Cristòfor Taltabull i Balaguer

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Cristòfor Taltabull i Balaguer (born July 28, 1888 in Barcelona , † May 1, 1964 there ) was a Catalan composer and music teacher .

life and work

Taltabull was a piano pupil of Claudi Martínez i Imbert and Josep Font , both self Tintorer were -Students. He studied composition with Felip Pedrell . In 1907 and 1908 he performed his first own compositions in Barcelona. Then he went to Munich, where he studied music analysis, aesthetics and theory with Professors Wiedermeyer and Friedrich Klose . In addition, he became a composition student of Max Reger .

After a short stay in Barcelona, ​​Taltabull settled in Paris from 1912, initially to continue his training with Professors A. Gedalge and Ch. Tournemire. In 1914 he married Léa Masson. He took up a varied professional activity in the field of music. He composed, gave piano concertos and arranged sheet music for the Durand i Salabert publishing house .

In 1940, due to the Second World War , he returned to Barcelona and stayed there permanently. At first he did not find a position there that suited his education and skills. He directed choirs and worked as a music critic. However, his private music education work was highly valued. He became one of those people who got the cultural life back on track in Barcelona after the civil war. His students included prominent composers such as Xavier Benguerel , Angel Cerdà , Joan Guinjoan , Josep Maria Mestres i Quadreny and Josep Soler . The aesthetic diversity of these composers demonstrates Taltabull's outstanding pedagogical skills, which allowed the students to find their own tonal language.

Only a few pieces of his compositions have survived: the fragment of a passion, piano reductions for stage music, the symphonic prologue for a drama (1909), piano variations on a theme by Max Reger (1908), variations on a theme by Bach, a sonatina for Piano (1910) and a prelude. He composed songs: two in French and the five Cançons xineses (Chinese songs), four of which were translated into Catalan by Josep Carner . The compositions for choir are more numerous and are kept in different archives. The works of the early phase show above all Taltabull's admiration for Max Reger. The later works are closer to French impressionism.

Taltabull's didactic work, along with personal documents, is kept in the music department of the Biblioteca de Catalunya .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Cristòfor Taltabull i Balaguer. In: Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Cristòfor Taltabull i Balaguer. In: Gran Enciclopèdia de la Música.
personal data
SURNAME Taltabull i Balaguer, Cristòfor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Catalan composer and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Barcelona
DATE OF DEATH May 1, 1964
Place of death Barcelona