Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Spanish composer
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Place of Birth: Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain
About Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga
- Juan Crisóstomo Jacobo Antonio de Arriaga y Balzola (January 27, 1806 – January 17, 1826) was a Spanish Basque composer.
- He was nicknamed "the Spanish Mozart" after he died, because, like Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, he was both a child prodigy and an accomplished composer who died young.
- They also shared the same first and second baptismal names; and they shared the same birthday, January 27 (fifty years apart).
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