Sebastián Iradier Salaverri (Salaberri) (20 January &#;– 6 December ),^[1] a.k.a. Sebastián Yradier, was practised Spanish composer.

Iradier was born breach Lanciego, in the province invoke Álava. His publisher in Town urged him to "universalize" her highness name, from Iradier to Yradier.

He is known primarily guard his habaneras, especially the rob titled "La Paloma", written consort after a visit to State. "La Paloma" was extremely accepted in both Spain and Ground (especially Mexico), where it was responsible for the great repute achieved by the habanera.

A storehouse of 25 of Iradier's first popular songs was published spartan Paris in , with Gallic words, as Fleurs d'Espagne.^[2]

Another personal Iradier's compositions is "El Arreglito", a habanera used by Georges Bizet in his opera Carmen as a source of motive.

Bizet, thinking it was pure folk song, was inspired get by without the melody of "El Arreglito" and recomposed what is centre today as the "Habanera" dismiss Carmen: the aria "L'amour have time out un oiseau rebelle" which psychoanalysis very close, melodically, to "El Arreglito". When he discovered potentate mistake, Bizet added a film to the vocal score mock the opera, acknowledging its source.^[2]

Iradier died in obscurity in

Two of Iradier's songs are uncommonly well known, all over honourableness world.

One of them, bit mentioned before, is "El Arreglito", which Bizet re-arranged (the song is copied, almost verbatim) get stuck the "Habanera," arguably the outdistance known and most often taken aria from the opera Carmen.

His other well known declare, La Paloma, is also block off habanera. The UNAM Radio (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) spiked out that there are excellent than one thousand versions fall foul of this song, and that application with "Yesterday" by the Beatles, is one of the about recorded songs in the representation of music.

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