Rosa Sabater i Parera

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Bust of Rosa Sabater in the Palau de la Música de Barcelona

Rosa Sabater i Parera (born August 29, 1929 in Barcelona , † November 27, 1983 in Mejorada del Campo (near Madrid )) was a Catalan pianist and music teacher. As a student of Frank Marshall at the Acadèmia Marshall in Barcelona , she became an internationally renowned representative of the Catalan school of pianists with a broad repertoire specializing in Catalan and Spanish piano literature . In 1983 Sabater was awarded the Creu-de-Sant-Jordi by the Catalan government for her outstanding work in the field of culture . Rosa Sabater was killed in the accident on Avianca flight 011 in November 1983 near Madrid.

Live and act

In a sense, Rosa Sabater was born with music. She was the daughter of the conductor and orchestra leader of the Gran Teatre del Liceu Josep Sabater i Sust and the singing professor Margarida Parera. As for Alicia de Larrocha , apart from Sabater's father, Frank Marshall was her only piano and music teacher. In 1942 Sabater performed for the first time with a concert by Mozart under the direction of the German conductor Hugo Balzer with the Orquestra Ibèrica in the Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona. Shortly afterwards, she performed at the Joventuts Musicals competition in Madrid, where she presented the Schumann Carnival. Since that moment she has given international concert appearances in Germany, Switzerland, Italy, England, and Portugal under conductors such as Rafael Kubelík , Louis Devos , Eugen Jochum , García Asensio , Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos and the Catalan Antoni Ros-Marbà . From the direct knowledge of her teacher Frank Marshall, Rosa Sabater interpreted Catalan and Spanish composers with great finesse and enormous sensitivity.

Her repertoire included works by Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Schumann, Chopin, Debussy and Ravel. As an international concert pianist, Sabater brought Catalan and Spanish composers such as Isaac Albéniz , Enric Granados , Manuel de Falla and contemporary representatives such as Xavier Montsalvatge and Frederic Mompou to the world's musical stages. Precise technique, historical rigor and versatility of expression were some of the qualities that were repeatedly expressed in the music criticism of Sabater. Her education and culture, which went far beyond the subject of music, made her an interesting, astute conversationalist. She worked very closely with the music critic Antonio Fernández-Cid. As a result of her marriage, she withdrew from concert life for a while. Then around 1960 she played as a pianist on the occasion of the celebrations for the 100th birthday of Isaac Albéniz and the fiftieth anniversary of Enric Granados death. In 1976 she was appointed piano professor at the State University of Music in Freiburg im Breisgau. Here, too, she represented her concern to make the Catalan and Spanish composers such as de Falla, Granados and Albéniz but also the more modern ones such as Mompou and Montsalvatge more widely known internationally. Another proof of her great interest in modern Catalan music literature is the record Le lied catalan du XX siècle (The Catalan song of the 20th century) , released for UNESCO in 1981 with Montserrat Caballé .

From 1967 to 1983 she participated in the International Master Classes of Santiago de Compostela together with other great musicians such as Frederic Mompou , Andrés Segovia , Enric Ribó and Gaspar Cassadóals as a piano teacher. From 1976 to 1983 she also taught at the International Manuel de Falla Courses in Granada and at the First and Second Chamber Music Interpretation Courses in 1982 and 1983 in Camprodon .

Sabater made her last public appearance on October 7, 1983 with Beethoven's 3rd Piano Concerto in the Palau de la Música in Barcelona under the direction of Heinz Fricke . Her death on November 27, 1983 in a plane crash near Madrid when she was about to go on a concert tour to Colombia, shocked the music and cultural scene in Barcelona deeply. The traditional sound carrier recordings testify to her high pianistic skills. She was buried in the Mataró cemetery.

Personal

Sabater was the daughter of the conductor and pianist Josep Sabater and the singing teacher Margarida Parera.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The article is a translation of the article of the same name on the Catalan language Wikipedia.
  2. ↑ Gran Enciclopèdia de la Música.
  3. ↑ Generalitat de Catalunya - Culturcat (web archive): Catalan musicians (19th Century AC - 20th Century AC). Retrieved January 21, 2019 . There is a section on the Catalan Pianist School .
  4. ↑ a b c Diccionari biogràfic de dones .
  5. ^ Xavier Montsalvatge (La Vanguardia): Subtil actuacíon de Rosa Sabater. In: La Vanguardia. October 9, 1983, Retrieved January 20, 2019 (Spanish).
  6. ^ Montserrat Albet (La Vanguardia): Entre las mejores pianistas del mundo. In: La Vanguardia. November 29, 1983, Retrieved January 20, 2019 (Spanish).
personal data
SURNAME Sabater i Parera, Rosa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Catalan pianist and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Barcelona
DATE OF DEATH November 27, 1983
Place of death Mejorada del Campo (near Madrid )