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Listen to Nicanor Zabaleta, watch music videos, read bio, see tour dates & more!

Nicanor Zabaleta

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Listen to Organ Concerto No. 10 in D Minor, Op. 7, No. 4 HWV. 309: I. Adagio by Nicanor Zabaleta, English Chamber Orchestra & Luis Antonio Garcia Navarro, see lyrics, music video & more!
Organ Concerto No. 10 in D Minor, Op. 7, No. 4 HWV. 309: I. AdagioNicanor Zabaleta, English Chamber Orchestra & Luis Antonio Garcia Navarro
Listen to Concerto in G Major, BWV. 973 (from Vivaldi RV. 299): II. Largo cantabile by Nicanor Zabaleta, English Chamber Orchestra & Luis Antonio Garcia Navarro, see lyrics, music video & more!
Concerto in G Major, BWV. 973 (from Vivaldi RV. 299): II. Largo cantabileNicanor Zabaleta, English Chamber Orchestra & Luis Antonio Garcia Navarro
Listen to Concerto Serenade for Harp and Orchestra: II. Intermezzo: (Molto Tranquillo) by Nicanor Zabaleta, Ernst Märzendorfer & Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, see lyrics, music video & more!
Concerto Serenade for Harp and Orchestra: II. Intermezzo: (Molto Tranquillo)Nicanor Zabaleta, Ernst Märzendorfer & Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin
Listen to Spanish Dance, Op. 37, No. 5: "Andaluza" by Nicanor Zabaleta, see lyrics, music video & more!
Spanish Dance, Op. 37, No. 5: "Andaluza"Nicanor Zabaleta
Listen to Concerto for Flute, Harp, and Orchestra in C, K. 299: II. Andantino by Vienna Philharmonic, Karl Böhm, Wolfgang Schulz & Nicanor Zabaleta, see lyrics, music video & more!
Concerto for Flute, Harp, and Orchestra in C, K. 299: II. AndantinoVienna Philharmonic, Karl Böhm, Wolfgang Schulz & Nicanor Zabaleta
Listen to Organ Concerto No. 6 in B-Flat, Op. 4 No. 6, HWV 294 - Version For Harp: 1. Andante Allegro by Nicanor Zabaleta, Orchestre Paul Kuentz & Paul Kuentz, see lyrics, music video & more!
Organ Concerto No. 6 in B-Flat, Op. 4 No. 6, HWV 294 - Version For Harp: 1. Andante AllegroNicanor Zabaleta, Orchestre Paul Kuentz & Paul Kuentz
Listen to Harp Concerto in E Minor, Op. 182: I. Allegro moderato by Nicanor Zabaleta, Berlin Philharmonic & Ernst Marzendorfer, see lyrics, music video & more!
Harp Concerto in E Minor, Op. 182: I. Allegro moderatoNicanor Zabaleta, Berlin Philharmonic & Ernst Marzendorfer
Listen to Duo for Violin and Harp, Op. 156 by Yehudi Menuhin & Nicanor Zabaleta, see lyrics, music video & more!
Duo for Violin and Harp, Op. 156Yehudi Menuhin & Nicanor Zabaleta
Listen to Sonata for Violin and Harp in E-Flat Major: II. Andantino con variazioni by Yehudi Menuhin & Nicanor Zabaleta, see lyrics, music video & more!
Sonata for Violin and Harp in E-Flat Major: II. Andantino con variazioniYehudi Menuhin & Nicanor Zabaleta
Listen to Sonata for Violin and Harp in E-Flat Major: I. Allegro by Yehudi Menuhin & Nicanor Zabaleta, see lyrics, music video & more!
Sonata for Violin and Harp in E-Flat Major: I. AllegroYehudi Menuhin & Nicanor Zabaleta

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Listen to Harp Music  by Nicanor Zabaleta
ALBUMHarp Music Nicanor Zabaleta
Listen to New Age Harp - Old Age Music by Nicanor Zabaleta
ALBUMNew Age Harp - Old Age MusicNicanor Zabaleta
Listen to Mozart: Concertos for Flute and Harp - Flute Concerto No. 1 - Bassoon Concerto by Wolfgang Schulz, Karl Böhm & Nicanor Zabaleta
ALBUMMozart: Concertos for Flute and Harp - Flute Concerto No. 1 - Bassoon ConcertoWolfgang Schulz, Karl Böhm & Nicanor Zabaleta
Listen to Nicanor Zabaleta - Harp Concertos by Karlheinz Zoeller, Berlin Philharmonic, Nicanor Zabaleta, Ernst Märzendorfer & Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin
ALBUMNicanor Zabaleta - Harp ConcertosKarlheinz Zoeller, Berlin Philharmonic, Nicanor Zabaleta, Ernst Märzendorfer & Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin
Listen to Spanish Harp Music by Nicanor Zabaleta
ALBUMSpanish Harp MusicNicanor Zabaleta
Listen to Nicanor Zabaleta - Himmlische Harfe by Nicanor Zabaleta, Paul Kuentz Chamber Orchestra & Paul Kuentz
ALBUMNicanor Zabaleta - Himmlische HarfeNicanor Zabaleta, Paul Kuentz Chamber Orchestra & Paul Kuentz
Listen to Five Hundred Years of the Harp by Nicanor Zabaleta
ALBUMFive Hundred Years of the HarpNicanor Zabaleta
Listen to Zabaleta Plays Spanish Classics For The Harp by Nicanor Zabaleta
ALBUMZabaleta Plays Spanish Classics For The HarpNicanor Zabaleta

About Nicanor Zabaleta

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Hometown
Spain
Born
1907
Genre
Classical
Nicanor Zabaleta was one of the foremost harpists of the twentieth century, as important to the advancement of the harp as Segovia was to the guitar. At the age of seven, Zabaleta's father, an amateur musician, bought him a harp from an antique shop. The young Nicanor soon began taking lessons from Vincenta Tormo de Calvo, who was on the Madrid Conservatory faculty, and with Luisa Menarguez. At 17, he began studies in Paris; among his teachers there were Marcel Tournier and Jacqueline Borot. He made his official concert debut in the French capital in 1926. After a brief stint in the military, he traveled to the United States, where he made his North American debut in 1934 and remained a resident for the next two decades. Two years later, he began concert tours of Cuba and Mexico, where he achieved enough critical acclaim to command substantial fees for his concert appearances. His association with Australian-born American composer/critic Peggy Glanville-Hicks, who was active in organizing concerts of contemporary music in the 1940s and 1950s, further advanced his career in the United States. At a 1950 concert in Puerto Rico, Zabaleta met his future wife Graziela, and they were married two years later. They relocated to Spain and Zabaleta thereafter began touring the major cities of Europe, including Paris, Amsterdam, London, Munich, Copenhagen, and Zurich. Joaquín Rodrigo arranged his Concierto de Aranjuez as the Concierto Serenata for him in 1952, and Argentinian composer Alberto Ginastera composed a concerto (1956-64) for him, which Zabaleta premiered with Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1965. Nearly 30 other composers from throughout Europe and the Americas wrote works for him, as well. But his repertory was often more traditional and included works by Bach, Handel, Mozart, Debussy, and Ravel. Along with giving numerous solo and orchestral concerts, Zabaleta made many recordings, mostly in the 1960s and the decades following. It is estimated that he sold as many as three million records. His later concerts included critical successes at the Theatre Champs Élysées in Paris on March 21, 1981, and in San Jose, CA, on March 12 and 13, where he played concertos by Mozart and Villa-Lobos. His final concert, on June 16, 1992, in Madrid, was given when he was already in seriously declining health.

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