Antón García Abril

Antón García Abril (born May 19, 1933 in Teruel ) is a Spanish composer and music teacher .

life and work

García Abril, born in Teruel in 1933, studied from 1952 to 1955 at the Conservatory of Madrid with Julio Gomez and Francisco Cales and then at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena with Vito Frazzi composition, with Paul van Kempen orchestral conducting and with Angelo Francesco Lavagnino film music. From 1964 he continued his education at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome with Goffredo Petrassi .

With Luis de Pablo and Cristóbal Halffter he presented Spain at the 39th international festival of the International Society for Contemporary Music . From 1974 to 2003 he held a chair for composition at the Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid . In 1982 he became a member of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando de Madrid , and in 1995 he became a corresponding member of the Academia de Nobles y Bellas Artes de San Luis de Zaragoza .

In addition to an opera, several ballets, orchestral works, choral and chamber music, García Abril composed numerous film scores, especially for films by Mario Camus and Pilar Miro . He has received many awards for his work, including a. with the Premio Nacional de Música (1993), several prizes from the Sociedad General de Autores y Editores y la Asociación de Intérpretes y Ejecutantes and the Culture Prize of the City of Madrid (2007).

Works

Stage works:
- Divinas Palabras Opera
- Danzi y Tronío , ballet
- Don Juán , ballet
- Doña Francisquita , ballet
- Fuenteovejuna , ballet
- Le Gitanilla , ballet
Instrumental concerts:
- Cadencias for violin and orchestra
- Concierto Aguediano for guitar and orchestra
- Concierto de Gibralfaro for two guitars and orchestra
- Concierto de la Malvarrosa for flute, piano and orchestra
- Concierto de las Tierras Altas for cello and orchestra
- Concierto Mudéjar for guitar and string orchestra
- Concierto para Piano y Orquesta
- Juventus for two pianos and orchestra
- Nocturnos de la Antequeruela for piano and string orchestra
Orchestral works:
- Alba de Soledades
- Alhambra
- Canciones y Danzas para Dulcinea
- Cantos de Pleamar
- Celibidachiana
- Concierto para instrumentos de arco
- El Mar de las Calmas
- Hemeroscopium
- Introducción y Fandango
- Lumens
- memorandum
- Tres escenas del ballet La Gitanilla
- Tres Sonatas para Orquestra
- Variaciones Concertantes
Works for choir and orchestra:
- Alegrías for children's choir, mezzo-soprano, speaker and orchestra
- Canciones Asturianas
- Canciones de Valldemosa based on texts by Luis Rosales , José García Nieto , José Hierro , Antonio Gala , Gerardo Diego , Dionisio Ridruejo and Salvador Espriu
- Canciones del Jardín Secreto
- Cancions Xacobeas
- Cántico de las Siete Estrellas for choir and orchestra
- Cántico de "La Pietá" for soprano, cello, organ, mixed choir and string orchestra
- Divinas Palabras
- Himno de Aragon
- Lurkantak for choir and orchestra
- Salmo de Alegría para el siglo XXI for soprano and string orchestra (Text: Rafael Alberti )
- Salve Regina
- Cuatro canciones sobre textos gallegos (texts by Rosalía de Castro and Alvaro de Casas )

Filmography (selection)

1962: Up to the Blood (Tierra brutal)
1966: Django, the avenger (Texas addio)
1967: Perry Rhodan - SOS from space (… 4… 3… 2… 1… morte)
1970: Manos torpes
1971: The Night of the Riding Corpses (La noche del terror ciego)
1971: Night of the Vampires (La noche de Walpurgis)
1972: Viva Pancho Villa (El desafío de Pancho Villa)
1973: The return of the corpses on horseback (El ataque de los muertos sin ojos)
1974: The ghost ship of floating corpses (El buque maldito)
1975: The blood court of the riding corpses (La noche de los gaviotas)

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Web links

Homepage of Antón García Abril

personal data
SURNAME	García Abril, Antón
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Spanish composer and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH	May 19, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH	Teruel