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unusual facts about Himno de Riego


Himno de Riego

At the Davis Cup tennis finals held in Australia in 2003, James Morrison played this anthem, El Himno de Riego instead of Spain's current national anthem, the Marcha Real ("Royal March").


Santiago Masarnau Fernández

In both Paris and London he was close to the Spanish composer José Melchor Gomis (1791–1836), himself a Spanish rebel living in exile, who composed the Himno de Riego, since used as the national anthem by the various republican governments of Spain.


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