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– 1816 in

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) was a Spanish composer.

Biography

Laserna was one of the most prolific and popular songwriters of late eighteenth and early nineteenth century

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. As an educator, he championed traditional Spanish musical forms, but as a theatrical impresario gave in to the public taste for Italian forms. He composed several operas and concertos, as well as incidental music for several comedies in the popular Spanish theater. A prolific songwriter, his creative oeuvre contains more than five hundred songs ( tonadillas), many with lyrics by

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. andel, Don Michael. The Harvard concise dictionary of music and musicians, https://books.google.com/books?id=7iuZ6HaEMmoC&pg=PA674/ref> While Conductor of the orchestra of the Teatro de la Cruz, he premiered his operetta, ''La Gitanilla Por Amor'' (''The

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For Love''), in 1791. Enrique Granados used the melody from his "La Tirana del Tripili" as the basis for "Los Requiebros" in his Goyescas suite.

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