Salvador Bacarisse Chinoria (12 September 18985 August 1963) was a Spanish

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. Bacarisse was born in

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and studied music at the Real Conservatorio de Música there, as a student of Manuel Fernández Alberdi (piano) and

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(composition). He was a leading member of the Grupo de los Ocho (founded in the spirit of

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to combat musical conservatism) and helped to promote new music as the artistic director of Unión Radio until 1936. At the end of the

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in 1939, Bacarisse exiled himself to

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after rejecting the Francoist State of

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. From 1945 until his death, he worked for Radio-Télévision Française as a broadcaster of Spanish-language programmes. Bacarisse composed for the piano, mixed chamber ensembles, operas including ''El tesoro de Boabdil'' which won a French radio award in 1958, and orchestral works including four piano concertos and a violin concerto. His most famous work today is the Concertino for Guitar and Orchestra in A minor, Op. 72, composed in 1952 in a neo-romantic style. It is known in a celebrated recording by

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References

* Christiane Heine. "Salvador Bacarisse", ''

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(subscription access). *Enrique Franco. "Salvador Bacarisse", ''

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