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Joaquín Gaztambide
Joaquín Romualdo Gaztambide y Garbayo (Tudela, Navarre, 7 February 1822 – Madrid, 18 March 1870) was one of the most prominent Spanish composers of zarzuela in the mid-nineteenth century. His contribution to the revival of the genre was highly significant; and although during the last century his work virtually disappeared from the Spanish musical scene, the early 21st century has reversed this trend. Of Italianate quality in the manner of Gaetano Donizetti, his music nonetheless makes use of Spanish rhythms and dance forms. Among other renowned works (many in opéra comique form), his ''La Mensajera'' (1849), ''El valle de Andorra'' (1851), ''El sueño de una noche de verano'', ''Catalina'' (1854), ''Los magiares'' (1857), '' El juramento'' (1858), and the one-act classic '' Una vieja'' (1860) stand out. Biography Sent to Pamplona by his uncle to study piano and composition with Joseph Guelbenzu and Mariano Garcia, Gaztambide taught piano and played bass in the orchestra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francisco Asenjo Barbieri
Francisco Asenjo Barbieri (3 August 1823 – 19 February 1894) was a well-known composer of the popular Spanish opera form, ''zarzuela.'' His works include: '' El barberillo de Lavapiés'', '' Jugar con fuego'', ''Pan y toros'', ''Don Quijote'', '' Los diamantes de la corona'', and ''El Diablo en el poder''. Career He was born and died in Madrid, appropriately, since the themes and characters of his operas are often distinctly Spanish and Madrilenian. Among the characters featured by Barbieri are bullfighters, ''manolos'' and ''manolas'', and even (in ''Pan y toros'') the famous Spanish painter, Francisco Goya Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (; ; 30 March 174616 April 1828) was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker. He is considered the most important Spanish artist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. His paintings, drawings, and e .... The character of much of Barbieri’s work is farcical, utilizing mistaken identity and other devices to entertain the au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spanish Classical Composers
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Cristóbal Oudrid
Cristóbal (Carlos Domingo Romualdo y Ricardo) Oudrid y Segura (, 7 February 1825 – 13 March 1877) was a Spanish pianist, conductor, and composer. He is noted for his many contributions to the formation and development of the zarzuela genre in Spain during the second half of the 19th century. He was a gifted musician—but with little technical knowledge, which he bragged about to receive more credit from others with relation to his creations. This habit earned him the scathing criticism of people like Antonio Peña y Goñi who, nevertheless, praised the bright, sensual and cheerful ease with which Oudrid used to bring to life the true meaning of the Spanish song. During a successful career of more than 25 years, Oudrid produced over a hundred works, many in association with other composers. His first musical presentation was the Andalusian zarzuela ''La Venta del Puerto o Juanillo El Contrabandista'', premiered at Teatro del Príncipe in 1846. His second venture was ''La P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Inzenga
José Inzenga y Castellanos (Madrid, 3 June 1828 – 28 June 1891) was a Spanish composer of zarzuelas and professor at the Conservatory of Madrid and academic of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando and one of the pioneers of folkloric studies and the modern zarzuela in the second half of the 19th century. Biography Inzenga was the son of Italian singing master Ángel Inzenga and Felicia Castellanos. He studied music at the Madrid Royal Conservatory. He then traveled to Paris, where he pursued extended training in music, winning two silver medals in harmony and piano playing. He joined the circle of the ''Liceo Artístico y Literario de Madrid,'' founded in 1837, serving on its board of directors and thereby contributing the production of works and organizing jam sessions. The Revolutions of 1848 forced him to return to Spain, where he soon began composing operettas. From that time on his activity increased since he not only composed, but also took part in the mu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francisco Camprodón
Francisco Camprodón y Safont (4 March 1816 – 16 August 1870) was a Spanish playwright, poet, politician and librettist, originally from Catalonia. Biography Provenance and early years Francisco Camprodón was born in Vic Vic (; es, Vic or Pancracio Celdrán (2004). Diccionario de topónimos españoles y sus gentilicios (5ª edición). Madrid: Espasa Calpe. p. 843. ISBN 978-84-670-3054-9. «Vic o Vich (viquense, vigitano, vigatán, ausense, ausetano, ausonense): ...h (as it was written at that time), a regional centre and manufacturing town with a focus on textiles, in the hill country roughly 100 kilometres to the north of Barcelona. He enrolled to study Jurisprudence at the University of Cervera, where he was a student near contemporary of the philosopher-theologian Jaime Balmes: the two became close life-long friends. There are suggestions that Camprodón may have contributed to one or some of the early published works of Balmes. Spain did not recover quickly from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Un Pleito
