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unusual facts about Joaquín Rodrigo



Concierto

Concierto is named after the featured 19-minute jazz version of the classical piece for guitar, Concierto de Aranjuez by Joaquín Rodrigo.

Concierto Andaluz

The Concierto Andaluz (Spanish: Andalusian concerto) is a 1967 work by the Spanish composer Joaquín Rodrigo for four guitars and orchestra.

Divertimento

Igor Stravinsky also arranged a divertimento from his ballet to music of Tchaikovsky, Le baiser de la fée, while Joaquín Rodrigo called his 1982 cello concerto a "Concierto como un divertimento" ("Concerto like a divertimento").

Gaspar Sanz

In 1954, at the request of guitarist Andrés Segovia, Joaquín Rodrigo composed his Fantasía para un gentilhombre on themes from Instrucción de música sobre la Guitarra Española.

José Rey de la Torre

Rey de la Torre gave the US première of Concierto de Aranjuez by Joaquín Rodrigo on November 19, 1959, with the Cleveland Orchestra under the baton of Robert Shaw.

Regino Sainz de la Maza

On November 6, 1940 he played the guitar at the premiere of Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez in Barcelona conducted by César Mendoza Lasalle.

Xuefei Yang

During her Madrid debut at age 14, the composer Joaquín Rodrigo was among the audience; in 1995, after John Williams listened to her performance in Beijing, he was so impressed that he loaned two of his own Greg Smallman guitars to her conservatory, for her and other top students to play.


see also

CIPCE

C.I.P.C.E. is The international piano competition celebrating Spanish composers (In Spanish: Concurso Internacional de Piano Compositores de España), which is held each year (in about November) in the Auditorum “Joaquín Rodrigo” of Las Rozas de Madrid before an international jury of renowned musicians.

Orquesta Sinfónica del Estado de México

They include recordings dedicated to the works of Verdi and Rossini, Mexican and Spanish music, the works of Isaac Albéniz, Joaquín Rodrigo, Manuel M. Ponce and Carlos Chávez, and the integral series of the symphonies of Ludwig van Beethoven, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.