Biography

Guillermo Fernández-Shaw
Real name: Guillermo Fernández-Shaw Iturralde
Effective period / Period of releases: 1955 - 1981
Spanish poet, journalist and librettist, born 26 February 1893 and died 17 August 1965 in Madrid, Spain. Son of also writer Carlos Fernández Shaw and brother of Rafael Fernández-Shaw. With Federico Romero, he wrote the libretto for some of the best-known zarzuelas of the 20th century: "Doña Francisquita", "Luisa Fernanda", "La rosa del azafrán"...