Background
Although the details of his early years are not entirely certain, Videgain was born in Jerez and spent his childhood and adolescence in Madrid.He began music lessons with his father and continued his education with Ruperto Chapí.
Although the details of his early years are not entirely certain, Videgain was born in Jerez and spent his childhood and adolescence in Madrid.He began music lessons with his father and continued his education with Ruperto Chapí.
By the age of 12, he was already playing among the first violins of the Teatro Principal orchestra in Cádiz. thirteen years later, he became the director of an operette (musical) and zarzuela company, making his debut in Gibraltar with a production of Jerónimo Giménez. After graduation, he traveled to Argentina and then returned to Spain, settling in Madrid. In 1899, he was named director of Teatro Romea de Murcia, and shortly afterwards, of the Teatro de la Zarzuela.
Ruperto Chapí commissioned him to write the openings to his zarzuelas but their lost.
As a conductor of the Sociedad de Conciertos de Cadiz, Videgain helped cultivate the tastes of audiences in Cadiz for symphonic music According to "those who have seem him conduct and have transmitted to us the memory of his performances of great strength and great enthusiasm. he obtained with imperceptible gestures what he wanted from the orchestra." Videgain also collaborated with the leading authors of sainetes (a comic genre found in Spanish theatre), including Salvador Videgain Gómez, Antonio Reparaz, the brothers Joaquin Arqués, and Rafael Calleja, also writers to obtain the libretti for his zarzuelas.
Towards the end of his life, Videgain lived in a precarious economic situation for warworld which was refusal to grant him a professorship in chapell music He died in poverty on February 9, 1944, in Uruguay or Chile.