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First name: Diogenes
Last name: Rivas
Dates: 1942
Category: Quartet
Nationality: venezuelan
Opus name: Cuarteto No.2
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Information: Diogenes Rivas (born October 4, 1942) is a dedicated Venezuelan composer as well as a researcher of contemporary music. Additionally, he devotes time to teaching and the training of young composers. Rivas is the co-founder and Artistic Director of the Festival Atempo – Caracas and Artistic Director (along with Pierre Strauch and Antonio Pileggi) of the Paris Nuit d’Atempo. Diogenes Rivas began to study music in the city of Merida at the age of four with his father, Professor Jose Rafael Rivas, studying piano and oboe. Later on, in Caracas, his teachers were Moleiro Moses and Inocente Carreño (from 1954–1957). He continued his studies at the Academia Santa Cecilia in Rome, Italy, from 1958 to 1964. He also studied conducting with Sir John Barbirolli and Carlo Zecchi in Taormina, Italy and with Bruno Maderna in Salzburg, Austria (1968). He studied composition with Alfred Nieman in London from 1975 to 1977. A deep bond with Francisco Guerrero (in Madrid) led him to explore the constructivist technique of composition. Since 1980 he is dedicated exclusively to composing. The Italian composer Antonio Pileggi describes the work of this artist as follows: “His music is an original synthesis of the great occidental traditions and of an association of techniques derived from specific mathematical and geometric structures.The result is an eclecticism that integrates diverse speculative disciplines and a musical creativity both unusual and seductive…”