page_title: Homenaje a Federico García Lorca
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Homenaje a Federico García Lorca / History
caption_attribution_description: Español: Federico García Lorca. Huerta de San Vicente, Granada
context_page_description: Homenaje a Federico García Lorca is a work for chamber orchestra by the Mexican composer Silvestre Revueltas.
context_section_description: On 19 August 1936, the Spanish poet Federico García Lorca was murdered by fascist militia forces. Outraged, along with many other intellectuals and artists, in October Revueltas composed Homenaje a Federico García Lorca, one of his most important works, which was premiered on 14 November 1936 conducted by the composer (Hernández 2009, 18–19; Slonimsky 1945, 250). It was given its first Spanish performance at the Salón de Actos de la Asociación de Amigos de Mexico in Madrid on 17 September 1937 (Hess 1997, 285–86, 291n24).
caption: Federico García Lorca in 1932
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