Ruperto Chapí
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Ruperto Chapí (y Lorente)
(b Villena, 27 March 1851; d Madrid, 25 March 1909). Spanish composer. He studied at the Madrid Conservatory and in Rome, Milan and Paris, composing his first symphonic suite in 1873. A series of one-act operas followed, then over 1000 zarzuelas (beginning with Música clásica, 1880), many notable successes. He published four string quartets.
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Ruperto Chapí
Ruperto Chapí y Lorente (27 March 1851 - 25 March 1909) was a Spanish composer, and co-founder of the Sociedad General de Autores y Editores.
Chapí was born at Villena, the son of a Valencian barber. He trained in his home town and Madrid. He wrote a large number of symphonic, band, choral and chamber works, as well as zarzuelas and operas, becoming, alongside Tomás Bretón, a fellow pupil of Emilio Arrieta at the Madrid Conservatory. He was one of the most popular and important composers of his time. He wrote zarzuelas in all shapes and sizes, including the 3-act zarzuela grande and the one-act género chico forms. His most celebrated work is La revoltosa, written in the latter style. Many of the preludes to his zarzuelas (including those to El tambor de granaderos and La patria chica) have remained staple items in Spanish orchestral concerts.
He died in Madrid in 1909.
Concert works
- Sinfonía en Re (Symphony in D) (by 1879)[1][2]
- Fantasía Morisca (1873/1879)
- Combate de Don Quijote contra las Ovejas - Scherzo (1869)
Principal zarzuelas and operas
- Música clasica, zarzuela in 1 act (1880)
- La tempestad, zarzuela in 3 acts (1882)
- La bruja, zarzuela in 3 acts (1887)
- El milagro de la Virgen, zarzuela in 3 acts (1884)
- El rey que rabió, zarzuela in 3 acts (1891)
- Curro Vargas, zarzuela in 3 acts (1898)
- El tambor de granaderos, zarzuela in 1 act (1894)
- La revoltosa, zarzuela in 1 act (1897)
- La chavala, zarzuela in 1 act (1898)
- El barquillero, zarzuela in 1 act (1900)
- El puñao de rosas, zarzuela in 1 act (1902)
- La venta de Don Quijote, zarzuela in 1 act (1902)
- La patria chica, zarzuela in 1 act (1907)
- Margarita la tornera, opera in 3 acts (1909)
External links
- ^ Chapí, Ruperto (1999). Ramón Sobrino. ed. New Edition of Chapí's Symphony (originally published in 1879). Madrid: Instituto Complutense de Ciencias Musicales. ISBN 84-8048-350-4. OCLC 44131003. http://catnyp.nypl.org/record=b8149747. Retrieved 2008-08-27.
- ^ Barnett, Rob (July 2008). "Review of Recording of Chapí Symphony". http://www.musicweb-international.com/classRev/2008/July08/Chapi_1cm0176.htm. Retrieved 2008-08-27.
- "Ruperto Chapí - biographical page". epdlp. 1997-2009. http://www.zarzuela.net/com/chapi.htm. Retrieved 2008-11-08.
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Ruperto Chapí: Symphony in D minor; Fantasía morisca
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