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JUVENTINO ROSAS

25thJanuary 1868 --- 9thJuly 1894

Juventino Rosas was born in Santa Cruz, Guanajuato in 1868. Rosa was a Mexican composer, and was best known for playing with dance music
bands,  he also  played the violin.  His interest in  music started when  he was very young,  he came from a very poor  family but his  passion for
music drove  him and he  would do whatever he  could related to music, i.e from  ringing the  church bells to  playing the violin in the street,  to
make money, and earn his living from age 7.

Rosas moved to Mexico city in the early 1880's and would play  the volin in the well known dance bands of the time. the piece  (one of his most
famous piece's) I have sequenced  Sobre las Olas in english Over the Waves composed and published in 1884 or 1888.   Rosas in the late 1880s
began to tour,  and he is  said to have  joined a  military band, and some years later in  1893 he join an orchestra  and toured  through the USA,
performing at the World Columbian Exposition.

Rosas then in 1894 toured around Cuba with a Mexico and Italian ensemble but was taken  ill with a fatal spinal infection and died aged 26, his
remains were not returned to Mexico until around 1909. Rosas composed various Waltzes, Sobre las Olas (1884/8), Polkas, Ojos negros (1891)
Mazurcas, Salud y pesetas (1890), and Danzas, En el Casino (1888).

Last Updated on 2020
By Steven

And now for the Music

New (3164)"Sobre las Olas, known as Over the Waves". Sequenced by Steven Ritchie.

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