Francisco Asenjo Barbieri

Francisco de Asís Asenjo Barbieri ( born August 3, 1823 in Madrid, † February 19, 1894 ) was a Spanish composer and author of literature and music historical works.

He was of excellent versatile education and entered 1837 in the Madrid Conservatory, where he studied piano and composition with Pedro Albéniz ( 1795-1855 ), singing with Baltasar Saldoni ( 1807-1889 ) and clarinet. It then began a career unsteady time was also determined by its material needs. He tried himself as a composer, music teacher, choir director and music journalist before him, with the performance of the three-act zarzuela " Jugar con fuego " made ​​a breakthrough in 1851. After that, he was both as a composer and as an author until his death part of cultural life in Madrid. In 1874, he crowned the music genre with his three-act zarzuela " El Barberillo de Lavapies ," a work which also found its way into many other countries.

With the performance of the so-called zarzuela grande " Jugar con fuego " Barbieri began the renaissance of this typical Spanish stage musical genre in motion and participated in the creation of many other works on many years continued success of these works. Several other Spanish composers did for him.