Victor Wotzbeli Aguilar
Born in Huehuetenango on June 14, 1897, son of Trinidad and Mrs. Porfirio Solorzano Aguilar. (Her father to enroll in the registry office, did not sign the birth certificate, so that the book has its registered name appears only with the mother’s maiden name). Wotzbelí being very small, the family moved to Quetzaltenango Aguilar, and the land was his studies at the Institute for Men of the West (INVO) to keep pace with musical studies at the beginning with Manuel Sandoval and later with Jesus Castillo.
Instruments of choice were the piano and guitar, which was especially happy to transform Guatemalan air are in a movement similar to the quick support of the march written compas 6 / 8, which gave rise to the the pace of creating “guarimba” that with great pride for Guatemalans are currently estimated to represent the music as mixed race. This is considered so because it has characteristics are Chapin, accompanied rhythmic and tonal adaptations of European music.
Wotzbelí Aguilar is the composer of light music that has penetrated the consciousness of the Guatemalan people, for their specific style of bar the use of six eighths (commonly called six of eight), which seems to be embodied in the spirit of native merge with the conqueror.
Of his works are well known: “Utz pin pin”; “Actualidad”; “La Cruz del Cerrito”; “Añoranza”; “Occidente”; “Tristezas Quetzaltecas”; “La patrona de mi pueblo”; “Los trece”, etc., melodies that are heard so far in our constantly marimbas.
Went beyond the boundaries homeland, disseminating their musical talent abroad. Quetzaltengo ceased to exist in the July 4, 1940.
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