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In 1832 he moved to Madrid and earned a meager living by translating plays of Eugène Scribe and the elder Dumas; despairing of success, he was on the point of enlisting when he suddenly sprang into fame as the author of El Trovador, which was played for the first time on March 1 1836. García Gutiérrez never surpassed this first effort, which placed him among the leaders of the romantic movement in Spain, and which became known all over Europe through Verdi's music.

His next great success was Simon Bocanegra (1843), but, since his plays were not lucrative, he emigrated to Spanish America, working as a journalist in CubaAlternate meanings: see Cuba (disambiguation The Republic of Cuba is an archipelago in the northern Caribbean, in between the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean. To the north are found the United States and the Bahamas, to the west M and MexicoThis article is about the country Mexico. For other meanings, see Mexico (disambiguation The United Mexican States or Mexico ( Spanish: Estados Unidos Mexicanos or Mexico regarding the use of the variant spelling Mejico see section The name below) is a co till 1850, when he returned to Spain. The best works of his later period are a zarzuelaZarzuela ( IPA /θarθ'wela/) is the Spanish lyrical opera. There are two main forms: # Baroque zarzuela (c. 1630 1750) #Romantic zarzuela (c. Genero grande # Genero chico Romantic zarzuela can be subdivided into the Genero grande representing l titled El Grumete (1853), La Venganza catalana (1864) and Juan Lorenzo (1865).

He became head of the archaeological museum at Madrid, and died there on the 6th of August 1884. His Poesías (1840) and another volume of lyrics, entitled Luz y tinieblas (1842), are unimportant; but the brilliant versification of his plays, and his power of analysing feminine emotions, give him a foremost place among the Spanish dramatists of the 19th centuryAlternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical ( 18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801- 1900. Events The Little Ice Age ended.

This entry was originally from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.