Rafael Aceves y Lozano
Rafael Aceves y Lozano (20 March 1837 – 21 February 1876) was a Spanish composer. He studied at the Madrid Conservatory, earning a gold medal in 1863. He was especially known for his sacred music compositions of which his Stabat Mater is the best known.
Rafael Aceves y Lozano
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Aceves, Rafaël (1837-1876). Compositeur · Bibliothèque nationale de France · Public domain
- Born
- 1837 · Real Sitio de San Ildefonso.
- Died
- 1876 · Madrid.
- Nationality
- Spain
- Occupation
- composer
- Fields
- opera · zarzuela
- Education
- Madrid Royal Conservatory
- Teachers
- Manuel Mendizábal
- Languages
- Spanish
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Rafael Aceves y Lozano (20 March 1837 – 21 February 1876) was a Spanish composer. He studied at the Madrid Conservatory, earning a gold medal in 1863. He was especially known for his sacred music compositions of which his Stabat Mater is the best known.
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Together with a colleague composer, Llanos, he composed the opera El Puñal de la Misericordia in 1869, with which he was again recognized with a medal. He went on to compose a number of zarzuela, including La bola negra, Sensitiva (1870), a collaborative composition, El trono de Escocia, with Manuel Fernández Caballero, and El Testamento Azul with Francisco Asenjo Barbieri. He also wrote the opera El manco de Lepanto - Episodio histórico en un acto y en verso (1867) in homage to Miguel de Cervantes, telling the story of the writer's captivity and release in Algiers. He also composed a parody of Cristóbal Oudrid's El molinero de Subiza entitled El carbonero de Subiza.
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Rafael Aceves y Lozano died in 1876 at Madrid.
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Real Sitio de San Ildefonso.
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