Juventino Rosas (1868-1894) was a Mexican-Indigenous composer and violin player of Otomí descent. He spent part of his youth in the famous working-class neighborhood of Tepito, in Mexico City. Since an early age he was considered a "virtuoso," but his lack of connections and indigenous background did not allow him to get projection at the national scale; until 1888, when he composed the waltz "Next to the Spring Water," which was later renamed "Over the Waves!" This waltz was first performed and published in New Orleans in 1888. When the audience first heard Rosas' waltz, everyone believed it had been composed by Johann Strauss. Despite the fame that "Over the Waves!" brought to Rosas, his economic problems forced him to sell the rights of his famous waltz to the music publisher Wagner and Levien. Rosas died in Cuba at age 26 as a consequence of spinal myelitis.