Jaime Padrós

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Jaime Padrós , Catalan Jaume Padrós i Montoriol , (born August 26, 1926 in Igualada , Barcelona , † April 15, 2007 in Manresa , Barcelona) was a Catalan pianist and composer . Padrós is assigned to the Catalan Pianist School.

life and work

Jaime Padrós came to the Escolania of the Montserrat Monastery as a choirboy after the end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939 , where he received a varied musical education. In 1942 a scholarship enabled him to study piano at the Acadèmia Marshall in Barcelona. After completing his studies, Padrós gave instrumental lessons there himself and also worked as a concert pianist and composer.

In 1955 he went to Paris on a grant from the French government, where he took lessons from the composer Darius Milhaud . Jaime Padrós lived in Ulm from 1956 . In 1962 he married the soprano Eva Marie Wolff , with whom he gave many recitals and performed in numerous chamber music concerts. From 1964 to 1995 he was a professor of piano at the Trossingen University of Music .

The compositional oeuvre of Jaime Padrós encompasses more than 90 works in a wide variety of formations: orchestral works, secular and sacred choral music, chamber music, piano solo literature and others.

Musical basics

Thanks to the reform- oriented teaching at the school in his hometown, Padrós came into contact with music at an early age - rather unusual in Spain at the time. His teacher Joan Just recognized his talent and recommended him for the boys' choir of the famous Benedictine monastery of Montserrat. In addition to the singing and musical training of the Boys' Choir, the monks also provided piano and organ lessons.

After two and a half years in Montserrat, Padrós moved to the academy of Frank Marshall in Barcelona, ​​mediated by David Pujol, the director of the monastery choir. There he received piano lessons from the internationally acclaimed virtuoso Alicia de Larrocha and later from Frank Marshall himself, who in turn had been a student of Enrique Granados . At the same time he learned the craft of composition from Josep Barberà.

Pianist and piano teacher

Inspired by his studies with Taltabull, Jaime Padrós accepted the assignment in 1954 to be the first pianist in Spain to perform the entire solo piano works of the new Viennese school (Schönberg, Berg, Webern). The constant search for musical challenges was a characteristic of Padrós' pianistic activities: be it the examination of contemporary music or the approach to (at the time) seldom played composers such as Scriabin, Busoni, Satie, be it the first recording of sonatas that were only available in manuscript Antonio Soler or the performance of works with unusual casts such as “ Pierrot lunaire ” by Arnold Schönberg. Already in Barcelona and later in Ulm (there in the epoch-making series “Musik aktuell” of the Ulm Adult Education Center ) Jaime Padrós was not concerned with the familiar, the usual, but always with the special and worth hearing.

From 1947 on, Padrós taught piano at the Acadèmia Marshall in Barcelona. The pedagogical commitment has never left him: After more than 30 years as a lecturer at the music academy and countless private students, after seminars on piano pedal technique and years as a member of the jury for " Jugend musiziert " He taught at home in Ulm until a few days before his death.

composer

From 1946 on, Padrós continued his composition studies with Cristòfor Taltabull . He had studied composition first in Munich with Max Reger and later in Paris and lived there until the Germans invaded. From there he brought important impulses from contemporary music with him to the cultural and musical life of Spain, which was isolated by the civil war.

After his late romantic beginnings, Padrós' style of composition was based on French models. Works from these early years include the ballet Fantasía de circo , which was shown in many Spanish theaters, and the piano work Preludio y danza, premiered by Alicia de Larrocha . The first creative phase ended in 1954 with the turning away from tonality in the piano composition Sonata . With this Opus 1 Padrós won the special prize in the competition of the Juventudes Musicales in Barcelona in the same year .

Between 1955 and 1965 Padrós also worked intensively on Spanish and Catalan folk songs. At the suggestion of Enric Gispert, director of the Coro Alleluia , he has created a series of songs for mixed choir. For five of these choral movements from 1965 he received the Premio Orfeó Català ; some songs are accompanied by a piano and are summarized under the title Cancionero del lugar . The discussion of folk music goes even further: In Quinteto for string quartet and piano (commissioned by the Czech Novak Quartet, premiered in Prague in 1962) or in the cantata Plant de la Verge (1964), for example, rhythmic-structural and melodic elements are used as compositional source material used. The Zapateado (written in 1957 on behalf of the dancer José de Udaeta) and Llanto por Ignacio Sánchez Mejías (composed in 1979 for the Ulm Theater) take up forms and motifs from Andalusian folklore.

