20832598
• "Suite", for cello (1935)
• "Lyrics", for voice and piano (1936)
• "Melodies", for voice and piano (1946)
• "Toccata", for piano (1945)
• "Concertino", for cello and small orchestra (1947)
• "38 Songs of Italian folklore", for voice and piano (1949); OCLC 317262499
• "Trio" (1949)
• "Divertimento" in B♭ for flute, clarinet and bassoon (1955); OCLC 20116415
• "Variaciones sobre un tema italiano" (1955), dedicated to cellist Adolfo Odnoposoff; OCLC 315566810
• "7 Preludes," for piano (1954); OCLC 21825759

Opera

• Novella (1953); OCLC 725030310, 551971421, 35756749

Filmography

• Camino del infierno (1946), composer

Awards

1935 — Paris: Prix International de la "Revue Musicale," for "Trio for wind instrument"

1949 — Buenos Aires: Carlos López Buchardo Award by the Wagnerian Association of Buenos Aires for "String Quartet No. 2

References