Joaquín Turina Pérez (9 December 188214 January 1949) was a Spanish
composer of
classical music.
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Biography
Turina was born in Seville
Seville (; es, Sevilla, ) is the capital and largest city of the Spanish autonomous community of Andalusia and the province of Seville. It is situated on the lower reaches of the River Guadalquivir, in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula ...
. He studied in Seville as well as in Madrid
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. He lived in Paris
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from 1905 to 1914 where he took composition lessons from Vincent d'Indy
Paul Marie Théodore Vincent d'Indy (; 27 March 18512 December 1931) was a French composer and teacher. His influence as a teacher, in particular, was considerable. He was a co-founder of the Schola Cantorum de Paris and also taught at the P ...
at his Schola Cantorum de Paris
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and studied the piano under Moritz Moszkowski
Moritz Moszkowski (23 August 18544 March 1925) was a German composer, pianist, and teacher of Polish-Jewish descent. . Like his countryman and friend, Manuel de Falla
Manuel de Falla y Matheu (, 23 November 187614 November 1946) was an Andalusian Spanish composer and pianist. Along with Isaac Albéniz, Francisco Tárrega, and Enrique Granados, he was one of Spain's most important musicians of the first ...
, while there he got to know the impressionist composers Maurice Ravel and Claude Debussy, whom he was heavily inspired by.[ Marco, Tomás (1993)]
''Spanish Music in the Twentieth Century''
pp. 36–44. Harvard University Press
On 10 December 1908 he married Obdulia Garzón and together they had five children. She was the dedicatee of the '' Danzas fantásticas'', which he completed in 1919.
Along with de Falla, he returned to Madrid in 1914, working as a composer, teacher and critic. On 28 March 1916, he joined the Madrid Symphony Orchestra
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at the Hotel Ritz in that city, to perform the premiere of Falla's revised orchestral version of ''El amor brujo
''El amor brujo'' (, "The sorcerer love") is a ballet by Manuel de Falla to a libretto by María de la O Lejárraga García, although for years it was attributed to her husband Gregorio Martínez Sierra. It exists in three versions as well as a p ...
''. In the early months of 1929, he visited Havana
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In 1931 he was made professor of composition at the Madrid Royal Conservatory
The Madrid Royal Conservatory ( es, Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid) is a music college in Madrid, Spain.
History
The Royal Conservatory of Music was founded on July 15, 1830, by royal decree, and was originally located in Moste ...
. Among his notable pupils were Vicente Asencio and Celedonio Romero Celedonio Romero (2 March 1913 – 8 May 1996) was a guitarist, composer and poet, perhaps best known as the founder of The Romeros guitar quartet.
Biography
Celedonio Romero was born in Cienfuegos, Cuba,. Retrieved 2009/10/14 while his paren ...
. He died in Madrid in 1949.[Draayer, Suzanne Rhodes (2009)]
''Art Song Composers of Spain: An Encyclopedia''
pp. 320–330. Scarecrow Press
His works include the opera
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'' (1914) and '' Jardín de Oriente'' (1923), the ''Danzas fantásticas'' (1919, versions for piano and orchestra), ''La oración del torero'' (written first for a lute quartet, then string quartet, then string orchestra), chamber music, piano
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works, guitar
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pieces and song
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s. Much of his work shows the influence of traditional Andalusia
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n music.[Amat, C.G., ''The New Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians'', Oxford University Press, ç1982] He also wrote a short one-movement ''Rapsodia sinfónica'' (1931) for piano and orchestra. His music often conveys a feeling of rapture or exaltation. His guitar works include ''Fandanguillo'' and ''Hommage à Tárrega'', which were written for Andrés Segovia
Andrés Segovia Torres, 1st Marquis of Salobreña (21 February 1893 – 2 June 1987) was a Spanish virtuoso classical guitarist. Many professional classical guitarists were students of Segovia or their students.
Segovia's contribution to the m ...
. The dedicatee and/or first performer of a number of his piano works was José Cubiles.
During the 1920s and 1930s, he frequently visited Barcelona
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and Catalonia
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and interacted with various Catalan artists, critics and intellectuals, such as Manuel Clausells, Joan Lamote de Grignon
Joan Lamote de Grignon i Bocquet (; 7 July 1872 – 11 March 1949) was a Catalan Spanish pianist, composer and orchestra director.
Life
Joan Lamote de Grignon was born and died in Barcelona, the son of parents of French descent, Lluis Lamote de ...
, Eugenio d'Ors, Oleguer Junyent, Frank Marshall, Rafael Moragas, Jaime Pahissa and Santiago Rusiñol. He also collaborated with various musical institutions, such as the Associació Música da Camera, the Barcelona Municipal Band or the Pau Casals Orchestra. As a result of this relationship, he composed ''Evocaciones'', a set of three pieces for piano that become a tribute to Catalonia
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and that include a sardana
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. On 23 October 1928, together with Pablo Casals, he premiered the transcription for a cello and piano «Jueves Santo a medianoche» (from the ''Seville'' suite) at the Palau de la Música Catalana
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.
Compositions
''See: List of compositions by Joaquín Turina''
He composed a variety of types of music.
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1882 births
1949 deaths
20th-century classical composers
20th-century Spanish musicians
20th-century Spanish male musicians
Spanish classical composers
Spanish male classical composers
Spanish opera composers
Spanish people of Italian descent
Musicians from Andalusia
Composers for piano
Composers for the classical guitar
Male opera composers
Academics of the Madrid Royal Conservatory
Madrid Royal Conservatory alumni
People from Seville
Schola Cantorum de Paris alumni