Alfonso Letelier

Biography

Alfonoso Letelier Llona (1912-1994) was a chilean classical music composer and one of the most important in the XX century in his country. He focused in religious music in his early years, then he explored a more neoclassical, romantic-based sound influenced to end up in contemporary classical, where he developed works along the lines of serialism and dodecaphonism. He studied with Pedro H. Allende, another relevant chilean composer.

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