Enric Morera
Enric Morera i Viura (born May 22, 1865 in Barcelona , † March 11, 1942 there ) was a Catalan composer.
Morera spent his childhood in Argentina. The family returned to Barcelona in 1883, where Morera had piano lessons from Carles G. Vidiella and composition lessons from Felip Pedrell . After a stay in Brussels , where he studied with Paul Gibson and Philippe Févez , he went to Argentina again until he settled in Barcelona in 1890.
He taught harmony, counterpoint and composition at the Escola Municipal de Música de Barcelona (later Conservatori Municipal de Música de Barcelona ) and composed more than eight hundred works, including numerous sardanes in addition to the great symphonic forms and operas .
Works
- Dansa del gnoms , 1893
- Introducció a l'Atlántida , symphonic poem, 1893
- Minuet per a quartet de corda , 1889
- Jesús de Nazareth , 1894
- La fada , opera, 1897
- L'alegria que passa , 1898
- Missa de rèquiem , 1899
- La nit de l'amor , 1901
- El comte Arnau , 1905
- Bruniselda , 1906
- Empòrium , Opera, 1906
- Don Joan de Serrallonga , 1907
- La Santa Espina , 1907
- Cançons populars catalanes harmonitzades , 1910
- Titaina , Opera, 1912
- Tassarba , Opera, 1916
- Concert per a violoncel i orquestra , 1917
- El poema de la Nit i el Dia i de la Terra i de l'Amor , symphonic poem, 1920
- Cançons de Carrer , 1926
- La Marieta de l'ullviu , 1926
- La cançó dels catalans , 1930
- El castell dels tres dragons , 1931
- Dotze cançons del Llibre de la Pàtria , 1936
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Morera, Enric |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Morera i Viura, Enric (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Catalan composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 22, 1865 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Barcelona |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 11, 1942 |
| Place of death | Barcelona |