Jordi Savall

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Jordi Savall (2007)

Jordi Savall i Bernadet [ ˈʒɔɾði səˈβaʎ ] (born August 1, 1941 in Igualada , Catalonia , Spain ) is a Spanish musicologist and gambist in the field of historical performance practice from the Catalan cultural area, who also performs his own compositions.

Life

Jordi Savall studied at the Conservatori Superior de Música de Barcelona . He was a student of Wieland Kuijken in Belgium and from 1968 to August Wenzinger in Basel. His interests in early music led him to Wenzinger's Schola Cantorum Basiliensis , where he taught viola da gamba from 1974 to 1992. In 1974 he founded Hespèrion XX (now: Hespèrion XXI ), an ensemble that dedicated itself specifically to the repertoire of early music from the Iberian Peninsula. In 1987 he founded the Capella Reial de Catalunya , which specializes in the interpretation of medieval sacred music. In 1989 he finally founded the chamber orchestra Le Concert des Nations , which is mainly composed of musicians from the Romance-speaking area and Latin America, and which interprets music from the Baroque to the Romantic period on contemporary instruments.

Jordi Savall has gained a reputation as an important interpreter and musicologist for early music through worldwide appearances and extensive sound recordings. He became known to a wider audience through the music for the award-winning French film The Seventh String (1991). He also composed the music for the 1997 film Marquise - Dangerous Intrigue , directed by Véra Belmont .

Jordi Savall had been married to the soprano Montserrat Figueras , who died in 2011, since 1968 . Her daughter Arianna Savall and her son Ferran Savall are also musically active. Since 2009 Savall has been visiting professor in the Juilliard Historical Performance Program at the Juilliard School in New York City.

The label "Alia Vox", founded by Savall in 1998, was able to market more than 2,000,000 CDs by 2010, not least thanks to Savall's strong presence in concert halls and in the media, as well as label branches in 45 countries.

In 2014 Jordi Savall returned the Premio Nacional de Música that had been awarded to him . In an open letter he justified this with the "serious incompetence" and the "dramatic disinterest" of the Spanish government at the time in relation to the country's cultural and musical heritage.

Works

"Paraisos Perdidos"

Elaborately equipped audio books are typical of Jordi Savall. In a library on Gran Canaria, for example, he tracked down books with unknown songs by Columbus' sailors, from the accompanying monks and chants from the natives of the New World. He recorded these songs with his ensemble Hespèrion XXI and published them on the CD Paraisos Perdidos . The accompanying book has 260 pages. Savall has published a total of 50 such audio books and thus sold over 1.8 million CDs in 2007.

List of works see: Hespèrion XXI

Awards

Web links

Commons : Jordi Savall  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Description of the label Alia Vox
  2. ^ Clive Paget: Jordi Savall lambasts government as he refuses National Music Award. In: Limelight. October 31, 2014, archived from the original on June 7, 2016 .;
  3. ↑ Gregor Dolak: Outer String No. 1. The greatest exotic of early music is also its most successful interpreter: the Catalan gambist Jordi Savali sells millions of CDs. In: Focus 45/2007, page 92.
  4. ↑ echoklassik.de - Prize Winner 2013 ( Memento from June 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on October 8, 2013.
  5. ↑ www.blick.ch , accessed on November 29, 2013.
  6. ^ Announcement on the university website, accessed on March 31, 2016. (ndl.)
personal data
SURNAME Savall, Jordi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Savall i Bernadet, Jordi (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish conductor, musicologist and gambist
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Igualada , Catalonia