Ataúlfo Exuperio Martín de Argenta Maza (19 November 1913 – 21 January 1958) was a Spanish conductor and pianist.
He made his first appearance with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande (OSR) in 1954, which led to several later commercial recordings for Decca.
For example, his famous stereophonic demonstration record España!, with the London Symphony Orchestra, made at Kingsway Hall in January 1957, featured Spanish-themed music by mostly non-Spanish composers.
Other recordings include Manuel de Falla's El amor brujo with Ana María Iriarte, Joaquín Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez with Narciso Yepes, Falla's Nights in the Gardens of Spain with Gonzalo Soriano, and more obscurely, his recordings of Francisco Escudero and Maurice Ohana.
RTVE-Musica released a four CD set in 1997 of radio broadcasts featuring Argenta accompanying violinist Arthur Grumiaux in sonatas of Beethoven and Brahms, leading Yehudi Menuhin in the latter's violin concerto (SNO) and Martin Imaz in Francisco Escudero's piano concerto (BRSO), as well as orchestral works of Beethoven (SNO), and with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, works of De Falla, Tchaikovsky, Smetana, and Strauss.