Divertissement sériel, for nine instruments, by Susana Baron-Supervielle (1910-2004), was composed in 1952 during the composition courses given by Hans-Joachim Koellreutter at the Escola Livre de Música da Pró-Arte de São Paulo, and premiered under his conduction during his first trip to Tokyo in 1953. The following year, it was performed in Paris. The path followed by the circulation of the work copies the ways adopted by Susana Baron-Supervielle after assuming the historical challenge of practicing the music of her time. Born in the bosom of a family close to the intellectuality from Buenos Aires, and with relatives in France, she made her first inquiries around the renovation of the musical language at the beginning of the 30’s. After that, she settled in São Paulo and, later, she was part of Agrupación Nueva Música leaded by Juan Carlos Paz in Buenos Aires. The aim of this paper is to elucidate the relations that Baron-Supervielle established with the musical environment of São Paulo; characterize her compositional practice through the analysis of the recording of the mentioned work; and describe the interpersonal nets that emerge from the circulation of the work. Born in the bosom of a family close to the intellectuality from Buenos Aires, and with family relationships in France, she made her first inquiries around the renovation of the musical language at the beginning of the 30’s. After that, she settled in São Paulo and, later, she was part of Agrupación Nueva Música leaded by Juan Carlos Paz in Buenos Aires. The aim of this paper is to elucidate the relations that Baron-Supervielle established with the musical environment of São Paulo; characterize her compositional practice through the analysis of the recording of the mentioned work; and describe the interpersonal nets that emerge from the circulation of the work.
Keywords:
Susana Baron-Supervielle, Hans-Joachim Koellreutter, Escola Livre de Música da Pró- Arte de São Paulo, Agrupación Nueva Música, dodecaphony
Dezillio, R. (2020). Divertissement sériel by Susana Barón Supervielle: chapters of a travelling work. Revista Musical Chilena, 74(234), pp. 87–110. Retrieved from https://revistaderechopublico.uchile.cl/index.php/RMCH/article/view/56181
