Aurelio de la Vega (November 28, 1925 – February 12, 2022) was a Cuban-American composer, lecturer, essayist, and poet.
He wrote numerous works in many forms and media and, from the early 1960s, was an active force on the United States musical scene.
His music and aesthetic ideas have been commented upon and analyzed in books, newspapers and reviews throughout the United States and Latin America.
[4] In 1978 he received the Friedheim Award of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C., for his orchestral work "Adios" which was commissioned and premiered by Zubin Mehta and the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Three of these nominations were for Best Classical Contemporary Composition: in 2009 for Variación del Recuerdo ("Variation of the Remembrance") for string orchestra,[6] in 2012 for Prelude No.