Felipe de Jesús Villanueva Gutiérrez

Felipe de Jesús Villanueva Gutiérrez or Felipe Villanueva (born the February 5th 1862 with Tecámac, Mexico - died the May 28th 1893) was a type-setter, Violoniste and Mexican Pianiste of indigenous ascent of the end of the 19th century, which, if he were a specialist recognized in the Mazurka, Musical genre in which he perhaps expressed best his talent and to which he owes a good portion of its reputation, also composed of the Motet S, the opera S, the Zarzuela S.

Biography

Felipe Villanueva was born with Tecámac, a small village of the District of Otumba, in Mexico. He was the son of Zenón Villanueva and Francisca Gutiérrez de Villanueva. The Felipe young person was initiated as of his more young age with the Musique by his cousin, Carmen Villanueva, who was organist of the church of Tecámac. His musical inclination was discovered whereas it was only one whole small child while observing his behavior when it looked at his Luis older brother playing empirically of the Violon.

Later, Hermenegildo Pineda which had in load the orchestra of the village taught him the rudiments of the Harmonie and the composition. He wrote his first works at the ten years age: a Cantata ( Al cleaned hidalgo ) and a Mazurka ( Despedida ).

The provisions and facilities which showed the Villanueva young person for the music encouraged his/her father to send it to Mexico City, so that he studies with the Conservatoire national . But it was not allowed in this institution because of its indigenous ascent and its rural origin. That caused a deep wound in him, and it renonça for always trying to enter this academy if scorning in its connection.

Felipe then decided to take particular lessons near a professor of music, Antonio Valle. He became at the same time his pupil and his host, because he lived in his professor. But, there still, it did not obtain, on behalf of the Valle family, that marks of contempt because of its modest origin.

Marked by these failures, and the bitterness in the middle, Felipe Villanueva turned over, at only thirteen years, in its birthplace, decided well to continue to study the music, but in Autodidacte.

The invitation which its former professor Hermenegildo Pineda made him, to reinstate the small orchestra of the village, where he had played before his departure for the capital, was stimulative, which contributed to bandage the wounds, and he accepted it with joy!

But his/her father had not given up offering to his son the best possibilities of studies. After having wiped a new refusal while trying to obtain its admission with the Institute Toluca , he arrived, thanks to the invaluable assistance of his friend Valentín Hernández, to make accommodate Felipe at Luis Rodríguez, which found to him an engagement in the orchestra of the Teatro Hidalgo . The director took the young musician under his protection and became to some extent his Master.

Thanks to this help, Villanueva was devoted with eagerness to the study of the Harmonie, the Instrumentation and the composition, working on partitions of Berlioz.

Felipe Villanueva had a particular predilection for the musics German and French. But, he did not scorn the music of his country. Among his most known works, one can quote the “ poetic Valse ” and the “ Valse of love ”.

With musicians as Gustavo E. Camped, Juan Hernández, Juventino Rosas and Ricardo Castro, Felipe Villanueva sought to create a music with deep popular roots. In 1886, the group of the six , of which it formed part, founded the musical Institut , in reaction to the too élitiste and closed attitude Conservatoire national .

He died the May 28th 1893, old of only 31 years.

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