José Luis Pérez de Arteaga (13 April 1950 – 8 February 2017) was a Spanish announcer, critic, journalist, and musicologist.
In 1985, he began to direct and present El mundo de la fonografía in Radio Clásica, a station centered on the area of recorded sound, in discography novelties, historical productions, commemorations and ephemeris, and always evoked through phonographic records. In Radio 1, he was a collaborator of El ojo crítico and, in Radio Exterior, directed En clave de 5. His voice was also habitual in the re-transmissions of the Vienna New Year's Concert for TVE and in the re-transmissions of the concerts of the National Orchestra and Choir of Spain. He wrote several books on the composer Gustav Mahler; in fact, he was considered one of the most important biographers of Mahler in the country. He had dedicated two volumes about his life and his work and also made a complete record inventory of him.[1] [2]
He was formed musically in Spain and later in the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. He studied piano with . He wrote thousands of articles and musical critiques for Ritmo and Scherzo magazines, the Diverdi newsletter, and the ABC, La Razón, and El País newspapers.[3] From 1981 to 1985, he was the director of the Enciclopedia Salvat de la Música.[4]
According to Pérez de Arteaga, his radio mentor was .