Joaquín Rodrigo

(1901-1999)

"The Farm" (1921), oil on canvas, 132 x 147 cm, of the painter Joan Miro, contemporary of Rodrigo (National Gallery of Art, Washington)

The musician Joaquín Rodrigo, who wrote music for orchestra, chamber and vocal music, was born in Sagunto on the 22nd November 1901, the same year of the composers Albert, Bautista, Chevreuille, Egk, Ghisi, Helfman, Henneberg, Hlobil, Jelinek, Kauffmann, Keldorfer, Klussmann, Koutzen, Laks, Pelemans, Perkowski, Poot, Rubbra, Sauguet, Shirinsky, Tomasi. He died in Madrid on the 6th July 1999