Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga

Juan Crisóstomo Jacobo Antonio de Arriaga y Balzola (27 January 1806 – 17 January 1826) was a Spanish Basque composer. He was nicknamed "the Spanish Mozart" after he died, because, like Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, he was both a child prodigy and an accomplished composer who died young. They also shared the same first and second baptismal names; and they shared the same birthday (due to both having been born on the feast of St. John Chrysostom), 27 January (fifty years apart).

Juan Crisóstomo Jacobo Antonio de Arriaga y Balzola
Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga
Born(1806-01-27)27 January 1806
Bilbao, Spain
Died17 January 1826(1826-01-17) (aged 19)
Paris, France
OccupationComposer
ParentJuan Simón de Arriaga
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