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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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Composer
A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and Definition The term is descended from Latin, ''compōnō''; literally "one who puts together". The earliest use of the term in a musical context given by the ''Oxford English Dictionary'' is from Thomas Morley's 1597 ''A Plain and Easy Introduction to Practical Music'', where he says "Some wil be good descanters ..and yet wil be but bad composers". 'Composer' is a loose term that generally refers to any person who writes music. More specifically, it is often used to denote people who are composers by occupation, or those who in the tradition of Western classical music. Writers of exclusively or primarily songs may be called composers, but since the 20th century the terms 'songwriter' or ' singer-songwriter' are more often used, particularl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Celia Torra
Celia may refer to: General *Celia (given name) *''Celia'', a subgenus of carabid beetles of the genus '' Amara'' *Celia, the last natural-born Pyrenean Ibex * Celia (virtual assistant), AI virtual assistant by Huawei *, a number of ships with this name * Hurricane Celia (other) Literature * Celia (''As You Like It''), a character in Shakespeare's ''As You Like It'' *Celia, the title character in the novels by Elena Fortún: **'' Celia, lo que dice'' (1929) **'' Celia en el colegio'' (1932) **'' Celia novelista'' (1934) **'' Celia en el mundo'' (1934) **''Celia y sus amigos'' (1935) **''Celia madrecita'' (1939) Movies and television * ''Celia'' (1949 film), British comedy thriller * ''Celia'' (1989 film), Australian drama * ''Celia'' (Colombian TV series), a Spanish-language telenovela based on the life of Celia Cruz * ''Celia'' (Spanish TV series), a Spanish TV-series based on Elena Fortún's novels *Celia Mae, Mike Wazowski's girlfriend in the film ''Monsters, Inc.'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1614 Births
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New Grove Dictionary Of Opera
''The New Grove Dictionary of Opera'' is an encyclopedia of opera, considered to be one of the best general reference sources on the subject. It is the largest work on opera in English, and in its printed form, amounts to 5,448 pages in four volumes. First published in 1992 by Macmillan Reference, London, it was edited by Stanley Sadie with contributions from over 1,300 scholars. There are 11,000 articles in total, covering over 2,900 composers and 1800 operas. Appendices including an index of role names and an index of incipits of arias, ensembles, and opera pieces. The dictionary is available online, together with ''The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians''. References *William Salaman, "Review: The New Grove Dictionary of Opera", ''British Journal of Music Education'' (1999), 16: 97-110 Cambridge University Pres*John Simon, "Review: The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, 4 vols.", ''National Review'', April 26, 199* * *Charles Rosen, "Review: The New Grove Dictionary of O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melchor Fernández De León
Melchor may refer to: * Melchor (name) * Melchor Island in Chile *Melchor Ocampo, Nuevo León, a municipality in Mexico *Melchor Ocampo, State of Mexico, a town and municipality in Mexico *Villa de Tututepec de Melchor Ocampo, a town and municipality in south-western Mexico *Melchor de Mencos, a municipality in Guatemala *Instituto Español Melchor de Jovellanos, a Spanish international school in Morocco * , the former American ''Auk''-class minesweeper USS ''Roselle'' (AM-379); acquired by the Mexican Navy on 1 February 1973; renamed ''Manuel Gutiérrez Zamora'' (P109), 1993; in active service. * , the former American ''Auk''-class minesweeper USS ''Scoter'' (AM-381); acquired by the Mexican Navy on 19 September 1972 as ''Gutiérrez Zamora'' (C84); later reclassified as ''G16''; later renamed ''Melchor Ocampo''; renamed ''Felipe Xicoténcatl'' (P115), 1993; retired from service by 2004 * Melkor, a fictional character in Tolkien's legendarium. See also *Melchior (other) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pedro Scotti De Agoiz
Pedro is a masculine given name. Pedro is the Spanish, Portuguese, and Galician name for ''Peter''. Its French equivalent is Pierre while its English and Germanic form is Peter. The counterpart patronymic surname of the name Pedro, meaning "son of Peter" (compare with the English surname Peterson) is Pérez in Spanish, and Peres in Galician and Portuguese, Pires also in Portuguese, and Peiris in coastal area of Sri Lanka (where it originated from the Portuguese version), with all ultimately meaning "son of Pêro". The name Pedro is derived via the Latin word "petra", from the Greek word "η πέτρα" meaning "stone, rock". The name Peter itself is a translation of the Aramaic ''Kephas'' or '' Cephas'' meaning "stone". An alternate archaic spelling is ''Pêro''. Pedro may refer to: Notable people Monarchs, mononymously *Pedro I of Portugal *Pedro II of Portugal *Pedro III of Portugal *Pedro IV of Portugal, also Pedro I of Brazil *Pedro V of Portugal *Pedro II of Braz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francisco De Avellaneda
