Agustín Millares Torres (1826-1896)
- Variaciones para Clarinete y Cuerda
Performers: Radovan Cаvаllin (clarinete); Orquesta “Béla Bartók”; José Britο Lópеz (conductor)
Further info: Agustín Millares Torres (1826-1896) - Obras orquestales
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Spanish historian, novelist and musician, author of the monumental work
entitled "Historia General de las Islas Canarias". At the age of
thirteen he entered the Seminary to attend high school while he was also
receiving music lessons. In 1841 he served on Las Palmas Town Hall
music band and began to compose regularly. In 1844, after obtaining a
Bachelor's degree, he enrolled in the Escuela de Notariado de Las
Palmas, where he obtained his degree in 1846. He then moved to Madrid to
study at the Superior Conservatory of Music. Upon his return in Gran
Canaria, he was teaching music at the Colegio San Agustín and took over
the post of director of the Las Palmas Cathedral Music Chapel. On
October 4, 1850, he married Encarnación Cubas Báez with whom he had
eleven children. In 1882 he was appointed as member of the Royal Academy
of History. As a composer, he wrote overtures, hymns, marches, waltzes,
zarzuelas and sacred works.
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