Joaquín Valverde Sanjuán

Joaquín "Quinito" Valverde Sanjuán (2 January 1875 – 4 November 1918) was a Spanish composer of zarzuelas.

He studied at the Conservatory and under his father, and showed early promise, writing his first zarzuela Con las de Caín at the age of 15.

It included some American actors, whose purpose was to supply some English dialogue in an otherwise Spanish-language production.

The central figure was the dancer Antonia Mercé y Luque, "La Argentina",[7] who had appeared in Valverde revues in 1910 in Paris.

[2] Quinito Valverde was also well known for a popular song called "Clavelitos" (Little Carnations) with words by José Juan Cadenas, which has been sung and recorded by performers as diverse as Conchita Supervía, Lucrezia Bori, Amelita Galli-Curci, Rosa Ponselle, Antonina Nezhdanova, María de los Ángeles Morales, Victoria de los Ángeles, and Florence Foster Jenkins.

Photograph of the Spanish composer Quinito Valverde published in 1912 on the occasion of the premiere of his work El Príncipe Casto, written by Carlos Arniches and Enrique García Álvarez.