Graciano Tarragó y Pons

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Graciano Tarragó y Pons , Catalan also Gracià Tarragó i Pons after his main place of activity Barcelona, ​​(born April 16, 1892 in Salamanca , † February 23, 1973 in Barcelona ) was a Spanish guitarist, violinist and composer. Tarragó is assigned to the Catalan Guitar School .

life and work

Tarragó was born in Salamanca in 1892. His family, originally from Lleida , settled in Barcelona at the age of five . He first studied violin at the Conservatori del Liceu in Barcelona and viola at the Conservatory in Madrid with Antonio Fernández Bordas . At the same time he studied guitar at Liceu and harmony and composition with Bartolomé Pérez Casas in Madrid. When he returned to Barcelona in 1912 he completed in-depth studies in harmony and composition with the organist and composer Vicenç Maria de Gibert and deepened his guitar skills with Miquel Llobet . In 1936 he won first prize at the International Guitar Composition Competition in Bologna with the Asturian-style piece "Canción de cuna" (Lullaby).

He has worked as a violin soloist in various ensembles, including the Pau Casals Orchestra and the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra . In 1926 he was one of the co-founders of the Quartet Ibèric . As a guitarist, he performed in Spain and the major music centers in Europe. With guitarists who were his students, he founded the Tarragó Quartet , consisting of four classical guitars, in 1971 , which gave concerts in major European and North American concert halls for almost 18 years.

From 1933 he worked for many years as a professor of guitar at the Liceu in Barcelona. His students included his daughter Renata Tarragó i Fàbregas , who later became professor of guitar at the Escola Municipal de Música de Barcelona , and Jaume Torrent , who later followed him as guitar professor at the Conservatori del Liceu in Barcelona.

Between 1950 and 1965 he made several tours through Spain and Europe with his daughter Renata.

Tarragó has written around a hundred works for solo guitar. In addition to didactic works, he arranged and transcribed numerous classical works for the guitar. In his compositions as well as in his interpretations, Tarragó cultivated “a bold and refined guitar language on the basis of aesthetic values, which enabled the instrument to escape the folkloric context.” Jaume Torrent documented on the CD “Gracià Tarragó, Obres per a guitarra, 2008 “Tarragó's artistic development as a composer.

Sound recordings with works by Graciano Tarragó

  • Gracià Tarragó (1892–1973). Obres per a guitarra. Generalitat de Catalunya, Institut Català de les Industries Culturals (editor). Label "La mà de guido". 2008 LMG 2088 (CD with enclosed booklet in Catalan, Spanish and English)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana, Gracià Tarragó i Pons.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Gran Enciclopèdia de la Música, Gracià Tarragó i Pons.
  3. ↑ Generalitat de Catalunya - Culturcat (web archive): Catalan musicians (19th Century AC - 20th Century AC). Retrieved January 21, 2019 . There is a section about the Catalan guitar school .
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Jaume Torrent. Graciano Tarragó. 2001.
personal data
SURNAME Tarragó y Pons, Graciano
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tarragó i Pons, Gracià (Catalan name form)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish guitarist, violinist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Salamanca
DATE OF DEATH 23rd February 1973
Place of death Barcelona