before he died: "My Children! My Wife! Have I the right to defy death and risk abandoning them forever?" Writer He is also remembered as a pioneer of the Spanish theatrical genre known as the Zarzuela. Argerich wrote the lyrics for Los Consejos de Don Javier, or The Advice of Don Javier, and was put to music in 1892 by Felice Lebano. It was first played at the Buenos Aires' Apollo Theater on September 1, 1892. In anticipation of the premier, La Nación issued a review on July 14, 1892 stating that the music by Lebano, in particular, made the work innovative, Zarzuela music. It was one of the first popular works of Zarzuela theater in Argentina. Death During the great yellow fever epidemic of 1871, Argerich, tirelessly continued his care of the sick until finally succumbing to the disease on May 25, 1871, the 61st anniversary of the Argentine Revolution. He was one of the 13,614 victims of the Buenos Aires Yellow Fever epidemic. Three days later, at his funeral, his contemporary Jose Manuel Estrada, Argentine writer, eulogized him, a portion of which is translated from Spanish: Argerich is buried in Buenos Aires at the La Chacarita Cemetery (Spanish: Cementerio de la Chacarita). His gravesite was declared a National Monument in 1970 and is a highlight of prominent graves in a tour of that cemetery. References 1835 births 1871 deaths People from Buenos Aires Argentine military doctors Burials at La Chacarita Cemetery 19th-century Argentine physicians