Mario Lavista

Mario Lavista (born April 3, 1943, Mexico City) is a Mexican composer and writer. He has had numerous pieces published, especially chamber music, but also incidental music for plays, film scores, orchestral pieces, and vocal music.

In 1982, he founded Pauta, one of the most important music journals in Latin America, and continues to serve as its chief editor. He has also published many essays, most of which are collected in Textos en torno a la musica. In 1987. he received a Guggenheim Fellowship for his first (and only) opera Aura, based on the short story by Carlos Fuentes. Aura premiered in 1988 at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City^[1]

Lavista has taught at the Conservatorio Nacional in Mexico City, University of Chicago, Cornell University, the University of California San Diego, Indiana University and McGill University.

In 1978 he won the Diosa de Plata from the Asociación de Periodistas y Críticos de Cine, and in 1991 the Premio Nacional de Artes y Ciencias, by the Mexican government, and the Mozart Medal, by the Embassy of Austria.

Music

Chamber Works

• Antifonia, mixed quintet
• Cante, guitar ensemble
• Canto del Alba, flute solo
• Cinco Danzas Breves, woodwind quintet
• Cuaderno de Viaje, viola or violoncello solo
• Danza de las Bailarinas de Degas, flute and keyboard
• Diacronia, string quartet
• Dialogos, violin and keyboard
• Elegia (a la muerte de Nacho), flute and keyboard
• Lacrymosa, chamber orchestra
• Marsias, oboe and ensemble
• Natarayah, guitar solo
• Quotations, violoncello and keyboard
• Reflejos de la Noche, string orchestra or string quartet
• Responsorio in Memoriam Rodolfo Halffter, bassoon and ensemble
• String Quartet No. 6
• Tres Danzas Seculares, violoncello and keyboard

Orchestral Works

• Clepsidra
• Ficciones
• Hacia el Comienzo, medium voice and ensemble
• Lyhannh

Songs

• Dos Canciones, medium voice and piano

Solo Keyboard

• Mater Dolorosa, organ solo
• Pieza Para un Pianista y un Piano, piano solo
• Simurg, piano solo

References

1. ^ Aguilar, Ananay, "La circularidad en Aura, la ópera de Mario Lavista", Cuadernos de música, artes visuales y artes escénicas, Vol.1, No.2, December 2006

Sources

• AHARONIAN, Coriún (2000). An Approach to Compositional Trends in Latin America, International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology (ISAST).
• CORTEZ, Luis Jaime (1988). Mario Lavista, textos en torno a la música, CENIDIM, Mexico City; 171 pp.
• ORELLANA, Joaquín (1977). "Hacia un lenguaje propio de Latinoamérica en música actual," Alero, Third period, No. 24 (Guatemala City, May-June 1977).

External links

• Biography of Mario Lavista on The Living Composers Project
• Peermusic Classical: Mario Lavista Composer's Publisher and Bio

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