Vicente Martín y Soler, Spanish composer (died 1806)

Vicente Martín y Soler

Spanish composer (1754–1806)

Anastasio Martín Ignacio Vicente Tadeo Francisco Pellegrin Martín y Soler was a Spanish composer of opera and ballet. Although relatively obscure now, in his own day he was compared favorably with his contemporary and admirer, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as a composer of opera…