Oswaldo González

Oswaldo Antonio González Lizausaba, is a Venezuelan composer, conductor, percussionist and researcher-theoretician specialized in musical morphology, living in France.

Oswaldo González
Birth name	Oswaldo Antonio González Lizausaba
Also known as	Oswaldo González or Aldo Lizausaba
Born	Caracas, Venezuela
Genres	Composer, conductor, percussionist, researcher
Occupation(s)	composer, Conductor, Percussionist, Musicologist and Researcher in Musical Morphology
Instruments	Piano, Guitar, Percussion,
Years active	36 years to present
Labels	Ciimc
Associated acts	Lawrence Casseley, John Lambert, Max Deutsch and Brian Ferneyhough
Website	https://www.oswaldogonzalez.net

Biography

He begins musical studies in Caracas in 1968 at the Superior School of Music José Ángel Lamas, where he completed studies in harmony, counterpoint, guitar and percussion

He awarded a place to study at the Royal College of Music of London to continue composition studies with John Lambert, electronic music composition with Lawrence Casserley and performing studies in timpani and percussion from 1978 to 1980. At this London period, he composed Mass for mixed choir, Klavierstücke 1 for piano and Sine 1 for electronics sounds that was premiered at the recital hall of the Royal college of music in 1980 conjointly with works of Karlheinz Stockhausen and John Chowning. He went to France where he encountered composers Witold Lutosławski and Henry Dutilleux at the 1980 edition of the Centre Acanthes courses in France where he had the opportunity to improve composition technical aspects from those important composers. His works Amor América (1983) and Trilce for orchestra —Venezuelan National Composition Prize for symphonic music — composed later in 1985 were conceived using some aspects of Lutosławski's aleatory controlled writing technique conjointly with González' own composition technique.

He move to Paris in July 1980 to study composition and musical analysis with Max Deutsch at the École Normale de Musique de Paris. His composition studies with Max Deutsch concluded with the presentation the sextet Seis for wind ensemble and strings performed at the salle Cortot with members of the Ensemble InterContemporain conducted by Daniel Gazon in 1981.

In October 1981, González returned to Venezuela where he won three National Composition Prizes and conducted the world premier of his work Amor América based on a set of poems by Pablo Neruda's Canto General. He founded with Venezuelans Painter Vicky Estevez and with Cellist and Musicologist Alberto Calzavara the CIIMC a center devoted for the promotion of contemporary music, composition and research in Venezuela. He was also appointed percussionist and timpanist at the Venezuela Symphony Orchestra from 1981 to 1985.

In 1987-88, González won a scholarship from the French government to pursuit advanced musical studies in Paris. From 1988 to 1990 he was appointed percussionist at the National Philharmonic Orchestra in Caracas.

Late in 1990 he decided to return to France to continue his musical and artistic development. He was selected to participate as a composer at the International Composition Session 'Voix Nouvelles' Meeting at the Royaumont Abbey Foundation in France in 1992 with composers Brian Ferneyhough and Luis de Pablo. He is the first Venezuelan composer that have being selected to participate at this international composition event . His work Willows —based on the first poem of James Joyce's Chamber Music— for string trio and soprano was commissioned by the Royaumont Abbey Foundation and premiered by the Arditti String Quartet and the soprano Patricia Sacher-Granier. In 1996 he attended the 38 Internationalen Ferienkurse für Neue Musik in Darmstadt Germany where the composer Brian Ferneyhough invited him to make an analysis of his own work Willows.

Since 2000 González is dedicated to composing, conducting as well as a researcher-theoretician in musical morphology.

He defended his PhD thesis in Arts and Sciences of the Arts in 2010 on The undulatory analysis, an approach to musical morphology at the Sorbonne University Paris 1, France,

Selected works

Choral music

Title	Year	Instruments	Duration	Written in	Edition	Extra musical elements	Notes
Ave María	1977	Mixed choir a cappella	2'	Caracas, Venezuela	Ciimc	Liturgical Latin text	Premiered at Suresnes, France 2009.
Mass	1979	Mixed choir a cappella	18.30'	London, England	Ciimc	Liturgical Latin text	Venezuelan National Composition Prize's Honorific Mention 1983.

