Luis Antonio Escobar (composer)

Luis Antonio Escobar (July 14, 1925 in Villapinzón, Cundinamarca – September 11, 1993 in Miami, Florida) was a Colombian composer and musicologist.

He was the author, among other works, of Cántica de cantas colombianas (1960), for choir and orchestra, the opera for children La princesa y la arveja (1958), the opera Los hampones (1961), the ballet Avirama (1956) and Epitafio a Jorge Gaitán (1962).

In 1973 he co-founded El Muro Blanco, a cultural learning center in Bogota, with Andres Holguín.

He won the national music prize awarded by Banco de Colombia in 1974.

His work at times incorporated folk and traditional music of Colombia.