Luis Mariano de Larra

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is de Larra and the second or maternal family name is Wetoret.
Luis Mariano de Larra
BornLuis Mariano de Larra y Wetoret
(1830-12-17)17 December 1830
Madrid, Spain
Died20 February 1901(1901-02-20) (aged 70)
Madrid, Spain
OccupationJournalist, novelist, playwright, politician

Luis Mariano de Larra y Wetoret (1830, in Madrid – 1901, in Madrid) was a Spanish writer, son of journalist Mariano José de Larra.[1] Noted as the librettist of numerous zarzuelas such as El Toro y el Tigre, Un embuste y una boda, Todo con raptos, El cuello de la camisa, con el Sr. Suricalday amongst others,[2] his most famous work is undoubtedly El barberillo de Lavapiés (1874), set to music by Francisco Asenjo Barbieri.

Larra worked for the Ministry of Development and contributed to various publications of the time such as the Gaceta de Madrid,[3] from which he resigned to devote himself exclusively to literature. He also wrote many comedies, among which is his much successful La oración de la tarde, drama in three acts and verse whose protagonist Don Diego de Mendoza, dragging his righteous indignation for reasons of honor, implements the evangelical precept of forgiving every injury.[4] It premiered at Teatro del Circo on 25 November 1858 with great acclaim.[5]

Works

  • En Palacio y en la calle
  • Las tres noblezas
  • Quien á cuchillo mata
  • A caza de cuervos! con el Sr. Larrea
  • Una nube de verano
  • El amor y el interés
  • La pluma y la espada
  • La paloma y los halcones
  • La planta exótica
  • El Rey del mundo
  • La oracion de la tarde
  • La primera piedra

References

  1. ^ Thatcher Gies, David (2005). The Theatre in Nineteenth-Century Spain. Cambridge University Press. p. 279. ISBN 0521020239.
  2. ^ de Larra, Luis Mariano (1867). Los infieles: juguete cómico en tres actos y en verso. Madrid: Imp. de José Rodríguez. p. 2. OCLC 10620753. (in Spanish)
  3. ^ Revista Instrucción Pública (1860). Revista de instrucción pública,literatura y ciencias, Volumes 5–6. Madrid: Imprenta de J. Viñas. p. 409.
  4. ^ Rotondo, Antonio (1863). La Oracion de la tarde. Impr. y Litografía Militar del Atlas, á cargo de J. Rodriguez. p. i.
  5. ^ González Subías, José Luis (2010). La pervivencia del Romanticismo en el teatro español de 1850 a 1868 (PDF). Decimonónica. p. 41. OCLC 668262642. (in Spanish)


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