Ramon Carnicer i Batlle was a Catalan

Catalan people

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 composer and opera conductor, today best known for composing the National Anthem of Chile.

Carnicer was born in Tàrrega

Tàrrega

Tàrrega is a village and municipality located in the Urgell comarca, province of Lleida, Catalonia. According to the 2009 census , the village has a population of 16.539 inhabitants....

, Catalonia

Catalonia

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 (Spain). His first major positions were as conductor for the opera

Opera

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, and he was influential in the development of the Spanish national opera style, 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...

. He conducted the Italian Opera in Barcelona

Barcelona

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 from 1818 to 1820, and the Royal Opera

Teatro Real

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 in Madrid

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 from 1828 to 1830, as well as composing nine operas.
In 1830, he accepted a position as professor of composition at the Madrid Conservatory

Madrid Conservatory

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, which he would retain until his retirement in 1854. He composed a variety of songs, church music, and symphonies; his best-remembered composition today being the National Anthem of Chile. He died in Madrid in 1855.

Opera

(Some of his operas are lost but we now about them thanks to some references from the documents of his period. It's also not 100% clear that three or four of these pieces were written by Carnicer)

• Adele di Lusignano: Melodramma semiserio (1819), Opera in Italian, in two acts
• Elena e Costantino: Dramma eroico-comico in due atti (1821, premiered again in 2005), Opera in Italian, libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola
• Il dissoluto punito, ossia Don Giovanni Tenorio (1822, premiered again in 2006), Opera in Italian, in two acts, libretto by Giovanni Bertati.
• Elena e Malvina (1827), Opera in two acts
• Cristoforo Colombo (1829), Opera
• Eufemio di Messina (1832), Opera
• Guglielmo Tell (1834), Opera
• Eran due or sono tre, o sea, Gli esposti (1836), Opera bufa in two acts. Libretto by Jacopo Ferretti
• Ismalia o Morte ed amore (1838), Opera in two acts
• Laura y Don Gonzalo (1841), òpera in 4 acts. Music attributed to Carnicer. Libretto attributed to Manuel Bretón de los Herreros
• Ipermestra (1843), drama in three acts. Words by Pietro Metastasio. Authorship discussed
• Lucrezia Borgia. Attributed opera, some believe he had only collaborated in the composition
• El sacristán de Toledo, Opera. It's said he had only collaborated composing incidental music

Instrumental

• Fantasía en mi bemol mayor, for clarinet
• Gran sinfonía en Re (1839)
• Fantasía original para clarinete con acompañamiento de piano (1849)
• Capricho para contrabajo con acompañamiento de piano (1852) (Capricho for doublebass with piano accompaniment)
• Melodía fantástica con acompañamiento de piano
• Sinfonía oriental
• Solo de flauta (solo for flute)
• Salmòdia for organ
• 6 Sonates per a instrument de tecla
• Obertura (sinfonía) Composed for the premier of the opera Il barbiere di Siviglia by Rossini in Barcelona (1818)
• A second overturefor that same opera

Vocal

• El caramba: canción andaluza (ca. 1832), Voice and piano or guitar
• Completas Fratres a 4 v., 4 voices, 6 instruments, accompaniment and continuo
• La criada: canción española (ca. 1832), voice, guitar and piano
• El currillo: canción andaluza (ca. 1835), voice, guitar and piano
• La gitanilla (ca. 1831), song for voice, guitar and piano
• Himno a los defensores de Gandesa (1838).
• Himno patrio de la República de Chile (1828)
• Himno patriótico, con motivo de la publicación del Estatuto Real (1834)
• Himno patriótico [para el] cumpleaños de la Reina Doña Isabel II (1835)
• El julepe: polo (1823), song for voice and guitar
• Misa de Réquiem (1929), 4 voices and orchestra, in Latin. For Maria Josepa from Saxonia, Ferran VII therd wife
• Misa de Réquiem (1842), 4 voices and orchestra, in Latin
• Misa solemne (entre 1806 i 1808), 8 voices and orchestra
• El músico y el poeta (Los maestros de la Raboso), tonadilla
  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, then dialogue for characters was written into the...
  
   a dúo
• El no sé, song for voice, guitar and piano
• La noticia feliz: polo y seguidillas (1823), song for voice, guitar and piano
• El nuevo sereni (1825), song for voice, guitar and piano or guitar
• Odas de Anacreonte (1832), text original grec d'Anacreont i traducció castellana de José del Castillo y Ayensa, comprèn les cançons per a veu i piano De si mismo, A una muchacha i Del amor y la abeja
• El poder de las mugeres: canción española con acompañamiento de piano y guitarra (1836)
• Psalmodia que contiene todos los tonos (1818)
• Tantum Ergo
• Tonadilla de la cantinera (1813)
• Vigilias con orquesta para las exequias de Fernando VII (1833), in Latin
• El chairo: canción española cantada en la ópera "El barbero de Sevilla" (1833), lyrics by Agustín Azcona