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G. E. 59 Julio J. Otermin & Trio de Guitarras de Uruguay 1912 CD $17.00
Julio J. Otermin was a professor and composer of guitar music. He resides in Montevideo, Uruguay. In 1906 he studied with the Spanish guitar professor Pedro Maza, then at the time, also residing in the same capital. He has two works published, "Un Sueño" and "Perlas de Uruguay", the latter, which obtained the Primer Premio-Certamen España- Celebrado en Montevideo (First Prize-Spanish Composition Competition-Celebrated in Montevideo). Both of the compositions are Boston waltzes, of a well achieved movement and and relative musical value. This short biography is translated from the "Diccionario de Guitarristas" by Domingo Prat, published in 1934 by Romero y Fernandez. Both of the musical compositions mentioned by Domingo Prat were listed in the 1931 Antigua Casa Nuñez catalog. In Richard "Rico" Stover's "Six Silver Moonbeams-The Life and Times of Agustin Barrios Mangoré" on page 43, he mentions a concert in the fall (March, April, May) of 1912 organized by Carlos Trapani, where Agustin Barrios as well as Julio Otermin and the Spanish guitarist Francisco Calleja performed in Montevideo. In listening to original works by Otermin such as "Nocturno" it is easy to make note of the concert level composition of his creative ability. There is nothing well known about the other two members of the Trio de Guitarras de Uruguay: Carlos M. Quintana and Anastasio Méndez. In that Julio J. Otermin was a professor, it may be considered that they were advanced students of his, until further verification may be found. They undeniably created a very lively and popular sound at the beginning of the World War I (The Great War) period of time.
This is an update written on January 29, 2010. This CD was released in the summer of 2005, the record dealer I purchased these discs from thought they were made between 1915-1919.
The earliest of these recordings were made on January 23, 1912 by the Trío de Guitarras de Uruguay and Julio J. Otermin's 18 solos on February 1 and 2, 1912.
Julio J. Otermin's 18 guitar solos were recorded some 14 months before the release of the 1st recordings by Agustin Barrios on March 31, 1913. This now corrects the perception that Barrios was the 1st guitarist to extensively record including Julio's recordings of the Minuet in Do and the Adagio and Allegro from Fernando Sor's Op. 25 Second Grand Sonata.
This information is from: The Encyclopedic Discography of Victor Recordings (EDVR) website. The database is edited by a team of researchers based at the University of California, Santa Barbara Libraries. http://victor.library.ucsb.edu/
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