José María Velasco Maidana

José María Velasco Maidana was born on 4 July 1899 in Sucre. A pioneer of Bolivian fiction film, he founded the production company Urania in 1925 and shot La profecía del lago, banned by the censors and never screened. He then devoted himself to music: his ballet Amerindia, inspired by Aymara folklore, premiered in Berlin in 1938, and in 1940 he founded the Orquesta Sinfónica de Conciertos. Settling in Mexico and then the United States, he conducted in Los Angeles and New York and died in Houston on 6 December 1989.

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• CinemaWara WaraJosé María Velasco Maidana · 1930Cinema