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Tomás Bretón

トマス・ブレトン　/　とます・ぶれとん

Composer from Spain

December 29, 1850 – December 2, 1923　・　Salamanca, Province of Salamanca, Spain

Province of Salamanca
composer
conductor
musicologist

My Take

Tomás Bretón is too often reduced to a single zarzuela hit, and I think that flattens a genuinely ambitious figure. A composer, conductor, and musicologist from Salamanca, he spent his life trying to give Spanish music both popular warmth and serious cultural weight at once. What draws me to him is that tension: he could capture everyday street life in light comic opera while also fighting to lift national opera to international standing. For a 19th-century artist working at the margins of Europe's musical centers, that determination feels admirable. The posthumous Alfonso XII civil order honor reads to me less as ceremony and more as overdue recognition.

Overview

Tomás Bretón y Hernández (29 December 1850 – 2 December 1923) was a Spanish conductor and composer.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

Name (English): Tomás Bretón
Name (Japanese): トマス・ブレトン
Reading: とます・ぶれとん
Born: December 29, 1850 – December 2, 1923
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Capricorn / Dog
Origin: Salamanca, Province of Salamanca, Spain
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: composer / conductor / musicologist

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Private
University: Private

Awards & achievements

1925 Grand cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso XII

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

Private

6. Links

Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%88%E3%83%9E%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%96%E3%83%AC%E3%83%88%E3%83%B3

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