Pablo Esteve y Grimau (1730–1794) was a Spanish composer. Esteve was conductor and house-composer for the

Teatro de la Cruz The Teatro de la Cruz was, for nearly 200 years, the principal theater for comedy in Madrid. Founded in 1584 by the Hermandad de la Soledad, it quickly became the premier venue of its time for Spanish comedy. History In 1743, the theater underwen ...

Madrid Madrid ( ; ) is the capital and List of largest cities in Spain, most populous municipality of Spain. It has almost 3.5 million inhabitants and a Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of approximately 7 million. It i ...

during the peak of the popularity of the ''

tonadilla Tonadilla was a Spanish musical song form of theatrical origin; not danced. The genre was a type of short, satirical musical comedy popular in 18th-century Spain, and later in Cuba and other Spanish colonial countries. It originated as a song typ ...

'' genre. The risque nature of the ''tonadilla'' meant that Esteve was once briefly jailed for sarcastic references to a duchess in one of his compositions. The actress who sang the ''tonadilla'' on stage escaped jail by claiming she paid no attention to what she was given to sing.

Elisabeth Le Guin Elisabeth Covel Le Guin (born July 25, 1957) is an American musicologist and cellist. Originally the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra's principal cellist in the 1980s, she later got her PhD in Music at the University of California, Berkeley, and s ...

''Boccherini's Body: An Essay in Carnal Musicology'' 2005 Page 155 "Although she was highly esteemed for her passionate, impulsive stage persona, she became quite another creature during the 1779 scandal involving Pablo Esteve, the librettist and composer with whom she worked most closely. Esteve had ..."

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1730 births 1794 deaths Spanish Classical-period composers Spanish male classical composers Place of birth missing 18th-century Spanish classical composers 18th-century Spanish male musicians {{Spain-composer-stub