José Pablo Moncayo
José Pablo Moncayo García (born June 29, 1912 in Guadalajara , Jalisco , † June 16, 1958 in Mexico City ) was a Mexican composer and conductor.
Life
Moncayo studied piano with Eduardo Hernández Moncada at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música , composition with Carlos Chávez and harmony with Candelario Huízar . In 1931 he became the drummer with the Orquesta Sinfónica de México , which he later conducted and was artistic director from 1945 to 1947.
In 1935 he founded the Grupo de los Cuatro with Blas Galindo , Salvador Contreras and Daniel Ayala Pérez . In 1942 he studied at the Berkshire Music Center, USA with Aaron Copland . From 1949 to 1954 Moncayo conducted the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional .
Works
- Pequeño nocturno (1936)
- Amatzinac (1935)
- Sonata para violín (1937)
- Huapango (1941)
- Symphony No. 1 (1944)
- Sinfonieta (1945)
- Tres piezas para orquesta: feria, canción y danza (1947)
- Homenaje a Cervantes (1947)
- La Mulata de Córdoba , Opera, (1948)
- Sonatina for violin and piano
- Sonata for viola and piano
- Muros Verdes (1951)
- Canción del Mar (1949)
- Tierra de temporal (1949)
- Cumbres (1953)
- Tierra , Ballet, 1956
literature
- Armando Ramón Torres-Chibrás: José Pablo Moncayo, Mexican Composer and Conductor: A Survey of His Life with a Historical Perspective of His Time. University Microfilms International, Ann Arbor, MI 2002, ISBN 0-493-66937-X ( DMA Dissertation University of Missouri – Kansas City 2002).
- Armando Torres-Chibrás: José Pablo Moncayo: Mexico's Musical Crest . LAP Lambert Academic Publishing , Cologne 2009
- José Kamuel Zepeda Moreno: Vida y obra de José Pablo Moncayo. Guadalajara, Jalisco, Gobierno de Jalisco, Secretaría de Cultura, Mexico 2005.
Web links
- Works by and about José Pablo Moncayo García in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about José Pablo Moncayo in the catalog of the Ibero-American Institute of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin
Individual evidence
- ^ DMA dissertation = Doctor of Musical Arts
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Moncayo, José Pablo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Moncayo García, José Pablo (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Mexican composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 29, 1912 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Guadalajara , Jalisco |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 16, 1958 |
| Place of death | Mexico city |