A Tegueste musician, composer and conductor remembered for Lo Divino, his religious arrangements and his musical teaching in Tegueste and La Laguna.
Fermín Cedrés Hernández was a musician, composer, conductor and music teacher linked to Tegueste and La Laguna, especially remembered for his musical compilation and adaptation of Lo Divino.
Open biographyMunicipal sources place him as director of the Banda Musical of Sociedad El Porvenir and of the small Orchestra and Choir of the Ateneo de La Laguna. His activity combined conducting, musical arrangement, teaching and choral work linked to the musical life of Tegueste and La Laguna.
His importance lies in having fixed a reference repertory for the Christmas carol Lo Divino and in having transmitted a local musical memory that remains alive in December in the Canary Islands.
His work moves between choral arrangements, religious music, short band pieces and the adaptation of popular melodies for devotional and festive use.
The repertoire documented here focuses on Lo Divino, litanies, prayers, waltzes and short band pieces. The selection does not aim to close a complete catalogue of his work.
His legacy is that of a locally rooted composer whose adaptation of Lo Divino became part of Canarian Christmas memory.
The Canarian connection lies in Tegueste, in La Laguna and in the popular spread of Lo Divino across the archipelago.
Villancico canario de referencia cuyo arreglo se asocia a su nombre en la memoria local y bibliografía popular.
Producción religiosa mencionada por la fuente municipal como parte de su obra conocida.
Repertorio breve ligado a la dirección de la Banda Musical de la Sociedad El Porvenir.
Nace en Tegueste.
Dirige la Banda Musical de la Sociedad El Porvenir y la Orquesta y Coro del Ateneo de La Laguna.
Se le atribuye la adaptación musical del villancico Lo Divino.
Muere en la esfera de memoria local asociada a Tegueste y La Laguna.
