Manuel Oltra i Ferrer

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Manuel Oltra i Ferrer (born February 8, 1922 in Valencia , † September 26, 2015 in Barcelona ) was a Valencian-Catalan composer and music teacher.

life and work

Life

The Manuel Oltras family settled in Barcelona when he was a toddler under one year old. In 1936 he began studying music at the Conservatori Superior de Música de Barcelona . There he was a student of Eduard Toldrà , Joaquim Zamacois , Josep Ricart i Matas and Joan Gibert . The civil war and his military service in Ceuta (Morocco) delayed his graduation. From 1944 to 1947 he combined his military service with teaching at the Hispanic-Moroccan Conservatory in Tetouan. From 1957 to 1958 he officially completed his music studies at the Barcelona Conservatory. In 1958 he became a professor of composition at the aforementioned Barcelona Conservatory. From 1973 to 1981 he was deputy head of this institute. He also worked as a professor of music at the Joan Llongueres Institute in Barcelona. Parallel to his teaching activities, he participated in choirs and folk music groups. His compositions are characterized by clear influences from folk music. He harmonized traditional folk songs that were and are presented in this form by many Catalan choir formations. He created numerous popular ballets, sardanas and works that were canonized into the inventory of Catalan choral music, such as Bestiari (1957), which is based on the poem of the same name by Pere Quart. His concertante works are mostly composed in an academic musical language.

In 1994 Oltra was awarded the Catalan Music Prize by the Generalitat de Catalunya . In 2010 he was honored with the Creu de Sant Jordi . Oltra died of pneumonia in Barcelona in September 2015 at the age of 93.

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His work includes instrumental music such as the Sonata Fantasia for cello and piano (1942), the Sonata for piano (1947), the Sonatina for flute and piano (1950), the Suite for chamber orchestra and flute (1953), the Contradansa for Cobla ( 1955), L'Alimara , symphonic poem for two Coblas (1983), Fantasia i marxa pomposa for Cobla (1988), Tres estacions for flute and piano (1989, Three Seasons), Simfonia esparsa for orchestra (1989), Berceuse et rondeau , Quintet for Brass (1990) and many other instrumental works. He has also written numerous smaller works for Cobla and around 30 Sardanas.

Among his vocal works, the works Barquejant for children's voices and orchestra (1945, “Boat trip”), Tres Andaluzas for choir (1954, “Three Andalusians”), Bestiari for choir based on poems by Pere Quart (1957), La Serra for choir, solo Voices and orchestra based on poems by Joan Alcover (1958), the Cantata for children's choir, cobla and percussion (1959), the Psalmus brevis for double choir and orchestra (1967), Tres canciones de amor based on poems by Federico García Lorca (1971, “Drei Love songs ”), El timbaler del Bruc for children's choir and extended Cobla (1995, The drummer of the mountain El Bruc , the drummer who warned the Catalans of the advancing troops of Napoleon and these with his loud drumming and their echo effect in the mountains of Montserrrat.) As well as numerous harmonizations of traditional melodies for choir or for solo voices and piano.

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Web links

Commons : Manuel Oltra  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Manuel Oltra i Ferrer. In: Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l Manuel Oltra i Ferrer. In: Gran Enciclopèdia de la Música.
  3. ^ Efe: Mor als 93 anys el compositor i professor Manuel Oltra i Ferrer. In: regio7.cat. September 27, 2015, accessed December 26, 2019 (Catalan).
personal data
SURNAME Oltra i Ferrer, Manuel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oltra, Manuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Catalan composer and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Valencia
DATE OF DEATH September 26, 2015
Place of death Barcelona