Cristóbal Halfter

Cristóbal Halffter (1930-2021) was a Spanish composer, born in Madrid and a nephew of the composers Rodolfo and Ernesto Halffter. He studied with Conrado del Campo at the Madrid Conservatory and later with Alexandre Tansman, and wrote orchestral, vocal and chamber music while also working as a conductor. Halffter was director of the Madrid Conservatory from 1964 to 1966. He received Spain's Premio Nacional de Música and the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in contemporary music in 2009, and he was a member of the Akademie der Künste in Berlin.