José Pablo Moncayo

José Pablo Moncayo García ( born June 29, 1912 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, † June 16, 1958 in Mexico City) was a Mexican composer and conductor.

Life

Moncayo studied at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música Eduardo Hernández Moncada piano with, composition with Carlos Chávez and harmony with Candelario Huizar. In 1931 he became the drummer Orquesta Sinfónica de México, which he later also conducted and managed from 1945 to 1947 as artistic director.

In 1935 he founded with Blas Galindo, Salvador Contreras and Daniel Ayala Pérez, Grupo de los Cuatro. In 1942 he studied at the Berkshire Music Center, USA with Aaron Copland. From 1949 to 1954 conducted the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional Moncayo.

Works

• Pequeño nocturno (1936 )
• Amatzinac (1935 )
• Sonata para violín (1937 )
• Huapango (1941 )
• Sinfonia No.. 1 (1944 )
• Sinfonieta (1945 )
• Tres piezas para orquesta: feria, canción y danza (1947 )
• Homenaje a Cervantes (1947 )
• La Mulata de Córdoba, opera, (1948 )
• Sonatina para piano y violín
• Sonata para viola y piano
• Muros Verdes (1951 )
• Canción del Mar ( 1949)
• Tierra de temporal (1949 )
• Cumbres (1953 )
• Tierra, Ballet, 1956