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Arturo Márquez Navarro (born 20 December 1950) is a Mexican composer of orchestral music who uses musical forms and styles of his native Mexico and.
Danzón, a genre of dance and music originally from Cuba that Mexico has taken and made its own.
Danzón has all but died out on the island where it was born.

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Arturo Márquez

It can safely be said that, with one work, Arturo Márquez has put his stamp on concert music for all time. His Danzón No.2, inspired by a Cuban dance form that migrated to the Mexican Gulf Coast city of Veracruz, is one of the most popular orchestral works in the world today, recorded by Gustavo Dudamel on Deutsche Grammophon and by many others, and heard with great frequency in concert halls. It even plays a key role in the plot development in an episode of the Amazon series “Mozart in the Jungle”. Also ever more popular is the brief, lively Conga del fuego nuevo (Conga of New Fire).

Márquez's Danzón No. 9 was commissioned and premiered by the Los Angeles Philharmonic and its music director Gustavo Dudamel. Its October 2017 premiere capped off the first half of a program dedicated to his danzones.

In addition to his series of danzones, Márquez has composed a number of brief tone poems illuminating episodes in Mexico's history, such as the battle between Benito Juárez and Mexico's Emperor Maximilian ("De Juárez a Maximiliano")

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Arturo Márquez

Mexican composer of orchestral music (born 1950)

Arturo Márquez
Márquez in 2016
Born	(1950-12-20) December 20, 1950 (age 74) Álamos, Sonora, Mexico
Occupation	Composer

Arturo Márquez Navarro (born 20 December 1950) is a Mexican composer of orchestral music who uses musical forms and styles of his native Mexico and incorporates them into his compositions. His best known work is Danzón No. 2.

Life

Márquez was born in Álamos, Sonora, in 1950 where his interest in music began. Márquez is the first born of nine children of Arturo Márquez and Aurora Navarro. Márquez was the only one of the nine siblings to become a musician. Márquez's father was a mariachi musician in Mexico and later in Los Angeles. His paternal grandfather was a Mexican folk musician in the northern states of Sonora and Chihuahua. Márquez's father and grandfather exposed him to several musical styles in his childhood, particularly Mexican "salon music" which would be the impetus for his later musical repertoire.

His education began in La Puente, Cal

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Danzon No. 2

Arturo Marquez (trans. Oliver Nickel)

General Info

Year: 1994 / 1998 / 2009
Duration: c. 10:05
Difficulty: IV (see Ratings for explanation)
Original Medium: Orchestra
Publisher:Baton Music
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - €159.00 | Score Only (print) - €40.00

Instrumentation

Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
English Horn
Bassoon I-II
E-flat Soprano Clarinet
B-flat Solo Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
E-flat Alto Clarinet
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II (I doubling B-flat Soprano Saxophone)
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II
B-flat Flugelhorn I-II
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Piano
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III-IV-V, including:

Bass Drum
Crash Cymbals
Bongos
Claves
Conga
Guiro
Marimba
Snare Drum
Timbales
Tom-tom
Vibraphone

Errata

In Parts:

Clarinet II-II, m.210-219: Bars missing in parts.
Baritone C, m.278: Add one sharp to key signature

In Parts and Score:

Solo Cl