After traveling through Spain in the 1840s, he wrote two Spanish overtures, Jota Aragonesa and Summer Night in Madrid.
After traveling through Spain in the 1840s, he wrote two Spanish overtures, Jota Aragonesa and Summer Night in Madrid. 20 years before he wrote his first opera, Caterino Cavos had written an opera on the same event, the rescue of a royal figure by a peasant, Ivan Susanin. FTP, identify this composer, whose second opera features the earliest use of the whole-tone scale in an opera, whose works include A Life for the Tsar and Ruslan and Ludmilla and who is known as the father of Russian music.
After traveling through Spain in the 1840s, he wrote two Spanish overtures, Jota Aragonesa and Summer Night in Madrid.
Mikhail {Glinka}