Eduardo Hernández Moncada

Eduardo Hernández Moncada (* September 24, 1899 in Xalapa, Veracruz, † December 31, 1995 in Mexico City ) was a Mexican composer, pianist and conductor.

Hernández Moncada, who came from a family of musicians, had music lessons as a child and worked as a music companion at screenings of silent films in his hometown. From 1918 he studied at the Conservatorio Libre from Mexico City in Rafael J. Tello, Joaquín Beristáin and Aurelio Barrios y Morales. He also worked as a cinema and café pianist.

In 1929 he was invited by Carlos Chávez Symphony Orchestra de México, where he then worked until 1936 as a pianist until 1943 as Deputy Director. In 1939, the management of a theater project he was given the title Upa y Apa that involved artists such as Xavier Villaurrutia, Julio Bracho, Carlos Mérida and Agustín Lazo. The music composed José Rolón, Silvestre Revueltas, Blas Galindo Candelario Huizar and Tata Nacho and Alfonso Esparza Oteo. The play was performed in Mexico City and then in New York City. In the following year he conducted a series of concerts at the Museum of Modern Arts. In 1948 he became conductor of the Orchestra of the Conservatorio Nacional de Música, where he had taught since 1929.

Since 1944, Hernández Moncada was choirmaster at the Ópera Nacional. In 1947 he was among the founders of the Academia de Ópera, an institution of the Conservatorio Nacional de Música, which should allow Conservatory students to develop their own opera. It operas by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Claude Debussy, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Giacomo Puccini, Christoph Willibald Gluck and Ricardo Castro Herrera were performed. From the Academy, which Hernández Mancada directed until 1956, emerged singers such as Oralia Domínguez, Hugo Avendaño and Plácido Domingo.

Works

  • Primera Sinfonia for orchestra, 1942
  • Antesala, pantomime ballet for orchestra, 1952
  • Costeña for piano, 1962
  • Tres estampas marítimas for piano, 1969
  • Rapsodia de Sotavento for Violin and Piano, 1974
  • Sonatina for piano, 1974
  • Tres de sor Juana sonetos for Voice and Piano, 1979
  • Tres de sor Juana sonetos for soprano and string orchestra, 1981
  • Composer of classical music ( 20th century)
  • Mexican composer
  • Conductor
  • Classic pianist
  • Mexican
  • Born in 1899
  • Died in 1995
  • Man
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