Tomas Breton

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Tomás Bretón (December 29, 1850 – December 2, 1923) was a Spanish musician and composer. He gained renown as a result of the success of his zarzuela La verbena de la Paloma, although other were well-received works, included his operas Los amantes de Teruel, based on the eponymous legend, and La Dolores. After his death, his extensive output was a generally forgotten. His career spanned the majority of the musical areas of the period of the Restoration (1875-1923): Conservatorium Director, reputed orchestral conductor, composer of óperas, zarzuelas, symphonic and chamber music. His aimed to create a Spanish ópera, which would form a basis for a national music. He not only expressed these ideas in his many writings, but composed a series of works throughout practically his whole career which reflectec them, from Guzmán el bueno (1876) to Tabaré (1913). His series of nine óperas, two of them in only one act, are an ambitious body of work for Spanish composers of his time. After a long polemic which delayed its première, Los amantes de Teruel (1889) amounted to its definitive consolidation, and was followed by proposals along very different lines, such as the Wagnerian in Garín (1892) for the Barcelona Liceo and the veristic in La Dolores (1894) for the Madrilenian Teatro de la Zarzuela. His last works, despite being tied to a strong nineteenth-century tradition, contain undeniable interest, such as Raquel (1900), based on the famous romantic drama, Farinelli (1902), composed f

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La Revoltosa / La Verbena De La Paloma

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Breton & Monasterio: Spanish Romantic Violin Concertos

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Breton - La Verbena de la Paloma

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100 Best Placido Domingo

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Bretón: La Dolores

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Exitos Zarzuela Vol. II

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Zarzuela: Preludios - Danzas - Intermedios

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La Verbena de la Paloma

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Romanzas de Zarzuelas

BRETON: Piano Trio in E Major / String Quartet in D Major

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Preludios e Intermedios de Zarzuelas

Breton, T.: Escenas Andaluzas / En La Alhambra / Opera Preludes

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