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Spanish music played a notable part in the early developments of western classical music, from the 15th through the early 17th century. The breadth of musical innovation can be seen in composers like Tomás Luis de Victoria , styles like the zarzuela of Spanish opera , the ballet of Manuel de Falla , and the classical guitar music of Francisco ...
19th-century Spanish classical composers (40 P) Pages in category "19th-century Spanish composers" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.
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Other regional and linguistic variants in Spain include the Basque zartzuela and the Catalan sarsuela. A masque-like musical theatre had existed in Spain since the time of Juan del Encina. The zarzuela genre was innovative in giving a dramatic function to the musical numbers, which were integrated into the plot of the work. Dances and choruses ...
Manuel de Falla (1876–1946), 20th-century composer, best known for The Three-Cornered Hat Gutierre Fernández (c. 1547–1623), composer and priest [ 1 ] Pere-Enric de Ferran i de Rocabruna (1865–1919), Catalan-Spanish music composer
The Barcelona opera house, Gran Teatre del Liceu, which opened in 1847, remains one of the most important in Spain; in addition, in the mid-19th century the first Barcelona Philharmonic Society was founded for the performance of orchestral music. Several symphonic orchestras exist in Catalonia today, including the Barcelona Orchestra.
Rumba flamenca, also known as flamenco rumba or simply rumba (Spanish pronunciation:), is a palo (style) of flamenco music developed in Andalusia, Spain. It is known as one of the cantes de ida y vuelta (roundtrip songs), music which diverged in the new world, then returned to Spain in a new form. The genre originated in the 19th century in ...
Bolero is a Spanish dance in 3/4 time popular in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It originated from the seguidilla sometime between 1750 and 1772, [2] and it became very popular in Madrid, La Mancha, Andalusia and Murcia in the 1780s.