Antonio Reparaz

Antonio Reparaz
Born Antonio Reparaz
1831
Cádiz, Andalucia, Spain.
Occupation Musician, composer, director, producer, businessman
Years active 1831–86
Spouse(s) sra. Rodríguez (1840–20)
Children Virginia Reparaz

Antonio Reparaz was born in Cadiz (1831), and death in (1886) was a musician, composer and director Spanish.

Biography

He gained renown as a result of the success of his operas, although other were well-received works. He was direcction of company first time in Santander. After his death, his extensive output was a generally forgotten. His career spanned the majority of the musical areas of the period of the Restoration (1875–1885) Operas Director, reputed orchestral conductor, composer of óperas, zarzuelas, symphonic and chamber music. In 1860 was a director of Theathre Zarzuela of Madrid. After a long polemic which delayed its première, Italians operas amounted to its definitive consolidation. In Zaragoza was confirmed compositor of company of zarzuela, premiere of zarzuela El Castillo feudal. In Madrid fue maestro compositor company Teatro del Circo, and premiere Un quinto y un sustituto, Harry el Diablo, Pablo y Virginia, La niña de nieve, en colaboración con Emilio Arrieta y José Inzenga, Un trono y un desengaño. In Valencia work in ópera, in Teatro Principal, 1882–83. At the same time, he approached the art zarzuela with unequal success. His output, while less than that of his contemporaries Chapí, Gerónimo Giménez and Manuel Fernández Caballero, is of great quality, given the variety of genres which he tackled. where he adopted more modern procedures, within the limitations of the genre. His greatest fame came from opera, especially. On the other hand, he wrote symphonic music with a singular insistence, at a time in which in Spain, orchestral ensembles barely existed. He composed and conducted numerous works, A result of this were his symphonies, revealing a strong assimilation of Verdi and Beethoven's compositional techniques. His most successful works were those with a Spanish character. During his last years he composes various symphonic poems with a clear, nostalgic character, In the chamber-music genre he has left us various works, including quartets, as well as a trio and quintet, composed from markedly classical standpoints, influenced by the French world of composers. He went Italy for study and composed Oratio in Rome as one of the works written. He worked in the Theatre San Juan of Oporto, Portugal in the 1870s. There he wrote his four operas with premieres. He was a director of Theatre Real of San Juan since 1872. He wrote songs of Nineteenth-Century Spain, A Mi Nazarena with José zorrilla and El Beso del Poeta. In 1890 his daughter Virginia married with Antonio Videgain and in 1892 was born his grandson Antonio Videgain Reparaz.

Famous Works

He wrote six operas.

References

– La música española en el siglo XIX Celsa Alonso González – 1995 – Asejo Barbieri, 1996. – Un músico de la Restauración.Antonio Reparaz Madrid: Instituto Complutense de Ciencias Musicales, 2002. – Cervantes y el Quijote en la música: estudios sobre la recepción de un mito por Begoña Lolo