Antonio Gallego Gallego (born 1942) is a Spanish writer and musicologist.

Life and career

Antonio Gallego was born in Zamora, Spain in 1942 and was raised in

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. He studied at the Colegio Sagrado Corazón of the

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, and music at the conservatories of Salamanca and

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, law at the University of Salamanca, and arts at the

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. A disciple of Federico Sopeña, Gallego has been the Technical Secretary of the National Chalcography, a Professor of Aesthetics and History of Music at the

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, and a Professor of

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at the Madrid Royal Conservatory. He directed the Cultural Services of the Fundación

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between 1980 and 2005. He was appointed a member of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in 1996 and a member of the Real Academia de Extremadura de las Letras y las Artes in 2002. A founding member of the Spanish Society of Musicology (SEdeM), Gallego directed its Journal between 1978 and 1980. In 1992, he wrote the

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Miguel Ángel Coria Miguel Ángel Coria Varela (born 24 October 1937 – 24 February 2016) was a Spanish composer of classical music. His early work showed affinities to the music of Anton Webern, but he became increasingly influenced by Impressionism. From 1973 he e ...

's opera ''Belisa'', adapted from García Lorca's play '' Amor de Don Perlimplín con Belisa en su jardín''. The work premiered on May 15, 1992, at the Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid.

''El amor brujo''

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. Both the original 1915 score and the following 1916 version were considered lost. In 1986, Antonio Gallego was commissioned to compile a catalog of Manuel de Falla's works kept in his archive. During this task Gallego recovered from sketches the original 1915 version. The reconstruction process is detailed in his book ''Manuel de Falla y El amor brujo''.Zarzuela Theater Program Notes, 'Falla, ¡Ay, Amor!' (PDF) http://teatrodelazarzuela.mcu.es/es/temporada-2012-2013/temporada-lirica-2012-2013/download/21_5aeb8be807051d9f9b27d1afe11fddd6

Works

Gallego has published many articles and a dozen books including: * ''La música en el Museo del Prado'' (''The Music in the Prado Museum''), 1972 * ''Música y Sociedad'' (''Music and Society''), 1977 * ''Catálogo de los dibujos de la Calcografía Nacional'', 1978 * ''Historia del grabado en España'' (''History of Spanish Engraving''), 1979 * ''Catálogo de obras de Manuel de Falla'' (''Manuel de Falla Works Catalog''), 1987 * ''La música en tiempos de Carlos III'' (''Music in the times of Charles III''), 1989 * ''Manuel de Falla y El amor brujo'', 1990 * ''Historia de la Música II'' (''History of Music''), 1997 * ''El arte de Joaquín Rodrigo'' (''The art of Joaquin Rodrigo''), 2003 * ''Al son del roncón. La música en los poetas asturianos'' (''Music and the Asturian Poets''), 2006

References

;Sources *Valenzuela, Regina (May 15, 1992)
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