Francisco Avellaneda (c. 1622 – c. 1684) was a playwright of the Spanish Golden Age. Biography Little record survives of Avellaneda's early life, although he achieved notoriety in his time as a playwright. In 1660, he is known to have been in Valladolid for the festivities surrounding the transfer of the holy image of María de la Soledad (English: "Our Lady of Solitude"). In 1664, he published an account of the festival, along with his comedy ''El divino calabrés.'' ''El divino calabrés'' was a collaboration with Juan de Matos Fragoso. Avellaneda later became well known as a specialist in collaborative comedies. Works Avellaneda became known for writing smaller pieces, such as short farces, dances, ''loas'', ''entremés'', and the farcical puppet shows known as ''mojigangas''. He also wrote several pieces in collaboration with a number of partners. Juan de Matos Fragoso was a frequent collaborator; they worked together on ''El divino calabrés'' as well as ''San Franci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agustín De Salazar Y Torres
Agustín is a Spanish given name and sometimes a surname. It is related to Augustín. People with the name include: Given name * Agustín (footballer), Spanish footballer * Agustín Calleri (born 1976), Argentine tennis player * Agustín Cárdenas (1927–2001), Afro-Cuban sculptor * Agustín de Iturbide (1783–1824), First Emperor of Mexico * Agustín de Rojas Villandrando (1572–1618), Spanish writer and actor * Agustín Fiorilli (born 1978), Argentine swimmer * Agustín Jerónimo de Iturbide y Huarte (1807–1866), Prince Imperial of Mexico * Agustín Pedro Justo (1876–1943), former President of Argentina. * Agustín Lara, renowned Mexican musician * Agustín Moreno (born 1967), former tennis player * Agustín Muñoz Grandes (1896–1970), Spanish general and politician * Agustin Olvera (died 1876), pioneer of Los Angeles, California * Agustín Pichot (born 1974), Argentine Rugby union player * Agustin Presinger (1869–1934) German bishop and missionary * Agustín Barr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan Bautista Diamante
Juan Bautista Diamante (29 August 1625? – 2 November 1687), minor Spanish dramatist of the school of Calderón, was the son of a Portuguese mother and a Sicilian merchant of Greek parentage who came to Madrid some time before 1631. He began writing for the stage in the early 1650s, gained favour at the courts of Philip IV and Charles II, and became a knight of St. John (of Malta) in 1660. It has been suggested that Juan Bautista may have been of Jewish stock, and that the Diamante family, including the playwright's half-brothers Pablo and Francisco Diamante who also achieved success in their different spheres, falsified public records of marriage, baptism, etc. in order to obscure their '' marrano'' origins. Thirty-nine plays were published in his lifetime, twenty-four of them as ''Comedias de Fr. Don Iuan Bautista Diamante'' . . . in two parts in 1670 and 1674; the remainder appeared between 1656 and 1672 in the series ''Comedias escogidas de los mejores de España'' . . ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan Vélez De Guevara
Juan Crisóstomo Vélez de Guevara (Madrid, 1611 – íbid., 20 November 1675), son of Luis Vélez de Guevara, was, like his father, a playwright of the Spanish Golden Age. Like his father Luis, Juan Vélez entered the service of the Duque de Veragua as a lawyer, and from there in 1642 succeeded his father as an Usher of the Royal Chamber. Well known in his day as a composer of short theatrical pieces, notably ''entremeses'' and ''bailes'', many of them performed at the Spanish Court, Vélez junior likewise wrote and published full-length plays such as ''El diciembre por agosto, Nuestra Señora de las Nieves'' (1637), ''Endimión y la luna'' (1656), and the zarzuela ''Los celos hacen estrella'' (1672). He also wrote, in collaboration, ''Amor vencido de Amor'' (with Juan de Zabaleta and Antonio de la Huerta); ''La verdad en el engaño'' (with Jerónimo de Cáncer and Martínez de Meneses); the burlesque ''Los siete infantes de Lara'' (1650, with Jerónimo de Cáncer); and ''La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Celos Aun Del Aire Matan
''Celos aun del aire matan'' ("Jealousy, even groundless, kills") is a 1660 opera in three acts - originally performed over three days - by Juan Hidalgo de Polanco to a libretto by Pedro Calderón de la Barca. Celos aun del aire matan: fiesta cantada (opera in three acts) - Page xii 0895797682 Louise K. Stein, Juan Hidalgo - 2014 - As a text, Celos aun del aire matan is still a comedia, with polymetric verse, three acts, and the interaction of lowly comic characters and exalted serious ones. The goddesses Diana and Venus are the only deities in the opera, xii. Performances and recordings *Television recording - Teatro Real, Jean-Claude Malgoire 2000 *Excerpts - Resonanzen 2001, Jordi Savall Jordi Savall i Bernadet (; born 1 August 1941) is a Spanish conductor, composer and viol player. He has been one of the major figures in the field of Western early music since the 1970s, largely responsible for popularizing the viol family of ... References {{reflist 1660 operas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Púrpura De La Rosa
''La púrpura de la rosa'' (''The Blood of the Rose'') is an opera in one act, composed by Tomás de Torrejón y Velasco to a Spanish libretto by Pedro Calderón de la Barca, a great writer of the Spanish Golden Age. It is the first known opera to be composed and performed in the Americas and is Torrejón y Velasco's only surviving opera. ''La púrpura de la rosa'' was first performed in Lima in 1701 to celebrate the 18th birthday of Philip V and the first anniversary of his succession to the Spanish throne. The libretto, in polymetric verse and filled with lush mythological imagery, is a re-telling of the Ovidian tale of the loves of Venus and Adonis. Torrejón y Velasco was not the first to use Calderón's libretto. The text had previously been set for a theatrical pageant in honor of the marriage of Louis XIV and Maria Teresa of Spain in 1660, with music possibly written by Juan Hidalgo de Polanco, composer and master of music at the court of Madrid. With its erotic poetry an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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