Marçal Cervera

Marçal Cervera (born July 26, 1928 in Santiago de Cuba ; † September 20, 2019 in Begur , Spain ) was a Catalan cellist , gambist and music teacher .

life and work

Marçal Cervera was born in Santiago de Cuba in 1928 into a Catalan family of actors on tour. When Marçal was three years old, the family returned to Catalonia. He studied in Barcelona with Lluís Millet i Farga and Joan Massià and completed his training in Italy with Gaspar Cassadó and in Paris with Paul Tortelier .

He was then a member of the Collegium Musicum Zurich under Paul Sacher and the Musikkollegium Winterthur as well as solo cellist of the Orchester de Chambre de Lausanne . Since 1963 he has performed as a solo cellist and member of chamber music ensembles worldwide: u. a. in Europe, Canada and Mexico, South Africa, the Middle East and South Korea, and made radio and recordings, including Bach's cello sonatas with Rafael Puyana . He returned to Catalonia in the 1990s. Since 1999 he has been a member of the Beethoven Piano Quartet alongside Michel Wagemans , Joaquín Palomares and Paul Cortese .

In addition, Cervera has taught at the music academies in Cologne , Freiburg im Breisgau and Lausanne for twenty years since the 1970s .

His sister is the violinist Montserrat Cervera .

literature

Marçal Cervera i Millet. In: Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana . Enciclopèdia Catalana, accessed August 9, 2020 (Catalan).

Web links

Literature by and about Marçal Cervera in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Marçal Cervera at Discogs (English)
Marçal Cervera on MusicBrainz (English)
Marçal Cervera. Music Proficiency Courses Malaga, archived from the original on December 25, 2009 ; accessed on August 9, 2020 (English).

Individual evidence

↑ El violoncel·lista Marçal Cervera rebrà l'homenatge pòstum del poble de Begur amb various actuacions musicals. In: begur.cat. Begur municipal administration, October 19, 2019, archived from the original on September 9, 2020 ; accessed on August 9, 2020 (Catalan).
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Marçal Cervera i Millet. In: Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana.

personal data
SURNAME	Cervera, Marçal
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Cervera i Millet, Marçal
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Catalan cellist, gambist and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH	July 26, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH	Santiago de Cuba
DATE OF DEATH	20th September 2019
Place of death	Begur , Spain

[1] El violoncel·lista Marçal Cervera rebrà l'homenatge pòstum del poble de Begur amb various actuacions musicals. In: begur.cat. Begur municipal administration, October 19, 2019, archived from the original on September 9, 2020 ; accessed on August 9, 2020 (Catalan).

[:0-2] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Marçal Cervera i Millet. In: Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana.