Remembering Abel Fleury

An occurrence of unique, once-in a-lifetime circumstances surrounded Abel Fleury (April, 5, 1903 - August 9, 1958)

He was a guitarist and a composer, born at the beginning of the 20th Century and brought up at the South of Buenos Aires Province in Dolores -an epitome of a Pampa town. A Pampa town, like many others. His biographer, Gaspar Astarita, humorously adds “even in the fact of

Seeing itself different”. In Dolores Fleury was early exposed to listening to guitar players and payadores (*). Some of them symbolized the ancient art of medieval poets and singers rough back to life in the faraway regions of the Southern Hemisphere with Froilán Rojas, Urbano Bravo, Amadeo Molina, Pascual Galeano, and Orlando Urraspurú.

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María Luisa Anido today

A great artist is still extant

Artists’ achievements will necessarily be evaluated within the historical context they lived. Likewise, their work will survive on the basis of how contemporary it can be in the present times.

 

María Luisa Anido’s was a well-to-do family. This gave her the possibility of having access to education in the highest level, particularly in the field of music. A proof of Mr. Juan Carlos Anido’s efforts to achieve this goal was having Miquel Llobet come to Argentina to guide Mimita’s significant music steps previously guided by her own father and by Domingo Prat.
 

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