Mexico

Mexico's National Conservatory of Music was founded in 1866. Carlos Chavez formed the Orquesta Sinfonica de Mexico in 1928; the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, inaugurated in 1934, houses the Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional and the Compania Nacional de Opera. Manuel M. Ponce, Silvestre Revueltas, composer of Sensemaya and La noche de los mayas, and Jose Pablo Moncayo, composer of Huapango, drew on Mexican material in orchestral form. The Festival Internacional Cervantino has been held in Guanajuato since 1972.