Ruy Coelho

Ruy Coelho (born March 3, 1889 in Alcácer do Sal near Lisbon , † May 5, 1986 in Lisbon) was a Portuguese pianist , composer and conductor .

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From 1904 to 1909, Ruy Coelho studied piano with Alexandre Rey Coalço and composition with António Eduardo da Costa and Tomás Borba at the Conservatory in Lisbon . He then went to Berlin in 1910 , where he studied composition with Engelbert Humperdinck , Max Bruch and Arnold Schönberg and piano with Einsenberg , from 1913 in Paris with Paul Vidal (1863–1931) and then returned to Portugal. There he began a career as a pianist and developed intensive work as a conductor at home and abroad. His work as a composer extended particularly to ballet music and operas . His opera Belkiss won an award at the Madrid International Composition Competition in 1924 . In 1934 he founded the Acção National de Ópera (National Opera Movement) for the purpose of promoting Portuguese opera; in practice, however, only his own operas were presented to the public in his country. In 1940 he was also involved in founding the Companhia de Bailados Verde Gaio (ballet ensemble "Verde Gaio"), for which he wrote several compositions; from 1942 he belonged to the Gabinete de Estudos Musicais da Emissora Nacional , for which he wrote many works. He also worked for Portuguese radio and wrote as a music critic for various Lisbon newspapers. His musical creation and all other areas of his work were always closely related to the political situation of his time; thus his music was hardly noticed after the " Carnation Revolution " in 1974. His operas are no longer performed in our time, but his ballet music and his orchestral pieces can be heard in concert halls and are recorded on sound carriers.

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Ruy Coelho came into contact with the main currents of European music at the beginning of the 20th century, but he hardly adopted the compositional techniques or the musical language of his contemporaries; He used such techniques only sparingly and in critical selection. He always remained true to a certain Portuguese national style and endeavored to renew and publicize the spirit of his nation in his instrumental and stage works. His music is rooted in the folk music of his homeland, which he integrated in a variety of ways. So he repeatedly used texts from Portuguese literary history and historical or popular topics. He is considered the creator of the modern Portuguese national opera, and he played an important role in the development of the dramatic genres in Portugal, because he gave his country's opera a powerful boost and the first Portuguese ballets of the 20th century came from him.

Works

(Coelho's works are mainly published by the publishers Chester, Salabart, Sassetti, Schauer, Senhart and Siegel; the manuscripts are owned by the family).

