Nemesio Otaño
José María Nemesio Otaño y Eguino SJ (born December 19, 1880 in Azkoitia , † April 25, 1956 in Donostia-San Sebastián ) was a Basque musicologist and composer.
Life
Nemesio Otaño joined the Jesuit order as a novice at the age of 15 . His musical teachers included the composers Federico Olmeda , Vicente Goicoechea and Jacinto Ruiz Manzanares . Convinced of the need for church music reforms, Otaño organized the Primer Congreso Nacional de Música Sagrada in 1907 and founded the magazine Música Sacro-Hispana. The Schola Cantorum of the Pontifical University of Comillas , which he directed , became a model for choral schools at Spanish seminaries.
After the end of the Spanish civil war , he became head of the Madrid Conservatory in 1940 , where he also held a chair in folklore until his retirement in 1951. Due to his closeness to the Franco regime , he achieved a prominent position in the musical reconstruction of Spain in that era, which, however, only extended a little beyond his lifetime.
His collection forms the basis of the Nemesio Otaño music library of the Loyola Jesuit College , which has a collection of more than 120,000 books and scores .
Works
- Tota pulchra
- Misery 5v
- various motets
- 19 works for organ
- Folk song arrangements
literature
- José Antonio Gómez Rodríguez: Otaño Eguino, Nemesio. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 12 (Mercadante - Paix). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2004, ISBN 3-7618-1122-5 , Sp. 1469–1471 ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
Web links
- Literature by and about Nemesio Otaño in the catalog of the German National Library
- Nemesio Otaño SJ
- Ruiza, M., Fernández, T. y Tamaro, E .: Biografia de José María Nemesio Otaño . In: Biografías y Vidas. La enciclopedia biográfica en línea. Barcelona (España) 2004 (Spanish).
- MJ Cano: Nemesio Otaño, eje central de varios actos en Loyola . In: El Diario Vasco. September 18, 2010 (Spanish).
Individual evidence
- ^ Ana Isabel Sánchez Martínez: La revista “Música Sacro – Hispana” (1907–1923) . 2014 (PDF; 385 KB).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Otaño, Nemesio |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Otaño y Eguino, José María Nemesio (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Basque musicologist and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 19, 1880 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Azkoitia |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 25, 1956 |
| Place of death | Donostia-San Sebastian |