Manuel Enríquez

Sparse avant-garde composition from Mexican great Manuel Enriquez. Aleatory, contrapuntal, and soloistic passages alternating with long timbral blocks are characteristic of his music though the 1960s and 70s . Manuel Enríquez Salazar (17 June 1926 – 26 April 1994) was a Mexican composer, violinist and pedagogue. He was a fellow member of the Academy of Arts of Mexico, of the National Seminary of Mexican Culture and the music director of the National Institute of Fine Arts. Starting in the 1960s he was most prominent representative of the avant-garde in Mexico 

The work of Manuel Enriquez is one of the most solid, mature and important musical works for the current avant-garde. He is a creator who has come to see the accumulation of his aesthetic proposals in the horizon of history and contemporary art; Enriquez presents himself as an image of a creator obsessed by what happens to him and happens around him. Octavio Paz