Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Modern Spanish culture
- I Culture
- II Culture and history
- III Culture and prose
- IV Culture and poetry
- V Culture and theater
- VI Culture and the arts
- 17 Painting and sculpture in modern Spain
- 18 Culture and cinema to 1975
- 19 Culture and cinema, 1975-1996
- 20 A century of Spanish architecture
- 21 Spanish music and cultural identity
- 22 To live is to dance
- VII Media
- Index
- Series List
21 - Spanish music and cultural identity
from VI - Culture and the arts
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 May 2006
- Frontmatter
- Modern Spanish culture
- I Culture
- II Culture and history
- III Culture and prose
- IV Culture and poetry
- V Culture and theater
- VI Culture and the arts
- 17 Painting and sculpture in modern Spain
- 18 Culture and cinema to 1975
- 19 Culture and cinema, 1975-1996
- 20 A century of Spanish architecture
- 21 Spanish music and cultural identity
- 22 To live is to dance
- VII Media
- Index
- Series List
Summary
The music enthusiast probably knows Spanish music principally because of the well-recorded early masters, a few modern composers, and several international stars. Lovers of opera and song know of the many great Spanish voices, including those of nineteenth-century Manuel García (for whom Rossini wrote a role in his Barber of Seville) and of his famous daughters María Malibrán and Pauline Viardot-García. Today's best voices include Victoria cle los Ángeles, Teresa Berganza, Montserrat Caballé, José Carreras, Plácido Domingo, Alfredo Krause, and Pilar Lorengar. Music fans will know of the work of the great Spanish instrumentalists such as Pablo Sarasate (violin), Nicanor Zabaleta (harp), Paco de Lucía, Emilio Pujol, Regino Sainz de la Maza, Andrés Segovia, and Francisco Tárrega (guitar), José Iturbi, Alicia de Larrocha, Ricardo Viñes, and Miguel Zanetti (piano), and Pau Casals (cello). They will likewise be familiar with the conducting of Ataúlfo Argenta and Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos.
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- The Cambridge Companion to Modern Spanish Culture , pp. 287 - 297Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1999