Manuel Quiroga

Manuel Quiroga
Manuel López-Quiroga Miquel (January 30, 1899 – December 13, 1988), better known as Maestro Quiroga, was a Spanish composer especially known for his coplas, cuplés, and zarzuelas. He was also a pianist and one of the group of songwriters, Quintero, León and Quiroga, who created some of Spain's most popular and best-known songs from the mid-twentieth century.
Biography
Maestro Quiroga was born in Seville, Spain. In 1934 he began dedicating himself completely to music, giving classes to other new artists and composing. He was a prolific composer, with more than 5,000 works to his name, many of them becoming very popular in the 1940s and 1950s in Spain. As he did not write words, he always surrounded himself with lyricists like Salvador Valverde, Antonio Quintero and Rafael de León. Some of his most popular songs are Tatuaje, Rocio, La Paralla, María de la O, Ojos verdes, Te Lo Juro Yo and La Zarzamora.
He also composed several works for the stage. In 1941, he wrote La reina fea for the zarzuela star soprano, Pepita Embil. Her son, renowned tenor Plácido Domingo, has since recorded several of Quiroga's songs.
Maestro Quiroga died from a pulmonary edema at Virgen del Mar de Madrid clinic on December 13, 1988.
Compositions
Works for orchestra
Ojos Verdes
Rosa de Capuchinos
Romance de la Otra
Te he de Querer nientras Viva
Works for band
1935 María de la O, canción-zambra – Text: Salvador Valverde en Rafael de León
1946 Suite Andaluza
Noche en Granada
Mezquita (baile)
Bolero flamenco
1947 Brisas de Andalucía, suite
Garrotín de Córdoba
Andalucía Mora (Baile)
Maleficio (Danza)
1950 Virgen de la Palma, marcha procesional
1954 Color Moreno, espectacolo de danza y copla
1956 Jaime Ostos, paso-doble
1960 Españolerías, paso-doble
1980 Una saeta a la Virgen, marcha procesional
¡Ay, Maricruz! canción paso-doble – Rafael de León en Salvador Valverde
Candelaria, marcha procesional
Capote de grana y. oro, paso-doble – Text: Rafael de León en Antonio Quintero Ranmírez
Carmen de España, paso-doble – Text: Antonio Quintero Ranmírez en Rafael de León
Celos zambra – Text: Antonio Quintero Ranmírez en Rafael de León
Cocidito madrileño, paso-doble – Text: Rafael de León en Antonio Quintero Ranmírez
Coplas de Luis Candelas, canción paso-doble – Text: Rafael de León
Francisco Alegre, paso-doble torero – Text: Rafael de León en Antonio Quintero Ranmírez
La parrala, canción paso-doble – Text: Rafael de León en Arias Saavedra
La zarzamora marcha-canción – Text: Antonio Quintero Ranmírez en Rafael de León
Lola puñales, marcha – Text: Antonio Quintero Ranmírez en Rafael de León
Prisionera de los celos, marcha – Text: Antonio Quintero Ranmírez en Rafael de León
Suite Gitana
Interludio
Danza del Velorio
Bolero
Stage works
La Marquesa chulapa
Pan y quesillo
Sevilla, que grande eres
Zarzuelas
1918 El Presagio rojo, 1 act – libretto: Fernando Márquez y Tirado and Salvador Videgaín García
1921 La Niña de los perros
1923 El Cortijo de "Las Matas", 1 act – libretto: Fernando Marquez y Tirado
1927 De buena cepa – libretto: Francisco Acebal
1935 María de la O
1941 La Reina fea, 1 act – libretto: Fernando Márquez y Tirado and Pedro Llabrés Rubio
1944 Pepita Romero – libretto: Federico Romero and Guillermo Fernández-Shaw
1947 Gloria La Petenera
Vocal music
1962 Contigo nada más, cha-cha-chá – Text: Carlos Salto
1963 Don Nicanor, polka-fox (together with: Ramón Cobián) – Text: A. Gîaï Padilla
1963 Chupirindango, bossa-nova ritual (together with: Ramón Cobián) – Text: A. Gîaï Padilla
¡Ay, macarena!, canción – Text: Rafael de León en Antonio Quintero Ranmírez
¡Ay, pena, penita! farruca – Text: Rafael de León en Antonio Quintero Ranmírez
A la Lima y al Limón
Aserrín, aserrín, villancicos – Text: Rafael de León en Arias Saavedra
Ay, Mari Cruz
Carcelero, carcelero, canción flamenca – Text: Rafael de León en Antonio Quintero Ranmírez
Doña Sol
La niña de la estación
No me llames Dolores O, canción – Text: Rafael de León
Ojos verdes
Tatuaje, canción del puerto – Text: Rafael de León, Arias Saavedra en Alejandro Rodríguez Gómez
Y sin embargo te quiero
Sources
Maria de los Angeles Pidal Fernandez. El compositor Manuel López-Quiroga.
Miguel Espín en Romualdo Molina. Quiroga. Un genio sevillano. Fundación Autor, 1999.
Spanish composers
Spanish male composers
Spanish pianists
Spanish violinists
Male violinists
Musicians from Seville
1899 births
1988 deaths
Deaths from pulmonary edema
20th-century composers
20th-century pianists
20th-century violinists
20th-century Spanish musicians
Male pianists
20th-century Spanish male musicians