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Spanish composer, excellent, quite the foremost in Andalusia (2,5)

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de falla

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'spanish composer' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I can't tell whether this works.

'excellent quite the foremost in andalusia' is the wordplay.
'excellent' becomes 'def' (old-fashioned term for excellent).
'quite' becomes 'all' (I've seen this in another clue).
'the foremost in' indicates taking the first letters.
The first letter of 'andalusia' is 'a'.
'def'+'all'+'a'='DE FALLA'

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