Joaquim Serra i Corominas

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Joaquim Serra i Corominas (born March 4, 1907 in Peralada , † November 17, 1957 in Barcelona ) was a Catalan pianist and composer. Serra is considered to be one of the most important composers for the cobla and for the sardana music. He is described in Catalan as the composer of the difícil senzillesa , the "difficult simplicity" - he put exactly the right note and nothing more.

life and work

Joaquim Serra was the son of the musician and composer Josep Serra i Bonal . He received the basic introduction to music from his father. In 1915, when Joaquim was eight years old, his family moved to Barcelona to give the boy a solid musical education. Since then he has studied with music teachers such as Lluís Millet , Carles Pellicer and Enric Morera . He developed into a composer and has received several prizes, including the Concepció Rabell and Sant Jordi Prize. At fourteen he composed the Sardana La primera volada . As a very young composer, he introduced important innovations to Cobla music with regard to the formal, tonal and discursive aspects of this music.

In 1934 he was appointed artistic director of the Ràdio Associació de Barcelona ( Barcelona Radio Society). He directed the Cobla de Barcelona and brought it to a high artistic level. He cooperated with the folk dance groups Verdaguer and Sarrià , with whom he adapted several Catalan ballets. In 1957 he published the Tractat d'instrumentació per a cobla (treatise on the instrumentation of the Cobla).

Joaquim Serra is the composer of more than 50 sardanas with an extraordinary musical level. He dealt intensively with Cobla music artistically and has thus become a reference composer for this genre.

Joaquim Serra died in November 1957 at the age of fifty. The Agrupació Cultural Folklòrica Barcelona (The “Group Culture and Folklore in Barcelona”) awards the Joaquim Serra Memorial Prize every year. The composer Rafael Ferrer dedicated his composition Adéu Quim to him in 1957 . In memoriam.

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  1. ↑ The article is based on the Wikipedia article of the same name from the Catalan-language Wikipedia. The version history and the latest status of the Catalan article are integrated into the German article.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana: Joaquim Serra i Corominas.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Joaquim Serra i Corominas.? In: Gran Enciclopèdia de la Música.
  4. ↑ "Quim" is the Catalan short form and nickname for "Joaquim". (Translation of the title of the composition: "Goodbye Quim. In memory.")
personal data
SURNAME Serra i Corominas, Joaquim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Catalan composer and pianist
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Peralada
DATE OF DEATH 17th November 1957
Place of death Barcelona