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...Chavez's main works include a variety of symphonies and shorter pieces. The combination of his entirely original works with Mexican folk music has been critically and popularly acclaimed a successful form of contemporary...
Born in Mexico in 1899, Chavez studied music during his youth and was well acquainted with the works of the classical masters and the native Indian and Mestizo music of his own country by the time...
...Chavez's first public concert was presented in Mexico City in 1921. Two years later, he organized and conducted a Mexico City program of chamber music concerts...
After spending two years in New York studying and composing, Chavez returned to Mexico to organize the Symphony Orchestra of Mexico, which he conducted until 1948. During this time he presented the first performances in Mexico of practically all contemporary European composers...
...attempt to revitalize Mexican art, Chavez founded the Mexican National Institute of Fine Arts, within which he organized the National Orchestra of Mexico in 1948. Chavez comes to Harvard after spending a semester as visiting professor at the University of Buffalo...