Abundio Martínez

{{Short description|Mexican musician and composer (1875–1914)}}

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Abundio Martínez (February 8, 1875 – April 26, 1914) was a Mexican musician and composer. He was born on February 8, 1875, in Huichapan.{{cite book |last=Dallal |first= Alberto |date=2006 |title=El proceso creativo |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c7suqtjfjkwC&pg=PA157 |location= |publisher=Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |page=157 |isbn=9789703223961}} His father was a carpenter and band director. He taught Abundio carpentry skills and various instruments such as trumpet, violin and drum. The whole family, seeking a better life, relocated to Mexico City. Abundio liked to listen to a band directed by Sappers Miguel Rios Toledano rehearsing on Corregidora Street. He joined a band, playing the clarinet, and became the composer of many popular pieces. However, he remained poor. Abundio became a victim of tuberculosis on April 26, 1914, in Mexico City. He was buried in the Pantheon of Dolores. Thirty years later, the inhabitants of Huichapan erected a monument in his honor.{{cite web|url=http://www.wikimexico.com/articulo/abundio-martinez|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160411052242/http://www.wikimexico.com/articulo/abundio-martinez|url-status=usurped|archive-date=April 11, 2016|title=WikiMexico – Abundio Martínez|author=CONACULTA}}