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Federico Moreno Torroba: A Musical Life in Three Acts (Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music) by Walter Aaron Clark, William Craig Krause is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

<br> The last of the Spanish Romantics, composer, conductor, and impresario Federico Moreno Torroba (1891-1982) left his mark on virtually every aspect of Spanish musical culture during a career that spanned six decades and saw tremendous political and cultural upheavals. After Falla, he was the most important and influential musician: in addition to his creative activities, he was President of the General Society of Authors and Editors and director of the Academy of Fine Arts. His enduring contributions as a composer include dozens of guitar works composed for Andrés Segovia and several highly successful zarzuelas, which remain in the repertoire today. <p>Written by two leading experts in the field, <em>Federico Moreno Torroba: A Musical Life in Three Acts</em> explores not only his life and work, but also the relationship of his music to the cultural milieu in which he moved. It sheds particular light on the relationship of Torroba's music and the cultural politics of Francisco Franco's dictatorship (1939-75). Torroba came of age during a cultural renaissance that sought to reassert Spain's position as a unique cultural entity, and authors Walter A. Clark and William Krause demon

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Author
Walter Aaron Clark, William Craig Krause
Publisher
IRL Press at Oxford University Press
Published
2013
Language
EN
ISBN
9780190628468
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Memoir, History, Music
Updated
2026-03-24