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José Padilla Sánchez (b. Almería, 28 May 1889) trained in his home town, at the Madrid Conservatory and in Italy, before commencing his musical career.

He rapidly became immersed in Madrid theatre life, and the first of his large output of zarzuelas was La Mala hembra (1906), a one-act sainete to a libretto by Ventura de la Vega, grandson of the well-known writer of the same name, who was to be a regular collaborator in his early years.

A string of one-act sainetes and revistas (revues) followed, amongst which Juan Miguel (1909); Los viejos verdes (1909, with Quinito Valverde) and Luzbel (1917, with Miguel Nieto) should be mentioned.

There was also an opera - La Faraona, to a text by Mantilla de los Rios.

He later spend much time in Paris, where he wrote the scores for two opérettes, Pépète (1924) and Symphonie Portugaise (1949), as well as the