Gaspar Sanz

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Gaspar Sanz

Gaspar Sanz (actually Francisco Bartolomé Sanz y Celma ; baptized April 4, 1640 in Calanda / Kingdom of Aragón , † 1710 in Madrid ) was a Spanish composer and guitarist of the Baroque .

Life and effect

Born to an old and respected family near Saragossa (his father was Bartolomé Sanz, his mother Francisca Celma), Sanz studied theology and philosophy at the University of Salamanca , where he obtained the degree of Baccalaureus in theology and the licenciado in Philosophy received. He learned composition and guitar with Cristofaro Caresana in Naples , where he worked as organist for Philip IV at the royal court , and in Rome , where Pietro Andrea Ziani (organist in the Republic of Venice ) and Lelio Colista were also trained at that time. Sanz studied among other things the guitar works of Giovanni Paolo Foscarini and Francesco Corbetta .

On his return to Spain, “Don Gaspar Francisco Bartolome Sanz, y Celma” published the first important textbook for the five-course baroque guitar on December 6, 1674 in Saragossa , the two-volume “Instrucción de música sobre la guitarra española y métodos de sus primeros rudimentos hasta tañer con destreza” “, Which he added twice later. The work teaches music theory and playing techniques and contains around 90 arrangements of Spanish dances (such as the Españoleta in three- four time, which is linked to a specific three-part harmony scheme, or the Rujero in straight time, which is built on a harmonic bass foundation ) and Italian melodies.

In 1954, at the suggestion of guitarist Andrés Segovia , the Spanish composer Joaquín Rodrigo wrote the subsequently very successful “Fantasia para un gentilhombre” for guitar and orchestra on topics by Sanz, which Sanz intended for his student Juan José de Austria , whom he also had the first two Had composed volumes of his guitar school, an illegitimate son of Philip IV and half-brother of King Carlos II , the addressee of the dedication of his third volume of the work Instrucción de música sobre la guitarra española [...] .

Works (selection)

  • Instrucción de música sobre la guitarra española y method de sus primeros rudimentos, hasta tañerla con destreza. (Diego Doemer's Heirs, Saragossa 1674); Reprint 1697; Facsimile reprint by Éditions Minkoff, Geneva 1973.
    • Libro segundo, de cifras sobre la guitarra española (Saragossa 1675)
    • Libro tercero de música de cifras sobre la guitarra española (Saragossa 1697)
  • Ecos sagrados de la fama gloriosa de ... Inocencio XI. Sumo Pont. ( Madrid 1681)
  • El hombre de letras ( Barcelona , 1744, Sanz 'Spanish translation by Daniello Bartolis L'uomo de lettere (1654))

Literature, editions of works and arrangements

  • Luis García-Abrines: Gaspar Sanz, Instrucción de música sobre la guitarra española. Institución "Fernando el Católico" de la Excma and Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Saragossa 1966 (facsimile and commentary) and 1979.
  • Ralf Jarchow: Gaspar Sanz - Instrucción de musica sobre la Guitarra Española , Jarchow, Glinde 2001 (commentary and transcription for guitar; German and English translation of the text by Sanz)
  • Ralf Jarchow: Gaspar Sanz and his Instrucción / A five-part article , Zupfmusik No. 2 + 4, Hamburg 2002, and Concertino No. 1, 3 + 4, Hamburg 2003.
  • Frank Koonce: The Baroque Guitar in Spain and the New World. Mel Bay Publications, Pacific, Mon. 2006, ISBN 978-078-667-525-8 , pp. 27-47.
  • Hanns-Peter Mederer: Street music at court. Spanish baroque music and its performers. In: CONCERTO. No. 133. May 1998. pp. 6-8.
  • John Patykula: Gaspar Sanz - Master of the Spanish Guitar. Guitarra Magazine Online (English)
  • Robert Strizich: The Complete Guitar Works of Gaspar Sanz. Éditions Doberman-Yppan, Saint-Nicolas, Québec 1999 (commentary and transcription for classical guitar; English translation of the text by Sanz).
  • Robert Strizich: Gaspar Sanz , The New Grove, New York 2001
  • Jerry Willard (Ed.): The complete works of Gaspar Sanz. 2 volumes, Amsco Publications, New York 2006 (translation of the original manuscript by Marko Miletich), ISBN 978-082561-695-2 .
    • Volume 1 (Translation): Music instruction for the Spanish guitar and method that includes the primary elements necessary to play it skillfully. [...]. Permission: In Saragossa by the Diego Doemer's Heirs. 1674.
    • Volume 2: A selection of over forty-five musical gems from Gaspar Sanz's masterwork, Instrucción de Música sobre la Guitarra Española, presented in arrangements for the modern classical guitar.
  • Rodrigo de Zayas: Gaspar Sanz - Transcripcion , Alpuerto, Madrid 1985 (facsimile, commentary and transcription)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biblioteca nueva de los escritores Aragoneses [...]. Volume 4, 1700, p. 244 ( Google Books ).
  2. ↑ Jerry Willard (2006), Volume 1, pp. 81 and 107.
  3. ↑ James Tyler: A Guide to Playing the Baroque Guitar. Indiana University Press, Bloomington and Indianapolis 2011, ISBN 978-0-253-22289-3 , p. 33.
  4. ↑ Jerry Willard (2006), Volume 1, p. 9.
  5. ^ Frank Koonce: The Baroque Guitar in Spain and the New World. 2006, p. 39.
  6. ↑ cf. also in the following: Bibliographical information from the Spanish National Library (Spanish)
personal data
SURNAME Sanz, Gaspar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sanz Celma, Francisco Bartolomé (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish composer and baroque guitarist
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1640
PLACE OF BIRTH Calanda
DATE OF DEATH 1710
Place of death Madrid