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Biography of Carlos Chávez
Name: Carlos Chávez
Birth Date: June 13, 1899
Death Date: 1978
Place of Birth: Mexico City, Mexico
Nationality: Mexican
Gender: Male
Occupations: conductor, composer
Carlos Chávez
Carlos Chávez (1899-1978) was a Mexican conductor and composer. By taking the lead in introducing national and folk elements to express the spirit of his country, he became the founder of modern Mexican music.On June 13, 1899, Carlos Chávez was born in Mexico City, where he studied piano under Manuel M. Ponce and Pedro Luis Ogazón. But Chávez's ability as a composer was acquired primarily from direct observation and study of works by the great masters.From a very early age Chávez felt the need to create a style and personality of his own. His first works, written in 1921, marked him as an innovator and alarmed the musicians who had been educated in the romantic European tradition. José Vasconcelos, minister of education, then commissioned Chávez to compose a ballet entitled El fuego nuevo (The New Fire), in which he …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…commissioned it. During the academic year 1958-1959 he was Charles Eliot Norton lecturer at Harvard University; his lectures were published as Musical Thought (1960). In 1960 he helped implement the Composer's Workshop which is held at the National Conservatory. Before his death in 1978 he was awarded honorary memberships in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Institute of Arts and Letters.Works by Chávez include six symphonies, a piano concerto, two violin concertos, a concerto for four horns, the Ballet of the Four Suns, the Ballad of the Sun, Flames, and the opera Love Propitiated. The Toccata for Percussion is perhaps his best-known work. Further Reading Chávez's Catalogue of His Works (1944) has a biographical introduction by Herbert Weinstock. Brief discussions of Chávez's life and work are in Paul Collaer, A History of Modern Music (trans. 1961), and David Ewen, The World of Twentieth Century Music (1968).
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