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Silvestre Revueltas
12+ albums
Classicalcontemporary classicalmexicanmexicocomposer
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Silvestre Revueltas (December 21, 1899 - October 5, 1940) was a Mexican composer of classical music, violinist and conductor. His rhythmic and sometimes dissonant style draws from Mexican folk music, considered by some to be a 'Mexican Béla Bartók'. He was born in Santiago Papasquiaro in Durango, and studied at the National Conservatory in Mexico City, St Edward College in Austin, Texas and the Chicago College of Music. He gave violin recitals and in 1929 was invited by Carlos Chávez to become assistant conductor of the Mexico Symphony Orchestra, a post he held until 1935. He and Chávez did much to promote contemporary Mexican music. It was around this time that Revueltas began to compose in earnest. He was part of a family of artists of whom were also famous and recognized in Mexico his brother Jose Revueltas as a writer; Fermin, as a painter, and her sister Rosaura as an actress and dancer. He went to Spain and worked for the Republicans during the Spanish Civil War, but upon Francisco Franco's victory, returned to Mexico to teach. He earned little, and fell into poverty and alcoholism. He died in Mexico City on the day his ballet El renacuajo paseador, written seven years earlier, was premiered. He wrote film music, chamber music, songs and a number of other works. Among his orchestral music are a number of symphonic poems with Sensemayá: Chant for the Killing of a Snake (1938), based on a poem by Nicolás Guillén, the most famous. His musical language is tonal but ofte
top songs
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Sensemaya
7,5622Sensemayá
1,9693Sensemayá - Live At Centro de Acción Social por la Música, Sala Simón Bolivar, Caracas / 2008
1,4624Sensemayá (1938)
1,0205La noche de los Mayas: I. Noche de los Mayas
6066La Noche de los Mayas: 4. Noche de Encantamiento (Tema y variaciones)
5727Ocho por radio
4098Janitzio
3499La noche de los Mayas: II. Noche de jaranas
33210Revueltas: La Noche de los Mayas - 4. Noche de Encantamiento (Tema y variaciones)
306albums
Revueltas: Orchestral Music
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Sin City OST
Revueltas, S.: Noche De Los Mayas (La) / Itinerarios / Ventanas / Caminos
Sin City
Fiesta
The Music of Silvestre Revueltas
Revueltas: La Coronela - Caminos (Itinerarios) - Colorines
Revueltas, S.: Homenaje A Federico Garcia Lorca / Redes / Musica Para Charlar / Sensemaya
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The Beginners Guide to 20th Century Classical Music
"Rite" - Stravinsky: Le Sacre du printemps; Revueltas: La noche de los mayas
Revueltas: Homenaje a Revueltas
Frank Zappa's Classical Selection