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First name: Jose
Last name: Rolon
Dates: 1883-1945
Category: Quartet
Nationality: Mexican
Opus name: Opus 16 in Es (1912)
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Information: Rolon studied piano with Moritz Moszkowski, and later harmony and counterpoint with Nadia Boulanger, fugue with Andre Gadalge, and orchestration with with Paul Dukas at the Ecole Normale in Paris, France. In Mexico he founded a music school in Guadalajara. Director of the National Cons. of Music of Mexico, and chief of the music section of the Secretary of Education of Mexico, both in Mexico City. Worked as such the rest of his life.