Alberto Williams

Six years later, he entered the Escuela de Música y Declamación (School of Music and Recitation) of the Province of Buenos Aires, where he received piano lessons from Luis José Bernasconi.

He received a scholarship from the government of the Province of Buenos Aires in 1882 to study music composition at the Paris Conservatoire, where he was mentored by pianists Georges Mathias and Charles de Bériot, and learned harmony with Emile Durand and counterpoint with Ernest Guiraud.

[2] His first composition to earn widespread success, "El Rancho Abandonado" (The Abandoned Hut), fourth number of a piano serie entitled En la Sierra (In Hill Country, op.

[citation needed] Around the same time, he resorted to Argentine folk themes and rhythms with increasing frequency, basing his piano and orchestral music upon adaptations of milongas, huellas and other rural genres.

[3] He founded the Buenos Aires Conservatory of Music (later known as Conservatorio Williams) in 1893, and established franchises in many cities and towns of the Argentine interior.