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

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) is a

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conservatory located in the

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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, lyric tenor. *

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, composer and conductor * Julián Carrillo, composer, conductor and theorist * Nestor Mesta Chayres, lyric tenor *

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, 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, 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, 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 nationali ...

, composer and conductor *

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, pianista * Carlos Prieto, cellist *

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, conductor * Felix Carrasco, 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 *

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, 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 *

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, clarinetist * Humberto Hernández Medrano, composer *

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, clarinetist *

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, tenor * Saul Bitran, violinist * Rolando Villazón, 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 *

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, baritone * Verónica Tapia, composer *

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, 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 * Gustavo Campa, composition and director of the Conservatorio * Julián Carrillo, composition *

, composition * Ernesto Enríquez, music history *

, composition * Rodolfo Halffter, composition, music theory *

Eduardo Hernández Moncada Eduardo Hernández Moncada (September 24, 1899 – December 31, 1995) was a Mexican composer, pianist, and conductor. He is one of the essential musicians representative of the Nationalist Movement of the Post-Revolutionary years in Mexico. His mu ...

, choir conducting, piano, harmony, opera ensembles * Candelario Huízar, harmony, counterpoint and analysis *

, composition *

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, Mexican culture history * Armando Luna Ponce, composition *

Manuel María Ponce Manuel María Ponce Cuéllar (8 December 1882 – 24 April 1948) was a Mexican composer active in the 20th century. His work as a composer, music educator and scholar of Mexican music connected the concert scene with a mostly forgotten traditio ...

, composition * Carlos Vázquez, piano * Laura Mendez * Vicente T. Mendoza, 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 percepti ...

, 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, 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 Poli ...

, violin *

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, piano, guitar *

, piano, composition * Jorge Alejandro Fernández, trumpet, singing *

, 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."

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External links

Official web-site of the NCM-Mexico alumni
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