José Saber Marroquín

José Saber Marroquín (born December 8, 1909 in San Luis Potosí , † September 20, 1995 ) was a Mexican composer and conductor.

As a child, Saber had his first music lessons from his father, the pianist and conductor José Saber Montiel , as well as from Antonio Rodríguez and Gabriel Arriaga . At the age of eight he played as a drummer in an orchestra of his father's music for silent film performances in the Teatro Othón . At the age of thirteen he took over the management of this orchestra, a few years later the management of the jazz orchestra in the Casino of Monterrey. There he met Gonzalo Curiel , who gave him the opportunity to go on a concert tour as the accompanist of Alfonso Ortiz Tirado .

After this trip he settled in Mexico City and from 1932 worked for the radio station XEW. In 1935 he composed his first song Gris based on a text by Ricardo López Méndez , which became known through recordings with Juan Arvizu , Pedro Vargas , Chucho Martínez Gil and Emilio Tuero . On a trip to South America, the song Nocturnal was created in collaboration with the singer José Mojica , which also made him internationally known as a composer. He arranged a version for symphony orchestra in Lima in 1937.

In 1938 Saber founded a string orchestra with which he specialized in the performance of waltzes. Between 1943 and 1966 he appeared in numerous XEW programs and accompanied musicians such as Emilio Tuero , Conchita Martínez , Amanda Ledesma , Mercedes Simona , Mapy and Fernando Cortés . In an eighteen-month series of concerts he accompanied the violinist Henryk Szeryng , the pianists Jorge Bolet and Witold Malkuzinsky and the Mexican artists Luz María Puente , María Teresa Rodríguez , José Kahan , Ramón Vinay and Irma González with a symphony orchestra . For twenty-three years he was musical director of the Revista Musical Nescafé , a Mexican television show in which Agustín Lara , Silvia Pinal , Cantinflas , Pedro Infante , Jorge Negrete , Lucho Gatica , Johnny Mathis , Charles Trenet and Katina Ranieri appeared.

At the RCA Víctor , Orfeón and Musart labels , Saber and his orchestra played recordings with Angélica María , Lucho Gatica , Olga Guillot , Marco Antonio Muñiz , José José , Jorge Fernández , José Luis Caballero , Amparo Montes , Daniel Riolobos , Chucho Martínez Gil and others a. Between 1953 and 1971 he held various managerial positions in the Sociedad de Autores y Compositores de México . In 1968 he was musical director of the Summer Olympics in Mexico City.

With the lyricist Griselda Álvarez , Saber created the anthem for the Central American and Caribbean Games in Santo Domingo in 1974 . The following year he was musical director of the Pan-American Games , for which he composed the anthem, the Canción Panamericana (text by Ricardo "El Vate" López Méndez ) and the official fanfare.

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SURNAME	Saber Marroquín, José
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Mexican composer and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH	December 8, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH	San Luis Potosí
DATE OF DEATH	September 20, 1995