Alberto Castilla Buenaventura ( Bogotá 9 April 1878 -

Ibagué Ibagué () (referred to as San Bonifacio de Ibagué del Valle de las Lanzas during the Spanish period) is the capital of Tolima, one of the 32 departments that make up the Republic of Colombia. The city is located in the center of the country ...

10 June 1937), was a Colombian composer. He was born in Bogotá. He was also an engineer, journalist, poet, writer, mathematician and musician. He founded the

Conservatory of Tolima The Conservatory of Tolima is one of the most important musical schools in Colombia. Its clearest predecessor was the School of Music for strings and piano founded by the Melendro and Sicard families, which led to the creation of the Coleg ...

in 1906. He composed the famous Bunde of Tolima instrumental music to which Nicanor Velásquez added verses to create what is now the Hymn of the Tolima Department.

References

* Miller, Terry, and Sean Williams. Southeast Asia (Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, Volume 4). 4. Routledge; Har/Com edition (April 1998), 1998. Print. 1878 births 1937 deaths Colombian musicians {{Colombia-musician-stub