Un pleito (''A Lawsuit'') is a one-act zarzuela by Joaquín Gaztambide for libretto (in verse) by Francisco Camprodón. Its first performance took place on 22 June''12 June'' is written on the vocal score manuscript. ''22 June'' on the title page of the libretto edition. Both are available on the IMSLP. ''12 June'' is the date when the play passed censorship (as printed at the end of the libretto), so it can't be the date of the first performance. 1858 at the Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the second-largest city in the European Union (EU), and .... Roles Synopsis The zarzuela depicts a moment in mid 19th century. The scene presents a room in the house of Don Severo in Sevilla. His nephew Carlos, a young lawyer, spends all days writing verses to his beloved one, though Don Severo had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ventura De La Vega
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El Estreno De Una Artista
El estreno de una artista (''The Premiere of a Performer'')Thus translated by the Teatro de la Zarzuela (2011) is a one-act zarzuela by Joaquín Gaztambide for libretto by . Its first performance took place on 5 June 1852 at the in Madrid. It is an adaptation of an 1824 French opéra-comique ''Le concert à la cour'' by Eugène Scribe and Mélesville, music for which was written by Daniel Auber. After a long period of neglection, this zarzuela has been recently staged by the Teatro de la Zarzuela (2011). Roles Synopsis The zarzuela is set in Florence, in a music hall of the Grand Duke's palace. The opening scene presents Astucio, the musical director of the court, conducting an orchestra consisting of nobles, who study music to gain the Grand Duke's favour; they perform bad and finish making a quarrel, but Astucio succeeds to calm them (No. 1). The whole company proceeds to another room. Astucio's wife and '' prima donna'' Marietta comes to try a new piece of music she is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patricio De La Escosura
Patricio de la Escosura Morrogh (5 November 1807–1878) was a Spanish politician, journalist, playwright and author associated with the Romantic school. 1807 births 1878 deaths Spanish male dramatists and playwrights Spanish journalists Members of the Royal Spanish Academy 19th-century journalists Male journalists 19th-century Spanish dramatists and playwrights 19th-century male writers {{spain-journalist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luis De Olona
Luis de Olona y Gaeta (Málaga, 1823 – Barcelona, 1863) was a playwright, theater impresario and librettist of a number of Spanish zarzuelas by the mid of 19th-century Spain. He was a very prolific playwright, writing comedies, farces and operettas, arranged by famous composers of the zarzuela genre. His theatrical approach is said to be very weak in construction and plentiful in improbabilities, so much that it was largely criticized by Narciso Díaz de Escovar and Francisco Javier Lasso de la Vega. Luis de Olona, brother to José de Olona, lived a bohemian life in his native Málaga before settling in Madrid, where he directed small theaters and worked in the press. He also collaborated with artists such as Mariano Pina y Bohigas, Valladares Garriga and Antonio García Gutiérrez. Among some of his titles are the comedy ''El primo y el relicario'' (1843), the drama '' El caudillo de Zamora'' (1847), and the comic-drama ''Las dos carteras'' (1851). Other works which are wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Wagner
Wilhelm Richard Wagner ( ; ; 22 May 181313 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his mature works were later known, "music dramas"). Unlike most opera composers, Wagner wrote both the libretto and the music for each of his stage works. Initially establishing his reputation as a composer of works in the romantic vein of Carl Maria von Weber and Giacomo Meyerbeer, Wagner revolutionised opera through his concept of the '' Gesamtkunstwerk'' ("total work of art"), by which he sought to synthesise the poetic, visual, musical and dramatic arts, with music subsidiary to drama. He described this vision in a series of essays published between 1849 and 1852. Wagner realised these ideas most fully in the first half of the four-opera cycle '' Der Ring des Nibelungen'' (''The Ring of the Nibelung''). His compositions, particularly those of his later period, are notable for their complex textur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
