Blas Galindo Dimas (b. Feb. 3, 1910, San Gabriel, Jalisco - d. April 19, 1993) was a Mexican composer. Galindo studied intermittently from 1931 to 1944 at the National Conservatory in Mexico City, under Carlos Chavez, Candelario Huizar, José Rolón, and Manuel Rodríguez Vizcarra. In 1934, he formed the Grupo de los cuatro with fellow composers Daniel Ayala, Salvador Contreras, and José Pablo Moncayo, seeking to use indigenous Mexican musical materials in art-music compositions. In 1941, he was an assistant at the Berkshire Music Festival at Tanglewood, and studied under Aaron Copland at the Berkshire Music Center in 1941-42. Returning to Mexico in 1942, he became a professor of composition at the National Conservatory and in 1947 was named Director of the conservatory (which he held until 1961) as well as director of the music department of the National Institute of Fine Arts. From 1960 to 1965, he was music director for the Symphony of th

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