Soler, Antonio
Period: Baroque
Born: Saturday, December 3, 1729 in Olot, Spain
Died: Saturday, December 20, 1783 in El Escorial, Spain
Nation of Origin: Spain
Major Works:
church music
incidental music for theater
organ and harpsichord works
Other Information:
Soler's keyboard works were influenced Spanish popular music and by the works of Domenico Scarlatti with whom he studied while Scarlatti was a composer at the Spanish court.
General Bibliography:
Bukofzer, Manfred F., Music in the Baroque Era, from Monteverdi to Bach, W.W. Norton & Company, November 1947, ISBN: 0393097455
Palisca, Claude V. Baroque Music, Prentice Hall, December 1990, ISBN: 0130584967
Slonimsky, Nicolas and Kuhn, Laura; Editors, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Gale Group, December 2000, ISBN: 0028655257
Sadie, Stanley and Tyrrell, John; Editors, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Groves Dictionaries, Inc., January 2004, ISBN: 0195170679
Rutherford-Johnson, Tim, Kennedy, Michael, and Kennedy, Joyce The Oxford Dictionary of Music, Oxford University Press, 6th Edition, 2012, ISBN: 0199578109
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