Francisco Escudero García de Goizueta (13 August 1912 – 17 June 2002)Francisco Escudero García de Goizueta
(Enciclopedia Auñamendi, Euskomedia) was a Basque

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 Defi ...

Life and career

He was born in

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, on August 13, 1912. He began his musical studies at the

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Municipal Music Academy with

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, and continued in Madrid, where he was a Composition student of

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. He was awarded the Spanish National Fine Arts Award (''Premio Nacional de Bellas Artes'') for his '' Trío bucólico'' in

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. During the Spanish Civil War he moved to France. In

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he became director of the Coral de Bilbao. He was awarded the Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts. In

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he obtained the National Music Prize. In

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he created the City of

Band. He composed the opera Zigor, with a Basque theme, which premiered in Bilbao and then in Madrid and San Sebastián with great success, once again obtaining a National Music Award (second one). As part of his teaching work, he directed the

Municipal Higher Conservatory of Music. It was during this period, in

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, that the historic

conservatory was granted the capacity to teach the Superior Degree of music studies. His disciples are, among others, Javier Jacinto,

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, Alberto Iglesias,

Roberto Bienzobas Roberto Bienzobas Gárate (1962, Bilbao, Spain) is a Basque musician, conductor, composer and choir director. Life and career He was born in Bilbao. Since he was young, he studied harmony, chamber music, and orchestra and choral conduct ...

and most of the faculty at the

Conservatory as well as other musical centers in Spain.

Awards

* Spanish National Fine Arts Award (''Premio Nacional de Bellas Artes''),

* Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts * National Music Prize,

* National Music Award (second one),

Selected works

* ''Pinceladas vascas'' * '' Zigor'' * ''Gernika'' * ''Eusko Salmoa'' * ''Sinfonía mítica'' * ''Illeta'' * ''Aránzazu'' (symphonic poem) * ''Evocación en Itziar'' * ''Concierto Vasco para piano y orquesta'' * ''Concierto para violoncello y orquesta'' * ''Sinfonía Sacra'' * ''Fantasía geosinfónica''

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Escudero Francisco Basque classical composers 1912 births 2002 deaths 20th-century Spanish musicians