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Pablo Castellanos León
Pablo Castellanos León ( Mérida, Yucatán, September 27, 1860 – Paris, France, January 28, 1928) was a Mexican pianist, conductor, and music teacher who was a renowned classical musician focusing on the German and French traditions. Biography He was born in Mérida Yucatán on September 27, 1860, the son of Pablo Castellanos y Rendón, a lawyer and politician who served as governor of Yucatán during the caste war, and Mercedes Rodríguez de León y Echazarre. He began his music studies under José Jacinto Cuevas. In 1875, aged fifteen, he arrived in Mexico City, where he studied at the National Conservatory of Music under Melesio Morales. Due to his talent as a pianist, he continued his studies at the Conservatoire de Paris (1880–85), studying under Antoine François Marmontel, whose many distinguished pupils included Claude Debussy, Georges Bizet, and Edward MacDowell. His artistic personality was so prominent within the Paris Conservatoire that Marmontel praised his ...
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Mérida, Yucatán
Mérida () is the capital of the Mexican state of Yucatán, and the largest city in southeastern Mexico. The city is also the seat of the eponymous Municipality. It is located in the northwest corner of the Yucatán Peninsula, about 35 km (22 mi) inland from the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. In 2020 it had a population of 921,770 while its metropolitan area, which also includes the cities of Kanasín and Umán, had a population of 1,316,090. The city's rich cultural heritage is a product of the syncretism of the Maya and Spanish cultures during the colonial era. It was the first city to be ever named American Capital of Culture and is the only city that has received the title twice. The Cathedral of Mérida, Yucatán was built in the late 16th century with stones from nearby Mayan ruins and is known to be the oldest cathedral in the mainland Americas. In addition, the city has the third largest old town district on the continent. In 2007, the city was visited by former U.S ...
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Ricardo Castro
Ricardo Castro Herrera (Rafael de la Santísima Trinidad Castro Herrera) (7 February 1864 – 27 November 1907) was a Mexican concert pianist and composer, considered the last romantic of the time of Porfirio Díaz. Life Castro was born at Hacienda de santa Bárbara, Durango. His father, Vicente Castro, was a deputy congressman; his mother was María de Jesús Herrera. Castro began his music education with Pedro H. Ceniseros. In 1879 his family moved to Mexico City where the boy entered the National Conservatory of Music and studied piano with Juan Salvatierra and Julio Ituarte, He studied harmony and counterpoint with Melesio Morales. He finished all his studies in just 5 years, half of the usual 10. He graduated in 1883. Castro began his musical career as a concert pianist and composer before finishing his studies. In 1882, he won two prizes. At 19, Castro finished his First Symphony in C Minor; the symphony was premiered in 1988, 81 years after his death. In ...
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Nicolás Camára Vales
Nicolás Cámara Vales (1875 — 1956) was a Mexican liberal politician, diplomat and paediatrician who served as Governor of Yucatán on two occasions between 1911 and 1913; after the military putsch known as the Ten Tragic Days, he was forced to resign and go into exile. Having studied medicine in the University of Berlin, he spoke fluent German and during the 1920s, he served as a diplomat stationed in Berlin and Vienna. Having founded the Henequen Regulatory Commission, he later served as its chairman. Family and education Born in Mérida, Yucatán on 25 April 1875, the eldest son of Raymundo Cámara Luján (1850-1919), a wealthy hacienda owner and industrialist who made a fortune during the henequen boom, and María del Vales Castillo (1855-1936). His maternal uncle was Agustín Vales Castillo, a Yucatecan industrialist and banker who served as the Political Head of Mérida during the latter half of the 19th century. A descendant of the House of Cámara, his paternal f ...
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Alfredo Cámara Vales
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Vice President Of Mexico
The office of the vice president of Mexico was first created by the Constitution of 1824, then it was abolished in 1836 by the Seven Constitutional Laws, then briefly restored in 1846 following the restoration of the Constitution of 1824 and lasted a year until 1847 where it was again abolished through a constitutional amendment, it was later restored in 1904 through an amendment to the Constitution of 1857, before being finally abolished by the current Constitution of 1917. Many Mexican vice presidents acted as president during time between the end of the First Mexican Empire and the establishment of the Second Mexican Empire. Vice presidents of Mexico ;Parties See also *President of Mexico **List of heads of state of Mexico References {{Deputy heads of government of North America *List Mexico Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United ...
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José María Pino Suárez
José María Pino Suárez (; September 8, 1869 – February 22, 1913) was a Mexican statesman, lawyer, writer and newspaper proprietor who was a key figure of the Mexican Revolution and served as the 7th and last Vice President of Mexico from 1911 until 1913. A supporter of Francisco I. Madero, he shared in his struggle to democratize the country. After the battle of Ciudad Juárez, he participated in the negotiations that culminated in the collapse of the Porfirian dictatorship. After that, Francisco León de la Barra, the interim president, organized the 1911 presidential elections, described as "peaceful and unquestionably among the cleanest, most enthusiastic, and most democratic in the history of Mexico." Madero and Pino Suárez were elected, respectively, president and vice president, forming an administration described by various sources as the first democratic government in the country.​ In February 1913, the Madero administration was overthrown by a military cou ...
