Marisa Robles (born May 4, 1937) is a Spanish
harp
The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has a number of individual strings running at an angle to its soundboard; the strings are plucked with the fingers. Harps can be made and played in various ways, standing or sitting, and in orche ...
ist and composer.
She was born in
Spain
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, where she studied the harp with
Luisa Menarguez, and studied music at the
Madrid 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 Mosten ...
, graduating at the age of sixteen in 1953. She made her concert debut at seventeen, performing with flautist
Jean-Pierre Rampal
Jean-Pierre Louis Rampal (7 January 1922 – 20 May 2000) was a French flautist. He has been personally "credited with returning to the flute the popularity as a solo classical instrument it had not held since the 18th century."
Biography
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.
The
Concerto for Flute and Harp by
Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 17565 December 1791), baptised as Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period (music), Classical period. Despite his short life, his ra ...
which they performed together was to become the piece for which she is best known. She has recorded and performed it with
James Galway
Sir James Galway (born 8 December 1939) is an Irish virtuoso flute player from Belfast, nicknamed "The Man with the Golden Flute". He established an international career as a solo flute player. In 2005, he received the Brit Award for Outstan ...
and with her husband
Christopher Hyde-Smith, among others. In 1963 she premiered ''Sones en la Giralda'' on the
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. In 1981, she wrote the music for a set of audiobooks of the
. This was released as her ''Narnia Suite''
in 1981, with Robles playing harp and her husband the flute.
In 1958 she married, and in 1960 she came to live permanently in the UK. In 1971 she became a professor of harp in the
.She now has three children, St. John Harvey, Grania Hyde-Smith and Alexander Hyde-Smith.
Robles was artistic director for the first two Cardiff World Harp Festivals in 1991 and 1994.