Luis Herrera de la Fuente

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Luis Herrera de la Fuente (born April 25, 1916 in Mexico City - † December 5, 2014 ) was a Mexican conductor, violinist and composer.

Life

Herrera de la Fuente studied at the Music Faculty of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) composition with Estanislao Mejía and José F. Vázquez , piano with Santos Carlos , violin with Luis G. Saloma and singing with David Silva . He also took private piano lessons with Carlos del Castillo and composition with Rodolfo Halffter . He began training as a conductor in Mexico and Italy with Sergiu Celibidache and continued with Hermann Scherchen in Zurich.

He then worked at the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes in the field of folklore and music of the colonial times and supervised music programs on radio and television. In 1945 he founded the Orquesta de Cámara de Radio Universidad , in 1952 the Orquestra de Cámara de Bellas Artes ; from 1958 to 1976 he conducted the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional , with which he performed in the USA, Canada and Europe.

In addition to his work as a conductor, he was director of the Festival Internacional de Música in Morelia . He founded the Coro Nacional de México and a foundation in 1992 with the purpose of recording all of Mexico's symphonic works on phonograms. In 1995 he founded the Orquesta Sinfónica Juvenil of the state of Veracruz, and in 2002 the Instituto Superior de Música of Veracruz. In 2005 he was appointed Director Emérito of the Orquestra Filarmónica de la Ciudad de México .

In 1962 Herrera de la Fuente was a juror at the first Van Cliburn International Piano Competition , and in 1964 a juror at the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. In 1971 he became a knight of the Belgian Leopold Order . In Mexico he received the Premio Nacional de Ciencias y Artes in 2005, along with many other prizes . The Universidad de las Américas and the University of Oklahoma awarded him honorary doctorates .

Works

  • Sonata para piano , 1946
  • Preludio a Cuauhtémoc , 1960
  • Sonata para violoncello solo , 2004
  • Divertimento No.1 for chamber orchestra
  • Dos movimientos para orquesta
  • Sonata para cuerdas
  • Cuarteto para cuerdas
  • Divertimento for string orchestra and string quartet
  • Fronteras , ballet, 1956
  • La Estrella y la Sirena , ballet

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Muere a los 98 años el musico Luis Herrera de la Fuente
personal data
SURNAME Herrera de la Fuente, Luis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mexican conductor, violinist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Mexico city
DATE OF DEATH 5th December 2014