Silvestre Revueltas

Silvestre Revueltas (December 31, 1899 - October 5, 1940) was a Mexican composer of classical music, violinist and conductor. Image File history File linksMetadata No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File linksMetadata No higher resolution available. ... December 31 is the 365th day of the year (366th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1899 (MDCCCXCIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday [1] of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... October 5 is the 278th day of the year (279th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... A composer is a person who writes music. ... Classical music is a broad, somewhat imprecise term, referring to music produced in, or rooted in the traditions of, European art, ecclesiastical and concert music, encompassing a broad period from roughly 1000 to the present day. ... The violin is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. ... A conductor conducting a band at a ceremony A conductors score and batons Conducting is the act of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. ...

He was born in Santiago Papasquiaro in Durango, and studied at the National Conservatory in Mexico City, St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas and the Chicago College of Music. He gave violin recitals and in 1929 was invited by Carlos Chávez to become assistant conductor of the Mexico Symphony Orchestra, a post he held until 1935. He and Chávez did much to promote contemporary Mexican music. It was around this time that Revueltas began to compose in earnest. Santiago Papasquiaro is a town of 23,560 people (2005 census) located in a valley in west-central Durango, Mexico. ... Categories: Stub | Mexican states ... Nickname: Location of Mexico City in central Mexico Coordinates: Country Mexico Federal entity Federal District Boroughs The 16 delegaciones Founded (as Tenochtitlan) c. ... This article is about the university in Texas. ... Nickname: Live Music Capital of the World Location in the state of Texas Coordinates: Country United States State Texas Counties Travis County, Williamson County Government  - Mayor Will Wynn Area  - City  296. ... Flag Seal Nickname: The Windy City Motto: Urbs In Horto (Latin: City in a Garden), I Will Location Location in Chicagoland and northern Illinois Coordinates , Government Country State Counties United States Illinois Cook, DuPage Mayor Richard M. Daley (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 606. ... 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Carlos Chávez photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1937 Carlos Antonio de Padua Chávez y Ramírez (June 13, 1899 – August 2, 1978) was a Mexican composer, conductor, teacher, journalist, and the founder and director of the Mexican Symphonic Orchestra. ... 1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar). ...

He was part of a family of artists, a number of whom were also famous and recognized in Mexico; his brother Fermín (1901–1935) and sister Consuelo (b. before 1908, d. before 1999) were painters, sister Rosaura (ca. 1909–1996) was an actress and dancer, younger brother José Revueltas (1914–1976), was a noted writer. His daughter from his second marriage, Eugenia (born 15 November 1934), is an essayist. His nephew Román Revueltas Retes, son of José, is a violinist, journalist, and painter. His daughter from his first marriage to Jules Klarecy (orig: Hlavacek), Romano Carmen (later Montoya and Peers), enjoyed a successful career as a dancer, taught ballet and flamenco in New York, and died on November 13, 1995, at age 73, in Athens, Greece. She is survived by three sons, and two kindred creative female heirs in Oceanside, CA. 1901 (MCMI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... 1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar). ... 1908 (MCMVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar). ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... Rosaura Revueltas (ca. ... 1909 (MCMIX) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Year 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display full 1934 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

He went to Spain and worked for the Republicans during the Spanish Civil War, but upon Francisco Franco's victory, returned to Mexico to teach. He earned little, and fell into poverty and alcoholism. He died in Mexico City on the day his ballet El renacuajo paseador, written four years earlier, was premièred. Combatants Spanish Republic With the support of: Soviet Union[1] Nationalist Spain With the support of: Italy Germany Commanders Manuel Azaña Francisco Largo Caballero Juan Negrín Francisco Franco Gonzalo Queipo de Llano Emilio Mola José Sanjurjo Casualties 500,000[2] The Spanish Civil War was a major conflict... Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo Teódulo Franco Bahamonde (4 December 1892–20 November[1] 1975), commonly abbreviated to Francisco Franco (pron. ...

He wrote film music, chamber music, songs and a number of other works. Among his orchestral music are a number of symphonic poems with Sensemayá: Chant for the Killing of a Snake (1938), based on a poem by Nicolás Guillén, the most famous. His musical language is often tonal but more often post-tonal,reflecting a modernist approach influenced by Bartók, Schoenberg, Stravinsky and others.^{[citation needed]} His music is often vigourous, rhythmically vital, and frequently has a distinctly Mexican flavour. A film score is the background music in a film, generally specially written for the film and often used to heighten emotions provoked by the imagery on the screen or by the dialogue. ... Chamber music is a form of classical music, written for a small group of instruments which traditionally could be accommodated in a palace chamber. ... A song is a relatively short musical composition. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... A symphonic poem or tone poem is a piece of orchestral music, in one movement, in which some extra-musical programme provides a narrative or illustrative element. ... Sensemayá is a poem by the Cuban poet Nicolás Guillén, adapted as an orchestral work by the Mexican composer Silvestre Revueltas. ... Nicolás Guillén (10 July 1902 – 16 July 1989) was an Afro-Cuban poet. ... Tonality is a system of writing music according to certain hierarchical pitch relationships around a key center or tonic. ... Atonality in a general sense describes music that departs from the system of tonal hierarchies that are said to characterized the sound of classical European music from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries. ... Modernism in musicis characterized by a desire for or belief in progressand science, surrealism, anti-romanticism, politicaladvocacy, general intellectualism, and/or a breaking with tradition or common practice. ... Béla Bartók in 1927 Béla Viktor János Bartók (March 25, 1881 – September 26, 1945) was a Hungarian composer, pianist and collector of Eastern European and Middle Eastern folk music. ... Schoenberg redirects here. ... Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (Russian: Игорь Фёдорович Стравинский, Igor Fëdorovič Stravinskij) (June 17, 1882 – April 6, 1971) was a Russian composer, considered by many in both the West and his native land to be the most influential composer of 20th-century music. ... For the popular Tamil film, see Rhythm (film) Rhythm (Greek = flow, or in Modern Greek, style) is the variation of the length and accentuation of a series of sounds or other events. ...

