Osmán Pérez Freire (

Santiago Santiago (, ; ), also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile as well as one of the largest cities in the Americas. It is the center of Chile's most densely populated region, the Santiago Metropolitan Region, whose ...

, 29 January 1880 –

Madrid Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the second-largest city in the European Union (EU), and ...

, 2 April 1930) was a

Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east a ...

an composer. Born in Santiago, his family moved to Mendoza, in the desert Cuyo region of western Argentina, in 1886. Freire moved to Spain in the 1920s.James J. Fuld ''The Book of World-famous Music: Classical, Popular, and Folk'', 2000, page 121 "Ay-Ay-Ay :The autograph manuscript of the song is at PAU. This song should not be confused with the Mexican Cielifo Lindo, whose chorus begins, "Ay, ay, ay, ay". Freire was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1878, moved to Mendoza, Argentina, in 1886,"

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Ay-Ay-Ay ''¡Ay, ay, ay!'', subtitled ''Reminiscencias cuyanas'', is a song composed in 1913 by the Chilean-born composer, pianist, singer and publisher Osmán Pérez Freire."Ay-Ay-Ay ...Osman Perez Freire", in J.J. Fuld, ''The Book of World-Famous Music: ...

" song on ''Ay-Ay-Ay'' recital Luigi Alva Decca 1963

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* 1878 births 1930 deaths Musicians from Santiago People from Mendoza, Argentina Argentine composers Chilean emigrants to Argentina Argentine expatriates in Spain {{Argentina-composer-stub