A very favourite composer of mine - if only there were more composers like this around today!
This time Revueltas's relationship with his Mexican contemporary Carlos Chavez is to be highlighted. While the latter came to suppress early indications of experimentalism in favour of the more Socialist Realist aesthetic of later years that he shared with his contemporaries in the USSR, Revueltas gave his own free rein, picking up from Stravinsky's "Cubist" phase (1914-1920) and at one point receiving plaudits from Edgard Varèse, whose idiom was more abstract but orchestral methods not dissimilar. A musical Brancusi, maybe. For stylistic comparisons, think perhaps some mid-point between the Milhaud of the Claudel years and the Copland of El Salon Mexico.
This time Revueltas's relationship with his Mexican contemporary Carlos Chavez is to be highlighted. While the latter came to suppress early indications of experimentalism in favour of the more Socialist Realist aesthetic of later years that he shared with his contemporaries in the USSR, Revueltas gave his own free rein, picking up from Stravinsky's "Cubist" phase (1914-1920) and at one point receiving plaudits from Edgard Varèse, whose idiom was more abstract but orchestral methods not dissimilar. A musical Brancusi, maybe. For stylistic comparisons, think perhaps some mid-point between the Milhaud of the Claudel years and the Copland of El Salon Mexico.