Ana Serrano Redonnet

Ana Serrano Redonnet (30 December 191? -15 June 1993) was an Argentine author, composer,[1] conductor, guitarist and music critic who promoted Argentine folk music and used its themes in her own compositions.[2] Her birth year is variously given as 1910,[3] 1914,[4] or 1916.[5]

Serrano Redonnet was born in Buenos Aires. She studied guitar with Antonio Sinopoli and composition with Gilardo Gilardi and Jaume Pahissa. In addition to composing, she was the music critic for the Tribuna and Cabildo[6] newspapers. She served as the music advisor at the Argentine Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Department of Cultural Affairs from 1941 to 1945,[7] and produced a folk music program on the national radio, LRA Radio del Estado, in 1947.[5] She conducted orchestras at Teatro Colón and in the Argentine provinces of Santa Fe and Cordoba.[8] Her music was recorded commercially by LP Ten Records.[9]

Serrano Redonnet’s works were published by Ediciones Musicales Argentinas and Ricordi Americana.[10]

Her publications include:

  1. ^ Hixon, Donald L. (1993). Women in music : an encyclopedic biobibliography. Don A. Hennessee (2nd ed.). Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0-8108-2769-7. OCLC 28889156.
  2. ^ Historical Synthesis of Argentine Art. Ministry of foreign affairs and religious cult. 1954.
  3. ^ Brandão, Stela M. (2010). A Guide to the Latin American Art Song Repertoire: An Annotated Catalog of Twentieth-century Art Songs for Voice and Piano. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-22138-4.
  4. ^ Stewart-Green, Miriam (1980). Women composers : a checklist of works for the solo voice. Boston, Mass.: G.K. Hall. ISBN 0-8161-8498-4. OCLC 6815939.
  5. ^ a b Cohen, Aaron I. (1987). International Encyclopedia of Women Composers. Books & Music (USA). ISBN 978-0-9617485-2-4.
  6. ^ Opera news. 1944.
  7. ^ Schleifer, Martha Furman; Galván, Gary (2016-01-28). Latin American Classical Composers: A Biographical Dictionary. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-0-8108-8871-5.
  8. ^ Cultura, Argentina Comisión Nacional de (1947). Guía quincenal de la actividad intelectual y artística argentina (in Spanish). Comision Nacional de Cultura.
  9. ^ "Serrano Redonnet, Ana (1910-1993) – Silvia Fernández" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-08-21.
  10. ^ "Ana Serrano Redonnet". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2022-08-21.