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Francisco de Asís Tárrega y Eixea (21 November 1852 – 15 December 1909) was a Spanish composer and classical guitarist of the late Romantic period. [1] He is known for such pieces as Capricho Árabe and Recuerdos de la Alhambra .
Other variations on the theme were created inter alia by Johann Strauss the Elder in versions for piano and orchestra respectively, [10] [11] Francisco Tárrega for guitar, Jean-Baptiste Arban for cornet and trumpet and Wilhelm Posse for harp. [12]
As a participant of the Nocturnos, and writing under the pseudonym Miedo, Tárrega wrote several tens of poems and works of prose.His comedias, all dating from after the mid-1580s, [1] were published posthumously, with El Prado de Valencia (The Meadow of Valencia) [2] being a heroic drama [2] and the remainder, cloak-and-sword plays.
Alborada [n 1] ¡Adelita! (Mazurka) Capricho árabe (Arabian Caprice) Danza mora (Moorish Dance) Gran jota Aragonesa (Grand jota) [n 2] El columpio (The Swing)
The 1960s led to born within the compass of Segovia two European competitions that marked the history of guitar and which remains active until today, i.e. 1967 - International Guitar Competition "Francisco Tárrega" in Benicàssim, Spain and 1968 - Competition "Premio Città di Alessandria" in Alessandria, Italy, which in 1995 would be renamed ...
Josefina Robledo Gallego was born in Valencia on 10 May 1897. She was an early disciple of the renowned Spanish guitarist Francisco de Asís Tàrrega y Eixea, [2] and began her musical career in her youth.
Stumpp was accused of killing 16 people, including thirteen children, three women, two men and his own son, according to the University of Saskatchewan. Two of the three women Stumpp allegedly ...
Since Paganini, many variations on the theme have been written, most notably those by Jean-Baptiste Arban, Del Staigers, Herbert L. Clarke for the cornet, trumpet, and euphonium, Francisco Tárrega and Johann Kaspar Mertz for classical guitar, Ignace Gibsone and Louis Moreau Gottschalk for piano, and Giovanni Bottesini for double bass. [3]