- Yolanda Moreno Rivas
Yolanda Moreno Rivas (
Mexico City ,1937 - Mexico City,1994 )Was a mexican pianist, teacher and musicologist.Life
She began his music education with her mother who teached her piano. Then she studied with
Angélica Morales in Mexico and later inGermany . In1957 the polish government gave her the Chopin prize for mexican pianists. She lived inParis for two years as a student at the Schola Cantorum and was also pupil ofBernard Flavigny inFrance and inMexico . She gave many recitals and played as soloist with theOrquesta Filarmónica de la UNAM ,Orquesta Sinfónica de Jalapa and withOrquesta Sinfónica de Durango . She obtained a degree in Hispanic Literature at the Universidad Hispanoamericana and in1969 she began to write in the music section in the magazine ¨Siempre¨, she quit her soloist career and began her life as a researcher. From1972 she was teacher at theNational School of Music inUNAM .She was author of the three main essays of mexican music: "Historia de la Música Popular Mexicana" (History of Mexican popular music)," Rostros del Nacionalismo en la música mexicana" (Mexican nationalism in music and its many aspects) and " La Composición en México en el siglo XX" ( Mexican Music Composition in the XXth century).
ources
*Casares, Emilio. "Diccionario de la música Española e Hispanoamericana". Sociedad general de autores y editores.
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