Ramiro Cortés

Ramiro Cortés (born Dallas, Texas 25 November 1933; died Salt Lake City, Utah 2 July 1984) was an American composer.

Cortés studied with Henry Cowell, Richard Donovan, Ingolf Dahl, Vittorio Giannini, Roger Sessions, Halsey Stevens, and, in Rome on a Fulbright Fellowship, with Goffredo Petrassi. He worked for a brief period in the 1960s as a computer programmer, and then taught composition at the University of California, Los Angeles (1966–67), University of Southern California (1967–72), and the University of Utah (1972–84).

His earlier compositions employed serial technique, but beginning in the late 1960s he turned to a freer form of chromatic atonality.

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