Mauricio Sotelo is a Spanish composer.
He started his musical studies at the conservatory of Madrid, before moving to Vienna to study composition with Francis Burt at the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst, Wien. He passed his diploma with distinction in 1987, and continued his postgraduate composition studies with Roman Haubenstock-Ramati

Roman Haubenstock-Ramati

Roman Haubenstock-Ramati was a composer and music editor who worked in Kraków, Tel Aviv and Vienna.Haubenstock-Ramati studied composition, music theory, violin and philosophy in Kraków and Lemberg from 1937 to 1940. Among his teachers were Artur Malawski and Józef Koffler. From 1947 to 1950 he was...

 and Luigi Nono

Luigi Nono

Luigi Nono was an Italian avant-garde composer of classical music and remains one of the most prominent composers of the 20th century.- Early years :Born in Venice, he was a member of a wealthy artistic family, and his grandfather was a notable painter...

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Sotelo has ..

A mix of cantaors and opera singers were used in his first opera, De Amore (On Love), a commission for the Munich Biennale

Munich Biennale

The Munich Biennale is an opera festival in the city of Munich. The full German name is Internationales Festival für neues Musiktheater, literally: International Festival for New Music Theater. The biennial festival was created in 1988 by Hans Werner Henze and is held in even-numbered years over...

, where it received its world premiere in April 1999. The text about a prototypical love story, with every stage from love at first sight to the bitter end, was by Peter Mussbach, after writings by the American poet Wallace Stevens

Wallace Stevens

Wallace Stevens was an American Modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard and then New York Law School, and spent most of his life working as a lawyer for the Hartford insurance company in Connecticut.His best-known poems include "Anecdote of the Jar",...

. Sotelo conducted the premiere, in a production by Mussbach. It was an international co-production, and performances followed at the Teatro de la Zarzuela

Teatro de la Zarzuela

The Teatro de la Zarzuela is a theatre in Madrid, Spain. The theatre is today mainly devoted to zarzuela , as well as operetta and recitals. In the past, in the city's long absence of an opera theatre , this was Madrid's theatre where most major opera performances were shown...

 in Madrid, Muziektheater Transparant, the deSingel theatre in Antwerp (Belgium), and the Nationale Reisopera in the Netherlands.

His second opera, Dulcinea, subtitled A Children's Opera, was a commission of the Teatro Real

Teatro Real

The Teatro Real or simply El Real , is a major opera house located in Madrid, Spain.-History:...

 in Madrid, in coproduction with the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, ABAO in Bilbao; Teatro de la Maestranza

Teatro de la Maestranza

The Teatro de la Maestranza is an opera house located in Seville, Spain.The theatre was conceived to be one of the main cultural venues of the Seville Expo '92 , and the first performance took place in 1991, shortly before the inauguration of the International Expo. The theatre was re-refurnished...

 in Sevilla, the Opera de Oviedo, and the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia. A young boy falls asleep reading Don Quixote and meets the characters and the author in his dreams. The libretto was by Andrés Ibáñez.

He won an Ernst von Siemens Composers' Prize

Ernst von Siemens Music Prize

The international Ernst von Siemens Music Prize is an annual music prize given by the Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste on behalf of the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung , established in 1972. The foundation was established by Ernst von Siemens...

 in 1997, and the Premio Nacional de Música

Premio Nacional de Música

The Premio Nacional de Música forms part of the annual National Awards in Spain....

 for composition in 2001.

Sotelo's works have been published by Universal Edition

Universal Edition

Universal Edition is a classical music publishing firm. Founded in 1901 in Vienna, and originally intended to provide the core classical works and educational works to the Austrian market...

 since 1991.

Operas

Title	Description	Libretto and source	Premiere
De Amore	Chamber opera, 100'	Peter Mussbach, after Wallace Stevens Wallace Stevens Wallace Stevens was an American Modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard and then New York Law School, and spent most of his life working as a lawyer for the Hartford insurance company in Connecticut.His best-known poems include "Anecdote of the Jar",...	19 Apr 1999, Gasteig Gasteig Gasteig is a cultural center in Munich, opened in 1985, which hosts the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra. The Richard Strauss Conservatory, the Volkshochschule, and the municipal library are all located in the Gasteig... / Munich Biennale Munich Biennale The Munich Biennale is an opera festival in the city of Munich. The full German name is Internationales Festival für neues Musiktheater, literally: International Festival for New Music Theater. The biennial festival was created in 1988 by Hans Werner Henze and is held in even-numbered years over...
Dulcinea	A Children's Opera, 50'	Andrés Ibáñez, after Don Quijote by Miguel de Cervantes Miguel de Cervantes Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was a Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright. His magnum opus, Don Quixote, considered the first modern novel, is a classic of Western literature, and is regarded amongst the best works of fiction ever written...	18 May 2006, Teatro Real Teatro Real The Teatro Real or simply El Real , is a major opera house located in Madrid, Spain.-History:... , Madrid

Sources

• Mauricio Sotelo official website
• Mauricio Sotelo at Universal Edition: biography, list of works, essays, performance diary.