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Littel Massotti Manuel and Francisco Alarcon will be named Liza favorite sons Murcia City by unanimous agreement of the five municipal groups, according to the agreement reached by the plenary Commission Employment, Social Rights, Education and Culture gathered this morning.
The legacy of the musician and composer Manuel Massotti, who died in 1999, still present today.
Born in 1915, after joining as a pianist of the Symphony Orchestra of Murcia and exercise the artistic direction of Radio Murcia, with 30 years he became director of Orfeón Murciano Fernández Caballero, who gave polyphonic works murciana interpretation.
In his long and extensive career, he promoted and presided over the Association of Friends of Music.
Its splendid composer allowed him to extol capacity Murcia and its people, and obtained a significant list of awards and starred hundreds of concerts in numerous locations in Spain.
Since 1991, the Conservatory of Music named after Manuel Massotti Littel, who, among his awards, has the Medal of Merit in Fine Arts awarded by the Ministry of Culture.
The Plenum of the Corporation on Thursday also give its approval to the proposal to grant the title of Son of the City of Murcia Liza Francisco Alarcon, prestigious Murcian sculptor who died last November 10.
Popularly known as the "sculptor of Guadalupe", he learned drawing at the Royal Economic Academy of Friends of the Country and completed his training in the workshops of the most famous sculptors and Murcian painters like Juan Gonzalez Moreno, Jose Sanchez Lozano, Luis Garay and Antonio Carrion Valverde.
As a boy helped conduct the altarpiece of the Shrine of Fuensanta and throughout her life made some 90 sizes of images that can be seen mostly in the churches of the region.
Carver, restorer and belenista, Liza led a life between clay and wood, making a fruitful religious work in the purest Baroque school of Salzillo.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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