Arturo Márquez is a Mexican composer of the contemporary era, born in 1950 and based today in Mexico City. His music draws heavily on Mexican popular and regional forms, most notably the danzón tradition rooted in the music of Veracruz, and his catalogue also includes ballets, chamber works, and vocal compositions. He remained relatively little known outside Mexico until the 1990s, when growing international interest in Latin ballroom dance helped bring wider attention to his music, culminating in the breakout international success of his best-known work, Danzón No. 2, following a celebrated 2007 performance by the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra.

Márquez is widely regarded as one of the most important Mexican composers of his generation, credited with bringing vernacular Mexican dance forms into the concert hall and onto international stages. Danzón No. 2 in particular has become one of the most frequently performed orchestral works by a living Latin American composer, and his contributions have been recognized with Mexico’s highest artistic honors, including the National Prize for Arts and Sciences in 2009.

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• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arturo_M%C3%A1rquez