Amadeu Vives i Roig

Amadeu Vives
Born	(1871-11-18)18 November 1871 Collbató, Catalonia, Spain
Died	2 December 1932(1932-12-02) (aged 61) Madrid, Spain
Resting place	Montjuïc Cemetery, Barcelona
Nationality	Spanish
Other names	Amadeo
Education	Josep Ribera, Felipe Pedrell
Occupation(s)	Composer, writer and impresario
Known for	Doña Francisquita
Spouse	Montserrat Giner
Children	one

Amadeu Vives i Roig (Catalan pronunciation: [əməˈðew ˈβiβəz i ˈrɔtʃ]; 18 November 1871 – 2 December 1932) was a Spanish musical composer, creator of over a hundred stage works. He is best known for Doña Francisquita, which Christopher Webber has praised for its "easy lyricism, fluent orchestration and colourful evocation of 19th Century Madrid—not to mention its memorable vocal and choral writing", and characterizes as "without doubt the best known and loved of all his works, one of the few zarzuelas which has 'travelled' abroad" .^[1]

The personal papers of Amadeu Vives are preserved in the Biblioteca de Catalunya.