Tomás León

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Tomás León Ortega (born December 21, 1826 in Mexico City , † March 18, 1893 ibid) was a Mexican composer and pianist .

Life

As a child, León had piano lessons from his mother and was later a student of the organist José María Oviedo . At the age of fourteen he was organist at the Church of San Felipe Neri . In 1854 he was a member of the jury alongside Agustín Balderas and José Antonio Gómez , which decided on the tender for the composition of the Mexican national anthem (text: Francisco González Bocanegra ).

After performing at the Dutch court in 1854, León gained an international reputation as a pianist. In addition to the works of Bach , Beethoven and Haydn , his repertoire also included the piano arrangements of operas by Rossini and Verdi , which were popular at the time, and the revolutionary works of Chopin . In 1856 he performed with the pianist Oscar Pfeifer with his imagination on themes from the opera Ernani . Other of his musical partners were the violinists Frantz Jehin-Prume and José White Lafitte .

In 1866 León was a founding member of the Sociedad Filarmónica and became a teacher at its conservatory. In 1881 he received a prize from the City of Mexico for his composition Flores Mexicana . In 1993, the Centro Nacional de Inverstigación, Documentación e Información Musical "Carlos Chavéz" published a facsimile edition of his piano works.

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SURNAME León, Tomás
ALTERNATIVE NAMES León Ortega, Tomás (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mexican composer and pianist
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1826
PLACE OF BIRTH Mexico city
DATE OF DEATH March 18, 1893
Place of death Mexico city