Eduardo Mata

Template:Short description Template:Wikidata image Eduardo Mata (5 September 1942Template:Spaced ndash4 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 studied composition under Carlos Chávez, Template:Ill and Julián Orbón. In 1964 he received a Koussevitzky Memorial Fellowship to study at Tanglewood. There, he studied conducting with Max Rudolf and Erich Leinsdorf and composition with Gunther Schuller.

He composed several works in the 1950s and 1960s, including three symphonies and chamber works, which include sonatas for piano and for cello and piano. His Third Symphony and some of his chamber works have been recorded.

In 1965 he was appointed head of the Music Department of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and conductor of the Guadalajara Orchestra; He also conducted the orchestra at the university, which later became the National Autonomous University of Mexico Philharmonic Orchestra. In 1972, he left Mexico to take the position of principal conductor of the Phoenix Symphony. The next year he was appointed the Phoenix ensemble's music director, holding that position through the 1977–78 season.

In 1965, he was one of the founding members and later, honorary president of the Mahler Mexico Society (Sociedad Mahler México) and together with Mexico's National Symphony Orchestra (Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional), in October 1975 he conducted the first full cycle of Gustav Mahler's symphonies in Mexico.

From 1977 to 1993 he was music director of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and guest conductor of several orchestras in the U.S., Europe and Latin America. He recorded over fifty albums, most of them with the UNAM Symphony Orchestra, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, and the London Symphony Orchestra. He was also appointed principal conductor of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and was about to take up this post in January 1995 when he was killed.

On the morning of 4 January 1995, Mata and a passenger were en route from Cuernavaca, Morelos, to Dallas, Texas. Mata was piloting his own Piper Aerostar. One engine failed shortly after takeoff, and the plane crashed during an emergency landing attempt. Both died in the crash, near Mexico City.

Selected compositions

• Trio, for clarinet, drum, and cello, dedicated to Ralph Vaughan Williams (1957) Template:Catalog lookup link
• Sonata, for piano (1960)
• Improvisaciones, for clarinet and piano (1961)
• Symphony No. 1 (1962)
• "Débora", ballet suite (1963)
• Los huesos secos (The Dry Bones), ballet (1963)
• Symphony No. 2 (1963)
• Aires (1964) Template:Catalog lookup link
• Improvisación número 1, for string quartet and piano four-hands (1964)
• Improvisación número 2, for strings and two pianos (1965) Template:Catalog lookup link
• Improvisación número 3, for violin and piano (1965) Template:Catalog lookup link
• Sonata, for cello (1966), dedicated to Adolfo Odnoposoff
• Symphony No. 3, for winds and horn (1966) Template:Catalog lookup link

Selected discography

Mata compositions

• Symphony No. 3, for wind orchestra and solo horn. Orquesta Filarmónica de la UNAM, RCA Red Seal LP recording, 1 disc: analogue, 33⅓ rpm, stereo, 12 in. RCA Red Seal. México, D.F.: RCA Red Seal, 1971. Template:Catalog lookup link.
• "Improvisación No. 2," for strings and two pianos. Orquesta Filarmónica de la UNAM, LP recording, 1 disc: analogue, 33⅓ rpm, stereo, 12 in. RCA Red Seal. México, D.F.: RCA Red Seal, [1970].

References

Sources

• Delpar, Helen (ed.). 1974. Encyclopedia of Latin America. New York: McGraw-Hill. Template:Catalog lookup link.
• Dent, David W. 2002. Encyclopedia of Modern Mexico. Historical Dictionaries of Latin America Series. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press. Template:ISBN Template:Catalog lookup link.
• Jacobs, Arthur. 1990. "Mata, Eduardo". The Penguin Dictionary of Musical Performers. London: Viking Press. Template:ISBN. Template:Catalog lookup link.
• Kanellos, Nicolas. 2003. The Hispanic American Almanac: A Reference Work on Hispanics in the United States, third edition. New York: Gale Research. Template:Catalog lookup link.
• Kozinn, Allan. 1995. "Eduardo Mata Is Dead at 52; Conducted the Dallas Symphony". The New York Times (5 January): B10. Reprinted in The New York Times Biographical Service 26, no. 1:16. Ann Arbor: UMI Co. Template:Catalog lookup link.
• Meyer, Nicholas E. 2001. . Biographical Dictionary of Hispanic Americans, second edition. Facts on File library of American History. New York: Checkmark Books. Template:ISBN.
• Morehead, Philip, and Anne MacNeil. 1991. [title (presumably a bio article on Mata] The New American Dictionary of Music. New York: E. P. Dutton.
• Rehrig, William Harold. 1991–96. The Heritage Encyclopedia of Band Music: Composers and Their Music, edited by Paul E. Bierley. 3 vols. (Mata in Vol. 2 of 3). Westerville, Ohio: Integrity Press. Template:ISBN. Template:Catalog lookup link.
• Template:Ill. 2001. "Mata, (Jaime) Eduardo (Vladimiro)". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan.
• Stevenson, Joseph. 2005b. "Eduardo Mata". All Music Guide to Classical Music, edited by Chris Woodstra, Gerald Brennan, and Allen Schrott, 814. San Francisco: Backbeat Books. Template:ISBN. Template:Catalog lookup link.
• Tardiff, Joseph C, and L. Mpho Mabunda. 1996. Dictionary of Hispanic Biography. New York: Gale Research. Template:Catalog lookup link.

