Julian Carrillo

Julián Carrillo Trujillo (born January 18, 1875 in Ahualulco , † September 9, 1965 in Mexico City ) was a Mexican composer and violinist.

Life

Carrillo began to study with Flavio F. Carlos in San Luis Potosí in 1885 , but soon had to break off the training due to the difficult financial situation of his family. The success of a mass composed in 1894 enabled him to study at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música in Mexico, where Pedro Manzano and Melisio Morales were among his teachers.

In 1899 the Mexican President, General Porfirio Díaz , heard him play the violin and made it possible for him to study in Europe. He first went to Leipzig , where he studied at the Conservatory with Hans Becker , Johann Merkel and Salomon Jadassohn and was first violinist in the Conservatory Orchestra under Hans Sitt and the Gewandhaus Orchestra under Arthur Nikisch , and then to Ghent , where he continued his studies at the Conservatory and his He completed his violin training with Ysaye's student Hans Zimmer.

In 1904 he returned to Mexico City, where he lived as a violinist, conductor and composer and taught music history, instrumentation, counterpoint and composition at the conservatory. His students included Antonio Gómezanda , Rafael Ordoñez , Rafael Adame , Vicente T. Mendoza , Gerónimo Baqueiro Foster , Daniel Ayala Pérez , José López Alavez , Rosendo Sánchez , Leticia Euroza , Angel Badillo , Felipe Cortés Texeira , Agustin Oropeza and Gabriel Gómez .

After the end of General Huerta's government , Carrillo fled to the United States , where he directed the American Symphony Orchestra in New York City . He experimented with new tonal systems, which he called Sonido trece and which were based on the division of the octave into micro-intervals, and published the text Teoría del Sonido 13 in New York . After returning to Mexico, he directed the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional and became director of the National Conservatory.

His music theories were fiercely controversial, besides enthusiastic supporters there were also musicians who strictly rejected them; the debate was carried out in the press, on the radio and at congresses. In 1925 Carrillo presented his microton compositions in numerous Mexican cities as well as in Havana , where a Grupo Sonido 13 was created under Angel Reyes . In 1926 he returned to New York, where he edited the bilingual magazine The Thirteenth Sound: The Herald of America's Musical Culture . Leopold Stokowski ordered a composition from him, which he performed with the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra in Philadelphia and New York.

In 1930 he founded the Sinfónica del Sonido 13 , an orchestra in which all instruments could play micro-intervals. In 1940 he constructed fifteen pianos with which he could produce all tone intervals from whole tones to sixteenth notes. In 1949 he developed a third-tone piano, which he donated to the Schola Cantorum in Paris in 1954 .

In 1956 Carrillo was awarded the Order of the Legion of Honor and, in Germany, the Grand Cross of Merit of the Federal Cross of Merit. With the Orchester des Concerts Lamoureaux he recorded around thirty works between 1960 and 1965 with musicians such as Jean-Pierre Rampal , Bernard Flavigny , Robert Gendre and Reine Flachot .

Works

• Misa , 1894
• Sexteto en Sol mayor para dos violines, dos violas y dos violonchelos , 1900
• Primera Sinfonía en Re mayor para grande orquesta , 1901
• Cuarteto en Mi bemol , 1903
• Canto a la Bandera , 1910
• Soundtrack for Intolerance by David Wark Griffith , 1916
• Preludio a Colón , 1924
• Sonata casi fantasía en cuartos, octavos y dieciseisavos de tono , 1925
• Concertino en cuartos, octavos y dieciseisavos de tono , 1926
• Horizons. Poema sinfónico para violín, violonchelo y arpa en cuartos, octavos y dieciseisavos de tono , 1947
• Balbuceos, para piano en dieciseisavos de tono , 1958
• Canon atonal a 64 voces , 1960
• Misa de la Restauración para voces masculinas a cappella en cuartos de tono , 1960
• Concierto para violín y orquesta en cuartos de tono , 1964

Fonts

• Discursos sobre la música , 1913
• Pláticas musicales , 1914, 1922
• Teoría del Sonido 13 , 1916
• Leyes de metamorfosis musicales , 1926
• Pre-Sonido 13: Rectificación básica al sistema musical clásico: Análisis físico musical y Teoría lógica de la música
• La revolución musical del Sonido 13 , 1934
• Génesis de la revolución musical del Sonido 13 , 1940
• Método racional de solfeo , 1941
• Horizons. Poema sinfónico para violín, violonchelo y arpa en cuartos, octavos y dieciseisavos de tono , 1951
• Dos leyes de física musical , 1956

Web links

• Works by and about Julián Carrillo in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website of the Julián Carrillo Estate
• Julián Carrillo y el Sonido 13 (Spanish / English)
• Works by and about Julián Carrillo in the catalog of the Ibero-American Institute of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin