biography
| name: |
Clavé, Josep Anselm
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pronunciation:
[klavay]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1824–74)
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| biography:
| Spanish musician and politician. He supported the Republican party from an early age, and took part in the Barcelona uprising of 1843, for which he was imprisoned for two years. He planned the extension of choral singing on a grand scale as a method of culturally and spiritually elevating the growing working class, and thanks to his persistent work many choral clubs and societies sprang up in Cataluña. He composed numerous songs for these choirs, many of them in Catalan, which contributed to popularizing the Renaissance movement, notably Les flors de maig, Els pescadors, Els nets dels almogàvers, ¡Gloria a España!, and La Maquinista. His political performance was distinguished during the two ‘progressive’ years (1854–6) and after the September revolution of 1868 he was an active member of the Federal Republican Party becoming president of the Diputación de Barcelona (1871) and civil governor of Castellón under the first Spanish Republic (1873). |
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