Andrés Isasi

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Andrés Isasi y Linares (born October 28, 1890 in Bilbao , † April 6, 1940 in Algorta ( Getxo )) was a Basque - Spanish composer .

Life

Andrés Isasi's parents died early and his musical talent was particularly encouraged by his grandfather, the Marquis of Barambio. At the age of 18 he premiered his first own piano compositions in Bilbao. After finishing school, Isasi traveled to Berlin in 1909, where he studied with Karl Kämpf and Engelbert Humperdinck . The latter counted Isasi among his favorite students and encouraged him to compose orchestral works, several of which were premiered in Berlin. The symphonic poem "Zharufa", created in 1911, was awarded 2nd prize in a composition competition in Malmö in 1914. In the same year, at the outbreak of the First World War, Isasi returned to Bilbao and later settled on his property in Algorta, which subsequently developed into an artistic meeting place. Isasi's compositions did not attract much attention in his homeland, so that he was largely forgotten when he died in 1940.

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Isasi composed two symphonies, several orchestral works (suites and symphonic poems), a piano concerto, piano and chamber music (including several string quartets), choral works and numerous songs (later mainly based on his own texts). Stylistically, it is in the tradition of German late romanticism in particular .

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literature

  • José Luis Ansorena: CD-Beitext Claves CD 50-2007 (Isasi: Orchesterwerke, Euskadiko Orkestra Sinfonikoa, conducted by Enrique García), 2000

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