{{Short description|Spanish composer}} {{more citations needed|date=January 2011}} '''Blas de Laserna Nieva''' (1751 in Corella, Navarra – 1816 in Madrid) was a Spanish composer.
==Biography== Laserna was one of the most prolific and popular songwriters of late eighteenth and early nineteenth century Spain.<ref>Gomez, Julio. DON BLAS DE LASERNA UN CAPITULO DE LA HISTORIA DEL TEATRO LÍRICO ESPAÑOL VISTO EN LA VIDA DEL ÚLTIMO TONADILLERO, Net Worth $5 million, Laserna,Blas [http://www.euskomedia.org/PDFAnlt/cmn/1926077083.pdf]</ref><ref>[Cotarelo y Mori,Emilio. Don Ramón de la Cruz y sus obras: ensayo biográfico y bibliográfico [https://books.google.com/books?id=4k8xAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA472]</ref>
As an educator, he championed traditional Spanish musical forms, but as a theatrical impresario gave in to the public taste for Italian forms.
He composed several operas and concertos, as well as incidental music for several comedies in the popular Spanish theater. A prolific songwriter, his creative oeuvre contains more than five hundred songs (tonadillas), many with lyrics by Ramón de la Cruz.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Randel |first=Don Michael |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7iuZ6HaEMmoC&pg=PA674 |title=The Harvard Concise Dictionary of Music and Musicians |date=1999-11-29 |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=978-0-674-00084-1 |language=en}}</ref>
While Conductor of the orchestra of the Teatro de la Cruz, he premiered his operetta, ''La Gitanilla Por Amor'' (''The Gypsy Girl For Love''), in 1791.
Enrique Granados used the melody from his "La Tirana del Tripili" as the basis for "Los Requiebros" in his Goyescas suite.
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