Alicia de Larrocha

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Alicia de Larrocha (1983)

Alicia de Larrocha i de la Calle (born May 23, 1923 in Barcelona ; † September 25, 2009 there ) was a Spanish pianist. As a piano student of Frank Marshall and after his death in 1959 as director of the private Conservatory Acadèmia Marshall in Barcelona, ​​Alicia de Larrocha was one of the most prominent representatives of the Catalan school of pianists .

Life

De Larrocha took piano lessons at the age of three from Frank Marshall, a student of Enrique Granados . At the age of six she made her first public appearance at the 1929 Expo in Barcelona, ​​followed by her debut with orchestra five years later. Since 1947 she has toured internationally and became one of the most successful pianists of her generation.

De Larrocha has performed with many important orchestras in Europe, Israel, the USA, Latin America, Japan and South Asia under well-known conductors such as Eugen Jochum , Sir Simon Rattle , Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos , Giuseppe Sinopoli , Zubin Mehta and Kent Nagano . She has worked with musicians such as Victoria de los Angeles and Montserrat Caballé , the Guarneri String Quartet and the Tokyo String Quartet , and performed the latter's concerto for two pianos with Francis Poulenc . Federico Mompou , with whom she was friends, dedicated several works to her.

Her focus was on the classical and romantic repertoire, especially Mozart and Schumann . Outside of Spain, she was mainly perceived as a specialist in works by Spanish composers. a. by Padre Antonio Soler , Enrique Granados and the entire piano works of Isaac Albéniz .

Since 1975 she has received three Grammys , two Grands Prix du Disque and the German Record Critics' Prize . In 1985 she received the Premio Nacional de Música and in 1994 the Premio Príncipe de Asturias de las Artes . She became a member of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in 1988 , and the University of Michigan awarded her an honorary doctorate.

De Larrocha had been married to the Spanish pianist Juan Torra († 1982) since 1950 , who looked after their two children, Juan and Alicia, and managed the musician's conservatory in order to enable his wife to pursue an international career.

literature

  • Ingo Harden, Gregor Willmes: Pianist Profiles. 600 pianists: their biography, their style, their recordings . Alicia de Larrocha. 1st edition. Bärenreiter, Kassel 2008, ISBN 978-3-7618-1616-5 , p. 419-421 .
  • Alain Pâris: Classical music in the 20th century, instrumentalists, singers, conductors, orchestras, choirs . Alicia de Larrocha. dtv, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-423-32501-1 , p. 448 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Generalitat de Catalunya - Culturcat (web archive): Catalan musicians (19th Century AC - 20th Century AC). Retrieved January 21, 2019 . There Alicia de Larrocha in the section on the Catalan Pianist School .
  2. ^ Alain Pâris, 1997

See also

personal data
SURNAME Larrocha, Alicia de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Larrocha i de la Calle, Alicia de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish pianist
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Barcelona
DATE OF DEATH September 25, 2009
Place of death Barcelona