Andrés Segovia commissioned works from Spanish composers such as Federico Moreno Torroba and Joaquín Rodrigo, Italians such as Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco and Latin American composers such as Manuel Ponce of Mexico.

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The great Spanish composers of the Renaissance included Francisco Guerrero and Cristóbal de Morales, both of whom spent a significant portion of their careers in Rome.

Most Spanish composers returned home late in their careers to spread their musical knowledge in their native land or at the service of the Court of Philip II at the late 16th century.

Spanish composers of this period include Felipe Pedrell, Isaac Albéniz, Enrique Granados, Joaquín Turina, Manuel de Falla, Jesús Guridi, Ernesto Halffter, Federico Mompou, Salvador Bacarisse, and Joaquín Rodrigo.

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The songs recorded, which were contributed by Tejano and Mexican composers became very popular through jukeboxes placed in restaurants, cantinas or any other establishment that would have them, and the then very scarce Spanish language radio programs.

Category: Spanish composers

* Group of Eight ( music ), Spanish composers

Starting off with imported Spanish content ( List of zarzuela composers ), it developed into a running commentary on Cuba's social and political events and problems.

He was one of the earliest champions of the Spanish and South American composers and of French composers who, in the early twentieth century, were still considered " modern " such as Debussy and Ravel.

Even though Victoria is typically viewed as being the leading composer of the Roman School, the school was also heavily marked by other Spanish composers such as Morales, Guerrero, and Escobedo.

Some of his sacred music uses instruments ( a practice which is not uncommon in Spanish sacred music of the 16th century ), and he also wrote polychoral works for more than one spatially separated group of singers, in the style of the composers of the Venetian school who were working at St. Mark's in Venice.

Evans was explicitly influenced by Spanish composers Manuel De Falla and Joaquín Rodrigo, and by other Latin and Brazilian music, as well as by German expatriate Kurt Weill.

Category: Spanish composers

Category: Spanish composers

Renaissance polyphony flourished in Catalunya, though local composers never attained the fame of either the Spanish composers to the South and West or the French composers to the North.

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La Argentina was the first to use music for Spanish dance of the great contemporary composers such as Isaac Albéniz, de Falla, Granados and Turina.

Category: Spanish composers

In the 15th century, Leonor López de Córdoba, a Spanish noblewoman, wrote her Memorias, which may be the first autobiography in Castillian.

One early example is that of Leonor López de Córdoba ( 1362 – 1420 ) who wrote what is supposed to be the first autobiography in Spanish.

The Spanish musician probably wrote the work by 1827, the date he returned to Barcelona, and his hymn debuted in Santiago, in the Arteaga theater, 23 December 1828.

" That rich island ," he wrote on 1 December 1881, " the key to the Gulf of Mexico, is, though in the hands of Spain, a part of the American commercial system … If ever ceasing to be Spanish, Cuba must necessarily become American and not fall under any other European domination.

Jose de Acosta, a Spanish Jesuit missionary who lived in Peru and then Mexico in the later 16th century, wrote of it:

Cervantes wrote his work in a form of Old Castilian, the medieval form of the Spanish language.

Afterwards, Lieberman wrote a poem about the experience and shared it with Norman Gimbel, who had long been searching for a way to use a phrase he had copied from a novel badly translated from Spanish to English, " killing me softly with his blues ".

In April the Spanish ambassador, Bernardino de Mendoza, wrote to King Philip of Spain that it had been proposed that if Anjou were to travel to England to negotiate his marriage to the Queen, Oxford, Surrey and Windsor should be hostages for his safe return.

Tacitus in his Agricola wrote that the various groupings of Britons shared physical characteristics with their continental neighbours: the Britons of England were more typically blonde-haired, like the Gauls, in contrast to the Britons of Wales, who were generally dark and curly of hair, like the Spanish, or those of Scotland, stereotypically redheaded.

As writer and editor Nathaniel Parker Willis wrote, " With his cigar and his Spanish eyes, he talks Typee and Omoo, just as you find the flow of his delightful mind on paper ".

She also wrote for the Spanish individualist anarchist magazine Al Margen alongside Miguel Gimenez Igualada

Saint Isidore wrote a total of 1640 Spanish words in his surviving works.

That the Louisiana Purchase was illegal was described pointedly by the historian Henry Adams, who wrote: " The sale of Louisiana to the United States was trebly invalid ; if it were French property, Bonaparte could not constitutionally alienate it without the consent of the Chambers ; if it were Spanish property, he could not alienate it at all ; if Spain had a right of reclamation, his sale was worthless.

* Alberti wrote an influential work on architecture, De Re Aedificatoria, which by the 18th century had been translated into Italian, French, Spanish and English.

Since it did not have a writing system, when the Spanish conquistadors, when they arrived, wrote the language in their own alphabet without distinguishing long vowels.

Unlike Bernal Díaz, who was remembering his memories many years after the fact, Cortés wrote his Cartas de relación ( Letters from Mexico ) in the moment in order to justify his actions to the Spanish Crown.

In 1561 Luis de León, a Spanish lyric poet and an Augustinian friar, translated the Song of Songs into Spanish for his cousin, Isabel Osorio, a nun who could not read the Latin text, and wrote an accompanying commentary.

In a letter to the Spanish king, Cortés wrote that Tenochtitlan was as large as Seville or Córdoba.

He wrote an extended treatise ( 21 July 447 ), against the sect, examining its false teaching in detail, and calling for a Spanish general council to investigate whether it had any adherents in the episcopate, but this was prevented by the political circumstances of Spain.

When news of this invasion reached Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan, on 21 October 1496, he wrote to his ambassador in Spain, to request the Spanish monarchs make peace between England and Scotland.

David P. Forsythe wrote: " Of particular significance in Southeast Asia were the incursions of Moro raiders in the southern Philippines who may have captured around 2 million slaves in the first two centuries of Spanish rule after 1565.

The Spanish wrote that the first Hopi village they visited was Awatovi.

Foreigners who visited the missions remarked at how the priests ' control over the Indians appeared excessive, but necessary given the white men's isolation and numeric disadvantage .< ref > Bennett 1897b, p. 158: " In 1825 Governor Argüello wrote that the slavery of the Indians at the missions was bestial ... Governor Figueroa declared that the missions were < nowiki >'</ nowiki > entrenchments of monastic despotism < nowiki >'</ nowiki >..."</ ref > Indians were not paid wages as they were not considered free laborers and, as a result, the missions were able to profit from the goods produced by the Mission Indians to the detriment of the other Spanish and Mexican settlers of the time who could not compete economically with the advantage of the mission system.