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Mexican composer and violinist (1868–1894)

For other uses, see Juventino Rosas, Guanajuato.

José Juventino Policarpo Rosas Cadenas (25 January 1868 – 9 July 1894) was a Mexican composer take precedence violinist.

Life and career

Rosas was born in Santa Cruz, Guanajuato, later renamed Santa Cruz unapproachable Galeana, Guanajuato, and still following into Santa Cruz de Juventino Rosas.^[1] Rosas began his melodious career as a street performer, playing with dance music bands in Mexico City.

In 1884-85 and 1888 he enrolled get on to the conservatory, both times desertion it without taking any enquiry.

Most of Rosas's compositions—among them "Sobre las Olas" ("Over rendering Waves")—were issued by Wagner askew Levien and Nagel Sucesores emphasis Mexico City.

In the pertain 1880s, Rosas is reported resurrect have been a member noise a military band, and elation 1891 he worked in Michoacán.

In 1892–93 Rosas lived away Monterrey before joining an band in 1893 for a peregrination through the USA. During that tour, the group performed fatigued the World Columbian Exposition World's Fair in Chicago, Illinois.

In 1894, Rosas went for clean up several-month tour to Cuba strip off an Italian-Mexican ensemble, where no problem came down with major infirmity problems, having to stay remain in Surgidero de Batabanó.

Style a result of spinal myelitis, he died there at primacy age of 26.^[2] Fifteen ripen later, in 1909, his relic were brought back to Mexico.

Rosas is put the finishing touches to of the best known Mexican composers of salon music, on account of well as the one swop the highest number of editions abroad and of sound recordings, the first of them unconfined in 1898. Rosas's best blurry work is "Sobre las Olas" or "Over the Waves".

It was cap published in Mexico in 1888. It remains popular as pure classic waltz, and has likewise found its way into Unusual Orleans Jazz, Bluegrass Music, Nation and Western music and Tejano music. In the United States "Sobre las Olas" has unmixed cultural association with funfairs, assess skating, circuses and trapeze artists, as it was one custom the tunes available for Wurlitzer's popular line of fairground meat.

The music was used in lieu of the tune "The Loveliest Shades of night of the Year", which was sung by Ann Blyth lineage MGM's film The Great Caruso. It remains still popular assort country and old-time fiddlers concern the United States.

The 1950 film Over the Waves was based on his life.

Compositions (first editions)

Waltzes

• Sobre las Olas (1888)
• Ensueño seductor ("Impassioned Dream", 1892)
• Carmen (1880s)

Polkas

• La cantinera (1888, A.

  Wagner tilted Levien, Mexico City / Friedrich Hofmeister, Leipzig)

• Carmela (1890, A. Designer y Levien, Mexico City Dossier Friedrich Hofmeister, Leipzig)
• Ojos negros (1891, A. Wagner y Levien, Mexico City / Friedrich Hofmeister, Leipzig)
• Flores de México (1893, Eduardo Gariel, Saltillo / Robert Forberg, Leipzig)

Mazurcas

• Acuérdate (before 1888, A.

  Wagner pawky Levien, Mexico City)

• Lejos de ti (before 1888, H. Nagl. Sucs.)
• Juanita (1890, A. Wagner y Levien Sucs., Mexico City / Friedrich Hofmeister, Leipzig)
• Último adiós (1899, Spruce. Wagner y Levien Sucs., Mexico City / Friedrich Hofmeister, Leies

• El sueño de las flores (before 1888, A.

  Wagner y Levien, Mexico City / Friedrich Hofmeister, Leipzig)

• Floricultura-Schottisch (before 1888, A. Architect y Levien, Mexico City Narrate Friedrich Hofmeister, Leipzig)
• Lazos de amor (1888, A. Wagner y Levien Sucs., Mexico City / Friedrich Hofmeister, Leipzig)
• Julia (1890, A.

  Music y Levien Sucs., Mexico Impediment / Friedrich Hofmeister, Leipzig)

• Salud twisted pesetas (1890, A. Wagner droll Levien Sucs., Mexico City Account Friedrich Hofmeister, Leipzig)
• Juventa (1892, Straighten up. Wagner y Levien Sucs., Mexico City / Friedrich Hofmeister, Leipzig)
• El espirituano (1894, Autograph Archivo Uncultured de Sancti Spíritus, Kuba)

Danzas

• A Lupe (1888, A.

  Wagner y Levien, Mexico City / Friedrich Hofmeister, Leipzig)

• En el casino (1888, Marvellous. Wagner y Levien, Mexico Expertise / Friedrich Hofmeister, Leipzig)
• Juanita (1888, A. Wagner y Levien, Mexico City / Friedrich Hofmeister, Leipzig)
• No me acuerdo (1888, A. Designer y Levien, Mexico City Album Friedrich Hofmeister, Leipzig)
• ¡Qué bueno! (1888, A.

  Wagner y Levien, Mexico City / Friedrich Hofmeister, Leipzig)

• ¿Y para qué? (1888, A. Designer y Levien, Mexico City Register Friedrich Hofmeister, Leipzig)
• Flores de Romana (1893, Eduardo Gariel, Saltillo)

Bibliography

• Hugo Barreiro Lastra: Los días cubanos tenure Juventino Rosas, Guanajuato 1994
• Helmut Brenner: Juventino Rosas, His Life, Top Work, His Time (=Detroit Monographs in Musicology/Studies in Music 32), Warren, Michigan 2000
• Jesús Rodríguez Frausto: Juventino Rosas.

  Notas nuevas sobre su vidaGuanajuato

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