Antonio José 2146446 202640380 2008-04-01T21:15:31Z Thijs!bot 1392310 robot Adding: [[nl:Antonio José Martínez Palacios]] {{Unreferenced|date=November 2007}} '''Antonio José''' ([[December 12]], [[1902]] – [[October 11]], [[1936]]) was a [[Spain|Spanish]] [[composer]]. He was born '''Antonio José Martínez Palacios''' in [[Burgos]], but later dropped his surnames. He became a music teacher at a [[Jesuit]] school, and conducted the city choir in [[Burgos]]. His friends included [[Federico García Lorca]] and [[Salvador Dalí]]. [[Maurice Ravel]] apparently said of Antonio-José: "He will become ''the'' Spanish composer of our century." Nevertheless, Antonio-José's music lay forgotten until the 1980s. His most famous work is the [[Sonata (music)|Sonata]] for [[guitar]], written in [[1933]] for [[Regino Sainz de la Maza]], but not published until 1990. The piece is generally considered to be among the finest sonatas written for the guitar in the 20th century. Antonio-José met the same fate as Lorca - he was executed by a [[Falange|Falangist]] firing squad in 1936 at Estepar (Burgos). {{DEFAULTSORT:Jose, Antonio}} [[Category:1902 births]] [[Category:1936 deaths]] [[Category:Spanish composers|Spanish composers]] [[Category:20th century classical composers]] [[Category:Deaths by firearm in Spain]] [[Category:People executed by firing squad]] [[Category:Spanish people of the Spanish Civil War]] {{Euro-composer-stub}} {{spain-musician-stub}} [[es:Antonio José]] [[nl:Antonio José Martínez Palacios]] [[ja:アントニオ・ホセ]]