Corina del Parral

Corina del Parral Durán (25 January 1905, Bahía Blanca – 8 February 1979, Buenos Aires) was an Argentine writer, poet, pianist, and composer. Married to President José María Velasco Ibarra, she served four terms as the First Lady of Ecuador.

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is del Parral and the second or maternal family name is Durán.
Corina del Parral
First Lady of Ecuador
PresidentJosé María Velasco Ibarra
In office
28 May 1944 – 24 August 1947
Preceded byMaría Teresa Rivas Vergara
Succeeded byAna Luisa Velasco Serrano
In role
1 September 1952 – 31 August 1956
Preceded byRosario Pallares Zaldumbide
Succeeded byDolores Gangotena
In role
1 September 1960 – 7 November 1961
Preceded byDolores Gangotena
Succeeded byGladys Peet
In role
1 September 1968 – 15 February 1972
Preceded byLucila Santos Trujillo
Succeeded byAída Judith León
Personal details
Born
Corina del Parral Durán

25 January 1905
Bahía Blanca, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Died8 February 1979(1979-02-08) (aged 74)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
NationalityArgentinian
Spouse(s)
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(m. 1938; died 1979)​
Occupation
  • Pianist
  • poet
  • writer

Biography

Corina del Parral Durán was born in Bahía Blanca, Argentina to Ernst Patrick Parral López-Chacón and Corina Eulogia Durán Peña on 25 January 1905. She began basic studies at the French Institute of Jeanne d'Arc and music at the Williams Conservatory, both in Bahía Blanca. She graduated from the latter with high marks, then went to Buenos Aires to continue her music and piano studies.[1] Using her musical education, del Parral composed classical pieces for the piano and orchestra, and Argentine and Ecuadorian folk music. Her Ecuadorian musical folk songs were interpreted by the group Los Brillantes to raise funds for the Ecuadorian institution she founded herself, while she was the First Lady of Ecuador, to support the poorest childhood in Ecuador. Her music was recorded on acetate discs.[2] Parral's works as a writer have been published by the House of Ecuadorian culture and the Central Bank of Ecuador.[1]

In 1934, Parral and her mother attended a reception for an Ecuadorian plenipotentiary in Buenos Aires, where she met the newly elected President of Ecuador, José María Velasco Ibarra. When he was deposed, del Parral began corresponding with Velasco to encourage him during his exile to Colombia. The couple's epistolary relationship resulted in their marriage in Buenos Aires on 24 August 1938.[1]

First Lady of Ecuador

When José María Velasco Ibarra was elected for the second time in 1944, Parral became First Lady of Ecuador. In this capacity, she founded the institution that later became the National Institute for Children and the Family, a position that henceforth would be held by all Ecuadorian First Ladies.[2]

Citations
  1. "Los 100 años de Corina de Velasco". Diario Hoy. 25 January 2005. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 1 April 2015.
  2. "Corina Parral de Velasco Ibarra, cien años de intensa presencia". Diario La Hora. 27 January 2005. Retrieved 1 April 2015.
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