Padrós' chamber music compositions for accordion, which he has written since the 1970s, have a special place: Inspired by the virtuoso Hugo Noth , Padrós was one of the first to write contemporary pieces for this instrument and received numerous commissions for them; these pieces are now part of the classic modern standard literature.

All works by Jaime Padrós are cataloged and archived in the city library of the city of Ulm.

Works

Piano music

  • Sonata (1954) for piano
  • 2 modalitats (1957) for piano
  • Zapateado (1957), version for 1 piano and for 2 pianos
  • 6 Variations (1960) for piano
  • Bundled Sounds (1960–2004), Catalan folk song book for piano
  • Teaching the piano (1962) for piano
  • Llibre d'alquímies I (1963) for piano
  • Sobreposicions heptàtones (1966) for piano
  • Llibre d'alquímies II (1971) for 2 pianos

Piano songs

  • 2 cançons populars catalanes (1956) for soprano and piano
  • Reminder / Matutin (1956), 2 songs for baritone and piano based on texts by Clemens ten Holder
  • Cancionero del lugar (1956/57) for voice and piano
  • Star Darkening (1960), 3 songs for soprano and piano based on texts by Nelly Sachs
  • El vendedor de globos (1964) for soprano and piano (text by Jesús Lizano)
  • Was was, returns again (1999), from the Preacher Solomon for baritone or alto voice and piano

Various solo instruments

  • 5 Organ Pieces (1957) for organ
  • Coplas (1963) for solo violin
  • Tiento, Verso y Gallarda (1969) for organ
  • Chacona (1976) for accordion
  • Grisaille (1976) for G flute solo
  • 3 homenajes (1982) for harpsichord
  • Trama concèntrica (1982), variations for accordion
  • Trilogía breve (1983) for accordion
  • 3 concert studies (1991) for accordion

Chamber music

  • Petits preludis a 9 poemes de Joan Maragall (1961) for 7 instruments
  • Quintet per a quartet d'arc y piano (1962)
  • El Plant de la Verge (1964), cantata for soprano, mixed choir, 3 flutes, harpsichord, 2 violas, violoncello and double bass (text by Ramon Llull)
  • Discurso y Eco (1966) for 6 wind instruments
  • Star Darkening (1969), 5 songs based on poems by Nelly Sachs for soprano, flute, bass clarinet, bassoon, harp and viola
  • From now to in the time (1970), 3 chants for soprano and organ from Das Buch der Preisungen ( Martin Buber )
  • Error celebrado y Discurso (XXII) de Juan de Zabaleta (1972) for soprano, oboe, viola and violoncello
  • Hexakis (1972) for flute and piano
  • ... about the beautiful and the fitting (1973) for piano, harpsichord, accordion, 2 drums and speaker (text from Augustine's denominations )
  • Serenata (1974) for flute, violoncello and accordion
  • Nocturnos de la ventana (1975) for accordion, oboe and double bass
  • Elegia (1976) for soprano and string quartet (text by Joan Llacuna)
  • Planctus (1977) for 2 guitars and accordion
  • Polyeder (1978) for accordion and string trio
  • Llanto por Ignacio Sánchez Mejías (1979), ballet based on a poem by Federico García Lorca for 2 pianos, guitar and drums
  • Policromies (1980), 3 dances for accordion and piano
  • Poemas de fragua (1984) for piano and percussion
  • Paseo y Contraddanza (1985) for violoncello and accordion
  • Epígrafes sonorizados (1986) for string quartet and accordion
  • Fantasia niquelada (1989) for flute, piano and percussion
  • Triade (1989) for equal voices, wind quintet and percussion
  • Breviari rural (1991) for soprano, accordion, alto flute and violoncello
  • Fanfare (1993) for 4 trumpets
  • Azulejos (1995) for accordion and double bass

