Miguel Lerdo de Tejada (composer)
Miguel Lerdo de Tejada (born September 29, 1869 in Morelia , † May 25, 1941 in Mexico City ) was a Mexican composer.
Lerdo de Tejada, the nephew of the politician Miguel Lerdo de Tejada, attended two theological seminars and a military school in Mexico City, but did not complete any training. He entered the army service, which he finished after three years.
The self-taught musician began working as a pianist in nightclubs at the end of the 1890s. In 1901 he founded the Orquesta Típica Mexicana , which appeared in cinemas and restaurants and with which he was invited to the Panamerican Exposition in 1902 in Buffalo . In 1913 Victoriano Huerta made him head of the Banda Típica de los Cuerpos Rurales , with which he made Mexican music known on international tours.
In 1929 the President Emilio Portes Gil appointed him head of the Orquesta Típica de la Policía , which is named after him today and with which he took part in the 1933 World Exhibition in Chicago . He played the music for the first Mexican sound film Santa in 1932.
His compositions are influenced by his friends Felipe Villanueva , Manuel María Ponce and Ernesto Elorduy . In addition to numerous, sometimes very popular songs (for example Perjura based on a text by Fernando Luna y Drusina , 1901), waltzes, mazurkas and other dances, he also composed two zarzuelas .
Works
- Las luces de los ángeles , Zarzuela
- Las dormilonas , Zarzuela
- Esther , Lied, 1895
- Perjura , Lied, 1901
- Consentida , Lied, 1901
- Amparo , (dedicated to Vice-President Ramón Corral ), 1921
- Paloma blanca , song, 1921
- Las golondrinas , song
- El faisan , waltz
Web links
- Sheet music and audio files by Miguel Lerdo de Tejada (composer) in the International Music Score Library Project
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lerdo de Tejada, Miguel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Mexican composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 29, 1869 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Morelia |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 25, 1941 |
| Place of death | Mexico city |