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Madrid

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, was a Spanish

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 teacher of voices, composer

Composer

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 and pianist

Pianist

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.

His Life

He was a brooker of Madrid. At a young age, he was already showing unusual musical talent, and by eleven he was playing violin for a opera company, for which he wrote a Fantasía para violin. His family finance enabled him to study in Paris

Paris

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. In 1880 he was admitted to the orchestra of the Théâtre Lyrique

Théâtre Lyrique

The Théâtre Lyrique was one of four opera companies performing in Paris during the middle of the 19th century . The company was founded in 1847 as the Opéra-National by the French composer Adolphe Adam and renamed Théâtre Lyrique in 1852...

 where he began studying composition and instrumentation.In 1895 he was a director of Thearhe Real of Spain.

He returned to Madrid, where he studied composition at the Madrid Royal Conservatory with Emilio Arrieta

Emilio Arrieta

Pascual Juan Emilio Arrieta Corera was a Spanish composer.Arrieta was born in Puente la Reina, Navarre, and died in Madrid...

 whilst playing in the orchestra of the Teatro de la Zarzuela. After 1898 he was director of Orfeon Ecos de Madrid. He also taught singing at the acts charity in Madrid

Madrid

Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...

, and he published Como aprender a cantar como cantaban los de antes a handbook for Voices teachers. He wrote on 22 types of jotas created in the world.
His direction with teacher of voices and direction of works other composers in Teatro Real are: Hansel y gretel,El oro del Rhin,Loreley 1916,luisa 1919,Mona lisa 1923,Yolanda 1923,jardin de oriente,La novia vendida 1924,La virgen de mayo 1925.
He was toped direction of theathres Parrish,Teatro de la Zarzuela and Real,He was worked in 1904 with the society El teatro.
His daughter Mary Carmen was a famous arp of Escuela Nacional de Música in Spain.

Famous works

• Sinfonia en Sol
• Miss Hissippi (zarzuela
  Zarzuela
  Zarzuela is a Spanish lyric-dramatic genre that alternates between spoken and sung scenes, the latter incorporating operatic and popular song, as well as dance...
  
  , 1892)
• El suicidio de Pifartes (zarzuela in 1 act, libretto by , premiered 1893 in Madrid)
• Bonito pan de boda (zarzuela in 3 acts, 189)
• El veterano (zarzuela in 1 acts, 1902)
• Budín,Budón (zarzuela in 3 acts, 189)
• Los campos Eliseos (zarzuela in 3 acts, libretto by , premiered 1906 in Madrid)
• El triunfo del amor (extravagancia lírica in 1 act, libretto by , premiered 1913 in Madrid)
• El bufón del duque (zarzuela cómica in 1 act, libretto by Emilio, premiered 1923 in Madrid)
• Souvellas Vache.
• Jai Alai (1893).
• El españoleto (1894).
• De la retreta a la Diana (1897).
• La silla de Anea (1904).
• La velada de San Juan (1905).
• Frasco Luis 1905.
• Mar de fondo (1905).
• Calinez o el suicidio de Pifartos (1906).
• El becerro de oro 1909
• El alegre manchego (1909).
• Los sobrinos o Tienda asilo del arte (1918).
• Figaro,el barbero de Sevilla (1923).
• Rigoletto (Traductor).
• El paraíso de Mahoma
• La farolada.
• La venta de los vuelos
• Los hijos del sol
• Gente de paz
• El beso de hielo.
• El conde de Almaviva.

His Honors

• Amanda Brown,was named Amanda Alvira in his honors with his work with her voice in 1920s.
• Other voices he showed in the world:In 1890´s,1900´s,1910´s,1920´s Titta Ruffo,Angeles Otein,Guiseppe Anselmi,Ofelia Nieto,José Mardones,Amelia Galli-Curcí,Tito Schipa.He created divos as Julián Briel,Augusto Ordoñez,Antonio Picatoste,Delfín Pulido,Matilde Petrel,Felicitas Ramírez...