Eduardo Mata
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- Improvisaciones, no. 3, for violin and piano
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Eduardo Mata (5 September 1942 – 4 January 1995) was a Mexican conductor and composer. Mata was born in Mexico City and studied guitar privately for three years before enrolling in the National Conservatory of Music. From 1960 to 1963 he studied composition under Carlos Chávez, Héctor Quintanar and Julián Orbón. In 1964 he received a Koussevitzky Fellowship to study at Tanglewood. There, he studied conducting with Max Rudolf and Erich Leinsdorf and composition with Gunther Schuller. <a href="ht
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Eduardo
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Mexico City
- Place of death
- Cuernavaca
- Occupation
- musicologist
- Educated at
- National Conservatory of Music of Mexico
- Languages spoken
- Spanish
- Student of
- Gunther Schuller
- Field of work
- conducting
- Genre
- opera
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- date of birth
- 1942-01-01
- date of death
- 1995-01-01
- cause of death
- aviation accident
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