Benvingut Socias i Mercadé

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Benvingut Socias i Mercadé in 1896

Benvingut Socias i Mercadé (born October 19, 1877 in El Vendrell , † March 4, 1951 ibid) was a Catalan organist, pianist and composer. Benvingut Socias is included in the Catalan School of Pianists .

life and work

Socias began his musical training with Pau Casals father, the pianist and organist Carles Casals i Ribes in El Vendrell. At the age of 10 he joined the Escolania de Montserrat boarding school . He also studied organ playing in Montserrat. At the same time he took further organ lessons from Carles Casals in El Vendrell. After leaving the monastery in 1893, Socias completed piano training with Joan Baptista Pellicer and composition studies in Barcelona. He began his professional organist career in the parish of Santa Anna in Barcelona. At the age of 18 he became an assistant professor at the Conservatori Municipal de Música de Barcelona .

At the same time he also began to compose. In 1897 he won first prize with a mass in the music competition for sacred music in Santiago de Compostela .

From 1907 he first appeared in Paris as a pianist. Then he gave chamber concerts in Europe and the United States with his childhood friend Pau Casals . In 1910 he moved to the USA, where he was appointed piano perfection teacher at the Cowing Conservatory . In 1911 he achieved a huge concert success in the Queen's Hall in London. The specialist press dubbed him there as the "Little Mozart". In 1914, after the outbreak of the First World War , he returned to Catalonia. In 1919 he received the chair for piano perfection at the Conservatori del Liceu , which he held until 1936. From 1930 to 1935 he was also a member of the Pau Casals Orchestra .

Benvingut Socias created numerous sacred compositions, including rosary prayers set to music , a Salve Montserratina , Goigs (hymns of praise) on Sant Salvador and some masses. In addition, he has created chamber music works as well as the song-like setting of the poems Les cinc roses ("The five roses") and Les tres volades ("The three flocks of birds"?). He was also the composer of the Sardana Planyívola .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Gran Eniclopèdia de la Música are deviating in relation to other sources of death Barcelona.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana: Benvingut Socias i Mercadé.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Gran Enciclopèdia de la Música: Benvingut Socias i Mercadé
  4. ^ A b El Vendrell City Council: Benvingut Socias i Mercadé.
personal data
SURNAME Socias i Mercadé, Benvingut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Catalan organist, pianist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH El Vendrell
DATE OF DEATH March 4th 1951
Place of death El Vendrell