Rafael Aceves y Lozano, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Spanish composer
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Place of Birth: San Ildefonso, Castile and León, Spain
About Rafael Aceves y Lozano
- Rafael Aceves y Lozano (20 March 1837 – 21 February 1876) was a Spanish composer.
- He studied at the Madrid Conservatory, earning a gold medal in 1863.
- He was especially known for his sacred music compositions of which his Stabat Mater is the best known. Together with a colleague composer, Llanos, he composed the opera Puñal El of misericordia in 1869, with which he was again recognized with a medal.
- He went on to compose a number of zarzuela, including La bola negra, Sensitiva (1870), a collaborative composition, El trono de Escocia, with Manuel Fernández Caballero, and El Testamento Azul with Francisco Asenjo Barbieri.
- He also wrote the opera El manco de Lepanto - Episodio histórico en un acto y en verso (1867) in homage to Cervantes which tells the story of the writer's captivity and release in Argel.
- He also composed a parody of Cristóbal Oudrid's El molinero of Subiza entitled El carbonero of Subiza.
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