JOSÉ LUIS ITURRALDE (1908 - 1985)

Born in San Sebastián in 1908, he started his musical sudies with Secundino Esnaola, the legendary conductor of the Orfeón Donostiarra. He went to study violin with Alfredo Larrocha, organ with Luis Urteaga and piano and composition with Beltrán Pagola. He won a scholarship from the foral Goverment to study in Madrid where he stayed until 1955 playing the violin in the Orquesta Filarmónica. That year he became professor of Solfége  and Theory of music at the San Sebastian Conservatory.  

He was a prolific composer and his works, both religious and profane, cover practically all types of musical gendres: symphonies, zarzuela, chamber works, pienao and organ music, operas and zarzuelas.
He died in 1985 in San Sebastián whilst attending a concert of his music.

DISCOGRAPHY: 
aAr039 José Luis Iturralde
Intorducción y Allegro (clarinete y piano); Danza oriental
Rapsodia Vasca; Sonatina para Oboe; Balada del pescador; Plegaria (clarinete y piano); Errimiña; Poema de Santa Teresa.
Angel Maeztu, clarinete - Juan Tarín, oboe.
Juan Padrosa, piano.

DOWNLOAD: Iturralde's Danza Oriental played by Juan Padrosa.

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