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House Of Cámara
The House of Cámara (also known in Spanish as de la Cámara or in Portuguese as da Câmara or Gonçalves da Câmara) is an Iberian aristocratic family that originates from the early 13th century Kingdom of Castile. The family was originally knighted after fighting under King Ferdinand III of Castile during the Battle of Baeza (1227). In the following centuries, they would serve the Spanish Crown fighting in many of the battles of the Reconquista. A cadet branch of the family established itself in the Kingdom of Portugal. The Portuguese branch are direct descendants of João Gonçalves da Câmara (Zarco), who discovered and conquered the island of Madeira. From the 15th century until the end of the donataries' regime, they maintained the hereditary title of Captain-Major (''Capitães dos Donatários'') on the island of São Miguel in the Azores. Serving the Portuguese Crown, the family received various noble titles, including: Counts of Calheta (1576), Count of Vila Franc ...
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Business Magnate
A business magnate, also known as a tycoon, is a person who has achieved immense wealth through the ownership of multiple lines of enterprise. The term characteristically refers to a powerful entrepreneur or investor who controls, through personal enterprise ownership or a dominant shareholding position, a firm or industry whose goods or services are widely consumed. Such individuals have been known by different terms throughout history, such as industrialists, robber barons, captains of industry, czars, moguls, oligarchs, plutocrats, or taipans. Etymology The term '' magnate'' derives from the Latin word ''magnates'' (plural of ''magnas''), meaning "great man" or "great nobleman". The term ''mogul'' is an English corruption of ''mughal'', Persian or Arabic for "Mongol". It alludes to emperors of the Mughal Empire in Medieval India, who possessed great power and storied riches capable of producing wonders of opulence such as the Taj Mahal. The term ''tycoon'' derives from ...
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Raymundo Cámara Luján
Raymundo Cámara Luján (May 14, 1850 – April 15, 1919) was a Mexican business magnate, investor, financier, landowner and a member of the influential Cámara family. He is considered one of the most prominent members of the Yucatecan oligarchy, known as the divine caste, that was formed during the boom economy that the region experienced at the end of the 19th century and the early 20th century. His business interests ranged across various economics sectors, including the henequen industry, railways, banking, brewing and the exploitation of various raw materials such as chicle, sugarcane, tobacco, cocoa, cotton, banana, vanilla and various forest resources. He was also one of the founders of ''Banco Mercantil de Yucatán, S.A.'', the first bank in the Yucatán Peninsula. When his father died, an event that happened when Cámara Luján was sixteen years old, he became head of the Cámara family, inheriting important estates, including Cancún. Starting in the 1880s, ...
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Mexican Revolution
The Mexican Revolution ( es, Revolución Mexicana) was an extended sequence of armed regional conflicts in Mexico from approximately 1910 to 1920. It has been called "the defining event of modern Mexican history". It resulted in the destruction of the Federal Army and its replacement by a revolutionary army, and the transformation of Mexican culture and Federal government of Mexico, government. The northern Constitutionalists in the Mexican Revolution, Constitutionalist faction prevailed on the battlefield and drafted the present-day Constitution of Mexico, which aimed to create a strong central government. Revolutionary generals held power from 1920 to 1940. The revolutionary conflict was primarily a civil war, but foreign powers, having important economic and strategic interests in Mexico, figured in the outcome of Mexico's power struggles. The United States involvement in the Mexican Revolution, United States played an especially significant role. Although the decades-long r ...
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Anton Rubinstein
Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein ( rus, Антон Григорьевич Рубинштейн, r=Anton Grigor'evič Rubinštejn; ) was a Russian pianist, composer and conductor who became a pivotal figure in Russian culture when he founded the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. He was the elder brother of Nikolai Rubinstein, who founded the Moscow Conservatory. As a pianist, Rubinstein ranks among the great 19th-century keyboard virtuosos. He became most famous for his series of historical recitals—seven enormous, consecutive concerts covering the history of piano music. Rubinstein played this series throughout Russia and Eastern Europe and in the United States when he toured there. Although best remembered as a pianist and educator (most notably in the latter as the composition teacher of Tchaikovsky), Rubinstein was also a prolific composer throughout much of his life. He wrote 20 operas, the best known of which is '' The Demon''. He composed many other works, including five pian ...
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Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt, in modern usage ''Liszt Ferenc'' . Liszt's Hungarian passport spelled his given name as "Ferencz". An orthographic reform of the Hungarian language in 1922 (which was 36 years after Liszt's death) changed the letter "cz" to simply "c" in all words except surnames; this has led to Liszt's given name being rendered in modern Hungarian usage as "Ferenc". From 1859 to 1867 he was officially Franz Ritter von Liszt; he was created a ''Ritter'' (knight) by Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria, Francis Joseph I in 1859, but never used this title of nobility in public. The title was necessary to marry the Princess Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein without her losing her privileges, but after the marriage fell through, Liszt transferred the title to his uncle Eduard in 1867. Eduard's son was Franz von Liszt., group=n (22 October 1811 – 31 July 1886) was a Hungarian composer, pianist and teacher of the Romantic music, Romantic period. With a diverse List of compositions by Franz L ...
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