Nemesio Otagno Eguino ( Spanish: Nemesio Otaño Eguino ; December 19, 1880 , Askutia - April 29, 1956 , San Sebastian ) - Spanish composer, organist, musicologist and music teacher.
From a young age he studied piano and organ, as well as harmony and composition; from the age of 11 he played the organ at Baliarrina College, his first works belong to the same period. In 1896 he joined the Jesuit Order . Carried away by the ideas of the Cecilian movement , at the turn of the century he devoted himself to the study of musical folklore and the Gregorian tradition. Since 1903 , he continued these classes in Valladolid under the leadership of Vicente Goicoechea , took an active part in the preparation and conduct of the Church Music Congress in Valladolid ( 1907 ), which brought together about 700 delegates from all over Spain. At the end of the congress, he continued the church service in Onia , then took the post of musical director at the Catholic University of Comillas , in 1912 he founded and headed the city's music school. In 1922 - 1931 lived and worked in Sant Sebastian. In 1940 he was appointed director of the Madrid Conservatory and held this post until 1951. In 1943 he was elected an academician of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando .
The creative heritage of Otagno includes many church works, as well as a number of choral and vocal works. He composed two representative collections of Spanish organ music of the 19th - early 20th centuries: “Contemporary Spanish Organ Anthology” ( Spanish Antología moderna orgánica espanyola ; 1911 ) and “Practical Liturgical Anthology of Modern Spanish Organists” ( Spanish Antología litúrgica práctica de organistas espanyos contemporne ; 1916 ).