David Rosenmann-Taub
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David Rosenmann-Taub (3 May 1927 – 11 July 2023) was a Chilean poet, musician and artist. His precocious talent in both literature and music was recognized and encouraged by his father, a polyglot, and his mother, a virtuoso pianist. She began teaching him the instrument when he was two; by nine, he himself was giving piano lessons. He later studied composition, counterpoint and fugue with the celebrated composer Pedro Humberto Allende. He began writing poetry at a very early age; his first published work, a long poem titled El Adolescente (“The Adolescent”), was written at age fourteen and appeared four years later in a literary magazine.
Rosenmann-Taub graduated from the University of Chile in 1948. That same year he won the Sindicato de Escritores prize for his first book of poetry, Cortejo y Epinicio (Cortege and Epinicion), which received a reputation-making review from the preeminent literary critic of Chile, Hernán Díaz Arrieta (known as “Alone”). In the three decades that followed, Rosenmann-Taub published more than ten volumes of poetry, including Los Surcos Inundados (The Flooded Furrows), La Enredadera del Júbilo (The Vine of Jubilance), Los Despojos del Sol (The Spoils of the Sun), and El Cielo en la Fuente (The Sky in the Fountain). For Los Surcos Inundados, he received the Premio Municipal de Poesía, the Chilean equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize. His poetry has been admired by authors as disparate as Witold Gombrowicz, Victoria Ocampo, and Francis de Miomandre.
In 1976, he began to travel, lecturing on poetry, music, and aesthetics in Latin America, Europe, and the United States, where he settled in 1985. Since 2002 his writings have been published in Chile, along with reissues of his older works. Armando Uribe, the 2004 winner of Chile's Premio Nacional, described Rosenmann-Taub as “the most important and profound living poet of the entire Spanish language.”
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Poetry
- Cortejo y Epinicio (Cruz del Sur, 1948)
- Los Surcos Inundados (Cruz del Sur, 1951)
- La Enredadera del Júbilo (Cruz del Sur, 1952)
- Los Despojos del Sol (Esteoeste, 1976)
- Al Rey Su Trono (Esteoeste, 1983)
- Cortejo y Epinicio (LOM, 2002), Template:ISBN
- El Mensajero (LOM, 2003), Template:ISBN
- El Cielo en la Fuente/La Mañana Eterna (LOM, 2004), Template:ISBN
- País Más Allá (LOM, 2004), Template:ISBN
- Poesiectomía (LOM, 2005), Template:ISBN
- En un lugar de la Sangre (Mandora, 2006), Template:ISBN
- Los Despojos del Sol (LOM, 2006), Template:ISBN
- Auge (LOM, 2007), Template:ISBN
- Quince (LOM, 2008), Template:ISBN
- La Opción (LOM, 2011), Template:ISBN
- La noche antes (LOM, 2013), Template:ISBN
- El Zócalo (LOM, 2013), Template:ISBN
- Cortejo y Epinicio: la tetralogía (LOM, 2013), Template:ISBN
- Los Surcos Inundados (LOM, 2014), Template:ISBN
- Oó,o (Pre-Textos, 2015), Template:ISBN
- Trébol de Nueve (LOM, 2016), Template:ISBN
- Alm-ería (Pre-Textos, 2017), Template:ISBN
- Jornadas (LOM, 2018), Template:ISBN
- Glosa (Mandora, 2020), Template:ISBN
- Tílimtilín (LOM, 2021), Template:ISBN
Anthologies
- Me incitó el espejo (DVD, 2010), Template:ISBN
- El horizonte cruza la casa (La Abeja de Perséfone, 2011), Template:ISBN
- Multiverso (Mansalva, 2012), Template:ISBN
- El duelo de la luz (Pre-Textos, 2014), Template:ISBN
Translations
- Quince (Bengali) (2010), Template:ISBN
- E poi, il vento (Italian) (Andrea Lippolis, 2010), Template:ISBN
- Cortège et Épinicie (French) (Bruno Doucey, 2011), Template:ISBN
- Antes que a luz trema (Portuguese) (2013) Template:ISBN
- Il Plinto (Italian) (Le Lettere, 2017), Template:ISBN
Selected musical works
- Dagger of Life (1994) - piano and synthesizer
- En un lugar de la Sangre (1997) - piano
- Fuegos naturales, I-III (1997) - piano solo, duet, trio and quartet
- Sonatinas de amistad, I-IV (1997) - piano duet
- Selecciones (2008) - piano and synthesizer
- Conversaciones (2010) - piano
- En un lugar de la Sangre (2013) - piano
- Primavera sin fin (2018) - piano, bongo, and synthesizer
References
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- 1927 births
- 2023 deaths
- People from Santiago, Chile
- Chilean Jews
- Chilean people of Polish-Jewish descent
- Chilean male poets
- 20th-century Chilean classical composers
- Chilean composers
- Chilean male composers
- Chilean classical pianists
- Male classical pianists
- Male classical composers
- 20th-century Chilean poets
- 20th-century Chilean male writers
- 21st-century Chilean poets
- 21st-century Chilean male writers
- 21st-century classical pianists
- 20th-century male musicians
- 21st-century male musicians
- Chilean artists
- 21st-century male artists
- University of Chile alumni