Sonata for Viola and Piano by Filiberto Ramírez
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Filiberto Ramírez Franco (1919-2001) was born in Chihuahua (Mexico) in northern Mexico, where he studied piano. In 1939 he moved to Mexico City and in 1940 he studied Composition in the National School of Music of the Autonomous University of Mexico, and his principal's professors were Estanislao Mejía, Carmen Azuela de Domínguez, Aurelio Fuentes, and Julian Carrillo. His main style was traditional nationalism until 1960, which changed to polytonality, atonality, serial twelve, pentaphony, oriental scales, and other modernist techniques.
The Sonata for Viola and Piano belongs to this last compositional period that he adopted, each movement is written using a twelve-tone series, and consists of three movements: I-Allegro Moderato, II-Adagio, III-Allegro. The work was composed as a tribute to the 1300th anniversary of the founding of the Bulgarian State. In the image, we can see the first movement, where the viola begins and presents the twelve-tone series, the twelve notes on which the movement is based, which are not repeated.
Most of the music of maestro Ramírez has not been recorded and is little known. The Sonata for Viola and Piano has been published by UNAM and can be consulted in the "Cuicamatini" library of the UNAM Faculty of Music in Mexico City.
The video we are listening to is masterfully performed by the "Duo Manik" with the violist Gerardo Aponte and the pianist Oscar Espinoza, who are currently performing the Mexican repertoire for the viola, playing this type of works by contemporary composers. You can listen to their performance and follow them on their YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHdKhih69KtTvNCMSPwtplA
Thanks for reading and see you soon with more Mexican music for viola!
Luis Angel Chab Dzul.
References:
https://www.historiadelasinfonia.es/naciones/la-sinfonia-en-mexico/otros-compositores/ramirez/
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