The Councilor for Culture, Eulalia Moreno, has raised a motion to the January plenary session in which she proposes to dedicate the year 2017 to the figure of the composer and musician totanero Juan Miguel Marín Camacho, so that during this exercise various activities , In collaboration with the Orchestra of the Brotherhood of Our Lady of Sorrows.
To this end, it is proposed, in the motion of the edil, to create a commission that will carry out the proposal of the different activities and that will coordinate the realization of the same ones.
According to the motion, there are many occasions in which certain figures that should be celebrated may go unnoticed by the majority of the population.
This is the case of Juan Miguel Marín Camacho, an extraordinary totanero musician of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century
Biography musician totanero
Juan Miguel Marín Camacho Totana, June 24, 1867, Totana May 13, 1929. His parents were Francisco Javier Marín Vera and Ãgueda Camacho Pallarés.
He had only one older sister, Casilda.
He began his musical studies with the teacher Casamitjana and Peyró who at that time was the director of the Municipal Band of Music of Totana.
Still very young, he held the post of organist in the convent of San Buenaventura, run by the Capuchin Fathers.
Later he moved to Madrid to expand his musical studies at the National School of Music (now Real Conservatory), where he studied piano, harmony and composition.
At the death of his father he returned to Totana to take care of his family.
On April 22, 1904 he married Genara Cayuela Aledo, with whom he had two children: Ãgueda and Francisco Marín Cayuela.
Friend and companion of the other great musician totanero of the time, Don Marcos Ortíz.
(In the books that were rescued from the Dolorosa, you can see how they took turns the direction of the municipal band in the parades of Holy Week)
Soon after, he was appointed organist of the archpriest church of Santiago el Mayor and director of the Municipal Music Band and, in turn, he taught in the schools of the Three Hail Marys (San Buenaventura) and La Milagrosa (Daughters of Charity) .
Despite having important job offers both in Madrid and in several Spanish cities, which could have made him reach a position of relevance in the world of music, he preferred to develop his musical work in his hometown.
Juan Miguel Marín Camacho specially cultivated the compositions of religious nature and the funeral marches, not forgetting chamber music.
It participated in important contests, in which it obtained numerous laurels.
Thanks to this his prestige crossed the local and provincial borders.
He composed a lot of pasodobles, marches, minuets, tangos, fox-trots, chotis, cuplés, mazurcas, one-step, polcas, waltzes, funeral marches and, above all, religious music.
In 1890 he founded the Orchestra of the Brotherhood of the Dolorosa, composing for her famous pasionary marches which, even today, are interpreted both in Holy Week in Totana and in other localities.
Among his extensive production are: Berceuse, Elevation, Prayer, Crucifixion, Martyrdom, The Samaritan, The Cantar, La Dolorosa, La Magdalena, Verbum-Caro, Preghiera, Stabat-Mater, Salve, Rides to Saint Joseph and the Virgin, Matilde , Ideal, Maria, Rondinella, For one piece, Espirit, Murmuring, Conchita, Colombia, Aguedita, El Mazarronero, Clementina, El Vaso, Maruja, The Legionaries and Petit two step.
His composition Flower of the flowers, obtained the prize of the Association of Teachers of Music of San Sebastián.
In 1912 he won the contest held in Murcia in honor of the Count of Floridablanca, with the passodoble Floridablanca, for band and sextet.
In 1913 the Circle of Fine Arts of Murcia awarded him for his Minueto for string quartet.
Four years later, with the passodoble for band Héctor and Achilles, won the contest of the Council of Explorers.
In 1920 he won the unique prize of the contest of Teruel, celebrated on the occasion of a Flower Games, for a work entitled Triumphal March.
Despite all of the above, Don Juan Miguel Marín has not had the relevance or recognition that, undoubtedly, deserves;
And this is why this motion is presented to dedicate this year to its figure.
