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Osvaldo Golijov
Osvaldo Golijov is a Grammy award winning composer of classical music.
Biography
Osvaldo Golijov (pronounced ) grew up in La Plata, Argentina within a family that had come to Argentina in the 1920s from Romania and the Ukraine. As a boy, Golijov studied Yiddish.
Golijov's Romanian mother was a piano teacher and his Ukrainian father a physician. He was raised "surrounded by chamber classical music, Jewish liturgical and klezmer music, and the new tango of Astor Piazzolla," according to his official website. He studied piano at the local conservatory in La Plata ...
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