Chamber music

Title	Year	Instruments	Duration	Written in	Edition	Extra musical elements	Notes
Klavierstücke 1	1979	Piano solo	2' 05"	London, England	Ciimc	None	Premiered at Caracas,
Seis (sextuor)	1981	Sextuor: woodwinds and strings	8' 22"	Paris, France	Ciimc	None	Revised in Caracas in 1983
Sexteto Nº 3	1983	Sextuor: woodwinds and strings	8' 22"	Caracas, Venezuela	Ciimc	None	Venezuelan National Composition Prize 1983. Revised in 2005
Amor América	1983	Baritone-base voice and brass ensemble	16' 02"	Caracas, Venezuela	Ciimc	Based on five poems of Pablo Neruda's Canto General	Premiered in Caracas in 1983, Oswaldo González, conductor.
Calligrammes	1985	Piano trio: Violin, cello and Piano	10'	Caracas Venezuela	Ciimc	Based on six poems by Guillaume Apollinaire's Calligrammes	Revised in 2008
El son entero	1986	Quintet: flute, percussion, guitar, violin and cello	13'	Caracas, Venezuela	Ciimc	Based on three poems from El son entero by Nicolás Guillén	Premiered at San Diego University concert in Servio Tulio Marin, conductor.
Dos piezas para Max	1988	Alto voice and woodwind trio	8' 30"	Paris, France	Ciimc	Based on two poems by Venezuelan poet Sonia Sgambatti	Premiered in 1992 at Encre Fraîche festival in Pantin, France, Oswaldo González, conductor.
Lineas virtuales (Virtual lines)	1990	Flute solo	Variable: 11-14'	Caracas, Venezuela	Ciimc	None	Premiered at Darmstadt Festival in 1996 by flutist Mario Caroli. Flutist Mario Caroli premiered González' Lineas virtuales for flute solo in a informal concert 'Quiproquo' at the same Darmstadt Internationalen Ferienkurse.
Invención (Invention)	1991	Vibraphone solo	12'	Saint Leu La Forêt, France	Ciimc	None	Recorded by percussionist Markus Smidth in Germany in 1996.
Suite for guitar	1994	Guitar solo	11'	Saint Leu La Forêt, France	Ciimc	None
Six petites pieces pour piano	1995	Piano solo	15'	Saint Leu La Forêt, France	Ciimc	None	An homage to Schönberg's Sechs kleine Klavierstücke, Op. 19
Willows	1996	Soprano and string trio	Variable: 5-7'	Saint Leu La Forêt, France	Ciimc	Based on the first poem of James Joyce's Chamber Music	Commissioned by the Royaumont Festival and premiered at Royaumont Festival in France by the members of the Arditti String Quartet and Soprano Patricia Sacher-Granier in 1992.

Orchestral music

Title	Year	Instruments	Duration	Written in	Edition	Extra musical elements	Notes
Trilce	1985	Symphonic orchestra	16' ca	Caracas, Venezuela	Ciimc	This work is inspired in three poems from Trilce by the Peruvian poet César Vallejo.	Venezuelan National Composition Prize 1985. Premiered at Caracas by the orchestra Soloists of Venezuela, conductor: Oswaldo González.
Calligrammes	1985	Strings orchestra and piano	10'	Caracas, Venezuela	Ciimc	Based on six poems by Guillaume Apollinaire's Calligrammes	Revised in 2008
Metaphone	1988	Chamber Orchestra: 1/1/1 (also Cl.bajo) 0 - 1/0/1/0 - Perc. (2-3 instrumentalists), prepared Piano (or normal Piano), strings: 1/1/2/1/1	13'	Paris, France	Ciimc	None	Revised in 2006
Journal (opera)	1991	Symphony Orchestra: 8 voices solo, electronic system: computer, synthesizer, digital system for recording and playback, Orchestra: 1/1/2/2-1/1/1 - Perc. (3 performers) - 2 Sopranos, 2 Altos, 2 Tenors, 2 basses - strings: 8/8/8/8/6 and stage.	40'	Saint Leu La Forêt, France	Ciimc	Texts by F. Hegel, J. Cage, J. Joyce, P. Boulez, A. Breton, P. Soupault, A. Rimbaud, C. Cros, I. Ducasse.

