Fernando García (born July 4, 1930 in
Santiago, Chile) is a Chilean composer. Active since 1956 he has done orchestral music, chamber music, etc. He studied with
Juan Orrego-Salas and
Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt, among others. His style is strongly influenced by serialism and aleatoric procedures. He also played a role in the beginnings of
electroacoustic music in Chile, after a trip he made to France in the early 1950s where he heard musique concrete.[1]
He worked for the Instituto de Extensión Musical of the
University of Chile, and in 1962 he premiered his most important piece, the cantata América Insurrecta, which won an award at the Chilean Music Festival.[2]
After the
Chilean coup-d'état, he was forced into exile, first in Perú (1973-1979), and then in Cuba (1979-1990). He returned to his country in 1989 and joined the Faculty of Arts of the
University of Chile where he taught musicology until 2009.