Harpist and Composer

        He was born in Hyaty, Guairá November 20 1908. It is the most excellent figure in the country in the interpretation, development of the technique, and music composition for harp. It is not known their teachers, it began their career like self taught, executing the instrument in religious parties and laymen. It integrated a trio with Ampelio Villalba and Diosnel Chase, and the poet's support Pedro José Carlés, in 1928, with which moved to the capital, and it was presented in the festivals of music folklórica, organized in the Seeded Theater, by Aristóbulo Nonón Dominguez, and in night local. In 1931 it left with the group to Buenos Aires Argentina where it carried out most of their artistic activity. This tour to the Buenos Aires capital, was constituted in the first one carried out by musicians from the Paraguay, giving beginning to a lingering presence of countrymen, for more than half century, in Buenos Aires. It was integral of several groups, until in 1945 it formed their own grouping. As virtuoso of the harp and composer climbed positions quickly. In the Buenos Aires capital and the River of the Silver, he enjoyed extraordianria fame, to the point that in the Argentinean city of Mendoza, a street takes its name. It recorded numerous disks and creó their most transcendent compositions, immortalizing among other, their version of the polka Guyra bell (Bird bell), diffused internationally.

        Their contribution to the evolution and popularization of the harp praguaya was valuable, since it developed technical aspects, as the amplification of the sound spectrum, through the attaché of more

number of strings, independence of hands, accompaniment with chords broken for the Paraguayan polka, and amplification of the technical resources of the right hand (chords and melodies with the five fingers, shakes, glisandos and other effects).

        It died in Buenos Aires June 9 1952. Their mortal remains rest in their native town that at the present time takes their name.

        Among their more outstanding compositions they are: Guyra Campana (summary), Llegada, Burrerita y Pasionaria (with text of Antonio Ortíz Mayans), Tren lechero, Che valle mí Yaguarón, Dos sesentas granaderos (diffused in the Argentina like a true popular Hymn) Con letra de Hilario Cuadros, Jataity, Mi despedida, Okara poty kue my, Che rendumi, Angela Rosa, Coronel Martínez, Teniente Luis Velilla, Mariposa mí, En ti halle consuelo, Lejos sin ti, Sueño de Angelita, Che la reina, Primero de marzo, Olda pasional with text of Emiliano R, Fernández, Primavera, Oñondivemi, El arriero with letter of Rigoberto Fontao Meza and others.