Amadeu Vives i Roig

Amadeu Vives i Roig was a Spanish musical composer, creator of over a hundred stage works. He is best known for Doa Francisquita, which Christopher Webber has praised for its easy lyricism, fluent orchestration and colourful evocation of 19th Century Madridnot to mention its memorable vocal and choral writing characterizes as without doubt the best known and loved of all his works, one of the few zarzuelas which has travelled abroad .

A Catalan, Vives was born in Collbat, near Montserrat. He studied in Barcelona under Jos Ribera, and in 1891 helped found the influential Orfe Catal choral society, a key element in the Catalan musical renaissance. He then became an early pupil of Felipe Pedrell, a fundamental figure of 20th century Spanish music. He soon moved to Madrid, where he lived the rest of his life, first publishing a series of concert works, solo and muchloved choral songs before turning to the zarzuelas on which his fame rests.

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