Ramiro Cortés Jr. (25 November 1933 – 2 July 1984) was an American composer.
[1] He 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 died of heart failure in Salt Lake city on 2 July 1984.
[2] His earlier compositions employed serial technique, but beginning in the late 1960s he turned to a freer form of chromatic atonality.
He was "perhaps the first Mexican-American composer of classical music to earn an international reputation.