Manuel Quiroga (violinist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Manuel Quiroga (violinist)

Spanish violinist from Galicia; composer

Date of Birth: 15-Apr-1892

Place of Birth: Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain

Date of Death: 19-Apr-1961

Profession: composer, painter, caricaturist

Nationality: Spain

Zodiac Sign: Aries

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About Manuel Quiroga (violinist)

  • Manuel Quiroga Losada (15 April 1892 – 19 April 1961) was a noted Spanish violinist of the early 20th Century, whose career was cut short by a traffic accident in New York in 1937.
  • He was repeatedly billed by music critics as "the finest successor of Pablo de Sarasate", and he is sometimes referred to as "Sarasate's spiritual heir".
  • Enrique Granados, Eugène Ysaÿe (whose sixth Solo Sonata is dedicated to Quiroga) and other composers dedicated compositions to him.
  • The greatest violinists of the time – Ysaÿe, Fritz Kreisler, George Enescu, Mischa Elman and Jascha Heifetz – as well as composers such as Igor Stravinsky and Jean Sibelius, held Quiroga's artistry in great regard.
  • Guilhermina Suggia, the Portuguese cellist (and one-time companion of Pablo Casals), described his playing of Tartini's Devil's Trill Sonata as "marvellous and flawless".Quiroga was also a composer of two violin concertos, sets of variations, studies and smaller violin pieces, and cadenzas to major concertos from the core repertoire.
  • He was the first to extensively use Galician nationalistic folklore as the basis of classical music compositions, and he was also a respected caricaturist and portraitist in oil and charcoal. Quiroga has not had the ongoing recognition outside his native land that he perhaps deserves.
  • His career was halted prematurely, before he had made a significant body of recordings, and shortly after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War.
  • Nevertheless, his legacy has been preserved in Galicia, and is being brought back to international attention.

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