Enrique Casal Chapí
Enrique Casal Chapí (born January 15, 1909 in Madrid , † October 20, 1977 there ) was a Spanish composer.
Life
The grandson of the Zarzuela composer Ruperto Chapí y Lorente studied from 1928 to 1936 at the Conservatory of Madrid piano with Emilia Quintero y Calé as well as harmony and composition with Conrado del Campo . From 1933 to 1938 he worked as the musical director of the Teatro Escuela de Arte and during this time composed numerous plays, such as Gas o para la compañía by Margarita Xirgu . He also performed as a café and cinema pianist. With the Cuarteto Castilla he performed Spanish folklore and polyphonic vocal music of the 16th century.
Before the Spanish Civil War he first fled to France and then lived from 1940 to 1945 in the Dominican Republic, where he became chief conductor of the Orquestra Sinfónica Nacional in Santo Domingo, founded in 1941 at the suggestion of Rafael Trujillo . After 1945 he lived first in Argentina and later in Montevideo. Here he worked as a professor of composition and in 1950 he performed his opera El baile del Caballero de Olmedo with great success . He returned to Spain in the 1960s. His students included u. a. Ninón Lapeiretta and Manuel Simó .
Works
- El acero de Madrid. “Canción Madrigalesca” based on the comedy by Lope de Vega , 1935
- Las aguas del Manzanares o Contra un mal cross Piscina , Sainete after José Franco Pumarega
- El baile del Caballero de Olmedo de Lope de Vega
- Dos canciones zamoranas: El tío Babú y Seguidilla de Sayago
- Las mujeres pendencieras o Con mal genio no hay amor , Sainete after José Franco Pumarega
- Sueño de oro, waltz
- Tres cantares: Serrana, Cantar de Siega, Villancico
literature
- Malena Kuss : Music in Latin America and the Caribbean: Performing the Caribbean experience , Volume 2 of Music in Latin America and the Caribbean, University of Texas Press, 2004, ISBN 029270951X , p. 226
Web links
- Biografías y vidas: Enrique Casal Chapí
- Biblioteca Nacional de España: Archivo personal de Enrique Casal Chapí: Fondo
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Casal Chapí, Enrique |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 15, 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Madrid |
| DATE OF DEATH | 20th October 1977 |
| Place of death | Madrid |