Blow Galindo
Blas Galindo Dimas (born February 3, 1910 in San Gabriel / Jalisco , † April 19, 1993 in Mexico City ) was a Mexican composer.
Life
Galindo attended the Conservatorio Nacional de Música from 1931 , where he was a student of Carlos Chávez , Candelario Huízar , José Rolón and Manuel Rodríguez Vizcarra . In 1935 he founded the Grupo de los Cuatro with José Pablo Moncayo , Salvador Contreras and Daniel Ayala .
In 1941 he was an assistant at the Berkshire Music Festival in Tanglewood and then studied on a Rockefeller Foundation scholarship at the Berkshire Music Center with Aaron Copland . After his return to Mexico he became professor of composition in 1942 and director of the Conservatorio Nacional de Música in 1947; he remained in this position until his retirement in 1962. In 1961 he founded the Orquesta Sinfónica del Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social and in 1968 co-founded the Academia de Artes .
In 1933 Galindo's Suite para violín y violoncello was premiered at the Teatro Colón . The ballet Entre sombras anda el fuego was performed in 1940 in the choreography of Anna Sokolow ; in the same year he wrote Los cuatro reales for a concert at the Museum of Modern Art in New York . In the years that followed, many of his works were performed in the United States and Europe, and Galindo performed internationally as a conductor.
He received numerous awards for his compositions, including a. the Premio José Angel Llamas at the second Latinoamericano Festival in Caracas (1957), prizes from the Secretaría de Educación Pública and in 1980 a medal from the Sociedad de Compositores de Jalisco and the Departamento de Turismo for his compositional work.
Among Galindo's more than one hundred and fifty works there are orchestral compositions, cantatas , ballet and film music, chamber music and vocal works.
Works
- Suite para violín y violoncello , 1933
- Entre sombras anda el fuego , 1940
- Los cuatro reales , 1940
- Cantata a la Patria , 1946
- La manda , ballet, 1951
- Raices , soundtrack, 1955
- Cantata Homenaje a Benito Juárez , 1957
- Concierto para flauta y symphonica de viento
- Concierto para violoncello y orquesta
- Letania erotica
Web links
- Literature by and about Blas Galindo in the catalog of the Ibero-American Institute of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin
- Works by and about Blas Galindo in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Galindo, blow |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Galindo Dimas, Blas (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Mexican composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 3, 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | San Gabriel |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 19, 1993 |
| Place of death | Mexico city |