Felipe de Jesús Villanueva Gutiérrez

Felipe Villanueva Gutiérrez ( born February 5, 1862 in Tecámac, † May 28, 1893 in Mexico City) was a Mexican composer.

Life

Villanueva learned the piano and violin in childhood and was a member of the orchestra in his hometown. At the age of ten he composed the Cantata Patriótica for voice with piano accompaniment. In 1873 he came to Mexico City to visit the Conservatorio Nacional, which he however had to leave after a short time.

He worked then as a violinist at the Teatro Hidalgo and as a piano teacher, and the publisher Wagner Levien and published some of his compositions. In addition, he continued his piano studies at Julio Ituarte, where he met his student Gustavo E. Campa and Ricardo Castro. With these and the musicians Juan Hernández Acevedo, Carlos Meneses, Ignacio Quezadas and Pablo León Castellanos, he formed the Grupo de los Seis, in opposition to the above all of Melisio Morales incarnated embossed Italian musical tradition of the German and French music devoted. 1887, the group founded the Instituto Musical.

In the same year he composed the opera Keofar whose performance he did not live. The composition has been lost except for a few pieces. Since 1892, he formed a friendship with the returned from Europe pianist and composer Ernesto Elorduy.

In addition to the above opera Villanueva composed predominantly mazurkas, waltzes, habanera and other pieces for the piano and a cello concerto. Unfortunately, a large part of the unpublished works during his lifetime was lost.

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