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Rafael Ángel Troyo

Died in 1910

Rafael Ángel Troyo was born on 18 June 1870 in Cartago, the third son of José Ramón Troyo and Dolores Pacheco Ugalde. A pupil at the San Luis Gonzaga school, he studied economics in the United States, then travelled in Europe. At his chalet in Cartago he received artists, musicians and writers passing through, composed music and edited several magazines, one of them with Máximo Soto Hall. He died in Cartago on 4 May 1910, in the earthquake that struck the city, under a beam of the María Auxiliadora church.

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