Federico moreno torroba biography of williams

          This dissertation is the first comprehensive research into the life and work of Federico Moreno Torroba ().!

          The last of the Spanish Romantics, composer, conductor, and impresario Federico Moreno Torroba (–) left his mark on virtually every aspect of.

        1. Federico Moreno Torroba (3 March – 12 September ) was a Spanish composer, conductor, and theatrical impresario.
        2. This dissertation is the first comprehensive research into the life and work of Federico Moreno Torroba ().
        3. Walter Aaron Clark and William Craig Krause's biography Federico Moreno Torroba: A Musical Life in Three Acts is the first full-length scholarly text to.
        4. The last of the Spanish Romantics, composer, conductor, and impresario Federico Moreno Torroba () left his mark on virtually every aspect of.


          5. The Biography
          of Frederico Moreno Torroba
          1891-1982







          Andres Segovia befriends
          the young composer

          This Spanish Maestro was born in Madrid on 3rd March, 1891.

          His early musical learning was from his father José Moreno Ballesteros, a well known organist, and later he was a pupil of the prominant father-figure of musical nationalism Felipe Pedrell (1841-1922). He also studied with the Spanish composer and conductor Conrado del Campo (1878-1953), who was a professor at the Real Conservatorio de Música.

          Frederico Moreno Torroba wrote a tone poem which was premiered at the conservatoire in 1918, the same year in which he met the guitarist Andrés Segovia who commented in his autobiography : “Then there was a ‘first’ in the field of the guitar: for the first time, a composer who was not a guitarist, wrote a piece for the guitar.

          It was Federico Moreno Torroba, whose musical poem had just been premiered by the National Symphony under the direction of Maestro Arbós. Moreno Torrob