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  Jacobo Ficher    
  Composer, Conductor, Violinist and Teacher    
 

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Ficher, Jacobo L., Argentine composer, conductor, violinist, and teacher of Russian origin; b.15 Jan 1896, Odessa, Ukraine, formerly part of Russia; d.9 Sep 1978, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied violin, in Odessa, with Piotr Stoliarsky and M. Hait. In 1912, he entered the Imperial Cons. of Saint Petersburg, Russia, where he studied violin with S. Korguieff and Leopold Auer, and harmony, counterpoint, fugue, composition, and orchestration with Vasili Kalafati, Maximilian Steinberg, Nikolai Tcherepnin, and Nicolai Socoloff. He graduated in 1917. ConcertMaster at the State Opera of Leningrad, USSR. He settled in Buenos Aires in 1923. Conductor of the Orq. Sinfónica of ADEMA. Professor of composition at the Escuela Superior de Música of the Univ. of la Plata, Prov. of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Professor at the Cons. Nacional de Música Carlos López Buchardo, the Cons. Superior de Música Manuel de Falla, and the Inst. Superior de Arte of the Teatro Colón, all of Buenos Aires. Founding member of the Grupo Renovación, in 1929, and of the Liga de Compositores de la Argentina, in 1947. Full member of the Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes. He died 9/9/1978 in Buenos Aires.

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