Manuel Quiroga
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Manuel López-Quiroga Miquel (January 30, 1899 – December 13, 1988) better known as Maestro Quiroga, was a pianist, composer and author of couplet
s and coplas
, one of the authors Quintero, León and Quiroga.
He was born in Seville
, Spain
. In 1934 he began dedicating himself completely to the world of music, giving classes to other new artists and composing. He was a prolific author, with more than 5,000 musical compositions to his name, many of them becoming very popular in 1940s and 1950s Spain. As he did not write lyrics, he always surrounded himself with extraordinary lyricists like Salvador Valverde, Antonio Quintero and Rafael de León. Some of his songs are Tatuaje, Rocio, La Paralla, María de la O, Ojos verdes, Te Lo Juro Yo and La Zarzamora.
Manuel Quiroga died from a pulmonary edema at Virgen del Mar de Madrid
clinic on December 13, 1988.
Couplet
A couplet is a pair of lines of meter in poetry. It usually consists of two lines that rhyme and have the same meter.While traditionally couplets rhyme, not all do. A poem may use white space to mark out couplets if they do not rhyme. Couplets with a meter of iambic pentameter are called heroic...
s and coplas
Copla (music)
The copla or copla andaluza is a form of Spanish popular song, deriving from the poetic form of the same name. The genre arose in the 1940s, and is epitomized by songwriters Antonio Quintero, Rafael de León and Manuel Quiroga.One of the first singers of coplas was Raquel Meller...
, one of the authors Quintero, León and Quiroga.
He was born in Seville
Seville
Seville is the artistic, historic, cultural, and financial capital of southern Spain. It is the capital of the autonomous community of Andalusia and of the province of Seville. It is situated on the plain of the River Guadalquivir, with an average elevation of above sea level...
, Spain
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
. In 1934 he began dedicating himself completely to the world of music, giving classes to other new artists and composing. He was a prolific author, with more than 5,000 musical compositions to his name, many of them becoming very popular in 1940s and 1950s Spain. As he did not write lyrics, he always surrounded himself with extraordinary lyricists like Salvador Valverde, Antonio Quintero and Rafael de León. Some of his songs are Tatuaje, Rocio, La Paralla, María de la O, Ojos verdes, Te Lo Juro Yo and La Zarzamora.
Manuel Quiroga died from a pulmonary edema at Virgen del Mar de Madrid
Madrid
Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...
clinic on December 13, 1988.