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Juan Hidalgo
Born: 28th September 1614, Madrid, Spain
Died: 31st March 1685, Madrid, Spain
Nationality: Spanish
Juan Hidalgo de Polanco was a Spanish composer and harpist who became the most influential composer of his time in the Hispanic world writing the music for the first two operas created in Spanish. He is considered by many to be the father of Spanish opera and of the zarzuela.
Hidalgo was born and died in Madrid. In either 1630 or 1631 he became a harpist at the Spanish royal chapel where he was responsible for the accompaniment of both sacred and secular music and also played for the King of Spain, King Philip IV. Around 1645 he began to serve as leader of the court's chamber musicians and chief composer of villancicos, chamber songs, and music for the theatre.
He personifies the origins of Spanish opera with the work Celos aun del aire matan (es) by the illustrious playwright Calderon de la Barca, based on the story of Cephalus and Procris told in Ovid's Metamorphoses, released on 5 December 1660 to celebrate the third birthday of prince Felipe Prospero.
Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Hidalgo_de_Polanco
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- !Tonante dios! (3)
- Al dichoso nacer de mi nino (3)
- Atiende y da (1)
- Ay amor, ay ausencia (6)
- Ay de mi dolor! (1)
- Ay que me rio de amor (8)
- Ay que sí, ay que no (6)
- Cómo ha de saber Belilla? (2)
- Credito es de mi decoro (3)
- Cuando puede en lo amante (1)
- Cuydado, pastor (2)
- De las luces que en el mar (4)
- Disfrazado de pastor (2)
- Dulce ruisenor (2)
- El gran Burlador (1)
- En los floridos Paramos (4)
- Esperar, sentir, morir (8)
- La noche tenebrosa (5)
- Luceros y flores (1)
- Misa de l'Escoral (1)
- Peces, fieras, aves (1)
- Peynándose estaba un olmo (6)
- Quedito pasito (1)
- Quien es amor (1)
- Quien son aquellos (1)
- Rompa el aire en suspiros (1)
- Rompe amor las flechas (1)
- Solo es querer (2)
- Tortolilla que cantas (2)
- Xacara de Clarin (1)
- Yo soy la locura (Pasacalle: La folie) (1)
