RESEaRCHING ABOUT
SPANISH PIANISTS
20TH CENTURY
21 ST CENTURY
ROMANTICISM
BAROQUE
CLASSICISM
Antón García AbrilManuel Carra
Mateo Albéniz
Enrique GranadosJoaquín Turina
Santiago de Masarnau
Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga
Isaac AlbénizFederic MompouManuel de Falla
Padre Soler
Juan María Guelbenzu
Carles Baguer
IRENE ALONSO SETUAÍN
PAULA VICTORIA BUDA
Father Soler
Antonio Francisco Javier José Soler Ramos, usually known as Padre ('Father', in the religious sense) Antonio Soler, has a Spanish composer whose works span the late Baroque and early Classical music eras. He is best known for his many mostly one-movement keyboard sonatas.
FEDERICO MOMPOU
Federico Mompou (1893 – 1987), as a Spanish composer and pianist.
STYLE
Mompou is best known as a miniaturist, writing short, relatively improvisatory music, often described as "delicate" or "intimate". His principal influences were French impressionism, Erik Satie and Gabriel Fauré and also by the sounds and smells of the maritime quarter of Barcelona, the cry of seagulls, the sound of children playing and popular Catalan culture.
AWARDS
- Chevalier des arts et lettres (France).
- Premio Nacional de Música (Spain).
- Doctor honoris causa at the Barcelona University.
Enrique Granados
(1867-1916)
Enrique Granados Campiña was a Spanish composer, pianist and pedagogue linked to the modernist movements.1 He is known mainly for his piano work Goyescas (1911), on which he also based the opera of the same name. He created the piano school in Barcelona and is usually included in modernist movements, especially in symbolism. He died in the shipwreck of the ship Sussex, in the English Channel, when it was torpedoed by the German navy during the First World War.
He was born in Bilbao, Biscay, in 1806. Was a Spanish violinist and composer of extraordinary precocity whose potential was cut short by his early death. His music stands between the Classical tradition of Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and the Romanticism of Gioacchino Rossini and Franz Schubert; it shows abundant invention, freshness, and technical resourcefulness.
His more famous pieces:
- Los esclavos felices.
- Tres cuartetos de cuerda.
- Tema variado en cuarteto.
- Nada y mucho.
Was a Spanish pianist, composer and religious activist for the poor that was born in 1805. He established the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul, an organization composed of laymen dedicated to serving the poor, in Spain.A cause for his canonization has been opened by that society. Masarnau's music is not well known today. In 2021 it was revived in a piano recital by Josep Colom at the Fundacion Juan March in Madrid. The concert, which was broadcast on Radio Clásica , presented Masarnau's music in the context of his European contemporaries.
MANUEL CARRA
He was a pianist, composer and teacher from Málaga (Spain). He studied in Málaga, Madrid and also in París with Lazare Lévy and Olivier Messiaen. He played in concerts around the world: every corner of Spain, countrys of Europe. Africa and America in recitals and as soloist with orchestra. He was a professor at the Madrid Royal Conservatory.
The conservatory of Málaga is called by his name:
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Juan María Guelbenzu
José Guelbenzu, born on December 27, 1819 in Pamplona, was a Spanish composer, pianist, organist, and piano teacher of notable importance within Madrid society in the 19th century. With his father, who, in addition to being a harmony and composition teacher, was a well-known organist at the church of San Nicolás and San Saturnino in Pamplona, he began to receive his first piano lessons. It would not be until later, when he traveled to Paris with the intention of perfecting his studies of this instrument, receiving classes from composers such as Émile Prudent, Alkan or Zimmermann. He ended up dying on January 8, 1886 in Madrid from tuberculosis.
ANTÓN GARCÍA ABRIL
BIOGRAPHY
Antón García Abril (1933 – 2021) was a Spanish composer and musician from Teruel. He composed many classical orchestral works, chamber and vocal pieces, as well as over 150 scores for film and television.
RECOGNITION
- Head of the department of Compositions of the Madrid Royal Conservatory.
- He was elected a member of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando.
