biography
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García Gutiérrez, Antonio
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pronunciation:
[gah(r)theea gootyair<
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1813–84)
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| biography:
| Playwright, born in Chiclana, S Spain. He worked in the consular service from 1864, and was director of the Archaeological Museum in Madrid from 1872. An exponent of 19th-c Romanticism, he is best known for his plays El trovador (1836, The Troubadour) and Simon Bocanegra (1857), on which Verdi based his operas, Il trovatore and Simon Boccanegra. |
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