Candelario Huízar

Candelario Huízar García de la Cadena (2 February 1883 – 3 May 1970, Mexico City) was a Mexican composer, musician and music teacher. He completed four symphonies, leaving a fifth unfinished, and a string quartet, but is remembered most for his tone poems. He also left celebrated arrangements of works by Vivaldi and Bach, among others. Early life Huízar was born in Jerez, Zacatecas into a working-class family, and he became a goldsmith apprentice at a very early age. Huízar taught himself to play the guitar as a child. Career Huízar studied saxophone under Narciso Arriaga, and in 1892 he became a member of the Municipal Marching Band of Jerez. He later played the viola in the string quartet of Enrique Herrera, and studied harmony with Aurelio Elías. He became a member of Banda de Música del Primer Cuadro del Batallón de Zacatecas. He also participated in the Mexican Revolution as a member of a brass band. In 1917 moved to Mexico City, and became a member of the Marching Band of the North Division there. In the following year he joined the Presidential Guard Marching Band led by Melquíades Campos. Huízar enrolled in the National Conservatory of music, where he studied horn under the