Antonio Soller
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António Soller (1882), by Francisco José Resende. Fernando de Castro Museum, Oporto.
Antonio Soller (10 August 1840, Lisboa; - ?) was a Portuguese pianist and composer.[1]
He studied painting and music. Later, he lived in France, Italy and Belgium, and in 1884, he dedicated a march titled Heroism to King Humbert. He composed various triumphal and funeral marches.
Autograph letters from Antonio Soller to Charles Malherbe survive from 1902, placing his date of death in the 20th century, but at present his exact date of death is unknown to scholarship[2]
Selected works[]
- L'etoíle d'Espagne, tanda de valses
- Chant des oisseaux
- La source, capricho brillante
- Los cloches de Westminster, nocturno
- Tarantela
- Polonesa
- Scherzo
- Sinfonia à Gran Orquesta
- Souvenir d'Alsace
- A vivandeira, operetta
References[]
- ^ Grande enciclopédia portuguesa e brasileira. 4. Editorial Enciclopédia. 1960. p. 102.
- ^ See https://books.google.com/books?id=on1kMwEACAAJ ; http://musicsack.com/PersonFMTDetail.cfm?PersonPK=100421195 .
- Enciclopedia Universal Espasa Calpe.
Categories:
- Portuguese classical composers
- 1840 births
- 19th-century Portuguese people
- People from Lisbon
- Portuguese expatriates in France
- Portuguese expatriates in Belgium
- Portuguese expatriates in Italy
- Portuguese composer stubs
- Portuguese musician stubs