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Christopher Webber <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 19 Oct 2000 00:06:11 +0100
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Walter Meyer writes

>I believe Frederico Garcia Lorca wrote music for some of his poems.
>At least a recording I have of Teresa Berganza singing songs to texts
>by him, the composer(s) of which is/are otherwise unidentified.

They are indeed his work.  Several of Lorca's fine settings of his own
poetry are very much a staple part of the Spanish song repertoire, many
of them originally written for guitar accompaniment.

Christopher Webber,  Blackheath, London,  UK.
http://www.nashwan.demon.co.uk/zarzuela.htm
"ZARZUELA!"

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