Maria Rodrigo was a Spanish

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 pianist and composer. She was the daughter of Pantaleon Rodrigo, and studied music at the Madrid Conservatorium under Jose Trago for piano, Valentin Arin for harmony and Emilio Serrano

Emilio Serrano

Emilio Serrano y Ruiz was a Spanish pianist and composer.-Life:Serrano spent his early youth in Madrid and received his musical training at the Madrid Conservatory, where he studied piano with Dámaso Zabalza, and harmony and composition with Emilio Arrieta. He himself soon began to teach and he...

 for composition.

She was the sister of psychologist Mercedes Rodrigo. The two left Spain

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 for Switzerland

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 during the Spanish Civil War

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, moved in 1939 to Bogota

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, Colombia

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, at the invitation of rector Agustín Nieto Caballero

Agustín Nieto Caballero

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, and in 1950 to Puerto Rico

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 at the invitation of José María García Madrid. With Pablo Casals

Pablo Casals

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Rodrigo founded the Puerto Rico Conservatory of Music. She died in Puerto Rico in 1967.