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This Week’s Spanish Composer: JESÚS GARCÍA LEOZ (1904-1953)
by Elena Greco
August 11, 2015 Born in Navarre, Jesús García Leoz spent much of his life in Madrid. An accomplished concert pianist, he studied composition with Joaquin Turina, and was apparently one of Turina’s favorite pupils. After successfully composing cinema soundtracks prolifically for a decade, Leoz turned to chamber music, publishing works for piano, quartet and ballet, as well as three song cycles. An opera was in the works when he died prematurely at age 49 from a heart attack. In the 15 months before his death, he composed his major piano and orchestral works, as well as the Canciones with lyrics by Antonio Machado, and the zarzuelas La Alegre Alcaldesa, La Duquesa del Candil, and Primavera en el Portal. He left an unfinished opera, Barataria.
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