Liturgical forms and oratorios
- Oratorio Fátima , text: Alfonso Lopes Vieira (1931)
- Missa A Santa Teresinha for 4-part mixed choir and organ (1934)
- Oratória da paz (1967)
Secular choral music
- Festa portuguesa (1962)
Songs (mostly for solo voice and piano)
- Oh Virgem que passais ao sol poente (1912)
- Trilogia camoneana , text: Luís de Camões and João do Amaral (1916, Lisbon without year)
- Canções de saudade e amor (1917)
- 6 canções populares portuguesas for voice and orchestra (1949)
- Harmonious exposure of 7 Portuguese folk songs (no year), Lisbon [1958]
- Soneto , text: António Nobre (without year), ibid without year
- Dans la jetée d'Alexandrie , text: Pierre Louys (without year), ibid without year
- Melodia de Amor , text: Ruy Coelho (without year), ibid without year
- Chanson , text: Maurice Maeterlink (without year), ibid without year
- Harmonious exposure of 4 Portuguese folk songs (without year), there without year
- Marias de Portugal , text: Câmara Manuel (without year), ibid without year
- 6 Kacides Mauresques , text: various Arabic poets
Operas (the year of completion and that of the world premiere are identical, unless otherwise stated, and all unpublished; the place of the world premiere is Lisbon, unless otherwise stated)
- Serão da infanta , text: Afonso Lopes Vieira, 1 act (1913)
- Crisfal , Musical Eclogue, Text: Afonso Lopes Vieira (1920, composed 1919)
- Auto do berço , text: António Correia de Oliveira, 1 act (1920)
- Rosas de todo o ano , text: Júlio Dantas, 1 act (1921)
- Inês de Castro , text: António Patrício based on a model by António Ferreira, 3 acts (1927)
- Freira de Beja , text: Rui Chianca, 1 act (1927)
- Cavaleiro das mãos irrestistíveis , text: Eugénio de Castro, 1 act (1927)
- Belkiss , text: Eugénio de Castro, 3 acts (1928, composed 1923)
- Entre giestas , text: Carlos Selvagem, 3 acts (1929)
- Tá-mar , text: Alfredo Cortês, 3 acts (1936)
- Operetta Bocage , 3 acts (1937)
- Dom João IV , text: João Silva Tavares, 3 acts (1940)
- A feira , text: Gil Vicente, 1 act (1943, composed 1942)
- A rosa de papel , text: Ruy Coelho based on a model by Augusto Santa Rita, 1 act (1947)
- Auto da barca do inferno , text: Ruy Coelho based on a model by Gil Vicente, 1 act (1950)
- Inês Pereira , text: Gino Saviotti after Gil Vicente, 3 acts (1952)
- Vestido del noiva , text: Charles Oulmont, 1 act (1959)
- Auto da alma , text: Ruy Coelho based on a model by Gil Vicente, 1 act (1960, Queluz)
- Orfeu em Lisbon , Text: Ruy Coelho, 3 acts (1st and 2nd act 1964, 3rd act 1966)
- Parable A bela dama sem pecado , text: Charles Oulmont, 1 act (1969)
- Auto da barca da glória , text: Gil Vicente, 1 act (1970)
- O rouxinol cativo , text: C. Selvagem, 1 act (no year)
- Soror Mariana , text: Júlio Dantas, 1 act (without year)
Ballet music
- O sonho da princesa na rosa (1916)
- Ballet for Children História da Carochinha (1916)
- Princesa dos sapatos de ferro (1917, composed 1912)
- Bailado do encantamento , 2 acts (1917)
- O sonho da pobrezinha (Postage 1921)
- Choreographic poem Feira (1930)
- Bailada da Ribeira e. D. Sabastiao
- Bailado africano (1930)
- Rainha Santa (1930)
- Inês de Castro (1940)
- Dança do douro (1940)
- Danças de Trás-os-Montes (1940)
- Chula (1940)
- Os noivos (1940)
- Passatempo (1940)
- Dom Sebastião , text: António Ferro, 5 scenes (1943)
- Arraial da ribeira (1951)
- Dança dos pescadores (no year)
Orchestral works
- 1. Sinfonia camoneana , for choir, orchestra and fanfare op.2, choral text Teófilo Braga (1912), Berlin 1913
- 2nd Sinfonia camoneana (1917)
- Symphonic poem Nun 'Álvarez (1922)
- 1st suite portuguesa (1925), Lisbon without year (only the 1st piece Dança portuguesa ** was published)
- Symphonic poem Alcácer (1925)
- Symphonic poem Rainha santa (1926)
- Rondó alentejano (1926)
- Égloga (1926)
- 2. Suite portuguesa (1927)
- 3. Suite portuguesa (1928)
- 1. Pequena sinfonia (1928)
- Abertura comemorativa da chegada dos portugueses à India (1928)
- Prelúdio rústico (1929)
- Suite (1930)
- Dança portuguesa (1932)
- 4 danças portuguesas (1932)
- 2. Pequena sinfonia (1932)
- Cenas bíblicas (1933)
- 1. Rapsódia portuguesa (1934)
- Suite Passeios de estio (1935)
- Rondel alentejano (1938)
- 1st Sinfonia (1939)
- 2. Rapsódia portuguesa (1942)
- Jardim quimérico (1946)
- 3rd Sinfonia camoneana (1948)
- Peninsulares (1949)
- Nas planícies do Alentejo (1950)
- 4th Sinfonia camoneana (1951)
- Rapsódia de Águeda (1953)
- História trágico-marítima (1954)
- Alentejo (1954)
- 2nd Sinfonia (1955)
- 3rd Sinfonia (1956)
- 4. Suite portuguesa (1956)
- 5th Sinfonia camoneana (San Paolo) (1957)
- Retábulo português (1960)
- Rapsódia de Lisbon (1961)
- Symphonic poem O castelo de Lisbon (1962)
- Calendario (1963)
- 4 suites Viagens na min ha terra (1964–67)
- Prologue Sinfonia henriquina (1966)
- Sinfonia de além-mar (1969)
Instrumental concerts
- Fantasia portuguesa for violin and orchestra (1935)
- 1. Concerto de piano (1939)
- Noites nas ruas da Mouraria for piano and orchestra (1943)
- 2. Concerto de piano (1948)
- Egypcienne for violin and orchestra (1950)
Chamber music
- 1st Sonata for violin and piano (1910)
- Largo for 2 violas, 2 violoncellos and piano (1911)
- Trio for violin, violoncello and piano (1916)
- 2nd Sonata for violin and piano (1923)
- Quartedo de cordas (string quartet, 1942)
Piano music
- Suite Bouquet (1911), Berlin 1912
- Sonatina (1932)
- Album para ajuventude portuguesa (1933), Lisbon 1959
- Promenades enfantines à Paris (1935)
- 3 prelúdios (1962)
- Mazurka (no year), Lisbon, no year
- Suite portuguesa (without year), ibid, without year
Film music
- Alla-Arriba (Leitão de Barros) (1943)
- Camões (Leitão de Barros) (1943)
Fonts (selection)
- Carta a um compositor célebre: fakte para a história da arte em Portugal , Lisbon 1915
- Resposta a um zero , [Lisbon] 1927
- A sindicância ao Conservatório de Lisbon: esclarecimentos indispensáveis , Lisbon 1930 (together with G. de Oliveira)
- Os grilos de seara: a melhor maneira de combater a música má é escrever música boa , [Lisbon] 1931
- La Musique portugaise, la langue et l'état (Lecture at the 5th International Congress of Critics in Lisbon in September 1931), Lisbon 1931
- Como se reformou o teatro de ópera em Londres , ibid [1946?]
- Carta aos meus amigos , ibid. 1946 and 1947 (two letters of the same name)
- Preface to Till o maganão: as engraçadas travessuras de Till , ibid 1950
- Como funcionam os teatros de ópera eo teatro Nacional de S. Carlos de Lisbon , ibid 1959

