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Alfonso Leng
Person · male · Chile · Santiago · born 1894 · died 1974 · recording since 2003
Chilean musician
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Also known as Альфонсо Ленг
Timeline
5 events◦ Birth 1✦ Award 1† Death 1★ Debut release 1▣ Album 1
1890s
1950s
1970s
2000s
· Debut release
Debut release: Bicentenario de la música sinfónica chilena, vol. 1
First documented Album in the MusicBrainz discography.
source: musicbrainz
Biography
English biography129 words · 1 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1373905848
Biography
Alfonso Leng Haygus (11 February 1884 – 11 November 1974) was a post-romantic composer of classical music. He was born in Santiago, Chile. He wrote the first important symphonic work in Chilean tradition, La Muerte de Alcino, a symphonic poem inspired by the novel of Pedro Prado. He composed many art songs in different languages and important piano pieces, like the five "Doloras" (1914), which he later orchestrated and are normally played in concerts in Chile and Latin America. He won the National Art Prize in 1957.
Leng was also an accomplished dentist in Santiago. As a dentist, he was the main founder of the dentistry faculty of the University of Chile, and he was eventually elected as the first dean.
Leng was the nephew of composer Carmela Mackenna.
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 8 | 49.7th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 1 | 73.9th |
| Studio albums | 1 | 76th |
| Awards recorded | 1 | 89th |
| Timeline events | 5 | 78.8th |
| Recording span (years) | -29 | 7.6th |
| Genres | 0 | 0th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (1 release groups · 1 studio albums)
Albums · 1
Bicentenario de la música sinfónica chilena, vol. 1
2003 · studio album
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Tracklist · 7 tracks · 51:05
1Tres aires chilenos: I. Allegro ma non troppo3:542Tres aires chilenos: II. Moderato‐allegro6:433Tres aires chilenos: III. Allegro moderato3:204Preludios dramáticos, op. 23: I. Presentimientos. Plácidamente5:445Preludios dramáticos, op. 23: II. Desolación. Muy lento, con doloroso recogimiento5:186Preludios dramáticos, op. 23: III. Preludio trágico. Rápido con vehemencia y ansiedad4:587La muerte de Alsino. Comentario sinfónico al poema de Pedro Prado21:08
Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Alfonso Leng head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 8 | 49.7th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 1 | 73.9th |
| Studio albums | 1 | 76th |
| Awards recorded | 1 | 89th |
| Timeline events | 5 | 78.8th |
| Recording span (years) | -29 | 7.6th |
| Genres | 0 | 0th |
Awards & honours
| Year | Award | Category | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | National Prize of Art of Chile | won |
Where this record comes from
portrait—Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 3.0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
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https://musicbrainz.org/artist/9a8f45c1-37d0-4cf1-b2d1-e94226b480c8discography—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/9a8f45c1-37d0-4cf1-b2d1-e94226b480c8core—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4722054seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfonso_Lengbiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfonso_Leng
Why this artist is in the database
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Image: Zig-Zag. Santiago : Zig-Zag, 1905-1964. 59 v., n° 1078, (24 mayo 1923) · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata: Q4722054 · MusicBrainz: 9a8f45c1-37d0-4cf1-b2d1-e94226b480c8
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