Rafael Bolivar Coronado
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Venezuela
Venezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south...
, on 6 June 1884. He is the author of the lyrics of the popular joropo
Joropo
The Joropo is a musical style resembling the waltz, and an accompanying dance, having African and European influences originated in Venezuela and performed in Colombia and Venezuela. It's a fundamental genre belonging to its typical music or música criolla...
song "Alma Llanera". He arrived in Caracas
Caracas
Caracas , officially Santiago de León de Caracas, is the capital and largest city of Venezuela; natives or residents are known as Caraquenians in English . It is located in the northern part of the country, following the contours of the narrow Caracas Valley on the Venezuelan coastal mountain range...
in 1912 and began to channel his restlessness towards intellectual works, collaborating with the most important Venezuelan publications of that time: El Cojo Ilustrado, El Nuevo Diario, and El Universal.
He meets Pedro Elías Gutiérrez
Pedro Elías Gutiérrez
Pedro Elías Gutiérrez was a Venezuelan musician who is mainly remembered by the joropo song Alma Llanera, whose music he composed.-Life and valoration:...
and wrote the lyrics of the great musical opening of the zarzuela "Alma Llanera" that was released in Caracas
Caracas
Caracas , officially Santiago de León de Caracas, is the capital and largest city of Venezuela; natives or residents are known as Caraquenians in English . It is located in the northern part of the country, following the contours of the narrow Caracas Valley on the Venezuelan coastal mountain range...
in 1914. President Juan Vicente Gómez
Juan Vicente Gómez
Juan Vicente Gómez Chacón was a military general and de facto ruler of Venezuela from 1908 until his death in 1935. He was president on three occasions during this time, and ruled as an unelected military strongman for the rest of the era.-Early years:Gómez was a barely literate cattle herder and...
awarded him with a scholarship for Spain and is there where the originalities of Bolívar Coronado creates a chaos within the literary critic, because he was dedicated to writing and to publishing with pseudonyms, but the pseudonyms that he used were the names of important Venezuelan writers. He wrote and sold to Rufino Blanco Fombona the book Letras Españolas. Historian Rafael Ramón Castellanos, in his book about Bolívar Coronado, says that he used more than six hundred names and among these was the pen name of Daniel Mendoza, who would sign his books "El LLanero". The writer and poet Rafael Bolívar Coronado died in Barcelona, Spain, 31 January 1924, of influenza . He died when he peculiarly wrote "the Deluge" for the Barcelonian news.
See also
- VenezuelaVenezuelaVenezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south...
- Venezuelan culture