Catalan pianist school

The Catalan Pianist School was established in the middle of the 19th century by the Liszt and carpenter pupil Pere Tintorer through his training at the Conservatori del Liceu . The school was expanded by Tintorer's pupil Joan Baptista Pujol at the Barcelona Conservatory . Two important representatives of this school were Enric Granados and Isaac Albéniz . Granados expanded this school in his private academy, the later Acadèmia Marshall . In the Catalan Pianist School , particular emphasis was placed on virtuosity and outstanding interpretation. The great vitality of the Catalan classical music culture, which can generally be read from the Catalan pianist school, is also evident in the Catalan guitarist school and in the important representatives of Catalan conductors .

history

In 1901, in addition to the two Barcelona-based conservatories, Enric Granados set up a private training center for pianists in the city, the so-called Acadèmia Granados , which Frank Marshall (from 1920 under the name Acadèmia Marshall ) ran after his war-related death in March 1916 and in which generations of pianists have learned the clarity of sound and performance typical of the Catalan Pianist School in the lecture and continue to do so today. In this way, the special virtuoso interpretation of piano literature of the Catalan Pianist School was lived, cultivated and passed on on the one hand at the two Barcelona Conservatories and on the other hand in the private Acadèmia-Granados-Marshall .

The outstanding representatives of the Catalan Pianist School included Rosa Sabater , Alicia de Larrocha (1923–2009) and Enric Torra, who died in a plane crash in December 1983 . Important representatives were also Carles Vidiella (1856-1915), Joaquim Malats (1872-1912) and the music researcher and father of the writer Anaïs Nin , Joaquim Nin (1878-1949) as well as the pianist and piano teacher Ricard Viñes from Lleida. His students included the pianist and music teacher Maria Canals , founder and namesake of the International Maria Canals Piano Competition in Barcelona. This piano tradition in recent decades by Miquel Farré , Leonora Milà , G. Albert Atenelle , Antoni Torrebesses , Eulàlia Solé , Josep Colom , Àngel Soler , Ramon Coll , Jordi Camell and the young pianist Alba Ventura , Daniel Ligorio , José Enrique Bagaria and Ignasi Cambra continued to the present day.

Discography

VAI Audio, 1992, VAIA / IPA 1001: The Catalan Piano Tradition. (CD with historical piano recordings played by Isaac Albeniz, Joaquin Malalts, Enrique Granados, Frank Marshall and nine-year-old Alicia de Larrocha from 1903 to 1932)

literature

Generalitat de Catalunya - Culturcat (web archive): Catalan musicians (19th Century AC - 20th Century AC). 2013, accessed on January 21, 2019 . There is a section on the Catalan Pianist School .
Generalitat de Catalunya - Culturcat (web archive): Enric Granados y la escuela pianística catalana (Enric Granados and the Catalan School of Pianists). 2013, Retrieved November 8, 2019 (Spanish).
Felicia Esquinas (bcn.cat): Academia Marshall, cent anys d'estudis de piano a Barcelona. Retrieved January 18, 2019 (Catalan).
Carles Sánchez i Calonge: Una Mirada a l'Escola Pianística Catalana (final thesis). Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya (esmuc), 2014, accessed January 26, 2019 (Catalan).

Web links

allmusic.com: L'escola Pianística Catalana. Retrieved January 26, 2019 .

Individual references and comments

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j Generalitat de Catalunya: Catalan Piano School. In: Catalan Musicians. (2013).
↑ Peter Hollfelder : History of piano music . tape 1 . Florian Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 1989, ISBN 3-7959-0435-8 , p. 537 . Pedro Tintorer as the founder of the Barcelona piano school.
↑ Gran Enciclopèdia de la Música , article: Joan Baptista Pujol i Riu.