Manuel Hidalgo (composer)

Manuel Hidalgo (born February 4, 1956 in Antequera , Andalusia ) is a Spanish composer . After a brief visit to medical school, he studied composition; first with Juan-Alfonso García in Granada , from 1976 to 1978 with Hans Ulrich Lehmann in Zurich and from 1979 to 1984 with Helmut Lachenmann in Hanover and Stuttgart .

After his beginnings in pop music , Hidalgo wrote numerous commissioned works for festivals of new music, including for Gaudeamus in Amsterdam (1977, 1978), the Donaueschinger Musiktage (1983, 1986), for "Music in the 20th Century" in Saarbrücken (1983, 1994) , the Venice Biennale (1985), the “Stuttgart Days for New Music” (1991), the Bremen pro musica nova (1991), the Rencontres Internationales de Musique Contemporaine in Metz (1991) and the Schwetzingen Festival (1991, 1995, 1996).

Hidalgo works with conventional tones and sounds in his works. However, he plays heavily with traditional and conventional expectations that he "disappoints". The partly very expressive works have been "cleaned of historical ballast". Hidalgo's works include the string quartet Hacia (1980), the orchestral works Harto (1982) and Física (1991), Trio esperando (1989) and Romance du Chantelier for saxophone and ensemble (1994). His “Introduction and Fugue from Beethoven's Piano Sonata op. 106 arranged for accordion and orchestra” (2004) was commissioned by WDR and was premiered there on December 8, 2006.

Hidalgo was awarded the Beethoven Prize of the City of Bonn in 1983 .

Web links

• Works by and about Manuel Hidalgo in the catalog of the German National Library
• Manuel Hidalgo on the Breitkopf & Härtel website