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Identification

Type:

Person

Preferred form:

Barrios, Ángel (1882-1964)Other forms

Fechas de existencia:

Granada (España) 1882-01-04 - Madrid (España) 1964-11-26

History:

Spanish composer and guitarist.

He was born on January 4 of 1884 in Granada and died on November 26 of 1964 in Madrid. Son of the guitarist and singer Antonio Barrios Tamayo, El Polinario, and Manuela Eloísa Fernández. He studied violin with musicians from Granada, composition with Antonio Segura Mesa, and guitar with his father. He worked as a violinist in many theatre company orchestras.

He spent a lot of time in Paris where he met Granados, Albéniz, Zuloaga, Turina, Falla, Ravel, Dukas, and Gédalge. He founded the Iberia Trio in 1900, alongside Bazunarte and Devalque, with whom he achieved great success. He returned to Granada due to his relationship with Encarnación Pavía Ganivet in 1910. He settled in the city and won that same year the Artistic and Literary Center award for "Guajiras".

He worked in 1913 with Francisco Villaspesa on "Aben Humeya" and he improved his composition technique with Conrado del Campo, with whom he worked on the works for the scene "El Avapiés" (1919), "La romería" (1917) and "El hombre más guapo del mundo" (1920). He was an important figure in Granada's cultural life, and a director of the music section of the Artistic, Literary and Scientific Center of Granada. He strengthened his bond with the composer Manuel de Falla when he moved to Granada in 1919. Falla was Ángela Barrios' godfather and both were some of the promoters of the Cante Jondo Contest in 1922.

In 1928 he was appointed director of the Music Conservatory of Granada. He frequently visited Madrid to promote his work and started acting again when he joined the Albéniz Trio in 1930. From 1932 he was busy with "La Lola se va a los puertos", a work that premiered in 1951 and received the Lyrical Theatre National Prize. After the Civil War (1936-1939) he was deputy mayor of Granada. He moved to Madrid in 1950, where he wrote several zarzuelas, including "Juan Lucero" or "El nombre del rey", and gave guitar lessons to Manuel Cano Tamayo and Gabriel Ruiz Zúñiga. His composition style stands out for its regionalist and Granada-esque features, with the introduction of impressionist aspects.

Event

Description:

Context:

El fondo personal de Ángel Barrios se conserva en el Archivo y Biblioteca del Patronato de la Alhambra y Generalife, en el Centro de Documentación Musical de Andalucía y en la Biblioteca Municipal del Salón de Granada.