The Conservatorio Nacional de Música (''National Conservatory of Music'', in

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) is a

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conservatory located in the Polanco neighborhood of

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History

The Conservatory was founded on July 1, 1866, by the

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and

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conductor Agustín Caballero, with the support of the Mexican Philharmonic Society (Sociedad Filarmónica Mexicana) and Emperor Maximilian I. It is the oldest official school of music in Mexico City (the oldest conservatory in Mexico and in the

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is the Conservatorio de las Rosas in

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, Mexico, created in 1743), and it is the host institution of the oldest

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in the country (Orquesta Sinfónica del Conservatorio Nacional, founded in 1881). Since March 18, 1949, its campus is located in the Polanco section of Mexico City in an architectural complex designed and built by

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Conservatorio Nacional de Música de México

Noted alumni

Juan Arvizu Juan Nepomuceno Arvizu Santelices (known as Juan Arvizu; Santiago de Querétaro, May 22, 1900 - Mexico City, November 19, 1985), was an acclaimed lyric tenor in Mexico and a noted interpreter of the Latin American bolero and tango on the internati ...

, lyric tenor. *

Carlos Chávez Carlos Antonio de Padua Chávez y Ramírez (13 June 1899 – 2 August 1978) was a Mexican composer, conductor, music theorist, educator, journalist, and founder and director of the Mexican Symphonic Orchestra. He was influenced by nativ ...

, composer and conductor *

Julián Carrillo Julián Carrillo Trujillo (January 28, 1875 – September 9, 1965) was a Mexican composer,Camp, Roderic Ai (1995). "Carrillo (Flores), Nabor" on ''Mexican Political Biographies, 1935–1993: Third Edition'', p. 121. . conductor, violi ...

, composer, conductor and theorist *

Nestor Mesta Chayres Néstor Mesta Cháyres (aka Nestor Chaires, Ciudad Lerdo, February 26, 1908 - Mexico City, June 29, 1971) was an acclaimed tenor in Mexico and a noted interpreter of Spanish songs, boleros and Mexican romantic music on the international concert ...

, lyric tenor *

Plácido Domingo José Plácido Domingo Embil (born 21 January 1941) is a Spanish opera singer, conductor, and arts administrator. He has recorded over a hundred complete operas and is well known for his versatility, regularly performing in Italian, French, ...

, opera singer and conductor *

Blas Galindo Blas Galindo Dimas (February 3, 1910 – April 19, 1993) was a Mexican composer. Biography Born in San Gabriel, Jalisco, Galindo studied intermittently from 1931 to 1944 at the National Conservatory in Mexico City, studying with Carlos Chávez ...

, composer and conductor *

Luis Garcia-Renart Luis is a given name. It is the Spanish form of the originally Germanic name or . Other Iberian Romance languages have comparable forms: (with an accent mark on the i) in Portuguese and Galician, in Aragonese and Catalan, while is archaic ...

, cellist *

Mario Lavista Mario Lavista (April 3, 1943 – November 4, 2021) was a Mexican composer, writer and intellectual. Life and career Lavista was born in Mexico City. He enrolled the Composition Workshop (Taller de Composición) at the National Conservatory in 19 ...

, composer and teacher *

Eduardo Mata Eduardo Mata (5 September 19425 January 1995) was a Mexican conductor and composer. Career Mata was born in Mexico City. He studied guitar privately for three years before enrolling in the National Conservatory of Music. From 1960 to 1963 he ...

, composer and conductor *

José Pablo Moncayo José Pablo Moncayo García (June 29, 1912 – June 16, 1958) was a Mexican pianist, percussionist, music teacher, composer and conductor. "As composer, José Pablo Moncayo represents one of the most important legacies of the Mexican national ...

, composer and conductor * Jorge Federico Osorio, pianista * Carlos Prieto, cellist *

Carlos Miguel Prieto Carlos Miguel Prieto (born 14 November 1965) is a Mexican conductor. He is music director of the Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional de Mexico and the Orquesta Sinfonica de Mineria, of the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra in New Orleans, and The Orc ...

, conductor *

Felix Carrasco Félix Carrasco-Córdova (born July 29, 1955) is a Mexican-Austrian conductor. He has performed successfully near a hundred different orchestras around the world and has gained international recognition for his extraordinary performances. His se ...

, conductor *

Silvestre Revueltas Silvestre Revueltas Sánchez (December 31, 1899 – October 5, 1940) was a Mexican composer of classical music, a violinist and a conductor. Life Revueltas was born in Santiago Papasquiaro in Durango, and studied at the National Conservatory ...

, composer and conductor * Antonio Castillo de la Gala, pianist and composer *

Eduardo Diazmuñoz Eduardo Diazmuñoz is a highly prolific Mexican-Spanish-American conductor, composer and arranger, performer and educator. He studied piano, cello, percussion, and conducting at the National Conservatory of Music (Mexico). In 1978, 1979 he became a ...

, composer, conductor and arranger *

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, pianist *

Javier Torres Maldonado Javier Torres Maldonado (born 1968) is a Mexican composer internationally recognized for, mostly, his orchestral, chamber, vocal and electro-acoustic works. Biography Born in Chetumal (Mexico), José Javier Torres Maldonado studied violin and co ...

