Cristóbal Halffter The musician who defied isolation dies
Born in Madrid, with a German grandfather and an Andalusian grandfather, Cristóbal Halffter has been one of the great Spanish composers of all time.
With two uncles, Ernesto and Rodolfo, equally important in this field and trained in Germany and Madrid, here with Conrado del Campo, he stood out from a very young age - it was the youngest National Music Prize in history - with works in the
Stravinskian
orbit such
as the
Ducal Mass
or the
Two movements for timpani and orchestra
.
Soon he felt the need to burn the eta
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