Manuel Maria Ponce (1882-1948)
Ponce
lived in different cities such as:
Mexico City, Bologna,
and Berlin. He was the first composer to examine and connect the concert scenes
with Mexican folk music, music that had a big impact on his works and future
developments on his career.
Most
of Manuel Ponce was an active Mexican composer of the 20th century,
who studied in his compositions are strongly influenced by the harmonies and
form of the traditional songs. His rhythms and works were also absorbed in
Havana, Cuba and in Paris during the early 1900’s. Ponce’s career helped him achieve numerous
guitar and piano pieces as well lessons with Dukas and concerts with guitar and
violin at “Concierto del sur” during the years 1941-1943.
Ponce
died at the age of 66 in Mexico City.
Bibliography
Corazón
Otero: Manuel M. Ponce y la guitarra, Mexico 1980. First published in
English by Musical New Services Limited, UK in 1983, 1994
Wikipedia
online 2012
http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com.ezproxy.lib.umb.edu/subscriber/article/opr/t114/e5277?q=Manuel+Maria+Ponce+&search=quick&pos=1&_start=1#firsthit
Discography
PONCE,
M.: Concierto del sur / RODRIGO, J.: Fantasia para un gentilhombre (Segovia,
Symphony of the Air, Jorda) (1958)
Guitar
Works
- Canciones populares mexicanas, La pajarera, Por ti mi Corazon, La valentina
- Sonata mexicana (1925)
- Thème varié et Finale (1926)
- Sonata III (1927)
- Sonata clásica (1928)
- Sonata romántica (1929)
- Suite en la Mineur (1929)
- Variations and Fugue on 'La Folia' (1929)
- Valse (1937)
- Sonatina meridional (1939)
- Variations on a Theme of Cabezón (1948)
- Dos Vinetas' (post-humous)
Piano
works
According to some mythogical oral testimonies
and contemporary press, the composer was himself an extremely developed piano
performer.
- Quatro Danzas Mexicanas
- Intermezzo
- Balada Mexicana Version for Piano solo and Piano and Orchestra
- Mazurcas
- Concierto romántico
- Scherzino a Debussy
- Scherzino mexicano
- Estudios de concierto
- Elegía de la ausencia
- Tema mexicano variado
- Suite cubana
- Concerto para piano
- Rapsodia Cubana
- Rapsodias Mexicanas
Chamber
music
- Miniatures for violin, viola and cello (1927)
- Quartet for violin, viola and cello (1932)
- Sonata a dúo for violin and viola (1936–1938)
- Trio for violin, viola and cello (1943)
- Trio romántico for violin, cello and piano
- Canción de otoño for violin and piano
- Sonata for cello and piano
- Sonata for guitar and harpsichord
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