Romanticism · Spain
1851 – 1909
Villena - Madrid
Review
Born in Villena (Alicante), he was a military musician and studied in the conservatory of Madrid; a pension of the Academy of Fine Arts allowed him to form in Rome.
He highlighted above all in the zarzuela, where La voltosa is a masterpiece, although he also wrote opera and string quartets. In 1899 he promoted the creation of the Society of Spanish Authors, the origin of the current SGAE.
Main works
- Phantom (1873)
- Zarzuela The king who rabbled (1891)
- Zarzuela El drum de granaderos (1894)
- Zarzuela La voltosa (1897)
- Zarzuela La early (1900)
- String quarters
- Opera Margarita la tornera (1909)
