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PABLO DE SARASATE Zortzico d’Iparraguirre

Pablo de Sarasate (1844-1908) was born in the Southern Basque Country, an eclectic and diverse region of North Eastern Spain. Son of a military musician, Sarasate’s staggering prodigious skill at the violin was revealed from the age of five. He was giving public performances at eight, attended the Paris Conservatoire at age 12, where he won its highest performance award, and was already a fully professional concert violinist by his mid-teens.

Such was his fame and respect as a violin virtuoso, that he even appears in fictional literature

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