Rodolfo Halffter

Rodolfo Halffter Escriche (October 20, 1900 – October 14, 1987) was a Spanish composer and music critic with Mexican citizenship (from 1939), having chosen to leave Francoist Spain. He came from a musical family and was self-taught as a composer, but he wrote in a style always informed by his early engagement with the modernist aesthetics of Madrid's Grupo de los Ocho. It has been compared to that… More