Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, Spanish composer and educator (died 1826)

Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga

Spanish composer (1806–1826)

Juan Crisóstomo Jacobo Antonio de Arriaga y Balzola was a Spanish Basque composer. He was nicknamed "the Spanish Mozart" after he died, because, like Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, he was both a child prodigy and an accomplished composer who died young. They also shared the same first…