- Odón Alonso
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Odón Alonso (28 February 1925 – 21 February 2011) was a Spanish conductor and composer, best known for his film scores.
Alonso was born at La Bañeza, León, Spain. He studied in Madrid, Siena, Salzburg and Vienna. His first engagements as a conductor date back to the years between 1952 and 1956 when he was performing with the orchestra and chorus of the Spanish National Radio station. In 1960 he took on the position of principal conductor at the Philharmonic Orchestra of Madrid; between 1968 and 1984, Alonso was musical director of the Radio Symphony Orchestra of he Spanish Broadcasting (Orquesta Sinfónica de Radio Televisión Española). From 1986 until 1994 he conducted the Symphonic Orchestra of Puerto Rico. He died in Madrid.
External links
- Concert review (Spanish)
- Odón Alonso at the Internet Movie Database
Preceded by
Enrique García AsensioDirectors, RTVE Symphony Orchestra
1968–1984Succeeded by
Miguel Ángel Gómez MartínezIgor Markevitch (1965) · Antoni Ros-Marbà (1965-1967) · Enrique García Asensio (1967-1984) · Odón Alonso (1968-1984) · Miguel Ángel Gómez Martínez (1984-1987) · Arpad Joó (1988-1990) · Sergiu Comissiona (1990-1998) · Enrique García Asensio (1998-2001) · Adrian Leaper (2001)
Categories:- 1925 births
- 2011 deaths
- People from La Bañeza
- Spanish composers
- Spanish conductors (music)
- Spanish people stubs
- European conductor (music) stubs
- Spanish composer stubs
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