Joan Baptista Pujol i Riu

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Joan Baptista Pujol i Riu

Joan Baptista Pujol i Riu (born March 22, 1835 in Barcelona , † December 28, 1898 there ) was a Catalan pianist , music teacher and composer . Together with his teacher Pere Tintorer, Pujol is considered to be the founder of the Catalan Pianist School , from which artists such as Enric Granados , Isaac Albéniz and Alicia de Larrocha emerged.

biography

Joan Baptista Pujol began his studies with A. Horta and Pere Tintorer in Sant Cugat . He then went to Barcelona with Tintorer. At the age of 16 Pujol moved to the Paris Conservatory. He studied harmony in the classes of Georges Bizet and Jules Massenet , and piano with Napoléon-Henri Reber .

In 1871 he left Paris because of the Franco-German War and settled in Barcelona. Here he worked as a music teacher. One of his students was Isaac Albéniz . In 1872 he launched a piano award. In 1881 he founded a series of concerts in which Jules Massenet, Camille Saint-Saëns and the Catalan Bonaventura Frígola performed as artists. As a pianist, he was involved in the founding of the Catalan Pianist School , which placed particular emphasis on virtuosity and outstanding interpretation.

In 1886 he became a professor and later director of the Escola Municipal de Música de Barcelona , the Barcelona Conservatory. In 1886 he founded a music publisher that published sheet music for classical as well as Catalan and Spanish folk music. Pujol has left behind an extensive compositional oeuvre of piano works and piano-accompanied songs, although some original works were lost in the war-related fire of his house in Paris.

Compositions (selection)

  • Guspira. For voice and harmonium based on a text by Pere Ferrés i Costa. Supplement to La dona catalana .

See also

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Generalitat de Catalunya: Catalan musicians.
  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 c section after: Joan Baptista Pujol i Riu. In: Gran enciclopèdia de la música.
personal data
SURNAME Pujol i Riu, Joan Baptista
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Catalan pianist, music teacher and composer
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH Barcelona
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 1898
Place of death Barcelona