, composer * Luis Humberto Ramos, clarinetist *

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, composer * Salvador Contreras, clarinetist * Ricardo Bernal, tenor * Saul Bitran, violinist *

Rolando Villazón Rolando Villazón Mauleón (born 22 February 1972) is a Mexican operatic tenor, stage director, author, radio and television personality and artistic director. He now lives in France, and in 2007 became a French citizen. Villazón has published ...

, tenor * Jose carlos de la vega basulto, pianist * Francisco de Paula León Olea, composer *

Arturo Márquez Arturo Márquez Navarro (born 20 December 1950) is a Mexican composer of orchestral music who uses musical forms and styles of his native Mexico and incorporates them into his compositions. Life Márquez was born in Álamos, Sonora, in 1950 wher ...

, composer * Jorge Alejandro Fernández, trumpet, singing * Alfredo Daza, baritone * Verónica Tapia, composer * Gloria Tapia, composer, musicologist *Juan R. Ramírez Hernández, violinist, composer, conductor

Noted professors

(main discipline(s) indicated) * Gerónimo Baqueiro Foster, music history * Eliosa de Baqueiro, music history *

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, composition and director of the Conservatorio *

, composition *

Ernesto Enríquez Ernesto, form of the name Ernest in several Romance languages, may refer to: * ''Ernesto'' (novel) (1953), an unfinished autobiographical novel by Umberto Saba, published posthumously in 1975 ** ''Ernesto'' (film), a 1979 Italian drama loosely ba ...

, music history *

, composition *

Rodolfo Halffter Rodolfo Halffter Escriche (October 20, 1900 – October 14, 1987) was a Spanish composer. Early years Born in Madrid, Spain, into a family of musicians, Rodolfo Halffter was the brother of Ernesto Halffter and uncle of Cristóbal Halffter, also c ...

, composition, music theory * Eduardo Hernández Moncada, choir conducting, piano, harmony, opera ensembles *

Candelario Huízar Candelario Huízar García de la Cadena (2 February 1883 - 3 May 1970, Mexico City) was a Mexican composer, musician and music teacher. He completed four symphonies, leaving a fifth unfinished, and a string quartet, but is remembered most for his ...

, harmony, counterpoint and analysis *

, composition *

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, Mexican culture history * Armando Luna Ponce, composition * Manuel María Ponce, composition * Carlos Vázquez, piano *

Laura Mendez Laura Méndez de Cuenca (18 August 1853 – 1 November 1928), was a Mexican writer and poet. Life Laura María Luisa Elena Méndez Lefort was born on Thursday, 18 August 1853 in the Hacienda de Tamariz, Amecameca, State of Mexico. She died on 1 ...

Vicente T. Mendoza Vicente Teódulo Mendoza Gutiérrez (1894 in Cholula, Puebla – 1964 in Mexico City) was a Mexican musicologist, composer and artist. He is best known for his studies on the Mexican corrido. In 1907 when Vicente T. Mendoza was 13 years old, h ...

, music history *

, composition, conducting *

Salvador Novo Salvador Novo López (30 July 1904 – 13 January 1974) was a Mexican writer, poet, playwright, translator, television presenter, entrepreneur, and the official chronicler of Mexico City. As a noted intellectual, he influenced popular percept ...

, Mexican literature *

Julián Orbón Julián Orbón de Soto (August 7, 1925, Avilés, Spain – May 21, 1991, Miami, Florida was a Cuban composer who lived and composed in Spain, Cuba, Mexico, and the United States of America. Aaron Copland referred to Orbón as "Cuba's most gifte ...

, composition *

Angelica Morales von Sauer Angelica Morales von Sauer (1911 - 1996) was a Mexican composer, pianist and professor of piano. Life von Sauer was born on January 11, 1911, in Gurabo, Puerto Rico, the daughter of Puerto Rican violinist Angel Celestino Morales and her Mexican ...

, piano *

Carlos Pellicer Carlos Pellicer Cámara (10 January 1897 – 16 February 1977) was part of the first wave of modernist Mexican poets and was active in the promotion of Mexican art, pictures, and literature. An enthusiastic traveler, his work is filled with ...

, Mexican literature *

, violin, chamber music, composition, conducting *

, piano * José Rolón, harmony, counterpoint and fugue * Jesús C. Romero, music history *

Luis Sandi Luis Sandi Meneses (22 February 1905, Mexico City – 1996), was a musician, teacher and composer. Biography The complete name is Luis Sandi Meneses. Born February 22, 1905 in Mexico City, the only child of Genaro Sandi and María Meneses. ...

, choir conducting *

Henryk Szeryng Henryk Szeryng (usually pronounced ''HEN-r-ik SHEH-r-in-g'') (22 September 19183 March 1988) was a Polish violinist. Early years He was born in Warsaw, Poland on 22 September 1918 into a wealthy Jewish family. The surname "Szeryng" is a Polish ...

, violin * Victor Loyo, piano, guitar * Antonio Castillo de la Gala, piano, composition * Jorge Alejandro Fernández, trumpet, singing * Gloria Tapia, composer, musicologist

References

*Torres-Chibras, Armando Ramon. 2002. "José Pablo Moncayo, Mexican Composer and Conductor: A Survey of His Life with a Historical Perspective of His Time." DMA diss.,

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External links

Official web-site of the NCM-Mexico alumni
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