Luis Abraham Delgadillo

Luis Abraham Delgadillo was born on August 26, 1887,[1] in Managua, the capital of Nicaragua, where he was first educated.

[2] He then studied music at the Milan Conservatory in Italy at the initiative of the Nicaraguan government, for five years.

[4] From 1921 to 1925 he lived in Mexico City where he taught music theory at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música.

[5] He taught composition in Panama City for two years beginning in 1943,[3] simultaneously editing the journal Armonía.

[4] In 2008 Delgadillo was described in Culture and Customs of Nicaragua as one of the "four most important academic composers in the history of music in Nicaragua", in addition to Alejandro Vega Matus, Carlos Alberto Ramirez, and José de la Cruz Mena.