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Miguel Ángel Gómez Martínez
Spanish conductor and composer Miguel Ángel Gómez Martínez was born in Granada on 17 September 1949. He was certain, from an early age, that he wanted to become a conductor, and was something of a child prodigy. He studied in Madrid, and then orchestral and choral conducting with Hans Swarowsky in Vienna.
He began his conducting career in 1973 near Vienna, and went on to a series of prestigious jobs which included permanent conductor at Vienna State Opera, chief conductor of the Spanish Radio Television Symphony Orchestra and Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, and music director of the Bayreuth Easter Festival Orchestra. He worked in the USA, the Far East and across Europe, and conducted most of the Spanish orchestras.
As a composer he's known for his 1992 Symphony of the Discovery, marking the five-hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America, his 2007 Water Symphony and the opera Atallah.
Miguel Ángel Gómez Martínez died in Málaga on 4 August 2024, aged seventy-four.