Blas Galindo

Blas Galindo Dimas ( born February 3, 1910 in San Gabriel / Jalisco, † April 19, 1993 in Mexico City) was a Mexican composer.

Life

Galindo visited in 1931 the Conservatorio Nacional de Música, where he was a student of Carlos Chavez, Candelario Huizar, José Manuel Rodríguez Rolón and Vizcarra. In 1935 he founded with José Pablo Moncayo, Salvador Contreras and Daniel Ayala, Grupo de los Cuatro.

In 1941 he was an assistant at the Berkshire Music Festival at Tanglewood and then studied with a scholarship from the Rockefeller Foundation at the Berkshire Music Center at Aaron Copland. Upon his return to Mexico, he became professor of composition in 1942 and 1947, director of the Conservatorio Nacional de Música; He remained in this position until his retirement in 1962. He founded in 1961 the Orquesta Sinfónica del Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, and in 1968 co-founded the Academia de Artes.

1933 Galindo Suite para violín y cello was premiered at the Teatro Colon. The ballet Entre sombras anda el fuego was listed in 1940 with choreography by Anna Sokolow; In the same year he wrote for a concert at the Museum of Modern Art in New York Los cuatro real. In the following years many of his works in the U.S. and Europe were listed, and Galindo appeared internationally as a conductor.

He received for his compositions numerous awards, including the Premio Jose Angel Llamas at the second Festival Latinoamericano in Caracas ( 1957), Secretaría de Educación Pública prices and 1980 a medal of the Sociedad de Compositores de Jalisco and the Departamento de Turismo for his work as a composer.

Under Galindo about one hundred and fifty works, there are orchestral compositions, cantatas, ballets and film scores, chamber music and vocal works.

Works

• Suite para violoncello y violín, 1933
• Entre sombras anda el fuego, 1940
• Los cuatro reales, 1940
• Cantata a la Patria, 1946
• La manda, Ballet, 1951
• Raices, Film Music, 1955
• Cantata Homenaje a Benito Juárez, 1957
• Concierto para flauta y Sinfónica de viento
• Concierto para violoncello y orquesta
• Letanía erótica