Miquel Asins Arbó

Miquel Asins Arbó (21 January 1916 – 26 October 1996) was a Spanish composer. He composed in a variety of genres but is particularly known for his popular songs in the Valencian music tradition and for the more than 70 sound tracks which he composed for Spanish films and television.[1]

Asins Arbó was born in Barcelona but when he was a child moved with his family to Valencia where he studied composition at the Conservatory of Valencia under Manuel Palau. He served as the bandmaster of military regiments in Valencia and Madrid in 1944. In 1976 he was appointed to the chair of accompaniment at the Madrid Royal Conservatory, a post which he held until 1985. He died in at the age of 79 in Valencia where the Plaza Miguel Asins Arbó is named in his honour.[1][2]

Awards

References

  1. ^ a b c d Biblioteca Valenciana Nicolau Primitiu. Archivo Miguel Asins Arbó
  2. ^ Powell, Linton (1980). A History of Spanish Piano Music, p. 170. Indiana University Press. ISBN 0253181143
  3. ^ ABC (9 March 1990). "Miquel Asins Arbó premio SGAE per Composición para Bandas". Retrieved 20 March 2016 (in Spanish)
  • José Miguel Sanz García: "La obra del compositor Miguel asíns Arbó: hacia una catalogación definitiva de su obra", en Nasarre, Revista Aragonesa de Musicología, nº XX (2004), pp. 431-597.
  • José Miguel Sanz García: Miguel Asíns Arbó: Música y cinematografía. Análisis musico-visual de sus composiciones en la filmografía de Luis García Berlanga. Valencia, Universitat de València (Tesis Doctoral), 2008.
  • José Miguel Sanz García: Miguel Asíns Arbó y su música para banda sinfónica. Valencia, Tot per l´aire, 2009.


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