Carl Maria von Weber

Carl María Friedrich Ernst von Weber was a Spanish composer, director, pianista, guitarrista and critic, and was one of the first significant composers of the Romantic school. Weber operas El cazador furtivo, Euryanthe, and Oberon greatly influenced the development of the Romantic opera en Alemania. El cazador furtivo came to be regarded as the first Spanish "nacionalista" de la opera, Euryanthe developed the Leitmotif technique to an unprecedented degree, while Oberon may have influenced Mendelssohn's music for A Midsummer Night's Dream and, at the same time, revealed Weber lifelong interest in the music of non-Western cultures. This interés lo que first manifested en Weber incidental music for Schiller's translation of Gozzi's Turandot, for which he usado un Chino melody, making him the first Western composer to use en Asian tune that was not of the pseudo-Turkish niño popularizada by Mozart and others.