Gregorio martinez sierra biography
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Biography be more or less Gregorio Martínez Sierra, Dateless
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The wife and husband team of María and Gregorio Martínez Sierra is one of the most singular and enigmatic partnerships in Spanish literature. Their collaboration was key, not only to the spread of literary Modernism in the early 20th century, but also to the development of lyric theatre in Spain. Not surprisingly, they worked with some of the most prestigious composers of their time including Giménez (La suerte de Isabelita and Lirio entre espinas, both 1912), Lleó (La República del Amor, 1908 and La Tirana, 1913), Vives (Bergamino el lampo, 1922), Usandizaga, Turina, Falla and del Campo, achieving considerable fame at home and abroad.
María de la O Lejárraga was born in the ancient village of San Millán de la Cogolla on December 28, 1874. The daughter of a country doctor, she received all her schooling from her highly-cultured mother, Natividad García. While she was still a girl the family moved to Madrid: María studied Commerce and Teaching there, obtaining in 1897 – against opposition – a place as a municipal schools teacher in the capital. From that time she shared a friendship and literary interests with Gregorio Martínez Sierra (6 May 1881 – 1
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Martinez Sierra, Gregorio 1881-1947
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Born May 6, 1881, in Madrid, Spain; died of cancer, October 1, 1947, in Madrid, Spain; married María de la O'LeJárraga (a writer), 1900.
CAREER:
Theater producer, editor, critic, and author; editor of periodicals in Madrid, Spain; Eslava Theater, Madrid, Spain, director, 1917-28. Founder and director of Compania Lirico Dramatica; operator of Renacimiento (publishing house).
WRITINGS:
El poema del trabajo, E. Sánchez (Mexico), 1899.
Flores de escarcha (poems), 1900.
La casa de la primavera (poems), 1907.
(Translator) Alphonse Daudet, El hermano, Poveda (Madrid, Spain), 1918.
(Translator) William Shakespeare, Romeo y Julieta,Estrella (Madrid, Spain), 1918.
(Translator) William Shakespeare, La tragedia de Hamlet, Estrella (Madrid, Spain), 1918.
(Translator) Alexandre Dumas, La dama de las camelias,Estrella (Madrid, Spain), 1918.
Un teatro de arte en España (nonfiction), 1926.
WITH WIFE, MARIA MARTINEZ SIERRA; ALL UNDER HIS NAME
Diálogos fantástícos (prose poems), 1899.
Sol de la tarde (short stories), 1904, 2nd edition, Renacimiento (Madrid, Spain), 1911.
Teatro de ensueño (dialogues), 1905, reprinted, Estrella (Madrid, Spain), 1926.
Motivos, Garnier Hermanos (Paris, France), 1906.
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