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Guillermo Posadas

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Mexican composer (1886–1937)

Guillermo Posadas (1886–1937) was a Mexican composer. He composed the Mexican folk song "Noche Feliz" ("Happy Night"), recorded by the Italian tenor Enrico Caruso and sung in Spanish. The song "Noche Feliz" describes a night with Posadas's wife María, and love with his soul. Posadas was also a musical arranger and assistant director of an orquesta típica in New York, who worked with Mexican singer Carmen Garcia Cornejo, and composer Miguel Lerdo de Tejada.

References

  1. Koegel, John (2006). "Mexican Musicians in California and the United States, 1910–50". California History. 84 (1): 26. doi:10.2307/25161856. JSTOR 25161856.


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