José Montes-Baquer

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José Montes-Baquer (born October 6, 1935 in Barcelona , † April 18, 2010 in Palma ) was a Spanish film and television director.

Life

José Montes-Baquer studied cello from 1956 to 1964. In 1959 he came to Germany with a grant from the Juan March Society and began studying musicology in Munich with Alphons Silbermann with DAAD funding . In 1962 he learned the cinematic implementation of music for television at the BBC with Walter Todd. In 1963 he was employed as an editor at Bayerischer Rundfunk in Munich. In the following years he conducted research in Vienna on the Spanish baroque composer Vicent Martín i Soler and worked as a producer for the CBS, where he produced the successful series “Masterwork” in 1966. In 1967 Manfred Gräter, head of the music department of the television at Westdeutscher Rundfunk, brought him to Cologne as a director. The series "Music and Image" was created in co-production with Swedish Television. After Gräter's death in 1989, Montes-Baquer headed the WDR music television department until he retired in October 1998. He retired first on the Spanish mainland and later on the island of Mallorca.

plant

One of the highlights of Montes-Baquer's cinematic oeuvre was the “Journey to High Mongolia” project with Salvador Dalí . With its visual means, Montes-Baquer became the partner of Maurice Béjart , Salvatore Dalí, Eugène Ionesco , Roland Petit and Karlheinz Stockhausen . With his help, they found access to the unknown medium of television.

Television compositions were commissioned by him in collaboration with Jan Bark, John Cage, Mauricio Kagel, Jan W. Morthenson, Luc Ferrari, and Bernard Parmegiani and developed into an independent form of representation that was inconceivable beyond the medium of television.

Filmography (selection)

Director

  • 1967 The life of the young Mozart
  • 1973 "There is no hologram in China"
  • 1974 "I am a Ballerina"
  • 1975 "Journey to high Mongolia" with Salvador Dali
  • 1975 "Narciso Yepes"
  • 1976 "Prometheus" (videography)
  • 1977 80 Div. TV concerts with Arturo Benedetti-Michelangeli, Hans Werner Henze, Gidon Kremer
  • 1978 "Ludus Danielis"
  • 1980 "Bachianas Brasileiras - My name is Villa-Lobos"
  • 1980 "The Meteorite"
  • 1981 “Montezuma” based on the novella “Concierto Barroco” by Alejo Carpentier
  • 1982 “Piazzolla” - Tangos with Astor Piazzolla
  • 1983 “Pulcinella” ballet by Heinz Spoerli
  • 1983 “Apollo et Hyacinthus” - Mozart opera
  • 1984 "The Four Seasons" - Ballet by Roland Petit
  • 1985 “The well-tempered Bach” - with Peter Ustinov
  • 1986 "Werther" opera by Hans-Jürgen Bose, + "La fille mal gardée" (Ballet by H. Spoerli)
  • 1986 “The immortal Beethoven” with Peter Ustinov
  • 1987 "Die Stühle" (ballet by Maurice Béjart based on Ionesco with Marcia Haydee and John Neumeier) a. documentation
  • 1988 "Die Reise nach Kythera" (Ballet by Bernd Schindowski) + Flamenco with Nina Corti (portrait)
  • 1989 "1789 ... and we" (ballet by Maurice Béjart)
  • 1990 "Hans Helfritz - a German music researcher in the land of the Queen of Sheba"
  • 1991 "Exam" from "Tuesday from Light" by Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • 1992 "La Belle au Bois dormant", "Le Diable Amoureux" (ballets by Roland Petit)
  • 1993 "Curiosity drove us around the world - Paul Bowles and Hans Helfritz in Tangier" (portrait)
  • 1994 "Poppea" by Monteverdi, (portrait Alfredo Kraus)
  • 1995 "Street Scene" (musical by Elmar Rice - Kurt Weill)
  • 1997 "The Monastery of Silos - An old building block for the future of Europe"
  • 1998 JS Bach: High Mass in B minor

producer

  • 1969 Five-part series “Music and Images” for WDR / Sveriges Radio
  • 1969 "Supersonics"
  • 1970 "Falls like a ripe apple"
  • 1971 "Lux Sonora"
  • 1972 "The eye hears" (WDR / ORTF)
  • 1973 "The Island of Sounds" (WDR / SRT)
  • 1973 "Je t'aime, tu danses" (WDR / RTBF / ORTF)

Prices

  • Honorable recognition at the Adolf Grimme Prize - for The Journey to High Mongolia (1976)
  • Golden Mask of the BAFTA Film and Television Academy London (1978)
  • Ludus Danielis at the TV festival in Prague for "Ludus Daniels" (1979) and "Pulcinella" (1984)
  • Premio Ondas for “The Life of Young Mozart” (1967), “The Meteorite” and “Bachianas Brasileiras” (1980)
  • 1st prize of the Widescreen Festival Amsterdam "Street Scene" (1995)

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personal data
SURNAME Montes-Baquer, José
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish film and television director
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Barcelona , Spain
DATE OF DEATH April 18, 2010
Place of death Palma , Spain