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=== Early years ===
Born in [[Fresnillo]], [[Zacatecas]], Manuel Maria Ponce moved with his family to the [[Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes|city of Aguascalientes]] only a few weeks after his birth and lived there until he was 15 years old.
He was famous for being a musical prodigy; according to his biographers, he was barely four years of age when, after having listened to the piano classes received by his sister, Josefina, he sat in front of the instrument and interpreted one of the pieces that he had heard. Immediately, his parents had him receive classes in piano and musical notation.{{Citation needed|date=January 2017}}
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=== Traveling years ===
In 1901 Ponce entered the [[National Conservatory of Music (Mexico)|National Conservatory of Music]], already with a certain prestige as a pianist and composer. There he remained until 1903, the year in which he returned to the city of Aguascalientes. This was only the beginning of his travels. In 1904 he traveled to Italy for advanced musical studies at the [[Conservatorio Giovanni Battista Martini]] in Bologna.
He studied in Germany as a pupil of [[Martin Krause]] at the [[Stern conservatory]] in Berlin between 1906 and 1908.
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In 1912 he composed his most famous work "Estrellita" (little star), which is not a normal love song, as is usually thought, but "Nostalgia Viva" (live nostalgia).{{Clarify|date=January 2017}}<!--What's the difference?-->
That same year, Ponce gave in the "Arbeau Theater" a memorable concert of Mexican popular music which, though it scandalized ardent defenders of European classical music, became a landmark in the history of the national song.
[[Heitor Villa-Lobos]] (1887–1959), who met Ponce in Paris in the 1920s, wrote {{quote|I remember that I asked him at that time if the composers of his country were as yet taking an interest in native music, as I had been doing since 1912, and he answered that he himself had been working in that direction. It gave me great joy to learn that in that distant part of my continent there was another artist who was arming himself with the resources of the folklore of his people in the struggle for the future musical independence of his country.<ref>"[https://web.archive.org/web/20160911172246/http://www.guitarramagazine.com/ManuelPonce Manuel Maria Ponce (1882–1948)]", by John Patykula, ''Guitarra Magazine'' [2006 or earlier] (archive from 16 September 2016, accessed 17 October 2016).</ref> }}
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[[Category:Composers for the classical guitar]]
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