Generalife joaquin turina biography

Spanish composer (1882–1949)

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Turina and the second or maternal family name is Pérez.

Joaquín Turina Pérez (9 December 1882 – 14 January 1949) was a Spanish composer of classical music.^[1]

Biography

Turina was born in Seville.

He studied in Seville as well as in Madrid. He lived in Paris from 1905 to 1914 where he took composition lessons from Vincent d'Indy at the Schola Cantorum de Paris and studied the piano under Moritz Moszkowski. Like his countryman and friend, Manuel de Falla, while in Paris he familiarized himself with the impressionist composers Maurice Ravel and Claude Debussy, whose music had a profound influence on his compositional practice.^[2]

On 10 December 1908 he married Obdulia Garzón^[3] and together they had five children.

She was the dedicatee of the Danzas fantásticas, which he completed in 1919.^{[citation needed]}