Background
Garbizu was born in Lezo, Guipázcoa, on 12 September 1901.
Garbizu was born in Lezo, Guipázcoa, on 12 September 1901.
Then he studied organ in Madrid and Paris under Charles Lebout.
He was the youngest and last of the Basque nationalist music movement composers. He received first musical education in San Sebastián. Garbizu worked at the San Sebastián Conservatory as an organ professor from 1954 to 1989, when he retired.
Jose Ignacio Ansorena (Txistu and Tamboril), Alvaro Cendoya (piano) Garbizu died in San Sebastián on 27 November 1989.