Music for Viola and Piano No.2- Ulises Gómez (mexican composer)

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    Ulises Gómez Pinzón was born in México City in 1954, he began his musical studies with his father, he is a violinist, violist, composer, and conductor. Like a composer, his catalog has music for orchestra and chamber music and has been played in México, Europe, and Rusia. Maestro Gómez has been the viola principal of the National Polytechnic Institute Symphonic Orchestra (OSIPN) for more than 35 years and is a teacher of the Music Faculty in the National University.

Inside his catalog, we can find works for viola like Questions No.1 (1987), Músic for Viola and Piano No.2 (1988), and Movement for Viola and Small Orchestra No. 2 (1991). The work Music for Viola and Piano is presented with only one movement, it has some changes of tempo, and also has a ternary form. Cerda (2017) mentions 'the work has as harmonic base the superposition of fourths, fifths, and octaves. It has no tonality, rather the harmony works to the composer's taste with the only rule to respect the superposition of those intervals'. At the end of the work, the viola has a cadenza with small repetitive motives and shows the main theme with harmonics; the work has been published by the National University (UNAM). This version that we are listening to is for Viola and Symphonic Orchestra, on the viola Omar Hernandez and the National Polytechnic Orchestra.

    

    My recommendations for the music of this Mexican composer, we can find on YouTube Tlatelolco (my favorite) and the symphonic poem Canek, with which the composer celebrated 35 years of belonging to the OSIPN.

See you next monday!

Luis Chab

References:

Cerda, M. (1997). La ejecución de seis obras para viola de seis compositores mexicanos del siglo XX. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

www.eluniversal.com.mx/articulo/cultura/musica/2017/06/14/sinfonica-del-politecnico-estrenara-obra-inspirada-en-canek