VILLANUEVA, Felipe

Full name: Felipe de Jesús Villanueva Gutiérrez 

Born February 5, 1862 in Santa Cruz Tecamac, Mexico 
Died May 28, 1893, Mexico City 

• Villanueva was a Mexican violinist, pianist, and composer. He studied at the National Conservatory of Music in Mexico City.¹
• Along with Gustavo Campa and several other Mexican composers,² Villanueva formed a “Group of Six” dedicated to Mexican nationalism in music. In 1887 Villanueva, Campa and others founded a new Mexican school of music for young people.³
• Villanueva created the musical genre of danza mexicana. It was partly inspired by the contradanza habanera, popularized by Ignatio Cervantes.⁴
• Short biography from Naxos 

1. “Villanueva Gutiérrez, Felipe,” Latin American Classical Composers: a Biographical Dictionary, ed. Gary Galván, Martha Furman Schleifer (London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016), 669.
2. Robert Stevenson, “Campa, Gustavo E(milio),” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed August 25, 2021, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000004667.
3. “Villanueva Gutiérrez, Felipe,”in Latin American Classical Composers: a Biographical Dictionary, 669. 
4. Ibid.