Frank Marshall i King

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Frank Marshall i King (born November 28, 1883 in Mataró ; † May 29, 1959 in Barcelona ) was a Catalan classical pianist, composer and music teacher of English family origin. He continued the Acadèmia Granados piano school in Barcelona after the death of Enric Granados . Marshall was one of the outstanding representatives of the Catalan School of Pianists .

life and work

Marshall began his studies in Mataró with Teodor Solà i Vendrell. He later studied at the Conservatori del Liceu with Francesc de Paula Sánchez i Gavagnach and Antonio Puyé . After completing his official studies, he took lessons from Enric Granados, whose favorite student he became. In 1907, at the age of just 24, he was appointed assistant director of piano studies at the Acadèmia Granados .

The concert pianist

In 1906 he took up a career as a concert pianist, which took him to Milan and Germany, where he met pianists such as Ferruccio Busoni and Emil von Sauer . In 1925 he made several recordings for the Welte-Mignon label in Freiburg. In 1926 and 1927 he took part in the De Falla Festival in Barcelona as a soloist and played the nights in Spanish gardens . He performed the same work himself in Seville and Cádiz under the direction of his friend Manuel de Falla . His pedagogical vocation ultimately triumphed over his career as a concert pianist.

The teacher and the Granados-Marshall piano school

Enric Granados had founded his pianist school in 1901 to teach the pianistic technique, especially the pulsation and the use of the pedal, which enabled him to achieve the style and, above all, the volume that characterized his style of performance. To this end, in 1912 he published the practical method for using the piano pedals. He conveyed the knowledge to his student Marshall that the use of the pedals "hides the greatest secret of the art of piano". When Enric Granados was killed by a German submarine when the French canal ferry Sussex was torpedoed in 1916, Frank Marshall took over the management of the academy in Barcelona, ​​which was renamed the Marshall Academy from 1920. During the Spanish Civil War he went into exile in Casablanca. After his return to Barcelona, ​​he resumed teaching at the Acadèmia until his death. Frank Marshall's pupils included Alicia de Larrocha , who later took over the management of the academy, Rosa Sabater and the siblings Corma and Alexandre Vilalta . The two piano pedagogical treatises by Frank Marshall listed below show a clear influence of his teacher Enric Granados.

Educational treatises by Frank Marshall

  • Estudio práctico sobre los pedales del piano (1919)
  • La sonoridad del piano (1940)

Compositions by Frank Marshall

  • Suite Catalonia for piano (1907)
  • Allegro di concerto
  • Fantasia per a piano
  • Numerous songs

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The article is a translation of the article of the same name on the Catalan language Wikipedia. It has been enriched with information from the article Frank Marshall i King from the Gran Enciclopèdia de la Música .
  2. ↑ Generalitat de Catalunya - Culturcat (web archive): Catalan musicians (19th Century AC - 20th Century AC). Retrieved January 21, 2019 . There is a section on the Catalan Pianist School .
  3. ↑ a b Gran Enciclopèdia de la Música

See also

personal data
SURNAME Marshall i King, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Catalan classical pianist, composer and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Mataró
DATE OF DEATH May 29, 1959
Place of death Barcelona