Juan Carlos Paz

Paz was born in Buenos Aires, either in 1897[1] or in 1901,[2] where he studied piano with Roberto Nery and composition with Constantino Gaito and Eduardo Fornarini.

He also studied organ with Jules Beyer, and then travelled to Paris to work with Vincent d'Indy at the Schola Cantorum.

In 1936, Paz left the group to found his own concert series, the Conciertos de la Nueva Música.

According to one authority, in the 1920s and early 1930s, his music was post-Romantic, with influences from César Franck and Richard Strauss;[2] another writer describes this same period (1920–27) as characterized by neoclassical polyphony.

[4] The former author regards Igor Stravinsky's neoclassicism and jazz as Paz's focus in the 1930s, whereas the latter describes his second period (1927–1934) as "marked by atonal melodic idiom and polytonal harmony".