biography
pronunciation:
[chapee]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1851–1909)
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| biography:
| Composer, born in Villena, Alicante, SE Spain. He wrote operas, symphonies, chamber music, pieces for choir and piano and, notably, zarzuelas (operettas). With Tomás Bretón, he marked a ‘classic’ moment in the genre of popular music. European musical nationalism produced in him the final liberation from the Italian opera and the tradition of the género chico (comic one-act pieces), to which both he and Bretón remained faithful. Outstanding among the 155 zarzuelas which he composed are: La tempestad (1882), La bruja (1887), El rey que rabió (1891), La revoltosa (1897), and El puñado de rosas (1902). He died in 1909, the year in which his opera Margarita la tornera made its debút. |
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