Daniel Fortea

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Daniel Fortea (born April 28, 1878 in Benlloch ( Valencia region ), † March 5, 1953 in Madrid , completely Daniel Fortea i Guimerà ) was a Spanish guitarist , composer and guitar teacher. He was a student of Francisco Tárrega and played an essential role in the rediscovery of the guitar in Spain.

Life

Tárrega's heirs: Andrés Segovia (1893–1987), Miguel Llobet (1878–1938), Daniel Fortea (1878–1953) and Emilio Pujol (1886–1980)

Fortea learned the clarinet , guitar and bandurria as a child . At the age of twenty he went to Castellón de la Plana in 1898 , where he was taught by Francisco Tárrega together with Emilio Pujol and Miguel Llobet until 1909 . After Tárrega's death in 1909, Fortea moved to Madrid and performed there as a guitarist in various theaters. He opened his own music school and laid the cornerstone of the Biblioteca Fortea , an extensive collection of sheet music, especially for guitar, which was also published as a monthly music journal ( Publicación mensual de música ) from 1911 to 1952 .

In Madrid, Fortea attracted the attention of the royal family, and the Infanta Isabella in particular is said to have been fond of him. The sentence passed down from the Queen Mother Maria Christina : "Where there is Fortea, one no longer needs an orchestra."

Fortea's students included the Spanish guitar maker Paulino Bernabe (1932–2007). Bernabe learned in the workshop of José Ramírez , where Fortea and the young Andrés Segovia first met.

plant

The Biblioteca Fortea catalog lists more than 40 own compositions for one, two or four guitars as well as around 40 arrangements for guitar. Fortea also wrote a two-volume textbook ( Método ) with two accompanying albums and study volumes for arpeggios and legatos.

literature

  • Salvador Bellés: Daniel Fortea Guimerá: El guitarrista qui trionfó en Madrid. (Seres Humanos de Castellon), Online (PDF; 65 kB).
  • Antonio Perez Llopis, José Vicente Ripollés: Daniel Fortea. Disputació de Castelló 1989 (an abridged version is available online ).
  • Maurice J. Summerfield: The Classical Guitar: Its Evolution and its Players since 1800. Newcastle upon Thyne 1991, p. 89 ISBN 1872639011 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ APSharpe: The story of the Spanish guitar. 1963, p. 41
  2. ^ Website of the Biblioteca Fortea ( Memento of the original dated February 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Nov. 2, 2010  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / bibliotecafortea.com
  3. ^ "Donde esta Fortea no hace falta ninguna orquesta." Jopez & Ripolles 1989
  4. ^ Robert Shaw: Hand Made, Hand Played: The Art & Craft of Contemporary Guitars , 2008, p. 32
  5. ^ Andrés Segovia: An Autobiography of the Years 1893-1920. Boyars, London 1976, p. 63; see. also the contribution "Tárrega's heirs" with a historical recording of Pujol, Llobet, Fortea and Segovia
  6. ↑ Catalog of the Biblioteca Fortea ( Memento of the original from January 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 923 kB)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.federmandolino.it
personal data
SURNAME Fortea, Daniel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fortea i Guimerà, Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish guitarist, composer and guitar teacher
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Benlloch , Valencia region
DATE OF DEATH March 5, 1953
Place of death Madrid