Orchestral works

  • Tema, Variacions i Giga (1954) for string orchestra
  • 2 moviments (1956) for orchestra
  • Atzavara (1957) cantata for solo soprano and baritone, mixed choir and string orchestra (text by Francesc Galí)
  • Tres diferències per a ser cantades (1965) for soprano and orchestra (text by Ausias March)
  • Propis de Pentecostès (1968) for mixed choir, solos, organ and string orchestra
  • Exorcismes (1969) for string orchestra
  • Música cambiante (1986) for piano and string orchestra

Sacred choral music

  • Missa brevis (1955) for choir
  • Breu Salve Regina (1956) for choir
  • Proprium from the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel (1957)
  • Hymn “Jesu Redemptor omnium” (1958) for mixed choir and 10 wind instruments ad libitum
  • Missa (1959) for mixed choir of 4 voices
  • Cantate Domino (1962) four-part motet
  • 7 German proprium settings (1962) for choir and organ ad libitum
  • 5 Comuniones (Latin) (1963) for mixed choir
  • Benedictus qui venit (1966) for choir
  • The Lord is my strength (1966) for choir
  • Hymn on the Holy Cross (1966) for choir
  • German mass ordinary (1968) for choir or schola, community and organ

Secular choral music

  • 2 cançons catalanes: El cavaller pelegrí / Venedor d'amor (text: Joan Salvat-Papasseit ) (1955/1956) for mixed choir of 4 voices
  • 7 Spanish and Catalan folk songs: La niña blanca / Serranilla / Segaba la niña / Canción de primavera / La filla del Carmesí / La pastora / La pastoreta (1955/1956) for mixed choir
  • 7 Spanish and Catalan folk songs: Albada / Caterina d'Alió / L'Angeleta / La filadora / Duérmete, niño mío / Margaridó / Me llamaste morenita (1956/1961/1965) for mixed choir
  • 4 canciones populares castellanas: A los árboles altos / Eres alta y delgada / La niña de la arena / Cuando sales al campo (1956/1957/1962) for mixed choir
  • 4 cançons populars catalanes: Cobles del ram / El cant dels ocells / La meva enamorada / El Comte Arnau (1959/1961/1962) for mixed choir
  • 5 cançons populars catalanes: Adorm-te, nineta / Don Bertràn i Donya Maria / La Magdalena / La Mare de Déu / La presa de Roses (1965) for mixed choir
  • 2 Yiddish lullabies: Slof, slof / Unterst Kinds vigele (1992) for mixed choir of 4 voices

Edits

  • Cancionero del lugar (1956/1957) for voice and accordion, arrangement by Hugo Noth, original for voice and piano
  • Zapateado (1957), arrangement for accordion by Hugo Noth, original for piano
  • Zapateado (1957), arrangement for 2 accordions by Hugo Noth, original for piano
  • Zapateado (1957) for 2 marimbaphones, arrangement by Philippe Ohl, original for piano
  • 6 Variations (1960), arrangement for accordion by Hugo Noth, original for piano

Youth works

  • Poema romántico / El renunciament de Lídia / 5 oracions (1945/1946) for piano
  • Toccata / Vals Parodia (1947/49) for piano
  • Fuga / El rossinyol i la rosa / L'absència / Llàgrimes (de Uang-Seng-Yu) / Preguntant (1946/1947/1948/1950) for soprano and piano (texts by Joan Llacuna, JM López Picó, Salvador Albert, Josep Carner)
  • Cloe i Lèlia / Es verdad / Canción de jinete / Tannkas del somni (1948/1950) for soprano and piano (texts by Jospe Carner, Federico García Lorca, Francesc Galí)
  • Estudio / Preludio y danza no 1 / Preludio y danza no 2 / Set boixos (1946/1949/1952/195?) For piano
  • Berceuse (1949) for violin and piano
  • Fantasia de circ (1951) Ballet, version for 1 piano and for 2 pianos
  • Fantasia de circ (1952), ballet for orchestra (arrangement by Jaime Padrós, original for 1 piano)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana: Jaume Padrós i Montoriol.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r Gran Enciclopèdia de la Música: Jaume Padrós i Montoriol.

See also

personal data
SURNAME Padrós, Jaime
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Padrós i Montoriol, Jaume
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Catalan pianist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Igualada
DATE OF DEATH April 15, 2007
Place of death Manresa