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A 20th Century Masterpiece for Flute and Piano from Chile

Chilean composer René Amengual was born in 1911 in Santiago de Chile. At the age of twelve, in 1923 he entered the National Conservatory, where he studied piano with Rosita Renard (1894-1949) and composition with Pedro Humberto Allende (1885-1959). Upon finishing his studies in 1935, Amengual began a career as an educator in the Conservatory, …