Araujo, Luis Gonzaga 1843-1918 Mexico Guanajuato, Salamanca - Zacatecas, Zacatecas
pianist, organist, bandmaster, studied piano with Lorenzo Argimbau, nov.1879 offered his service as professor of piano and singing in the Cronica Municipal de Zacatecas, 1882 settled in Zacatecas, 1887-1912 professor and organist at Colegio de Guadalupe and bandmaster of Banda de Musica del Hospicio de Ninos of Colegio Apostolico de Propaganda Fide in Guadalupe, 15.sep.1894 organized a concert with his students Angela Ilzaibe and Carmen Rosser at teatro provisional en los altos del Mercado, 5.may.1903 he lived in Guadalupe and was later active in Aguascalientes ; son of Teofilo Araujo (Salamanca c1820-c1900 Salamanca)

[some sources give died and buried in Aguascalientes]

Title	Parts

[] Recuerdo a Salamanca. Schottisch. Piano. c1880 pub A. Wagner y Levien, Mexico 1892 pub as Salamanca by National Music Co., Chicago pub as Salamanca by Thomas Goggan & Bro., Galveston	this is a composition for piano solo, but according to Juan Diego Razo Oliva, Zacatecas 2007, Luis wrote the following words to this composition: - Cuanto sufri, cuanto llore, al separarme de ti (How I suffered, how I cried, when I left you) - Oh mi tierra natal, donde a mis padres perdi (Oh my hometown, where I lost my parents) - Oh Salamanca querida, en tu seno naci (Oh dear Salamanca, I was born in your womb) the source and date of these words are not given, but if Luis wrote them together with the music, it would imply his father Teofilo died before c1880
[] O salutaris hostia. Church music. Mezzosoprano or tenor and piano pub A. Wagner y Levien, Mexico 1887
[] El canto del cisne. Schottisch. Piano in El bailen II serie O. pub A. Wagner y Levien, Mexico 1887
[] Una sonrisa. Polka. Piano pub A. Wagner y Levien, Mexico 1888
[] Beldad de la luna. Schottisch. Piano or Military band pub A. Wagner y Levien, Mexico pub Hofmeister, Leipzig 1890
[] Marcha funebre a los martires de la ciencia dedicada a los medicos de Zacatecas composed after the typhus epidemic of 1891-1893
[] Himno escolar dedicado a la inauguracion de las Escuelas Modelo 1897
[] Marcha Zarate. 1907 dedicada al gobernador constitucional Ing. Francisco P. Zarate
[] Ecos perdidos. Schottisch. Piano pub A. Wagner y Levien, Mexico
[] Felicitacion. Mazurka. Piano pub A. Wagner y Levien, Mexico
[] Fanny. Valse. Military band pub A. Wagner y Levien, Mexico
[] Gemidos de mi lira. Schottisch. Piano pub A. Wagner y Levien, Mexico
[] Mariposas viajeras. Polka. Military band pub A. Wagner y Levien, Mexico
[] Marcha reservista dedicada al senor general de division ministro de guerra y marina Bernardo Reyes
[] Vals Panchita
[] Salve, salve, Virgen Santa. Misterio. 2 Sopranos pub A. Wagner y Levien, Mexico
[] Misterios para el rosario
[] Misterios para el mes de Maria

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