Cp Bazzzman - Human Flute

IRADIER (Iradier) Sebastian de (20 I 1809, Sausiego - 6 XII 1865, Vitoria) - Spanish composer. In his youth, several. years spent in Cuba; returning to Spain, he worked as an organist in Salvierrera, in the 1840s. taught solfeggio at the Madrid Conservatory. In 1850-65 he lived preim. in Paris, where he was par. musician of the Empress Eugenia. He was friendly with J. Rossini, P. Merimee, P. Viardot, M. Malibran; in the 1850s accompanied as a accompanist young A. Patti on her tour of the cities of the USA, Mexico and Cuba. In 1865 he returned to Spain. The author of popular at one time songs sustained in the bunk. Spanish character, as well as in the genre of Cuban habanera. The latter include the world famous “Dove” (“La paloma”, 1850s) and “El arreglito”, to which J. Wiese used for “Habanera” in the opera “Carmen”, mistakenly accepting it as a bunk. a song.In 1864, a collection of 25 I. songs was published in Paris under the name. "Flowers of Spain" ("Fleurs d'Espagne").