Eduardo Sainz de la Maza (5 January 1903 – 5 December 1982) was a Spanish composer. Born in

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, he was brother of

Regino Sainz de la Maza Regino Sainz de la Maza y Ruiz (7 September 1896 – 26 November 1981) was a Spanish classical guitarist and composer. Biography Sainz de la Maza was born in Burgos. At ten, he got his first guitar and started his musical studies with Santiago L ...

. Composing for the

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, some of his notable works include the suite ''

Platero y yo ''Platero and I'', also translated as ''Platero and Me'' ( es, Platero y yo), is a 1914 Spanish prose poem written by Juan Ramón Jiménez. The book is one of the most popular works by Jiménez, and unfolds around a writer and his eponymous donke ...

'' for guitar, and ''Campanas del alba''. He died in

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Selected compositions

Guitar solo *''Homenaje a la guitarra'' (Paris: Éditions Françaises de Musique, 1962) *''Campanas del alba'' (Madrid: Unión Musical Española, 1963) *''Platero y yo'' (Madrid: Unión Musical Española, 1972) *''Laberinto''. Critical edition by José Manuel González (Valencia: Piles, 2011)

Bibliography

Thomas Schmitt: ''Eduardo Sáinz de la Maza: Guitarrista – profesor – compositor'' (Logroño: Ediciones El Gato Murr, 2012). {{DEFAULTSORT:Sainz de la Maza, Eduardo 1903 births 1982 deaths 20th-century composers 20th-century Spanish musicians 20th-century Spanish male musicians Composers for the classical guitar Spanish composers Spanish male composers People from Burgos