Miguel García (musician)

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Miguel García , also known as Padre Basilio (effective late 18th to early 19th century), was a Spanish guitarist , organist and composer . Little is known about the person of Miguel García. The Italian musicologist Franco Poselli described him in 1973 as an "enigmatic figure". He composed some guitar pieces. At the end of the 18th century, on the basis of direct access to Queen Maria Luise of Bourbon-Parma, he made the guitar acceptable again in the Spanish aristocracy. As a monk he belonged to the Cistercian monastery of San Basilio in Madrid . He became an organist in the El Escorial monastery. In music literature, Miguel García is sometimes referred to as Manuel del Pópulo Vicente García or also as Manuel García and is at least confused by name. For example, the Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana in all its editions (first, second and online) speaks of “Manuel García” in its article “Guitarra” and equates it with “Pare Basili”.

life and work

Miguel García's life data (date of birth or death, place of birth or death) are not yet known. He probably spent most of his life in Madrid. It was there that he met the Italian composer Luigi Boccherini , who in his quintet (op. 50 No. 2) gave the instructions to “play in the manner of Father Basilio”.

García spent much of his life studying music. Among his students was Dionisio Aguado . The musicologist Rafael Mitjana and the guitarist Emilio Pujol describe García as a guitarist who enjoyed a remarkable reputation in his day. The addition of the sixth string of the guitar and the abandonment of the technique of striking the tip (" Rasgueado ") by the new technique of striking the string with nails (" Punteado ") is ascribed to him. The importance of García as a guitarist has recently been relativized. Contemporary guitarists like Federico Moretti and Fernando Sor had already done this. Even Aguado joined this critical chorus.

Originally only one work for guitar by García was known that could be attributed to him without a doubt, until around 2002 guitarist Carles Trepat found three guitar sonatas and four minuets by García in archives and presented them. Trepat described these sonatas as similar to those of Domenico Scarlatti , albeit more developed in the direction of the gallant style.

swell

  • Goberno de España - Ministerio de Educacion, Cultura y Sport: Miguel García (Padre Basilio). In: musicadiz1812.es. Retrieved December 26, 2019 (Spanish).
  • Franco Poselli: L'enigmatica figura di Padre Basilio . In: Il Fronimo: rivista trimestrale di chitarra e liuto . tape 1 , no. 2 , April 1973, p. 27-29 (Italian).
  • Miguel García . In: Gran Enciclopedia de la Música Clásica . tape 2 , p. 432 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Miguel García. In: musicadiz1812.es
  2. ^ A b Franco Poselli: Miguel García. In: Il Fronimo.
  3. ^ Goethe University Frankfurt am Main - Institute for Romance Languages: Catalan Music and Musicians. Retrieved on December 26, 2019 (there: “Miguel García”. The incorrect name is here “Manuel García”. There is no doubt that “Miguel García” is meant, since he is also referred to here in Catalan as “El Pare Basili”. It is obviously there a name confusion with "Manuel del Pópulo Vicente García".).
  4. ↑ Józef Powroźniak: Guitar Lexicon . 4th edition. Neue Musik, Berlin 1988 (there on page 81 the article: "Gárcia, Manuel del Popolo Vicente" (Polish original title of the work: Leksykon gitary )).
  5. ^ Enciclopèdia Catalana: Guitarra. In: Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana . Retrieved December 28, 2019 (Catalan).
  6. ↑ a b c Javier Suárez-Pajares: García, Miguel (III). In: Diccionario de la musica española e hispanoamericana . tape 5 . Madrid 2002, ISBN 978-84-8048-303-2 , pp. 409 .
personal data
SURNAME García, Miguel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Padre Basilio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish guitarist, organist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH 18th century
DATE OF DEATH 19th century