Miguel Hilarión Eslava y Elizondo (21 October 1807 – 23 July 1878) was a
Spanish
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composer and pedagogue.
Professional career
Born in
Burlada,
Navarra
Navarre ( ; ; ), officially the Chartered Community of Navarre, is a landlocked foral autonomous community and province in northern Spain, bordering the Basque Autonomous Community, La Rioja, and Aragon in Spain and New Aquitaine in France. ...
, Eslava was co-founder of the society
La España Musical with
Emilio Arrieta
Juan Pascual Antonio Arrieta Corera (20 October 1821 – 11 February 1894), also known as Emilio Arrieta, was a Spanish composer.
Arrieta was born in Puente la Reina, Navarre. His Italian musical training led him, under the favour of Queen ...
,
Francisco Asenjo Barbieri, and
Joaquín Gaztambide to defend
Spanish opera and
zarzuela
() is a Spanish lyric-dramatic genre that alternates between spoken and sung scenes, the latter incorporating operatic and popular songs, as well as dance. The etymology of the name is uncertain, but some propose it may derive from the name o ...
.
Death
He died in
Madrid
Madrid ( ; ) is the capital and List of largest cities in Spain, most populous municipality of Spain. It has almost 3.5 million inhabitants and a Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of approximately 7 million. It i ...
aged 70.
References
External links
A virtual portal to the music of Hilarión Eslava*
1807 births
1878 deaths
19th-century Spanish classical composers
19th-century Spanish male musicians
Spanish male classical composers
Spanish Romantic composers
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