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Antoni Nicolau
Antoni Nicolau i Parera (8 June 1858 — 26 February 1933) was a Spanish composer from Catalonia. Life Nicolau was born and died in Barcelona. He was a student of Juan Bautista Pujol.Linton Powell: ''A History of Spanish Piano Music'' (1980): "Antonio Nicolau (1858–1933), of Barcelona, began his musical studies with the noted pianist Juan Bautista Pujol." Works, editions and recordings * Raïms i espigues. Cançó de la Moreneta on ''Jacint Verdaguer i el lied català''. M. Teresa Garrigosa, soprano ; Emili Blasco, piano La mà de Guido La mà de Guido is a Catalan music publishing house in Barcelona, Spain founded in 1986 by the composer and musicologist Llorenç Balsach (b. 1953). The name La Mà de Guido comes from the Catalan translation of the Guidonian hand. The primary n ..., 2005. References External links * 1858 births 1933 deaths 19th-century classical composers 19th-century Spanish male musicians 20th-century classical composers 20th-century Spanish m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antoni Nicolau
Antoni Nicolau i Parera (8 June 1858 — 26 February 1933) was a Spanish composer from Catalonia. Life Nicolau was born and died in Barcelona. He was a student of Juan Bautista Pujol.Linton Powell: ''A History of Spanish Piano Music'' (1980): "Antonio Nicolau (1858–1933), of Barcelona, began his musical studies with the noted pianist Juan Bautista Pujol." Works, editions and recordings * Raïms i espigues. Cançó de la Moreneta on ''Jacint Verdaguer i el lied català''. M. Teresa Garrigosa, soprano ; Emili Blasco, piano La mà de Guido La mà de Guido is a Catalan music publishing house in Barcelona, Spain founded in 1986 by the composer and musicologist Llorenç Balsach (b. 1953). The name La Mà de Guido comes from the Catalan translation of the Guidonian hand. The primary n ..., 2005. References External links * 1858 births 1933 deaths 19th-century classical composers 19th-century Spanish male musicians 20th-century classical composers 20th-century Spanish m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catalonia
Catalonia (; ca, Catalunya ; Aranese Occitan: ''Catalonha'' ; es, Cataluña ) is an autonomous community of Spain, designated as a ''nationality'' by its Statute of Autonomy. Most of the territory (except the Val d'Aran) lies on the northeast of the Iberian Peninsula, to the south of the Pyrenees mountain range. Catalonia is administratively divided into four provinces: Barcelona, Girona, Lleida, and Tarragona. The capital and largest city, Barcelona is the second-most populated municipality in Spain and the fifth-most populous urban area in the European Union.Demographia: World Urban Areas – Demographia, April 2018 Current day Catalonia comprises most of the medieval and early modern Principality o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barcelona
Barcelona ( , , ) is a city on the coast of northeastern Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within city limits,Barcelona: Población por municipios y sexo – Instituto Nacional de Estadística. (National Statistics Institute) its urban area extends to numerous neighbouring municipalities within the and is home to around 4.8 million people, making it the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan Bautista Pujol
Joan Baptista Pujol i Riu (Spanish ''Juan Bautista Pujol'', Barcelona, 1835–1898) was a Catalan pianist and pedagogue. He studied at the Paris Conservatory with Napoleón-Henri Reber. He was the teacher of Enrique Granados, Ricardo Viñes, and Joaquim Malats (1872-1912).Joseph Banowetz - The Pianist's Guide to Pedaling - Page 220 1992 "It is a tradition that was begun by the Catalan pianist Juan Bautista Pujol (1835-1898), who was the teacher of such famous virtuosi as Enric Granados, Ricard Viñes, and Joaquin Malats. This tradition has been carried into the twentieth " References {{DEFAULTSORT:Pujol, Juan Bautista 1835 births 1898 deaths Catalan pianists Spanish classical pianists Male classical pianists 19th-century Spanish male musicians ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Mà De Guido
La mà de Guido is a Catalan music publishing house in Barcelona, Spain founded in 1986 by the composer and musicologist Llorenç Balsach (b. 1953). The name La Mà de Guido comes from the Catalan translation of the Guidonian hand. The primary notability of La Mà de Guido is in the publishing of music scores and editions for Catalan composers, living and dead. The music publishing house also owns a recording label; this is primarily reviving the works of Catalan composers, but also recordings by Catalan musicians of other Iberian music, and archive historical recordings.Casares E. Diccionario de la música española e hispanoamericana, Volume 2 2002 p122 The label also distributes the Ars Harmonica label. Published composers * Josep Fàbrega (?-1791) * Felip Pedrell (1841–1922) * Enric Morera (1865–1942) * Joaquim Cassadó (1867–1926) * Josep Barberà (1877–1947) * Antoni Massana (1890–1966) * Agustí Borgunyó (1894–1967) * Eduard Toldrà (1895–1962) * Gas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1858 Births
Events January–March * January – **Benito Juárez (1806–1872) becomes Liberal President of Mexico. At the same time, conservatives install Félix María Zuloaga (1813–1898) as president. **William I of Prussia becomes regent for his brother, Frederick William IV, who had suffered a stroke. * January 9 ** British forces finally defeat Rajab Ali Khan of Chittagong ** Anson Jones, the last president of the Republic of Texas, commits suicide. * January 14 – Orsini affair: Felice Orsini and his accomplices fail to assassinate Napoleon III in Paris, but their bombs kill eight and wound 142 people. Because of the involvement of French émigrés living in Britain, there is a brief anti-British feeling in France, but the emperor refuses to support it. * January 25 – The ''Wedding March'' by Felix Mendelssohn becomes a popular wedding recessional, after it is played on this day at the marriage of Queen Victoria's daughter Victoria, Princess Royal, to Pri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1933 Deaths
Events January * January 11 – Sir Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first commercial flight between Australia and New Zealand. * January 17 – The United States Congress votes in favour of Philippines independence, against the wishes of U.S. President Herbert Hoover. * January 28 – "Pakistan Declaration": Choudhry Rahmat Ali publishes (in Cambridge, UK) a pamphlet entitled ''Now or Never; Are We to Live or Perish Forever?'', in which he calls for the creation of a Muslim state in northwest India that he calls " Pakstan"; this influences the Pakistan Movement. * January 30 ** National Socialist German Workers Party leader Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany by President of Germany Paul von Hindenburg. ** Édouard Daladier forms a government in France in succession to Joseph Paul-Boncour. He is succeeded on October 26 by Albert Sarraut and on November 26 by Camille Chautemps. February * February 1 – Adolf Hitler gives his "Proclamation to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
19th-century Classical Composers
The 19th (nineteenth) century began on 1 January 1801 ( MDCCCI), and ended on 31 December 1900 ( MCM). The 19th century was the ninth century of the 2nd millennium. The 19th century was characterized by vast social upheaval. Slavery was abolished in much of Europe and the Americas. The First Industrial Revolution, though it began in the late 18th century, expanding beyond its British homeland for the first time during this century, particularly remaking the economies and societies of the Low Countries, the Rhineland, Northern Italy, and the Northeastern United States. A few decades later, the Second Industrial Revolution led to ever more massive urbanization and much higher levels of productivity, profit, and prosperity, a pattern that continued into the 20th century. The Islamic gunpowder empires fell into decline and European imperialism brought much of South Asia, Southeast Asia, and almost all of Africa under colonial rule. It was also marked by the collapse of the large S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
19th-century Spanish Male Musicians
The 19th (nineteenth) century began on 1 January 1801 ( MDCCCI), and ended on 31 December 1900 ( MCM). The 19th century was the ninth century of the 2nd millennium. The 19th century was characterized by vast social upheaval. Slavery was abolished in much of Europe and the Americas. The First Industrial Revolution, though it began in the late 18th century, expanding beyond its British homeland for the first time during this century, particularly remaking the economies and societies of the Low Countries, the Rhineland, Northern Italy, and the Northeastern United States. A few decades later, the Second Industrial Revolution led to ever more massive urbanization and much higher levels of productivity, profit, and prosperity, a pattern that continued into the 20th century. The Islamic gunpowder empires fell into decline and European imperialism brought much of South Asia, Southeast Asia, and almost all of Africa under colonial rule. It was also marked by the collapse of the large ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
