Juan Hidalgo (conquistador)
Juan Hidalgo is the name of: * Juan Hidalgo (conquistador) (1514 – ?), Spanish conquistador; * Juan Hidalgo de Polanco (1614–1685), Spanish composer and harpist; * Juan Hidalgo Codorniu (1927–2018), Spanish composer, poet and artist, member of the ZAJ group; * Juan Hidalgo (athlete) Juan Hidalgo is the name of: * Juan Hidalgo (conquistador) (1514 – ?), Spanish conquistador; * Juan Hidalgo de Polanco (1614–1685), Spanish composer and harpist; * Juan Hidalgo Codorniu (1927–2018), Spanish composer, poet and artist, member ...

Juan Hidalgo (conquistador)
Juan Hidalgo is the name of: * Juan Hidalgo (conquistador) (1514 – ?), Spanish conquistador; * Juan Hidalgo de Polanco (1614–1685), Spanish composer and harpist; * Juan Hidalgo Codorniu (1927–2018), Spanish composer, poet and artist, member of the ZAJ group; * Juan Hidalgo (athlete) Juan Hidalgo is the name of: * Juan Hidalgo (conquistador) (1514 – ?), Spanish conquistador; * Juan Hidalgo de Polanco (1614–1685), Spanish composer and harpist; * Juan Hidalgo Codorniu (1927–2018), Spanish composer, poet and artist, member ...

Juan Hidalgo De Polanco
Juan Hidalgo de Polanco (28 September 1614 – 31 March 1685) was a Spanish composer and harpist who became the most influential composer of his time in the Hispanic world writing the music for the first two operas created in Spanish. He is considered by many to be the father of Spanish opera and of the zarzuela. Hidalgo was born and died in Madrid. In either 1630 or 1631 he became a harpist at the Spanish royal chapel where he was responsible for the accompaniment of both sacred and secular music and also played for the King of Spain, King Philip IV. Around 1645 he began to serve as leader of the court's chamber musicians and chief composer of ''villancicos'', chamber songs, and music for the theatre. He personifies the origins of Spanish opera with the work '' Celos aun del aire matan'' by the illustrious playwright Calderon de la Barca, based on the story of Cephalus and Procris told in Ovid's ''Metamorphoses'', released on 5 December 1660 to celebrate the third birthday ...
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Juan Hidalgo Codorniu
Juan Hidalgo Codorniu (14 October 1927 – 26 February 2018) was a Spanish composer, poet, an action and visual artist. Biography Hidalgo was born in Las Palmas, Canary Islands. After studying piano and composition in Barcelona and Paris with Nadia Boulanger and Bruno Maderna, he participated in the XII Internationale Ferienkurse Für Neue Musik festival in Darmstadt in 1957 with his work "Ukanga", a serial-structural composition for five chamber ensembles. With this piece, Hidalgo became the first Spanish composer to take part in that festival. In 1958 Juan Hidalgo met the Darmstadt American composers John Cage and David Tudor who were crucial to his musical and career development. In 1964 he founded the ZAJ group along with Walter Marchetti, Ramón Barce, and was later joined by Esther Ferrer and the writer José Luis Castillejo. ZAJ was an exponent of Spanish neodadaism with influences of zen and Marcel Duchamp's vision of the arts. There were said to be similarities in th ...
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