literature

MAL Cruz: História da música portuguesa , Lisbon 1955
T. Borba / F. Lopes Graça: Dicionário de Música , ibid 1956–1958
Rui Coelho: Rui Coelho. Sua acção e suas obras de 1910 a 1967 , ibid 1967
JF Branco: História da música portuguesa , ibid 1959, 2nd edition 1995

Web links

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^ The Music in Past and Present (MGG), Person Part Volume 4, Bärenreiter Verlag Kassel and Basel 2000, ISBN 3-7618-1114-4
↑ Marc Honegger, Günther Massenkeil (ed.): The great lexicon of music. Volume 2: C - Elmendorff. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau a. a. 1979, ISBN 3-451-18052-9 .

personal data
SURNAME	Coelho, Ruy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Coelho, Rui
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Portuguese composer and pianist
DATE OF BIRTH	March 3, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH	Alcácer do Sal
DATE OF DEATH	May 5, 1986
Place of death	Lisbon

[1] The Music in Past and Present (MGG), Person Part Volume 4, Bärenreiter Verlag Kassel and Basel 2000, ISBN 3-7618-1114-4

[2] Marc Honegger, Günther Massenkeil (ed.): The great lexicon of music. Volume 2: C - Elmendorff. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau a. a. 1979, ISBN 3-451-18052-9 .