Ricard Lamote de Grignon i Ribas

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Independent Composer of Catalonia (CIC). From left to right: Robert Gerhard , Agustí Grau , Joan Gibert Camins , Eduard Toldrà , Manuel Blancafort , Baltasar Samper and Ricard Lamote de Grignon . Frederic Mompou is missing in the picture . (1931)

Ricard Lamote de Grignon i Ribas (born September 25, 1899 in Barcelona , † February 5, 1962 there ) was a Catalan conductor and composer . He was the son of the conductor Joan Lamote de Grignon .

life and work

Ricard Lamote was trained by his father from childhood. He continued his education at the Conservatori del Liceu . There he studied the cello with J. Raventós and Bernadí Gálvez and piano with Joan Baptista Pellicer and Frank Marshall .

Since childhood he has worked as a cellist with the Orquestra Simfònica del Gran Teatre del Liceu and the Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona . In the Banda Municipal de Barcelona , which was reorganized by his father , he played drums and keyboard instruments from 1926. In 1931 he took over the Orquestra Simfònica de Girona , with whom he developed an interesting musical culture. In 1939 he was forced out of his position at the Banda Municipal de Barcelona due to the civil war . From 1942 to 1948 he lived in Valencia, where he helped found the Municipal Orchestra and worked as an assistant director under the direction of his father. He returned to Barcelona in 1949, where he did not assume any public responsibility in the field of music until 1956. In 1957 he was appointed deputy director of the Orquestra Municipal de Barcelona under Eduard Toldrà . He completed this task until his death in February 1962.

Ricard Lamote was an outstanding composer who cultivated the genres of stage music, symphony, chamber music and art song. Particularly noteworthy is the scenic work Camí ("The Way"), the comic opera La cabeza del Dragón (1939, "The head of the dragon") based on a text by Ramón del Valle-Inclán (premiered in 1960 in the Liceu of Barcelona) Children's opera La Flor (“The Flower”), the suite El rusc de l'abella reina (1928, “The Beehive”) and the ballets Un prat (1930, “A Meadow”), Somnis (1929, “Dreams”) and Divertiments (1936, "Pleasure"). He composed numerous orchestral works of high quality. He is also the author of Joan de l'ós (1933) for wind instruments, soloists and choir and the symphonic poem Enigmes (1933) based on the apocalypse and the unpublished oratorio for soloists, choir and orchestra El càntic dels càntics (1962, “Das Song of Songs ”). He wrote six sardanas for Cobla and created orchestral transcriptions of various works by Frederic Mompou , Antoni Soler and Josep Serrano .

Lamote created a number of didactic systems for music lessons and published the music pedagogical work Síntesis de técnica musical (1948).

Ricard Lamote belonged to the group of Compositors Independents de Catalunya (group of independent composers of Catalonia), also known as the group of eight (Grup dels vuit).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Ricard Lamote de Grignon i Ribas. In: Gran Enciclopèdia de la Música.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Ricard Lamote de Grignon i Ribas. In: Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana.
personal data
SURNAME Lamote de Grignon i Ribas, Ricard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Catalan conductor and composer
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Barcelona
DATE OF DEATH 5th February 1962
Place of death Barcelona