The 4th Symphony "Martín y Soler" of

Claudio Prieto Claudio Prieto (24 November 1934 – 5 April 2015) was a Spanish composer. He was born in Muñeca de la Peña, Palencia, and began his musical career as a boy in the mid-20th century playing various musical instruments for the municipal band of G ...

was composed in 2006 as a commission by the

Orquesta de Valencia The Valencia Orchestra (, ) is a symphony orchestra in Valencia, Spain. Founded in 1943 as the Valencia Municipal Orchestra, and a member of the Spanish Association of Symphony Orchestras (AEOS), it is ''not to be confused with'' the Orquesta de ...

, which premiered the work on February 23, 2007 with conductor

Antoni Ros-Marbà Antoni Ros-Marbà (; born 1937 in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat) is a Spanish people, Spanish conducting, conductor and composer from Catalonia. He began his musical education at the Conservatori Superior de Música de Barcelona. He studied conducting ...

. The symphony is made up of a single 50' long movement and was composed as a tribute to Valencian composer

Vicente Martín y Soler Anastasio Martín Ignacio Vicente Tadeo Francisco Pellegrin Martín y Soler (2 May 175430 January or 10 February 1806) was a Spanish composer of opera and ballet. Although relatively obscure now, in his own day he was compared favorably with his ...

, evoking his time's aesthetic while raising Prieto's personal view of the projection of his figure, both in artistic and biographic terms.

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Prieto 4 2006 compositions {{Symphony-stub