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ECUADOR
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Ecuador's
main 20th-century composer has been Luis Salgado
(born 1903), who developed a nationalistic idiom using native
themes and pentatonic scales, and Ecuadorian history as subject-matter.
His major works include seven symphonies, two ballets (El
Amaʼno, 1947,
and El Dios Tumbal,
1952), a symphonic suite Atahualpa
o El Ocaso de un imperio,
and three operas including Cumandá
(1940, revised 1954), set in the Amazon with a native theme.
He taught at Quito University from 1934 to 1968.