Uribe Holguín, Guillermo
(b Bogotá, 17 March 1880; d Bogotá, 26 June 1971). Colombian composer. He studied the violin with Ricardo Figueroa at the Bogotá Academy of Music (later renamed the National Conservatory) and from 1895 with Narciso Garay. In 1903–4 he visited New York and Mexico City and in 1905 he was appointed to teach the violin and solfège at the Bogotá Academy, where he also founded an orchestra. In 1907 he won a government grant to study with d’Indy at the Schola Cantorum, Paris. After further studies in Brussels he returned in 1910 to Bogotá, where he was appointed director of the National Conservatory (1910–35). In 1919 he made a return visit to Paris.
Uribe Holguín was the most influential Colombian composer of his generation, and his output extends to 120 opus numbers. He favoured orchestral, chamber and piano composition and employed an enriched harmonic language, the result of his late-Romantic training, personal contact with Falla and Joaquín Turina, and his admiration for Debussy. The Trozos en el sentimiento popular for piano, which includes music in the style of the pasillo, bambuco and joropo, is an example of his music based on Colombian folk idioms.
WORKS
(selective list)
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Stage: Furatena (Uribe Holguín) op.76, 1943
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Choral: Victimae paschali laudes, op.5, SATB, orch, 1905; Requiem, op.17, S, A, T, B, SATB, orch, 1926; Homenaje a Bolívar, op.186, S, T, SATB, orch, 1958
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11 syms., incl. no.1, op.11, 1914 rev. 1940; ‘Del terruño’, op.15, 1924; no.5, op.100, 1956; no.11, op.117, 1961
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Other orch: Villanesca, op.37, pf, orch, 1957; Concierto a la manera antigua, op.62, pf, orch, 1951; Vn Conc. no.1, op.64, 1938 rev. 1964; Bochica, op.73, 1939; 3 ballets criollos, op.78, 1945; Vn Conc. no.2, op.79; Anarkos, op.84, spkr, orch, 1949; Sinfonieta campesina, op.83, 1949; Ceremonia indígena, op.88, 1955
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Chbr: Sonata no.1, vn, pf, op.7, 1909; Str Qt no.1, op.12, 1920; Pf Qnt no.1, 2 vn, va, vc, op.31; Pf Qnt no.2, 2 vn, va, vc, op.66; Str Trio no.1, vn, vc, pf, op.74; Str Qt no.5, op.87, 1951; Sonata no.7, vn, pf, op.91; Str Trio no.2, vn, vc, pf, op.115; Str Qt no.10, op.116, 1969
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1v, pf: Las golondrinas, canción (G.A. Bécquer) op.23; Nocturno (J.A. Silva) op.27, 1928); Las garzas (E. Oribe) op.44 (1932); 15 canciones (Rafael Pombo, L. de Greiff), op.45; Hay un instante en el crepúsculo (Guillermo Valencia) op.80, 1947
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Pf: 3 preludios, op.20, 1926; 300 trozos en el sentimiento popular, 1927–39; Fantasía folklórica, 2 pfs, op.81, 1947
| WRITINGS
Curso de armonía (Bogotá, 1936)
Vida de un músico colombiano (Bogotá, 1941) [autobiography]
‘Como piensan los artistas colombianos: contra el nacionalismo musical’, Revista de las Indias, xxx/96 (1947), 351–7
Principal publisher: Patronato Colombiano de Artes y liencias Bogotá
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Compositores de América/Composers of the Americas, ed. Pan American Union, xviii (Washington DC, 1955), 89–98
H. Caro Mendoza: ‘Guillermo Uribe Holguín’, Revista de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia no.5 (1970), 117–46 [incl. work-list]
G. Rendón: ‘Maestros de la música: Guillermo Uribe Holguín, 1880–1971’, Música, no.50 (1975), 2–16; no.51 (1975), 2–21
E.A. Duque: Guillermo Uribe Holguín y sus 300 trozos en el sentimiento popular (Bogotá, 1980)
E.A. Duque: Guillermo Uribe Holguín: músico (Bogotá, 1986) [incl. work-list]
ROBERT STEVENSON/ELLIE ANNE DUQUE
Urio, Francesco Antonio
(b Milan, ?1631/2; d Milan, 1719 or later). Italian composer and Franciscan friar. A Francesco Urio, aged 40, is listed as a member of the Venetian instrumentalists' guild in 1672, but it is not known whether he is identifiable with Francesco Antonio. The latter was maestro di cappella at Spoleto Cathedral in 1679, then at Urbino (1681–3), Assisi and Genoa (dates unknown). In April 1682 he was nominated for the post of maestro di cappella of the collegiate church of S Maria Maggiore in Spello, but there is no evidence that he ever held it. According to the title-page of his Motetti op.1, he was maestro di cappella of the basilica of SS Apostoli, Rome, in 1690; the motets were composed for and dedicated to Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni, in whose concerts Urio may have been involved. From 1693 to 1695 he was maestro di cappella at Pistoia; Pougin said he wrote a cantata (1696) and two oratorios (1701 and 1706) ‘pour le service’ of Prince Ferdinando de' Medici, but there appears to be no evidence of any permanent appointment at Florence. The title-page of his Salmi concertati reveals that he was maestro di cappella of the Frari, Venice, in 1697, and he held the same post at S Francesco, Milan, during the period 1715–19.
