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Fernando Callejo Ferrer
1862–1926
A key figure in Puerto Rico’s musical life, he was remembered as a musician, teacher, and one of the earliest historians of the island’s music. His best-known work traces Puerto Rican music and musicians from the colonial era into the early 20th century.
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Música y Músicos Portorriqueños
by Fernando Callejo Ferrer
About the author
Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in 1862, Fernando Callejo Ferrer built a life around music as a composer, teacher, and writer. Sources about him consistently describe him as an important contributor to Puerto Rican musical culture, and later studies have remembered him as an early historian of the island’s music.
He is best known today for Música y Músicos Portorriqueños, a book that surveys the development of music and musicians in Puerto Rico. Project Gutenberg describes it as a historical account of Puerto Rican music from the colonial period into the early 1900s, which helps explain why the book remains the work most closely associated with his name.
Callejo Ferrer died in 1926. Even in brief modern references, he is still presented not only as an author, but also as a working musician and educator whose writing helped preserve part of Puerto Rico’s cultural history.