Cenobio Paniagua

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Cenobio Paniagua y Vásques (born September 30, 1821 in Tlalpujahua , † November 2, 1882 in Córdoba ) was a Mexican composer.

Life

Paniagua completed a violin training and became Second Conductor of the Orchestra of the Cathedral of Mexico City . There he founded a music academy. He later lived in Havana and from 1868 in Córdoba.

He composed several operas , including Catalina de Guisa , the oratorio Tobías and around seventy masses and wrote music theory writings.

literature

  • Alfred Baumgartner: Propylaea World of Music - The Composers - A lexicon in five volumes . tape 4 . Propylaen Verlag, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-549-07830-7 , pp. 249 .