José López Alavez
José López Alavez (born July 14, 1889 in Huajuapan de León , † October 25, 1974 in Mexico City ) was a Mexican composer.
López played the clarinet in a music group in his hometown. In 1909 he went to Mexico City to study at the National Conservatory a. a. to study with Julián Carrillo . During the revolutionary unrest he joined General Villa . Later he was active in the avant-garde group Sonido 13 around Carrillo, whose theories he helped to spread.
Among his more than one hundred compositions, the Canción Mixteca , written in 1912, became the best known, with which he won first prize in the composition competition of El Universal magazine in 1918 . ("Canción Mixteca" is the theme song of the film Paris, Texas by Wim Wenders and is sung by Harry Dean Stanton to the accompaniment of Ry Cooder .)
Web links
- José López Alavez , oaxaca-mio.com (Spanish)
- Biografia de Jose Lopez Alavez ( Memento of October 4, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (Spanish)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | López Alavez, José |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | López Alavés, José |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Mexican composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 14, 1889 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Huajuapan de León |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 25, 1974 |
| Place of death | Mexico city |