The 4th Symphony "Martín y Soler" of Claudio Prieto

Claudio Prieto

Claudio Prieto is a Spanish composer. He was born in Muñeca de la Peña in the province of Palencia on the 24th November 1934.He began his musical career as a boy in the mid 20th century playing various musical instruments for the municipal band of Guardo...

 was composed in 2006 as a commission from the Orquesta de Valencia, which premiered it on February 23, 2007 with Antoni Ros-Marbà

Antoni Ros-Marbà

Antoni Ros-Marbà is a Spanish conductor from Catalonia. He began his musical education at the Conservatori Superior de Música de Barcelona...

 conducting the ensemble.

The Symphony is made up of a single 50' long movement and was composed as a tribute to Valencian composer Vicente Martín y Soler

Vicente Martín y Soler

Vicente Martín y Soler was a Spanish composer of opera and ballet. Although relatively obscure today, in his own day he was compared favorably with his contemporary, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as a composer of opera buffa. He has been called the Valencian Mozart.He was born in Valencia and studied...

, evoking his time's aesthetic while raising Prieto's personal view of the projection of his figure, both in artistic and biographic terms.