Laudelino Mejías, (
Trujillo, Venezuela
Trujillo is the capital city of Trujillo State in Venezuela.
About 40,000 people live in this city, located in El Valle de Los Mukas.
History
Founded by one of the "Conquistadores de America", Diego García de Paredes (1506–1563), Diego Garc ...
, August, 1893-
Caracas, Venezuela
Caracas ( , ), officially Santiago de León de Caracas (CCS), is the capital and largest city of Venezuela, and the center of the Metropolitan Region of Caracas (or Greater Caracas). Caracas is located along the Guaire River in the northern p ...
, November 30, 1963) was a
Venezuela
Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many Federal Dependencies of Venezuela, islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea. It com ...
n composer, best known for the
waltz
The waltz ( , meaning "to roll or revolve") is a ballroom dance, ballroom and folk dance, in triple (3/4 time, time), performed primarily in closed position. Along with the ländler and allemande, the waltz was sometimes referred to by the ...
''Conticinio''.
See also
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Conticinio
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Venezuelan music
Several styles of the traditional music of Venezuela, such as Salsa music, salsa and Venezuelan merengue, merengue, are common to its Caribbean neighbors. Perhaps the most typical Venezuelan music is joropo, a rural form which originated in th ...
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Venezuelan waltz
The Venezuelan waltz is a hall dance and accompanying musical genre that was popularized in 19th-century Venezuela. Federico Villena is considered as the father of the Venezuelan Waltz, which changed the European waltz in form, and by adding Afr ...
External links
Venciclopedia: Laudelino MejíasVenciclopedia: Conticinio
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1893 births
1963 deaths
Musicians from Caracas
Venezuelan composers
Venezuelan male composers
20th-century Venezuelan composers
20th-century male musicians
20th-century Venezuelan folk musicians