EMILIO MURILLO CHAPUL

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Emilio Murillo Chapul (Guateque, April 19, 1880 - Bogotá, August 9, 1942). In addition to being an outstanding composer, he was also an exceptional tip player and performer of string instruments, flute and piano. Disciple of the Master Pedro Morales Pino, who said that Murillo "carried within himself the incurable microbe of music”, he has been cataloged as the apostle of Colombian music nationalism for his desire to spread it outside and inside the country. From the age of 16 he was a fellow member of the cultural bohemia centers of Bogotá, in which he shared with great personalities of our culture and our music like Pedro Morales Pino, Alejandro Wills, Gonzalo Fernández, Julio Flórez, the “blind” Escamilla, Luis A. Calvo, Fulgenio Garcia, Guillermo Quevedo, Jeronimo Velasco, Federico Rivas Frade, Enrique Álvarez Henao, Climaco Soto Borda, Ismael Enrique Arciniegas, Jorge Pombo, Alberto Escobar, Arturo Patiño, Jorge Rubiano, Eustacio Rosales, Ricardo Cuberos, Jorge Añez, Ricardo Acevedo Bernal and many others, in famous places of the time as "La Gruta Simbólica", "La Gran Vía", "La Gata Golosa" and "La Cuna de Venus". He was the discoverer of the brothers Carlos Julio and Alcira Ramírez, two of the great glories of national song and the first teacher of the singer Matilde Diaz. He wrote in the most important media citizens on cultural issues. In 1905 he founded the “Estudiantina Murillo” and its singers were Patiño and Wills. It is estimated at 500 number of musical works

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