Mario Lavista
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Mario Lavista (born April 3, 1943 in Mexico City ) is a Mexican composer .
biography
Mario Lavista studied from 1963 to 1967 at the Conservatory of Mexico with Héctor Quintanar and Rodolfo Halffter , then at the Schola Cantorum in Paris with Iannis Xenakis and Henri Pousseur and finally at the Cologne University of Music with Karlheinz Stockhausen . Since 1969 he has taught composition at the Conservatory of Mexico. In 1970 he founded the improvisation group Quanta with other musicians . From 1970 to 1971 he worked in an electronic music studio in Tokyo . In 1987 he received a Guggenheim grant , which he used to compose the opera Aura . In the same year he became a member of the Academy of Arts, in 1998 a member of the Colegio Nacional de México . He teaches at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música .
He composed pieces for string orchestra and for string quartet, improvisations for tape, the piece Chronos for fifteen o'clock movements, a continuo for orchestra and works for chamber music ensembles. He created a graphic and musical project with the painter Arnaldo Coen . In 1995 the Missa Brevis ad Consolationis Dominam Nostram was premiered. In addition, he also composed film and television music.
He also emerged as a publicist and author: at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) he founded the music journal Talea in 1975 , and in 1982 he founded the music journal Pauta . In 1988 he published Textos en torno a la música . Among other things, he is a member of the Academia de Artes .
Bibliographic sources
- AHARONIAN, Coriun (2000). An Approach to Compositional Trends in Latin America , International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology (ISAST).
- CORTEZ, Luis Jaime (1988). Mario Lavista, textos en torno a la música , CENIDIM, Mexico City; 171 pp.
- DELGADO, Eugenio (1993). "El lenguaje musical de aura", Heterofonía , vol. XXVI, no. 108, ene.-jun., Pp. 45-51. CENIDIM, Mexico City.
- ORELLANA, Joaquín (1977). "Hacia un lenguaje propio de Latinoamérica en musica actual," Alero , Third period, no. 24 (Guatemala City, May-June 1977).
Web links
- Literature by and about Mario Lavista in the catalog of the Ibero-American Institute of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin
- Works by and about Mario Lavista in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Academia de Artes: Mario Lavista
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lavista, Mario |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Mexican composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 3, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mexico city |