Rocío Sanz Quirós was a Costa Rican composer. She was born in Costa Rica

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 and completed her music education in California

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 and at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow

Moscow

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. She lived in worked in Mexico

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after 1953.

Works

Sanz Quirós composed chamber music and orchestral works and also for plays and ballets. Her best known work is Cantata
de la Independencia. Selected works include:

• Come in to these golden sands (in Three Songs of Ariel (The Tempest)) (Text: after William Shakespeare)
• A pair of eyes (Text: Félix Rubén García Sarmiento)
• Cabanavenú (in Five songs for children) (Text: Carlos Luis Sáenz)
• Bell (in song of the night) (Text: Rocío Sanz Quirós)
• Bell (in Five songs for children) (Text: Carlos Luis Sáenz)
• The widow Song Shin (Scene 7) (in Five songs of Brecht (The Good Woman of Setzuan)) (Text: after Bertolt Brecht)
• Sad song of the evening (Scene 3) (in Five songs of Brecht (The Good Woman of Setzuan)) (Text: after Bertolt Brecht)
• Shen-you song to the gods (in Five songs of Brecht (The Good Woman of Setzuan)) (Text: after Bertolt Brecht)
• Water Song (in Five songs of Brecht (The Good Woman of Setzuan)) (Text: after Bertolt Brecht)
• Bee which the petals (in Three Songs of Ariel (The Tempest)) (Text: after William Shakespeare)
• Nursery (in Five songs for children) (Text: Carlos Luis Sáenz)
• Your father (in Three Songs of Ariel (The Tempest)) (Text: after *William Shakespeare)
• Entracte sung - becomes Shenta Shui-ta (in Five songs of Brecht (The Good Woman of Setzuan)) (Text: after Bertolt Brecht)
• Epilogue - Solo Guitar (in song of the night) (Text: Rocío Sanz Quirós)
• The night whispers (in song of the night) (Text: Rocío Sanz Quirós)
• The bells of San Juan (in Five songs for children) (Text: Carlos Luis Sáenz)
• Night (in Five summer songs)
• Proclamation (in Five summer songs)
• Prologue (guitar) and night friend (in song of the night) (Text: Rocío Sanz Quirós)
• Only by singing (in Five songs for children) (Text: Carlos Luis Sáenz)
• I'm the summer (in Five summer songs)
• Night time (in song of the night) (Text: Rocío Sanz Quirós)
• Torment (in Five summer songs)
• Long summer (in Five summer songs)

Her work has been recorded and issued on CD, including:

• La Noche: Modern Mexican Choral Masterpieces Audio CD (1995)