Post 7: A web site

One of my favorite websites is Petrucci Music Library, the link is http://www.imslp.org/. I usually use this web site because it has an extensive database of information relating to music scores. It have works, composers, performers and recordings.

The main page of IMSLP have different sections where you can search by composer name, nationality, time period, instrumentation and genre.

I think it is very necessary for my career and for the musician because all the pieces that we have to play in the instruments classes, the homework for the theory classes or the full scores that we need for the orchestra we can find it and download in the webpage.

I use this page at list two to three times a week. Currently I have to playing the second Beethoven sonata and the Boccherini cello concert and I am using the piano full score of both pieces and it were download from the page.

I consider that this library is very complete and was an excellent idea and work.

I hope you like this post!!

Post 6: Latin American Composer

Hello, today I`m going to talk about my favorite Latin American composer, Arturo Márquez. He is a composer and musician. He was born in Álamos, Sonora (Mexico) in 1950. Marquez’s father was a mariachi musician in Mexico and his paternal grandfather was a Mexican folk musician in Chihuaha.

At the age of 16 he started composing and then he studied piano and music theory in the Mexican Music Conservatory. Afterwards he studied composition with Federico Ibarra, Joaquín Gutiérrez Heras and Héctor Quintanar. Subsequently he got a scholarship to study a Master of Fine Arts in Composition in The Institute of Arts in Valencia, California.

Arturo Márquez had won several prestigious awards and honors. Some of them are The National Arts and Sciences award of Mexico, The Gold Medal of Fine Arts of Mexico, Mozart Medal by the Austrian embassy, among others.

I choose this composer because his music is very beautiful.  My favorites pieces are “Danzón no. 2” and “Conga del Fuego Nuevo”. I hope you like it!