Hilario González

This article is about the musician Hilario González. On the clergy see Hilario González García .

Hilario González Iñiguez (born January 24, 1920 in Havana , † October 3, 1999 in Havana) was a Cuban composer, pianist, music teacher and scholar.

González was a piano student of Jascha Fischermann and studied with José Ardévol . He completed his studies at the Havana Conservatory in 1936. He then wrote music reviews for El País , Gaceta del Caribe and El Mundo y Hoy magazines . In 1942 he was one of the founding members of the Grupo Renovación Musical . In 1944 he received the Premio Nacional de Música for his first suite based on Cuban songs.

González lived in Venezuela from 1947 to 1960. Here he continued his training with Vicente Emilio Sojo and was professor of piano at the Escuela Preparatoria de Música . From 1950 to 1958 he was director of the Teatro Nacional Popular and musical director at the Teatro Ateneo in Caracas. In 1960 he took part as a choirmaster in the festivities for the 150th anniversary of Venezuela's independence in Caracas.

On his return to Cuba, he worked in the radio, film and television department of the Dirección de Cultura . From 1961 to 1965 he was piano professor at the Conservatorio Amadeo Roldán and at the Seminario de Música Popular . For the Instituto Cubano de Amistad con los Pueblos he organized various congresses, including a. a cultural congress in Havana in 1968. From 1970 he worked for the Museo Nacional de la Música .

As a juror, he participated in youth competitions of the Instituto Cubano de Radio y Televisión and the Unión Nacional de Escritores y Artistas . In 1979 he received the first prize for choral music in a music competition of the Ministry of Culture with the cantata Los zapaticos de rosa . For the music to Alejo Carpentier's La aprendiz de bruja he received the Premio Covarrubias of the Writers and Artists Association of Cuba in 1986 . Eventually he was awarded the National Prize for Culture.