Music of Middle Latin America (Mexico, Guatemala)

Monday, October 26, 2009

Jorge Alvaro Sarmientos (1931-2012)

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was a composer and conductor. He obtained his musical education at the National Conservatory in Guatemala with Ricardo Castillo. He was awa...

Enrique Solares (1910-1995)

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was a composer who studied piano and composition in Guatemala. He did go to San Francisco where he was a student of Ernst Bacon. He also stu...

Salvador Ley (1907-1985)

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was a pianist and composer. He studied piano and theory in Guatemala before going to Berlin for seven years to study piano from George Bertr...

Jose Castaneda (1898-1983)

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was a theorist, composer, and Guatemalan composer. He spent time studying in Paris and in 1930 founded an orchestra called the Ars Nova in G...

Ricardo Castillo (1891-1966)

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was the brother of Jesus and a Guatemalan composer. He studied in Paris the violin and composition and it was in Paris his works were first ...

Jesus Castillo (1877-1946)

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was a composer as well as studied the ethnic music of the people of Guatemala. He had particular interest in folk music. He studied piano an...

Rafael Antonio Castellanos (?-1791)

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served as an assistant to his uncle and later was maestro of the cathedral as noted above. He utilized the works of other Italian and Spanis...
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