Miguel Lerdo de Tejada (composer)

Miguel Lerdo de Tejada ( born September 29, 1869 in Morelia, † May 25, 1941 in Mexico City) was a Mexican composer.

Lerdo de Tejada, the nephew of the politician Miguel Lerdo de Tejada visited two theological seminaries and a military school in Mexico City, but completed no education. He entered the army service he ended after three years.

End of the 1890s began the musical autodidact, working as a pianist in night clubs. In 1901 he founded the Orquesta Típica Mexicana, which appeared in cinemas and restaurants and with which he was invited to the Pan-American Exposition in 1902 to Buffalo. 1913 gave him Victoriano Huerta directing the Típica Banda de los Cuerpos Rurales, with which he made known on international tours Mexican music.

In 1929 he was made President Emilio Portes Gil Head of the Orquesta de la Policía Típica, which is now named after him and with which he participated at the World Exhibition 1933 in Chicago. He recorded the music for the first Mexican talkie Santa in 1932.

His compositions are under the influence of his friends Felipe Villanueva, Manuel María Ponce and Ernesto Elorduy. In addition to numerous, sometimes very popular songs (for example Perjura to a text by Fernando Luna y Drusina, 1901), waltzes, mazurkas, and other dances he composed two zarzuela.

Works

• Las luces de los ángeles, Zarzuela
• Las dormilonas, Zarzuela
• Esther, Song, 1895
• Perjura, song, 1901
• Consentida, song, 1901
• Amparo, ( the Vice-President Ramón Corral dedicated ), 1921
• Paloma blanca, song, 1921
• Las golondrinas, song
• El faisan, waltz

• Composer ( romance )
• Composer of classical music ( 20th century)
• Mexican composer
• Mexican
• Born in 1869
• Died in 1941
• Man