Quintanar, Héctor (1936–)
Quintanar, Héctor (1936–)
Héctor Quintanar (b. 15 April 1936), Mexican composer, conductor, and founder of the first electronic music studio in Mexico (1970). He studied composition with Rodolfo Halffter and Carlos Chávez and assumed leadership of Chávez's composition workshop at the National Conservatory in 1965. His experimental interests took him to New York for electronic music study and Paris to explore musique concrète (the use of nonmusical recorded sounds in music scores). He has also pursued other styles such as nonrepetition, twelve-tone pointillism, and new sounds derived from traditional instruments. Quintanar has conducted the orchestras of the Free University of Mexico and the city of Morelia. He is a founding member in both Colegio de Compositores Latinoamericanos de Música y de Arte and Academia Guanajuatense de Arte y Cultura, and in 2000 he was named a member of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores.
See alsoMusic: Art Music .
BIBLIOGRAPHY
José Antonio Alcaraz et al., Período contemporáneo, in La música de México, edited by Julio Estrada, vol. 1, pt. 5 (1984).
Additional Bibliography
Véjar Pérez-Rubio, Carlos. Contrapuntos: Colegio de Compositores Latinoamericanos de Música de Arte, su nacimiento. México: Archipiélago, 2000.
Robert L. Parker