Odón Alonso Ordás (28 February 1925 – 21 February 2011) was a Spanish
conductor
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Music
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* ''Conductor'' (album), an album by indie rock band The Comas
* Conduction, a type of structured free improvisation ...
and
composer
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, best known for his film scores.
Alonso was born at
La Bañeza
La Bañeza () is a municipality located in the province of León, Castile and León, Spain. According to the 2010 census ( INE), the municipality had a population of 11,050 inhabitants.
It is the capital of the region of Tierra de La Bañeza.
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,
León, Spain
León (; ) is a city and Municipalities of Spain, municipality of Spain, capital of the province of León, part of the autonomous community of Castile and León, in the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula. It has a population of 124,303 (2019), ...
. He studied in Madrid, Siena, Salzburg and Vienna. His first engagements as a conductor date back to the years between 1952 and 1956 when he was performing with the orchestra and chorus of the Spanish National Radio station. In 1960 he took on the position of principal conductor at the Philharmonic Orchestra of Madrid; between 1968 and 1984, Alonso was musical director of the Radio Symphony Orchestra of the Spanish Broadcasting (''Orquesta Sinfónica de Radio Televisión Española''). From 1986 until 1994 he conducted the Symphonic Orchestra of Puerto Rico. He died in
Madrid.
See also
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Himno a León
External links
Concert review
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1925 births
2011 deaths
People from La Bañeza
Spanish composers
Spanish male composers
Spanish conductors (music)
Male conductors (music)
20th-century Spanish musicians
20th-century conductors (music)
20th-century Spanish male musicians
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