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GARCIA GUTIERREZ, ANTONIO (1812-1884)

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GARCIA GUTIERREZ, See also:ANTONIO (1812-1884) , See also:Spanish dramatist, was See also:born at See also:Chiclana (See also:Cadiz) on the 5th of See also:July 1812, and studied See also:medicine in his native See also:town. In 1832 he removed to See also:Madrid, and earned a scanty living by translating plays of See also:Scribe and the See also:elder See also:Dumas; despairing of success, he was on the point of enlisting when he suddenly sprang into fame as the author of El Trovador, which was played for the first See also:time on the 1st of See also:March 1836. Garcia Gutierrez never surpassed this first effort, which placed him among the leaders of the romantic See also:movement in See also:Spain, and which became known all over See also:Europe through See also:Verdi's See also:music. His next See also:great success was See also:Simon Bocanegra (1843), but, as his plays were not lucrative, he emigrated to Spanish See also:America, working as a journalist in See also:Cuba and See also:Mexico till 185o, when he returned to Spain. The best See also:works of his later See also:period are a zarzuela entitled El Grumete (1853), La Venganza catalana (1864) and Juan Lorenzo (1865). He became See also:head of the archaeological museum at Madrid, and died there on the 6th of See also:August 1884. His Foes-1as (184o) and another See also:volume of lyrics, entitled Luz y tinieblas (1842), are unimportant; but the brilliant versification of his plays, and his See also:power of analysing femini%e emotions, give him a foremost See also:place among the Spanish dramatists of the 19th See also:century.

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