Valentin Zubiaurre

[1] Zubiaurre was born in Garay, a Basque town in the province of Biscay on 13 February 1837.

This proved to be fruitful, as in 1869 he won the National Music Competition for an opera called Ferdinand Set.

He was noticed by authorities and received a scholarship from the Academy of Fine Arts, with which he visited France, Germany and Italy to study.

At the chapel he composed religious music and audition pieces for applicants.

[1] In this year he also became a professor at the Madrid Conservatory, where he composed the Audition Piece for Trumpet,[2] one of his only compositions still used for the purpose of examination.