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- 1930
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- Una vida para la musica
- Mis encuentros con Beethoven y Goya
- Sinfonía para tres grupos instrumentales
- Concierto para violoncello y orquesta
- In exspectatione resurrectionis Domini
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Cristóbal Halffter (born 24 March 1930 in Madrid) is a Spanish composer. He is the nephew of two other composers, Rodolfo and Ernesto Halffter. In 1936, Halffter's family moved to Germany to escape the Spanish Civil War, but they returned to Madrid in 1939, and Halftter studied at the German School there, graduating in 1951. In 1955, he was appointed conductor of the Falla orchestra. He forged a successful career as composer and conductor, writing music which combined a traditional Spanish elem
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- 1930-03-24
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- Cristóbal Halffter Jiménez-Encina
- date of death
- 2021-05-23
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