Carme Bravo

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Carme Bravo , Spanish also Carmen Bravo (* 1920 ; † April 29, 2007 in Barcelona ), was a Catalan classical pianist and music teacher. She was married to the composer Frederic Mompou since 1957 .

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As the youngest daughter of a family of craftsmen, Bravo discovered her talent for music at an early age and studied piano at the Barcelona Conservatory. She won a number of important prizes and eventually received a scholarship to study in Paris. Her career began with performances in France, Italy and Holland. Her family foresaw a great career for her.

In 1941 Bravo took part in a piano competition in Barcelona at the age of 22. Bravo did not win this competition, but she made the acquaintance of the 48-year-old composer Frederic Mompou, who was represented on the jury. Mompou gave her to understand that he was overwhelmed by the passion of her performance of the Schumann Concerto. In 1942, after attending a concert at the Palau de la Música Catalana , they both went for a walk in the Gothic quarter of Barcelona. They heard the chimes of midnight in a square. Mompou allegedly composed the piece La Fuente i la Campana (The Fountain and the Bells), which, according to public opinion, was dedicated to Carme Bravo, inspired by this.

Bravo's parents failed to understand their daughter's developing relationship with the aging composer and conservatory teacher. In December 1957, Bravo and Mompou married after a 15-year relationship in the Romanesque chapel on Montjuïc in Barcelona, ​​without Carme Bravo having informed her parents beforehand. After their wedding, Bravo interrupted her active pianist career and worked as a piano teacher. Bravo worked for 30 years, until her husband's death on June 30, 1987 and beyond, promoting, promoting, and disseminating her husband's compositional work. Bravo had admired Mompou as an artist even before she met them personally. Nevertheless, she declared publicly: “It was difficult for me to recognize that I had fallen in love with him.” Conversely, Bravo was the key for Mompou, which opened and made his important late work possible in the first place. When Bravo met Mompou, he was in a ten-year creative crisis in which he had only put two smaller works on paper. Mompou frankly admitted at the time, after meeting Carme Bravo: "When I was working on a number of songs in 1942, it really wasn't that difficult to find inspiration for these intimate works." Bravo moved her husband to to give public concerts again in Europe and the United States until Mompou was 80 years old. In such concerts, Bravo usually performed the first part of the concert with Mompou piano pieces, and Mompou himself accompanied a singer in the second part performing the art songs he had composed.

One of Carme Bravo's students was Luis Fernando Pérez .

Discography

  • Carmen Bustamante, Carmen Bravo: Frederic Mompou - Cançons, PDI, 1988, 30.1692
  • Gonzalo Soriano, Carmen Bravo: Federico Mompou - Obras Para Piano, EMI 1992, CDM 7 64470 2

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Lourdes Morgades. 2007. Carme Bravo.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r Georg Predota. 2018. Carme Bravo.
  3. ↑ Carme Bravo quoted from: Georg Predota. 2018.
  4. ↑ RedAragon: Concierto de Luis Fernando Pérez 'En torno a la Suite Iberia'. October 2, 2010, Retrieved July 14, 2019 (Spanish).
personal data
SURNAME Bravo, Carme
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bravo, Carmen (Spanish form of name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Catalan classical pianist and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH 1920
DATE OF DEATH April 29, 2007
Place of death Barcelona