He appeared briefly as a bar piano player in the movie ¡Vámonos con Pancho Villa! (Mexico, 1935), for which he composed the music, placing a sign over the piano saying Se suplica no tirarle al pianista (We beg you not to shoot at the pianist). ¡Vámonos con Pancho Villa! (Lets Go with Pancho Villa!) is a Mexican motion picture filmed in 1936. ... 1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar). ...

Revueltas died of pneumonia (complicated by alcoholism) in Mexico City on October 5, 1940, at the age of 40. His remains are kept at the Rotonda de los Hombres Ilustres in Mexico City. Pneumonia is an illness of the lungs and respiratory system in which the alveoli (microscopic air-filled sacs of the lung responsible for absorbing oxygen from the atmosphere) become inflamed and flooded with fluid. ... Alcoholism is the consumption of, or preoccupation with, alcoholic beverages to the extent that this behavior interferes with the drinkers normal personal, family, social, or work life, and may lead to physical or mental harm. ... Nickname: Location of Mexico City in central Mexico Coordinates: Country Mexico Federal entity Federal District Boroughs The 16 delegaciones Founded (as Tenochtitlan) c. ... October 5 is the 278th day of the year (279th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Nickname: Location of Mexico City in central Mexico Coordinates: Country Mexico Federal entity Federal District Boroughs The 16 delegaciones Founded (as Tenochtitlan) c. ...

A lot of trivial writings about his music have been produced, particularly in Mexico, where musicological rigour has often been lacking. Still, in the last ten years, these writings have improved, and have become less anecdotal and more serious in nature. Exceptions being the novelesque writings of Luis Jaime Cortez and the pop-journalism of Contreras. Even Peter Garland's analytical views are timid, lacking scholarly depth, although his historical writings are valuable.

Music

Chamber Works

• Homenaje a Federico García Lorca, 1936
• Ocho x radio, 1933
• Planos, 1934
• Four little pieces for String Trio, 1929
• String Quartet No. 1, 1930
• String Quartet No. 2, 1931
• String Quartet No. 3, 1931
• String Quartet No. 4, Música de feria, 1932
• 3 piezas, for violin and piano, 1932

Orchestral Works

• Alcancías, 1932
• Caminos, 1934
• Colorines, 1932
• Cuanáhuac, for string orchestra, 1930; revised for full orchestra, 1932
• Danza geométrica (orchestral version of Planos), 1934
• Esquinas, 1930
• Itinerarios, 1938
• Janitzio, 1933 (rev. 1936)
• Música para charlar, 1938 (from the film score of Ferrocarriles de Baja California)
• Sensemayá, 1938
• Toccata (sin fuga), for violin and chamber orchestra 1933
• Ventanas, 1931
• El renacuajo paseador, 1933
• La Coronela (orch. by Moncayo and arr. by Limantour)

Ballets

• La coronela, 1940 (unfinished; a completion by Blas Galindo and Candelario Huízar lost)
• El renacuajo paseador, 1936

Film Scores

• Bajo el signo de la muerte, 1939
• Ferrocarriles de Baja California, 1938
  • selections reworked as Música para charlar
• El indio, 1938
• La noche de los mayas, 1939
• Redes, 1935
• ¡Vámonos con Pancho Villa!, 1936

Songs

• "Canto a una muchacha negra" (words: Langston Hughes), voice and piano 1938
• Cinco canciones para niños y dos canciones profanas, 1938-1939
• Duo para pato y canario, voice and chamber orchestra, 1931
• "Ranas" (Frogs) and "El tecolete" (The Owl), voice and piano, 1931

Piano

• Cancion (a passage used also in Cuahnáhuac)
• Allegro

Sources

• Charles K. Hoag. 1987. "Sensemayá: A Chant for Killing a Snake." Latin American Music Review / Revista de Música Latinoamericana 8, no. 2 (Autumn): 172–84.
• Otto Mayer-Serra. 1941. "Silvestre Revueltas and Musical Nationalism in Mexico." Musical Quarterly 27: 123–45.
• Jorge Velazco. 1986. "The Original Version of Janitzio, by Silvestre Revueltas." Latin American Music Review / Revista de Música Latinoamericana 7, no. 2 (Autumn): 341–46.
• Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon. 1998. "The Song of the Snake: Silvestre Revueltas' Sensemayá." Latin American Music Review / Revista de Música Latinoamericana 19, no. 2 (Autumn): 133–59.

External links

• Silvestre Revueltas' web site (in Spanish) By Mexico's National University, UNAM.
• Del Sol Quartet: Tear includes Revueltas' Musica de Feria (1932) performed by Del Sol Quartet
• [1] Silvestre Revueltas' web site at Peer Music Classical.
• [2] Silvestre Revueltas' web site at W.W. Norton.