Federico moreno torroba biography for kids

Andres Segovia befriends
the young composer

This Spanish Maestro was born in Madrid on 3rd March, His early musical learning was from his father José Moreno Ballesteros, a well known organist, and later he was a pupil of the prominant father-figure of musical nationalism Felipe Pedrell (). He also studied with the Spanish composer and conductor Conrado del Campo (), who was a professor at the Real Conservatorio de Música. Frederico Moreno Torroba wrote a tone poem which was premiered at the conservatoire in , the same year in which he met the guitarist Andrés Segovia who commented in his autobiography : “Then there was a ‘first’ in the field of the guitar: for the first time, a composer who was not a guitarist, wrote a piece for the guitar. It was Federico Moreno Torroba, whose musical poem had just been premiered by the National Symphony under the direction of Maestro Arbós. Moreno Torroba had been introduced to me by the or Online biography for kids!