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María del Carmen Lorenzo Vizcaíno
Investigadora
Spain
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0030-3525
No 22 (2023), Articles
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15304/quintana.22.8521
Submitted: 13-06-2022 Accepted: 22-10-2022 Published: 17-12-2023
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Milagros (Mili) Porta Siso (1918-1971) was a woman ahead of her time in all the facets of her short but intense musical life. From her beginnings in A Coruña she was versatile, covering almost all fields of music. She began as a member of various choirs, later becoming a pianist accompanying lyric singers, and in 1934, when she was only sixteen years old, she became the leader of a professional symphony orchestra. Although she died at the age of 53, she became a professor of music theory at the Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid and a very active figure in the Galician community in the capital, where she directed the choir Anaquiños d'a Terra of the Galician Centro Gallego de Madrid. She also worked as a music critic for La Voz de Galicia, a member of the jury in musical competitions for the recently created TVE, a participant in RNE's South American broadcasts, a creator of musical pedagogy methods and a composer. All this work was recognised in numerous tributes and with the award in 1952 of Gran Cruz de Alfonso X El Sabio.