- He was awarded Spain's Premio Nacional de Música for composition,
Mateo Albéniz
BIOGRAPHY
Mateo was a Spanish composer, theorist, and priest from Logroño (La RIoja). He is not related to the better-known composer Isaac Albéniz, but he was the father of Pedro Albéniz. He composed masses, vespers, motets, and other church music, never published, and a book of solfeggi (published at St. Sebastian, 1800). Albéniz also wrote for the harpsichord and fortepiano. The work by which he is best known today is the Sonata in D major, of which a popular transcription for guitar has been made.
MANUEL DE FALLA
LIFE
Manuel de Falla (1876 - 1946) was one of Spain's most important musicians of the first half of the 20th century. He has a claim to being Spain's greatest composer of the 20th century.
STYLE
In his music, he achieved a fusion of poetry, asceticism and ardour that represents the spirit of Spain at its purest.
He also received infuences from the European music that was composed in that moment as Impresionism, Neoclasicism and Dodecaphonism.
CURIOSITIES
- He was very superstitious with the number 7.
- He only composed 1 piece for guitar but, when he composed, he thought all the time in this instrument.
Joaquín Turina
Joaquín Turina Pérez was a Spanish composer and musicologist, representative of nationalism in the first half of the 20th century. At the San Ramón school he attended high school and began studying piano with Enrique Rodríguez. Evaristo García Torres, chapel master of the Seville Cathedral, was the one who taught him much of the knowledge of harmony and counterpoint that the composer put into practice in his artistic works. Turina began his professional career in music through a piano quintet that he had formed with a group of friends.
Baguer was born in Barcelona in March 1768 and received his first musical training from his uncle, Francesc Mariner, who was composer and organist in the cathedral in Barcelona. He became deputy organist to Mariner in 1786 and replaced him when his uncle died in 1789, a position he held until his own death.Although Baguer was ordained a priest, he resigned this position in 1801. He died in Barcelona in 1808, on the same day that French troops occupied Barcelona during the Peninsular War.
Curiosity: He composed 17 symphonies
ISAAC ALBÉNIZ
Isaac Albéniz was a Spanish virtuoso pianist, composer and conductor. He is one of the foremost composers of the Post-Romantic era who also had a significant influence on his contemporaries and younger composers. He is best known for his piano works based on Spanish folk music idioms. Isaac Albéniz was close to the Generation of '98.
Transcriptions of many of his pieces, such as Asturias (Leyenda), Granada, Sevilla, Cadiz, Córdoba, Cataluña, Mallorca and Tango in D, are important pieces for classical guitar, though he never composed for the guitar. Some of Albéniz's personal papers are held in the Library of Cataluña
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RESEaRCHING ABOUT
SPANISH PIANISTS
20TH CENTURY
21 ST CENTURY
ROMANTICISM
BAROQUE
CLASSICISM
Antón García AbrilManuel Carra
Mateo Albéniz
Enrique GranadosJoaquín Turina
Santiago de Masarnau
Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga
Isaac AlbénizFederic MompouManuel de Falla
Padre Soler
Juan María Guelbenzu
Carles Baguer
IRENE ALONSO SETUAÍN
PAULA VICTORIA BUDA
Father Soler
Antonio Francisco Javier José Soler Ramos, usually known as Padre ('Father', in the religious sense) Antonio Soler, has a Spanish composer whose works span the late Baroque and early Classical music eras. He is best known for his many mostly one-movement keyboard sonatas.
FEDERICO MOMPOU
Federico Mompou (1893 – 1987), as a Spanish composer and pianist.
STYLE
Mompou is best known as a miniaturist, writing short, relatively improvisatory music, often described as "delicate" or "intimate". His principal influences were French impressionism, Erik Satie and Gabriel Fauré and also by the sounds and smells of the maritime quarter of Barcelona, the cry of seagulls, the sound of children playing and popular Catalan culture.
AWARDS
Enrique Granados
(1867-1916)
Enrique Granados Campiña was a Spanish composer, pianist and pedagogue linked to the modernist movements.1 He is known mainly for his piano work Goyescas (1911), on which he also based the opera of the same name. He created the piano school in Barcelona and is usually included in modernist movements, especially in symbolism. He died in the shipwreck of the ship Sussex, in the English Channel, when it was torpedoed by the German navy during the First World War.
He was born in Bilbao, Biscay, in 1806. Was a Spanish violinist and composer of extraordinary precocity whose potential was cut short by his early death. His music stands between the Classical tradition of Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and the Romanticism of Gioacchino Rossini and Franz Schubert; it shows abundant invention, freshness, and technical resourcefulness.
