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2 unusual facts about José Asunción Flores


Rigoberto Fontao Meza

His high composer attributes where useful to being the first author of the verses of the first guaranias composed by the creator of that revolutionary Paraguayan style, José Asunción Flores, whom he maintained a long and strong friendship, ruined later by a disagreement between them related to the guarania "India".

He gained the friendship of many composers of his time, being José Asunción Flores maybe the most famous of them.


Nicolino Pellegrini

In 1912 he founded the Police marching band of Asunción and eventually formed the finest Paraguayan composers and musicians such as Agustín Pío Barrios, José Asunción Flores (teach the foundations for the guarania), Remberto Giménez and Herminio Giménez.


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