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Works for Cello

Tempus - Cuatro Estudios para Violín y Violoncello (1974), for violin and cello.

Works for Viola

Alborada (1975), for viola and piano, published by Edition Nomos, Athens. SubVerlag Gerig, Cologne, Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden, and ArteMus, Caracas.

Sources:

Grove Music Online:  https://doi.org/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.46816

Furman Schleifer, M., and Galván, G (2016). Latin American Classical Composers, A Biographical Dictionary. London: Rowman & Littlefield.

Emilio Mendoza

Venezuelan guitarist and composer, born August 8, 1953.

Emilio Mendoza was born in Caracas, August 8, 1953. He studied classical guitar with Flaminia de Desola at the Escuela Juan Manuel Olivares and composition with Yannis Ioannidis at the Universidad Metropolitana, in Caracas. In 1981, he received his composition diploma from the Schumann Institute in Düsseldorf studying live electronics with Günther Becker and received his DMA in 1990 from the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., studying Latin American art music and composition. 

Additionally, Mendoza taught at the Crane School of Music at Potsdam College in New York, and then the Central University of Venezuela in 1996. Along with being President of Fundación de Etnomusicología y Folklore in Caracas, Mendoza also was the coordinator for the Organization of American States’ ethnomusicology and folklore programs. Mendoza’s compositional influences derive from popular music and dance. Experimentation with rhythmic profile and study of traditional indigenous musical resources can be seen in his works.