Juan Bartolo Tavira
The book "Chronicles of Tierra Caliente" by Ing. Alfredo Mundo Fernández says that Master Juan Bartolo Tavira was born in 1847 in Corral Falso, municipality of Ajuchitlán, Gro. He is the originator of a musical line famous throughout the region.
Maestro Juan Bartolo Tavira is the father of Tierra Caliente folk music, says Ing. Alfredo Mundo Fernández in his book, as it brings together the musical branches that came from Spain and obtains the resultant SON, which puts him at the height of a musical genius and his repertoire is simple and natural. That is why he is considered the Father of the Warm Music. When he was 17 or 18 years old he was a soldier in the forces of General José María Arteaga when he had his headquarters in Huetamo. The 16 of February of 1865 an imperialist force is taken off of Teloloapan and goes to Huetamo and it bombards, but the General Jose Maria Arteaga resists and manages to make to flee to the enemy. There was the young Tavira who, a few years later, composed the most famous GUSTO FEDERAL, the first heated composition, where he says when Arteaga enlisted, the guns were heard that even the earth trembled; also speaks of Santa Anna said there left the dead cock, accustomed to skin when he fled Mexico; also quotes the foreign prince, that is to say Maximilian of Hapsburg that had its empire in Mexico until 1867.
They are parts of his life that got into the famous composition, and says the Eng. World because there are comments that attribute it to Riva Palacio and Isaías Salmerón which can not be, as broken down in his book. In Huetamo the young Tavira was under the orders of General Vicente Riva Palacio, and both of the General Jose Maria Arteaga. Riva Palacio was a young adult of 32 years and Tavira a teenager, and the first was a very educated person who was an excellent poet and storyteller. Surely from the General's lips that young Corral, Tavira, heard words like "the foreign prince" referring to Maximilano, and he was the one who told him some data that he introduced in "The Federal Taste" when he composed it several years later. That is why the confusion that some think is the work of the grandson of General Vicente Guerrero, also Gral. Vicente Riva Palacio. Precisely in Huetamo, General Vicente Riva Palacio founded the newspaper El Pito Real, in which he published his song "Adiós Mama Carlota", the wife of Maximilian of Habsburg "the foreign prince", who wrote there in Huetamo on 14 July 1866, which is a parody of Ignacio Rodríguez Galván's "Goodbye Oh Patria Mía" of 1842. General Riva Palacio was already a character, and if he had written "El Gusto Federal" he would surely have been recorded in history its authorship. Maestro Juan Bartolo Tavira was a virtuoso of the harp, and also dominated the guitar and the violin. Other compositions of the great corralense are "The Verses of San Agustín", "The Malagueña (of Guerrero)", "India of the Soul", "The Bull of Once", "The Tortolita", etc. He was the teacher of Isaías Salmerón de Tlapehuala whose compositions have the undeniable influence of the Maestro Juan Bartolo Tavira, and it is this Tlapehualense who disseminates the folkloric music of Tierra Caliente on a large scale since he lived many years more than the corralense. Master Juan Bartolo Tavira dies at 82 years of age in 1929.
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