Electronic music

Title	Year	Instruments	Duration	Written in	Edition	Extra musical elements	Notes
Sine 1	1980	Five oscillators and magnetic tape on four tracks	9' 20"	London, England	Ciimc	None	Premiered at the Royal College of Music's Recital hall in 1980
DX7s improvisation	1989	Synthesizer Yamaha DX7s	11' 23"	Caracas, Venezuela	Ciimc	None
Trio	2007	Sounds generated by computer	6' 58"	Saint Leu La Forêt, France	Ciimc	None
Cenon	2012	Computer generated sounds	2' 43"	Saint Leu La Forêt, France	Ciimc	Cenon is the first application of González' Undulatory Analysis tool to music composition. This work was composed using Schönberg’s second piano piece op. 19 undulatory trajectory (the form). The result is a renewed evolving sounding texture but keeping the original form of Schönberg's second piano piece op. 19.	This electronic piece was premiered at the First International Meeting of Composers Temp'Ora in Cenon (France) in 2012. This short piece of electronic music was constructed with a graphical interface to organize the sounds accordingly with Schönberg's second piano piece op. 19 form.

Pedagogical works

Title	Year	Instruments	Duration	Written in	Edition	Extra musical elements	Notes
Three short pieces for flute	1979	Solo flute	5'	London, England	Ciimc	None
Jilgueroy	1984	Cello solo	3' 30"	Caracas, Venezuela	Ciimc	Based on a little poem appeared in José María Arguedas's Los ríos profundos
7 Duos pour flûte à bec (7 Duos for recorder)	1994	Soprano recorders or any other instruments.	8' 00"	Saint Leu La Forêt, France	Ciimc	None	The Duos where composed from melodies for the first flute played by Vicky Estévez and then adapted to the two recorders by Oswaldo González.
Mon petit violon	1994	Trio: two violins and piano	2' 30"	Saint Leu La Forêt, France	Ciimc	None
Gyermekenek	1994	Two small ensembles: students and teachers	5'	Saint Leu La Forêt, France	Ciimc	This pedagogic work is based on a homonymous piano piece for children by Béla Bartók.
Trois moments pour percussion	1996	Solo percussion	6'	Saint Leu La Forêt, France	Ciimc	None

Research

González is interested in new morphological theories and its applications in the field of music analysis and composition. In 1997 he presented a master thesis about Luciano Berio's Erdenklavier: A Formalized Analysis of Luciano Berio's Erdenklavier for Piano Solo: An Undulatory Approach at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales conjointly with IRCAM, Paris IV University and CNRS (France), where he explores the construction of this piece as a compound of superimposing series layers resulting in a fascinating undulatory morphological sonorous network. With this monograph González inaugurate his research on musical morphology.

His PhD thesis (2010) The undulatory Analysis: a Morphological Approach to Musical Analysis defended at Paris 1 University Panthéon-Sorbonne, introduces a new musical analytical method based and extended on his previous research (1997). The main conceptual element of the undulatory analysis is mainly based firstly, on the sound as the main acoustical and phenomenological element of music. Secondly, on René Thom's form and morphogenesis theories. The undulatory analysis method introduces the concept of Undulatory form, the phenomenological aspect of acoustic wave-forms behavior as the central main paradigm — the Undulatory Paradigm— by which all the system is constructed.

Within the undulatory analysis method music is defined as: an undulatory process produced and perceived in time. The form of a piece of music is now reveled as an undulatory trajectory. This form is tangible and also perceivable as a kinetic sonorous object.

External links

• Oswaldo González' official site - oswaldogonzalez.net
• French Society for Authors Composers and Music Editors - sacem.fr
• CENTRO STUDI LUCIANO BERIO - lucianoberio.org - A Formalized Analysis of Luciano Berio's Erdenklavier for Piano Solo: An Undulatory Approach, by Oswaldo González.
• FRENCH INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN COMPUTER SCIENCE AND AUTOMATION - The Undulatory Analysis: a Morphological Approach to Musical Analysis -
• Music and Shape conference, the Senate House, University of London, 12-14 July 2012 - cmpcp.ac.uk - Program of the conference
• 1st Conference on Computer Simulation of Musical Creativity - Proceedings of the 1st Conference on Computer Simulation of Musical Creativity
• Contemporary Music Composers database from IRCAM (France)
• The Contemporary Music Portal, France - Oswaldo González' Willows (1992) for soprano and string trio

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