Ramon Emilio Peralta

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Ramón Emilio Peralta (* 1868 in Santiago de los Caballeros ; † September 7, 1941 ibid) was a Dominican composer, conductor, music teacher and saxophonist.

Peralta studied with José Feliú and Rafael Ildefonso Arté . From 1905 he directed the newly founded city orchestra and the music academy of Santiago, from which musicians such as Julio Alberto Hernández , Manuel Feliú , Federico Camejo and José Martinez emerged . With the Banda Municipal he performed works such as Tchaikovsky's overture solennelle 1812 , Bizet's L'Arlésienne and Mendelssohn's Hebridean overture .

Peralta composed pasodobles, waltzes, polonaises, polkas and an unfinished zarzuela based on a text by Pedro María Archambault .

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