Arregui Garay, Vicente
Arregui Garay, Vicente
Arregui Garay, Vicente, Spanish composer and music critic; b. Madrid, July 3, 1871; d. there, Dec. 2, 1925. He studied at the Madrid Cons., and took 1st prizes in both pianoand composition. In 1899 he won the Rome Prize. His orch. score Historia de una madre won the National Music Prize in 1910. In addition to composing, he wrote music criticism for the Madrid daily El debate. Except for his Sinfonia vasca, his music did not follow along Spanish nationalist lines but pursued a determined individual course. Among his other works were the operas La maja and Yolanda, operettas, zarzuelas, a String Quartet, a Piano Sonata, the oratorio San Francisco, a Mass, a cantata, and motets.
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