Scherzino mexicano – All Classical Research

Ponce composed this work for piano in 1909.
When Ponce composed this work, he had recently returned from studying in Germany and had joined the piano faculty of the Conservatorio Nacional in Mexico City.
When Ponce composed this piece, classical compositions influenced by Mexican folk music were rare. Four years later, in 1913, Ponce would give his seminal musicological lecture “La musica y la canción mexicana,” which more or less single-handedly launched the Mexican national school of composition.¹

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