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Antonio García Gutiérrez (
July 5 1812,
Chiclana de la Frontera,
Cádiz—
August 6 1884,
Madrid) was a
Spanish Romantic dramatist.
After having studied
medicine in his native town, he moved to Madrid in
1832, and earned a meager living by translating plays of
Eugène Scribe and the
Alexandre Dumas, père; lacking success, he was on the point of enlisting when he suddenly sprang into fame as the author of
El Trovador ("The
Troubadour"), which was played for the first time on
March 1 1836. García Gutiérrez never surpassed this first effort, which placed him among the leaders of the Romantic movement in Spain, and which became known all over
Europe through
Giuseppe Verdi's music (as the
opera Il trovatore).
His next great success was
Simon Bocanegra (1843; again an opera by Verdi, as
Simon Boccanegra). However, since his plays were not lucrative, he emigrated to
Spanish America, working as a journalist in
Cuba and
Mexico until 1850, when he returned to Spain. The best works of his later period are a
zarzuela titled
El Grumete (1853),
La Venganza catalana (1864) and
Juan Lorenzo (1865).
He became head of the archaeological museum at Madrid, the city where he died. His
Poesías (1840) and another volume of lyrics, entitled
Luz y tinieblas (1842), are comparatively minor; but the versification of his plays, and his power of analysing feminine emotions, give him a foremost place among the Spanish dramatists of the 19th century.
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