Contemporánea Music 20th Century Zarzuela and regionalist music
Regionalist composer
Santiago Tejera Ossavarry was a composer of zarzuela and regionalist music, author of Atlántida, Afortunadas, Folías tristes and Rapsodia canaria.
Santiago Tejera Ossavarry, born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, was a composer linked to zarzuela, regionalist music and the construction of a Canarian repertory with stage and symphonic ambition. His works include Atlántida, Afortunadas, Folías tristes and Rapsodia canaria.
He died in 1936. His figure brings the theatrical and regionalist dimension of early twentieth-century Canarian music into the list.