Luis Sandi (1905-1996)

Mexican composer. He studied composition and the violin at the Conservatory in Mexico City, and at the age of nineteen he played in an opera company that toured Cuba. In 1932 he became a director at the National Institute for fine Arts, and in 1959 became director of the opera. In 1938 he established the Coro de Madrigalistas which for twenty years was the leading Mexican chorus. His works were never published.