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biography
pronunciation:
[pedrel]
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| (1841–1922)
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| Musicologist and composer, born in Tortosa, E Spain. Self-taught, he was exceptionally erudite. His investigative works on ancient music were very important: he published the complete works of Victoria and a substantial part of the Cantigas of Alfonso X, as well as theoretical treatises and monographs on music, such as Por nuestra música (1894), Hispaniae Schola Musica Sacra (1894–6), and Cancionero musical popular español (1920). As a composer, he was the first in Spain to conceive the creation of an indigenous opera, based on the principles of origin of 17th-c and 18th-c opera and on Wagnerian reform. He was helped by thematic material from Catalan songs, popular polyphonic music, and all types of ancient or modern Spanish music, employing in their composition the Wagnerian processes of development from significant fundamental motives and chromatic harmonic movements. His chief work is the trilogy Els Pirineus (1902) with a prologue and three acts, based on a poem by Victor Balaguer. He wrote many chamber works, symphonies, and operas, including Mazzepa (1881), El último Abencerraje (1874), Tasso en Ferrara (1875), La Celestina (1891), and Ardid de amor (1917). From his chair of aesthetics in the Madrid Conservatory, he influenced the development of Spanish music, above all from the point of view of implanting nationalistic principles in its composition. Among his students were Granados and Falla. |
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