Tomás Garbizu | |
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Birth name | Tomás Garbizu Salaberria |
Born |
Lezo, Spain |
12 September 1901
Died | 27 November 1989 San Sebastián |
(aged 88)
Occupation(s) | Composer |
Instruments | Organ |
Years active | 1954 – 1989 |
Tomás Garbizu Salaberria (12 September 1901 – 27 November 1989) was a Basque composer. He was the youngest and last of the Basque nationalist music movement composers.
Garbizu was born in Lezo, Guipázcoa, on 12 September 1901. He received first musical education in San Sebastián. His early teachers there were Josá Maráa Iraola and Beltrán Pagola. Then he studied organ in Madrid and Paris under Charles Lebout.
Garbizu worked at the San Sebastián Conservatory as an organ professor from 1954 to 1989, when he retired.
Garbizu died in San Sebastián on 27 November 1989.