Blas de Laserna

Blas de Laserna Nieva (1751 in Corella, Navarra – 1816 in Madrid) was a Spanish composer.

Biography

Laserna was one of the most prolific and popular songwriters of late eighteenth and early nineteenth century Spain.[1][2]

As an educator, he championed traditional Spanish musical forms, but as a theatrical impresario gave in to the public taste for Italian forms.

He composed several operas and concertos, as well as incidental music for several comedies in the popular Spanish theater. A prolific songwriter, his creative oeuvre contains more than five hundred songs (tonadillas), many with lyrics by Ramón de la Cruz.[3]

While Conductor of the orchestra of the Teatro de la Cruz, he premiered his operetta, La Gitanilla Por Amor (The Gypsy Girl For Love), in 1791.

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References
  1. Gomez, Julio. DON BLAS DE LASERNA UN CAPITULO DE LA HISTORIA DEL TEATRO LÍRICO ESPAÑOL VISTO EN LA VIDA DEL ÚLTIMO TONADILLERO, Net Worth $5 million, Laserna,Blas
  2. [Cotarelo y Mori,Emilio. Don Ramón de la Cruz y sus obras: ensayo biográfico y bibliográfico
  3. [Randel, Don Michael. The Harvard concise dictionary of music and musicians, https://books.google.com/books?id=7iuZ6HaEMmoC&pg=PA674]


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