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Born December 31, 1899 • Mexico
Died October 5, 1940 (aged 40) • Mexico City • Mexico
Notable Works “La noche de los Mayas” • “Sensemayá”
Notable Family Members brother José Revueltas
Sergey Rachmaninoff
Sergey Rachmaninoff
Russian musician
Arcangelo Corelli
Italian musician
Smetana
Bedřich Smetana
Bohemian composer
Louis Spohr
German musician
Rodolphe Kreutzer
French composer
Ysaye
Eugène Ysaÿe
Belgian musician
Leopold Damrosch
German violinist and conductor
Richard Wagner
Richard Wagner
German composer
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Russian composer
Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms
German composer
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
Russian composer
Richard Strauss
Richard Strauss
German composer
Felix Mendelssohn
Felix Mendelssohn
German musician and composer
Arnold Schoenberg
Arnold Schoenberg
American composer
Béla Bartók
Béla Bartók
Hungarian composer
Pierre Boulez
Pierre Boulez
French composer and conductor
Benjamin Britten
Benjamin Britten
British composer
Marvin Hamlisch.
Marvin Hamlisch
American composer, pianist, and conductor
Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein
American composer and conductor
Schuller, Gunther
Gunther Schuller
American composer