Acadèmia Marshall

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The Acadèmia Marshall , also Acadèmia Granados-Marshall or Associació Musical Granados-Marshall , formerly Acadèmia Granados , is a private music academy in Barcelona . The school had and still has an outstanding reputation worldwide as a pianist training facility. It is the center of the Catalan Pianist School .

history

The Granado era

The music academy was founded in 1901 by Enrique Granados with the help of Felip Pedrell as Acadèmia Granados in Carrer Fontanella 14 in Barcelona. In the first few years the organist and composer Domènech Mas i Serracant worked as deputy director. The academy then moved to Carrer Girona 89 and later to No. 20 um. In this early phase the academy was determined by Granados' charismatic personality. In 1912 the Sala Granados was inaugurated on Avinguda Tibidabo , a gift from the Barcelona citizen Dr. Andreu to the composer. In this room, students of the higher courses gave concerts and premieres of Granado's works were given here. This room was available until the end of the 1920s.

The Marshall era

Frank Marshall stood out among the younger Granados students . He became the composer's right-hand man and Granados appointed him assistant director of piano studies. When Granados died tragically in March 1916, Marshall initially took over the management of the academy. In 1920 he took over the academy from an economic point of view and renamed it Acadèmia Marshall . He moved the headquarters to Rambla de Catalunya 106 . In the 1920s, Emil von Sauer, one of the most prominent European pianists, gave more frequent lectures at the Acadèmia. In the following years, great musicians such as Manuel de Falla , Alfred Cortot , Arthur Rubinstein , the director Igor Markevitch , Andrés Segovia and Pau Casals supported and carried the activities of the academy. Also gave Xavier Montsalvatge , Joaquín Nin-Culmell and Frederic Mompou courses for harmony and theory of music. The young Victoria de los Ángeles first appeared in public at the Acadèmia Marshall . Marshall directed the academy until his death in 1959.

The Larrocha era

Once again, Alicia de Larrocha, "one of the academy's own generation ", took over the management. At the time of this takeover, she was already an internationally renowned artist. Alicia de Larrocha began studying at the Marshall Academy in 1926 at the age of three and then took over the management of the institution in 1959 at the age of 36 for well over forty years. She reconciled her artistic and teaching commitments for the four-yearly masterclasses that lead to a Masters degree in Spanish music.

The artistic meaning

In the Acadèmia Marshall, great emphasis was placed on maximizing artistic expressiveness through the piano. Granados, together with Albéniz, is considered to be the creator of the Catalan school of pianists. He was the author of the work "Método práctico para el uso de los pedales del piano (1912)". It was the first work published in Spain on the subject of using the pedals for piano performance. Up to this point the piano pedals were used purely intuitively. Marshall consistently developed this approach further.

The composer Robert Gerhard and the singer Conxita Badia were among the outstanding students of Enric Granados . Among Frank Marshall's students, Mercè Roldós and Júlia Albareda stood out, both of whom taught at the academy themselves. Even Alberto Giménez Atenelle and Rosa Sabater must be mentioned. The fact that Enric Granados was a composer has made the Marshall Academy a reference center for the teaching and dissemination of Spanish-Catalan music. Artists developed the works of Granados, de Falla, Rodrigo or Turina here.

literature

  • Enciclopèdia Catalana: Acadèmia Marshall. In: Gran Enciclopèdia de la Música. Retrieved April 20, 2019 (Catalan).
  • Labrador y Santacana, Mònica. Academia Granados-Marshall: 100 años de escuela pianística en Barcelona. Taller Editorial Matad, 2000. ISBN 84-88158-21-1 .
  • Labrador y Santacana, Mònica. "The Academia Marshall en the centenario de la escuela pianistica de Enric Granados". Sierra de Oro, núm. 501, September 2001, pág. 52-53. ISSN  0037-2501 .
  • Esquinas, Felicia. (bcn.cat): Academia Marshall, cent anys d'estudis de piano a Barcelona. In: Barcelona, ​​Metròpolis Mediterrània No. 55 2001, accessed April 20, 2019 (Catalan).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gran Enciclopèdia de la Música. Acadèmia Marshall.
  2. ↑ a b c d section after: Esquinas, Felicia: Academia Marshall, cent anys d'estudis de piano a Barcelona. In: Barcelona, ​​Metròpolis Mediterrània No. 55 2001

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