CASANOVA, Fermina

Argentine composer, pianist and music educator, born in Buenos Aires. She studied with several prominent Argentine composers, including Luis Gianneo, Alberto Ginastera, Roberto García Morillo, Antonio Tauriello and Gerardo Gandini. Casanova taught harmony, acoustics, contemporary rhythm, musical analysis and composition at the National Conservatory of Music in Buenos Aires. Her catalogue of more than one hundred works includes orchestral, chamber, vocal, piano and educational music. Among her compositions are the Piano Concerto (1962), Dos diálogos for violin and piano (1971), Tres estudios for piano, Piccolo Trío for piccolo, flute and piano, concertinos for clarinet and bassoon, Greguerías for choir and Seis canciones para niños. She was also an influential teacher of several younger Argentine composers.