Agustin Lara

Lara statue in Madrid ( H. Peraza , 1975).

Ángel Agustín María Carlos Fausto Mariano Alfonso del Sagrado Corazón Lara y Aguirre del Pino , called Agustín Lara (born October 30, 1897 in Mexico City ; † November 6, 1970 ibid) was a Mexican composer and singer.

Life

Lara was the creator of several Bolero music classics . Even as a teenager, he was earning pocket money as a piano player in nightclubs, which prompted his father to send him to a military academy.

After completing this school career, Lara continued his musician career and at the end of the 1920s was given the opportunity to create her own radio program. Since he mostly played his own compositions on this show, his works were quickly distributed. The main focus of Lara's work is on romantic pieces in the Bolero style, his oeuvre amounts to around 700 compositions, all of them (art) songs, including a cycle of songs about Spanish cities.

In addition to composing, he has appeared in around 30 films and was a media star in Mexico. He composed the music for the first Mexican sound film Santa in 1932.

He is buried in Mexico City in the Rotonda de las Personas Ilustres .

From 1945 to 1947 Agustín Lara was in a relationship with the film actress María Félix (1914–2002), for whom he wrote the song María Bonita . Lara's sister was the singer and composer María Teresa Lara (1904-1984).

Works (selection)

Granada
Valencia
Veracruz
Maria Bonita
Lágrimas de Sangre
Lamento Jarocho
Farolito
Mujer
Noche Criolla
Solamente Una Vez (You Belong To My Heart) (1941)

literature

Gerard Béhague: Lara, Agustín. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 10 (Kemp - Lert). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2003, ISBN 3-7618-1120-9 , Sp. 1210–1211 ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
Andrew Grant Wood: Agustin Lara: A Cultural Biography . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2014, ISBN 978-0-19-989245-7 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).

Web links

Commons : Agustín Lara - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Andrew Grant Wood: Agustin Lara: A Cultural Biography . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2014, ISBN 978-0-19-989245-7 , p. 20 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
↑ according to different information: October 30, 1900 in Tlacotalpan , Veracruz , Mexico
↑ Andrew Grant Wood: Agustin Lara: A Cultural Biography . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2014, ISBN 978-0-19-989245-7 , p. 152 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).

personal data
SURNAME	Lara, Agustín
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Lara y Aguirre del Pino, Ángel Agustín María Carlos Fausto Mariano Alfonso del Sagrado Corazón (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Mexican composer and singer
DATE OF BIRTH	October 30, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH	Mexico city
DATE OF DEATH	November 6, 1970
Place of death	Mexico city

[1] Andrew Grant Wood: Agustin Lara: A Cultural Biography . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2014, ISBN 978-0-19-989245-7 , p. 20 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).

[2] rding to different information: October 30, 1900 in Tlacotalpan , Veracruz , Mexico

[3] Andrew Grant Wood: Agustin Lara: A Cultural Biography . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2014, ISBN 978-0-19-989245-7 , p. 152 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).