Don José Anastasio Estella y Barredo (1870 - 6 April 1943) was a Filipino composer and conductor.
[2] Jose Estella was born in Escolta, Manila in 1870[3] to Spaniard Don José María Agustín Ricardo Estella y Cazorla from Andalusia, Spain and Doña María del Socorro Josefa Antonia Barredo y González from Quiapo, Manila.
He spends his time studying history, visiting different Filipino provinces and exploring the local folk music.
During the American occupation, he made his ragtime and dance compositions such as the California March (1899), Germinales (1908), Manila Carnival Rag (1914), and the Visayan Moon (1922).
[9] Composed in 1905, it was a piece from Estella's zarzuela, "Filipinas para los Filipinos" with Severino Reyes as librettist.