Juventino Rosas

(José ) Juventino ( Policarpo ) Rosas Cadenas ( born January 25, 1868 in Santa Cruz, State of Guanajuato, Mexico, † July 9, 1894 in Surgidero de Batabanó, Cuba ) was a Mexican musician and composer.

On January 26, 1868, he was in the church of Santa Cruz (later Santa Cruz de Galeana, today: Santa Cruz de Juventino Rosas ) baptized in the name of José Juventino Policarpo. Even as a child moved with his family from his birthplace in what is now the state of Guanajuato to Mexico City, where he first worked as a street musician from an early age and later as a dance musician. In the years 1884/85 and 1888 he undertook each after a short time - possibly due to lack of funds - again broken study starts at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música. ( - Over the Waves Over the Waves ), as a piano expenditure on publishing houses Wagner y Levien, Mexico City and Hofmeister in Leipzig, as well as nail Sucesores in Mexico From 1888, many of his compositions, including his most famous, the waltz Sobre las olas were city ​​published to countless arrangements in American and European publishers. Despite the artistic success Rosas could not escape from his life of poverty. With the entry into the Military Band of the 4th Cavalry Regiment of the capital began 1890/91 his years of travel. In 1891 he is found as a member of the battalion chapel in Morelia, Michoacán, the end of 1892 in the state of Nuevo León. Beginning of 1893 he undertook a Orquesta típica a concert tour in the United States, joined with the ensemble in May as a violin soloist ( and sometimes also as cornetist ) there honored at the World's Fair in Chicago and was also a composer. From January 1894 Rosas toured with an Italian- Mexican music troupe Cuba, but finally remained seriously ill in Surgidero de Batabanó, where he died at age 26 in spinal cord myelitis.

Rosas wrote at least 92 works, 33 of which have been published and are therefore preserved. The autographs have been lost, with one exception (El espirituano ). The plants obtained were 33 by the Mexican pianist Nadia Stankovitch the label Prodisc in Mexico City in the series Clasicos Mexicanos under the title Juventino Rosas: recorded ( Prodisc SDX21017 and SDX 27102 ) Obras para piano on two CDs.

Juventino Rosas was not only one of the most famous composers of salon music in Mexico, but also the one with most editions outside Mexico and with the most recorded in phonograms ( to 1898 ). His piano compositions are in the tradition of French salon music, Over the Waves was also to a default number in jazz, of which numerous recordings known jazz musicians, including George Lewis, Pete Fountain, Bob Crosby, Ray Noble and Dave Brubeck, testify.

1909 The mortal remains were Rosas ' transferred to Mexico City and interred in the Rotonda de los Hombres Ilustres there in 1939. 1932 and 1950 made ​​films about Rosas ' life, both Sobre las Olas entitled. The second one - directed by Ismael Rodríguez and Pedro Infante in the lead role - impressed - even though the plot is invented largely free - strong to this day the image of Juventino Rosas in the Spanish-speaking world.

Works received

I. Waltz

  • Dos pensamientos (before 1888, without publisher's statement )
  • Sobre las olas ( Over the Waves - Over the Waves ) (1888, A. Wagner y Levien, Mexico City)
  • Carmen (1888, A. Wagner y Levien, Mexiko-Stadt/Friedrich Hofmeister, Leipzig)
  • Amelia (1890, A. Wagner y Levien, Mexiko-Stadt/Friedrich Hofmeister, Leipzig)
  • Aurora (1890, A. Wagner y Levien, Mexiko-Stadt/Friedrich Hofmeister, Leipzig)
  • Ensueño seductor (1890, A. Wagner y Levien, Mexiko-Stadt/Friedrich Hofmeister, Leipzig)
  • Ilusiones juveniles (1890, A. Wagner y Levien, Mexiko-Stadt/Friedrich Hofmeister, Leipzig)
  • Eva (1888-1891, Publisher unclear, probably A. Wagner y Levien, Mexico City)
  • Josefina (1892, A. Wagner y Levien Sucs. , Mexiko-Stadt/Friedrich Hofmeister, Leipzig)
  • Flores de margarita (1893, Eduardo Gariel, Saltillo / Robert Forberg, Leipzig)
  • Soledad (1893, Eduardo Gariel, Saltillo / Robert Forberg, Leipzig)

II polkas

  • La Cantinera (1888, A. Wagner y Levien, Mexiko-Stadt/Friedrich Hofmeister, Leipzig)
  • Carmela (1890, A. Wagner y Levien, Mexiko-Stadt/Friedrich Hofmeister, Leipzig)
  • Ojos negros (1891, A. Wagner y Levien, Mexiko-Stadt/Friedrich Hofmeister, Leipzig)
  • Flores de México (1893, Eduardo Gariel, Saltillo / Robert Forberg, Leipzig)

III. Mazurkas

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

IV Scottish

  • El sueño de las flores (before 1888, A. Wagner y Levien, Mexiko-Stadt/Friedrich Hofmeister, Leipzig)
  • Floricultura - Scots (before 1888, A. Wagner y Levien, Mexiko-Stadt/Friedrich Hofmeister, Leipzig)
  • Lazos de amor (1888, A. Wagner y Levien Sucs. , Mexiko-Stadt/Friedrich Hofmeister, Leipzig)
  • Julia (1890, A. Wagner y Levien Sucs. , Mexiko-Stadt/Friedrich Hofmeister, Leipzig)
  • Salud y pesetas (1890, A. Wagner y Levien Sucs. , Mexiko-Stadt/Friedrich Hofmeister, Leipzig)
  • Juventa (1892, A. Wagner y Levien Sucs. , Mexiko-Stadt/Friedrich Hofmeister, Leipzig)
  • El espirituano (1894, handwriting Archivo Provincial de Sancti Spiritus, Cuba )

V. Danzas

  • A magnifying glass (1888, A. Wagner y Levien, Mexiko-Stadt/Friedrich Hofmeister, Leipzig)
  • En el casino (1888, A. Wagner y Levien, Mexiko-Stadt/Friedrich Hofmeister, Leipzig)
  • Juanita (1888, A. Wagner y Levien, Mexiko-Stadt/Friedrich Hofmeister, Leipzig)
  • No me acuerdo (1888, A. Wagner and Levien, Mexiko-Stadt/Friedrich Hofmeister, Leipzig)
  • ¡ Qué bueno! (1888, A. Wagner y Levien, Mexiko-Stadt/Friedrich Hofmeister, Leipzig)
  • ¿Y qué para? (1888, A. Wagner y Levien, Mexiko-Stadt/Friedrich Hofmeister, Leipzig)
  • Flores de Romana (1893, Eduardo Gariel, Saltillo )
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