Luis Alberti
Luis Felipe Alberti Mieses (born April 19, 1906 in La Vega , † January 26, 1976 in Santiago de los Caballeros ) was a Dominican merengue musician .
Alberti came from a musical family. His great-grandfather Juan Bautista Alfonseca composed the first Dominican national anthem, his mother María Mieses was a piano teacher. As a child, he played cymbals in the orchestra of his hometown before moving to Santa Cruz de Mao with his family. Here he received a classical violin training.
He later moved to Santiago de los Caballeros, where he perfected his violin training. He then played music to accompany silent films and became a member of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Santo Domingo when it was founded in 1932 . In 1936 he became the leader of a merengue jazz band, which was musically linked to the Dominican merengue tipico . For them he composed titles such as Luna sobre el Jaragua , Tu no Podras olvidar , Estampas criollas and Compadre Pedro Juan . The latter became internationally known and played by musicians such as Billo's Caracas Boys , Xavier Cugat , El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico , Wilfrido Vargas , Angel Viloria y Su Conjunto Tipico Cibaeno and Alberto Naranjo & El Trabuco Venezolano.
His orchestra had a regular broadcast on the radio station HI9B , of which Alberti was musical director, and from 1944 it performed regularly at the Hotel Jaragua for ten years . Alberti was also the choir director of the schools of Santiago de los Caballeros, organist at the Santiago Apóstol Cathedral and first violinist of the Compañia Anónima Tabacalera orchestra .
In addition to merengue songs, Alberti also composed orchestral works such as Estampas criollas , a suite for choir and orchestra, Albertiana , Olas , Olas de mar and Scherzando . He also published a collection of children's songs, the textbook Metodo de tambora y güira and the writing Música, músicos y orquestas bailables dominicanas que se destacaron durante la primera mitad del siglo XX
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- El Tren de Yaguaramas- Luis Felipe Alberti Lousy
- Compadre Pedro Juan by Luis Alberti ( Memento from December 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- Music on Luther - On the Move - Program Notes
- Art Music of Caribbean Latin America - Luis Alberti
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| SURNAME | Alberti, Luis |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Alberti Mieses, Luis Felipe |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dominican merengue composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 19, 1906 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | La Vega |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 26, 1976 |
| Place of death | Santiago de los Caballeros |