Jacinto Valledor y la Calle (

Madrid Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the Largest cities of the Europ ...

, 1744- Cuenca, 1809) was a Spanish composer of theatre music and

tonadilla Tonadilla was a Spanish musical song form of theatrical origin; not danced. The genre was a type of short, satirical musical comedy popular in 18th-century Spain, and later in Cuba and other Spanish colonial countries. It originated as a song type, ...

s. Early success in Barcelona in the 1780s turned to difficulties after a move to Madrid where he was in the shadow of

Pablo Esteve Pablo Esteve y Grimau (1730–1794) was a Spanish composer. Esteve was conductor and house-composer for the Teatro de la Cruz in Madrid during the peak of the popularity of the ''tonadilla'' genre. The risque nature of the ''tonadilla'' meant that ...

. 25 of his tonadillas survive.Mariano Pérez Gutiérrez ''Diccionario de la Música y Los Músicos'' Volume 3 - Page 308 - 1985 "VALLEDOR Y LA CALLE, Jacinto (Madrid, 1744 - Madrid, h. 1809). Comp. esp. de tonadillas*, que llegó a suplir a Pablo Esteve. Entre éstas fueron célebres la del General Mambrú, Seguidillas del apasionado, La buena consejera y Los ..."

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