Gamma1734's video: Alberto Williams - Aire de Vals No 13 Op 109

Williams (1862-1952) was an Argentine composer, pianist, pedagogue, and conductor. He received a scholarship from the government of the Province of Buenos Aires in 1882 to study music composition at the Paris Conservatoire, where he was mentored by pianists Georges Mathias and Charles de Bériot, and learned harmony with Emile Durand and counterpoint with Ernest Guiraud. He furthermore took private lessons in composition from César Franck, who apparently became very fond of his student. Williams published his first piano pieces during this period, including character and salon pieces and dances, and completed his Primera Obertura de Concierto (First Concert Overture, op. 15) for orchestra, before returning to Argentina in 1889. Upon arrival, he toured the rural pampas and became introduced to folk music of Argentina. Williams composed nine symphonies, three orchestral poems, two concert overtures, three sonatas for violin and piano (1905, 1906, 1907), one for cello and piano (1906), and the Primera Sonata Argentina for piano (1917). He created lyrics for all his compositions and authored numerous texts on music theory and other aesthetic and historical topics, including several manuals for students; a collection of his lyrics was published as Versos Líricos in 1924. his work comprises 136 opus numbers