Urio is now known mainly for his Te Deum, of which Handel owned a copy and from which he borrowed. Robinson (1908) suggested that the work was composed by Handel at the village of Urio on Lake Como, but that theory is now discredited. Three copies are known to survive: the first (GB-Lcm 1033) belonged to John Stafford Smith in 1780; the second (Lbl Add. MS 31478) was transcribed in 1781 from an ‘Italian Copy’ that ‘formerly belonged to Mr Handel’ and was then ‘in the Collection of Dr Samuel Howard’; and the third, now in the Paris Conservatoire collection, was once the property of Edmund Thomas Warren. The work is ascribed to Urio in all three. In the first two sources he is described as a ‘Jesuit of Bologna’ and ‘Bolognese’, a mistake suggested perhaps by the prominence of the trumpet parts. In the first and third sources the Te Deum is dated ‘Apud 1682’ and ‘1660’ respectively; it is not certain whether either date is correct, but to judge from the style of the work the former seems nearer the mark. The Te Deum provided the basis for passages in Handel's Dettingen Te Deum, Saul, Israel in Egypt and L'Allegro il Penseroso ed il Moderato. How it came into his hands is not known, but in view of Urio's apparent relations with Ferdinando de' Medici and Cardinal Ottoboni, it seems possible that Handel first saw it in Florence or Rome. Though sometimes prone to squareness, it is an impressive piece, encompassing a wide range of moods. Apart from the trumpet, there are obbligatos for cello (‘Patrem immensae majestatis’) and violin with graces in Corelli's manner (‘Fiat misericordia tua’), a vigorous duet in 12/8 for soprano and bass (‘Tu Rex gloriae’) and a gentle trio in 3/4 for soprano, alto and bass (‘Tu ad dexteram’) – all bound together by spirited choruses in homophonic and fugal styles. In view of the quality of this work, it seems a pity that only one of Urio's oratorios appears to survive.
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Motetti di concerto, 2–4vv, some with str, op.1 (Rome, 1690)
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Salmi concertati, 3vv, str ad lib, op.2 (Bologna, 1697)
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Te Deum, SSATB, 2 ob, 2 bn, 2 tpt, 2 vn, 2 va, vc, db, org, ed. in Denkmäler der Tonkunst, v (Bergedorf, nr Hamburg, 1871); also ed. in Georg Friedrich Händels Werke, suppl.ii (Bergedorf, nr Hamburg, n.d.)
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Tantum ergo, S, 2 vn, bc, GB-Lbl, Lcm; Beatus vir, 4vv, ob, 2 vn, va, org, D-Dlb according to EitnerQ
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Gilard ed Eliardo (orat, 2), 4vv, insts, I-MOe
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Cantata da camera, 1696, cited in FétisBS
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Sansone accecato da' Filistei (orat, B. Sandrinelli), Venice, ?1701, ?lost, cited by Allacci
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Maddalena convertita (orat), 1706, lost, cited by Puliti
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Oratorio in onore di S Antonio di Padova, Milan, 1715; L'innocenza difesa dal glorioso Santo di Padova (orat), Milan, 1719; ?both lost, cited in LaMusicaD
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AllacciD
FétisBS
E. Prout: ‘Urio's “Te Deum” and Handel's Use thereof’, MMR, i (1871), 139–53
F. Chrysander: ‘Francesco Antonio Urio’, AMZ, new ser., xiii (1878), 513–19, 529–35, 545–50, 561–4, 577–81, 625–9, 641–3, 657–64, 785–9, 801–06, 817–23; xiv (1879), 6–10, 21–6, 36–40, 71–4, 86–9, 101–04, 118–23
S. Taylor: The Indebtedness of Handel to Works by Other Composers (Cambridge, 1906/R), 117ff
P. Robinson: Handel and his Orbit (London, 1908/R)
P. Robinson: ‘A Recently Discovered Important “Uria” MS’, Bulletin de la Société ‘Union musicologique’ , vi (1926), 1–10
P. Robinson: ‘Handel, or Urio, Stradella and Erba’, ML, xvi (1935), 269–77
L. Lindgren: ‘Count Rudolf Franz Erwein von Schönborn (1677–1754), and the Italian Sonatas for Violoncello in his Collection at Wiesentheid’, Relazioni musicali tra Italia e Germania nell'età barocca: Como, 1995, 257–302, esp. 284
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