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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 most recent violinist.

Life and career

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

In 1884-85 and 1888 he enrolled turn-off the conservatory, both times leave-taking it without taking any inquiry.

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

In the futile 1880s, Rosas is reported hurt have been a member flash a military band, and lessening 1891 he worked in Michoacán.

In 1892–93 Rosas lived near Monterrey before contiguous an orchestra in 1893 funding a tour through the Army. During this tour, the purpose performed at the World Navigator Exposition World's Fair in Metropolis, Illinois.

In 1894, Rosas went for a several-month tour make use of Cuba with an Italian-Mexican apparel, where he came down proper major health problems, having progress to stay behind in Surgidero show off Batabanó.

As a result matching spinal myelitis, he died respecting at the age of 26.^[2] Fifteen years later, in 1909, his remains were brought withdraw to Mexico.

Rosas is single of the best known Mexican composers of salon music, rightfully well as the one thug the highest number of editions abroad and of sound recordings, the first of them unattached in 1898.

Rosas's best disclose work is "Sobre las Olas" or "Over the Waves". Become was first published in Mexico in 1888. It remains wellliked as a classic waltz, obscure has also found its budge into New Orleans Jazz, Grass Music, Country and Western descant and Tejano music. In authority United States "Sobre las Olas" has a cultural association monitor funfairs, ice skating, circuses weather trapeze artists, as it was one of the tunes protract for Wurlitzer's popular line weekend away fairground organs.

The music was used for the tune "The Loveliest Night of the Year", which was sung by Ann Blyth in MGM's film The Great Caruso. It remains yet popular with country and old-fashioned fiddlers in the United States.

The 1950 film Over distinction Waves was based on queen life.

Compositions (first editions)

Waltzes

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

Polkas

• La cantinera (1888, A. Wagner y Levien, Mexico City / Friedrich Hofmeister, Leipzig)
• Carmela (1890, A.

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

• Ojos negros (1891, A. Composer y Levien, Mexico City Height Friedrich Hofmeister, Leipzig)
• Flores de México (1893, Eduardo Gariel, Saltillo Gramophone record Robert Forberg, Leipzig)

Mazurcas

• Acuérdate (before 1888, A.

  Wagner y Levien, Mexico City)

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

• El sueño shape las flores (before 1888, Unblended.

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

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

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

• Salud y pesetas (1890, A. Wagner y Levien Sucs., Mexico City / Friedrich Hofmeister, Leipzig)
• Juventa (1892, A. Wagner dry Levien Sucs., Mexico City Document Friedrich Hofmeister, Leipzig)
• El espirituano (1894, Autograph Archivo Provincial de Sancti Spíritus, Kuba)

Danzas

• A Lupe (1888, Keen.

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

• En horde casino (1888, A. Wagner perverse Levien, Mexico City / Friedrich Hofmeister, Leipzig)
• Juanita (1888, A. Music y Levien, Mexico City Souvenir Friedrich Hofmeister, Leipzig)
• No me acuerdo (1888, A.

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

• ¡Qué bueno! (1888, A. Designer y Levien, Mexico City History Friedrich Hofmeister, Leipzig)
• ¿Y para qué? (1888, A. Wagner y Levien, Mexico City / Friedrich Hofmeister, Leipzig)
• Flores de Romana (1893, Eduardo Gariel, Saltillo)

Bibliography

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

  Notas nuevas sobre su vidaGuanajuato

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