Carrillo, Julian

He was born in the family of Indian peasants last, 19th child. For financial reasons, he could not finish school, but he sang in the church choir of his town and studied music with his leader. After composing a mass for this choir, which was successfully performed, he received a scholarship for classes at the National Conservatory of Mexico . Here in 1899, his head on the violin was heard by the country's leader, General Porfirio Diaz , and subsidized the trip of a young musician to study in Europe. Carrillo studied at the Leipzig Conservatory with Hans Becker (violin) and Salomon Jadasson (composition), played the violin both in the conservatory’s orchestra and in the Gewandhaus Orchestra . The first significant works by Carrillo were written in Leipzig - the string sextet in G Major (1900) and the First Symphony in D Major (1901), performed by a conservative orchestra under the direction of the author. Carrillo then continued his violin studies at the Ghent Conservatory under the direction of Albert Zimmer .

Returning to Mexico in 1904 , Carrillo began teaching a number of different disciplines at the National Conservatory, and in 1913 he headed it. In 1918 - 1924 he led the National Orchestra of Mexico. In 1925 , Carrillo's works were first performed in the United States by the Philadelphia Orchestra under the direction of Leopold Stokowski , provoking an enthusiastic reaction: for example, Olga Samaroff wrote that Carrillo's Sonata Fantasy performed by the orchestra "is opening a new era in the world of Western music."

In 1956, in France, the composer was awarded the Legion of Honor . In the 1960s Carrillo's music is performed under the direction of the greatest conductors of our time, and the composer himself does not leave composition or scientific activity. In 1960, he wrote The Atonal Canon for 64 voices; in 1964, he premiered his Concerto for violin No. 1 in quarter tones, written in 1949.

The composer died on September 9, 1965 in Mexico City , and was buried in the Rotunda of outstanding figures of the Pantheon Dolores.

In 1895-1900, experimenting with a violin, he wrote a research paper called The Thirteenth Sound Theory (Sonido 13). The composer devotes himself to the study of interval sounds of less than 12 semitones of the chromatic system. Carrillo's theory suggests that the scale can be divided into an infinite number of intervals as much as possible. In his system, he distinguishes tetetons, quarter tones, spinach, etc. In addition, the composer introduces digital notation for twelve notes of the scale as an educational methodology for teaching solfeggio and composition (0, starting from to).

In 1930, Carrillo created the “Thirteenth Sound” Symphony Orchestra, which includes instruments, each of which is adapted to the performance of microchromatic notes (in particular, the widely spread microchromatic harp).

In 1933, the premiere of one of the composer's most famous works, Prelude to Colon, for soprano, flute, two violins, viola, cello, guitar and microtone harp, was premiered. In fact, this was the first thorough demonstration of Carrillo's achievements in the field of microchromatics. In the same year, the city of Aualulco was renamed Aualulco de Sonido 13.

In 1940, Carrillo invented and patented fifteen metamorphic pianos for performing microchromatic compositions (according to different division systems). In 1950, he was nominated for this and subsequent studies in this field for the Nobel Prize in Physics . In 1958, the composer met at the International Music Congress in Paris with A. Haba and I.A. Vyshnegradsky .

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