Canon
Where to start with Chávez
Essential works to know this composer by — spread across their styles-
OrchestralSymphony no. 2, "Sinfonía india"
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Keyboard... Anda buscando de rosa en rosa. . ., for piano
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Vocal3 Exágonos, for soprano and chamber ensemble
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Chamber3 Pieces, for guitar
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OrchestralPiano Concerto
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OrchestralSuite de caballos de vapor
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OrchestralSymphony no. 1, "Sinfonía de Antígona"
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Vocal3 Nocturnes, for chorus
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Vocal4 Melodías Tradicionales Indias del Ecuador, for mezzo-soprano and chamber ensemble
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Keyboard7 Pieces for Piano
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KeyboardAdelita y La cucaracha, for piano
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OrchestralAntigona — Incidental music
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VocalArbolucu, te sequeste
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OrchestralCantos de México
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OrchestralCello Concerto
Listening guide
Hand-curated paths into Chávez's catalogueMost Popular
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Sinfonía India (Symphony No. 2)
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Toccata for Percussion
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Piano Concerto
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Sinfonia de Antigona (Symphony No. 1)
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Soli I for oboe, clarinet, trumpet and bassoon
Most Acclaimed
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Symphony No. 2 ”Sinfonia India”
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Symphony No. 3
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String Quartet No. 1
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Violin Concerto
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Toccata for Percussionsix players — the first major work for percussion ensemble alone
Most Weird
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HP (Horsepower)ballet — machines, factories, hemisphere hemispheres; the most avant-garde Mexican work of 1926
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Pirámide (ballet)
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Soli II for wind quintetaustere and strange
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Upingos (piano)Aztec-derived scales and rhythms
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Piano Sonatahis most dissonant work
Similar composers
Same era, overlapping styles — by genre & period affinityWorks 50
- Orchestral
- ● Symphony no. 2, "Sinfonía india"
- Piano Concerto
- Suite de caballos de vapor
- Symphony no. 1, "Sinfonía de Antígona"
- Antigona — Incidental music
- Cantos de México
- Cello Concerto
- Symphony no. 4, "Sinfonía romántica"
- Trombone Concerto
- Xochipilli, an Imagined Aztec Music
- Zarabanda, for strings
- Keyboard
- ... Anda buscando de rosa en rosa. . ., for piano
- 7 Pieces for Piano
- Adelita y La cucaracha, for piano
- Invention I, for piano
- Meditación, for piano
- Piano Sonata no. 2
- Sonatina for Piano
- Vocal
- 3 Exágonos, for soprano and chamber ensemble
- 3 Nocturnes, for chorus
- 4 Melodías Tradicionales Indias del Ecuador, for mezzo-soprano and chamber ensemble
- Arbolucu, te sequeste
- Lamentaciónes, for mezzo-soprano and chamber ensemble
- Nonantsin, Aztec folksong for choir
- Otros Tres Exágonos, for soprano and chamber ensemble
- Chamber
- 3 Pieces, for guitar
- Energia for Nine Instruments
- Feuille d'album, for guitar
- Fuga HAG,C, for violin, viola, cello and double bass
- Invention II, for string trio
- Invention III, for harp
- Madrigal, for cello and piano
- Partita, for solo timpani
- Sextet, for piano and strings
- Soli I, for oboe, clarinet, trumpet and bassoon
- Soli II, for wind quintet
- Soli IV, for horn, trumpet and trombone
- Sonata, for 4 horns
- Sonatina, for cello and piano
- Sonatina, for violin and piano
- String Quartet no. 1
- String Quartet no. 2, for violin, viola, cello and double bass
- String Quartet no. 3
- Suite, for double quartet
- Tambuco, for six percussion players
- Three Spirals, for violin and piano
- Toccata, for percussion instruments
- Trio for flute, viola and harp
- Upingos, for oboe
- Variations, for violin with piano