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CHAVEZ, Carlos
b Mexico City, 13 June 1899
d Mexico City, 2 August 1978, aged seventy-nine

His grandfather was Indian, and his father a government official. He first studied music under his elder brother, then from 1910 to 1914 with Ponce. His training was as a pianist; he took no lessons in composition. In 1921 he made his debut as a composer with a concert of his works. In 1923 he went to the USA where he formed strong musical associations and friendships. In 1928 he became director of the new Mexico Symphony Orchestra, a position he held for twenty years. Also in 1928 he became director of the National Conservatory. He was director-general of the National Institute of Fine Arts from 1947 to 1952. He gained many international honours.

1920 (21)

Symphony

Piano Sonata No 1

1921 (22)

El Fuego Nuevo, ballet

String Quartet No 1

1923 (24)

Piano Sonata No 2

1924 (25)

Sonatina for violin and piano

Sonatina for cello and piano

1925 (26)

Energia, for nine instruments

1926 (27)

Los cuatro soles, ballet

1927 (28)

HP (ie, Horsepower), ballet

1930 (31)

Sonata for horns

1932 (33)

String Quartet No 2

1933 (34)

Symphony No 1, Sinfonia di Antigona

Cantos de Mexico

Soli No 1, for oboe, clarinet, trumpet and bassoon

1935 (36)

Symphony No 2, Sinfonia India

Obertura Republicana

1938 (39)

Concerto for four horns

1939 (40)

Four Nocturnes for voice and orchestra

1940 (41)

Piano Concerto

Antigona, ballet

Xochipili-Macuilxochitl (the Aztec God of Music), for Mexican

orchestra

1942 (43)

Toccata for percussion instruments

1944 (45)

Hija de Colquide (Daughter of Colchis), ballet

1945 (46)

String Quartet No 3

Piramide, ballet

1948-50 (49-51)

Violin Concerto, in eight sections played without a break

(revised 1962)

1951 (52)

Symphony No 3

1953 (54)

Symphony No 4, Sinfonia Romantica

Symphony No 5, Symphony for Strings

1958 (59)

Inventions No 1, for piano

1960 (61)

Love Propitiated, opera

1961 (62)

Symphony No 6

Soli No 2, for wind quintet

1964 (65)

Resonancias, for orchestra

Tambuco, for six percussion

1965 (66)

Soli No 3, for bassoon, trumpet, viola, timpani and orchestra

Violin Concerto No 2

Inventions No 2, for violin, viola and cello

1966 (67)

Soli No 4, for brass trio

1967 (68)

Inventions No 3, for harp

1969 (70)

Clio, symphonic ode

Discovery for orchestra

Fuego Olimpico, suite for orchestra

Variations for violin and piano

1974 (75)

Estudio a Rubinstein, for piano

1975-6 (76-7)

Five Caprichos for piano

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