Augusto Algueró

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Augusto Algueró (born February 23, 1934 in Barcelona , † January 16, 2011 in Torremolinos ) was a Spanish composer , arranger and music director .

biography

Algueró received a musical education at the Municipal Conservatory of Barcelona and he studied medicine at the same time . His musical career began at the age of sixteen in 1950. From 1961 to 1974 he was married to the actress Carmen Sevilla , with whom he had a son, Augusto J. Algueró, also a composer. In 1986 he married a second time, Natividad Benito. He died in his sleep of cardiac arrest in Torremolinos on January 16, 2011 .

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During his career, Algueró wrote many songs that became popular. Titles like Penelope , with the voice and text of Joan Manuel Serrat and the arrangement by Ricard Miralles, became one of the essential songs in the repertoire of Catalan singers . Te quiero, te quiero and Noeli , interpreted by the Valencian Nino Bravo ; Estando contigo and Tómbola , for the singer and actress Pepa Flores (called "Marisol"); Acompáñame for Rocío Dúrcal , also an actress and singer; or La chica ye-ye , which he composed for Concha Velasco , have already gone down in the history of Spanish music and were great successes in their time.

As a composer and arranger, Augusto Algueró was represented at festivals such as the OTI Festival and the Eurovision Song Contest . In 1969 the latter won the song Vivo cantando , sung by Salomé and written by him , in German: I live singing, which represented Spain. In 1961 for the first time at this event, interpreted by Conchita Bautista, a ninth place, in 1972 the song Amanece , in which Algueró worked with Ramón Arcusa, by the interpreter Jaime Morey, tenth place.

In the course of his career he also composed the music for a number of films, from the first composition for Brigada criminal (1950) to his last work for the cinema, the song Será el amor for the film Torrente, el brazo tonto de la ley , he has written more than ninety soundtracks for films and television series. Films like El ruiseñor de las cumbres , 1958 with the child star singer José Jiménez Fernández (known as “Joselito”) as protagonists; Cabriola , Marisol rumbo a Río and Tómbola , with Marisol; or the classics of Spanish cinema of the 1950s and 1960s such as Las chicas de la cruz roja , El día de los enamorados or La fierecilla domada , all have music made by the Catalan composer.

On television were his interessantesten work perhaps for Historias de la frivolidad Narciso Ibáñez Serrador, with whom he Golden Rose of the Festival of Montreux reached, and for El Irreal Madrid , with whom he Golden Nymph of the Festival de Television de Monte Carlo got .

Filmography

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ JE Maíllo: Fallce el compositor Augusto Algueró, a los 76 años de edad . January 16, 2011. Retrieved February 2, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Algueró, Augusto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish composer and arranger
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Barcelona
DATE OF DEATH January 16, 2011
Place of death Torremolinos