The following is a list of Mexican composers of classical music. Juventino_Rosas_1894

17th–18th century

* Juan de Lienas (c. 1640) * Francisco López Capillas (1673) * Juan García de Zéspedes (c. 16191678) * Manuel de Sumaya (1678–1755) * José María Bustamante (1777–1861) * José Mariano Elízaga (1786–1842)

First half of the 19th century

* Cenobio Paniagua (1821–1882) * Aniceto Ortega (1825–1875) * Macedonio Alcalá (1831–1869) * Melesio Morales (1839–1908) * (1853–1889)

Second half of the 19th century

* Felipe Villanueva (1862–1893) * Gustavo Campa (1863–1934) * Ricardo Castro (1864–1907) * Juventino Rosas (1868–1894) * Miguel Lerdo de Tejada (1869–1941) * Alfredo Carrasco (1875–1945) * Julián Carrillo Trujillo (1875–1965) * José Rolón (1876–1945) * Manuel María Ponce (1882–1948) * (1882–1960) * Candelario Huízar (1883–1970) * Julia Alonso (1890–1977) * (1896–1961)

First half of the 20th century

Carlos Chávez Carlos Antonio de Padua Chávez y Ramírez (13 June 1899 – 2 August 1978) was a Mexican composer, conducting, conductor, music theorist, educator, journalist, and founder and director of the Mexican Symphonic Orchestra. He was influence ...

(1899–1978) *

Silvestre Revueltas Silvestre Revueltas Sánchez (December 31, 1899 – October 5, 1940) was a Mexican classical music composer, a violinist, and conductor. Life Revueltas was born in Santiago Papasquiaro in Durango, and studied at the National Conservatory of Mu ...

(1899–1940) *

Eduardo Hernández Moncada Eduardo Hernández Moncada (September 24, 1899 – December 31, 1995) was a Mexican composer, pianist, and conductor. He is one of the essential musicians representative of the Nationalist Movement of the Post-Revolutionary years in Mexico. His mu ...

(1899–1995) * Alfonso de Elias (1902–1984) * Luis Sandi (1905–1996) *

Higinio Ruvalcaba Higinio Ruvalcaba (11 January 1905 in Yahualica, Jalisco – 15 January 1976 in Mexico City) was a Mexican violinist and composer. He received his first lessons when he was 4, from his father, who was an upholsterer who played cello in the local ...

(1905–1976) * Daniel Ayala Pérez (1906–1975) *

Miguel Bernal Jiménez Miguel Bernal Jiménez (16 February 1910 – 26 July 1956) was a Mexican composer, organist, teacher, and musicologist. He is widely regarded as the best representative of 20th century Mexican religious music, in addition to his important contr ...

(1910–1956) * Blas Galindo (1910–1943) * Salvador Contreras (1910–1982) *

José Pablo Moncayo José Pablo Moncayo García (June 29, 1912 – June 16, 1958) was a Mexican pianist, percussionist, music teacher, composer and conductor. "As composer, José Pablo Moncayo represents one of the most important legacies of the Mexican nationali ...

(1912–1958) * Mario Ruiz Armengol (1914–2001) * Luis Herrera de la Fuente (1916–2014) * Carlos Jiménez Mabarak (1916–1994) * Manuel Enríquez (1926–1994) * Gloria Tapia (1927–2008) * (1927–2012) * Francisco Savín (1929–2017) * (1931–2008) * Rosa Guraieb (1931–2014) * Manuel de Elías (1939) *

Eduardo Mata Eduardo Mata (5 September 19424 January 1995) was a Mexican conductor and composer. Career Mata was born in Mexico City. He studied guitar privately for three years before enrolling in the National Conservatory of Music. From 1960 to 1963 he ...

(1942–1995)

Second half of the 20th century

* Julio Estrada (born 1943) *

Mario Lavista Mario Lavista (April 3, 1943 – November 4, 2021) was a Mexican composer, writer and intellectual. Life and career Lavista was born in Mexico City. He enrolled the Composition Workshop (Taller de Composición) at the National Conservatory in 19 ...

(1943–2021) * Graciela Agudelo (1945–2018) * Max Lifchitz (1948) * Daniel Catán (1949–2011) * Arturo Marquez (1950) * Marcela Rodríguez (1951) * Eduardo Diazmuñoz (1953) * Javier Álvarez (1956–2023) * Guillermo Galindo (1960) * Hilda Paredes (born 1957) * Victor Rasgado (1959–2023) * Ana Lara (1959) * Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon (born 1962) * Sergio Berlioz (1963) * Carlos Sánchez-Gutierrez (1964) * (1964–2015) * Mariana Villanueva (1964) *

Gabriela Ortiz Gabriela Ortiz Torres (born 20 December 1964) is a Mexican music educator and composer. She will be Carnegie Hall’s composer in residence for the 2025 season, and her music is being performed by ensembles in Berlin, London, Los Angeles and New ...

(1964) * Juan Trigos (1965) *

Javier Torres Maldonado Javier Torres Maldonado (born 1968) is a Mexican composer internationally recognized for, mostly, his orchestral, chamber, vocal and electro-acoustic works. Biography Born in Chetumal (Mexico), José Javier Torres Maldonado studied violin and co ...

(1968) * Ildemaro Correa Zavala (1969) * Juan Sebastián Lach Lau (1970) *

Enrico Chapela Enrico Chapela (born January 29, 1974) is a Mexican contemporary classical composer, whose works have been played by multiple major orchestras and has been commissioned to compose for institutions such as the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Nationa ...

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