numerous texts on music theory and other aesthetic and historical topics, including several manuals for students; a collection of his lyrics was published as Versos Líricos in 1924. Williams was inducted into the National Academy of Fine Arts and National Commission for Culture. Williams' catalog comprises 136 opus numbers. Some of the best-known are: Op.15. Primera obertura de concierto (1889). Op.18. Segunda obertura de concierto (1892). Op.30. Miniaturas: first suite (1890). Op.31. Miniaturas: second suite (1890). Op.32. En la Sierra (piano suite, 1890). Op.44. First Symphony, in B minor (1907). Op.55. "The Witch of the Mountains." Second Symphony, in C minor (1910). Op.56. Centennial March (1910). Op.58. "The Sacred Forest." Third Symphony, in F major (1911). Op.60. Poem for the Campaniles (1913). Op.63. Five Argentine Dances (1921). Op.88. Poem for the Southern Seas (1933). Op.98. "El ataja-caminos." Fourth Symphony, in E-flat major (1935). Op.100."The Doll's Heart." Fifth Symphony, in E-flat major (1936). Op.102."The Death of the Comet." Sixth Symphony, in B major (1937). Op.103."Eternal Rest." Seventh Symphony, in D (1937). Op.104."The Sphinx." Eighth Symphony, in F minor (1938). Op.107.Las milongas de la orquesta (1938). Op.108."Los batracios" (La humorística). Ninth Symphony, in B-flat (1939). Op.115. Poema del Iguazú (Poem of the Iguazú [Falls], 1943). Op.117."The Air in the Pampas". Milongas, 2 Suites (1944). Milongas: The Bartolomé Mitre March; First, Second, and Third Argentine Suites. He lived his final years surrounded by the admiration of his many students in the casa del puente (house of the bridge), a residence in Mar del Plata designed by his son, noted modernist architect Amancio Williams, and completed in 1946. Alberto Williams died in Buenos Aires in 1952, at age 89. References Further reading Anon. 1956. "Alberto Williams". In Compositores de América: Datos biográficos y catálogos de sus obras, vol. 2 / Composers of the Americas: Biographical Data and Catalogs of Their Works, Vol. 2, 136–55. Washington, D. C.: Union Panamericana. Chase, Gilbert. 1957. "Alberto Ginastera: Argentine Composer". The Musical Quarterly 43, no. 4 (October): 439–60. Salgado, Susan. 2001. "Williams, Alberto". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan Publishers. Schwartz-Kates, Deborah. 2007. "Williams, Alberto". Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart: allgemeine Enzyklopädie der Musik, begründet von Friedrich Blume, second revised edition. Personenteil 17, cols. 971–73. Basel, Kassel, London, Munich, and Prague: Bärenreiter; Stuttgart and Weimar: Metzler. Slonimsky, Nicolas. 1942. "Alberto Williams, the Father of