Julián Orbón

Julián Orbón (born August 7, 1925 in Avilés , Asturias , † May 21, 1991 in Miami ) was a Cuban composer of Spanish origin.

Life

Orbón had his first lessons from his father, the pianist Benjamin Orbón , with whom he went to Cuba in 1940. There he was a student of Oscar Loirée and José Ardévol and was active in the group Renovación Musical, which they founded . This group, dedicated to the promotion of a national Cuban music, included a. a. Harold Gramatges , Edgardo Martín , Hilario González , Gisela Hernández Gonzalo and Virginia Fleites .

From 1945 Orbón also worked as a critic for Alerta magazine . In 1954 he received the Premio Juan de Landaeta for his Tres versiones sinfónicas at the International Music Festival in Caracas and took lessons from Aaron Copland on a scholarship in Tanglewood .

In 1960 he moved to Mexico and settled in the USA in 1963, where he taught as a professor at the universities of Washington, Miami and, since 1981, Princeton. In 1967 he received a prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and in 1969 a Guggenheim scholarship . In 1986 he became an honorary citizen of his native Avilés, whose conservatory bears his name.

Works

• Sonata Homenaje al Padre Soler
• Canción para nuestro niño based on a poem by Father Luis de León
• Romance de Fontefrida
• Capricho Concertante
• El Pregón based on a poem by Nicolás Guillén
• Quinteto para clarinete y cuerda
• Sinfonía en Do (1945)
• Cuarteto de Cuerda (1951)
• Tres versiones sinfónicas (1954)
• Himnus ad Galli Cantum (1956)
• Danzas sinfónicas (1957)
• Concerto Grosso (1958)
• Tres Cantigas del Rey (1960)
• Monte Geelbré , cantata (1962)
• Partitas 1, 2 and 3 (1963)
• Fantasia Tiento
• Liturgia en tres días
• Homenaje a la Tonadilla

literature

• Alfred Baumgartner: Propylaea World of Music - The Composers - A lexicon in five volumes . tape 4 . Propylaen Verlag, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-549-07830-7 , pp. 202 .