Jorge Bravo de Rueda (September 13, 1895 – November 22, 1940) was a

Peru Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pac ...

vian pianist and composer. He was born in

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. Inspired by the

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s of

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, he composed the internationally popular tune for

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and

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s "Vírgenes del Sol" (sometimes erroneously "Virgines del Sol", meaning: Virgins of the Sun): possibly the second best-known Peruvian song worldwide after "

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", it was covered by dozens of interpreters, among others Yma Súmac, Los Calchakis, and Los Chacos. , the

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has a project for a "Universidad Nacional Jorge Bravo de Rueda Querol" named in his honor. He died in the

Rímac District Rímac (pronunciation: ), known until the 19th century as the neighbourhood of San Lázaro, is a district in the Lima Province, Peru. It lies directly to the north of downtown Lima, to which it is connected by six bridges over the Rímac River. ...

of Lima, Peru.

References

"Sobre Jorge Bravo de Rueda"
(in Spanish) down in the page
Congress of Peru document about the University proposal
(in Spanish)

External links

in free

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, coded by Ricardo M. Serrano
A list of 38 covers of "Virgenes del Sol"
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