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Eduardo Mata (5 September 19425 January 1995) was a Mexican conductor and
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Career

Mata was born in Mexico City. He studied
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privately for three years before enrolling in the National Conservatory of Music. From 1960 to 1963 he studied composition under
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, and
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. In 1964 he received a Koussevitzky Memorial Fellowship to study at
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. There, he studied conducting with Max Rudolf and
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and composition with
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. He composed several works in the 1950s and 1960s, including three symphonies and
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, which include
sonatas Sonata (; Italian: , pl. ''sonate''; from Latin and Italian: ''sonare'' rchaic Italian; replaced in the modern language by ''suonare'' "to sound"), in music, literally means a piece ''played'' as opposed to a cantata (Latin and Italian ''cant ...
for piano and for cello and piano. His Third Symphony and some of his chamber works have been recorded. In 1965 he was appointed head of the Music Department of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and conductor of the Guadalajara Orchestra; He also conducted the orchestra at the university, which later became the National Autonomous University of Mexico Philharmonic Orchestra. In 1972, he left Mexico to take the position of principal conductor of the Phoenix Symphony. The next year he was appointed the Phoenix ensemble's music director, holding that position through the 1977–78 season. In 1965, he was one of the founding members and later, honorary president of the Mahler Mexico Society (Sociedad Mahler México) and together with Mexico's National Symphony Orchestra (Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional), in October 1975 he conducted the first full cycle of Gustav Mahler's symphonies in Mexico. From 1977 to 1993 he was music director of the
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and guest conductor of several orchestras in the U.S., Europe and Latin America. He recorded over fifty albums, most of them with the UNAM Symphony Orchestra, the
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, and the
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. He was also appointed principal conductor of the
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and was about to take up this post in January 1995 when he was killed. On the morning of 4 January 1995, Mata and a passenger were en route from
Cuernavaca Cuernavaca (; nci-IPA, Cuauhnāhuac, kʷawˈnaːwak "near the woods", ) is the capital and largest city of the state of Morelos in Mexico. The city is located around a 90-minute drive south of Mexico City using the Federal Highway 95D. The na ...
, Morelos, to Dallas, Texas. Mata was piloting his own
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. One engine failed shortly after takeoff, and the plane crashed during an emergency landing attempt. Both died in the crash, near Mexico City.


Selected compositions

* Trio, for clarinet, drum, and cello, dedicated to Ralph Vaughan Williams (1957) * Sonata, for piano (1960) * ''Improvisaciones'', for clarinet and piano (1961) * Symphony No. 1 (1962) * "Débora", ballet suite (1963) * ''Los huesos secos'' (The Dry Bones), ballet (1963) * Symphony No. 2 (1963) * ''Aires'' (1964) * ''Improvisación número 1'', for string quartet and piano four-hands (1964) * ''Improvisación número 2'', for strings and two pianos (1965) * ''Improvisación número 3'', for violin and piano (1965) * Sonata, for cello (1966), dedicated to
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* Symphony No. 3, for winds and horn (1966)


Selected discography

Mata compositions * Symphony No. 3, for wind orchestra and solo horn. Orquesta Filarmónica de la UNAM,
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Further reading

* Anon. 1976. ''Who's Who in the West,'' 15th edition (1976–1977). Chicago:
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. . * Anon. 1980. "Mata, ". ''
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'', first edition, edited by
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. London: Macmillan. * Anon. 1986. "Mata orrect title needed''The New Grove Dictionary of American Music'', edited by
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, 4 vols. London: Macmillan. (set); . , . * Anon. 1992. ''Who's Who in Entertainment,'' second edition (1992–1993). Wilmette, Illinois: Marquis Who's Who. . * Anon. 1993a. "Eduardo Mata". ''
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. . . * Anon. 1993b. "Eduardo Mata". ''Who's Who in the South and Southwest,'' 23rd edition (1993–94). New Providence, New Jersey: Marquis Who's Who. . * Anon. 1996. "Eduardo Mata". ''Who Was Who in America: A Companion Biographical Reference Work to Who's who in America'' 11 (1993–1996). Chicago:
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. . * Anon. 1998. ''Latin American Lives: Selected Biographies from the Five-Volume Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture''. Macmillan Compendium. New York: Macmillan Library Reference USA. . . * Anon. 2001. "Mata". ''
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'', 9th edition, edited by Laura Diane Kuhn, 6 vols. London: Macmillan; New York: G. Schirmer. . * Cornell, Charles R., and Rene J. Montalvo (eds.). 2002. '' Biography Index,'' 27 (September 2001 – August 2002). New York:
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. . * Ficher, Miguel, Martha Furman Schleifer, and John M. Furman (eds.). 2002. ''Latin American Classical Composers,'' second edition. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press. . * Gaster, Adrian (ed.) 1990. '' International Who's Who in Music and Musicians' Directory'', 12th edition. Cambridge, UK:
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. . * Marquis, Albert Nelson, and Marquis Who's Who, Inc. 1993. "Eduardo Mata". ''
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'', 48th edition (1994), 3 vols. New Providence, New Jersey: Marquis Who's Who. . *
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(ed.). 1997. ''Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Classical Musicians''. New York: G. Schirmer. . * Stevenson, Joseph. 2005a. "Dallas Symphony Orchestra". ''All Music Guide to Classical Music'', edited by Chris Woodstra, Gerald Brennan, and Allen Schrott, 339–340. San Francisco: Backbeat Books. . . * Unterburger, Amy L., and Jane L. Delgado (eds.). 1994. ''Who's Who among Hispanic Americans'', third edition (1994–95), foreword by Ricardo R. Fernández. Detroit:
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. . * Vinton, John (ed.). 1974. ''Dictionary of Contemporary Music''. New York: E. P. Dutton. . : {{DEFAULTSORT:Mata, Eduardo 1942 births 1995 deaths Aviators killed in aviation accidents or incidents Classical musicians from Texas Male conductors (music) Members of El Colegio Nacional (Mexico) Mexican composers Mexican male composers Mexican conductors (music) Musicians from Dallas People from Mexico City 20th-century conductors (music) 20th-century American composers 20th-century American male musicians Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in Mexico Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in 1995