His more famous pieces:
Was a Spanish pianist, composer and religious activist for the poor that was born in 1805. He established the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul, an organization composed of laymen dedicated to serving the poor, in Spain.A cause for his canonization has been opened by that society. Masarnau's music is not well known today. In 2021 it was revived in a piano recital by Josep Colom at the Fundacion Juan March in Madrid. The concert, which was broadcast on Radio Clásica , presented Masarnau's music in the context of his European contemporaries.
MANUEL CARRA
He was a pianist, composer and teacher from Málaga (Spain). He studied in Málaga, Madrid and also in París with Lazare Lévy and Olivier Messiaen. He played in concerts around the world: every corner of Spain, countrys of Europe. Africa and America in recitals and as soloist with orchestra. He was a professor at the Madrid Royal Conservatory.
The conservatory of Málaga is called by his name:
Link >
Juan María Guelbenzu
José Guelbenzu, born on December 27, 1819 in Pamplona, was a Spanish composer, pianist, organist, and piano teacher of notable importance within Madrid society in the 19th century. With his father, who, in addition to being a harmony and composition teacher, was a well-known organist at the church of San Nicolás and San Saturnino in Pamplona, he began to receive his first piano lessons. It would not be until later, when he traveled to Paris with the intention of perfecting his studies of this instrument, receiving classes from composers such as Émile Prudent, Alkan or Zimmermann. He ended up dying on January 8, 1886 in Madrid from tuberculosis.
ANTÓN GARCÍA ABRIL
BIOGRAPHY
Antón García Abril (1933 – 2021) was a Spanish composer and musician from Teruel. He composed many classical orchestral works, chamber and vocal pieces, as well as over 150 scores for film and television.
RECOGNITION
Mateo Albéniz
BIOGRAPHY
Mateo was a Spanish composer, theorist, and priest from Logroño (La RIoja). He is not related to the better-known composer Isaac Albéniz, but he was the father of Pedro Albéniz. He composed masses, vespers, motets, and other church music, never published, and a book of solfeggi (published at St. Sebastian, 1800). Albéniz also wrote for the harpsichord and fortepiano. The work by which he is best known today is the Sonata in D major, of which a popular transcription for guitar has been made.
MANUEL DE FALLA
LIFE
Manuel de Falla (1876 - 1946) was one of Spain's most important musicians of the first half of the 20th century. He has a claim to being Spain's greatest composer of the 20th century.
STYLE
In his music, he achieved a fusion of poetry, asceticism and ardour that represents the spirit of Spain at its purest.
He also received infuences from the European music that was composed in that moment as Impresionism, Neoclasicism and Dodecaphonism.
CURIOSITIES
Joaquín Turina
Joaquín Turina Pérez was a Spanish composer and musicologist, representative of nationalism in the first half of the 20th century. At the San Ramón school he attended high school and began studying piano with Enrique Rodríguez. Evaristo García Torres, chapel master of the Seville Cathedral, was the one who taught him much of the knowledge of harmony and counterpoint that the composer put into practice in his artistic works. Turina began his professional career in music through a piano quintet that he had formed with a group of friends.
Baguer was born in Barcelona in March 1768 and received his first musical training from his uncle, Francesc Mariner, who was composer and organist in the cathedral in Barcelona. He became deputy organist to Mariner in 1786 and replaced him when his uncle died in 1789, a position he held until his own death.Although Baguer was ordained a priest, he resigned this position in 1801. He died in Barcelona in 1808, on the same day that French troops occupied Barcelona during the Peninsular War.
Curiosity: He composed 17 symphonies
ISAAC ALBÉNIZ
Isaac Albéniz was a Spanish virtuoso pianist, composer and conductor. He is one of the foremost composers of the Post-Romantic era who also had a significant influence on his contemporaries and younger composers. He is best known for his piano works based on Spanish folk music idioms. Isaac Albéniz was close to the Generation of '98.
Transcriptions of many of his pieces, such as Asturias (Leyenda), Granada, Sevilla, Cadiz, Córdoba, Cataluña, Mallorca and Tango in D, are important pieces for classical guitar, though he never composed for the guitar. Some of Albéniz's personal papers are held in the Library of Cataluña