List of Mexican composers of classical music
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XVII, XVIII
- Manuel de Sumaya (1678-1755)
- José Aldana (1758-1810)
- Manuel Arenzana (ca 1762-1821)
- José María BustamanteJosé María BustamanteJosé María Bustamante was a Mexican composer.Bustamante worked at various churches in Mexico City as a chapel master, his last posting being at the Metropolitan Cathedral. Active in the Mexican independence movement, he taught at the first conservatory in Latin America, which was founded in...
(1777-1861) - José Mariano ElízagaJosé Mariano ElízagaElízaga Prado, José Damián was a Mexican composer, music theorist, pianist, organist and teacher. He was the Kapellmeister of emperor Agustín I of Mexico and was the first great Mexican composer of the beginning of the 19th century.-Life:Elízaga was a child prodigy...
(1786 -1842)
1a. XIX
- Joaquín Beristáin (1817-1839)
- Cenobio PaniaguaCenobio PaniaguaCenobio Paniagua y Vásques was a Mexican composer.Paniagua completed his studies in violin and became the Second Conductor of the Cathedral Orchestra of Mexico City. He founded a music academy in the city...
(1821-1882) - Aniceto Ortega de Villar (1825-1875)
- Luis Baca (1826-1855)
- Tomás León (1826-1893)
- Macedonio AlcaláMacedonio AlcaláMacedonio Alcalá Prieto was a Mexican violinist, pianist and songwriter remembered today especially for his waltz, "Dios nunca muere" ....
(1831-1869) - Melesio Morales (1839-1908)
- Guadalupe Olmedo (1853 - 1889)
- Ernesto Elorduy (1854-1913)
2a. XIX
- Ricardo CastroRicardo CastroRicardo Castro Herrera was a Mexican concert pianist and composer, considered the last romantic of the time of Porfirio Díaz.- Life :Castro's father, Vicente Castro, was a deputy congressman; his mother was María de Jesús Herrera...
(1864-1907) - Juventino RosasJuventino RosasJosé Juventino Policarpo Rosas Cadenas was a Mexican composer and violinist.-Life and career:Rosas was born in Santa Cruz de Galeana, Guanajuato, now renamed Santa Cruz de Juventino Rosas. Rosas began his musical career as a street musician and playing with dance music bands in Mexico City...
(1868-1894) - Felipe Villanueva (1862-1893)
- Julián CarrilloJulián CarrilloJulián Carrillo Trujillo was a Mexican composer, conductor, violinist and music theorist, famous for developing a theory of microtonal music which he dubbed "The Thirteenth Sound" .-Biography:...
(1875-1965) - José Rolón (1876-1945)
- Manuel María PonceManuel Maria PonceManuel María Ponce Cuéllar was a Mexican composer active in the 20th century. His work as a composer, music educator and scholar of Mexican music connected the concert scene with a usually forgotten tradition of popular song and Mexican folklore...
(1882-1948) - Estanislao Mejía Castro (1882-1967)
- Candelario Huízar (1883-1970)
- José F. Vásquez (1896-1961)
- Sofía Cancino de Cuevas (1897-1982)
- Carlos ChávezCarlos ChávezCarlos Antonio de Padua Chávez y Ramírez was a Mexican composer, conductor, music theorist, educator, journalist, and founder and director of the Mexican Symphonic Orchestra. He was influenced by native Mexican cultures. Of his six Symphonies, his Symphony No...
(1899-1978) - Silvestre RevueltasSilvestre RevueltasSilvestre Revueltas Sánchez was a Mexican composer of classical music, a violinist and a conductor.-Life:...
(1899-1940) - Eduardo Hernández MoncadaEduardo Hernandez MoncadaEduardo Hernández Moncada was a Mexican composer, pianist, and conductor. He is one of the essential musicians representative of the Nationalist Movement of the Post Revolutonary years in Mexico....
(1899–1995)
1a. XX
- Luis SandiLuis SandiLuis Sandi Meneses , was a musician, teacher and composer.-Biography:The complete name is Luis Sandi Meneses. Born February 22, 1905 in Mexico City, the only child of Genaro Sandi and María Meneses. Sandi did not attend public primary school, but was privately tutored by his mother's sister,...
(1905-1996) - Rafael Adame (1906-1963)
- Daniel Ayala PérezDaniel Ayala PérezDaniel Ayala Pérez was a Mexican violinist, conductor, and composer.-Biography:...
(1906-1975) - Miguel Bernal JiménezMiguel Bernal JiménezMiguel Bernal Jiménez was a Mexican composer, organist, pedagogist and musicologist.He is widely regarded as the best representative of 20th century Mexican religious music, in addition to his important contributions to the Mexican nationalist music movement...
(1910-1956) - Blas GalindoBlas Galindo-Biography:Born in San Gabriel, Jalisco, Galindo studied intermittently from 1931 to 1944 at the National Conservatory in Mexico City, under Carlos Chávez, Candelario Huizar, José Rolón, and Manuel Rodríguez Vizcarra...
(1910-1943) - Salvador Contreras (1910-1982)
- José Pablo MoncayoJosé Pablo MoncayoJosé Pablo Moncayo García was a Mexican pianist, percussionist, music teacher, composer and conductor. "As composer, José Pablo Moncayo represents one of the most important legacies of the Mexican nationalism in art music, after Silvestre Revueltas and Carlos Chávez." He produced some of the...
(1912-1958) - Carlos Jiménez MabarakCarlos Jiménez MabarakCarlos Jiménez Mabarak Was a Mexican composer, one of the most prolific Mexican composers of the 20th century....
(1916-1994) - Manuel EnríquezManuel EnríquezManuel Enríquez was a Mexican composer and violinist....
(1926 - 1994) - Hermilio Hernández (1931-2008)
2a. XX
- Humberto Hernández Medrano (1941)
- Mario LavistaMario LavistaMario Lavista is a Mexican composer and writer. He has had numerous pieces published, especially chamber music, but also incidental music for plays, film scores, orchestral pieces, and vocal music....
(1943) - Francisco Núñez Montes (1945)
- Federico Ibarra (1946)
- Julio EstradaJulio EstradaJulio Estrada Velasco was born in Mexico City, April 10, 1943. His family was exiled from Spain in 1941. He is a composer, theoretician, historian, pedagogue, and interpreter.-Life:...
(1943) - Daniel CatánDaniel CatánDaniel Catán was a Mexican composer of Russian Sephardic Jewish descent known particularly for his operas and his creative friendship with the tenor Plácido Domingo.-Career:...
(1949-2011) - Arturo MárquezArturo MárquezArturo Márquez is a renowned Mexican composer of orchestra music who is well known for using musical forms and styles of his native Mexico and incorporating them into his compositions.-Life:...
(1950)