Joaquín Turina (December 9, 1882 Seville – January 14, 1949 Madrid) was a Spanish composer of classical music. He was born in Seville and studied there and in Madrid. He lived in Paris from 1905 to 1914 where he took composition lessons from
Vincent d'Indy at his Schola Cantorum, and studied the piano under Moritz Moszkowski. Like his fellow countryman and friend
Manuel de Falla, he also got to know the impressionist composers
Maurice Ravel and
Claude Debussy while there. With de Falla, he returned to Madrid in 1914 and worked as a composer, teacher and critic. From 1931 he was…
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