Heraclio Fernández
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| Born | 1851 Maracaibo, Venezuela |
| Died | 1886 La Guaira, Venezuela |
Heraclio Fernández Noya (Maracaibo, 1851 - La Guaira, 1886), was a Venezuelan musician, best known for the composition El Diablo Suelto.
From a very young age resided in La Guaira with his father Manuel Maria Fernández, from whom received his first piano lessons. In Caracas founded the newspaper El Zancudo, a weekly magazine whose first number circulated on 9 January, 1876. On 10 October, 1884 the bi-weekly magazine El Museo started publication; in each issue it published a piece of music of some composer of the day as well as musical literary works of a satirical-humoristic type, that Fernández signed with the name of El Zancudo in that magazine. On Saint Joseph's day (19 March), 1888, El Diablo Suelto was published. This was a waltz-joropo composed by Heraclio Fernández; its score was located and published by Alirio Diaz and later by Jose Peñín, editor and director of the Dictionary of Spanish and Hispano-American Music and the Encyclopedia of Music in Venezuela.
The only exemplar of his work “New method to learn to accompany the piano” is kept in the National Library of Venezuela, and other printed materials. His pieces “Misa a dos voces”, the waltzes “Ecos del corazón”, “Las variaciones sobre el araguato”, “Happy New Year”, “Al General Francisco Alcántara” and the dances “La juguetona”, “Violetas sensitivas”, “No me olvides” y “Recuerdos del teatro Naar” constitute part of Venezuelan traditional repertoire.
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- Heraclio Fernández - Saborgaitero.com
