Adolfo Mejía

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Adolfo Mejía Navarro (born February 5, 1905 in Sincé , Sucre , † July 6, 1973 in Cartagena de Indias ) was a Colombian composer.

Life

Mejía went to Cartagena in 1916, where he studied philosophy and literature at the university there . From 1923 he was a student of Juan de Sanctis and Eusebio Celio Fernández at the Instituto Musical de Cartagena . Afterwards he was a musician in various orchestras and jazz bands. He moved to New York in 1930, where he founded the Trio Albéniz with the Argentine mandolinist Terig Tucci and the Catalan lutenist Antonio Francés . With this he worked for the NBC over the next three years and made recordings. In 1933 he returned to Colombia, where he became librarian of the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional in Bogotá and orchestra director at the Teatro Colón and founded a guitar trio. He also studied at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música with Gustavo Escobar Larrazábal , Jesús Bermúdez Silva and Andrés Pardo Tovar .

In 1938 he was awarded the Premio Ezequiel Bernal for the Pequeña Suite and went to Paris to study the Colombian State , where he studied at the École Normale de Musique with Nadia Bonneville and Nadia Boulanger . 1939-40 he was a student of Charles Koechlin in Ville-sur-Mer . Then he had to leave France because of the war events and went via Italy to Brazil, where he became a member of the Orquesta de Jóvenes Americanos under Leopold Stokowski . With this he traveled to the USA and then returned to his home country via Argentina. In 1945 he became a member of the Sociedad Pro-Arte Musical , which organized the Festivales Musicales de Cartagena de Indias . After another stay in Europe and New York, he taught at the Instituto Musical from 1954 and directed its orchestra. In 1970 he was awarded the National Prize for Music of the Instituto Colombiano de Cultura and an honorary doctorate from the University of Cartagena.

Works

  • Prelude to the play “La tercera salida de don Quijote” by Aurelio Martínez Mutis , 1938
  • Pequeña Suite , 1938
  • Concierto para piano y orquesta , 1940
  • Homenaje a Antonio Gómez Restrepo , 1941
  • Improvisación , 1941
  • Íntima , symphonic poem, 1941
  • Los cuatro pasos de Gibraltar , film music, 1941
  • Danza mora , 1942
  • Capricho español for harp and orchestra, 1944
  • América , symphonic poem, 1946
  • Viva Colombia, soy marinero (Himno de la Armada Nacional) , 1946-47.
  • Luminosidad de las aguas for harp, 1947
  • El torito for mixed choir, 1950
  • Lopezca (Lopeziana) for violin and piano, 1951
  • Mofa (Juguete infantil) for two violins, viola, cello and piano, 1955
  • Finitta , ballet, 1956
  • Sí o no, zamba for mixed choir, 1956
  • Homenaje a Luis López de Mesa , 1957
  • Ayer for two violins, cello and piano, 1958
  • Impromptu for cello and piano, 1961
  • Trío en Mi menor for violin, cello and piano, 1961
  • Busca mujer for two violins, cello and piano, 1962
  • Himno a la Virgen del Carmen for mixed choir, 1965
  • Candita for two violins, cello and piano, 1965
  • Acuarelas colombianas , 1967
personal data
SURNAME Mejía, Adolfo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mejía Navarro, Adolfo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Colombian composer
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Sincé , Sucre
DATE OF DEATH July 6, 1973
Place of death Cartagena de Indias