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Pérez Casas was born in Lorca (province of Murcia) and spent the greater part of is life in Madrid as conductor of the Philharmonic Orchestra, which he founded in 1915; he recalled the scenes of his birthplace in his Suite Murciana: A mi Tierra (To My Land) for orchestra, which received a prize from the Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in 1905 (together with de Falla’s La Vida Breve).
Pérez Casas has also written a Quartet in D minor for piano and strings (1902), and a symphonic poem, Calisto y Melibea, based on the same subject that Felipe Pedrell (1841-1922) treated operatically (Comedia de Calisto y Melibea).
Free after Gilbert Chase in The Music of Spain.
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