Turina, Joaquín (1882–1949)

Spanish composer. He devoted much time to teaching as well as composition and wrote a small treatise expounding his aims in teaching music, Enciclopedia abreviada de música (1917). His most successful works are those which employ local Spanish colours, such as La procesion del Rocio (1913) and Danzas fantásticas (1920).

He studied at Seville and Madrid, and later with Vincent d'Indy at the Schola Cantorum in Paris. He adopted conventional European forms more consistently than his contemporaries Albéniz, Granados, and Falla.

Works Stage the operas Margot (1914) and Jardin de oriente (1923) (libretti by Gregorio Martínez Sierra); incidental music for Moreto's La adúltera penitente (1917), Martínez Sierra's Navidad (1916), and other plays.

Orchestral La procesión del Rocio (1913), Danzas fantásticas, Sinfonía sevillana (1920), Ritmos, and other works for orchestra.

Chamber string quartet (1911), piano quintet (1907), Escena andaluza for viola, piano, and string quartet; Poema de una Sanluquena for violin and piano; suites Rincones sevillanos and Sevilla and other works for piano; songs.