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Joaquín Turina (December 9, 1882 – January 14, 1949) was a Spanish composer of classical music.
He was born in Seville Spain but his family origins come from northern Italy.
He studied in Seville as well as in Madrid. He lived in Paris from 1905 to 1914 where he took composition lessons from Vincent d’Indy at his Schola Cantorum, and studied the piano under Moritz Moszkowski.
While there, he got to know the impressionist composers Maurice Ravel and Claude Debussy, like his fellow countryman and friend, Manuel de Falla.
Along with de Falla, he returned to Madrid in 1914, working as a composer, teacher and critic. In 1931 he was made professor of composition at the Madrid Royal Conservatory. Among his notable pupils are Vicente Asencio and Celedonio Romero.
His works include the operas Margot (1914) and Jardín de Oriente (1923), the Danzas fantásticas (1920, versions for piano and orchestra), La oración del torero (written first for a lute quartet, then string quartet, then string orchestra), chamber music, piano works, guitar pieces and songs.
Much of his work shows the influence of traditional Andalusian music.
[Biography based on information from WIKIPEDIA]
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As a continuation of our’ OTA-Berlin Constituency Blog Mini-Composer-Biography Series’ we present the ninth of the Spanish Composers for the new OTA-Berlin serviced apartments building opening in beginning of May 2010 at Metzer Strasse 8 in Berlin Mitte
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