Juan Carlos Paz (1897-1972)

Juan Carlos Paz was a composer, pianist, professor, music critic, lecturer, concert organizer and a figure of Argentina’s musical avant-garde for more than forty years. Born and died in Buenos Aires, he was also a prolific writer. His main literary work remains the vast undertaking of his Memorias, over a thousand pages on “everything I have every thought about” (Memorias I, p. 5), the writing of which occupied the last ten years of his life, a period when he had practically stopped composing. But this interminable series of short essays was merely a prolongation of the three books on music history he published in the 1950s. Above all, they return to the iconoclastic tone of his very first texts, published in anarchist reviews of the 1920s such as La Protesta and La Campana de palo.

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firstnameJuan Carlos
lastnamePaz
birth year1897
death year1972
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