Silvestre Revueltas

Silvestre Revueltas (1899-1940)

Silvestre Revueltas was a Mexican composer and violinist. Revueltas studied violin in Colima, Mexico, at an early age. By the age of 12, he entered the Juarez Institute in Durango to play violin. Between the years of 1916-1918 he went to St. Edward College in Austin Texas. This experience and training gave him the confidence to play the violin in a theater orchestra in San Antonio, Texas. He also conducted an orchestra in Mobile, Alabama. Chavez was invited to be the conductor assistant of the Mexico SO during 1929-35 where Revueltas composed six sophisticated picture postcard pieces for that orchestra. Consecutively, Revueltas taught the violin and chamber music at the Conservatory and conducted a Conservatory graduates’ orchestra. He wrote film, chamber music, songs and a number of other works. He was famous for many symphonic poems, like “Chant for the killing of a Snake” (1938) based on a poem by Nicolas Guillen. In 1937, Revueltas decided to toured Spain.  He spent a significant amount of time overseas, after his tour, he came back and resumed teaching. His early death was due to alcoholism.

Discography:

Cuauhnahuac (1931)
Recording name: REVUELTAS, S.: Sensemaya / Troka / Cuauhnahuac / 5 Songs / 4 Pequenos trozos (The Unknown Silvestre Revueltas) (Camerata de las Americas, Diemecke)
Artists: Ambriz, Lourdes; Camerata de las Americas; Camerata de las Americas, members; Cuarteto Latinoamericano; Cuarteto Latinoamericano, members; Diemecke, Enrique Arturo; Octeto Vocal Juan D. Tercero; Suaste, Jesus
Recording Label: Dorian Sono Luminus
Catalogue no: DOR-90244 Naxos Music Library. http://uboston.naxosmusiclibrary.com.ezproxy.lib.umb.edu/catalogue/item.asp?cid=DOR-90244 Homenaje a Federico Garcia Lorca (1935)
Recording name: REVUELTAS, S.: Homenaje a Federico Garcia Lorca / Redes / Musica para Charlar / Sensemaya (Wolworth, Xalapa Symphony, Prieto)
Artists: Carlos Miguel Prieto, Neal Wolworth, Xalapa Symphony Orchestra
Recording Label: Urtext
Catalogue no: JBCC088 Naxos Music Library. http://uboston.naxosmusiclibrary.com.ezproxy.lib.umb.edu/catalogue/item.asp?cid=JBCC088 Sensemaya (1938)
Catalogue no: 8.550838
Recording Name: Latin American Classics
Artists: Enrique Batiz; Mexico Festival Orchestra
Recording Label: Naxos
Catalogue no: 8.550838


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