Further reading

• Anon. 1976. Who's Who in the West, 15th edition (1976–1977). Chicago: Marquis Who's Who. Template:ISBN Template:Catalog lookup link.
• Anon. 1980. "Mata, ". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, first edition, edited by Stanley Sadie. London: Macmillan.
• Anon. 1986. "Mata [correct title needed].The New Grove Dictionary of American Music, edited by H. Wiley Hitchcock and Stanley Sadie, 4 vols. London: Macmillan. Template:ISBN (set); Template:ISBN. Template:Catalog lookup link, Template:Catalog lookup link.
• Anon. 1992. Who's Who in Entertainment, second edition (1992–1993). Wilmette, Illinois: Marquis Who's Who. Template:ISBN Template:Catalog lookup link.
• Anon. 1993a. "Eduardo Mata". International Who's Who, 57th edition (1993–94). London: Europa Publications. Template:ISBN. Template:Catalog lookup link.
• Anon. 1993b. "Eduardo Mata". Who's Who in the South and Southwest, 23rd edition (1993–94). New Providence, New Jersey: Marquis Who's Who. Template:Catalog lookup link Template:Catalog lookup link.
• Anon. 1996. "Eduardo Mata". Who Was Who in America: A Companion Biographical Reference Work to Who's who in America 11 (1993–1996). Chicago: Marquis Who's Who. Template:Catalog lookup link.
• Anon. 1998. Latin American Lives: Selected Biographies from the Five-Volume Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture. Macmillan Compendium. New York: Macmillan Library Reference USA. Template:ISBN. Template:Catalog lookup link.
• Anon. 2001. "Mata". Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, 9th edition, edited by Laura Diane Kuhn, 6 vols. London: Macmillan; New York: G. Schirmer. Template:Catalog lookup link.
• Cornell, Charles R., and Rene J. Montalvo (eds.). 2002. Biography Index, 27 (September 2001 – August 2002). New York: H. W. Wilson Company. Template:Catalog lookup link Template:Catalog lookup link.
• Ficher, Miguel, Martha Furman Schleifer, and John M. Furman (eds.). 2002. Latin American Classical Composers, second edition. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press. Template:Catalog lookup link.
• Gaster, Adrian (ed.) 1990. International Who's Who in Music and Musicians' Directory, 12th edition. Cambridge, UK: International Who's Who in Music. Template:Catalog lookup link.
• Marquis, Albert Nelson, and Marquis Who's Who, Inc. 1993. "Eduardo Mata". Who's Who in America, 48th edition (1994), 3 vols. New Providence, New Jersey: Marquis Who's Who. Template:Catalog lookup link Template:Catalog lookup link.
• Slonimsky, Nicolas (ed.). 1997. Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Classical Musicians. New York: G. Schirmer. Template:Catalog lookup link.
• Stevenson, Joseph. 2005a. "Dallas Symphony Orchestra". All Music Guide to Classical Music, edited by Chris Woodstra, Gerald Brennan, and Allen Schrott, 339–340. San Francisco: Backbeat Books. Template:ISBN. Template:Catalog lookup link.
• Unterburger, Amy L., and Jane L. Delgado (eds.). 1994. Who's Who among Hispanic Americans, third edition (1994–95), foreword by Ricardo R. Fernández. Detroit: Gale Research. Template:ISBN Template:Catalog lookup link Template:Catalog lookup link.
• Vinton, John (ed.). 1974. Dictionary of Contemporary Music. New York: E. P. Dutton. Template:Catalog lookup link.