Jaume Pahissa i Jo

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Bust of Jaume Pahissa (sculptor: Frederic Marès ).

Jaume Pahissa i Jo (born October 8, 1880 in Barcelona , † October 27, 1969 in Buenos Aires ) was a Catalan conductor and composer.

life and work

Pahissa initially studied architecture at the University of Barcelona as well as piano with Francesc Laporta and composition with Enric Morera . He then completed in-depth studies in music in Brussels from 1910 to 1911. Pahissa was best known as a composer in Barcelona. In 1937 he went into exile in Argentina due to the civil war and settled permanently in Buenos Aires . As a conductor, he directed the Orquestra Municipal in Barcelona, ​​from 1947 the Orquestra del Teatre Municipal de Buenos Aires and the Uruguayan Orquestra Simfònica del SODRE .

The composer

Pahissa wrote symphonic works such as El combat (1900, The Battle),   En les costes mediterrànies (1904, On the Mediterranean coast) and El rabadà (1917, The Shepherd Boy ), the symphonic poems De les profunditats a les altures (From the depths into the Höhe) and El camí (1909, The Way), two symphonies (1900 and 1921), a Sinfonietta (1921) and three orchestral works in which he uses an intertonic language according to his diction : Nit de somnis (1921, Night of Dreams) , Monodia (1925) i Suite intertonal (1926). He composed musical illustrations such as Èdip rei (1901, Ödipus Rex), Prometeu encadenat (1903, Prometheus Lying in Chains) i La campana submergida (1907, The diving bell) and the lyrical comedy La presó de Lleida (1906, The detention in Lleida ).

He created works for the stage such as the opera Margarida (1928), which is strongly reminiscent of Wagner music and more symphonic than theater-oriented , based on the earlier work La presó de Lleida . Further works for the stage were Canigó (1910) based on a work by Jacint Verdaguer , Galla Placídia (1913) based on a libretto by Àngel Guimerà , and the operas La morisca (1919, Die Maurin) based on a text by the Catalan writer Eduard Marquina and Marianela (1923), an adaptation of a work by Benito Pérez Galdós .

He also composed chamber and piano music as well as art songs such as the Trio en sol (1905), the sonata for violin and piano (1906), fugues for string instruments, piano works such as Fantasia (1904), Piezas líricas (1906, lyric pieces), Escenes catalanes (1916, scenes from Catalonia), Petites fugues a tres veus (1917, small fugues in three voices) and Peces espirituals (spiritual pieces). Between 1908 and 1935 Pahissa wrote songs such as El vent de la tardor (Autumn wind), Per un bes (For a kiss), Cançó de lladre (The robber's song), El bastó (The stick), Cançó de fada (The song of the Fee) and La promesa (The Promise).

The teacher and music writer

From 1933 Pahissa was Professor of General Culture and Musical Aesthetics at the Conservatori del Liceu and from 1935 Professor of Composition at the Municipal Conservatory of Barcelona . From 1936 to 1937 he was Deputy Director of the Municipal Conservatory of Barcelona. As a music writer and music critic in Barcelona, ​​Pahissa has published articles in specialist and general magazines such as Catalunya Nova , Revista de Catalunya , Pèl & Ploma , Vell i Nou , Revista Catalana , Mirador , La Publicitat and Las Noticias . During his time in Argentina, Pahissa also published numerous music theory works such as Los grandes problemas de la música (1945), Espíritu y cuerpo de la música, and biographical works such as Vida y obra de Manuel de Falla (1947, life and work of Manuel de Falla). He translated G. Chase's The Music of Spain into Spanish.

Pahissa in exile

In Argentina, Pahissa devoted herself to conducting the concerts of Radio El Mundo and continuing to teach music. In addition, he developed an intensive lecture activity. Pahissa worked in 1941 and 1960 as president of the Catalan Jocs Florals in exile in Buenos Aires. He was a co-founder of the Agrupació d'Ajut a la Cultura Catalana (Association for the Support of Catalan Culture) in Buenos Aires. In 1951 Pahissa was appointed to the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid (Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando of Madrid) and in 1961 to the Acadèmia de Belles Arts de Sant Jordi de Barcelona (Academy of Fine Arts of Barcelona).

Most music critics qualified Pahissa's compositional work as committed to Catalan modernism . Eugeni d'Ors places it more in the follow-up and counter-movement of the Noucentisme .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v Jaume Pahissa i Jo. In: Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l Jaume Pahissa i Jo. In: Gran Enciclopèdia de la Música.
personal data
SURNAME Pahissa i Jo, Jaume
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Catalan conductor and composer
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Barcelona
DATE OF DEATH October 27, 1969
Place of death Buenos Aires