Aniceto Ortega

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Aniceto Ortega Villar (1825–1875)

Aniceto de los Dolores Luis Gonzaga Ortega del Villar (17 April 1825 – 17 November 1875) was a Mexican physician, composer, and pianist. Although he had a distinguished career as a physician and surgeon,[1] he is also remembered today for his 1871 opera Guatimotzin, one of the earliest Mexican operas to use a native subject.[2] He is related to the Colonial Administrator and Archbishop of Nueva Espana, who became the Viceroy of Nueva Espana twice over. He became Conde del Peñasco by way of marriage, and was a Conde del Oploca by way of birth, amongst other titles.

Biography

Ortega, Aniceta, fl. ca. 1860.

Aniceto Ortega was born in

Escuela Nacional de Medicina in Mexico City. There he specialised in obstetrics and gynaecology and received his degree in 1845. After further medical studies in Paris, he went on to become a professor at the medical school in Mexico City and was one of the founders (and later Director) of Mexico's first hospital for women and children, the Casa de Maternidad e Infancia.[4]

Ortega also had a parallel career as a musician. His first composition the Marcha Zaragoza (1862), was named for the Mexican patriot and general,

Aztec emperor, Cuauhtémoc, was one of the earliest Mexican operas to use a native subject.[2] Guatimotzin premiered on 13 September 1871 at the Gran Teatro Nacional in Mexico City, with Ángela Peralta and Enrico Tamberlik
in the leading roles.

Aniceto Ortega died at the age of 50 on 17 November 1875 in Mexico City and was buried in the chapel of the Escuela Nacional de Medicina.

Pachuca, Hidalgo
, bears his name.

Partial list of works

Sheet music for Zaragoza and Brillante, published in 1875 by Pond & Co, New York
Piano
  • Invocación a Beethoven
  • Elegía, amor e inocencia
  • Romanza sin palabras
  • El canto de la huilota
  • Recuerdo de amistad (dedicated to the Mexican virtuouso pianist and composer, Tomás León)
Waltzes
Marches
  • Zaragoza
  • Potosina
  • Republicana
Opera
  • Guatimotzin (in 9 scenes to a libretto by José Cuellar)

Notes and references

  1. ^ Elías (2007) p. 140. Quote: "Dr. D. Aniceto Ortega (1825-1875), médico innovador, patriota, nacionalista, poeta humanista, músico y compositor, además de distinguido cirujano, partero y docente de la propia Escuela de Medicina" (Dr. Aniceto Ortega (1825-1875), pioneering physician, patriot, nationalist, humanist poet, musician and composer as well as a distinguished surgeon, obstetrician, and professor at the [National] Medical School)
  2. ^ a b Grout (2003) p. 561
  3. ^ Sierra (1985) pp. 140-141)
  4. ^ Elías (2007), pp. 140 and 142
  5. ^ a b Stevenson
  6. ^ Sosa (2005)

Sources

  • Elías, Roberto Uribe, La cirugía mexicana en ginecología y obstetricia durante el siglo XIX, Cirugía y Cirujanos, Vol. 75, No. 2, March–April 2007, pp. 139–144 (accessed 26 March 2010, in Spanish)
  • Grout, Donald Jay and Williams, Hermine Weigel, A short history of opera, Columbia University Press, 2003.
    ISBN 0-231-11958-5
  • Sierra, Justo (ed.), "Francisco Ortega", Antología del Centenario (originally published in 1910),
    ISBN 968-837-513-6
    (in Spanish)
  • Sosa, José Octavio, "Ortega, Aniceto"[permanent dead link], Diccionario de la Ópera Mexicana, Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, 2005 (reprinted on operacalli.com with permission of the author) (accessed 26 March 2010, in Spanish)
  • Stevenson, Robert (2001). "Ortega del Villar, Aniceto". In
    ISBN 978-1-56159-239-5
    .    ‎
  • Velázquez, Jorge, El pianismo mexicano del siglo XIX, Anales del Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, Vol. XIII, No. 50, 1982, pp. 205–240 (accessed 26 March 2010, in Spanish)

External links

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