Subasta Bidspirit | PADILLA JOSE: (1889-1960)

PADILLA JOSE: (1889-1960) - PADILLA JOSE: (1889-1960) Spanish Composer and Pianist. Best remembered for his song ` La Violetera´, which would later be adapted by Charles Chaplin for the soundtrack of his film City Lights (1931). An excellent signed and inscribed photograph with autograph musical quotation in his hand, also signed by the Spanish composer. The Alfonso image, from Madrid, showing Maestro Padilla in a smiling portrait pose. Signed and inscribed ` Afectuosamente Jose Padilla Sanchez ´ across the image to a largely dark area of the image, also dated in his hand ` Paris 1951´. Padilla has cleanly penned a 6 bars musical quote which he entitles ` Valencia´, to the bottom matted border. VG   The pasodoble Valencia was composed by Maestro Padilla in 1924 and was part of the Zarzuela La Bien Amada (“The well beloved”). The song became one of the biggest hits in 1926.